The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1874-09-10

IN ingenious contrivance fer loading hay in
bales At Lenape. and has etherviss devel-
oped rare genius for the handling Of that
important item Of merchandise.
MUCH MORE CORN FODDER
has been cut up than usual, 20 there 10 no
cause for fear Of another famine in the mat-
ter Of stock food
But We: have been "pestered" by chinch
bug, and be deviled by grasspopPers! o,
yes! l have already reflected the current
sentiment OF this region ~ to the form.
With ue We find them in count
less myriads in our corn fields, meadoNA
and wherever else they can find comfort and
shelter in vegetation, dry, or gresn, valu-
able or otherwise. Wherever there i still
sap they 90 for it, The worst of it il, there
is prospect that they will be with u the
next year. The hopper descended upon Us
about three weeks ago. We had no green
corn for him, and what garden sas" had
struggled through the drouth, had generally
been put ont OF bis reach; 90, beyond trim
ming the corn stalks and scalping the peach
pits he has not been particularly obnoxious.
OF course, he is not
CHEERFUL SUBJECT OF CONTEMPLATION.
Nature hiss manifestly endowed him with
fine instinct for making ends meet, but it
plays the deuce with our modesty and our
cabbage patches. They are depcsiting
lsrvs, and i, msy be that the young ones
will be out next spring TO operate upon thu
yourg wheat. God creates nothing in vain;
and if these unprincipled eryiii and chinch
bnss were sent AZ the locusts were sent upon
| Pharaoh-for purposes Of chastisement-we
will let the children of Israel 60, and pay
| their travelling expenses in the bargain.
We want more rain. Most Of the springs
and small streams le,eabouts have been dry
since the middle of Summer. Even
THE RAGING KAw
has shrunken to such limited dimensions
that it il iordable at almos; any point.
We have been asked what Is
| THE POLITICAL FEELING
| in your neighborhood ?" answer: politics
| is not uppermost in the minds of this com
muniiy. SO much attention has been given
to the Beecher scandal, and to entomslogi-
cal discussion, that the movements Of the
country savers and platform builders have
been somewhat overlooked. OF course the
idea that none but good men should be
elected to responsible offices is az popular as
ever. 1t is admitted that the Republican
party carried the country safely through the
periis of the rebellion, tut that Is no reason
why scyllawags should have monopoly Of
official patronage, or that seventy thousand
dollar thieves should be preferred above sll
others AZ custodirnss Of the peoples money,
ten. Jackson was great man in his day,
bnt that IL no reason why people sho0ld con-
Time to vote for him now that he has been
so long deceased. Parties are Of account
only 10 the extent that they rerr, sent prin-
cipies; nevertheless there are probably these
in this community, as elsewhere, that will
| vote the Cusey liz kst for no other reason
than that i; antagonizes the ticket which the
Republicans have put in nomination. The
undisniied and
INDECENT BooHooING or DEiCoN HOUSTON
| nomination, fails tn excite the least sympa-
thy in these quarters. The nomination OF
Col. Phillips is regarded n the best thing
tia, could have been done under the Cir
cEmstsnce,, and people who go the polls
generally vote for him.
| We are not particular what names are
printed upon the
! COUNTY AND DISTRICT TICKETS
that are TO be fixed for the Falls eleciioa,
SO they are names of worthy and comPe-
tent citizens We presume that some Of the
candidates will he chosen from the city Of
L,avenworib. We have heard McCrillus
mentioned as the most suitable man Tor
Treasurer, and Goddard, for the zeal and
ability with which he has served the county
in the Smith and ether cases, should be re-
elected, provided he wants another term.
Bauserman's administration Of school af-
fairs appears to have been generally salts
factory, but since he has entered upon the
more ambitious role Of candidate for the
STATE Saperintendenoy, We must find some
body ele to look after our school Affairs.
There il 4 feeling abroad that our County
Superin,endents ard Examining Boards
have been holding the standard of teachers
qualifications too high. Ii has even been
charged that the Superintendent office has
} been the headquarters of ring Whose mem
; bers have been favored with first cla.s grade
Certificates and other advantages, while 9th.
er teachers with quite ss much ability to
impress the average country school board
with a sense Of their fitness to "run 4
school," have been votad Incompetent, Of
put of with certificates of the lowest grade
IL il good thing to be able to spell and
read correctly; Nor is it supererogative to
be able to write legible hand /; but then,
the aspiration to be worker in the educa-
tionaL field, is such noble one, that indi-
viduals though but indifiereniIy versed in
these accomplishments should be pardosed,
if not er couraged, in such aspirations par
ticularly when it can be done at Granger
figures. 1t may be that these views may as
sert themselves in the approaching election.
Lenape, Sept. ., 1874. J. A. L.