The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1874-07-02


investigation could ask. We hol1 ourselves
in readiness to 6ll all acquisitions either
from the corn led or small grain collections.
We have made some otservations, but We
confess our inadequacy to give the matter
anything like scientific examination. Ali
that We know, If, that with the chinch bug,
size il no object; deficiency in that respect
being made up BY numbers. Unlike the
eraeshopper, il has no contingent affection
for onions, red peppers, railroad ties and
old boots. 1t has . marked Partially for
growing wheat and corn. We further re-
mark that multiplication il one Of its strong
points. A quorum for the Transaction OF
business cannot with them be les than halt
q billion, and yet . meeting Of chinch bugs
known to break up for want of quorum.
They have the faculty of discrimination suf'
ficiently to accommodate their aver-ion to .
mixed diet; you will not find the genuine
chinch bug iooling his time among the
gymsum, wild cucumber and dog fennel.
lie is we'll calculated to stand the drouth.
Ii we we're Jupiter Pluvius We would be able
70 relieve the grain fields without the aid Of
the Washington entomologis'. The chinch
bug has the ability 10 "change his base. "
In the morning Of life he cheerfully goes
forth to forage on foot later in life he takes
to himself wing, and d. al u es himself
about in disdsin Of distanc He Is grega-
riOus and OdorOus. As to his origin We
have no theory. His mission, unfortunately
Tor those who pow and SOW, is to eat. DE
may be an instrument in divine hands, to
punish the agricultural population for their
various trsnsgrer~ions, but that is not alto
gether clear 10 the rural iDteliecs heFeabOuts
10 no ctinch bugs worth meDiioninghavey yet
made their appearance in the kaw Bottom.
1t is to be regretted thst The thought and
discourse Of our farming communities u al
most of necessity occupied with things and
topics of . ,elittling and harraesing tenden-
cy. 1t would seem that . class whose lot is
cast amid the warbliDg woodlands and
bloasoming prairiee, who have 20 little TO DO
With the arti6ciali,ies Of the town, and their
trivial and deceit,ul associatioue, who have
such constant ineiiements 10 ''l00k through
Nature up to Natures 0od"-it would seem
that they, of all Others, should Partake Of
the pure and lofty -mindedness which such
influences are calculated to develop. But
il is not altogether 30. We fear that the
farmers of Sherman, Fairmount and Stran-
ger, and possibly tho,e of TongsDoxie and
other townships, do not partake, in q gen.
eral seuse, of such exaItaiion. Few Of them,
a. We have reason to believe, make busi-
ness of finding ''eermons in stones and leaves
in running brooks" Nature, viewed from
an e ,the.ic standpoint, u not the nature
that enters BY any considerable percentage
into their calculations. Now il is the grass
hopper; then the drouth; then the irrepres-
sibIe weed; and these, with the fever and
sgue, veavil, Texas steers, cut worm, chinch
bug, and what not, other natural but very
perplexing infections, leave but little else
for many Of the horny handel to talk and
think about.
Ours neiehbors on the prairie have chinch-
bug on the brain severely. Of course it is
not 10 be wondered 1t or mentioned in their
disparagement. With the crops upon which
they depend being doomed by these pests.
couientment il out Of the question, and
equanimity . thing better praised than
practised. Chinch-bug conventions are held
1t the road crossings. At the echool
house gatherings, while the Spurgeons are
soaring away to the skyes, pefadventure the
thoughts of the ''dear hearers" are afar in
their rry-looking corn and grain fields,
with Tie chinch- bugs. II il topic that in
duces . quesulous, grubling tone Of cooverea-
ton. Il gives use to . sort Of iIrevefant
philosophy, o. If anything were created in
vain, even if the majority ofthose particular
" Interested fail to see it. The very humol
which it invokes ID grim and dubious. ]
think it has Q tendency to put neighbors 10
IN unfriendly frame Of mind in regard "a
one another. The other day. at Elm Grove,
tvo young farmers, ordinarily Of the most
gentle and lamb like temper, fell out about
some clover which one of them was cutting
In the local graveyard. One finally went
| 40 far n to "belt" the other Over ths bod
With q huge herders' whip. The other re.
spopded With Ratchet, and be might, and
probably would, have made mince meat OF
his assailant, had not the horse upon which
the latter vas mounted been seized, just in tbt
right nick of time, with an ambition tOshow
Of his stepping qualities. To 6niah the story
should add that the asaultipg party. ii
soon a he had gotten safely out Of the rang.
Of the hachef. became 60 deeply impressed
With . sense of the injury he had done TO thu
"peace and dignity" Of the State OF Kansas
that he rode sir.ight way to Squire Ryner
sons and gave himself up. The squire impos
ed a 6ne OF ten dollars. The man, Who had evi
denly thought to get of with dollar o.
tvo. was taken aback, but cashed the fine
however reluctantly, b the squire vss mex
or.ble. But the next time be hes . littl'
unple an ness to settle, he will give tina
court q vide berth. The Elm Grove neigh
borhood is particularly inherited With the bug
both the farmers above mentioned hav'
large numbers Of them to spare.
The action of the Leavenvorth school di
rectors, in cutting down teacher wages,
hailed by certain rural economics rs NOV
in the proper direction. The conviction
gaining ground that if education is such
good thing, il ought, to greater extent, 4
Be- seli-supportinG. It will not do to get u]
; . epelline.book aristocfacy 10 free country
and teachers, - . claa, are no doubt b
coming dangerously wealthy. Ths notiol
that epecial qualifications are needed b
the teachers calling has driven too man.
> able bodied men and women Of The countI
, out Of the school room into the corn 6el
and kitchen.
In this way the people have been ''chisled'
out Of untold sums Of money. The moden
hiGh-peicsd style Of teaching i calculated
moreover. to interfere with The peoduc
ton Of self-made men; and that = to b d
peec1ted, - self-made men hsve svee bee
he main stay and glory a tie ration. The
{ coasiderstions are having weight, and d
e day may not Be far disaant vhen millionais
pedagoguen viii b Len nunRous tn
! they ere now.
Y he prospect Of tie imnediais euasizul
! tioa Of . railsosd from Do eoto 70 Xanes
! City, along ~ souah hank Of the Kav,
| lid 10 b almost caRsain. Th1 will eiv
! our people IL bsn6t Il eoopsGiae lines a
} othefvse improve IL esoanl 0ullook.
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