The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-02-05
MEMBERS OF THE HoRrICULrUR-
AL SOCIETY


made, 1t has been the custom of the
world to heap honor and glory on the
discoverers- They have been Landed to |
as the benefactors of the world. They |
have been sent all over the world by |
means ofpIctorials. Eulogies have been
pronounced, and monuments erected |
to their memories. And this is well |
When person has DEVOTED himself to |
tedious research; has, with untiring |
energy, traced hack through long and
varied results and given to the world |
cause. BY which It may reason and |
work its gratitude, sincere and hearty |
is the least that it can offer in return |
for the painful labor, the generous self |
forgetfulness, and gracious self denial,
which must be prsetIced by the great
benefaetor of this earth. And when
the revelation of nature wonders ia
true, and the result confined to small
part of the country, no less the praise
deserved. Such a diseoverer, we have.
in Kansas, and Kansas viii yet point
with pride to his name, Will be glad
that she owned so wise citizen and
philosopher. Lyon county will one
day glory in the facr that to her more
than any other county, he belonged.
Emporia will joyfnlly claim him as her
child.
We all know how DISSOLUTION and
ruin swept over our fair state Ia the
year last past; how famine pinched her
beautiful face how drought burned In
her veins of wealth, and drained her
Vitality; how her very heart trembled
and sickened with fear, as the disgust
ing destroying legions of grasshoppers
encroaehed upon her lovely domains;
how she staggered and reeled under
her great affiictiOn of chinch bugs;
how we, her children, held up our
hands aud cried: elbow long, oh
Lord, how long,! as we beheld our
mother state suffering and agonized.
At last the plague passed away, the
fever heat gave place to healthfnl
GOODNESS, and Kansas was rising from
her trial. Her eastern sisters cared
kindly for her destitute children, who
looked into each others faces and whis-
pered among themselves: evil the
curse come again upon US; will the
grasshoppers devour; will the chinch
bug blight, and the drought blister
and burn in years to come % Many
were discouraged and with their little
all, left the state meyer to return 9TH
ers unable to get away begged or bor-
rowed postage stamp, and wrote to
loved ones never to venture into this
arid waste. Had they waited a few
months how different might have been
the result. The frightened fugitiYes |
might be sitting quietly on their 16O
acres, with certain knowledge of fu- |
ture prosperity the other might have |
been three cents less in debt than they |
are now. The president of the HOrti- |
cultural Society with many others flew |
to the rescue. Grasshoppers were writ
ten about and chinch bugs were inter-
viewed, but to no purpose. They could
not find out whether or not they would
return to with the next summer. Mr.. |
Robert Milliken, president of the Hor-
ticultural Society, wrote a long and
learned article upon the grasshoppers,
and though he has always been good
authority upon bugs, etc., he was at
fault this time. In this article he stat
ed that the grasshoppers came from
Colorado, but it has since been discov-
cred by our mute inglerious Milton al
ready referred to, that they did not
come from Colorado but from Ne,y
Jersey! The same man also discover
ed that one evil genius sent upon us
chinch bugs. and drouth and New Jer-
sey is responsible for all.
Let other states withhold aid, then,
and let the now infamous New Jersey
man make sole atonement for the
great wrong she has done us. Icannot
in justice withhold longer, from the
public the name of its benefactor. 1t is
c. V. EsKRIDGE, name that is now
immortal; name that will burn IN the
annals of fame like glittering stars, (
name to be forever connected with
grasshoppers and chinch bugs. Bat /
my object is not to reward him with
idle praise, bat to suggest a way in
which we can show our love, our hop-
or, our gratitude, and our respect for
this man. 10 thinking it over, it seems
the most appropriate, to me, that the
Lyon county Horticultural Society
should take the matter in hand, be-
cause they have been specially bene-
fitted. Now there is no reason why
flowers may not bloom in perfection,
and fruits ripen without flaw or blem-
ish. The Society ought to appoint a
committee TO wait upon the infamous
Jonah who halls from New Jersey. =
Let the committe be instructed to tell +
him that he has been discovered in his c
Ill doing; that NE now know that he s
was the cause. the whole cause and the
only cause of the terrible plaques that
infested the country last summer.
That although We cannot help plying
him for the awful disgrace that has !
fallen npon him, sorry that he must J
float on the dead sea of j
scorn, contempt, reproach and hatred, !
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oblivion, yet we have but one course
TO pursue, that one TO throw him over s
board. Then shall we be happy, peace
full and prosperous.
Let the Society add to its standing s
committee on entomology, and instruct 1
that committee to catch of all the in
sects of the state, and embalm their s
bodies, the use of which viii hereaf- I
ter explain. Then let a monument be
erected in honor of this man. For
plan, let me be favored in submitting 3
the following: A base of white mar
BILE, ten feet in length by ten feet in
width, and six feet in hight. Let the
sides of the base be plain faces. On
the first face let there be craven the :
images of six flying, detected, van
pushed chinch bugs; on the second
,wo grasshoppers one in the last ago
MES of death, the other sitting by his
side feeling his pulse,
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