The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-08-29

These big boys complain that such assur-
anc,s are too Thin" and point to our
present Governor in proof thar people may
be very good Governors OF Kansas, and at
tie same time have very crooks ways of
writing aud speaking. They have an ex.
eFcise IN our schools known as the correc-
tlon OF false syntax; very useful exer-
else IN the teaching OF grammar. When
the schools again take up" there is likely
to be lively demand for these TINES
criticisms as furnishing excellent examples
CT frightful syntax. would therefore sug-
gest that these criticisms be stereotyped for
use in the schools Back numbers OF THE
LINES are not Likely to be preserved in
| sufficient supply for the purpose.
THERE Is A SPECIES OF FOLLY
which appears to be very prevalent in Kan
Sas. The folly of trying TO build up
great cities by politics. How much we in
l.eavenworth county have suffered and are
sufiaring from such folly will never be told
until the business and financial history of
| the county and city has been written by a
pen fearless enough not TO spare men in
high places, and thorough enough to get at
the tru,h through great mass of confus-
ing rubbish. Such history ought to be
written, if only for warning. There are
a lie and wise men in Leavenworth who
know that municipal thrift can only be re-
allied when based upon legitimate indus
tiial and commercial enterprise These
men would invite
MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHMENTS
TO set up in Leavenwor,h; they urge the
Importance of making that city a centre of
productive enterprise in all practicable
lines. They are right. have read their
contributions TO these columns with pleas
ure. But that eternal clamor for appropri-
ations for public buildings, bridges, rail-
roads and the like-that is another thing,
and none the less absurd that it is taken up
and made most OF by class of men who
are never easy and never in their element
when out of Office.
SO Tar as 1t amounts 10 mere electioneer-
ing clap-trsp, its failure to win harms no.
body but the would-be Governors, Senator's,
Congressman, etc, in whose behalf it is en-
ployed. So far as it goes to add items to
the general tax-list and keep up an availa-
bic corruption fund, it is by no means 80
harmless.
1 HAVE BEEN WORRYING
away portion of this heated term IN De-
rusing the writings of George Eliot. 1t is
better, on the whole, than sitting in the
shade, whiting in aimless way with dull
jack-knife and bemoaning the really un-
promising state of the times and manners
This woman's faculty of making good read
iug out of most forgettible tissue of trivi-
alties, is something wonderful. There is
so little OF stirring incident, so little of the
dramatic in her stories, and yet so much
that is well worthy Of perusal that | must
set her down as great writer. 1t NAV be
that mind capable Of approaching such
writings as those OF George Eliot is capable
OF better things; but what, demand, are
books for, il not to be read?
AM NOT PREPARED
to join in with the Domanics, even though
ii has gotten to be the custom in Kansas to
nominate them for Governor and members
OF Congress, and say that all woodworking
is Of the devil.
1t is said that Henry Ward Beecher once
a sermon with the remark-"It
is damned hotw He made that expression
the text of a powerful sermon aimed at the
practice of profane and obscene talking
The same remark would be strictly appli-
cable to the weather We have been having
for several days past, and still the relentless
Dog Star RACES. There was fatal case Of
at Linwood the other day. Cool
ing zsphyrs are at premium, and all the
country Is painting for rain.
npUNl' Auyust 9th 1873