The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1875-04-07
THECHAMPIoN GRASSHOPPER
SUFFERER

WelOokeu iuto tiic Huittn S-i ooih az &ffS
central depot yesterday. saw an elderly
couple there waiting TO 90 West, and then,
after making sure that the special poice-
man was not around, he entered the room.
He was man who had seen better days !;
that was plain. His plug hat was years
old, his coat shone with ageand grease,
and there was no collar on his neck. A
policeman would have mentally recorded
him as a . vag'' Without a moments
hesitation, and tie fellow would have
stood a chance of being trotted Otto the
central station. e
My good friends, he commenced as he
approached the innocent old couple from
Vermont, for Heavens sake help me
little = 80 slgss,.,
who are you9 asked The husband,
strucktwith the bummer's lonesome voice
and general hard look.
Names Jones grasshoppers- Kansas!
replied the man, turning away his head as
II deeply affected. - S. ~
BE you one OF them poor unfortunates
who were almost eat up by the grass
hopl&lsg exclaimed the woman, hersym-
patllies all aroused. a05
The same, madam sighted Jones
had to leave the State--goin' 10 New
Hampshire got as far Us here and money
gave out. Heaven only knows what'il
become oftisu a@a GLE " 4
Are you married y She asked.
Yes'm-wife'n nine children they're
ou. here ON the commons. in a wagon, all
sick and shivering with the cold II
I've hearn about them grasshoppers |;
were they very thick ~ asked the man.
Thick = echoed Jones you couldn't
tell the difference itwixt day an night,
an the roarin, d their wings made US
deaf = y
Ny grashus but wasn't that awful !!
sighted the woman.
Il had hundred acres Of corn, fifty Of
wheat, thirty Of oats. nice meadow, lots Of
fruit-but the grassboppers made beg
gar Of me IN Ave hours 7 continued Jones.
They eat the stun right up, did they 2
Eat. Why, the farm looked as II a fire;
had passed over IL They took every
thing--even chewed up log chains. l
timed 'em ON 100 rods Of fence, ard every
mouthfal Of II went in ;hirty-sesen min
uies 10y the watch
I never hearn u the Likes " exclaimed
the old man.
There's folks east here Ehn don't be-
lieye It.. continued Jones; hut us a
solcnm fact that the grasshoppen caewed
up iron wedges. gnawed the boards pif'h
tlle barns, bit plowpoints all up, and, u
we hadn't hid our horses ha the cellar,
they'd ha' been munched, sure 2
Aud you had to leave 2
Yes sold my land for eleven dollars
90, my family Into the wagon, and started
eaSt. Been $50 days coming this Gar, an
buried two children on the way. LVrs only
knows that's TO beconie Of Us. 4 wisl, i
was III this river out .here then my heart
wouldn't be burstiR with grief and
trouble y sl Al
Poor man = sighted tile old woman.
.Ebenezer, let's give him two dollars
Two dollars i d pile Of money unused
the old man.
but ips an awful sad case, Ebenczer
--,nufr % tech heart Of flint, aia
The Lord loyeth cheerful giver,
added Jones, a. he drew his sleeve across
his nose.
Wall, I spose lisa hard case, an we
won't be any poorer FOR giyln' two dolinrs,s y
said the husband, as he pulled out his
wallet aud handed OFT So bill.
.Thanks, my kind friendr, replied
Jones. I hope you'll never see the trou-
lie I'm having. Thls'll buy medicine
Mn, provisions, an, Kinder help Us along
like, All, feel as II could throw my
arms around ye an hug ye for your kind
ness f
That's all right Said the husband.
II wish il was ten, added the woman
a. size shook Jones outstfetehed hand. y
He sli,loul, and ten minlites afterwards
might have been SEEN M front street
saloon, pouring bad gin out ofa decanter,
aud remM king 70 the bar-kceper;
"Say, old pard, wasit ia Virginia OF
Kansas thal the grasshoppers was cthickS'
Dctrot Free Press.
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IT isn't loud praying Which counts
with the Lord 90 much as giving four full
quarts Cor every gallon says an Arkansas
circuit rider. lsHgs
An indianapolis paper says Of an Indi-
ana Senator: His cbatgrined look when
no clutches that pointed beard 70 milk bis
brain. and Ties wbp'nt give down. has q
,inOst depressing look 70 all behoIdefs.
will the boy who threw that pepper on
ne stove please come up here and get a
present Of nice book. snid . Spbday-
school superintendent IN Iowa |; but The boy
never moved. lie was a far-sceiOg boy.
pheuia Epps Of ofTIapilion. Ohio. asked
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