Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-02-11
THB BUaaER 00NvENTNE.

3no DOuuhn NUNN6Ql lW0s
A lot of buggers. t'other day,
Met in the usual "meeting" way,
70 "resolute" and have their say
On evils quite depressive;
To give expression to their views
On bugs and scientific stsws,
To act In cencert and 10 choose
A plan of war aggressive,
Against the tribes Of insect pests
That In our arbors make their nests
And growth and progress quite arrests.
In manner detrimental;
That seem in concert all to act
Where citrus glories most attract,
In such rapacious way, in fact.
To quite decrease our rental.
These buggers, then, resolved to fight
Against tn insects day and night.
To demonstrate proud Science mig ht,
With deadly sprays injected;
With alkalies, and other lies,
The festive insects to surprise,
To squirt 1t in their blasted eyes
And organs unprotected.
Then rose scientific Cook;
The insect plague for text he took,
And talked as glibly as a book,
Or owl-eyed college tutor.
"They are all sexes" so said he,
"And meaning business, as you see,
All sorts and genders, male and fe-
Hermaphredite and neuter.'
He showed US bugs preserved in glass
OF every hue and every class
In truth very scaly mass
OF parasites destructive;
Each one on work of mischief bent,
Like Moses plaques on Egypt sent
On using suction pump intent,
And organs reproductive.
"a seasons business for each one,
When all his work was neatly done.
Ten thousand billions, was but fun"--
A staggering calculation
Worse than the Saints of Latter Days
Who people Utah's lonely ways
Just "for His glory and his praise
And woman's SOULS salvationm
He told US how to cook broth
Would sicken every bug and moth:
Awake, ye bugeers, from your sloth!"
He said. "and strive to save usv'
Advised US all to never rest.
But each to do his level best.
And many p'ints OF interest
To brace us up, he gave us.
"Think Of your homes, then look at these
Squirt for your groves of citrus trees!
Sink not" said he, ain slothful ease,
Like dreamers of the lotus!
Our citrus beauties and decid-
Uous darlings, too, are rendered hid
Eous by the leglons of perfid-
Ious aspidiontusv'
Aurantii, Rapax--hungry pest!
Perniciosus, and the rest.
or that's not Latin, I'll be blest!
II not, just please to right us.)
Lecaniums. with their coats Of mall;
Iceryias, with their cushion scale;
Cociedaea, with their eyes of bale,
Glared on us as to fright Us.
Then rose these horticulturists,
With flashing eyes and doubled fists,
And swore they'd never leave the lists,
Orlet their souls be daunted,
While there was "balm in Gilead,"
Or other "pizenn to be had,
To make an insect sick and sad,
Or scale-bugs orchards haunted.
To mix and mingle in lot
All liquid horrors 10 be got,
And boil and bubble in pot.
Like witches' broth unhallnwa
Hot al volcano ever spewed,
Or curst magician ever stewed,
Or bald-pate chemist ever b ewed,
Orpationt ever swallowed;
To drenoh them we'll with various stun;
To lay it on like cid MacdufY,
Until the bugs cried "Hold! enoughw
With mixtures diabolic
All bugs pestiferous to drown
Red, black or purple. white or brown
In short, to turn them upside down,
With spasm and grippe and collie.
Some spoke in accents measured, slow;
And some with effervescent flow:
Some with fervent, earnest glow,
And some with manner placid;
Some recommended kerosene,
To safe the insects greedy spleen,
And some a compromise between
That and sulphuric acid.
Some buggers, too. expressed hope
or other kinds of festive "dope;"
Tobacco juice and whale.oil soap,
And other sorts of pickle,
To wreak on him unnumbered spites,
To saturate his lungs and lights,
The darned esthetic parasites !.
Esophagus to tickle.
But all resolved to fight and light,
By daylight and by eandle.light,
Against these 3gre-bugs OF might,
Our citrus darlings hurting;
Veal allagreed to do their best,
To every heli-broth horror test,
To watch and fight and never rest,
Butsquirt, and still keep squirting!
ALBERT F. KxacHEvAL.
Los Angeles, February, 1882.
COURT REPORTS.
Superior Court. ....".....HoWARD. J
FRIDAY, February 10.
M. Holland VS.. NJ. M. Green q
al.-Demurrer overruled. TIL