Milford chronicle., 1907-04-26

. l -------N' AAAN NaAAn nQAu III AAGI axe
and proud Of what has been" But,
though Percy Shelley climbed to the
highest pinnacle Of fame. like John
Keats, and Arthur Henry Hallam, and
Raphael, and Robertson, and Alexan-
der, and hosts of others of the worlds
greatest leaders, he died before middle
lie had been reached. You cannot
judge a mans usefulness by the nu-
merical list of his earthly days. Some
OF the worlds greatest benefactors
have been men who died before the
silver hair was fringing their fore
heads or before their youth had waned
Brevity of Life.
But the insignifcance of the locust's
intellect is even more startling than
the brevity of its physical life. These
locusts seem to be like the camels
among the beasts and like the turkeys
among the birds. They seem to be the
stupidest of all insects. They seem to
have no law Of organization. They
seem to have no skill in hive building,
like the ant. They do not have the
genius of the bee or the ingenuity Of
the beaver building his dam or the fox
or the spider or the swallow. DR.. Hen
~ McCOok, the great authority on the
ant and the spider, tells us that for
hours he has lain down by an ant hive |
to study the wonderful intelligence Of |
these insects. But the locust does not |
have the intelligence of an ant Like |
fnn fOpf1fcn rr-l,f hae L., Ar,I
live and to walk for six months after |
its brain has been extracted. the locust |
seems to have but little Intelligence.
but this l1tle intelligence used in GER
tain way has made its approach the
terror of the beasts Of the fields, the
birds Of the air and of man in his for
titled castle
Now, after we have studied the insig-
nificance of the locust as an individual
let Us try TO ascertain wherein lies the
strength Of his power. In the first
place, the greatest strength of the To-
Gust lies not in her individual self. but
in her fertility or the numbers of her1
descendants. 1t has been mathematic-
ally calculated that if the unrestricted
increase of a common pair of gypsy
moths were allowed by nature to grow
in eight years there would be alive
enough of their caterpillars to destroy
the entire vegetation of the United
States. But even these caterpillars of
the gypsy moth are not so numerous
as those of the common locust.
Earth Alive With Them.
In 1915 a considerable number Of
these insects visited the Lebanon re-
gion in Syria and remained there only
u few days, just long enough to de-
posit their eggs and then disappear.
In about six months those eggs were
A short time afterward those
small locusts started up the mountain
sides. The whole earth seemed to be
alive with them. From one Matching
there seemed to be millions and bill
lions of them. They rolled on like the
of an augmented river.
Then, when the reader realizes that
this multitude of locusts was but the
result of one Matching and that the
same swarms of locusts not only de-
posted their eggs once, but many IL
lines during year. he can to some
extent realize the prolific and formi-
liable power of these dreaded pests ri
Each female locust is supposed to lay n
lbout eighty eggs at a time. Nearly n
Ill their eggs are fertile Thus it IS II
possible for female locust to have ~
thousands and tens of thousands Of N,
in a single year This ~,
-mazing power of multiplication stag ",
,ers the Imagination, but it is only the
apidity Of it that makes it SO wonder
ul. WI
The increase from year to year in the
worlds human population is as won Fp
erful Man is here exerting his in Tu
uence on his generation. What will ~ ~
e his influence in the next generation y,
Trough his children? We do not re- "a
lie the past so clearly looking for Re
ard as we do looking backward. You WI
ad two parents. You had four grand
arents and eight great-grandparents. Coz
ou had sixteen great-great-grandpar
lts and thirty-two great-great-great- m
And if you trace your vi
lcest0rs back to the time OF William
Ie COnQueror, or about 900 years, you II
Id 100000 different ancestors. And
all your ancestors there is not one
hose influence is not being felt to
eater or less extent in your life to-
". Let me illustrate this fact in
lother way even more startling. Will
I'M Bradford of Plymouth colony
ed in 1867, or about $50 years ago.
lillian Bradford had only three chill -,
en-, who lived to grow up and be Phi
arried and have children of their
IN. Their names we're William,
lry and Joseph. And yet there are tMhr MY
ing today in America over 5000 di- Thu
It descendants of William Bradford. T6E MOI
i, do not tell me that my greatest Nor
spell work is now in my children's Nor Inu
es! 1 tell thee if 1 can win them Thu
: God, and they, in turn. will win R,
eir children for God, within a few GSe lISe
nerations 1 will influence for God