The Washington herald., 1909-07-25
GRASSHUPPERS!
Awful VisitaShion Of These PuSiIani-
nous InSscktS on BingViIIs
GTaSShOppsTS Is Thicker Than
Hops in Our Midst as We Go to
Press What Be We Going to Do
About II?

As fur back as the oldest inhabitant
of Bingville can recolleckt, and prob
ably further back than that probably
there has never been sich a soourge Of
grasshoppers in our midst as at the
present writing, and if things 60 on
as they have for the past week the
goshrammed grasshoppers in Bingville
and vicinity will eat US outen house
and home and this naberhood won't be
nothink but a desert waste devoid of
vegetsshion and most everything else.
Where all these grasshoppers come
from is a mystery, but everybody hopes
that they viii soon 60 wherever they
come from and remain there forever
GraSshoppers has been so plenty in our
midst that as fur as most folks IS con
cerned they don't care whether they
ever see grasshopper again as long
as they live Now, if grasshoppers
was any good for anything that any
body could think Of it would be differ
ent. but what good is a grasshopper in
this world except 70 use 10 bait a FISH
hook with, perhaps9 No good, we an
swer. What was grasshoppers created
for? Nobody knows. II is-said that all
critters was created for some good use.
but if sombuddy will kindly rise up and
state what good a muskeeter is or a
bedbug or the brown-tail moth or the
typhoid fever, we would be very much
obliged, indeed
These grasShoppers struck Bingyille
about two weeks ago, and sinst that
time they have multiplied themselves
many fold until things has come to sich
pass that a person can't scairsely step
Outen their back door without stepping
on grasShoppers. Some places the
ground IS covered with them. The trees
and shrubs has mostly been skinned Of
leaves by them and they are a plaguey
nuisance, dog gone EN-!
In some instances they have went and
got into houses and have chewed up
clothing and gnawed the varnish often
furnishure, and next thing they will
be eatin the paper often the walls. A
grasshopper will eat anything it gifts its
teeth on, 10 matter what it be. Sim
Hooker SAYS his stable is full of EN-
aud that they have nearlv -;ddled his
harness 70 pieces eatin of it. 1t amt no
use TO try to kill 'em by exterminatin
EN-, becuz the more you kill the more
grasshOpDers there seems to be, and, as
Dad Henderson says, the only way we
can ever hope to redooce their numbers
| is TO leave 'em alone
Last Sunday Rev Sam'l Moore, our
beloved pastor Of the Bingville church,
preached a sermon on the "Grasshopper
Scourge.' Hank Dewberry. who don't
never go to church except on speshial
occasions and who wasn't there last
Sabbath, when he heard what Rev.
Moore had preached about, said he cal
klated the parson must be putty hard
up for a subiectt when he would preach
about grasshoppers.
Rev. Moore he said that the grass
hoPpers which have been in our midst
IS divine visitashion because OF our
SINS He said that il ort to be a warn
ing to us that we must live nobuller
and better lives or else Bincviile is
liable to be wiped ont like Sodom G.
Gammorrah. Rev. Moore preached that
in Bible times locusts and frogs and
various other pests was sent on the
people 20 make them behave themselves
and live more according to- the dick
tates of their conshiences. and he cal
ldlates that's what we have so man,
grasshoppers in our midst at the pres.
ent time Tor.