Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1911 — No Locusts. [ARTICLE]

No Locusts.

Some years ago, in one of the South American republics, there was a sudden and devastating plague erf locusts. They came, nobody knew whence, in millions, at-d soon stripped the territory over which they swept of every speck of green. It happened that a planter waA staying in ode of the cities over which the locusts swarmed. As soon as th< first disquieting news came to him from the neighboring plantations tc send a telegram to the major domo on his own estate, asking whether an? locusts had appeared. The majoi domo replied that he had seen nc sign of locusts. Then worse news came. Locusts hafcappeared at plantation after plantation, causing awful damage. Again the planter, more worried than ever telegraphed to his plantation: “Have the locusts appeared?” Again the major domo at once answered “No.’’ Soon after that the planter heard that a plantation contiguous to his own had been ravaged frightfully. Again he telegraphed. This was the answer from the major domo: "iNo, sir; no locusts have been sgdn, but there are millions of little yellow grarshoppers here, which are ruining the coffee crop.”—"Philadelphia Ledger.