Show WASTI WASTING Q SWEETNESS A correspondent pon dent of the helena jie Jle herald fald writing from westfield mass maks Nl ass a ys there Is ig one thing very noticeable to one who has lived in mon nion taha aa long iong as I 1 have and that is the large proportion of females I 1 sometimes stop and wonder where the caisel they all ali I 1 come from and where they eau cau be going so many of them Sti sil lely there is no good reason why any man should live a lonely ilfe life in any part of the world if he lie wants a wife is able to support one and Is fe aitto nit to hav have oo 00 one ne 11 here ig 1 another paragraph of bf similar import concer concerning ninga a place in the quaker state EJ eight lit hundred superfluous marriageable cc females in East iea JEa leaston ston oli oll pa P 11 live ve a silent protest against tho the advice giver teyoung to young men to go west and arld yet the stupid solons C out that way vote for polands bolands Po lands bill 0 consistency be the best way for the tans taig to ia do under the circumstance c buti but it was not the tho way vay in which th the tho 3 people of this ter territory sa saw baw w i and met mot antt antl conquered and in trl over the locust swarms year after year our farmers planted aal an 1 replanted and with their families fought and re fought the grasshoppers bagging drowning and bury burying 9 them by bushels bushels while tl they ley were young as it is or little use to fight them thein when full grown the tile tillers of the soll soil here hero fought fough t it out on that line ir if it took all summer and it did take several bummers summers until the victory was secured and universally bounteous har bar harvests ests followed As regards rewards 0 the whole territory the visits and the ravages of the grasshoppers were only partial not riot universal though general and in some localities severe enough and almost de destructive of all crops year after year our citizens were glad enough to gt g t rid of the grasshoppers but are not glad giad that the people eastward are afflicted with them ou on the contrary those who have once endured a gras grat grasshopper shopper season know how to sympathize with any other people eo P e who may be similarly simi similarly larl lari trot troubled bled bied for it isa is a grievous v visitation isit lilt a show allow that the stay at home edito editors rg ls named are suffering torments of divy bivy cw over the tiie honors and inep heaped upon their more for brethren betit but itis all tio nonsense rense for them to taik talk about balsi basss t s keeping them lle ile n home QuI teV tex they weart weme were 1 not invited or ardnt any good clothes to wear a ya lw I 1 EDITORS EDIT Orts EXCURSION t ING the washington stat star of june ard 3rd I 1 says ays ass I 1 the members of thet the illinois press association many of them accompanied by their wives visited the E executive mansion this morning by special appointment appoint ment to pay their respects respect to the president the reception took place ju jn the east room mom and was attended with very great cordiality both on the part parl martof of the president and anahis his visitors on the baek baek bark pf af this the chicago Tri tribune bune bunc thus introduces some illinois fraternal comments concerning tile the excursionists the rural editors who left lert here recently for Wa wahhu washington hIU atoll are not meeting with a very courteous attention from the stay at home editors of this state tiie the macoupin Ma coupin enquirer says los ios it is time the mass of the people were looking with suspicion upon thoe those editors who neglect their business and engage 11 in deadbeat dead beat excursions the mound city journal says say many aly of the most noted dt deau ati all beats of the illinois press meet at chicago next week for tho tile purpose of arranging vi a free trip to lo baltimore and washington it ilij is to bo hoped that they will not generally bo be taken as true representatives representative of the editorial fraternity of this state stated tile the jones boro gazette pays kays othe IThe whole brigade should be arrested for obtain ing nig railroad rides and free lunches under false pretences pretenses these yearly deadbeat dead beat excursions of those who assume to represent the editors of illinois is a disgrace to tile the press and should be denounced so the star has to return to the charge in the following fashion this is a pretty good joke upon tile the handsome and intelligent members of the th illinois editorial As clation wbk i havo have mado made so pleasant an impression rion wion at the national capital but it only ser sen serves vesto to |