The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-03-08

of many of our northern towns and cities. l speak of the habit which the pictur- esque young m an affects. and which arrays him. when church dismisses, in gaudy costume and regular platoons, on either side of the walk leading from the church door to the street. II may be that m religious tendencies are so barren as to justify his advertising in this way the fact that he has been 10 church. and that he thus arrays himself that the chroni- eles of the spiritual temperature may be facilitated Tn their work, is a credit to hlm. IL IS yet further to be commended If he thus affords the hard-working. but poorly compensated tailor of the parish an opportunity of pointing out, to the worthy damsels of the congregation the various articles of apparel which he has devised for these animate models. and which as yet have brought him in no penny of revenue. In the main, how ever, the public mind is given 10 the be- lief tha, such features of the landscape are symptoms of the presence of dudes. dundrearys and donkeys. and that inc good impressions made during the ser vice by the pictures ofhumlli,, modesty unostenta,ion and guilessness presented for beneficial study. would ltse longer n the minds of the congregation and be S.aIkened with fewer antagonlzing shadows, If the home@ard Journey were not intTuded upon by any such hufnili- a.ing spectacle as the ihough,lesS yoaih of some communities persist n con- ;rihuting 10.
 While am on the subject of nuisan- ees. may as well remark that. while making my diagnosis of spring symp- toms. the other day, encountered a mosquito He was alive. fitting about rom flower 10 flower, and taking as much
 ntereS, in the breadstufis of our lardet as ,hc Jersey mosquito does in the nntii- eieus gore of that suceulent community, The sight of him made me feel for mo- mex; that the almanac was out of iolnt, bu, when had chased him into a cor ner. and scheduled his anatomical parts. 1 found tha; he was living on vitality which he probably inherited from some New Jersey ancestor, for hls organism was mere scrap of skin drawn over d slim vacuum. with respiratory organs and all vital functions done up m a satohel and carried under hls right fore arm. To tes, his possibilities of suction
 lassoed hlm and put him 10 pasture on my bald head. He seemed ,e recognize ihe fertility of seil at once. for my wife says ,ha, he immediately opened his carpet bag drew out his pneumatic tubes and penc,ralia, and sci 70 work. The indications were such as made ne fec tha; the sweet midsummer was upon us again. and that the delie.ous harmonics which the long luly nights arc fiaiifal ot and out ct which we awaken to blood stained sheets and mo;tied compleNlons, were weaving their uopie influence about us. bu, as l listened in van fot the dnleet notes of this nocturnal biilad-monKer. l con, luded that he was merely one of the tramp sort. whose souls are gwen over to lus, and concupisoenCe, and whefeirom nu lulling melody oozes, and accord ingly abolished him from the pastures where his young spIrit was beginning ,o fatten on visions of luxury. The song less mosquito cannot belu me into suspicious of the gentle summer tune.