The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-07-18
THE HUMAN MOSQUITO.
A Creature Which Exists But Tn
Torment.
How He Wounds and Tortures his Han.
less Victims-The Different Varieties
OF the Species--A Possible Rea-
son for his Existence.

S~u ior MS Existence.
He is ubiquitous; and, taking hin
morally, he has solved the problem q
perpetual motion; for he is never miet
never tranquil, and as for letting wei
or his fellow-creatures alone. he doe
that as little as he pays the nationa
debt Like his chronological proto
type, the human mosquito has yariop,
methods OF attack. Now he comes or
you silly, without note of warning pre-
facing attack, and the first proof of his
presence sting: now the sbrill dis.
cordance OF bis challenge rouses Won m
attention and the vain attempt at do
Tense and retaliation. For Won can nn,
aeIend yourself nor yet retaliate. The
human mosquito is too subtle in his at.
tack to be evaded, too quick in his re-
treat to be caught; and your hands only
hght the air, when they do not fall. like
Doomerangs. with sounding blow ON
your own pate.
Inc llfe's business of the human
mosquito is to wound, and his mildsst
pleasure is to annoy. Woe to YOU. moor
hapless wight, if. in weak moment
you have allowed the tormentor TO find
out your sore places or discover tho
secret OF the weak joint in your armor
Henceforth you may bid Alien tn neona
Tor so long as this creature is w;th;r
hail. de never lets drop subject which
ne knows is painful; and when he has
once been able to make you vince. he
never wearies OF repeating the expert.
,aen1 IL is such fun to him to see your
up gulver, your cheek blanch. your ewes
hash with Unsurpassed fury, If Won are
= man-wlth voiceless scorn or darken.
ing tears. if you are a woman~-snoh
Jun! de would not forego that pleasnra
Tor worlds, life. indeed, HAVING NO
greater to bestow. Tivisectionp Aro
mere not men who would yivisect Co...
me mere love of torturinp. and The
brutal curiosity of seeing the yict;mis
'ehavior under pain? So in Ike mo,
Ter does the human MOSQUITO tormsnt
l ~" or.ure You for the mere love of /
~, Is SPOT ana to make you dance to I
lbs lbs piping, shod in the red-hot shoes of ,
ne German fairy tale, is as exquisite /
oehgnt to him as were the :
RES OF the racked hereto to Torona. :
iaaa' as are the fluttering aoonies +
! Inc wounded bird to the snake Has 4
our lavorlte son proved a failure. with a
assages In his history YOU wouIJ p
atner not remember, still less have d
'inembered by otherse The bun,an .
'osqulto never meets you without asL- "
= carefully after young Graceless f.
mere Is he-what is he doino-and h.
PAID his debts yet? and ia that Con h,
nee OF outlawry rescindede and what d.
grief it must be to you that ono u1sa ~
O,,iS SO Well when he was a lad to
ouid have kicked over the traces 70 co
cn an extent as he has done! did IN
ur daughter run off with the pepniless II
eu'enant' and are you notoriouslv mn. or
70 the neutrality-suspicious. wi
IS your displeasure? The buman ia
's9e'1o takes every opportunity of ne
taxing IN your presence of the TO-; ba
mt 70 which your unwelcome sonl or
belongs; and though he can NOT toll
personally, does tell your neiobbor IT,,
your hearing, where it is. what i as'
is doing, and how this of Hna. n ,ao
tnat have distinguished tbemsaIvo. ma
been rewarded, your undes;rah ne W
!, . ~ oeing conspicuously absent the
!. me roil-call Of merit. If your old the the
y !, mas died and left YOU nothing , rne
~ sne favored your cousin and made an a
ner heir, to your not unnatural lie s"e
continent. the human moso1ito do VI
~ ene most extraordinary Interest Nil,
nat cousins doings. and either ass trn
VI ms weli-being under his new nar
ors' or gives you anecdotes of tba e''
ndor OF his surroundings and the ans
unding luxury of his home--anec. 81 GU
: winch set your teeth on edge '
pered as You are in all YOUR o,ings EI a',
comings. Or, if it be the other aioe
ana you have been the favored s snd
the rlghtful heir has been disnos- =" Gnu
-, then does the tormentor regale daft,
win narrowing accounts of the dis biz
% one 8 trials and penury, and. the fn "s
rness OF his disappointment which a NV. :,
: to him like Nessus shirt ro;sn S we q
ne very current of his blood. ono oe
70 De successfully fought. mot ra.s
captured, not to be barred ont 80.
ormentor OF mems lives is As fer snss'
as are those germs which fioat IN aus.
= and bring woe illimitable 10 All s;Dal
breathe them. Your only cbsnca "ss
ann IS Impenetrable reserve; wran- dis,
'ourseh up in silence which moth m.n'
"a cause to break into confidence l. ~ -
betrayal; showing a demeanor az t n ~; =
as triple wall Of brass; suffo. : sn mn -