The evening world., 1888-07-23

enough. Too much, indeed, did one heed the
wrathy cries and imprecatory means which they
send out into the brooding twilight when the south
wind IL unusually southerly. But no one can deny
that the Beach was q beautiful spot before 1t was
suliied and bedahb,ed with human gore. It In not
much, II any, more than Q score Of miles away by
boat, and before It's savage Inhabitants began TO
yachts 10 search Of fresh meat there was no more
des rable landing for the great pleasure neet which
Sound with cleaning canvas and dancing shalows.
Picnic parties and q DIVIDED excursions us d 70 dis
ira Spag sss 1s Siufr. be Ssf ssssS sSs fsars omen fame Of 4 , Sar
deed, though only mosquitoes IN name. All is
silent now along the verdant lawns and softly
swelling slopes, savetn yell OF the summer boarder
and the shrek Of the stray dog carried away bodily
II is conquered strange that the mosquitoes,
which are well up In nautical lore, should not have
rspellea ooaTders when the upsuspsc,ns city Geo-
tualiy to have disguised their piratical bloodtnirst-
nes-s. and to have oo-opsrated with tue other
land as possible. The summer colony on and back
Of Mosquito Beach IL large. rich and influential.
they now sat salt, drink tannin and leave no
scheme untried to starye the mosquitoes out
The woods back Of Mosquito Beach are full of
steel-traps. Bird lime coats the trees and large
sums have been expended in this way by ~unsophis-
ticated new arrivals" who thought violently TO
dim,niah the tuneful numbers Of their winged OPP
| who has been laid up for some time by reason OF
finding Q wasp-nest 10 his batn-house q few weeks
ago, was going to market with his catch OF clans a
day or two since, when mosquito he had at nrsi
mistaken Tor a nying-sqdirrel broke OF Q great OAK
branch TO which II had ceen bird-limed since early
the night before and new 30 hungrily at Hiram that
to ieapedlfrom his steed Just In Time to escape. The
broken end OF the branch fractured the horses
skull.
Hiram Hovey's son Howard has started Q new In.
dustry among the summer residents. He raits his
hshipg -tackle with bloody beef and lets the board.
ers hsh OF the edge Of the blum for mosquitoes.
Large strings are taken In this way about shutdown
in a very short time. Since Absalom Cleve's boy
Ben, q hearty youngster Of fourteen, was yanket
down the blu6 by an unusually large musquit, fol
which he had baited with q pound Of liver, the
clearinghouse keepers have declined TO Dlre linei
10 minors. Some OF the Mosquito Beach boys who
cherish q desire 70 60 West and arrow up the feel
ings OF the Red Man, have become quite exper
with their bows this summer, and easily brini
down the smaller mosquitoes on the wing.
Col. Anderson Psrkins, Of The Chestnuts, q 1nt
old country seat, which 10 one Of the show place.
Of the Beach, has Just invested IN a number o
tailors' dummies aud millinery mouels which h
| puts TO q novel and benencent use. They arr
dressed up NJ 8 O'Clock every afternoon in the lates
fashionable costumes and driven down TO the boa
landing, promenaded along the beach or grouped
a. II In SOCIAL converse on the piazzas and lawn.
Tho faces, necks, hands and ankles OF the unfor
tunate dummies are then thickly smeared with
dense and cohesive mixture Of stratina and bul
locks' blood. While the mosquitoes are dallyinI
with these unresisung victims the Colonel and hi
neiRhbors eat their dinners IN comparative peace.