Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-15
SCIENTISTS SCHEMES.
THEIR PLANS FOR ExTERMlNATlNG
THE MOSQUITO.

mosquito has invaded the sacred presence OF
! the scientist and has eXasperated him very
much, as he does the common place person
who knows nothing of science in any Of its
| manifold manifestations. At any rate, an
eastern scientist announces that the mosquito
Is found IN every part of the habitable globe
where there are swanps and stagnant water.
1t would be exact to say that the mosquito
finds the human being in every Cline and
that the average human being, scientists ex-
cepted, has never been known to hunt the
mosquito as diversion. True, he has nearly
knocked himself senseless by striking that
part of his anatomy where he imagined the
mosquito has ordered his repast, but has been
filed with rage when he heard the buzz of
the creature In note which proved that all
was serenity with him.
NOT A HIM" BUT "sHE"
The mosquito has been referred to as ''him. "
If the scientist knows what be is talking about
the mosquito which keeps people awake with
its dismal treble always in minor KEY, which
is terror not so much because it depletes the
life current in our veins as for the fendish
method Of doing it, is ''she"-the female of
the species. He the SCIENTIST tells US that
the male mosquito is an innocent who, if he
leads an aimless life, also leads a homeless
one. How he subsists, how be spends his
time while his sleepless and voracious spouse
is making the existence of both man and beast
burden to them. the scientist or naturalist
who makes this assertion does not deign to
explain
The scientist who seems to have accepted
the mission Of making it appear that every
thing created Is useful to the human race,
comes to the defense of the mosquito. In the
"larva FORM" which is one of the stages of
existence which the thing which becomes the
bloodthirsty mosquito in the end passes
through, it is a blessing in that it devotes it
self TO cleansing swamp lands and stagnant
pools of the miasEnus which plague mankind
with various kinds of fevers If this state
ment OF the scientist is correct, then the mos
quito is more disreputable wretch than at
first appears, being no better than the savage
who saves the life of his unfortunate prisoner
in battle that he may torture him to death at
his leisure, since she preserves human being
from the possibility of fever only to reserve
him for unspeakable torture with her q pois-
onoUs lances and exasperating music. The sci
entists who are seeking the life of the mos
quito to the limit of extinction abandon the
IA s~AAi@AoO am lHcOI dliu Sctk OUuGl
agencies for DISCRIMINATING the pest.
HUNT FOR ENEMIES
Accordingly they have been canvassing the
insect department of creation to find the
natural destroyer of the mosquito. One of
them, Dr.. Larnborn, claims to have found hin.
i'll the dragon FL, more generally known IS
the devils darning needle" and, in some To-
calities, as the ''snake feeder" This long
bodied, wide winged, rakish insect, with his
basSo buzz, has achieved bad reputation or
rather he has had bad reputation thrust
upon him. His appearance il a school room
through the open window has turned fifty
well grown boys and girls, with their teacher,
frantic, and yet the scientist has learned that
the dragon fly never injured a human being.
never plotted snake to repast much less
allowed himself to be used in repairing the
rents in the hose Of his Satanic ma jesty. The
clever Dr. Lemborn has discovered that the
dragon fly spends his days in eating insects,
and that OF oil insects, he prefers the mos
quito, and having made this discovery he
has offered prize for the best essay ON the
OF the dragon fly, based upon ex-
perlence. This essay requires the naming of
the most voracious species of the insect, which
is hereafter to be known by the name OF the
mosquito hawk"
II this particular scientist is upon the right
track, if the devils darning needle is in fact
the mosquito hawk, if he can be multiplied
as the sands OF the sea by persistent and in
telligent breeding, and his appetite for the
mosquito is not destroyed by human manipu-
lstion, there is hope of deliverance at summer
resorts from the deadly incursions OF myriads
Of mosquitoes. Then every unhappy resident
in mosquito ravaged locality can keep his
own colony OF mosquito hawks, or, better,
the breeder and dealer can sell them from
house to house, as he does alleged spring chick
Ems and such. The owner of a house will pur-
chase a score, while the occupant of a single
room viii make modest purchase of two to
protect him from the death song Of the mos
quito. And more, a new industry will be es-
.abished giving employment to scores and
perhaps hundreds of men and women.
LAST But NOT LEAST
Another scientist has discovered another
destroyer of the mosquito. So far as has
been ascertained this destroyer bears him no
enmity. 1t is not conflict of races,
Except that one regards the other as a deli
,acy of the season as a food. Strange to saw.
his mosquito destroyer is even more posi-
lively repulsive. and more feared by humans
han is the dragon sy. 1t is the spider, who,
f this naturalist knows himself. or patber
lis subject, is not a vicious or poisonous in
ect. he does not believe that spiders bite
human beings. On the contrary. he leads
ne to suspect that this industrious creature
pins his webs with the dual purpose OF
atching his daily food and relieving man
nd beast of their tormenters If DR.. Nc
>ook, who presents the spider theory in The
Worth American Review, is on the right
rack and ne can bring people to his way of
linking, he has not only relieved the spider
f the odium of generations, but he Will be
he means of bringing the cobweb maker into !
popularity, and of making him subserve a |
seful purpose in that economy whose end is
D make mankind comfortable II his theory |
hall be accepted, the spider that now makes I
ne shudder will become a pet, and the cob |
Teb in the corner of the room which is now |
egarded e sign Of slackness in the house
eeper viii be looked on as a most useful or /
ament, The spider will not only be pro- 4
acted. but his presence in ali the house will /
e encouraged and his webs will be jealouslv /
uarded As the canopy that will entrap the /
loSquiVo who ,nurdereth sleep and stabs us
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