The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1892-12-10
vICKsBURG LETTER.

appreciate the sL'Inconnue' has ~cat
us out" in the matter of your good
graces; but we cannot resist the i1ll-
pulse to make one last expiring effort
towards re-instating with your "wor-
ship of the quill"
The upper ether of the famed Hin
City has in no measure exalted us
above the seductive charms of our
friends of the low lands. In truth,
they are appreciated even more by
contrast aud our recent visit to the.
Second ward may attest the fact.
We were anxious to have q consul
tation with you Mr.. Editor, in regard
to some statements that celebrated
hulnorist claims to have been reiaiied
10 him by a Mr. H. [TIall, | think) con-'
cerning Lake Providence mosquitoes.
1t appears that Mr.. ii. in question met
the humorist on down. river trip,
and after many minor details OF fact
about lower Arkansas and upper Lou
isian region he remarked that "Afk-
ansas had been injured and kept back
bv generations of exaggeraiions con-
corning the mosquitoes there" lie re-
ferre6 10 the fact that one may smile
and turn The matter off as small
thing. but that when you come to-
consider the effects produced in the
way of encouragement 10 immlgra-
ton. depreciation of property values.
etc., it is quite the opposite of a
small thing in any wise 10 be conghed
down or sneezed up.
He further mentioned that the Ark
ansas mosquitoes had been'persistenily
represented as being formidable aud
lawiess. Whereas ..ihe. truth is, they
/ are feeble, Insignificant in size, tiitfi-
dent 10 fault, and in many things,
sensitive" speaking of them As
though (says the humorisD they were
members of his own family. But,
continues the writer, if he was soft on
Arkansas mosquitoes, he was hard
enough on the mosquitoes of Lake
Providence TO make up for it-"ihose
Lake Providence colossi," as he finely
called them. He said that two oil
them could whip dog, and that -four
of them cold hold man down; and
unless help came in time they would
kill him, .butcher him." as he OK
pressed it.. He moreover warmed uE
4 with his narrative and let drop the
casual remark that "in fact, the life
assurance policy in its simplest form
! is unknown in Lake Providence, the,
take out mosquito policy besides"
| Ii added moreover, among Other
remarkable things about those lawles'
creatures. that he had even seen then
try 10 rote, but when his audience
seemed TO sstrain at this narrator,
gnaI, y he modified his statement, sale
! he might have been mistaken as Il
that particular, but knew that he has
seen them around the polls canvass
ing"
lie subjoined that il was a princi
pie of his when narraiiug s.o dress ,
tact-in tights-never in an ulster"
Now, our reason for wishing con
sultation with the founiain-source 0
polity, justice aud equity of LAX
Providence, to-wit: The wise eGito
of the er-Democrai-is one O
political import, and III the interest 0
Democracy.
) Ii is as follows: We have recent.
been informed by private Telegram
from the snake doctors of the Tensa
swamp (morial enemies by the way. Q
the mosquito tribe) that the Lake
Providence mosquitoes have in mas
meeting finally decided to rote at TIL
next election; aud it is moreove
claimed that they are "Populites" o
the most decided and violent type
erhey differ however from The Missis
sippi Populile in that the Mississippi
P-ites .stick at nothing,n while the.
OF Lake p. stick at everything
: This by the way, now to the point
In case of the truth OF Tensas swamp
reports. we have invented a cope
plated ballot-box for the especial u.s.
OF the rapacious Populite above men
j toned. Ii is SO arranged that loni
cylindrical rubber tube with a funnel
shaped mouth piece can be attache,
: from behind the box, aud so adjusted
that when the "mosquito suffragan
comes, to hand in his cote, the filanp
ulators of election can aim the tube a
: the "unsuspeciing voter" draw him, il
lLodily, vote aud all, by compressed
air suction: and arrange for the mex