The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-27
SIAsCONSETT-IN-THE-SEA.
Mr.. Munkittrick Pays His Regular Annual
Tribute to the Sandy shore.

luton which keeps the manufacturers
of arms from going into bankruptcy.
After the usual summer swelter in New
York l find it very comfortable here in
an overcoat, not the leather overcoat
with copper lining worn during the
summer by the Jerseyman to keep the
mosquitoes scarfpin from penetrating
the epidermis, but the light, airy over
coat which is the brother Of the roseate
summer drink which watts one to fairy
land. The peacock disports in his feather
buster, and all is lovely as an infants
dream. Siasconsett is still Siasconsett,
and that is the highest praise one can
bestow upon it.
Nothing ever changes down here ex-
cept the weather and S. bills, but the
former is the more easily changed, even
By one who has never had professional
experience in the weather bureau. Yes
terdav man found a diamond pin that
he lost last summer right ON a beaten
path. In New York it would have been
caught on the fly while descending from
the owners scarf. If you were to stand
TICKS on their heads down here, the ma
tives would never notice them or pick
them up with their feet. AS a result of
the fine weather whale stories are larger
than they We're this time last year.
The bluef1sh are also running and
swimming we'll. I saw an IL FOUNDER
yesterday that was caught by man
who had wired a silver dollar on his
hook. This shows that even bluef1sh are
imbued by the spirit of the age in which
we live. It is probably due to the fact
that when close to shore they hear mer-
cenary people discussing everything
from the dollar point Of view. One Of
the great charms of this place is the
spirit of Americanism that pervades it
from Sanpoty lighthouse to Underhlll's
china shop on the bluff. When you go
to be shaved, you don't land on an earl
and carom on a duke even in the barber.
It is a great blessing, and one for which
we should be duly thankful, that there
are neither natural nor artificial noble
men here, and it is fortunate that the
best markets for coronets and feudal
castles are at Newport and Bar Harbor.
The only royal personages recognized
here are the kings and queens thai
abound in packs like foxhounds.
A beautiful Rlacadamized road is now
being laid from Nantucket to Siascon-
sett. About two miles of it are now fin
ished, and next year, when it is com
pleted, the bicycler will be in his ele-
ment and never know a puncture. This
will put the horses into cans for winter
use, and the poor equines who have been
trudging across the morass through the
ruts will doubtless feel happier COM
pounded as mock turtle and OK tail SOUP
This finely ballasted bluestone road
frightens the horses in the same way
that a large wholesome meal frightens
a hungry man, and the drivers are now
certain that they wasted the money they
spent on their horses in former years for
nervous prostratiOn. They are SO lively
that they don It seem like Siassett horses,
which will probably make them amena-
BILE sooner Or later to some tyrannical
blue law. About a week ago the stone
crusher broke down, and since the date
Of that accident so anxious are they to
push the good work ahead that they
have been crushing the stone with 1ithia
water.
The only mosquito I ever saw here
must have come down with me from
New Jersey in my boat. After I had
gone to bed this MOrristown nightingale
began to play drum solo upon my tin
panum until I thought I was back in
my own house, around which the mos
quitoes are so plentiful that 7 throw
them in to the summer tenant without
extra charge. When l heard the frou
frou Of this specimen and felt his tail
feathers trailing softly along my nose,
it made me sad and surcharged my soul
with melancholy about three sizes too
large for it. But he didn t attempt to
bite me. He seemed to rejoice in the
fact that he was with me that knew his
ways. And then 1 knew he was from
New Jersey, for he perched upon my
nose as if he would tenderly embrace
me and began to cry in the bitterness Of
his woe. And as great saline tears drop
ped lovingly from his eyes into mine he
sat on his hind legs like the leader of an
orchestra and began informing the names
of the stations on the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western railroad.
But the mosquitoes of New Jersey,
! biting as they do with the sting of a
tax collector, are not much greater in
numbers than the prairie dogs viii
shortly be on this ocean island. They
are multiplying like Italians Just at
HISSCuls S1A WIKI lGo Ldl4NS SC6S JHS14
eating the corn for which he charges
the alien from New York 80 cents a
dozen he Immediately pulls the lobster
pot out of the sea and sets it on the
farm. A flock Of these dogs will attack
a fine green farm and III few hours
leave nothing intact but the utensils
and the mortgage. Foxes and quail have
also been put on the island The former
are now extinct here, and the quail were
| SO greatly reduced in mum bers last win
ter by the snow and cold weather that
| law has been passed to protect them
| for three years, during which time the
poor native uust be thankful while he
| takes his toast straight. The weather is
like that of September at the present
| time and this is abont the re077 lar