The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-08-08
! The Gallinipper
and other
Skeeter Stories.

GALLlNIPPER readln' mere Idteiy
VERSUS mighty heap about
MOSQUITOES. mosquitoes" he be-
gan, between puffs
of his pipe. But nary word have
seen about the Gallinipper. And that
curious a'gin," he went on, after pause
for a puff. For the Gallinipper's as far
ahead of the Mosquito as $5O-a-
month Library bear in the Raleigh zoe
is ahead of the ordinary wild and unedu-
Gated Ursus."
After this classic effort the Old Cod
ger relapsed into silence for awhile. The
Observer of Men and Affairs jabbed his
jack knife noisily into the white pine
goods box on which we were sitting The
Old Codger looked annoyed and then went
on:
why the Gallinipper is a son of Anak
in comparison with the balance of the
Mosquito tribe. He carries a hypoder-
mic syringe with him equal to that used
by doctor, and when he gets we'll to
work l tell you there's something doing.
Another pause, as if waiting for any
challenge of the statement. Nobody could
dispute it, and he proceeded:
Doctors look wise and write learnedly
about Mosquitoes and Malaria poets
look silly and sing Of Cupid and His
Darts
Nov, you wouldn't think these two
ideas had any relation, but they have,
and both of them's wrong The doctor S
got poetry mixed with his science and the
poets got science mixed with his poetry,
and a pretty mess they make of it. The
truth of the business is that malaria
comes out of the ground and Cupid is a
past tense.
"And Love, why Loves germ and
that's where all the trouble comes in the
doctors IN a a ri a
OLD CODGER theory
ON THE Having thus log
GERM THEORY. icaHy and conclu-
sively established
this fact, to his own satisfaction, the Old
Codger went on to explain:
This germ is carried by Mosquitoes
and Gallinippers, and that's where the
poet gets his Cupid with wings and the
Doctor his malaria theory. And it is a
most natural mistake. Love is very
much like measles, for almost everybody
catches it-especially about summer re-
sorts, where Mosquitoes are plentiful
and the subsequent attacks, If there be
such, are rarely so severe as the first.
The malady may easily be mistaken for
malaria, CHAMBERS or even lock-jaw. for
it somtimes seiZes it's victim suddenly
and with violence; so much so that he
loses his head completely and does most
unexpected things.
IF he is very bad off, he's been bit by
Gallinipper, and the germ he inserts is
so virulent that if love does not run
smooth the victim will commit suicide.
The germ inserted by the Mosquito is
milder. 1t makes boys use soap and
water, sends young men to church, causes
bachelors to patronize. confectioner and
florist, sweetens the temper of sour old
maids and steals the canes of rheu
matte old widowers.
But it never causes suicide or nsan
ity, as the Gallinipper germ always
does
'Then again." went on the Old Cod
ger, 1.-The Gallinipper speaks altogether
a different language
THEY SPEAK from the Mosquito.
A VARIOUS His Mosqutorship
LANGUAGE. is ingratiating in
manner and diplo-
matte in his ways He huns a lullaby of
duIcet sweetness and salutes his vic
tim as Cousin, cousin, cousin ever The
GalInipper sings war song and in bold
blatant tones demands Blood, blood,
blood sir
There is a theory that the Gallinip-
per preys on the Mosquito, but this is
untrue. They belong to the same race,
but are of different tribes
''Then again, | notice that some of
these here Northern Yankees are trying
to kill Mosquitoes with Kerosene. That
may do the work for an ordinary Mosquito
that would bite Yankee but for our
Gallinippers, why it would jest whet their
appetite for more.
'Why. sir" and he brought his first
down with a bang on the box, kerosene
would have no more effect on Gallinip-
per than corn liquor would on a Rham-
katter.''
But despite the Old Codger's iconoclas-
tic views, physicians go on declaring
that malaria may
MOSQUITOES be caused by Mos
BLAMED quito bites.
FOR MALARIA There is now an
epidemic of Mosqui-
toes and Malaria at Fordham Heights,
New York, and DR.. Walter G. Montgom-
cry, one of the staff physicians of the
Fordham Hospital. says the Mosquitoes
are responsible for the Malaria.
Il think said DR.. Montgomery, that
the presence of Malaria on Fordham
Heights is due primarily and almost en-
tirely to the swarms of Mosquitoes that
have infested this neighborhood during
the last three weeks. Fordham is ont a
Malaria situation by any means yet
there is an epidemic of the disease, and
/ can account for it in no other way.
4 am copelled to agree with the New
Jersey medical authorities in their state
ments that Mosquitoe carry the germs OF
Malaria with them and poison the
blood of their victims. The Mosquitoes
that have made life miserable for us dur
ing the last three weeks come in swarms
from the Harlem river and from marshy
districts about Long Island Sound, where
Malarial symptoms are easily devel
oped.'
In New Orleans a campaign is to bt
begun at once against Mosquitoes 1t viii
ho cOnducfp6 undo