The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1901-03-01
THE MOSQUITO.
HE is OF SOME BENEFIT TO MANKIND.

New York Times.
That the mosquito Is beneficial to
in the conviction OF Chas. M.
Slade, cotton broker, OF so Worth
street, this city, resident Of Engle.
wood, N. J. For thirteen years the
cotton broker has been laughed at,
gibed at, and bullyrageed by the un-
regeneratc of Jersey for his belief in
the usefulness in preventing certain
diseases. He feels that at last he has
been vindicated.
"Yes," "said he in his Office yesterday
II consider my theory has
been fully vindicated by the report re.
ccived a day or two ago from Havana
to the experiments being car.
ried on there In mosquito inocula.
tions, l cut out the article and showed
it to my friends and told them the
old man has at last been vindicated.'
The dispatch said that so per cent Of
mosquito inoculations had been sue.
cessful. Some OF my friends long ago
accepted my theory, and they have
been immune each year from malaria
and certain other diseases. l believe
firmly IN mosquito inoculation, not
only as a preventive OF malaria, rbeu.
matism, neuralgia and typhus, but as
a preventive against annoyance from
the bites OF insects after they have
taken their early spring meal from
me. That is a fact" ..'..
"How did you come to originate the
theory?" was asked.
II didn't originate it," was the re-
ply. II never did originate thought
nor has any one else. When you think
that you think Thought you arr
wrong. A new thought Is in the al
surrounding you. Sometimes it strike
and sometimes it doesn't. II it strikes
you develop it. 1t was that way will
me. When l was living in Monclair
| N. j., in 1887. l went into the gardel
one May day with my body covered
from the waist up with only thiI
gauze undcrshirt. As worked in m.
garden, let the mosquitoes swarm OI
me, principally on my back. Afte
they had enjoyed their feast fO
an hour | went into the house.
put a teaspoOnful OF ammonia into
pint of water and rubbed the liQuit
over my skin. That took the stin,
away and tile rest OF the season l wa'
not bothered once. The merry little
sting stuck me. but | didn't feel it.
was inoculated.
"You see," said Mr.. Slade, warming
10 to his subject, "the mosquito
comes from swamp land where mala
ria prevails. Take the mosquito ava!
from the swamp lands in New jersey
and malaria and typhus would kill al
of us. When lie bites, the effect II
like, for instance, incubation by vac
cination. You get a good mild form
OF the disease. l don't know whethe
YOU believe in God or nOt-that doe
not matter; you need not answer--bu
God never created anything for moth
ing; everything in nature has It's use
and the despiscd mosquito II 1t j
treated with kindness and courtesy
are more useful in certain ways thar
doctors, and he's cheaper, or rather
should say she Why? Because th
lady mosquito does all the work. Tn
bull mosquito never stings. He jus
simply sails around, perches himsel
and sings in his own merry way, Will
the lady does business on the famil
account"
"Have you any converts?"
IL have. The Jersey people AZ
waking up. They're just finding ou
what q valuable disease.preventin
plant they possess within the borde
OF their State. I'm down east Yank,
and l went to Jersey, among 9TH
things, with the rheumatism. Aft
l arrived l acquired neuralgia, rhe
matism's nrst cousin. 1t was an ear
asset. One day took bicycle rid
!, Ioverdid it. Then came an inevitst
:. attack oi rheumatism. ! went do'
by the side OF my pond and let I
! mosquitoes bite my legs until they &
tired, not the legs, hut the mosquito
! Then l bathed myself in ammon
: and water and the rheumatism disa
!. peared."
= "If you went to Havana in yello
. fever time, Mr.. Slade would you allo
:, :, a mosquito to bite you?"
;. Come of the perch" he calculate
/" "Would l? Why, the first thing
would do would be to gather half
! doxen or more Of the native produ
and take them to my room. Then
;. would turn them lose, undress, 20
bed and tell them to sail right 10. A
;. they had their sport with me ! wou
: be a yellow fever immune.
;. Now that the ~ auito idea Is
ginning to spread, JSVseyites see grs
possibilities ahepd; all except the d
tors. The docl6Vs are apprchensi
i The real estate mon with swamp !
- see hope In the fo5ure. ag
ltisa noticeable fact that nes
cverv Judgment rendered hv ludR(