The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-14

rades from your person. We use as
telephone cords of communication.
With these when we are ready" Wa
invite each other to attend q soiree On
a victim, IS socn as access to him is
| effected. In less civilized countries
where people are simple ard honest.
| they oil themselves to keep US Off and
when we try 20 light on them we fra~
Guently slip up. When we discover
victim, we form ~ syndicate aad take
| mp all his rest ana happiness. Just as
your bankers do.
/ This veteran but pk;Isophic blood ,
sucker then detailed to zig at length
the great height To which music had
been cultivated by his people. Lika
oil sweet singers he continued, we
are as jealous Of each other as a
church choir, and our ladies vie with
each other in creating q sensation. As
10 art we never touch anything that
we do not adorn, and VIC give color
TO the faded pictures of beauty that
| old maids sometimes wear. We are
no respecters of persons, and l have
known young and irdiscrete mosque
toes to bite men who might be i'll
duced to be candidates for office. 1
notice that these reckless chaps are
getting boated this year. We tackle
men oftener than women. because NO
men, sleep coiled up like a figure 6,
and it is more difficult to get at the
fractional portions that make them
up. We do our best work at night-
like editors. One of ns is crowd.
and more difficult TO catch than Mrs.
jerks or the true drift of the Acklen
scandal. Unless, said abe, a mosquito
bites man who drinks he is endowed
with great longevity and has been
known to live longer than the reputa-
ton of watering place belle. We
never attack selfish persons, because
their blood being only self-nourish-
ing, will not circulate in our systems.
He told us many curious things about
oar frineds and some outrageous scan
GALS about our neighbors. But after
he had told us we warned him against
the sin of tattling. We folded up our
mental note book and turned to think
ing Of this ancient fossil and we made
about this much out of him before ne
shirk away in the face of the incom-
ing day.
An iIl-contrived mosquito can an
hoy you as much as Il back-biting
friend. They are pests and nuisances,
but after all serve Il good purpose, do
mosquitoes. They are good stimu-
lants to lethargic consciences Instead
of falling heavily to rest AS we lay
ourselves down. unshielded by even a
sleepy prayer, the active and itinerant
insect pokes his fun and bill at you
until all the vices of the day go past
YOU like the maskers in n carnival.
and just as you See them all fade
away in the gauZy mists, he pricks YOU
up again until one gets wild and adds
a postscript to his days sins. OF
course there was a wise purpose in
making the things just AS there is in
having puppies born blind, but we
can't see il any more than the puppies
can. We believe in the good they are
vet to do-our friends We are will
ing to assign our rights to abuse them
10 our nearest relatives. They may
draw on our bank friends at pleasure.
We wish that our mosquitoes would
change their lodging house, or that
some body would rent us a good. fat,
nice. clean, attractive boy. with plenty
of blood to spare. We want him for
a decoy.