Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1909 — PREVENTIVE OF MOSQUITOS. [ARTICLE]

PREVENTIVE OF MOSQUITOS.

Under the Circumstances They Caused No Annoyance. A Kentucky Congressman tells of a Louisville man rather Well-known throughout the State for his convivial qualities who last summer visited a friend living In a town on the lower Mississippi. He took with him his servant, a faithful old negro of seventy years. The morning after the arrival of the Louisville man, his host, who had risen a little earlier than usual, encountered the colored man walking about grounds. “I hope your master wasn’t annoyed by the mosquitos,” observed the head of the place. "I’m sorry to say they’re pretty bad Just now.” “Oh no, sah!” cheerfully responded the servant. "Las’ evenin’ Marse John when he went to bed was so lntoxercated he don’t mind de skeeters at all, an’ dls mornin' de skeeters Is so lntoxercated dey don’t c mfnd Marse John.”