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Show Mosquito Proof. At a recent meeting, where Herbert Knox Smith, United States commissioner commis-sioner of corporations, addressed the Indianapolis Trade association. Mr. Smith told a story of the south. A northern man made a visit to the plantation of a southern- colonel, he said, and was almost devoured the first night by mosquitoes. The next moning the northern man asked the colored butler about the mosquito plague. "Don't the mosquitoes bother the colonel?" he asked. "Not much, sah," the butler replied. "The first part of the night the colonel col-onel am too drunk to feel mosquitoes, and the last part of the night they is too drunk to bother him." |