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MORE ABOUT THE
PESKY FLIES
Mr. Editor; - T have been much
interested in what you and the per
son who signs himself as “Constant
Header” has to sry about the pesky
iiy. He sure is a big nuisance in
Cairo,I mean the fly, is, and it seems
to me he isjgetting worse and worse,
I was in church the other day and
1 saw many of them there. Some
0 the houses and stores of the town
have so many flies in them that you
can here ’em singing almost. I. am
agin the fly, for I know where he is
born. Flies come from maggots
and maggots live in rotton things.
1 read the following piece in a paper
the other day and I want all of my
friends and neighbors to read it. If
they do, I am sure they will be agin
the fly just like me. Your friend,
An Old Citizen.
Speaking broadly, man has made
the house-fly, it has developed along
with the human dwelling. If we
had no closed-in dwelling places, it
is doubtful if the house-fly, as at
present constituted, could continue
to exist, It thrives simply because
we afford it food, and a breeding
place.
It is at this time of the year that
the house-fly takes on life for the
ensuing summer and autumn; eggs
laid last fall are ready to hatch. At
first he is only a little worm, wrig
gling his tiny grub-like form in some
incubating pile of filth, usually the
manure pile, the outhouse, or the
mound of rubbish or garbage in the
back yard. In this condition he is
easily killed and it should be the
duty of every person to kill him
now. The house-fly could not exist
if everything were kept perfectly
clean and sanitary. Exterminate
the fly-worms, do: away with their
breeding places, and there will be
no flies.
The common house-fly is coming
to be known as the ‘ 'typhoid fly,” i
and when the term becomes,, uni
versal, greater care will be exercised
in protecting the house from his
presence. Flies swallow the germs
of typhoid in countless millions
while feeding on excreta. They
spread a thousand times more ty
phoid germs in their excreta than
on their feet, ■,,<
As soon as the fly . comes out of
his shell he is full grown and starts
out in the world to make a : living
and if your home is not clean, he
knows it; for the fly can discern an
unclean odor for miles and miles. A
pleasnt-smelling substance—the
fragrance of flowers, geraniums,
mignonette, lavendar, or any per
fumery--will drive them away.
The fly lays her eggs in the ma
nure pile or some other filthy place.
All the germs—all the microbes—
fasten themselves on the spongy
• feet. The fly brings them into the
house and wipes them off. The fly
that you see walking over your food
is covered with filth and germs. If
there is any dirt in your house, or
about your premises, or those of
your neighbors, he has just come
from it. Watch him, as he stands
upon the sugar, industriously wip
ing his feet. He is getting rid of
disease germs, rubbing them on the
sugar that you are going to eat,
leaving the poison for you to swal
low. . (
This does more to spread typhoid
fever, cholera infantum and other
intestinal diseases than any other
cause.
Disease attacks human beings
only when they are. brought in con
tact with it. For instance, you
cannot get typhoid fever unless you
swallow the germs of typhoid, and
you do not swallow these germs un
less they get on the food you eat or
in the liquids you drink, or on the
glass or cups from which you drink.
Intestinal diseases are more frequent
whenever and wherever flies are
most abundant, and they, and not
the summer heat, are the active
agents of the spread of such dis
eases. There is special danger when
flies drop into such fluid as milk.
This forms an ideal culture material
for the bacillus. A few germs
washed from the body of one fly,
may develop into a million within
n few hours.
Don’t allow flies in your house.
Don’t buy foodstuffs where Hies are
tolerated. Don’t allow your fruits
and confections to be exposed to
the swarms of flies. Don’t let flies
cmwl over the baby’s mouth and
swarm upon the nipple of its nurs
ing bottle. Dispose of waste mate
rials in such a way that the house
fly cannot propagate, for flies breed
in horse manure, decaying vegeta
bles, dead animals and all kinds of
filth. Look after the garbage can,
see that it is cleaned .sprinkled with
lime or kerosene oil and closely
covered. Screen all 'windows and
doors and insist, that your grocer,
butcher, baker and every one from
whom you buy foodstuffs does the
same. Remember that a large per
centage of flies breed in the stable.
There is more health in a well
screened bouse than in many a doc
tor’s visit.
Keep flies away from the kitchen.
Keep flies out of the dining-room
and away from the sick, especially
from those ill with contagious # dis-[
eases. To clear rooms of flies, car-]
bolic acid may bp used as follows
Heat a shovel or any similar article
and drop thereon twenty drops of
carbolic acid. The vapor kills the
flies. A cheap and perfectly relia
ble fly poison, one which is not
dangerous to human life, is bichro
mate of potash in solution. Dis
solve one dram, which can be had
at any drug store, in two ounces of|
water, and add a little sugar. Pu
some of this solution in shallow!
dishes and distribute* them aboutl
the house. A spoonful of formalin
or formaldehyde in a quarter of a
pint of water and exposed in the
room will kill all the flies. To
quickly, clear the room burn pyre-l
thrum powder. This stupefies the!
flies, when they may be swept up
and burned. If there are flies ini
the dining room of your hotel, res
taurant or boarding house, com
plain to the proprietor that the
premises are not clean.
1ST TRUTH RETOLD
OF MEDICINE’S CURES?!
New Test Applied to Pure Drug ]
Law.
Washington, D. C.—Does the
pure food and drugs act of 1906
prohibit knowingly false statements;
on labels about the curative prop
ertios of medicines or does it merely
prohibit false statements about the
ingredients?
That question was argued recently
before the Supreme court of the
United States. Solicitor General
Lehmann, for the government, ar
gued that the law had been given
the broader interpretation probably
would be to break up the patent
medicine business.
“I know of nothing within the
scope of congress that would be
more beneficial,” he added on this
point.
The government was opposed by
James H. Harklees, representing
0. A. Johnson, whose indictment
in tlie federal courts of Missouri
was quashed on the ground that the
law doos not prohibit misstatements
as to tho curative effect of medi
cines.
Mr. llarkless argued that con
gress never intended to, and could
not if it had so intended, enact a
law which dealt with tho curative
effects of medicines. He said that
the law would be no standard by
which an opinion as to the curative
effects would be judged.
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engraving at rock bottom prices at
The Progress.
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