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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. Why send away your orders for engraving? Every kind of society engraving at rock bottom prices at The Progress. iv. i A few things that srec^ied in stock at j Mitchell’s Old Reliable Grocery,; I Saratoga Chips, Peanut Butter, Pure - f Food Canning CoS., Fruit Jam, all I flavors, Swift’s Premium Hams, Mer- * ry Widow flour, water mill meal, and f anything good to make up a tempting j dinner. J Why not try us for Groceries f from now on. f We solicit your patronage and assure i you it will be appreciated. We buy I eggs, butter, chickens and seed pea- | nuts and pay cash. \ J. H. MITCHELL PHONE 97. FREE DELIVERY. How Can I Secure IA Good Position? There are thousands of young men and women asking themselves that question, and the secret of their success in life is wraDped up in in the answer. 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