THE SUNDAY OKEGONUN. PORTLAND, JULY 17, 1910.
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THES fly referred to in tlrl axtlcls Is
the one most commonly found In
our houses the Muscck domestica of
'LJnnaeus.
Speaking broadly, man has made the
house-fly; it has developed alone -with
the human dwelling. If he had no
cloeed-ln dwelling places it Is doubtful
If the houso-fly as at present constituted
could continue to exist. I thrives sim
ply because we afford it food, protection
and breodlng-places.
It is at this time of the year that the
house-fly takes on life for the ensuing
Bummer and Autumn; eggs laid last Fall
are ready to hatch. At first he is only
a little worm, wriggling his tiny grub
like form in some incubating pile of
filth, usually the manure pile, the out
house, or the mound of rubbish of gar
bage 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
eanitary. Exterminate the fly-worms, do
away with its breeding places, and there
will be no files. ' i
Wliy It Is Called Uip Typhoid Fly.
Tl common house-fly is coming to be
knovvj as the ' typhoid fly," and when
the term becomes universal greater care
will be exercised In protecting the house
from his presence.
Flies swallow the germs of typhoid in
countless millions while feeding on the
excreta of typhoid patients. As a result
they spread a thousand times more ty
phoid germs in their excreta than on their
feet. -
Flies kill a greater number of human
beings than all the beasts of prey and
and poisonous serpents, for they spread
disease which slays thousands.
As soon as th fly comes out of his
shell he is full grown and starts out
in the world to make a living and If
yoor home Is not dean he knows It,
for the fly can, discern an unclean odor
for miles.
Aa much as they Ilka the odors of
filth they dislike clean smells and
where the former will attract the lat
ter will repulse them. A pleasant
smelling substance the fragrance of
flowers, geraniums, mignonette, lav
ender, or any perfumery will drive
them away.
Most of our diseases are caused by
Invisible germs that lodge and grow In
our bodies, destroying our tissues or
poisoning us with their excreta- The'
E fcrma may be brought to us from some
sick person by whatever Is large
enough to carry them and has the op
portunity. Combine this fact -with what
everyone knows about flies, and wo see
at once the tremendous importance of
flies as carriers of human disease
germs.
The Deadly Feet.
Look closely at the picture of the fly
resting on the glass and viewed from
below. Look at the feet and observe
thai each of them is equipped with two
claws and two light-colored pads. The
fly clings to rough surfaces by means
of the claws and to smooth surfaces
bv a combined action of the claws and
pods. The fly's pads are covered with
thousands of minute short hairs sticky
at the end. There is no suction
merely adhesion.
All his grown-up life the fly has
to manage with sticky feet. Imagine
our plight if the soles of our feet were
sticking plaster, perennially renewing
its stickiness!
To such inconvenience the fly a
-constantly subject, and It is this "that
has bred Into him the habit of fre
quently preening himself, particularly
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his feet. These are constantly becom
ing clogged -with adhering substances,
and this contamination the fly must
assidously remove if his feet are to
act properly in supporting him on
slippery places. If this contamination
Is- too sticky to rub off the fly laps it
off, and It then passes off In his ex
creta. The fly lays her eggs In the manure
pile or other objectionable fllth. All the
germs, all the imaginable abominable mi
crobes, fasten themselves on the spongy
feet. He brings them into the house and
wipes them off. The fly you see walking
over the food you are about to eat 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 on the sugar industriously wlp.
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 swallow.
This does more to spread typhoid fever
and cholera Infantum and other intestinal
diseases than any other cause.
Disease attacks human beings only when
they are brought In contact with it. For
example, you cannot get typhoid fever un
less 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 glasses or
cups from which you drink.
Intestinal diseases are- more frequent
whenever and wherever flies are more
abundant, and they, and not the Summer
heal, are the active agents of its spread.
There is special danger when flies drop
Into such fluids as milk. This forms an
ideal culture material for the bacillus. A
few germs washed from the body of one
fly may develop into millions within a few
hours, and the person who drinks such
milk will receive large doses of bacilli,
which 42i my laterGauaeEerius sickness.
Valuable Fly "Don'ts."
Don't allow files in your house.
Don't buy foodstuffs where flies are
tolerated.
Don't allow your fruits and confections
to be exposed to the swarms of flies.
Don't let flies crawl over the baby's
mouth and swarm upon the nipple of
its nursing bottle.
Strike at the root of the evil. Dis
pose of waste materials In such a way
that the house-fly cannot propagate,
for flies breed in horse manure, decay
ing vegetables, dead animals and all
kinds of filth, so look after the garbage
can, see that they are cleaned, sprinkle
with lima or kerosene oil, and closely
covered.
Screen all windows and doors and
insist that your grocer, butcher, baker,
and everyone from whom you buy food
stuffs does the same, and remember
that a large percentage of flies breed,
in the stable.
There is more . health In a well
screened house than in many a doe
tor's visit.
After you have cleaned up your own
premises. Inspect the neighborhood for
fly-breeding places. Call the atten
tion of the owner to them, and, if he
does not remove them, complain to the
Board of Health.
Keep flies away from the kitchen.
Keep flies out of the dining-room and
away from the sick, especially from
those ill with contagious diseases.
Simple Means of Killing; Files.
To clear rooms of flies, carbollo aclil
may be used as follows: Heat a shovel
or any similar article and drop there
on SO drops of carbolic acid. The
vapor kills the flies.
A cheap and perfectly reliable fly
poison, one which is not dangerous to
human life, is bichromate of potash In
solution Dissolya one dram, which
can be bought at any drugstore, in'
two ounces of water, and add a little
sugar. Put some of this solution In
shallow dishes and distribute them
about the house.
Sticky fly paper, traps and liquid
polsonB are among the things to use in
killing flies, but the latest, cheapest
and best is a solution of formalin or
formaldehyde in water. A spoonful of
this lquld put into a quarter of a pint
of water and exposed in the room will
be enough to kill all the files.
To quickly clear' the room where
there are many flies, burn pyrethrura
powder In the room. This stupefies
the flies, when they may be swept up
and burned, 't
If there are flies in the dining-room
of your hotel, restaurant or boarding
house, complain" to the proprietor that
the premises are not clean.
"SOME LIVE TALKS WITH DEAD ONES"
BY IRVING S. COBB
m UT HOK in me goxaen age oi
f" exploration and discovery " I
' started to say.
"Forget that part of it." said Colum
bus, Interrupting. "Beljeve, me, my
young Journalistic friend, this is the
trolden age of the discovery and ex
ploration business this present age is.
The one to which I belonged was, the
agate ware age or possibly the brass
namel age, or maybe it was the Bra
sllian diamond age. Anyhow, I-know
there was nothing golden about it that
I seem to remember when I look back."
"But think," I said, "of what iou and
f the men who came after you did for
mankind how you widened he world's
horizon and gave new continents to
civilization and and other things of
that general natureT"
"Oh, I don't know," said Columbus, as
he crossed his legs. "Did you ever
pause to ponder over the fact that the
istar performers of my day all made
their great discoveries on the same
principle of the cow that persists in
strolling down the railroad track? If
she strolls far enough, she's almost cer
tain to discover something In the na
ture of a freight train coming the
other way. To do this does not call
for any very high degree of intelli
gence on the part of the cow. She
can't miss it. 'Twas much the same
way with my crowd.
"As you may recall, I was out lodtc
lng for India. I bumped into- the
VTetrtern Hemisphere because I couldn't
( very well help it. The 'Western Ilem-
lsphere was between me and India, and
so we met, as it were, casually. Ponce
de Leon found Florida, but he wasn't
looking for Florida. He was looking
for the Fountain of Everlasting" Youth.
If he had known he was on his way to
rive the first real estate boom to a
section that would subsequently pass
into the hands of the Standard Oil
Flagler and the allied hotelkeeplng in
terests, I'm sure he wouldn't have made
the trip. Because, say what you will
about Ponce, he wasn't the kind of a
man that would have stood sponsor for
the prices that they charge you at Palm
Beach. Piracy and freebooting were
all very well In their day, but asking
1.I5 for a 16-cent entree with Sum
mer resort trimmings would ba too
much. And I'm sure of another thing,
too. It Ponce de Leon were alive to
i day, he wouldn't go snooping around
j foreign parts looking for the Fountain
I of Everlasting Touth. He'd writs to
Lillian Russell and ask her for the
recipe.
"When Ferdinand De Soto found the
Mississippi River, you dont think for
a minute, do you, that that's what ha
was looking for? Nobody had told him
that a sizable strip of moisture an
swering to the name of Mississippi
River was lost, strayed or stolen and a
suitable reward would be paid for its
return to the rightful owner: On the
other hand, I have had It on good
authority that Ie Soto was really quits
piqued when he butted into it. It
wasn't his fault, of course, . He
couldn't miss It any more than you
could, If you started West from Cleve
land, Ohio, tomorrow morning. Tou
Just keep on going until you come to
a hollow full of water, two miles wide
and a thousand miles long, lined on
both banks with Government appro
priations, and! you know you're there.
"As a matter of fact, Ferdinand was
seeking for a new land of gold. Now
adays, he'd be roosting around the
Waldorf-Astoria In a high hat selling
mining stock to members of the fish
family, and he'd be content to stay
there and spend the legitimate pro
ceeds while they went out to look for
gold, which is the best and the safest
and the most profitable way, as has
been proven by experience. But, liv
ing as he did in the dark and ignorant
Middle Ages, he went traipsing across
a country where the accommodations
for the transient guest were almost as
poor then as they are now, and he
blundered into the Mississippi River
by accident and was burled in It.
"And look .what we came back to,
all of us. I returned from my last
voyage to the New World all linked
up like the Prisoner of Chillon. I
couldn't have had a more complete set
of cast-iron Jewelry on my wrists and
ankles If I'd been a colored brother
taking a post-graduats course on a
Georgia gang. Cortes and Plsarro and
the rest of them who were lucky
enough to get back didn't fare much
better than I did. They were general
ly regarded as persons who'd have done
much better staying at home and at
tending to their family duties than
plrootlng around In strange countries
meeting dusky princesses without a
chaperon being present, and contract
ing malaria and loose ways of living.
Anything of value that one of them
had annexed was turned over to his
Imperial patron and he could take
What .was left and put it la his aye.
C. Columbus Discusses Explorers' Stunts as Expert
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The sight -wouldn't be seriously af
fected, either. Kings back in our day
did their work: clean.' After they got
thelr's out of the kitty, there'd ba
mighty few chips lying around for the
chambermaid when she cleaned up
next morning.
"But suppose, on the other hand. I
were here on the earth now, doing my
discovering in this century instead of
five hundred years ago. I .wouldn't
actually need to discover anything,
either. Merely going away for a few
months or a few years and then com
ing back and saying I had would suf
fice, amply. Think of the reception
committee that would come down the
bay from New Tork to meet me? Tou
have had some acquaintance with those
New Tork reception committees,
haven't you 7"
As a whilom sojourner in the metrop
olis. I could truthfully say to him that
I had. I know the formula for mak
ing a professional reception committee
man. Tou pour a one-pint head into
a two-quart hat, then yon encase the
whole in a frock coat and sit In. a
cool, dark place until It has Jelled,
when you will have a typical New Tork
reception committeeman, ready for any
emergency. The only drawbacks are
that chronlo cases want to wear the
regalia all the time .and get so they
aren't good for anything besides -reception
committee work, except sitting
on the platform and acting as honory
vice-presidents at mass meetings called
for uplift and reform purposes. So I
told Columbus that I knew and he
proceeded.
"Just think," he said, "of the recep
tion committeemen coming down the bay
to meet me on a chartered tug and hang
ing white wreaths around my neck like
floral designs on the grave of Truth!
And think of nobody troubling me to pro
duce the proofs until after I'd cleaned
up on the lecture tour and ' the book
rights! That a the beauty about the pres
ent system. If you returned home after
a two days' absence and said you'd been
in Mlnkville, Neb., a lot of people would
doubt your word unless you had the cre
dentials in the shape of a set of souvenir
postcards of the new iron bridge over
Mink Creek to back up your word. But
you can stay away for a year and say
you've been almost anywhere that you
haven't been and everybody feels quite
satisfied and will buy orchestra tickets
at two a throw.
"But the lecture part of it Is only
the start. Consider what the perquisites
must be for the advertising testimonials,
alone. Tou remember, don't you, that for
months after Brother Peary got back
last Pall, the advertising sections of the
magazines where ' the best light fiction
Is usually found, and the display cards in
the streetcars, contained little else but
bis characteristic signed writings. Up till
then, I. as a fellow discoverer, had the
idea that a Pole-hunter flew kind of
light in the matter of personal baggage.
I thought - he went charging across the
congealed landscape with mighty little
in the way of luggage to impede him,
only pausing to take oft some one of
his boots and shake a loose toe or so
out of It, or to size up his faithful dog
team and decide whether he'd have
Towser or Ponto for supper that night.
"It seems I was wrong wrong by about
nine thousand pounds of Junk. It seems
that nothing was of so much aid to the
dauntless leader and bis heroic companions-
on their dash to the ' Pole as
Eplutterham's Non-Refillable Fountain
Pen, of which they carried along a full
gross, except, of course, the patent chick
en feed and collapsible typewriters, and
automatic cock-roach poison, and water
proof cuffs, and dessicated prunes, and
folding bungalows, and three-dollar pants,
and the 74.000 other Invaluable and in
dispensable manufactured articles and
proprietary goods that they took with
them all the way there and back.
"If good Queen Isabella and I had only
enjoyed such advantages when we were
framing up the first of my little person
ally conducted outings, she wouldn't have
had to pawn her crown Jewels, and I
wouldn't have made the trip across in a
collection of crippled gravy boats and
condemned soap dishes like the Nina and
the Plnta and the blessed old Santa
Maria. We could have got all the back
ing we needed from the advertising
agencies and the factories, and we'd have
needed a ship the size of the Mauritania
Just to carry our line of samples.
"And then, when I'd get back and
had all the lecture dates all fixed up,
I could spend several very pleasant
and congenial weeks writing testimon
ials such as this:
"Messrs. Collide & Payne, Leather
vine, Pa. Gents During my dash to
the late Pole, I lived exclusively, for
four long weeks, on melted snow and
your Justly celebrated brand of kiln
dried apples. At first these nourish
ing articles of food manifested a ten
dency to swell up on being eaten, but
as soon as they found out they were in
side of a Polar explorer, they must have
realized they had nothing to feel
swelled up for, and quit. I would ad
vise all persons contemplating a Pols
dash to lay In a sufficient supply of this
nutritious and satisfying delicacy. They
also make good overcoat buttons and
can be pinned to the side of the head
as a substitute for an ear that has been
frosted. oft without detection. Tours
Truly, . C. COLUMBUS.'
"There's bound to be good money in
that sort of thing," went on Columbus.
"And look, too, at the present boom in
the discovery business. In my time. It
was an intermittent and uncertain call
ing that was mostly pursued when a
veteran mariner found out he'd mar
ried the wrong lady and felt the wand
erlust stealing over him, or when his
creditors got too active. But now It's
well organized, and nearly everybody
appears to be taking a more or less
active hand in it that is to say, every
body except the Bradley Brothers, Hon
est Old Bob and Square Old Ed who
seem to have given up financing Polar
discoveries and are now devoting
themselves to arithmetical problems in
connection with a ball and a wheel at
their several emporiums. There are ex
peditions forming to find the South
Pole (British rights reservedl and ex
peditions to find the North Pole and
find out If anybody found it before, and
expeditions to go up the River Nile and
find the original source of supply of
Pullman porters; and I wouldn't be sur
prised to hear of an expedition to go
to South America and find a party an
swering to the name of Cook, five feet.
10 inches tall, but shrinking rapidly
who knows a good deal about lecturing
and the milk business in Brooklyn, N.
T., and when last seen was residing at
the bottom of a woodpecker's nest In
the Interior of Peru."
"If you were back In the game, what
particular thing would you seek to dis
cover?" I asked.
"Any one of my existing portraits
that looked anything like any one of
the others," said Columbus-