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EXPERIENCE.
MODERN SCHOOL OF MARINERS.
co
ECZEMA BROKE OUT ON BABY
PLACE-
j
for
uld be kept covered <
Always il
when the mischief has been
from contact with horse manure
ci ties this care is lessened by the perfection of
S'
e fly) must assume third rank—
families
one need only walk at random
to realize that it is not alone by
East side or
a:
TO
werage systems, bu1
e danger is always ]
had carried the germs over so great
short a time. By a careful process
by inoculation, that is, by depos-
on a sore surface or on mucous
in the suburbs and country
•resent. The chief peril here
so*
At your
Druggist.
is the screening of food sup-
ped in the open market or in
The Wisconsin boys who save them-
selves labor by having a phonograph
call the cows out of the pasture are
perfectly, willing to rely upon human
lungs for the dinner announcement
steadily Increasing for
In many ways the ma-
new school are better
shellbacks that heaved
n
b
ii
b
Teacher—Tommy, what is
quette?
Tommy—It’s a thing you make out
cf what’s left of the stewed chicken.
A rope manufacturer has just been
made a director in a cigar company.
Almost anybody could say something
about the fitness of things here.
“All the epidemic and local diseases
thrive upon the family cat,” asserts an
authority. This may explain why the
animal is endowed with nine lives.
anure in stables
at frequent inter
eened inclosure.
tied with chloride <
most efficacious
lost no chance to b
Lost to the vanishing
aly a minor factor in the spread
’he bedbug, the flea and other
1 ust also be charged with some
conveying noxious bacilli.
as been proposed by Dr. Howard
be known henceforward as the
h certain almost be-
of a doubt of the
Elusions, felt it only
links in the chain
are ^wanting.” They
People who have nothing else of im-
portance to do are arguing the ques-
tion, “Does the robin sing or does he
merely chirp ?” It is almost as exciting
as playing chess.
The Krupps have a monopoly in a
projectile which will hit a balloon. It
Is likely that two or three men will
have a monopoly in being in the bat
loon.
the
pa-
THE*
HOU£-E PLY
PROPE-R,
M03CA D0ME3TKH
in doing away altogether with
.house and the substitution of
closet, the use of lime and
(itch’vSte*7
Eczema;^
.Ringworm's
I. Tetter.
A Michigan lawyer has found a new
way to break a will. One of his cli-
ents spoke his will into the trumpet oi
i phonograph and had the record put
away. His lawyer, by dropping the
record, smashed it into a thousand
pieces. It seems to be impossible to
make a will that some lawyer can’t
break, somehow.
for more than a week. One
saw in the paper the advertise-
of the Cuticura Soap and Cuti-
Ointment, so I got them and
them at once. My baby’s face
TftE- BREEDING
Of- Ml LU OILS
Kind. It has alx)ut the
Whe jjainfi-That loung-
MkTor floating down
the muscles. The mind,
truth, has to deal with
There is still plenty of honey in
rock for the man who has the
tience to keep on pegging away until
he gets to it.
' COPYRIGHT BY
PEARSON PUB CO
carriers of the disease,
with whom they are
or barns should be de-
als either in a pit or vault
Each layer should be
d lime. This is the cheap-
discourager of the fly, gives
reed, and thins its numbers
point. Other disinfectants
as kerosene, or a solution
te of lead. The bin or pit
laretully and not allowed to
_____ nay be kept tightly rammed
barrels for purposes (of removal. Its transporta-
also be under the strictest
should be borne in mind
baseball because of
ien to some objection, as convey-
idea that this fly is solely re-
spread of typhoid.” “Perhaps”
5 hour. He says further
d scent food or decaying
jveral miles and might
30 miles a day, especial-
y a wind. All this, it is
d. is carefully qualified,
r investigators, he is by
■tain of his ground, and
A variation of the Enoch Arden
itory comes from a New York town,
where a man who had deserted his
wife had the uncomfortable experi-
ence of having her unexpectedly wait
on him and have him arrested. Il
variation could only replace the
lal practice, it would be much
for the community in general
have the effect of reducing the
lumber of these wanderers from theii
iwn firesides, who have formed a dis>
linct class of public nuisances.
David
college
'‘scientific muckerism” in joshing
players. In professional baseball
muckerism is far mor 2 scientific
less classical.
and Cuticura Ointment, I could
difference. In color it was red-
I continued with them. My
was in a terrible condition. I
the Cuticura Remedies (Soap
“When my baby was two months
old, she had eczema and rash very
badly. I noticed that her face and
body broke out very suddenly, thick,
and red as a coal of fire. I did not
know what to do. The doctor ordered
castile soap and powders, but they
did no good. She would scratch, as
it itched, and she cried, and did not
sleep
day I
ment
cura
tried
was as a cake of sores.
“When I first used the Cuticura
Soap
see a
der.
baby
used
and Ointment) four times a day, and
in two weeks she was quite well. The
Cuticura Remedies healed her skin
perfectly, and her skin is now pretty
and fine through using them. I also
use the Cuticura Soap today, and will
continue to, for it makes a lovely
skin. Every mother should us© the
Cuticura Remedies. * They are good
for all sores, and the Cuticura Soap
is also good for shampooing the hair,
for I have tried it. I tell all my
friends how the Cuticura Soap and
Ointment cured my baby of eczema
and rash.” (Signed) Mrs. Drew, 210
W. 18th St., New York city, Aug. 26,
1910.
Cuticura Remedies are sold through-
out the world. Send to Potter Drug
& Chem. Corp., Boston, Mass.,
free booklet on the skin.
ing arsenal of bacilli,
was valuable as a scavenger is untrue,
prey on garbage and carry it away as part and
parcel of his tissue, but he does not kill the germ
he absorbes. It has been proved that the bacteria
are not only taken into the fly and pass through
its body without any loss of their active proper-
ties but also that in all probability they multi-
ply during their sojourn there.
These germs are deposited upon foodstuffs, and
eating utensils, pass into the human economy in
spite of ordinary care, and if they are of a malev-
olent type and the system which takes them in
is not strong enough to resist their action, dis-
tress, disease and death are apt to follow in their
wake. In addition, the fly also disseminates
germs by carrying them upon his body, the cush-
ions of his feet and his wings.
Through the researches of W. M. Eaton and C.
J. Mason it has been found that “the numbers of
bacteria on a single fly may range all the way
from 550 to 6,600,000.” No general average can be
struck. A few million more or less will make no
difference, in the general result.
Because of its prevalence and its familiar asso-
ciation with man, Musca domestica has exception-
al opportunities to distribute disease-breeding bac-
teria where they will do the most harm. A cer-
tain genus of mosquito disseminates malaria, but
the mosquito thrives only in localities especially
favorable to his propagation. There is good rea-
Blind psychic impulse leads beau-
tiful women to the selection of ugly
men, according to a Canadian obser-
ver, who adds that it not infrequently
leads to a fat bank account. Blind?
ao; psychic? relatively; impulse?
hardly.
instant to minimize the
ty of the fly in the great conspiracy
WHAT \
I WENT /
THROUGH
McCANE’S DETECTIVE AGENCY
Houston, Texas, operafees the largest force of
competent detectives in the South, they render
written opinions in cases not handled by th cut.
Reasonable rates.
pol ice supervision,
be i-
gr^e
The old saying that there is no loss
without some gain is borne out by the
change which has been wrought in
the country’s shipping. There has
been much lament over the decadence
af the famous Yankee seamanship,
but after the passing of the clipper
and whaling fleets at last has come
to the high seas a new breed of Amer-
icans who are the equals if not the
superiors of the old. The mechan-
ical genius of the nation has sent
many young men to the steamships
»i the navy and the merchant marine,
lays the Cleveland Leader. Ninety
per cent, of the. sailor-mechanics of
the United States navy are American
born. Twenty years ago, the propor-
tion of Americans on merchant ves-
tels was only about 30 per cent.. In
1910 the proportion was 49 per cent.,
the natives heavily predominating
•ver the naturalized. The showing
tor this year will be even better, as
the movement of Americans to the
tea has been
several years,
riners of the
than the old
it the cap’stan bar and lay out on the
end of the yardarm. The demands
jf steam and electrical machinery re-
quire a different kind of skill and
nore intelligence. The constant ad-
rance of mechanics and electrical
science makes it necessary for them
io keep mentally fresh and alert.
They know more and are more pro-
gressive than the old-time sailor and
n their habits they are cleaner.
Starr Jordan would abolish
the
the
the
but
Because of his habits the house fly is a walk-
The old notion that he
He will
ing for
screens,
lime,
whatever
weapons are
to prove effectual in
his discouragement.
There is no malice in the uprising. It
is simply the manifestation of a scien-
tific yearning to hand him his dues,
full-measure and brimming over, for
a past chockful of all manner of crim-
inality and a desire to chop short a
future hopeless of reform. “His tricks
and his manners,” long regarded at
the worst as petty annoyances for the
discipline of our souls, have in recent
years assumed an aspect so menacing
that we arb more and more deter-
mined to do without the chastening
qualties of his presence altogether.
Dr. Daniel D. Jackson, formally de-
nouncing this enemy before a joint
convention of the American Civic As-
sociation and the National Municipal
League, put the case in unequivocal
terms: “Regarded in the light of re-
cent knowledge, the fly is more dan-
gerous than the tiger or the cobra.
Worse than that, he is, at least in our
climate, much more to be feared than
the mosquito, and may easily be class-
ed the world over as the most danger-
ous animal on earth.”
When Dr. Jackson thus arraigns the
fly the last wrord has been said. The
details can only bolster up the gener-
alization—provided the details are
true.
Are they true?
They have at least one point in their
favor which is characteristic perhaps
of no set offsets ever predicated*bf
anythingout side of an exact science,
and that is that they have never been disputed.
There is a unanimity of sentiment surrounding the
onslaught on the house fly which ought either
to receive our highest indorsement or arouse our
darkest suspicion, just as the spirit is apt to
incline us.
The house fly proper, Musca domestica, of the
order of the Diptera, is a grayish fly with a mouth
formed for sucking up liquid substances.
It has a proboscis something like the trunk of
an elephant in miniature, and its feet are termin-
ated each by a pair of claws, between which are
more or less membranous arolia or plantulae
which climb polished surfaces, and also a pulvil-
lus or cushion. It does not bite, for that function
is reserved for a stable fly which resembles it so
closely as to deceive anybody but an entomol-
ogist. Neither does it die upon the window7 pane
surrounded by the fungous efflorescence so fa-
miliar to the disgusted housewife. That is the
habit of the cluster fly, which is somewhat larger
than the house fly, with a dark-colored, smooth
abdomen, and a sluggish disposition.
Several other species bear a superficial like-
ness to the true house fly and are more or less
mistaken for it. All are so inconsiderate In num-
ber in comparison to the common pest, however,
that they may safely be disregarded in the dis-
cussion.
The great breeding place of the house fly is
horse manure. It will, it is true, thrive to some
extent in other sorts of decaying animal and vege-
table matter, but its partiality for the stable ref-
use is so great that the vast proportion of its off-
spring may be considered as originating in that
substance.
The fly lays its eggs upon the manure, which
is its favorite larval flood, and a generation may
be bred in from ten to fourteen days, according to
the climate. There may be a dozen generations
in a summer. An individual fly will average 120
eggs, and when the prevalence of horse manure
is taken into consideration, its widespread appli-
cation to farm lands in the way of a fertilizer,
its presence in piles in or near city stables, its
use upon lawns and suburban gardens, the possi-
bilities in the propagation of the fly will be read-
ily seen to be past computation. It is even calcu-
lated that a single fly, laying 120 eggs, will pro-
duce a progeny amounting to sextillions in one
season. This probably does not take into con-
sideration accidents which operate greatly to re-
duce the supply.
Some experiments have been made with a view
to calculating the number in which house-fly
larvae occur in manure, but no general average
can be struck. Twelve hundred house flies to the
pound of manure is the result of one observation.
Another showed 200 puparia in less than one cubic
inch. Yet perhaps no larvae can be found in
the greater part of manure piles.
ust begun.
md greatest step against
do aw'ay with the exposed
and this is feasible
flligent co-operation and
trouble and expense will
t not to a prohibitory de-
at least the strictest regulation, of outhouses. In
In the great
or--- .
wliich flies are disported to breed.
By The New Um Pbinting Co.
New Ulm. Austin County. Texas.
A strong movement is to be started
n England to limit the reading oi
trashy novels/ which are perverting
!he emotions and lowering the thought
>f the yog^h. Some of the most in-
luential nBn in England have joined
'.he movement. As a general thing,
parents do not realize the harm the
indiscriminate reading of novels is
ioing their children. The constant
reading of novels, even of good ones,
weakens the!
tame effect fl
ng in. njjjfl
itream
» appreciate
iruttyf and encounter and overcome ob-
stales that are in its way. Lacking
/Ws exercise it grows weak and flab-
fry. The parent might as well, from
the very start, give up his child, sc
!ar as worth and noble destiny in this
vorld is concerned, who is a constant
reader of novels.
HUNTS CURE
GUARANTEED
HE fly, projecting his
Impertinent person-
ality into the nation-
al ointment, has
started a fine scurry-
spoons,
air-slaked
lassoes, and
other
likely
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THE HEW HIM ENTERPRISE
se
tfa C ----- * J’ ,
lies in the absorption^ by the fly of typhoid ^and in-
te!
fo'
stinal bacilli aud tfheir subsequent deposit upon
od. In this way pre mounced epidemics are spread.
T|ie remedy consists
tlie old-fashioned ou
some form of earth
d' ecent precautions c ansistently and persistently ob-
iprved even at consi derable expense and care.
Equally important
pines, whether displi .
thX private larder, (the disinfection and screening
off refuse in hospitals, the regulation of abattoirs,
galrbage deposits anjd ashpits and all accumulations
of' fermenting and dlecaying matter.
{Lastly, the close (screening of all dwellings, to the
absolute exclusion I of our ancient and pestiferous
friend, will greatly (circumscribe his ability to work
ht.rm. - I
The fly is also o'
tuberculosis. 1
clans, who. thou
yond the shade
truth of their col
fair to say:
of absolute
condemned
specifically
circumstantial evidence,
matter of fact, very little is
to how far flies travel or
they move from place to„'
fessor Packard say:
speed is 5.35 meter^l
means a mile jnpfive or six minutes,
or ten miles a „ „---- -------
that they coul
bodies for s<
fly over 20 or
]y if aided b
to be observe
Like the othe
no means cei ■
in this mam ter aids in setting that
example of scientific caution which
must reap th e best result in the long
battle only
The first
the fly is to
manure pile
through int
’ ’ “. Some
involved, it is true, bv
pos
or
spr
est
it a
alnl
ma: r also be used, such
of paris green or arsens
she
overflow. The manure
tio i and deposit shoub
regulation. Always it ------
thd.t an ounce of prevejntlon in destroying the chief
breeding place of the I insect is far less expensive
than the pound of cur^ when the mischief has been
doiae- j „
The next precaution /to be taken is the abolition,
. . ■ XI. _ _X_.-nnthmiReS. In
ci— i ongufe. L—Foot. E—c-99-
son to suppose that the germs of the bubonic
plague may be transferred by fleas, and of typhus
fever by the body louse, but the discouragement
of the flea and the louse is by no means difficult.
Only the fly, because we treat him as a friend and
brother, is in a position to reward us at his will
by the presentation of a package of destruction
that makes Pandora’s box look like a collection
of assorted chocolates and bonbons. He will
transmit in virulent form typhoid fever, Asiatic
cholera, summer dysentery and other intestinal
diseases, and even tuberculosis, all by the inges-
tion of fly-specks on food. Therein lies almost
all the danger. It will also transmit, it is true,
such diseases as small-pox, scarlet-fever, measles,
chicken-pox, erysipelas, and even carbuncles, but
practically only
iting the germs
membrane.
But it is not
or ordinary refuse that the fly becomes so danger-
ous to the health of man. By far the greater peril
lies in the fact that it will breed in human ex-
creta. Because of this habit it carries the living
germs of typhoid, cholera and other intestinal
diseases to exposed food supplies, and thousands
of unfortunates, partaking of these, are laid low
to suffer incalculable anguish of mind and body
until natural resistance enables them to over-
come the poison or death Intervenes.
When the sum total of misery and loss which
must be laid in this connection at the door of the
house fly is taken into account, it will readily be
believed that no remedy, however drastic, to re-
move the cause, can justly be regarded as super-
fluous.
Dr. G. N. Kober, at the governors’ conference at
the White House in 1908, presented figures show-
ing that the decrease in the vital assets of the
country through typhoid fever alone in a single
year Is more than $350,000,000. The house fly,
while not the sole carrier of the typhoid germ,
takes such an unenviable part in its distribution
that he may rightfully be charged with a very con-
siderable part of the loss. Add to this the dread-
ful toll exacted by intestinal disorders, and the
tiny agent, like the Djinn of the fisherman’s jar,
set free through man’s indiscretion, looms more
and more menacingly until his terrifying shadow
fills and darkens the heavens;
These are the popular charges against the fly.
In principle they are true, and the violent enthus-
iasm which greets the proposal for his extermina-
tion must be viewed with an approving eye. Thegj
smoke and the effervescence will inevitably pass,®
but the solid impetus which distinguished the move-/
ment will remain. At the same time it is well to/
remember that a clear, calm understanding of the ?
actual truth, shorn of decorative hyperbole, is
more essential to the success of the crusade than
all the unreasoning zeal which distinguishes the
first rush upon the breastworks.
How easily the inquirer may be led astray from
the scientific aspect of the affair is readily illus-
trated. Several years ago a writer in the Boston
Medical and Surgical Journal declared that cer-
tain experiments seemed to offer an explanation
of the sporadic cases of cholera occurring in New
York city in 1892, in spite of the most carefult
quarantine. Maddox and Simmonds fed flies with
cholera spirilla and obtained cultures of the bac-
terium from the insects so fed. We have seen
before that bacteria suffer no diminution of their
virulence in passing through the fly. In 1892 11
cases of cholera developed in New York, the dis-
ease being first brought in by steamship. Thze
patients lived in widely-separated parts of the city
and had no personal association with each other.
The only striking fact common to all the easels
was that the victims were engaged in some form
of the food trade. The bacillus, when examined,
proved to be identical with that discovered on
shipboard. The physicians Investigating the
method of infection were forced to exclude the
water supply. They also declared, after much ex-
perimentation and thought, that it was incredible
that the wind
an area in so
of elimination the guilt was brought down to the
fly, which by excreting cholera bacilli upon food
exposed in various localities, was thought to have
spread the dreaded disease.
Now mark the scientific caution of the physi-
ofl
household pests m
measure of guilt in
Again, while it h
that the house fly
T yphoid” fly, he himself says that, “strictly speak-
ing, the term is oj
lifig the erroneous,
sponsible for the
(•continues the s/ame authority) “even under city
conditions it (th
ext to water and milk.” Even human beings have
ieen found to bo personal
Meeting whole
i nought in contact.
Without desiring for an
pernicious activ:
or natural forces against the continuation of the
human species,
through the streets of New York, or any other city,
large or small,
tlie extinction of one particular species of insect
that man’s healith is to be conserved.
West side, in thousands of stores that cater to the
well-to-do or iii noisome shops where the impov-
erished many7 buy their supplies, the same careless
.nd unsanitary customs prevail in varying degrees.
The dust that blows in clouds through every un-
sprinkled thoroughfare deposits germs upon the
food of rich apd poor alike. The wares exposed
upon the counter in the elegant bakery at
which madam orders her rolls and macaroons are
as open to contamination as the soggy pies and
sinkers in the cheapest restaurant or bake-zhop of
the Ghetto. The fruit lying unscreened upon the
hastily decorated stand of Upper Broadway is as
dangerous to health as that pushed about in the
handcart of the intinerant peddler. In expensive
groceries, meat-shops, and confectionery stores the
same lax methods prevail.
‘ A scientific warfare against disease-bearing in-
s ects is not sufficient to enable ns to win the con-
test for health, happiness and increased length of
days. We must fight equally against our own in-
difference to civic regulation, which seems to be the
itbiding sin of a people who love individual liberty
very much to the exclusion of the collective good.
Beforetaking Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound.
Natick, Mass. —“I cannot express
what I went through during the change
of life before I tried
Lydia E. Pinkham’s
V e g e t a’b 1 e Com-
pound. I was in such
a nervous condition
I could not keep
still. M y 1 i m b s
were cold, I had.
creepy sensations,
and I could not sleep
nights. I was finally
told by two phys-
icians that I also
had a tumor,. I read
one day of the wonderful cures made
by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable
Compound and decided to try it,
and it has made me a well woman.
My neighbors and friends declare it
had worked a miracle for me. Lydia
E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is
worth its weight in gold for women
during this period of life. If it wirl
help others you may publish my^
letter.”—-Mrs. Nathan B. Greatqn,
51N. Main Street, Natick, Mass.
The Change of Life is the most criti-
cal period of a woman’s existence.
Women everywhere should remember
that there is no other remedy known,
to medicine that will so successfully
carry women through this trying
period as Lydia th Pinkham’s Vege-
table Compound.
If you would, like special advice
about your case w rite a confiden-
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Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free,
and always helpful.
Tiie House Fly
Nau Killer
"Mj
proof
the fly, b\.ut the verdict
largely on
As a cold
known as
ow much
ace. Pro-
f their rate of
a second, which
declared it w;
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