Show more dreaded than T T the tiger or cobra there is just one living thing which performs not a single useful function in the scheme of the urn verse it is the creathie crea tuie which conservative serva tive scientists do not hesitate to i declare the most dangerous am mal on earth more to be dreaded than the tiger or the cobra it is the common house fly ardi danly supposed to be a scavenger destroying destructive microbes mic robes de in decomposing tissues 1 whether animal or vegetable ina of destroying them it autes them and places them where they are taken into the enman body there to multiply and continue their deadly work provision 13 made for the purchase of milk and food products and f rigid restrictions enforced to insure their purity yet scant check is as yet put upon the multiplication of i the swift sure winged messengers ii of deseae that transform the most wholesome of foods into a death po tion for wherever there is filth there v w are flies and there seems to be a devilish purpose that drives them y from piles of filth to the dining tables of man there to deposit the deadly germs they have gathered together every city spends thousands of dollars for sewers yet B permitting the house fly to have access to the sewage either in garbage cans or wagons or at the sewer out lets or upon the shores of the water s course in which the offal is deposit ed defeats the very purpose for which the thousands are expended modern knowledge has taught to all the priceless value of pure water where it cannot be obtained other at wise wisdom demands the establish ment of costly ehnts but there are three causes biot one for the cases of typhoid fever in the united stites every year more than ten per cent af pf which prove fatal the fever is spread through three routes water milk and flies water is probably arx responsible tor the greater number of t cases but last years investigations in new york city showed that there were deaths from tv and t deaths from other intestinal diseases that were traceable directly to diseases spread through the agency of flies and other diseases the spread of 1 which is due largely to the game in sect enemy of man are cholera dysentery and tuberculosis V the latest belief of science is that t it is not the heat alone thit causes the awful summer mortality among i i F infants and children it is the fly and the criminal carelessness of man in failing to prevent tho flys birth in considering the fly it must be 1 greatly differentiated from the mos quito 1 he mosquito is deadly dangerous because it not only carries dis eise but breeds disease bearing f germs the bacilli of malaria and of yellow fever are bred in the body of the mosquito and it injects them into the punctures it cuts into tho J skins of men H the fly docs not breed the para sites of disease in its body but it is baill the more dangerous pest tho flys mode of inoculation is general ly by depositing the germs it carries both inside and on alio surface of its body upon the food that man eata western review unclean fingernails finger nails are no mark of a maybe but it has been observed that they adorn tho hands of an honest man oftener than they do those of a the man who thinks the country is being run as good as he could run it himself can bo safely classed aa a conservative A W |