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Show IHt mud I UtAULT BEAST IN UTAH COUNTY g collei t . - smnl IJrof. Walter Cottam, Drlgham Young l65 i' TTndrnrntv I 4 -f 1 H-T til Vloa; ,Most pcoplo aro horrlflod at tho sight of a snako. Should ono of tncao loathsomo creaturos. ns barm , . , i . I hopo less as thoy aro, appear on i t our cl city Btrootfl, somo uk rould Said scream, others would ib.iH and Mr. "for the Bnako would ho straightway put to ,ou death. It is claimed by somo Thoro'd statisticians that on tbo averogo two Thoro'd pooplo dlo in tho United States every My year from snako 'blto. Tho flguro is rionty high possibly toto high. 1 "j Tho abhorrenco wo havo for snakes "it's sue seoms to bo Inborn; a trait handed Doc down to us from Mother Eve. What "T ti a pity aho did not Implant a racial ab- j," horronco for tho house-fly I This B, cronturo Is tho most deadly of all Chli vo'rmln known to man. At least 70,000 of, last yoar's doaths in bur country ' 80 qj alono could bo traced directly to this '"ijjpy n imp of Satan, this winged tool of Clui doath, tho houso-fly. "Thoy 1 Ono-third of all typhoid fovor cases whoro and an unkowablo proportion of such SmI filth dlBoaso ns spinal meningitis, tuborculosls; and summer complaint "x "g".' of ohlldron is directly carrlod by tho "And or detostablo fly. Why Is ho Btich a Quo carrier. of dlsoasof Ono neods only, "And th toobservo his habits and look at his rt to hairy body under tho mlscroscopo to q find a roady nnawor. Ho is tho filth!- Scol .eat of all creatures; bora and roared in a manuro hoap, ho takoa wings to "Tho80 a privy vault, .n daub of Bputum, or So mn' eomo oqually obnoxious filth, and SrfS thonco dlroctly to tho dlnnor tablo or Thoy kr tho baby's milk bottlo. Ono cannot ld yet holp but wonder If tho fly is not Cro struck with somo sonso of otlquotto as ho alights on ono's broad or ploco r. ron of plo, for his first duty seems to bo arato pl to rub tho muck and mlro from his pennyro: logs, which ho nogloctcd to do In his think th mad rush to tho dining room. I B0Q 'Look nt tho foot of tho fly under tho mlcroscopo and you will bo Btruck bsh with tho fact that It Is nbout tho bost fllth-gathomg organ that could pos- " sibly bo invontod. Tlio thick, long Mi hairs, couplod with two sticky L cushions on tho bottom of each foot, H onablo tho fly to cling to tho wall and mako nil loss solid Bubstancoa cling to B It. With thoso six dusters and twelve spongoa, togothur with a long sucking organ provldod with rasp and gluo, H completes tho lly'a muck-gathering H oqulpmont. And tho horriblo fact H about tho fly la that nono of this op- H paratus is cloanod after a visit to tho Bj privy vault, until tho fly alights on your cholco morsel of food. HJ Tho houso-lly (somotlmoa cnllod H tho typhoid fly) has no tooth nor fangs H to sting, yot doath follows in his H path. Ho is tho vilost of all that la H vile, tho lllthlost of all that la filthy. H If wo havo flloa In our communities, H it simply moans that olthor I or my nolghbor tor both of ua havo filthy yards. I can cloan my yard until it is no habitat for flloa, but it ivlll avail M mo llttlo if my nolghbor broods thorn HI on, his promises. No city ordinance H can koop my neighbor's illos at homol H AVhnf nn OSS! |