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Show THE TYPHOID FLY These hero ding blasted col lege guys they suro do mako mo soro tho way they go nn pry around on aggravate tho poor. Why list last night Professor Titus an his gang como snoopln round a nosln' Into my back yard: dunno whatHhoy found but when ttioy turned turn-ed to go away ono wise guy sald'to me. "Aro you awaro that house flies breed In horse ma nure?" says ho. Woll sir, that suro . did git my goat I '.oofced nt hlnvo, whllo to see If ho was crazy thorr my blood begin to bllo. "Mister," sityB I, "I ain't got time, ncr llkowiso Inclination to wast e' my llfo.a flnd'n''out 'bout houso flies Thunderatlonl What Co you takeino for7" says I. "Pray calm yourself," says ho, "but do you know that houso Hies carry gcrmB Just llko a beo carries pollen from tho flowers? And do you ' know' that these same germs kill' folks most every mtnuto good men gone to feed tno worms nil 'because of sloth and filth?" Says I, "Doggon your files an' bees an' gorms an' things, tho Scrlptcrs say as thorn nhat dies is called nn has to' go an no ono dies before- h!s time so taint no use to mope around nor waste- a single, -dlmo x. i atrj'ln' to postpone our end Houso flies? Why, you young sproutl I ot flies 'fore you was born I must have et about a peck or moro In my long llfo. I'vo found 'em In my souji, an In my drlnkln' water, an tho tlmo I had the croup I found 'ora In my medicine, nn loU of times l'vo found 'em m my currant plos good landl I'vo ct 'cm by tho pound." "Old man," says ho," I hato to say it, but lots of fellows toll about what's in tho scriptures' without knowing them too welli My biblo says man'a natural llfo la three scoro years and ten, so don't blnmo God when posed of mo llko you wo'll Uvo In long ns tho majority Is com posed of mo nllko you we'll llvo In 111th nnd dlo In youth Just as the heathens do." m. ' ' JIM CHANCH. " . i . s a J |