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Show TALK OF DANGER , i OF HOUSE M Fait Lake, July 11. Two interest.! ing and Instructive lectures were glv-' en at the Second ward chapel Sunday Sun-day afternoon, Immediately after the regular Joint Sunday school services, on the ordinary housefly. In the absence of Professor Powell, Dr. W. M. Stookcy took up the suh-joct, suh-joct, which had been assigned to him. It was "The Life and Habits of tho Ordinary Housefly." He first proposed propos-ed changing its name to the "typhoid fly," ns ho said that the spreading of this disease was Its chief business "In the development of the fly," said the doctor, "there are three stages of Its existence which pass very rapidly. The average female fly In hot weather, weath-er, hatch in a day. The maggots thus : hatched live and thrive on any kind of filth. The next change in their lives takes a longer time, it being about ten days from the time that tho eggs aro deposited until they become be-come fully developed hounefllos. Files Live on Filth. "The ordinary housefly doesn t bite. It lives on liquid and scml-llquld substances sub-stances and has no mean, of biting. Other flies, a great deal like them, do bite, but those are not the dangerous dan-gerous kind. The typhoid fly will walk on you, wipe his feet on you and try to crawl into your mouth, but he never bites. Everyone nhould remember re-member where these flies thrive. They will not lire where everything Is clean. They must have filth, and, be-1 sides that, they live where people live, and thus wo aro responsible for the files around us, as they are there in proportion to the amount of filth that they can find. The time will come when It will be just as dlsreputablo to have flies In your house as It is now to have bugs in your bed." Files Great Disease Spreaders. Dr. Alfred J. Ridges then took up the theme. He said that, during the last fifty years, the greatest advance which has been made has been that toward the controlling of infectious diseases. Already smallpox and diphtheria diph-theria are woll under control. This great advancement has been made possible by the perfection of the microscope mic-roscope and the study of the world of minute things through the glass. Those little things, called bacteria, are everywhere In great numbers There are two classes of them, however, how-ever, one of which Is harmless. The work of tho latter class is seen in the souring of milk and the raising of bread. The housefly Is the worst disease dis-ease spreader of them all and his specialty is typhoid. Typhoid germs are sometimes being thrown off, from one who has had this disease, for three months after he his recovered, and the germs are scattered by the fly. It Is a disgrace to America that typhoid rages here as It does. De-lav De-lav and neglect in this line may be fatal. Lecture on Don'ts. Dr. Stookcy again tok the floor and talked about the different ways In which to deal with the files. "In the first place," said he, "city and county officials should be asked to take the matter In hand, and the people should use their Influence bv raising a voice for the improvements needed and bv upholding those officials who do good work In this direction. Cleanliness at homo Is the most essential factor, however. Do away with the breeding places. Cover the garbage cane. Then, after doing our utmost to prevent pre-vent ihe breeding of this pest, we should kill all the flies we can. Fly paper is a good thing, especially the tangle-foot kind, and If anyone would Invent some sort of odor for this paper pa-per that would nttract the files, we could get them all. Of polBons, probably prob-ably the most effectual is formaldehyde." formalde-hyde." Dr. Stookey then suggested a few don'ts, which It would be well to note. "Don't patronize a dealer who allows files to crawl over his fruits and vegetables." veg-etables." said the speaker. "Don't allow al-low flies on anything you eat. Don't allow them to crawl over the fac?s and hands of sleeping children. Don't eat at boarding houses which are crowded with flies." ENGINEER OUTWITS MA5KEDBANDITS ST. LOUIS. July 10 Cleverness on the part of the engineer prevented three bandits from robbing the Missouri. Mis-souri. Kansas and Texas Southwestern Southwest-ern flyer No. 3 near Larlmoro, St. IuIs county, about fifteen miles from St. Louis, early this morning. Three men were arrested as suspects this afternoon. It was 3 o'clock this afternoon before be-fore news of the attempted holdup reached the city, and dptectlves were Engineer Quinn, through a ruse, prevented the baggage car and passenger pas-senger coaches from bolng looted. The bandits at the points of revolvers compelled the engineer and fireman to descend from the cab and go with them to the baggage car to assist In uncoupling it. While tinkering about the coupling, the engineer and fireman fire-man managed to slip nway in the darkness. The two started on a run for tho cab. The bandits soon became aware that the crew was dashing for the cab and opened fire. Springing into the cab the engineer engi-neer threw the throttle wide open and dnshed away with the train. Five miles further on. at Spanish Lake. Qulnn rang up O. C. Hill, yard master of the St. Louis. Keokuk and Northwestern in St. Louis, and told him of the attempted robbery. Several shots were fired during the attempted holdup and the passengers were thrown Into a panic. The train was in the hands of the bandits forty minutes. For a half hour they tried to uncouple the baggage car. It was not unlll they found themselves them-selves unable to do the work that they got the engineer and the fireman. There were thousands of dollars in the baggage car. |
