The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-06-11

county noticed a group of pages and
asked: "Who are those boys?"
When Gov. Page replied, "They are
little pages, the man from Belvi-
dere looked incredulous, but re-
sponded with becoming gravity,
"Why, | didn't know you had so
many children, governor.
(Northfeld News)
The war on the deadly house fly
has begun. Seven different var
ieties of flies are found in our houses.
90 per cent. of which are represented
by the common house-fy, says Har-
per's Weekly. Flies lay their eggs
only in fermenting or decaying sub
stanees-by preference in horse
manure. Hence every stable is
centre of infection unless periodical
ly disinfected. The fly maggot is
also Matched out in latrines and ash
pit refuse, such as bedding, straw,
rags, paper, scraps of meat, fruit,
ETC., on which substances the larvae
subsist after they hatch, which oc-
ours in about twelve days after
the egg has been laid. 1t is esti-
mated that single fly, laying 100
eggs at time, will produce a pro-
geny amounting to sextillions by
the end of the season. The num-
bers of bacteria upon a single fly
have been proved to range all the
way from $50 to 100000. The
average for Ala flies, which were
examined at the Agricultural Ex-
pertinent Station az Storrs, Con-
necticut, last year was 1,25OOOO
bacteria apiece. This represents
about the number of bacteria that
enter the human system, when one
swallows glass of liquid into which
some fly has perhaps fallen, to be
removed by as lovenly waiter with
out the liquid being thrown away.
Barre Times.)
The Congregationalists of New
have refued to join in a
to secure the repeal of the
local option liquor law in their state
and they have, therefore, in the
opinion of the Concord Monitor,
gone far toward securing real tenn
perance. The contemporary ex-
plains the situation to us in the
following paragraph:
1--WE believe in Temperance,
which, when printed with a capital
letter in New Hampshire, generally
means the restriction of the sale and
use of intoxicating liquors; and we
believe that there has been more
genuine progress made in the cause
Of Temperance in New Hampshire
under the present well-administered
liquor law than in all the years of
state wide prohibition of the liquor
traffic. 1t probably is true that
liquor is sold illegally to-day in Con-
cord and in many other places in the
state which have voted for no license
but we believe that less liquor is
sold and used to-day than for many
years, and that this is true of the
no license territory in New Hamp-
shire and of the state taken as a
whole.
Conditions seem to be similar in
New Hampshire to conditions in
Vermont, where the greater efforts
to secure no license, followed
up by efforts to enforce it, re-
suited in more practical reform
than any amount of state-decreed
prohibition with its scattered initia-
i've could ever do. At the same
lime there are certain abuses of the
present system, most men will read
ly admit. But where can you
ind a scheme of administration of
he liquor question which would not
)e liable to abuse of some sort? 1t
would be impossible to enact a
statute that would defy all attempts
It infraction, and Vermont seems
o have hit upon the least vulner-
Ible system.