The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-07-03

was one of the plaques that harried
Egypt when the ten were loosed upon
her. He helped David when he was
fleeing from Saul Every summer he
comes to all of US and in tropical
lands he is ever present. He lives in
every part of the globe and is on
equal terms with the inhabitant of
palace or howell. He is the one great
democrat that is ever true to the term.
And now he has about one7half the at
tention of the world of science. Men of
science and near science are sticking
their tongues out at him, making faces
and. calling him names. And why all
this uproar? Is il claimed that germs
and microbes and such like have been
clinging to his teeth and sticking from
his tail-feathers.
Every creature that lives performs
some useful service, and no creature
performs his work with greater assid-
uity than the plain, common hOusefy.
He lives on dirt-not because he has
to, but because he chooses to perform
the mental service of general scaven-
ger. And he lives in such great guam
titles because his work is so great.
All the countless billions of flys that
go to make up the census report in the
fly world are wholly and entirely in
adequate to perform the great work
laid before them because of the help
lessness of animals and the uncleanli-
ness of man. Of all the animals, man
takes the palm in the matter of I'M
cleanliness. The fly is not only
great scavenger, but he has his aids
and his greatest assistant is the germ
and the microbe. They are scavengers
too. A germ is not wicked, malevo-
lent being seeking to destroy life-he
has a kindlier, humane purpose. He
seeks to rid the world of filth and
disease, not because he loves man, but
rathed because filth and diseased or
ganism are pie and cake and candy to
him. He, like the fly, is a generous
and prolific creature. When he
homesteads quarter section of
human anatomy and finds it good he
settles, sends for all his relatives and
as many as can come, and proceeds to
build up the kingdom, The germ be-
ing notwithstanding only two am
bilious to extend his race and feed his
face soon has the whole body staked
out into farmsteads and townsites.
And they stay till all the filth and
diseased organising are eaten away.
And sometimes when they get too
thick, they split good thing, by eat
ing away the thing that supports
the filth and disease organisms.
And the fly is cleaning away the
filth deposited by mankind gets it up
on his clothes and into his teeth, and
the germs in their search for proven
der light on him and he carries it
about, into places of wealth and novels
of poverty and the germs finding a
body where is more filth and disease
than the fly carries about his person,
take up his abode there. The little
germ would not live were it not that
man provides him place to live and
food for him to eat, and work for
him to do. And when the scavenger
business gets overcrowded and work
scattering by the cleanliness of man,
the fly will either have to get off the
earth or Jake up with some more use
full employment. But don't growl at
the fly, he's doing the very best he
knows how. He is performing his
duty and helping man to do his. Give
h fly his need of praise.