The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-24
A FLY DISCOURSE.

strut their briet hour on the stage and are gone; in fact. nature and all things in nature may change, but the fly we have with us forever. We can't say how much of pest they were in the beginning, but when the plague of flies descended on Pharaoh the Lord only gave him in bunch what we of be more flies at one season than an- other. but there are always flies. One dies and others come and we some- times feel that in nothing else is the thoroughly carried out as it is in the fly production.
 In the old days flies were only look ed on as an intolerable nuisance. They were ever where they were not want ed. and the hands of all human beings were turned against them. but now they are known to be not only pest but dangerous menace to human ex- istence. If they do not actually breed disease they carry it and spread 1t broadcast. That makes them more than ever an enemy of the human race. and that causes the human race to be still more anxious to be rid of them.
 Darn a fly!" once remarked the phil losophic Artemus Ward In a fit of temper. Perhaps one of them had tried to make an exploration into his nose or ear. or wanted to investigate the inside of his mouth At any rate. the fly was giving him trouble and he delivered mild expletive on him.
 But what cared the fly for that? Not little bit. We believe it was Mark Twain who devoted cl .pter in one of his books to the effort to show that the common ant Is the most utterly idiotic of all created things but that was a misake. The ant has some re deeming qualities. It Is industrious. perseverinE and forethoughted. It de- votes practically all its brief span of life to two objects: the preparation of @ home and the providing of some' thing to put in it. It builds home for its progeny and lays up provision for the young that come after 1t. If 1t sometimes goes where 1t is not want ed, and becomes something of a pest, 1t is done in pursuit of its legitimate business and without malice.
 Can any such arguments be advanc- ed in favor of the fly? Not If we know him, and we think we do He-or she stops long enough to deposit batch of eggs and then sails away to trou- ble somebody. leaving the eggs and the What he wants Is to be troublesome. and he knows all the roads to travel to attain his object He will light on your nose. and when you slap him and nearly knock your nasal organ out of joint--he isn't there. but is sitting on your ear grinning over your poor when you cough him up he flies off and laughs at you. If you fail to eject him he goes on an exploring expedition, like Jonah in the whale. and causes internal disturbances. He crawls into your ear to see what 1t is made like, and then probably goes off and tells the others what a curious and useless place he found. No matter how often or how hard you slap at him if doesn't prevent him from returning to the same spot. In short. when 1t comes to being an all-around fool the fly has the ant skinned a mile" If we may so ex. press 1t.
 Many and various have been the ways devised to get rid of this house. hold pest. Flytraps have been invent. ed of innumerable sorts and plans; poisons without number have been put sticky hy-paper have been placed In favorable positions Sometimes ii catches some of them and sometimes ii annexes Itself to the fingers. or posslb- ly to the seat of ones trousers. There has been practically no limitation to mans efforts to prevent their multi plication or put thom out of existence after they come to maturity: but stiu there are flies and more flies.
 All this is A sort of prelude to thA announcement of a new and novel trap that a Mir Howard of Kansas. has in vented. Perhaps the reader will think we have been a long time. and taken up a great deal of space to get started. but we couldn't help 1t. When we get on the subject of flies and their habits both the mind and the pencil work mechanically as 1t were. and refuse to obey the brakes.
 But to get back to MT. Howard and his hy-exterrninator. "1t is a turns tile." explains The New York Globe. "the hy's passion to run about is used to work his destruction. A wheel with