The Granite Enterprise. (Granite, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, August 26, 1910 Page: 3 of 8
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OKLAHOMA SENATOR HOLDS VAL-
UABLE INDIAN CONTRACT8
ISN'T PUSHING THE CASE
Agreement Calls for Half of Proporty
Valued at Over $12,000,000—
Contract* Mad* Before he
Was Elected Senator
UAPUIMCDY 0F ALL KINDS F0RSALE
IHAUninCn I Repair work carefully Md
promptly done. Write, call or phone.
Southwestern Manufacturing Co.
Opportunity
now knocking. AU who seek a professional
life work should investigate the science ci
Chiropractic.
CAIVEI CBIIOPKACTIC COLLEGE
TUriuilrnhn OIlABOHiCITT.niA.
HE fly referred to
in this article Is
the one most
commonly found
In our houses —
the Musca domes-
tica of Linnaeus.
Speaking broadly, man
has made the house-fly; It
has developed along with
the human dwelling. If
we had no closed-in dwell-
ing places it is doubtful if
the houBe-fly. as at present
constituted, could continue
to exist. It thrives simply
because we afford It food,
protection and breeding places.
The house-fly at flr3t is only a little
■worm, wriggling his tiny grub like fo«p In
eome Incubating pile of filth, usually the ma-
nure pile, the outhouse, or the mound of rub-
bish, or garbage in (he back yard. In this
condition he ta easily killed, and it should be
the duty of every person to kill him now.
The house-fly could not exist if everything
■were kept perfectly clean and sanitary. Ex-
terminate the fly-worms, do away with its
bri-eding places, and there will be no flies.
The common house-fly Is coming to be
known as the "typhoid fly," and when the
term becomes universal greater care will be
exercised In protecting the house from his
presence.
Flies swallow the germs of typhoid in
countless millions while feeding on the ex-
creta of typhoid patients. As a result they
spread a thousand* times more typhoid germs
' in their excreta than on their feet.
irties kill a greater number of human be-
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Ings than all the beasts of prey, and poisonous
serpents, for they spread disease which slays
thousands.
As soon as the fly comes out of his shell he
is full grown and starts out in the world to mate
a living and If your home Is not clean he knows
it, for the fly can discern an unclean odor for
miles. ,
As much as they like odors of filth they dislike
clean smells, and where the former will attract,
the latter will repulse them. A pleusantsMeillng
substance—the fragrance of flowers, geraniums,
mignonette, lavender, or any perfumery—will
drive them away.
Most of our diseases are caused by Invisible
germs that lodgo and grow In cur bodies, destroy-
ing our tissues or poisoning us with their ex-
creta. These germs may be brought to us from
some sick person by whatever is large enough to
carry them, and has the opportunity. Combine
this fsct with what every one knows about flies,
and we see at once the tremendous importance
of flies as carriers of human dlseaae germs.
Look closely at the picture of the fly resting
on the glass and viewed from below. Look at the
feet and observe that each of them Is equipped
with two claws and two light-colored pads. The
fly clings to rough surfaces by means of the claws
and to smooth surfaces by a combined action of
the claws Hnd pads. The fly's pad3 are covered
with thousands of minute short hairs, sticky at
the end. There Is no suction—merely adhesion.
All his grown-up life the fly has to manage
with sticky feet. Imagine our plight If the soles
of our Teet were sticking plaster, perennially re-
newing its stickiness!
To such Inconvenience the fly U constantly
subject, and It Is this that hiiu bred into him the
habit of frequently preening himself, particularly
his feot. These aro constantly becoming clogged
with adhering substances, and this contamination
the fly must assiduously remove If bis feot aro to
act propcly In supporting him on slippery places.
If this contamination Is too sticky to rub off the
fly laps It off, and it then passes off In his ex-
creta
The fly lays her eggs In the manure pile or
•thcr objectionable filth. All the germs—all the
Imaginable microbes—fasten themselves on the
•pongy feet. He brings them Into the house and
wipes them off. The fly you see walking over the
food you Me about to eat I* oorered with filth
and germs. If there Is any dirt in your house
or about your premises, or those of your neigh-
bors, he has Just come from It. W^tch him as
he stands on the sugar industriously wiping his
feet. He Is getting rid of disease germs, rub-
bing them on the sugar that you are going to
eat, leaving the poison for you to swallow.
This does more to spread typhoid fever and
cholera infantum and other Intestinal diseases
than any other cause. »
Disease attacks human beings only when
they are brought In contact with It. For in-
stance, you cannot get typhoid fever unless you
awallow the germs of typhoid, and you do not
swallow these germs unless they get on the
food you eat, or in the liquids you drink, or on
the glasses or cups from which you drink.
Intestinal diseases are more frequent when-
ever and wherever flies are most abundant, and
they, and not the summer heat, are the active
agents of its spread.
There is special danger when flies drop into
such fluid as milk. This forms an Ideal cul-
ture material for the bacillus. A few germs
wushed from the body of one fly may develop
Into millions within a few hours, and the per-
son who drinks such milk will receive large
doses of bacilli, which may later cause serious
B' Here are some valuable fly "dont's" for the
housewife:
Don't allow flies In your house.
Don't allow your fruits and confections to be
exposed to the swarms of flies
Don't let flies crawl over the baby's mouth and
swarm upon the nipple of Its nursing bottle.
Strike Jit the root of the evil. Dispose of waate
■.stemals in such a way that the house-fly cannot
propagate, for flies breed in horse manure, de-
caying vegetables, dead animals, and all kinds of
fllth, so look after the garbage cane, see that they
are cleaned, sprinkled with lime or kerosene oil,
and closely covered.
Screen all windows and doors and lnalst that
vour grocer, butcher, baker and every one from
Whom you buy foodstuffs does the same, and re-
member that a large percentage of flies breed la
the stable.
There Is more health In a well-screened house
than In many a doctor's visit.
Alter you have cleaned up your own premlaes,
Inspect the neighborhood for fly-breeding places.
Call the attention of the owner to them and. If
he does not remove them, complain to the board
of health.
Keep flies away from the kitchen. Keep files
out of the dining room and away from the sick,
especially from those ill with contagious die-
eases.
To clear rooms of flies, carbolic acid may be
used as follows: Heat a shovel or any similar
article and drop thereon 20 drops of carbolic
add. The vapor kills the flies.
A cheap and perfectly reliable fly poison, one
which 1b not dangerous to human life. Is bichro-
mate of potash In solution. Dissolve one dram,
which can be bought at any drug store. In two
ounces of wster, and add a little sugar. Put
some of this solution in shallow dishes and dis-
tribute them about the house.
Sticky fly paper, traps and liquid poisons are
among the things to use In killing flies, but the
latest, cheapest, and best is a solution of forma
lln or formaldehyde In water. A spoonful of this
liquid put Into a quarter of a pint of water and
exposed In the room will be enough to kill all
the flies.
To quickly clear the room where there are
many flies, burn pyretbrum powder la the room.
This stupefies the flies, when they may be
swept up and burned.
If there are flies In the dining room of
your hotel, restaurant, or boarding house,
complain to the proprietor that th-5 prem-
ises are not clean. .
The hookworm Is undermining the vi-
tality of a section, but the house fly threat-
ens the health of the world.
Pest and plague and fever follow In its
filthy footsteps. Its victims are legion.
The mosquito carries the germ of yel-
low fever. The sting of the tsetse fly In-
fects with the numbing virus of the slow
but certain sleeping sickness.
But the house fly carries on Its sticky
feet the potent poison of a dozen deaths.
The snake warns by hiss or rattle, and,
In defense, strikes to kill, and then Is to
be shot or clubbed or ground beneath the
boot heel. But the malicious, annoying
fly, satellite of sickness, maker of ceme-
teries, deposits Its slow poison and buzzes
away, ever busy, never still, always on Its
errand of distributing the venom of em-
bryo disease.
It wasn't so long ago that the house fly
was neither known nor understood.
Screens were considered a luxury, not a
necessity ; a matter of comfort, not a con-
tribution to health.
But that Is not the case now. The fly
has been studied, its habits noted, Its
germ-laden body inspected through the
microscope and photographed.
Bacteriologists, scientists, physicians know the
house fly as it really Is. They realize that incon-
trovertible proof has demonstrated that flies kill a
greater number of human beings every year than
nil the beasts of prey and all the poisonous crawl-
ing things that llve._
And It Is the consensus of opinion that a cam-
E3ign of education Is essential to bring the general
public to an appreciation of the truth.
These facts are known to every scientist. What
Is being done now Is to carry these facts home to
every householder, every person who eats in res-
taurants and lunchrooms and to every mother who
watches her baby with an eye to warding off every
possible danger. There Is a great campaign being
'waged against the fly—"typhoid fly, as It is called, ,
and Washington is the center of the campaign
The war is being stirred up and urged by Rich-
ard B Watrous, secretary of the American Civic
association, which has covered the country with
posters circulars, booklets and even has taken up
the moving picture film as a weapon against the
pest and a method of popular instruction. The as-
sociation pamphlets are simple and to the point.
When one reads the four pages of fly literature,
a deep disgust for the buzzing things is born, and.
another soldier In the anti-fly army has been
drThedaccompanylng photographs, magnified many
thousand times, and more Just as Interesting, were
made by Dr. N. A. Cobbs with a specially Invented
camera for the National Geographic society. Dr.
Cobbs Is making a special study of the nations
pest, as aro other leading bacteriologists and sci-
entists who have come to realize the Importance
of the work.
One of the odd things In connection with the
campaign of education that Is being conducted In
many cities Is the fact that the unpleasantness of
the flies' habits has caused many a person to cease
the description of the fly life and enter a aort of
allent war. However, some cities and associations ,
have Issued enormous posters portraying the dally
life of a fly. It Is pretty bad. Several women have .
objected to seeing the posters, although It has been
proven to them that the pictures are not over
d Moving picture films, showing the life and habits j
of the fly. have been shown In some of the large i
cities. These films were taken across the United |
States and ahown In hundreds of cheap theaters ;
and have been considered of great value In dlssem- |
lnatlng knowledge of Just what the fly Is and how ,
much death and disease he oan Introduce Into a j
house. In one of the cities protests were receive.! (
from some rather delicately sensed ladles and the
mayor ordefed the fllniu off the boards.
The chairman of that state board of health
asked the reason and was told that protests were
made. He then asked for the names of some of
the protesting women.
He called on several, and learned that thetr feel-
ings had been outraged by witnessing the daily
life of a nasty fly. and they believed that the sight
was too nauseating for the public.
Thereupon the state officer took the ladles out
Into their own back yarda and kitchens and In
more than one Instance showed them where the
fly was doing the same thing In real life that the
moving Alms told of. and by that sort of work
Introduced »ome real war to Mr. Fly.
In every city bulletins are being Issued showing
how flies may be killed by the wholesale.
Sulphur, Okla—United States Sen
ator Robert L. Owen'a name entered
Into the Indian land investigation
here Monday. E. P. Hill, an attorney
for the Choctaw nation, testified be-
fore the special congressional commit-
tee that is Investigating the Gore
charges, that Senator Owen Is the
principal in a suit in which are in-
volved contracts with the Indians call- j
ing for a 50 per cent fee. Mr. Owen, 1
however testified Attorney Hill, enter- j
Sd into the contracts with the Indiana
some years before he became sena-
tor and Is not now trying to secure .
50 per cent, but has left it to the j
United States court claims to de-
termine how much he should be paid.
senator, Mr. Owen had shown no ac-
tivity in the matter except to testify
In behalf of his claim. The value of
the property which, It Is asserted, In
ENCLAND'S FAMOUS 6ENERAL,
"CHINESE GORDON," used to saj
that the stomach ruled the world.
But the man or woman who haa
suffered from Liver Trouble has a
different opinion; It a THE LIVER
And there's just one known reme-
dy which in its very nature seems
to control llver-actlon, and that te
SIMMON'S In Yellow Tin Boms Only
Liver Purifier
Its action la different. It never
Irritates the liver, but energizes it.
cleanses the organ of all impurities
and restores natural function.
It makes your liver young again,
without Injury, harmlessly, but
with all speed. Nothing like It.
Cures Contispation absolutely, and
rmlne how mucn ne siiuum ut never gripes. .
It was also said since his election as At All Druggists, Eierjwhera, Z5c. ana *1.
„ . — «/«- A. B. RICHARDS MEDICINE CO., Shenwin, T«xa»-
m
ROBERT L. OWEN.
United States Senator from Oklahoma.]
Mr. Owens' suit was restored to the
Indians, is fixed by the department of
justice at from *12,000,000 to $14,000,-
000. As attorney for the Choctaws,
Mr. Hill said he was resisting the suit. >
"In 1896," said Mr. Hill, "Mr. Owen 1
entered into an agreement with Chas.
E. Winton, to attempt to secure for
the Choctaw Indians living east of the
Mississippi river citizenship In what
was then Indian Territory. Winton
went to Mississippi and got many in-
dividual contracts, the total number
ultimately being 1,500. In these con-
tracts the claimants agreed to give
Winton and Owen 50 per cent of all
property which they would become
possessed of if they were admitted to
j citizenship. Winton, after obtaining
many contracts, died and his rights
j reverted to Mr. Owen. After the In-
1 dians were admitted to citizenship
congress referred Mr. Owen's claim to
the court of claims, where ltls now
' pending. Since he became sViator I
do not believe Mr. Owen has shown
any activity in his case except to tes*
' tify as he was required."
DYSPEPSIA
l uiin* a w«iu v, praise _ —— --
•Caacarets' for their wonderful com posi-
tion. I have taken numeroua other so-
called remedies but without avail, and I
find that Caacarets relieve more in a day
than all the others I have taken would in
a vear " James McGune,
108 Mercer St., Jersey City, N. J.
pi—...* Palatable. Potent. Taste Good.
Do Good. Never Slcfcrn.Weaken orOripj.
10c 25c. 50c. Never sold In bulk. The rep-
uine tablet stamped C C C. Guaranteed to
cure or your money back.
The crop that never falls year after
year is trouble.
ARE YOUR CLOTHBS FADED!
Use Red Cross Ball Blue and make them
white again. Large 2 oz. package, S cents
Lots of us never put off till tomor-
row what we can have done for ue
today.
There 1b In every man's heart, as In
a desk, a secret drawer; the only
thing is to find the spring and open
It—Anon.
Domestic Amenities.
"Hubby, I gave your light pants to
a poor tramp."
"And what am I going to wear this
summer? Kilts?"
An Operatic Expletive.
"Blfferton Is awfully gone on grand
opera, Isn't he?"
•I should say he is! Why. he even
swears by Gadski!"
Japs Will Soon Annex Korea
Toklo, Japan—Within the week "the
hermit kingdom" and the empire of
Korea will become historical terms,
twelve millions of people will be add-
ed to the population of Japan and ter-
ritory as large as England will be-
come part of the Japanese empire.
Insurgents in Control
New Orleans, La.—According to
cable advices received from Managua,
Jose Dolores Estrada, reported to have
temporarily received the reins of the
de facto government of Nicaragua from
Madrlz, Issued a proclamation turning
over the government to the insur-
i gents. It is believed that Juan De
j Estrada, leader of the insurgents, will
become president. Rioting in Mana-1
! gua is said to have reached serious
I proportions, two deaths having al-,
| ready been reported. Many are de-
; parting from the city and serious ap-!
| prehension Is fe^t by American resi- ,
| dents.
I Oil Well Brought in Nesr Beggs
j Beggs, Okla—At a depth of 2,240
feet and with the bit only three feet
I in the Band, the Quaker Oil company,
on the florthwest corner of the south-
west of section 9-14-12, three miles
south of this city, brought In one of
the best producers In this section.
The oil is running a little stronger
than 90 barrels of oil per hour.
Drinks Acid and Dies
Hartshorn, Okla.—Beuste Nash, a
i well-known school girl committed aui-
j cldt here Saturday, because of de-
j spondency over a love affair. Miss
I Nash Is a graduate of the University
I of Kansas. She drank acic*
Tuberculosis in the Prisons.
The fact that 100,000 prisoners are
discharged from the Jails and prisons
of the country annually, and that from
10 to 15 per cent, of them have tuber-
culosis. makes the problem of provid-
ing special places for their treatment
while they are confined a serious one.
So important is the problem that the
Prison association of New York in co-
operation with the State Charities Aid
association. Is preparing to inaugurate
a special campaign for the prevention
of tuberculosis in the penal Institu-
tions of the state, and will seek to en-
list the co-operation of all prison phy-
sicians and anti tuberculosis socleUes
in this work.
Two Sssslde Views.
The Sentljnental One—The beautiful beach was
covered With shells this morning.
The Practical One—Yes; It's a shame to allow 'em
to eat peanuts down there.—Yonkers Statesman.
Court Date Set for September
| Guthrie, Okla.—Opening of the fall
| terms of the federal court at Enid has
I been set for Sept. 5. The case of C.
L. Jackson, Indicted In connection.
I with the alleged crude oil burner
I fraud will come up at the term.
Cut Out
Breakfast
Cooking
Easy to start the day
cool and comfortable if
Post
Toasties
are in the pantry ready
to serve right from the
package. No cooking
required; just add some
cream and a little sugar.
Especially pleasing
these summer mornings
with berries or fresh
fruit.
One can feel cool in
hot weather on proper
food.
"The Memory Lingers"
VOSTUK CXRKAL CO.. Ltd.
Battle Creek. JiloU.
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