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sanitary place and making it healthy and clean. People 

 were beginning to talk, the work was becoming known, 

 and the instigator began to receive praise. Then the 

 opposers raged and turned their attention to him direct. 

 They wrote him vicious official letters. They tried to 

 involve him in the maelstrom of financial difficulties 

 which other departments had engendered. They de- 

 manded varying sums of money from him, beginning 

 with a request for a large amount, with the view, 

 apparently, of making him incriminate himself; when 

 he refused to comply they told him they would be 

 satisfied with a small sum just to show he was guilty 

 still he refused. They tried to entice him from his post 

 by fair promises, as he, and his kinsman, had already 

 been enticed to enter their service ; they hoped the 

 work he had started would fail in his absence. But as 

 before, their promises were broken, and when he pro- 

 tested they cut his salary. Eventually the instigator 

 was driven from their service as his brother was before 

 him ; for they curtailed his holiday and trumped up 

 charges against him during his absence. But the work 

 he instigated went on and continues to this day. 



This occurred some years ago in a country as yet 

 incompletely civilised ; it is improbable that such a 

 thing will occur again, for a repetition of such actions 

 can hardly be expected. Men are becoming more 

 sensible in this generation, and attempts at progress 

 are more encouraged than they used to be. At the 

 present time an instigator of an anti-fly campaign would 

 hardly encounter such opposition, but the facts are set 

 down here to show one of the lines of opposition which 

 must be borne in mind. Popular approbation is a very 

 great support, and the assistance of public sympathy 

 should always be sought for. With this, there should 



