MISCELLANEOUS. 601 



Directions — Put a suitable quantity on plates, moisten with water and 

 place where they are thickest. It is very destructive because very poisonousi 

 yet so pleasant to tlie taste of the fly, they "go for it " quickly. 



FLY STICKUMPAST — Not Poisonous.— Melt rosin, 6 ozs., in a 

 tin cup, then put in lard, 1 rounding table-spoonful, as a woman takes it up for 

 shortening, or about 2 ozs., which should make it like very thick molasses when 

 cold. Spread upon rather stiff paper with a little flat piece of wood or a knife, 

 and place about the shelves, rooms, etc. If a knife is used to spread it, heat 

 the knife over the fire when it will all wipe off with a piece of newspaper or 

 cloth. It will hold all that light upon it, and the more that light the more will 

 come, thinking something good has been found. It holds them fast. Place 

 a paper over the cup to keep flies out when it is set away. 



LEGITIMATE BUSIi-iESS — To be Stuck to if You Would 

 Avoid. Failure. — There so very many failures, I desire to say a word, if 

 possible, to those who mean to do the right thing, to enable them to be success- 

 ful, hence with some modification by myself on some points, I p^ive the follow» 

 ing sensible article of some writer, I know not who, but I do well know if business 

 men will be guided by it, i. e., stick to their legitimate business, keeping al] 

 their capital in it, necessary to carry it on, there will not be one failure where 

 there is now a score. 



" Well-directed energy and enterprise are the life of American jirogress; 

 but if there is one lesson taught more plainly than others by the great failures 

 of late, it is that safety lies in a legitimate business. No manufacturer, trader, 

 or banker has any right to be so energetic and enterprising as to take 

 from his legitimate business the capital which it requires to meet any emergency 

 which may arise. 



' ' Apologies are sometimes made for firms, or persons, who have failed, by 

 referring to the important experiments they have aided, and the unnumbered 

 fields of enterprise where they have freely scattered their money. We are told 

 that individual losses, sustained by those failures, will be as nothing compared 

 with the benefits conferred on the community by their liberality in contributing 

 to every public work. There is little force in such reasoning. A man's rela- 

 tions to a creditor are vastly different from his relations to what is called the 

 public. The demands of the one are definite, the claims of the other are just 

 what the ambition and legitimate means of the man may make them. 



" The histories of honorable, successful business men unite to exalt the im- 

 portance of sticking to one legitimate business, and it is most instructive to see 

 that, in the greater portion of the failures, the real cause of disaster was the 

 branching out beyond his legitimate business, in the taking hold of this and 

 that tempting offer, and, for the sake of some hoped-for gain, venturing where 

 they did not know the ground, and could not know the pit-fall until in it." 



Wages— Table Showing the Rate, from $2 to $25 a Week, 10 

 Hours Per Day, Also Rate Per Day and Hour.— This table is so care 

 fuUy worked out a mere glance shows the desired amount : 



