is cold ; often it is unclean ; and in summer it gives rise to bad 

 odors. 



6. That the fly is the agent of disease and death. The 

 following, taken from a lecture by the International Harvest- 

 er Company, is not pleasant but it is profitable reading : 



"Flies are the filthiest of all insects. Watch the fly as it 

 is born on the manure heap. See it walk over the slop and gar- 

 bage, wallow in the disease-laden privy vault, bathe in the con- 

 sumptive's cuspidor, and then wing its blithesome way to the 

 house. Follow it through unscreened window or door and no- 

 tice it cleaning its filthy body in the milk pitcher, dropping 

 its specks on the baby's lips, or gathering with its compan- 

 ions on the nipple of the child's nursing bottle. Fresh from 

 the act of eating the disgusting filth, how often has it crawled 

 over your face, drinking the perspiration and irritating you 

 with its persistent, hateful, soft touch ? 



The fly that creeps over the face of a tubercular patient in 

 the palatial home, in the cottage, or hospital, may deposit a 

 deadly germ on the lips of a healthy person in your house, 

 marking another victim for the great white plague. 



"You are ashamed to tolerate a bedbug or a body louse. 

 One fly is more loathsome and dangerous than a hundred bed- 

 bugs or body lice." 



How to Get Rid of Flies. Get rid of the breeding places 

 by cleaning manure daily from the barn and sheds. Keep the 

 pig pen dry and clean. Keep garbage covered. Make the 

 privy fly-proof. Kill the breeders by killing all the winter 

 flies by putting fly traps all over the place in April. Keep 

 everlastingly at it until the fly is no more. 



The Country Church 



Status of Rural Church. The results of the various sur- 

 veys which have been made of rural churches in the United 

 States seem to indicate that the country church is dying. 

 Like the school, the church is suffering from conditions which 

 have long existed. There are too many rather than too few 

 rural churches. Often in a small village one finds five, six, or 



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