THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY. JUNE 27. 1917. FLY TIE HERE; ALSO TIME TO SWAT FLIES Two flies Married on July 1 .Would Increase to 1,700,. 000,000 by About August 10. By A. R. GROH. An Omaha woman writes asking me to tell something about flies and how to get rid of them. I gladly respond to this request, for he who can make only one fly grow where two flies grew before is a benefactor of the race. "Swat the fly" is a little cry that rightfully takes its place beside those other battle cries, "Do your Xmas shopping early" and "Buy a Liberty, bond." v "Swat the fly!" Ah, this nimble insect takes a lot of swatting, But "a swat in time saves nine million." "Why?" you ask in astonishment, "why these immense and startling figures?" And I answer, "because of the im mense and startling birthrate among the pesky insects." Suppose two flicj meet, plight their troth, get married and set up house keeping in a garbage can or other nice location on July 1. On July 10 Mrs. Fly will present her husband with 200 cunning little babies. These grow up so rapidly to fly hood and get married to other flies that by July 25 the original Mr. and Mrs. fly have 40,000 grandchildren. These set up housekeeping in due time and by August 10. Mr. and Mrs. Fly's children, grandchildren and great grandchildren number 8,040,200 and by August 10 the descendants of the original pair number almost 1, 700.000.000, buzzing happily from the garbage can to your pantry and back again. This would be the number of de scendants from a single pair in less than two months if none of them died. However, the mortality is great. Many are swatted. Some are caught on fly paper and in traps. Others are eaten by bigger insects or birds or are caught by Fido in a lucky snap. Still others eat too much candy and succumb to acute indiges tion. These 1,700,000.000 flies, if placed end to end, would make a line reach ing from Kalamazoo to Walla Walla, Wash., and leave "enough over to make another line from Keokuk to Qshkosh. Think of it! Covering for Cakes. It would take 17,000,000 pitchers of milk to drown them in (counting 100 flies to each pitcher.) Thev could completely cover 1,700,000 chocolate layer cakes. If one swatter were to start to twat them and could swat two at each swat he would have to swat for a number of years to get them alt wattea. Now a word as to how to get rid of tnem. Ut course, they can be drowned in pitchers of milk, but this is unsanitary and is not practiced in well-regulated households. There is a very good fly powder i on the market. It is applied with a small brush made of the tail feathers of the wild gazookus. The use of this powder is extremely simple. The fly is caught and held by the left wing. A small bit of the powder is then taken oit-the brush and applied to the epiglottis of the insect. The fly is then released. In ninety-four cases out of 100, (according to government tests,) the powder results fatally to the fly in twenty-four hours. Experts can treat as many as seventy-five flies per hour. CITY TO ADVERTISE v FOR GARBAGE BIDS Omaha to Be Divided Into Twenty Districts and Bids Are Asked for Each of Them. The city clerk was directed by the city council to advertise for bids for garbage-hauling privileges in twenty districts prescribed by Health Com missioner Lonnell and t-ity Attorney Kine. The bids will be opened next Tues day. Districts which do not attract bidders will be covered ' by city wagons as in the pastf A group ot hog farm men have already offered a premium of $1,000 for a downtown privilege agreeing to be bound by contract agreement to make, complete and regular collections. The proposal is to grant the priv ileges for indeterminate periods, sub ject to revocation on thirty-day no tice by city, upon violation of con tract agreement. Attorneys for garbage haulers urged the council to enter into con tract periods of one year. Health Commissioner Connell explained that the uncertain status of hog-feeding farms renders a year's agreement inadvisable. On Twelfth Visit Thieves Secure $2,000 in Goods The H. C. Ellinghusen dry goods store at 1714 Vinton was broken into some time during the night and over $2,000 worth of merchandise stolen, principally'shoes. The thieves en tered over the front transom. Qoods were loaded in the rear, probably in a truck of some sort, as tracks were left behind. The cash register was not touched, as only a few pennies were in it and these were not mo lested. This is the twelfth time Mr. Elling husen has been robbed since he has been in business and the third time this year. Red Cross Activities Man Arrested as Alien . Enemy at Hubbell, Neb. 'Hebron, Neb., June 26. (Special Telegram.) Charged with being an alien enemy, Martin Bowman, aged 60, was arrested at his home at Hub bell last night by Deputy United States Marshal Tom Carroll. It is reported that Bowman has been talking socialist doctrine and advising young men of his community not to enlist. Orders were received yesterday di rect from Washington to arrest him. He was taken to Lincoln this morn ing where he will be held as an alien enemy until the c'ose of the war. , Bowman's son Roger, aged 21, was arrested recently for opposing regis tration. The younger Bowman was released upon giving promise to cease his objectionable talk. Federal Jury Sheds Coats When Old Sol Gets In Work The jury trying the suit of Joseph Petchanka against Morris & Co., packers, sat Monday afternoon in that august tribunal, the federal courttwith their coats off. This was at the sug gestion of Judge Woodrough. The jury box is against the south wall, and it is hotter there than elsewhere in the room. The judge and attorneys kept their coats on. The Test of Time. Say what you will, time tries all things, only the best survive. Cham berlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy has been in use for more than forty years. Many ntillions of bottles have been sold and used during this time. It has stood the test of time because it can always be depended upon. Ad Mrs. Lena Miskovsky is captain of a new first-aid class which is composed of twenty-one business women, all of whom are members of the Bohemian W o m e n'a War league. The class meets every Wednesday night at 7 o'clock in the club room at the Craig hotel. Dr. Olga Btaftny is instructor and the following women are included in the class: Delia Swayda, Frances Mertz of Avery. Neb.; Sylvia Ku tak, Bessie Dienstbier, Mary Welna, Mary Pak, Frances Dlach, .Julia Stenibka, Emma Zelenek. Helen Ste- nlbka, Anna Rlba, Antonia Tecaopa, Anna Roucek, Louis Nemec, Mary Sadil. Anna Branek, Julia Suksa, Elizabeth Stesaf, Marie Dworak, Marie Blach and Anna. Banek. Another first-aid class irthe process of organi zation is the Elder Aid society of the Bohemian women. Mrs. Miskovsky also is organizing this group of workers. r: i Ji v No New Classes No new classes in dietetics, home nursing nor first-aid will be held at the Young Women's Christian association during the sum mer because of the absence from the city of bo many of the young business women. "We will attempt to carry on the work in September upon a larger scale," said Miss Etta Picker ing, secretary of the association Three first-aid classes will take their examinations next week and the die tetics class completes its course this week. Diet Returns President Gould Dietz of the Omaha chapter returned Sunday from a week-end trip to Chi cago, where he conferred with Red Cross officials on the matter of pur chasing supplies and the ambulance company equipment. "Omaha will soon have a purchasing agent, whose business it will be to buy all supplies for the hospital supply department, equipment for the ambulance company and uniforms for the men," said Mr. Dietz, "who will fill the office in a few days. Need of New Headquarters The Red Cross hospital supply depart ment will soon have new headquarters, where there will be sufficient room for all the branches of the work. Mrs. C. T. Kountze and Mr. Gould Dietz went on a scouting expedition to find a suitable location. "As the work is growing, there is need for work rooms large enough to accommodate from 800 to 1,000 women," said Mr. Dietz. Bankers Send Money The sum of $26, which was left over from the expense account of the bankers' state convention at Valentine, Neb., last week was donated to the Red Cross. Makes Money Selling Flowers Mrs. K. Lundquist bought a Red Cross membership Monday with ten dimes she had earned from selling flowers. She also made money enough from the sale of flowers to buy cotton for a dozen knitted wash cloths for the soldiers. "Woman Driver to Europe Miss Delilah Pugh, sergeant in. the motor driving section of the National League for Woman's Service, will sail tomor row for France, where she will serve as an ambulance driver. She is the first woman in America to werve the government in this capacity. Two mil lion women in the United States are now enrolled in the National League for Woman's Service. GARDENS HELPED BY OPPORTUNE RAIN Could Not, Have Been Better for the Blooming Home Plots of the City Growers. The heavy rain which was accom panied by a severe electrical distur bance Monday night did a world of good to city gardens in general and to the fast growing potato crop in particular. The tubers are now just coming into blossom and the mois ture could not have come at a more advantageous moment for potatoes. The rain was general over the east ern part of Nebraska, extending into Iowa considerable distance. The recent heat wave which has been general in Nebraska for a week or more is making the corn fields of the rural district fairly jump out of the ground, farmers assert. Oats, also are coming fast, standing about a foot high at present. The Boy Scour-garden, which is located in the southwest portion of the city, will be given a thorough trim ming this week, the garden having been somewhat neglected by the Scouts during the recent Red Cross campaign. While potatoes in general will hard ly be ready for consumption by the first of July, gardeners are inclined to allow the spuds to attain full growth before they are harvested. In view of the fact that majority of the city gardens were planted by the near-farmers more with the idea of doing iheir "bit" than reaping any great harvest, it would hardly be patriotic to. rob the tubers of their full growth, the gardeners aver. Cherries of the early variety aae now in condition to be picked and housewives are urged by commission men to save all their glass bottles and any vessel than can possibly be used as a fruit canning jar. Glass jars are due for a raise in prices, while the canning factories of the country have already began curtailing their out puts, due to the shortage, of tin. Safe of Florence Bank Blown; But Little Secured A small safe in the rear of the Com mercial State bank of Florence was blown open Monday night. It is be lieved by bank officials that the burg lary was committed during the se vere thunder storm about 2:30. The safe blown was used only for storinl records of the bank and no at tempt was made to open the large vault containing the currency. Only $8 in change that had been left in the cashier's cage over night was taken, although the robbers over looked several dollars in pennies. J. A. Fuller, a news dealer on the bank corner, noticed the window on the side of the bank broken open when he came down at 6 o'clock in the morning. He immediately called the cashier and they gained entrance. The combination on the safe was blown off . The contents of the safe and balance of the building were un damaged. This bank was the victim of a day light holdup August 5, 1916, when in the neighborhood of $1,000 was taken. Grain Buyers Await The Action of Congress The Omaha grain market was designated a "dead," and it was in line with the other markets of the country. Dealers in grain assert that the conditions are brought about by reason ot everybody waiting to see what congress is going to do in the matter of taking over the food sup plies. Wheat was erratic and sold at $2.37 and $2.44 a bushel, 2 cents down to 3 cents up from the prices of Monday. Receipts were light, there being; but six carloads on sale. Corn sold from a quarter to a half cent up and at $1.66 and $1.67 a bushel. Receipts were fifty-nine car loads. Oats were a half to a cent up and sold at 66 and 67 cents a bushel, with fourteen carloads on the market. Retreajt for Priests Is On at Creighton College The annual retreat for priests be gan Monday evening at Creighton university with 110 of the clergy of this diocese in attendance. Rev. Father J. Rosswinkcl n conducting the retreat, which will end Friday morning. Heretofore two weeks have been devoted to the retreat so that one priest from eacii parish cjuld attend while the other cared for the parish, but this year the custom has been changed. "Pep" is New Pure Food Drink Now on the Market "Pep," which is exploited as "the pure food drink," is the latest bever age to be placed on the Omaha mar ket. It is maufactured by the St. Louis Beverage compay of St. Louis. The distributors for this tearitory are . Grocers' Specialties compay, Omaha, ad the Bradley-Hughey com pay, Nebraska -City. "Pep" is a nonintoxicating cereal beverage, said to be very enjoyable and appetizing and to aid digestion. Real Economy "Safe-Tea First" It is the cheapest beverage next to water. You can get four cups for a cent and delicious refreshment when you drink Awarded Gold Medal, San Francisco, 1915 Grand Prize, San Diego, 1916 SECOND MALOHEY TRIAUS CALLED Detective Captain Summoned to Answer Charge of Call ing Commissioner Kugel "A Dirty Rat." Captain Stephen Maloney has been cited by the city council to appear Thursday morning at 10 o'clock to answer second charges against him, filed by City Attorney Rine at the request of Superintendent Kugel. These charges specify that Malo ney called Mr. Kugel "a dirty rat" and declared in public that Kugel had conspired with Paul Sutton to give false testimony against Malo ney. these second charges will have right-of-way over the first charges, which temporarily were stopped when Mrs. Margaret Melson became ill and attendance of a partv of Omahans was required at Chadron. The second charges contain the declaration that Maloney'i public out break against his superior officer tended to work against the welfare and discipline of the police depart ment. It was at the request of Mr. Ku gel that the city council decided to hear the new charges before conclud ing the first charges. "This is not only Kugel's matter, but it is an insult to all of the com missioners. If you are looking for discipline you can't stand for such language," announced Commissioner Butler when the city clerk read the second charges again. Should Not Take Long. "This should not take long to dis pose of if 'we confine this second hearing to Maloney," said the mayor. "What are you going to investi gate? You all heard it," was the com ment of Commissioner Jardine. City Attorney Rine explained that a date of hearing should be set and the records kept straight. The coun cil decided to take no action on the first charges, general police investi gation or the charges against Paul Sutton until after the second charges against Maloney had been dis posed of. Bee Wants-Ads Produce Results. TWO MEN FALL FOR LOVE OF JE WOMAN Viola King Accepts Stolen Gifts from Anderson and Pre- sents Them to Bryant. Charles K. Anderson, 522 North Thirty-second street, American Dis trict Telegraph block watchman, ar rested by Detectives Unger and An derson charged with the theft of toilet goods from the Goodrich Drug company, was fined $15 and costs in court Tuesday morning. "It was caused by too much white lights," said his father, as he paid the line. Anderson says he stole the goods at the request of Viola King, who is now serving a sentence in the county jail. Andy Bryant, 5616 North Twenty fourth street, was fined $15 and costs for receiving stolen property. Testi mony showed that after Viola had re ceived the property from Anderson she gave it to Bryant, who was closer to her affections. Willow Slough Dump Ordered to lie Abated Health Commissioner Connell was directed by the city council to abate the city dumping place at Willow slough, northeast of Carter lake. Complaints have been made by lake side residents. . 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North Platte wag once the farthest west frontier of Nebraska, the scene of the wildest of pioneer life and the m-A.J .U. 'T. " I .1 I . .. . . .. iifr For further information about the cele bration and train eervice to North Platte, sleeping car reservation!, etc., ippiy to L. Beindorff, City Paiaenier Agent, Union, Pacific Railroad . Phone Doui. 4000 1324 Farnam St., Omaha, Neb. You Are Invited 1 m i M FAHE-WOUKS BTUKKAT FOE THE FOTJBTHI Show your patriotism this year as yon neter did before. 'What would the Fourth of July bo to the small key If ilJLrtr n. J Someone'! always trying to take all the joy out of life, A few cento ipent for Fireworks will latlsfy the average boy. Permit him to vent his patriotic feeling! pd make the day one of complete pleasure for him. , Vr mg your supply at once, while onr stock li complete, and we will give you price which will be to your benefit to buy early. Avoid the rush at the last few days. 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