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‘‘Most of our diseases are caused by invisible ‘germs. _ These germs may be brought to us from sick _persons by whatever is large enough to carry them and has the opportuâ€" nity. Combine this fact with what everyone knows about flies, and we see at once the tremendous importâ€" ance of flies as carriers of human disease germs. "«The result of this simple picce of reasoning is so startling that it is often sideâ€"tracked by its own imâ€" portance. â€" It looks so incredible that we hesitate, distributing our own logic. It seems incredible that men have gone on doing as they have done, and as they are still doing, if the facts are as they seem. The consequences of our reasoning seem so tremendous we fear there must have been a mistake someâ€" where. And so we dismiss the idea. "One way to disturb this false security is to interest people in the habits and structure of flies. The more we know about flies the more clear it will become that they are among our worst enemics. ‘‘Now remove the weights and attach all of them to one or two of the threads at one end. The plasâ€" Rer will promptly be torn loose. Actâ€" ing on a portion of the plaster at a time the weights can accomplish what they cannot accomunlish when "The fly clings to rough surfaces by means of its claws, and to smooth surfaces by a combined action of the claws and pads. There are two claws ard pads on each foot. The fly‘s pads are covered with thouâ€" sands of minute short hairs, sticky at the end. ‘There is no suctionâ€" merely adhesion. "The action of a fly‘s pads may be illustrated by means of a piece of sticking plaster and a few threads and small weights. Take a picce of sticking plaster half an inch wide and sew through it some short pieces of thread at intervals of half an inch, and knot the threads on the sticky side, so that they cannot pull through. Stick the plaster to a dinner plate or other smooth ohbâ€" ject, and it will be found that if a small weight is attached to earch thread the plaster will sustain in this way a considerable we‘ghtâ€" that is to say, the sum of all the sma,}} weights is considerable. Clings to Surfaces by Means of Claws and Pads Which It Has on Each Foot. ‘‘The fly‘s power to spread disâ€" ease is a direct function of its powâ€" ers of locomotion. It can fly conâ€" siderable distances at a high rate of speed. It is quickly. carried long distances by train‘s, boats, team, animals, and man. / It is posâ€" sible to get a good idea of a fly‘s rate of flight in a number of ways. Flies come to ships newly arrived in port across considerable stretchâ€" es of water. This we know, because a few hours earlier there were no flies on the ship. No communicaâ€" tion has been had with land. The fliles must have come on their own wings. Occasionally we see a fly follow & team pr animal, easily keeping up a good pace. The wing muscles of a fly when weighed are found heavier in proportion than those of any bird so far examined. It is difficult to tire a fly out. Test this by trying to keep one constantâ€" ly on the wing in a room, and you will soon find you have no easy task. All this shows the fly to be no mean navigator of the air. 3 THE FLY SPREADS DISEASE A despatch from Hatbin, Manâ€" churia, says: Forty thousand perâ€" sons at Kirin are homeless as a consequence of the recent conflaâ€" gration in that city. The money loss is estimated at $20,000,000. Eour thousand shops, fifteen banks, and 8,387 other buildings were deâ€" stroyed. . The fire at Kirin will rank with the London and Chicago conflagrations. In the great Lonâ€" EUNCIION OF ITS POWERS OF LCCOMOTION. $20,000,000 LOSS BÂ¥ MRK Forty Thousand People Rendered Homeless in a City of Manchuria. THE ANATOMY OF A ELY. «"All his grownâ€"up life the fly has to manage with sticky feet. Imagine our plig?xt if the soles of our feet were sticking plaster, perennially renewing their stickiness! _ Whoâ€" ever has experienced the sticky mud of certain regions will recall how the boots ball up and what a conglomeration one drags home from & ramble under such circumâ€" stances. _ To such inconveniences the fly is constantly subject, and it is this that has bred in him a habit of frequently preening himself, parâ€" ticularly his feet. These are conâ€" stantly becoming clogged with adâ€" hering substances, and this contamâ€" ination the fly must assiduously reâ€" move if his feet are to act properly in supporting him on slippery placâ€" es. If this contamination is too sticky to rub off the fly it laps it off, and it then passes off in his exâ€" ereta. Thus it is that all sorts of microscopic particles are moved from place to place on the feet of flies. These particles are rarely of sufficient size to be seen with the unaided eye. _ Nevertheless, they are constantly present, and the amount of matter thus transferred is relatively considerable on account of the fly‘s activity.. _ When fltes have access to diseased or rotten or foul matter, the transfers thus effected areâ€"dangerous.. All sorts of minute organisms are spread in this way, including diseases of man;, animals, and plants. It is imposâ€" sible to go into details in this place, but it is only right to say that the imagination completely fails to grasp the farâ€"reacthing consequnecâ€" es of this transfer of germs and spores on the feet of flies.‘"â€"Mr. N. A. Cobb in "‘Natural Geograâ€" phical Magazine Everywhere He is Acolaimed in the Friendliest Manner. A despatch from London says : The Kaiser is getting in London a reception that manifestly is a surâ€" prise to him as there is none of the prevalent antiâ€"German bitterness directed against him. He fulfils numerous private engagements unâ€" ceremonial and everywhere he is recognized and acclaimed in the friendliest manne>. He visited on Thursday, among other things, the Zoo, accompanied by a single comâ€" Eanion‘ He displayed an almost oyish interest in the animals, but remained longest in the monkeyâ€" house. His next longest stay was in the lionâ€"house. Emigration Envoys From Britain are Favorably Impressed. A despatch from Woodstock says : Messrs. Peddie, Webb and Mullin, representing the Emigration Deâ€" partment of the British Isles, spent Thursday in the city and vicinity inspecting the farms of Oxford with a view to reporting to the Imperial department on the conditions ‘of immigration in this section. They visited the House of Refuge farm and other properties in the county and were deeplvy impressed with Oxford from a dairying and farmâ€" ing standpoint. | Reports from Pekin told of a deâ€" structive fire at Kirin on May 9, but telegraph communication to this remote Manchurian town was interrupted, and few details of the fire were known. Kirin is the capiâ€" tal of the Manchurian Province of Kirin, 270 miles west of Vladivosâ€" tock, and has a population of 80,â€" distributed along the whole surâ€" face of the plaster. This experiment {llustrates roughly how the course, in my illustration you can see just how the weights release the plasâ€" ter from end to end. It is very difâ€" ficult to make this observation on a fiy, because the fly‘s pad is so small and more particularly because the whole operation takes place in something like the fiftieth part of a second. Wonderful as the fly‘s pads are, they have thoir disadvanâ€" tages, for stickiness and locomotion are not always strictly compatible. STICKY FEET. don fire 13,200 houses were burned, besides 88 churches. . s INSPECT OXFORD FARMS. KAISER SURPRISED. Montreal, May 23â€"Choice steers were sold at 6 1â€"4 to 6 1â€"2¢, %ood at 5 5â€"4 to 6¢, fairly good at 5 1â€"4 to 5 1â€"2¢, fair at 4 34 to 5¢, and common at 4 14 to 4 iâ€"2¢ per pound. Cows broufht from 3 34 to 5 1â€"2¢, and bulls from 3 1â€"2 to 5 14c per pound. Selected lots of hogs were sold at $6.65 per cwt., weighed off cars. The trade in calves was active, at prices ranging from §2 to $6 each. Toronto May 23.â€"One load of choice exâ€" Eort steers sold for $6, and good light eifers and steers were worth anywhere from $5.50 to $5.80. Medium and common cattle were steady at $4.75 to $5.25. Bulls sold firm at $4.40 to $5, and cows were stronger at $4.25 to $5.25. Bheep were weaker at $4.50 to $5 for ewes. Lambs, yearling and Spring, were steady. Hogs were reported stronger and 10c higher, the new figures being $5.85 fo.b., and $6.15, fed and _ watered. Calves were steady around $6 for good veals. Plans for Avenue From St. Foye to the Plains of Abraham. A despatch from Ottawa says: The battlefields of St. Foye and the plains of Abraham are to be joined by a splendid avenue. The town of / Montcalm will give the right of way. The Battlefields Comâ€" mission will loan the town $15,000 for thirty years for the expenses the town has to meet. This was explained to Parliament on Wedâ€" nesday morning by Hon. Rodolphe Lemieux in moving the first readâ€" ing of a bill giving authority to the Commission to advance the money. WHLDC, OP gTUbL MR 2 IMZCHC HICY Minneapolis, May ZSâ€"Wheatâ€"Magr, 98c ; July,â€" 98 3â€"40; September, 92 to 92 1â€"8¢; Deo., 91 34; No. 1 hard, $1.01 iâ€"%¢; No. 1 Nor, 99 3â€"40 tég $1.01; â€" No. 2 Northern, 96 3â€"4 to 99 1.%6; No. 3 wheat, 93 34 to 97 12%c. Branâ€"§21.50 to> $22. Flourâ€"first atents, $4.60 to $4.90; second patents, §4.50 to $4.80; first clears, $3.20 to $3.65; Montreal, May 23.â€"Oats â€" Canadian Western, No. 2, 41 1â€"2 to 42c, car lots exâ€" store; extra No. 1 feed, 41 to 42 1â€"2¢; No. 5, C.W., 40 11 to Aic; No. 2 local white, 40 to 40 1â€"2¢c; No. 3, local white, 39 1â€"2 to 40c; No. 4 local white, 38 1â€"2 to 39¢. Flourâ€" Manitoba Sprin% wheat . patents, first, $5.50; seconds, $4.80; Winter wheat patâ€" ents, $4.50; strong bakers‘, $4.60; straight rollers, $4 to $4.10; in bags, $1.80 to $1.90; rolled oats, per barrel, $4.35; bags of 90 90 lbs, $2.05. Cormâ€"American No. 3 yelâ€" low, 60 to 61c. Millfeedâ€"Bran, Ontario, $22; Mamnitoba, $21; middlings, â€"Ontario, $22.50 to $23; shorts, Manitoba, $23; mouâ€" ille, $25 to $30. Eggsâ€"Fresh, 18 1â€"2 to 19. Cheesoâ€"Western, 11 1â€"2 to 11 346. Butter â€"Choicest, 22¢; seconds, Zic. Buffalo, May 23â€"Spring wheat, No. 1 Nor. carloads, store, $1.06 1â€"2c; . Winter, easier; No. 2 red and No. 2 white, 96c. Cornâ€"No. $ yellow, 58e; No. 4 yellow, 56 1â€"4c; No. 3 corn, 55 to 5§ 1â€"4c; No. 4 corn, §3 to 53 1â€"4c, all on track, through billed. Oatsâ€"No. 2 white, $8 1â€"2¢; No. 3 white, 37 3â€"4c; No. 4 white, dic. _ 2 second clears, $2.20 to $2.85. Beansâ€"Car lots at $1.70 to $+.75, and small lots, $1.90. Honeyâ€"â€"fixtracted, in tins, 10 to lc per lb; No. 1 comb, wholesale, $2 to $2.50 per dozen; No. 2 comb, wholesale, $1.75 to $2 per dozen. . | Baconâ€"Long clear, 10 12 to lic per lb in case lots; mess pork, $20; do., short cut, $23; pickled rolls, $19 to $20. _ Baled hayâ€"No. 1 at $12 to $13, on track, and No. 2 at $9 to $10.50. lialed strawâ€"$6 to $6.50, on track, Torâ€" onto. Potatoesâ€"Car lots 60 to 85c per. bag. Poultryâ€"Wholesale prices of _ dressed poultry:â€"Yearling chickens, 15 to 16c per ib; turkeys, 19 to 21c per Ib; live, 1 to 2¢ ess. Butterâ€"Dairy prints, 17 to 19¢; inferâ€" lor, 15 to 16c. Creamery, 21 to 23¢ per lb. for rolls, 20 to Zic for solids, and 21 to 22e for separator prints. Eggsâ€"Case lots at 18 to 19c per dozen. Cheeseâ€"Large i4c, and twins 14 1â€"2c. New cheese 14 to 14 lâ€"2¢ in & jobbing way. CIO WA PUGIICWM LULLG, @17 UO B.ja.msâ€"â€"Lighb to medium, 15¢ 12 to lic; rolls 10 1â€"2 to lic bacon, 16 to 17¢; backs, 18 to 3 'flf{dâ€""'i‘iéicéé,' 10e; tubs, 10 10 1â€"2c. Barl%'â€"(}ood to choice malting grades, 65 to T0c. Oatsâ€"Ontario grades 37 to 38¢, outside, for No. 2, and at 39 1â€"2 to 40c, on track, Toronto. No. 2 W.C. oats, 39 1â€"2¢ and No. 3, 3€c, Bay ports. 5 Cornâ€"No. 5 American yellow 56 1iâ€"2c, Bay ports. Peasâ€"Prices purely nominal. Ryeâ€"No. 2 at 75¢, outside. . Buckwheatâ€"No. 2 at 52 to 53¢, outside. Branâ€"Manitobas at $22, in bags, Torâ€" onto, and shorts $23 to $23.50, in bags, Toromto. Ontario bran, $22, in bags, Torâ€" onto. Toronto, May 23â€"Flourâ€"Winter wheat 90 per cent patents, at $3.45 to ?_.50, Monâ€" traal freight; Manitoba floursâ€"First patâ€" onts, $5.10; second patents, $4.60, and a strong baf{ers’, $4.40, on track, Toronto. Manitoba wheatâ€"No. 1 Northern 99c, %ayl Zgorts; No. 2 at 96 1â€"2¢, and No. 3 at Ontario wheatâ€"No. 2 at 85¢, outside, anrnd No. 2 white B6c outside. PRIGES OF FARM PRODUCTS REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES OF AMERICA. TIMPROVING BATYLEEIELDS. rices of Cattle, Grain, Chcess anrd Other Produce at Home and Abroad. + AUTOMOBILES BURNEKD. UNITED BUSINESS AT MONTREAL LOCAL DAIRY MARKETS LIVE STOCK MARKETS COUNTRY PRODUCE HOG PRODUCTS. BREADSTUFFS STATES MARKETS breakfast 18. 1â€"2¢. °_ 1â€"4c; pails do., heavy, Cenâ€" Clothes Caught Fire and Flames Destroyed Ottawa Home. A despatch from Ottawa says: The house of Hector Chauvin, soâ€" licitor, of Hull, and residing on Rideau street, Ottawa, was burned on Thursday afternoon.. Katie O‘Rourke, aged 35, a servant, was burned to death. Her clothes caught fire at a gas stove and she rushed upstairs to the bathroom and thus set fire to the residence. The inside of the house, with all the furniture, was destroyed, $6,000 damage being done. The Revolutionary Leader Will Act as De La Barra‘s Chief Adviser. A despatch from Mexico City says : President Diaz and Viceâ€"Preâ€" sident Corrall â€"will resign before June 1, and Minister of Foreign Reâ€" lations De La Barra will be Presiâ€" dent ad interim, according to offiâ€" cial announcement made on Wedâ€" nesday. EFrancisco I. Madero, jun., the revolutionary leader, will be called to Mexico City to act as De La Barra‘s chief adviser. As viewed by the public, it will be virâ€" tually a joint Presidency, pending the calling of a new Presidential election. Colonel Wenljarljarsky and his stepâ€"son, formerly an army captain, are on trial in St. Petersburg chargâ€" ed with having forged a will whereâ€" by they become legatees to the vast estates of the halfâ€"witted Prince Oginsky, godâ€"son _ of Emperor Nicholas. Crown Prince Frederick William and the Crown: Princess of Gerâ€" many are visiting the Czar to conâ€" gratulate him on his birthday. _ Countess _ Szecheni _ (formerly Gladys Vanderbilt, of New York), has given $50,000 to the poor fund of Budapest, and the city will not establish a street car line near the palace. France is included in the proâ€" posed arbitration treaty nlar of the United States. Man and Woman Given Damages by Judge Greenshiclds. A despatch from Montreal says : Because he refused to throw away a halfâ€"smoked cigar at the request of an attendant at the Francais Theatre, and insisted on putting it in his pocket, Arthur Ramisch, acâ€" companied by a girl named Philiâ€" more Coroteau, was expelled from the theatre. Mr. Justice. Greenâ€" shields on _ Wednesday morning granted the lady $150 damages, while Ramisch will receive $100. EXPELLED FROM A THEATRE. i,Cauada,’ thke Empire and the World * in General Before Your GENERAL. The Finnish Diet has been disâ€" solved by Imperial ukase. } GREAT BRITAIN. Andrew Carnegie has given $25,â€" 000 to equip the Medical Institute of the University College of Lonâ€" don. Senator Root‘s amendment to the reciprocity bill makes free pulp and paper an event of the indefinite future. Nathaniel Self shot and wounded his wife at London, Ont., and then ended his own life with the revolâ€" ver.. Mrs. Sour will probably reâ€" cover. Rev. J. H. Jowett, formerly of Birmingham, now of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York, will be King George‘s personal guest at the coronation, It has been decided to hold proâ€" vincial competitions for the Earl Grey musical and dramatic troâ€" phies, and the best of the provinâ€" cial companies will compete for the Dominion trophy. A locomotive spark caused a dangerous bush fire near Parrsâ€" boro, N.S. Twenty steamers, with some milâ€" lion bushels of grain, can‘t get eleâ€" vator accommodation to unload at Montreal. Fire Chief Tremblay, of Monâ€" treal, reports nineâ€"tenths of the apartment houses there unprovided with proper fire protection. A piece of property in Calgary, bought seven years ago for $825, has been sold for $105,000. Contracts were awarded for the completion of the C.N.R. from Otâ€" tawa to Toronto: The "June bug" is stripping the foliage of fruit trees in Middlesex county. . Welland is to have another polâ€" iceman to enforce the local option law. Eyes.â€" CANADA. Galt Y.M.C.A. raised $769,548 in three days. SERVANT BURNED TO DEATH. THE NEWS IN A PARAGRAPE HAPPENINGS FROM ALL OVEER THE GLOBE IX a NUTSEELL. DIAZ TO RESIGN. UNITED STATLES. Mr. Harry Hobman Meets Death at Valois, Que. A despatch from Montreal says : Mr. Harry Hobman, an accountant employed by Dale & Company, this city, was instantly killed by a Grand Trunk Railway train at Vaâ€" lois on Wednesday morning. Mr. Hobman arrived at the station too late to take his usual train to the city, and after takirg leave of his wife he went to cross the G. T. R. tracks with the intention of going to business by the C. P. R. train on the tracks adjacent. The Vaudâ€" reuil train, not scheduled to stop at Valois, dashed into the unfortunate man as he was crossing, killing him instantly. Mr. Hobman leaves a wife, but no children. He was twentyâ€"eight years old, a native of Lancashire, England, where his mother is yet living. He came to this country eight years ago. A despatch from London, Eng: land, says: At the Imperial Eduâ€" cation Conference recently held priâ€" vately the Foreign Office resolved that the simplification of spelling was a matter of urgent importance throughout the Empire, demanding such practical steps in every counâ€" try as may appear most conducive to the creation of enlightened pubâ€" lic opinion and the direction thereâ€" of to the maintenance of English in purity and simplicity among all English speaking people. Among the suggestions was a proposal WHIOWH Lands . COIRIMAISSLONCE 11087 s gis said on Thureday that it hiere is \Montreal Man Deiied Hospital Atâ€" much wind, and unless rain comes, tendants, thousands of acres of valuable lumâ€"| _ A despatch from Montreal fays: ber would likely be wiped out. Swingimg an axe about his head, enc Edward Welsh on Thursday threatâ€" LIVE WIRE KILLS TWQ, ened to kill the Ror‘i'al Victormsg Hosâ€" o pital attendants who had come with One Caught the Other Falling and the ambulance to remove his aged Mct Death aunt, who lay seriously ill at her 5 home, 442 Lagauchetiere Streek A despatch from Vancouver, B.| west. (Welsh has been remandedl C., says: Two meu were instantly |to jail for eight days for examinâ€" killed on Wednesday by a live wire ation. It is believed that he is inâ€" which had been carelessly left dangâ€" sane. One Caught the Other Falling and Met Death. A despatch from Vancouver, B. C., says: Two meua were instantly A despatch from St. ‘John, N.B., says: Reports from provincial cenâ€" tres on Thursday show the forest fire situation in New Brunswick to be alarming, particularly in King‘s and York Counties. In the former & tract of lumber land five miles by.eight is burned over, and. in York every available man of the Government Crown Lands Departâ€" ment is out fighting fires. Deputy Crown Lands Commussioner Logâ€" gie said on Thursday that if there is much wind, and unless rain comes, thousands of acres of valuable lumâ€" ber would likely be wiped out. A despatch from London, Ont., says: At the session of the Canaâ€" dian Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis which met on Wedâ€" nesday in the Hygienic Institute here, Dr. I. D. Adami, the presiâ€" dent, advocated small sanitaria, loâ€" cated in each community or counâ€" ty, rather than a larger sanifarium at a distance from the home of the patient. He congratulated London upon its fight against tuberculosis as evidenced by the Alexandria Sanitarium. â€" He strongly advised against the German error of estabâ€" lishing sanitaria only in isolated centres. He commended the work done by the Muskoka institution. Dr. C. D. Parfitt, in a. paper read, stated that the first sanitarâ€" ium was established in Ontario 14 years ago. Now there are 20 in Canada, 12 of them being in this province. â€" Since 1896 the deathâ€" rate per hundred thousand has been reduced from 150 to 112. The Impsrial Education portance of NEW METHODS TN SPELLING KILLED ON RAILWAY TRACKS. Much Timber Already Lost in Seeâ€" tions of New Brunswick. Recommended at Annual Meeting of Antiâ€" : a i < Tuberculosis Association. SANITARIA IN EYVERY COUNTY â€" FOREST FIRES ALARMING. Conference Urges Imâ€" Simplhfication. Admiral Rodney MacLaine LUloyd ’ Died Suddenly at Portsmouth. A despatch from London says : Admiral Rodney MacLaine Lloyd, R.N., died suddenly at the Royal ‘Naval Club at Portsmouth on Wed’ nesday from angina pectoris. . H [ was born in 1841, and after service ‘iin the Baltic, China and Egyptian ‘Soudan was made an Admiral in 11804. (As a Rearâ€"Admiral he comâ€" ‘manded the Mediterranean fleet in the summer of 1899. from Dr. MacKay, of Nova Scot that there be progiessive simuitq ous simplification of spelling recurring periods througho Englishâ€"speaking world, inc the United Stztes. Dr. Mack not propose that adults bd pelled to adopt the rew m but that new ways be adopt new spellings issued, say, ever years, these to be taught to ea new generation of children. Montreal Controllers Decide to In« sure Municipal Buildings. A despatch from Montreal says : The Board of Control has decided to insure all municipal buildings in theâ€"city against fire. The value of the buildings, exclusive of land and furniture, owned by the city is onâ€" tered in the City Assessor‘s books at $3,827,535, of which $531,800 is put down as the value of the City Hall. ling by workmen five feet from the ground against a telephone pole. Chas. Duprau was climbing into & wagon when his head touched the wire, and he grasped it. Thos. Costello saw him falling and grabâ€" bed him. They fell dead, while & third man was shocked. Dr. W. C. White, of Pittsburg, followed with a paper on "Prevenâ€" tion and Treatment of Tuberculoâ€" sis.‘‘ Amongst other things he adâ€" vocated a school for health officers, after the manner of the one in Inâ€" diana. Consumption was not &A family curse, as had been believed in past. Educate people along proâ€" per lines and the discase will graâ€" dually be overcome. Dr. White is THREATENED THEM WITH AXE The conference adopted various resolut:ons unifving education arâ€" rangemenrts is the Empire. aim of sanitaria treatment is to provide fresh air day and n and a proper diet.. a believer in local autonomy and against large district institutions. Dr. Hodgetts vigorously criticized the primitive system â€" of publiq health new prevailing in Ontario. Health officers were poorly paim. and hence were tfrequently incffiâ€" cient men.. The public should deâ€" mand more attention for health matters. In towns and cities tuâ€" berculosis is on decline, but in rural districts is on increase. GUARDING AGAINST FIRE. BRITISH ADMIRAL DEAD.