Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1903 — Those Intelligent Flies. [ARTICLE]

Those Intelligent Flies.

During s hot summer campaign In Illinois, Congressman Cannon sought temporary rest In a hammock stretched under the trees In the. yard of s country hotel. From his window the shade looked Inviting, but on the spot he found the lawn strewn with tomato cans, potato peelings and other debris. On many of these more or less unsanitary mounds were myriads of flies. “I had no sooner stretched myself In the hammock,” said Mr. Cannon, “than these flies attacked me, seemingly by the million. It was intolerable, and in no pleasant frame of mind I looked up the proprietor. “ ‘What do you mean?’ I demanded, ‘by etretching your hammock In that fly-haunted Add of torture you call s lawn?’ “ 1 know the flies are bad out there how,’ he answered, ‘but, Mr. Cannon, you ought to use the hammock during hammock hours, aud you’d have no trouble from the flies.’ “ ‘What are hammock hours?’ I Inquired. “‘From twelve noon to two In the afternoon, dally,’ he replied. 'During those hours flies will not attack you In the hammock.’ "I was much Interested in the man’s Socratlc skill in evading the issue, and, wishing to draw him out, I asked: “ ‘Why are there no flies around the hammock between twelve and two?’ "'Oh,’ he rejoined, *at that time they’re all In the dining-room.’ ”