Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1896 — Fly Paper. [ARTICLE]

Fly Paper.

The world's supply of sticky fly paper comes from Michigan. There are several small factories, but the one great producer is a single factory employing about six hundred bunds all the year round, which ships its product to every land. The factory is surrounded by a high picket fence, and sentinels are on watch night and day to keep Intruders out. The most Intimate friends of the proprietors are never Invited to ontothe premises. The preparation is not patented nor copyrighted, as to gain the protection of the Government they would bave> to name the ingredients that go Into the sticky formula, and that would give trade pirates u chance to operate. Only the proprietors know the formula, which they mix In secret, allowing no employe to be present, and they have successfully guarded this secret for over twenty years. None but the most trustworthy 1 men are employed, but even the most trusted employe In one department Is never allowed to learn more than one branch of the business nor visit any department but his own, but when once engaged has substantially a life Job. "You say you want a position In my company. Why, man, you don’t look well enough. Actor—-‘•That's Just It, My doctor says ts I will walk thirty, miles a dav l'U be cured."— Life.

Too Suspicion*. • The Boston Globe prints a ,story which it says -used to be told by a man, now dpeeased, who acted as vhdUy among the poor for a charitable association. His instructions were to be very careful not to encourage icfteness or hypocrisy, and of course he was always on his guard. He says: was assigned to visit the house of a woman who said that she had no husband, son or other male support. After being in her tenement long enough to note that she was apparently poor, I noticed a man’s hat on a table near the door, and began to doubt whether she was bereft of all male comfort or support, as she had represented. "Whose hat is that?” I asked. She looked surprised, and did not seem ready to answer. My suspicions were naturally increased, and my imagination conjured up a male visitor who must have passed into the adjoining apartment iwliCn he heard me coming upstairs, leaving his hat as an uu-tliouglit-of witness. “Madam,” I said, with severity, "I canuot authorize relief sent to you if you are deceiving us in regard to male or if you have men coming! hete whose presence you are ashamed to acknowledge. Now, 1 ask you again, whose hat is that?” “Why, sir,” she answered, with an expression of injury and surprise, “isn’t that your own hat that you left there as you came in?” It was my turn to t>o surprised, and backing out of my predicament as gracefully as I could, I promised to send her the help she needed.