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y.v;. nrqnt J| Xv Edwjn lifcff co/>Yft/Gtfr &r /fA/tyXy* PUG CO. VERY ten seconds, somewhere In the world, a baby dies. A blinking red light made this statement to those who attended the convention of the American Association for the Study and Prevention or in­ fant Mortality at Baltimore, last November. In one corner of the room was an electric light, en­ cased In a red bulb. SI* times a minute--7,640 times a day--the light went out; and, every time the light faded from the bulb, somewhere in the'world, the light mother's eyes. 80 fast do our chll-faded from a dren die. Sometimes last summer. they rMe faster. They died faster If babies kept diaries, last summer would go down in the annals of the survivors as the black summer of In the single city of New York, 873 dierl in a single week. Every little poor Ftreet had its little white hearse. Worse ftill, durin gthe course of the summer, 8,000 children died that ought to have ilved; that is to say, thpy died from preventable causes. Children die from two kinds of causes; those that are preventable and those that are not. This Is news. Your grandmother and, possibly, your mother believed that every child that died could not have been saved. Everybody thought so. Preventable causes of deaths were not recognized. It was taken as a matter of course that women should bear twice as many children as were re­ quired to maintain the population, because ball of them were bound to die. We still let half of the children die, but we .know better. We know they need not die. We t know they were born to live. We know that jthey do not have a chance to live. We have even iexploded the old supposition that the children of ?the physically weak must of necessity be physical­ ly weak. We now know that the children of the physically weak are born almost as strong as the child of the strongest. Every intelligent physician knows this statement to be true. However, let some eminent physician stand for it. Caleb W. Saleeby, one of the most emi­ nent physicians In England, is such an an authority. Read what he says on the subject In "Parenthood and Race Cul­ ture": "Most of the babies born In the clums are splendid little specimens of humanity--so far as physique is concerned--bearing no marks of degeneration to correspond with the deterioration of their parents. In a word, hereditory works . . . so that each generation gets a fresh •tart." In another part of the same book, Dr. Saleeby estimated that the number of children who are born so weak that they have little chance for life does not exceed ten per cent.; and he attri­ buted the weakness of these to the efTects of alco­ hol and certain impolite diseases upon one or both of their parents. ' Having now some fundamental facts that meet with general acceptance among the enlightened, we may proceed to seek an answer to the ques­ tion, "Why are children permitted to die from preventable causes and what are those prevent­ able causes?" We need not go far. Millions of children that are born strong enough to. live under favorable circumstances are killed by their mothers. The rest that die from preventable causes are killed by the community--by you and by me, if we help to keep things as they are, and by everybody else who helps to keep things as they are. We will first consider the mothers who kill their children. Every mother kills or tends to kill her children who does not take the trouble to Inform herself concerning the proper methods of child rearing. It Is not that such mothers are lazy. It is not that they are Indifferent to their children's welfare. They are simply Ig­ norant. Some of them are steeped In ignorance. Some of them are half-steeped. But they are ail ignorant. They don't know that flies, by carrying the germs of diseases, kill more children than all the elephants, tigers, lions, automobiles and street cars in the world Therefore, flies are considered mere inconveniences. They are regarded as un- ornamental in the soup, but as not detrimental to the health. They swarm in the kitchen, the pantry and the dining room, painstakingly deposit­ ing their filth upon every particle of food that the family. Including the children, eat. Some ot this filth Is not deadly; some of it Is. But no such ignorant mother ever connects In her mind the going of her baby with the coming of the flies. Nor does any such ignorant mother have any conception of the care with which she should feed, not only her baby.\J)ut her half-grown chil­ dren. If she doesn't nurse her baby' she doesn't realize that any milk she is likely to tlnd for sale is more Hkeiy to be poison than food. Nor, does she realize that such milk will be precisely as poisonous for her baby after It has been weaned. Such mothers usually buy their milk from the nearest grocery sto a. The number of bacteria in milk, when It exceeds 600,000 to the cubic centimeter, makes the milk unfit for use. Yet, some analyses of New York store milk, the other day, showed bacteria as high as 38,000,000. What wonder that every summer is a "black sum­ mer" for the babies of New York's poor? In many other ways, the ignorant mother kills her children with the food she gives them. Many a baby six months old is nibbling crackers, bananas and pickles, while putting in the rest of its time at an 'all-day sucker" or a stick ot candy. Mothers who want their children to live should know that the premature giving of any kind of Kolld food to a baby is exceedingly dangerous; that after a child Is weaned it should be given solid food only In accordance with the instruc­ tions of an Intelligent physician; that meat and fruit (except orange juice) are like so much poison, even if they do not produce death as quickly as strychnine would; and that all during childhood, the food 6hould be simple, with cereals, milk and vegetables as a basis and a little meat not oftener than once a week. But, as a child-killer, the community exceeds In destructivenesB even the ignorant mother. By this is meant that the community maintains con­ ditions that sometimes prevent even intelligent persons from taking proper care of their children. The community maintains conditions that create poverty and slums. The community even main- i ht # jit V? tains conditions that foster Ignorance. What chance has the poor mother anywhere In this country to inform herself with regard to the rear­ ing of children? What chance has the poor mother in New York? She has no money with which to pay a physician for consultation, le she went to a physician.paid by the city, she would hardly know what to do with her children while she was away. She might leave them at a day nursery, It is true; but did you ever think how many more day nurseries and how many more city physicians we Bhould have to have if every mother who needs to know how to rear her children were to adopt this plan? We should have to have thou­ sands and tens of thousands more* of each. And, if the community were intelligent enough to de­ mand such conveniences, it would be Intelligent enough not to need most of them. Therefore, v.e who know enough not to need them are re­ sponsible for the slaughter of the children of those who won't. And, is not that a pleasant thought? How can intelligence prevail against the neglect of communities to keep their water supplies pure? Almost every city claims to have pure^ water. Almost every city is a liar. So long as we have typhoid fever, we shall know that we have not pure water. The water supply of nearly every city is bad part of the year. One city drinks ,:the sewage of another. The contamination could be prevented, of course, but it Isn't. Detroit, for instance, will have another outbreak of typhoid fever next fall. Scores, if not hundreds will die, asu,"iue foiiowing autunfln, there will be another outbreak Careful parents, of course, ckn give their children only boiled water to drink at home, but they cannot be sure what their children drink at school. They can only hope for the best and be thankful If they get it. The most deadly disease that threatens chil­ dren this summer is Infantile paralysis. In June, reports came from the south that the disease had broken out in several widely separated places. Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the Rockefeller institute for Medical Research, says it does not follow that the disease will again be epidemic In the east and the middle west, but he cautions physicians and parents to be on the look-out. Infantile paralysis is caused by a living organ­ ism so small that It readily passes through a germ-filter of the finest porcelain. It is believed that this germ enters and finds lodgment in the nose, and that children whose noses are not clean are most likely to become Infected. From experiments made upon monkeys at Rockefeller Institute, it is known that the average period of Incubation is a little less than ten days; that is to say, definite symptoms of the disease appear ten days after the germ enters the sys­ tem, though illness has sometimes followed in four days. The first symptoms of the disease appear to vary somewhat with the Individual. Also, no Individual has all of the symptoms. Restlessness and irritability sometimes mark the approach. At other times there is apathy. Also there may be a low fever for a few days. Dr. William Palmei; Lucas of the Harvard Medi­ cal School, who Is one of the leading investigators of the disease, offers this general advice; "Headache, general or frontal, is not Infrequent­ ly met with In children old enough to locate the pain, and this is often accompanied with rigidity of the neck. If with any of these nervous mani­ festations, there should be trouble In the upper air passages, such as bronchitis or sore throat, sus­ picion should be aroused." But even if the dwisease, early In Its progress, be correctly diagnosed, the best physician cannot stop it. Like scarlet fever, measles and all other germ diseases, this aliment must run its course. Mill ELECT 01 CHARLES L. HITTER OF IJUR- i PHV8BORO 18 CHO8EN GRAND CHANCELLOR. INDORSE BROWN FOR PLACE Illinois Grand Lodge Hold Their Forty- Second Annual Convention in Springfield--Rockford Select­ ed for 1912 Meeting. A physician can only put the patient In a condi­ tion to weather the storm as well as possible. But while little can be done after the disease has developed, carerul parents can do much to prevent their children from taking the malady. The children's noses can be kept clean. Dr. Flex­ ner regards this as most Important. Also, certain disinfectants. If used as a mouth and nose wash during the summer danger period, are effective. A one per cent, solution of hydrogen peroxide will kill the germ of Infantile paralysis. So will plain menthol. Each of these statements Is made upon the authority of Dr. Flexner. Yet the germ that causes' infatnlle paralysis is more virulent than the germ of rabies. Dr.. Flex­ ner discovered that the paralysis germ could not even be weakend by drying It for weeks over caustic potash, nor by keeping It frozen for weeks. But hydrogen peroxide and menthol kill It. Dr. Flexner Is now and has been for some time conducting experiments to learn whether files carry the germs and spread the disease. He has already definitely learned that flies do carry the germs, but he has not demonstrated that the germs, when carried, get into the system and produce the disease. Infantile paralysis came to this country from Scandinavia. Prior to 1907 it had seldom occurred here. Since then It has been epidemic from the Atlantic to the Pacific. New York and Boston, where so many Immigrants gather, have suffered most. Minnesota, to which so many Scandinavians remove, comes next The disease flourishes dur­ ing hot, dry summers. It is sort of a sister disease of cerebrospinal meningitis and, years ago, was probably often mistaken for that disease. A conspicuous point of difference Is that the for- mer malady comes in late winter or early spring, while Infantile paralvsis comes in summer in­ fantile paralysis is most likely to attack children less than four years old, though adults are not Immune. But one attack most likely makes the subject immune for life. Dr. Flexner's experi­ ments upon monkeys indicate as much. But, harking back to the causes of preventable deaths of children, this much more may be said; Mothers are too prone to buy medicine from doc­ tors and not enough given to buying Information from them. Mothers who do not know how to care for their children should not wait until a child is sick and then call the doctor to dose the child. They should call the doctor when the child is well, and pay him his regulation fee for sitting down half an hour and instructing) them with regard to the care of the child. Most mothers need information more than their ohildren need medicine. Doctors, when called, often give harm­ less medicine, when none Is needed, simply be­ cause the public feels that It must have something for its money. The public is not wise enough to know that it can spend Its money in no better way than to buy certain Information that tends toward the maintenance of health. Diarrhea, for instance, which kills more babies, perhaps, than any other single cause. Is solely a disturbance of the digestive tract due to wrong feeding. Milk containing thirty-seven million bacteria to the cubic centimeter--or even a million--will cause It. Cow's milk not properly modified Is certain to upset the stomachs of infants. A half-hour with a good physician will enable a mother to get in­ formation that may prevent her child from sicken­ ing and dying. In the meantime, the responsibility for the avoidable deaths of children must largely rest with the few who, knowing how to take care of their own, dp not, for one reason or another, take effective measures to pass on this knowledge to others. A few men control every government- national, state and municipal. These men, If they wanted to, could compel government to dissemi­ nate thfe vast amount of information concerning the prevention of infant mortality. France moved when her birth-rate became so low that she had to move. When children become scarce, govern­ ments are sometimes as careful of their health as they are at other times of the health of hogs. Springfield.--The Illinois grand lodge of the Knights of Pythias* who were at Springfield in their forty-seo- ond annual convention, turned their attention to the political side of their being and elected officers who will govern the grand lodge for the com­ ing year. The delegates selected Rockford for their place of meeting 3n 1912. Charles L. Bitter of Murphysboro, who has served the last year as grand vice-chancellor, was advanced to the high office of grand chancellor, and Judge J. B. Vaughn of Carlinvllle, who has held the office of grand chan­ cellor the last year, was passed on to :be rank of past grand chancellor. Other officers elected were: Grand Vice-Chancellor--Joseph M. Omo, Chicago. Grand Prelate--William K. Whit­ field, Decatur. Grand Keeper of Record and Seal-- Henry P. Caldwell, Chicago. Grand Master of Exchequer--Mil­ lard Dunlap, Jacksonville. Grand Master at Arms--Thomas Williamson, Edwardsville. Grand Inner Guard--Augustus A. Partlow, Danville. « Grand Outer Guard--John J. Reeve, Jacksonville. John J. Brown was indorsed at the norning session for supreme vice- chancellor at the next national meet- Tricks in the Uses of Glass *- 4 • French Idea Is Replete With 8tartling Possibilities by the Aid of Mirrors. The ordinary person would Bmlle at the possibility of windows through Which he or §he could watch the peo­ ple In the street, but through which the people in the street could only see themselves, yet this is now possible through platinised glass. By con­ structing a window of this glass a person can stand close behind the panes in an unilluminated room and behold clearly everything going on outside, while passers-by looking at the window would behold a fine mir­ ror or set of mirrors in which their owfi.figures-would--be-.seJIecfced-,--whifcr'-<Wrttr~tayer of a ifqiTid charged with the person inside remained invisible In France various tricks have been devised with the aid of this glass. In one, a person, seeing what appears to be an ordinary mirror, ap­ proaches it to gaze upon himself. A sudden change in the mechanism sends light through the glass from the back, and the startled spectator finds himself confronted by some grotesque figure. Such windows are made by coating a piece of glass WlJ;h an exceedingly platinum and then raised to a red heat. The platinum becomes united to the glass, but the latter does not really lose Its transparency. If placed against a wall, or without a light behind It, as above stated, it acts as an ordinary looking-glass, but when the light is allowed to come through the glass from the other side, as when placed in a window, it is per­ fectly transparent like ordinary glass. Charles L. Rltter. - ing. Mr. Brown, who is from Van- dalia, is one of the supreme repre­ sentatives. John F. Parsctis of Joliet was re­ elected grand trustee. Eugene Bone of Springfield, Albert Watson of Mount Vernon and Levin D. Gass of Danville were elected supreme representatives to succeed James H. Barkley of Springfield, Frank C. Smith of East St. Louis and James G. Whiting of Canton, who will retire this year. Spirited contests accompanied the election of grand outer guard, the only office of the head list contested, and of supreme representatives. In the contest for the former office Mr. Reeve of Jacksonville was opposed by J. A. Colborne of Pontiac, W. H. Moore of Feuria,, Harry E. Beii of White Hall and A. C. Sluss of Tuscola. Eight men entered the lists for the three places of supreme representa­ tive, including Messrs. Bone, Gass and Watson and James E. Jewell of Lin­ coln, Charles H. Cushing of Chicago, James H. Barkley of this city. Frank C. Smith of East St. Louis and Louis E. Hay of Bloomington. Gass is at pr^eent in Mayo Brothers' hospital at Rochester, Minn. Commission Is Named. Governor Deneen announced the names of the special commission which will revise and codify, tenta­ tively, the building laws of Illinois. The men appointed are practically followers of the various lines of work interested in the laws as folltows: Architects--Prof. N. C. Baker, Ur- fwuia; Richard E. Schmidt, Chicago. Structural engineers--W. C. Arm- Jtrong, Chicago ft Northwestern railway, Chicago; Prof. I. O. Baker, Urbana. Fire protection expert--W. H. Mer­ rill, Lake Forest. Building contractor -- George J. Jobst, Peoria. fteunlon of Veterans. Members of the Elghty-flfth reg­ iment of Illinois volunteers gath­ ered at a camp lire at the Meth­ odist church in Havana for their an­ nual reunion, and later adjourned to the city hall where a very Interesting and appropriate program was ren­ dered. * *"*?'• ' The members gathered at the church and a discussion of war tales was indulged in, individuals telling of their experiences on the battle field. The following program was given: Invocation. Drum calls given by tSeorge Lud- lam and William H. Clauser, drummer boys of the One Hundred and Thir­ teenth and Thirty-ninth Illinois, re­ spectively. Selection--Male quartette. Short address-^-Rev. J. L. Settles. Recitation--Lizzie McCausland. Vocal solo--Miss Mable Anno. Short address--Rev. R. V. Calloway. Recitation--Miss Mayme Trainor. Vocal 60I0--Mrs. Grace Durdy, Short address--Mrs. Fannie Mer- win. Bugle calls by Mark Hamlin, bugler of the Eighth New York cavalry. Vocal solo--Miss Winifred Doering. Reminiscences of war times--Coir rades Cadwallder, Morphew, Mur dock and Pickard. Selection--Male quartette. Taps. Song, "God Be With You Till We Meet Again." Get a Free Package At Your Druggist's! Wonderful New Treatment for Bladder, Rheumatism, .Back- ~ ' ache--Thousands of Free Sam­ ples Being Given Away I . T o p r o v e t h a t t h e r e i s , a t l a s t , o n e really dependable wmedy for all such disorders. the makers of Dr. Derby's Kidney Pills hare authorized druggists everywhere to dtstrto^ Ota free trial packages to all applicants., _ P°. rou, suffer from diabetes, dropsy. Bright s Disease, pain in bladder, rhetuna* ttsm in any form* Doen your HIIIII ache. Medical School Case Argued. The case of the people on the rela­ tion r,f W. E. Neiberger of Blooming- ton, president of the Illinois State Homeopathic society, against Auditor of Public Accounts James S. McCul- lough, was argued In the supreme court by E. W. Ashcraft, for Neiberger ^ and by Assistant Attorney General ^ptooa of Waters Has Not Taken Black Charles E. Woodward for the auditor./ River Falls, Wis., From the Map. Neiberger seeks to restrain the audl-f tor of public accounts from issuing warrants on the state treasurer for the payment of $60,000, part of the ap­ propriation bill for the University of Illinois to the University of Illinois school of medicine in Chicago. Neiberger claims that the legisla­ ture has no right to appropriate money for a medical college that teaches one school of medicine. It is also alleged by Neiberger that the bill making the appropriation was not legally passed. He holds that the conference report on the hill was in the nature of an amendment and had to be voted on by a roll call in the senate, after it was reported to that body. Seventy-Two Are'Initiated. Seventy-two candidates were initi­ ated into Prairie State encampment* No 16, I. O. O. F., in the Odd Fel­ lows' temple at Springfield at a rous­ ing meeting of the camp, and the addi­ tion of the new members makes the Prai'ie camp* the largest in the state. The candidates were taken through three degrees, ifie*Patriarchal, Golden Rule and Royal Purple. The big camp meeting followed a booster campaign conducted for the Prairie State camp by a special com­ mittee of the camp, of which W W. Tinkle is chairman, and Fred Slllo- way, secretary. The committee vis­ ited all the to.wns of the vicinity and succeeded in arousing no small amount of enthusiasm. The candidates come from the lodges of Pawnee, Auburn, Mechanics- burg, Ashland, Pleasant Plains, Sher­ man, Rochester, Williamsville, Tir» den, Fancy, Prairie, Girard, Dlvernon and Springfield. . a WS&EhbX j-------- "What is your opinion ot tbe "ankle rlew' skirt?" "1 think it ought to bo locked lata," Odd Fellows Hold Meeting. The fifth annual meeting of the Centra1 Illinois Odd Fellows' associa­ tion, comprising the counties of Mor­ gan, Greene, Schuyler, Cass, Pike. Scott, Fulton and Jersey, was held In Jacksonville. Over 600 delegates were in attendance. The program was as follows: Address of welcome--Francis E. Baldwin Response--W. A. Hubbard, deputy grand master. Vocal solo--Miss Hartman, Woman's college. Meeting of 8tats Teachers. With 300 teachers in the city the fourth annual convention of the Mili­ tary Tract Educational association held its first meeting in Peoria in the city hall. Teachers from 19 counties surrounding Peoria and the Military Tract Normal school at Macomb at­ tended the opening session. County Judge Stone, who presided over the Peoria Juvenile coiift7~an MFs. ivrnrs, truant officer, addressed the assembly on the problem of keeping "black sheep" children In school. Mine Safety Demonstration. The Illinois mine rescue stations will be represented by a team of six miners at the National Mine Safety demonstration to be held at Pittsburg, Pa., on October 30 and 31, under the auspices of the federal bureau of mines. The Benton station will be represented by Messrs J. C. Duncan and James Towal; the La Salle station by Messrs. Alexander Jones and Thom­ as Rogers; the Springfield station Malcolm (^Jummings and Thomas Law- Icoo. These Si£Ix --III G-ppSoLr AO Aiiou aid and helmet work events with tbe federal men and the trained corps from the anthracite region. Illinois bears the proud distinction of being the first and only state to pro­ vide rescue stations and rescue cars for her mining population. The mine rescue car from Benton will be taken to Pittsburg and will ^divide attention with the federal car that will be on exhibit there. ache, head ache--whole bony ache? Patnw or twitwjLins In groins or limbs? Miisoiew sore, render, inflamed? Difficulty tn retain­ ing urine? 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Even the residents of the toWn could not realize what it meant until the lake formed by the Hatfield dam was dry, and the rush of waters had passed on to tbe Mississippi. £u*t out of reach of >the flood tho business men and residents of tho place watched the waters carry away the buildings that represented tho homes of business enterprises which ltvhad taken years of effort to build. Among the larger industries seemingly wiped out within a few minutes was the plant of Coles Carbollsalve. This plant, along with others that suffered a like fate, is today being rebuilt, and the business men of Black River Falls promise that a better town shall re­ place the one destroyed by the raging floods, and that just as rapidly as men and material can put It together. It is catastrophies like the breaking of tho Hatfield dam that demonstrate tho American spirit. Over Million to Raise In State. At the conference of the district superintendents of the Illinois district of the Methodist church at Springfield resolutions were adopted declaring their approval and Insuring their as­ sistance In the movement to raise one million and a quarter dollars in the next five years for the advancement in the educational Institutions which are conducted under the auspices of the church. The movement to raise the money started at Bloomington in July at a conference called together bj the heads oi the different schools. The movement was further endorsed at the Central Illinois conference at Champaign several weeks ago. • Sends Anti-Toxin to Jacksonville. Secretary Egan of the state board of health ordered sent to the school for the deaf at Jacksonville sufficient 'anti-toxin to immunise sixty children who are In one of the cottages in which a case Of diphtheria haa de­ veloped. Investigation of the case through an analysis at the state labora­ tory resulted in the finding that it was diphtheria. It is believed the anti­ toxin will be sufficient to ward off further spread of the disease In the cottage In which the child is af­ fected. Party Plan Voted Down. Springfield.--The Illinois State Fed­ eration of Labor expressed itself against forming a strictly labor polit­ ical party. The result of the referen­ dum vote taken by 70 locals an­ nounced showed 1,795 for and 3,154 against the plan. E. R. Wright, presi­ dent of the federation, in his report, recommended fOr1 the consideration of the 'delegates a workingman'S com­ pensation uiirr a ttaUility iuw. an occU-]" pfttional disease law, an old-age Pension and indorsement of the initio* ttvo and the referendum. ALMOST CRAZY WITH ECZEMA "I, the undersigned, cannot give enough praise to the Cuticura Rem­ edies. I had been doctoring for at least a year for eczema on my foot. I had triwl doctor after doctor all to no avail. When a young girl I sprained my ankle three different times, paying little or no attention to it, when five years ago a small spot showed upon my left ankle. I was worried and sent for a doctor. He said it was eczema. He drew a small bone frq^a the ankle about the size of a match and about an inch long. The small hole grew to about the size of an apple, and tho eczema spread to the knee. The doc­ tors never could heal the hole in tho ankle. The whole foot ran water all the time. "My husband and my sons were up night and day wheeling me from one room to another in the hope of giving me some relief. I would sit for hours at a time in front of the fireplace hoping for daybreak. The pain was so intense I was almost crazy, in fact, I mOulu luna iay reason for hours »i. a time. One day a friend of mine dropped in to see me. No more had she glanced at my foot than she ex­ claimed: 'Mrs. Finnegan, why in tho world don't you try the Cuticura Rem­ edies!' Being disgusted with the doo- tors and their medicines, and not be­ ing able to sleep at all, I decided to give the Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment a trial. After using them three days that night I slept as sound as a silver dollar for eight long hours. I awoke in the morning with but very little pain, in fact, I thought I was in heaven. After using the Cuticura Remedies for three ninths I was per­ fectly restored to health, thanks to the Cuticura Soap and Ointment. I will be sixty-four years of age my next birthday, hale and hearty at pres­ ent." (Signed) Mrs. Julia Finnegan. 2234 Hebert St., St. Louis, Mo., Mar. 7, 1911. Although Cuticura Soap and Ointment are sold by druggists and dealers everywhere, a sample of each, with 32-page book, will be mailed free on application Dept. 12 K,\ Boston. to "Cuticura," Oanlel Fahrenheit. In view of the abnormal weather which we have had this summer we think a tribute of respect Bhould b« paid to the memory of Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, who was born on Septem' ber 16. either in 1736 or 1740. it la hard to say #hlch. Before his day sev­ eral attempts had been made to meas­ ure the heat level, not the heat, by tubes containing oil of spirits of wine, but it lay with a bankrupt merchant of Dantzlg to show how the feat ooulO be successfully accomplished. The first thermometers were mado with spirits of wine; but the ingeni­ ous Gabriel soon adopted mercury a« his medium, and so it has remained to this day. His instruments speedily became known throughout the world, and though a more rational method of graduation has since been adopted, tho popular mind still clings to the Fah­ renheit scale. Our own Royal society thought highly of this humble inven­ tor and acknowledged his genius by making him one of its fellows. To tho "Transactions" of the society he con* tributed several papers.--Pall Malt Gazette. than your neighbor's?** "No," replied Mr. Chugglns. "But . my danger signal makes a rauch disagreeable noise thai MK*