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Is . ar­ rested and brought before the governor. t„«dy Ellse has Sanches set free. Seig­ neur and a priest at the "Cockles." Sao- rhez tells Desaurac that Lady EHse be­ trayed him. but Is not believed. The Seigneur plans to release prisoners at the Mount. Lady Ellse pleads with her fath­ er to spare the lives of condemned pris­ oners. Disguised as a peasant Lady fellse mingles with the people and hears tome startling facts. A mysterious Mountebank starts a riot. He is arrested and locked up after making close obser-t vations of the citadel, and is afterwards summoned before the governor's daugh­ ter. The governor enters the room during the interview with the Mountebank. As a miserable buffoon, the Mountebank Is re­ leased by order of the governor. De­ saurac overpowers guard and dons sol­ dier's uniform. The Seigneur successfully guards and finds the "Great passes | Wheel." CHAPTER XXI. - Sr- ife,' V * ' •IR-ii' SVV:' 3'i •X ' ~ . fi • •'V - •. • m W^PWf:) Wi:,; m~ - W&: , |p::' m•• The Stairway of Silver. The stillness of the moment that followed was tense; then thickly the young man answered something ir­ relevant about a clown, a bottle and a loaf; with cap drawn down and half- averted face, he lurched a little for­ ward in the darkness, and the senti­ nel's weapon fell. "Oh, that's you, is It, Henri?" he said In a different tone, stepping back. "How did you leave the fellow?" "Elating the bread and calling for more!" As he spoke, the other stopped, swaying uncertainly; above the arch, the wick, ill-trimmed, bright­ ened and darkened to the drafts of air through break and slit of the old lamp; and briefly he awaited a favor­ able moment, when the flame blew out until almost extinguished; then wi^th hand near sword-hilt, somewhat over- brlskly, but in keeping with the part, he stepped toward the arch; through It, and quickly past the sentinel. "You seem to have been feasting and drinking a little yourself, tonight, comrade?" called out the latter after him. "I noticed it when you went in, •and-- But aren't yon taking the I wrong way?" As the other, after start­ ling toward the barracks, straightened, &nd then abruptly wheeled into the road, running up the Mount. "Bah!" A moment the yong man passed. "Can't a soldier," articulating : with difficulty, "go to see his sweet­ heart without--" ) "Eh bien!" The sentinel shrugged ' his shoulders. "It isn't my business. I think, though, I know where they'll put you tomorrow, when they find out /through the guard at the barracks." ?• To this ominous threat the other 'deigned no response, only, after the : J fashion of a man headstrong in inso­ briety, as well as in affairs of gal­ lantry, continued his upward way; at first, speedily; afterward, when be­ yond hearing of the man below, with more stealth and as little noise as pos­ sible, until the road, taking a sudden angle, brought him abruptly to an open space at the foot of a great flight of stone staiit. Broad, wide, broken by occasional platforms, these steps, reaching up­ ward in gradual ascent, had designed­ ly, in days gone by, been made easy for broken-down monarchB or corpu­ lent abbots. Also they had been planned to satisfy the discerning eye, jealous of every addition or alteration at the Mount My lord, the ancient potentate, leisurely ascending in ec­ clesiastical gown, while conscious of an earthly power reaching even into England, could still fancy he was go­ ing up a Jacob's ladder into realms su­ pernal. Saint Louis, with gaze be­ nignly bent toward the aerial escalier de dentelle of the chapel to the left, might well exclaim no royal road could compare with this inspiring and holy way; nor is it difficult to understand a sudden enchantment here, or be­ yond, that drew to the rock on three pilgrimages that other Louis, more sin­ ner than saint, the eleventh of his name to mount the throne of France. But those stones, worn in the past by the footsteps of the illustrious and the lowly, were deserted now, and', for the moment, only the moon, which had escaped from the doud, exercised there the right of way; looking square­ ly down to efface time's marks and pave with silver from top to bottom the flight of stairs. It played, too, on facades, towers and battlements on either side, and, at the spectacle--the disk directly before him--the Black Seigneur, about to leave the dark and sheltering byway, involuntarily paused. Angels might walk unseen up and down in that effulgence, as, indeed, the old monks stoutly averred was their habit; but a mortal intrusion on the argent way could be fraught only visibility. reach the point he had In mind, ever, no choice remained; the steps had to be mounted, and, lower- ing his head and looking down, delib­ erately he started. As he proceeded his solitary figure seemed to become more distinct; his presence more ob­ trusive and his echoing footsteps to resound louder. No indication he had been seen or heard, however, reached him; to all appearances espionage of his movements was wanting, and only the saint with the sword at the top of the steeple--guardian spirit of the rock--looked down, as if holding high a gleaming warning of that unwonted Intrusion. Yet, though he knew It not, mortal eye had long been on him, peering from a window of the abbot's bridge •panning the way and joining certain long unused chambers, next to the Governor's palace, with my lady's abode. Against the somber background of that covered passage of granite, the face looking out would still have re­ mained unseen, even had the young man, drawing near, lifted his glance. This, however, he did not do; his eyes, with the pale reflections dancing in them, had suddenly fastened them­ selves lower; toward another person, not far beyond the bridge; some one who had turned in from a passage on the other side of the overhead archi­ tectural link, and had just begun to come down. An old man, with flow^ ing beard, from afar the new-comer looked not unlike one of the ancient Druids that, in days gone by, had lighted and watched the sacred fires of sacrifice in the rock. He, too guard­ ed his light; but one set in the tall, pewter lamp of the medieval watch­ man. "Twelve o'clock and all's--" he be­ gan when his glance, sweeping down, caught sight of the ascending figure, and, pausing, he leaned on his stall with one hand and shaded his ayes with the other. A half-savage exclamation of disap­ pointment was suppressed on the young man's lips; had he only been able to attain that parallelogram of darkness, beneath the abbot's passage, he would have been better satisfied, his own eyes; looking ahead, seemed to say; then gleamed with a bolder light. "A sword and blade A drab and a jade; All's <^ne to the King's men of the amy!" he began to hum softly, as with a more reckless swing, quickly he went up in the manner of a man assigned some easy errand. At the same time: the patriarch slowly and rather labori­ ously resumed his descent, and just below the bridge, without the bar of shadow, the two came together. "Think you it Is too late for his Ex­ cellency, the Governor, to receive a message?" at onoe spoke up the young­ er, breaking off in that dashing, but low-murmured, song of the barracks^ "That you may learn from the guard at the palace," was the deliberate an­ swer, as, raising his lamp, the watch­ man held it full in his questioner's face. Thanks! I was going to inquire." As he answered, at the old abbot's' window in the bridge above, the face, looking out, bent forward more in­ tently; then quickly drew back. "Good night!" But the venerable guardian of the inner precinct was not disposed thus lightly to part company. "I don't seem to know you, young man," he observed, the watery, but keen »*-1 critical eyes passing deliberately over the other's features. "No?" Unflinching In the bright glare of the lamp, the seeming soldier smiled. "Do you, then, know all at the Mount--even the soldiers?" "I should remember even them," was the quiet reply. "Those, too, but lately brought from St. Dalard ?" "True, true! There may be some of those--" uncertainly. " "No doubt! So if you will lower y6ur lamp, wjilch smells rather vile­ ly--" "From the miscreants it has smelled out," answered the old man grimly, but obeyed; stood as if engrossed in the recollection his own response evoked; then turned; walked on, and. ly remembered, .rang, belated, in the drowsy air: "Twelve o'clock and all's well! A new day, and St. guard us all!" A sword and a blade; A drab and a The wotids, scarcely begun, breath, died away on the seeming sol­ dier's lips, as the watcher on the bridge, looking down to follow first the departing figure of the old custo­ dian, crossed quickly to the opposite window, and, from this point of vant­ age, gaaed up after the young man rapidly vanishing in the track of the moonlight. A moment the onlooker stood motionless; then, ere the figure, so vividly defined in shine and shim­ mer, had reached the top of the stair­ way, made an abrupt movement and swiftly left the window and the At the bead of the without further in tion, he reached, the stepping to the shadow which or interrup- Seignenr, of a small bush against the wall, glanced about him; with knit brows and the resolute manner of one who has come to some definite conclusion, he left the spot of observation, almost the apex of the Mount, and plunged diverging to the right. From gltat and glimmer to dark­ ness unfathomable! For some time he could only grope and feel his way, after the fashion of the blind; fortu­ nately, however, was the path narrow; although tortuous, fairly well paved, and no serious mishap, befell him, even when he walked forward regard- lessly, in feverish haste, beset with the conviction that time meant all in all, and delay the closing of the tolls and the failure of a desperate adven­ ture. Several times he struck against the stones; once fell hard, but picked himself up; went on the faster, only, after what seemed an interminable period, to stop. "Am I, can I be mistaken?" But the single star he could see plainest from the bottom of the deep alley,'and to which he looked up, an­ swered not the fierce, half-muttered question; coldly, enigmatically it twin­ kled, and, half-running, he continued his way, to emerge over-suddenly Into a cooler well of air, and--what was more to be welcomed!--an outlook whereoMhe details were in a measure dimly shadowed forth. On one $ide the low wall obscured not the panorama below--a ghost-like earth fading into the mist, and near­ er, the roof of the auberge des voleurs, a darkened patch on the slope of the rock; but in this direction the man hardly cast a glance. Certain build­ ings ahead, austere, Norman in out- t wall. At ones the young man pat out his hand to the door; tried it; pushed it back and entered. Before him a wide opening looked out at the fcky, framing a multitude of stars, and from the bottom of this aperture ran a strand, or rope, necting with an indistinct object grea^ .w^el, which stood at one side . * '-CHAPTER XXII. The Whirling of the Wheel. As old as church or cloister, th* massive wheel pt the Mount had. in the past, played prominent part in the affairs of succeeding communities on the rock. It, or the hempen strand It controlled, had primarily served as a link between the sequestered dwellers, and the flesh-pots and material com­ forts of the lower world. Through its use had my lord, the abbot, been ever enabled to keep full the mighty wine- butts of his cellars; to provide good cheer for the tables of the brethren, and to brighten his cold stone interiors with the fresh greens of Flemish tap­ estry, or the sensuous hues of rugs and fabrics from seraglio or mosque. Times less ancient had likewise claimed its services, and even in re­ cent years, by direction of his Excel­ lency, the Governor, had it occasional- ly been used for the hoisting of goods, wares, or giant casks, overcumber- some for men or mules. Toward this simple monkish con­ trivance, the summit's rough lift, or elevator, wherein serfs or henchmen had walked like squirrels in a cage to bring solace to generations of Isolated dwellers, the Black Seigneur had at first stepped impetuously; then stopped, hardly breathing, to look over his shoulder at the door that had been left unfastened. An involuntary ques­ tion flashing through his brain--the cause of this seeming ^carelessness-- found almost immediate answer in his mind, and the certainty that he stood not there alone--a consciousness of snme one else, near, became abruptly confirmed. "What are you doing, soldier?" A voice, rough, snarling, drew swiftly his glance toward a presenoe, intuitively divined; an undersized, grotesque fig­ ure that had entered the place but a few moments before and now appeared from behind boxes and casks where he had been about to retire to his mattress in a corner. "What do you want?" repeated this person, the anger and viciousness on his distorted features, revealed in the moonlight from the large opening, like that of some animal unwarrantedly disturbed. "You, landlord of the thieves' Inn!" And inaction giving way to movement known agility of his kind, he scratched, kicked and had managed to get the other's hand in his mouth, when, mak­ ing an effort to throw off that clinging burden, the Black Seigneur dashed the dwarf's head violently against the wooden support of the place. At onoe all belligerency left the hunchback, I and, releasing his hold, he sank to the ground. An Instant the intruder regarded the inert form; then, going to the latched and locked It with a key found Inside. Having thus in a m< ure secured himself from Immediate interruption without--for anyone try­ ing the door would conclude the wheel- room vacant, or that the dwarf slept there or in the store-house beyond-- the Black Seigneur walked to the ap­ erture, and reaching up, began to pay out the rope from a pulley above, he did so, with feet braced, he 1 over to follow in its descent a small cfcr along the almost perpendicular planking from the mouth of the wheel- room to the npeks, several hundred feet below. A sudden slackening of the rope- assurance that the car, at the end of the line, had reached the loading- spot below without the fortifications--- and the. young man Straightened; in an attitude of attention, stood listen­ ing. But the BtillD«83, impregnated only with a faint underbreath, the faraway murmur of water, or the Just audible droning of Insects near the fig- trees on the rocks, continued un­ broken. An impatient frown gathered on his brow; more eagerly he bent for­ ward to gaze down, when through the air a distant sound--the low, melan­ choly hoot of an owl--was wafted up­ ward. Upon him at the aperture, this night- call, eommon to the Mount and its en­ virons, acted In magical manner, fend 8wiftlyt had he stepped toward th^ wheel,'when an object, intervening, stirred; started to stagger to its feet. At once was the young man's first Im­ pelling movement arrested; but, thus forcibly drawn from his purpose, he did not long pause to contemplate; his hand, drawing the soldier's sword, held it quickly at the hunchback's throat. "A sound, and you know what to ex­ pect!" With the bare point at his flesh, Jacques, dully hearing, vaguely com­ prehending, could. Indeed, guess and the fingers he had involuntarily raised to push the bright blade aside, fell, while at the same time any desire to attempt to call out, or arouse the guard, was replaoed by an entirely dif­ ferent emotion in his aching brain. Never before had he actually felt that sharp touch--the prelude to the final thrust. At the'sting of it, a tremor ran through him, while cowardice, his besetting quality, long covered by growl and egotism in his strength and hideousness to terrify, alone shone from his unprepossessing yellow fea­ tures. "You were brave enough with the soldiers at your beck!" went on a de­ termined voice whose Ironical accents In no wise served to alleviate his panic. "When you had only a mounte­ bank to deal with! But get up!" con­ temptuously. "And," as the hunch­ back obeyed, his crooked legs shaking in the support of his misshapen frame, "into the wheel with you!" "The wheel!" stammered the dwarf. "Why--what--" "To take a little of your own medi­ cine! Pardi! What a voluble fellow! .In with you, or--" With no more words the hunchback, staggering, hardly knowing what he did, entered the ancient abbot's ma­ chine for hoisting. But as he started to walk in the great wheel at the Bide of his captor, a picture of the past-- the times he, himself, had forced pris­ oners to the wheel, stimulating with jeer and whip--arose mockingly be­ fore him, and the incongruous present Beemed, in contrast, like a black wak­ ing dream. That it was no dream, however, and that the awakening would never oc­ cur, be well knew, and malevolently though fearfully he eyed the rope, com­ ing in over the pulley at the aperture; to be wound around and around by a smaller wheel, attached to the larger, and--drawing up what? An inkling of the sort of merchan­ dise to be expected, under the circum­ stances, could but flash through his mind, together with a more vivid con­ sciousness of the only course open for him--to cry out, regardless of conse­ quences! Perhaps he might even have done so, but at that Instant--as if the other had read the thought--came the cold touch of a bare blade on his neck; and with a sudden chill, the brief heroic Impulse passed. (TO BE CONTINUED.) "Twelve O'clock, and AH'e--J* line, absorbed his attention to • the ex­ clusion of all else, and toward them, with steps now alert and noiseless, he stole; past a structure that seemed a small salle des gardes whose window afforded a view of four men nodding at a table within; across a space to another passage, and thence to a low door at the far corner of a little tri­ angular spot, alongside the walk and Oil Power on the Ocean * g,.'. it'iv SW-KS w • W R R". Kv,i. V dueeess of Internal Combustion En- dine May Cause Revolution In Shipping Industry. ^ great revolution in the shipping Industry probably unequaled in any, period of its history, was predicted 111 a recent interview in London by •lr Marcus 8amuel, head of the Shell Trading and Transport company, ow­ ing to the sucoess of the internal com­ bustion engine ae a motive power for vessels. "It insures." he said, "a saving in cost and a great saving of space, weight and crew. Cleanliness would be increased and also the comfort of passengers. It would insure safety fvpm boiler explosions and spontane­ ous comljmstion and many other ad­ vantages "Those who argtie about the to- creased cost of oil do not understand. Ton must rememb«r that one ton of te few teas el coat art that the larger power internal combns- tion engine makes for greater economy In using oil. I think It is a great pity the United States, with Its Immense oil resources, is not taking a more ac­ tive part in the development of the internal combustion marine engine and that the largest oil company has not done more to encourage the trade. "As an Instance, this oil company went to Roumanla, but from one point of view It was singularly unsuccessful. The production after some years' working reached an average of about fifteen thousand tons a month. We went there years later and our pro­ duction is 50,000 tons a month. I have always maintained that the oil supply of the world is more likely to be met In the Borneo fields than in any oth­ er. There we have unlimited supplies, so the question of prohibitive cost need not enter into the reckonings of the maintenance of motor driven ves- aala.w : "Solid Gold." Commercially speaking, the 1ttm "solid gold" Is a misnomer, sinoe such gold has not been used for many( inany years. Some of the ancient Ro* man jewelry and some of that of the Renaissance period was, Indeed, made of pure gold, worked up by hand with the crudest of tools, but since the old days there has been a constantly In* creasing employment of alloys, for the reason that Jewelers found that the harder the gold was rendered by good alloys the greater Its wearing quail- ties and the more secure, therefore, was the setting of the gems It con­ tained. Nowadays Jewelry is of 18. 14 or 10 carats, according to the de­ sign aiid character of the article, and it is much more frequently 10 than 18 carats. on the intruder's part, a knife that had flashed back In the han£ of the hunch­ back, with his query, was swiftly twisted from him and kicked aside, while a scream of mingled pain and rage became abruptly suppressed. Struggling and writhing like a wild­ cat, Jacques proved no mean antagon­ ist; with a strength incredible for one of his site, supplemented by the well- Kinder Skittish. A good old mammy of ante-bellum days went Into a shoe store and asked for "a pair of ever'day shoes--small tens." The clerk selected a pair of men's heavy plow shoes for her and she seated herself to try them on. The clerk regained standing In front of her. She glanced up and asked: "Honey, is you all gwlne to Stan' dere while I tries 'em on?" The clerk answered: "Why, no, auntie; I'll move on if you wish it" She said: "Please do, honey, 'cause I'se white folks raised and I*ae kinder skittish."--Chicago Post It Happened in Picadilly ;vv;v' Muoh Longer.' Mm iBse (with newspaper) --Warn't an Interesting list of thlrigs a penny will do. It is nearly halt a column long. Mr. .Kae-^Humphl You ought to isee a list of the things a peaaty woa't Anecdote of Lady Constance Stewart Richardson and the Awkward - Yeung Man. Ttefly Constance Stewart Rlehard- son, the beautiful young woman who danced over here some time ago, has offended Queeu Mary," said a Wash­ ington diplomat's wife. "She actually told the queen to stand out of tils light at a picture exhibition. "Lady Constance, you know, is capa­ ble of anything. They are telling an anecdote about her at the Bath club. "She was walking in Picadilly the other day--so the anecdote a young man attempted to on the right, when sh< that way. The young man tjh< to the left, and Lady Constance did the same. And there they stood for a minute or more, overcome by that ridiculous something which makes two people, face to face on a wtda side­ walk, dodge simultaneously this way and that without being ablf fto each other by. "Lady Constance, after nine or ten of these awkward movements, smiled demurely and Bald: " 'Well, I'm sure, if you want to dance, I don't mind--but what's It to be, the turkey trot or thf b e a r ? " -- W a s h i n g t o n S t a r . i C J l j Logical Reasoning, Thelma Smith, a little east side girl, h^s heard a great deal about the dan* ger of contracting disease from hand­ ling articles belonging to others. She has been taught thut she must not use the brushes and combs ot other members of the faml!y. On one occasion the little tot was found industriously lathering her fact with her father's shaving brush. She was duly reprimanded and told that she should know better. "What will I PLAN CELEBRATION fOR SPRINGFIELD One Hundredth Anniversary of v jldmission to Statehood. : ̂ : _________ WILL BE HELD DURING 1918 8peaker William McKlnley Appoints : iC<H$mi8sions--^Reviews ths Work ; it the Forty-Eighth QefeK eral Assembly. Springfield.--The celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the ad­ mission of Illinois/to statehood will be held in Springfield in 1918. This will be the most pretentious ever held by the state. Speaker William McKinley an­ nounced his appointments to the three commissions created by the re­ cent general assembly, of which the house members had not yet been named. The four houss members of the joint commission created to investi­ gate state boards, bureaus and depart­ ments with a view to consolidating those whose duties overlap or' that could oe more economically adminis­ tered under consolidation are Repre­ sentatives Rapp, Clyne and McKinley, Democrats, and Smejkal, Republican. The five house members of the joint commission to arrange for the celebration of the one hundredth an­ niversary of the admission of Illinois to the Union are Representatives Mor­ ris, Huston and Burns, Democrats, and Pervier and Baker, Republicans. The house members of the joint committee to Investigate home finding Institutions of the state- are Thomas Curran, Republican; Henry A. Shep- hard, Democrat; F. E. J. Lloyd, Pro­ gressive; Michael Fahy, Democrat, and Dr. William F. Burres, Republi­ can. Speaker McKinley gave out a state­ ment in the afternoon reviewing the work of the Forty-eighth general as­ sembly. He declares It will go into history as the most progressive leg­ islature Illinois has had in many years, and gave a list of the praise­ worthy measures that passed the- house In substitution of this state" ment. In conclusion he says: "I submit that thlB is a program that carries Illinois into the list of progressive states of the Union. We should not be too hasty to criticise our legislature. Rather we should praise it for the things it was asked to do and did not do. Many things It was aBked to do and did not do. Many things it left undone that should have been done, but many "more things It left undone that should have been left undone. "The house of representatives has been criticised 'for its tardiness of ac­ tion, and part of the blame Is based on the late appointment of commit­ tees. Before and aft®1" my election as speaker I favored the appointment of committees by the house itself. I still think the house should have appointed its own committees. "The most active of the house com­ mittees, like the appropriations and judiciary committees, were appointed as early as could be expected. Com­ paratively few of the important com­ mittees were appointed late. I used what care I was capable of In select­ ing committees. I sized up the men in the house, few of whom, I previ­ ously had known, as quickly as 1 could. And I defy anybody to say that any committee was 'packed' for the purpose of stifling any legislation." Uniform Rate Is Ordered. The state railroad and warehouse commission in a special order estab­ lished a freight charge rule in Illinois which is the first of Its kind In the Btate, under the commission's extend­ ed powers, and probably the first of its kind in any state. The rule provides that railroads operating between the same points must charge for through hauls a rate equivalent to that which the road having the shortest haul, or line, would charge. In other words, the freight charge on roads operating be­ tween any two points in the etate must be fixed by the railroads themselves to concur with the rate fixed by the road having the shortest haul. The rule is made in accordance with the long and short haul clause of the extended statute. Numerous hearings have been held on the subject, and railroads generally, it is said, have agreed that tjie plan is as equitable as any that can be devised. Chairman Orville F. Bej^ry of the commission in connection with the or­ der issued a statement in behalf of the commission. The case in which the specific question was raised was that of the Santa Fe company et al ex parte. One feature of the ruling is that, though the through haul rates of con­ current roads may be made the samet the intermediate rates of the same roads, to intermediate points, are not affected. s Headquarters to Camp Lincoln. Oeneral headquarters of th® Illinois National Guard were moved from the Btate capitol to Camp Lincoln. Brigadier General Frank S. Dickson, the adjutant general and chief of staff; Col. Richings J. Shand, adjutant gen­ eral; and Col. Stephen O. Tripp, as­ sistant quartermaster general, are among those who have taken up per­ manent quarters at the camp. They will remain until September 7, when the encampjnent will be brought to an end. The Hirst regiment to oome Into camp was the Fiwt Infantry of Chlcar go. It will be followed successively by various Infantry regiments, each of whom will remain for one week, until all infantry has been at the camp. The dates on which the remaining regiments will be in camp are: Sec­ ond infantry--July IS to July 20. Sev­ enth infantry, and field hospital--July 20 to July 27. Sixth infantry--July 2? to August 3. Fifth infantry, and en­ gineer company--August 8 to August 10. Third infantry--August 10 to Au­ gust 17. Fourth lafantry-n*Aagust 11 infant Mortality Rate High. Springfield.--If the people of IUlncle phould' learn in July that a second "General Slocum" disaster had oe*. curred in East river, that during Au­ gust in each of three mines in Illinois the horrors of the CheVry mine ter had been re-enacted, that, September an Iroquois theater caust had again prostrated and another Colllnwood school horror had been repeated In Ohio, they--the people--would be awe stricken and ap­ palled. Our immeasurable sympathiM would rightly be offered and the brains of the thinking public would, work overtime to the end of safeguard' , ing against such waste of life in tlgjp>> ' future. , But to read the official reports of the state board of health of 644 dfeaths of Illinois babies from "cholera infantum** July, 769 in August aAd 729 during September, the cold facts would be .. Wo generally accepted without emo- , tlons as a mysterious dispensation of Divine Providence. $ During the three hot months of 191& • there were reported to the board ot- health 2,143 deaths from the above mentioned cause, while 2,500 would he according to Dr. T- H. D. Grifflt.ta, state registrar of vital stastictlcB, the figures representing these proventabie deaths that actually occurred. Man^ are never reported. The combined fatalities from the General Slocum, the Cherry mine, the Iroquois theater and the Colllnwood school would not nesf* ly equal the toll taken by the prevent* able diseases of infants in Illinois from June to September. In other words, history repeating it­ self in this state during the next three- months, there will be a needless waste of infant life In numbers much greater than the deaths in the Titanic disaster, and seven times more than the total killed in the American army during the Spanish-American war. And, ac­ cording to the best authorities, 60 p«r cent nf these deaths are absolutely preventable. The question, then,, which naturally arises is: "If these deaths are pre­ ventable, why do they occur?" Ignor­ ance, neglect, superstition and poverty are known causative factors. Pure, clean food and proper feeding are nec­ essary for the Infant. Statistics prove that one baby fed at the breast diea to every ten artificially fed. The child must n$t unjustly be deprived of this heriditary right, and if the baby cai*» not get this "square deal" the mother should know the proper substitutes. Pure, clean and fresh cow's milk is an absolute necessity to conserve the health of Infants not getting breast feeding. The greatest care must be observed in the handling of milk from the cow to the consumer. This is a serious problem with all cities and even the smaller communities. Neg­ lect anywhere along the line--In milk* ing, shipping, with the dealer and at t^ie home--will render milk unfit for infant food. Every mother should know that she is "minding her owa business" when Bhe does everything possible to find out whether or not her milkman is furnishing the cleanest milk on the market. , - She should accept no other. Next to pure, clean food, regular and careful feeding, come Cool dressing of the child for hot days and cool refreshing "fresh air sleep" for the little ones. Don't get cross yourself because baby Is. Many times a cool drink <sf pure water or breaths of fresh air is what the Infant is trying to call for. The cardinal principles are, clean, food forj the stomach, "fresh" cool air for the lungs and skin; cool, clean clothes and close communion with the family physician. It should be remembered that the mere business of being a baby In an extra-hazardous occupation. The has- ards are great during this heated sea- -on. The sane vocation is the humane dedication of the next three months to the welfare of the babies. i to .% VJ , V Fire Marshal Issues Bulletins. I In special bulletins issued Assistant State Fire Marshal F. R. Morgarldge calls attention to two new laws in Illinois, which became effective July 1. One is the act providing that the word "gasoline" shall be printed in letters of not less than half-Inch in height on all gasoline receptacles, the 'receptacles to be painted red. A fine of not less than $10 is provided for violations of the law. j Bulletin No. 18 calls attention to the law passed at the recent session of the legislature which makes it a misdemeanor to sell, trade or give away a toy pistol so constructed that it can be used to shoot blank cart­ ridges. The penalty Is a fine of not less than $6 or more than $25. Nashville Man Is Appointed. The state board of administration appointed Dr. R. A. 4ioodnow of Ma A*' vllle to the position of superintendent of the Anna State hospital, to succeed Dr. W. L. Athon of Marshall, who re­ signed. The superintendence pays $3,000 a year and household expenses. Dr. Goodnow was assistant superln* tendent of the Anna hospital during the Altgeld administration. He v!M be Installed as head of the Institution July 16. •tats Corporations. Universal Nonreflllabie Bottle com­ pany, Chicago; capital, $5,000. Incor­ porators--Walter Stattmann, A, H. Aylesworth, Willis Melville. Kreider-Cushman, Chicago; capital, - $100,000. Incorporators--A. S. Kr# * der, H. Cushman, D. Robert Krelder. ' • Boston Baking company, Chicago; capital, $2,500. Incorporators--O. B. Peters, J6hn E. Graham. Charles W. Lamborn. S Celerine company, Peoria; capita^ ^: $1,000. Incorporators--Benjamin Q. Koch. H. J. True. J. E. Gerber. Illinois Candy company, Decatur; capital, $10,000. Incorporators--WI1» liam E. Taylor, George Van Tuylsw Walter H. Mills. Champaign Mattress company, . . Champaign; capital, $10,060. Incq*,/. porators--J. W. Walt, Louis Jacobs. S. Weeks. ; - Domestic Laundry Company or Kanv ~T kakee, Kankakee; capital, $45,000. lie corporators--A. Eugene Andersoa, , , . William R. Lewis, Camille Blain. J " Carlyle Furniture and Undertaking pany, Carlyle; capital, $2,600. Incoi^ , B. Zierren, A. .-Kails* ^ Hugh Marram J &