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CLEANLINESS A GREAT 
WEAPON AGAINST DISEASE 
GREAT things have small begin- 
nings. A spectacle maker, Jan 
Leippersheim by name, living in Hol- 
land, invented a crude magnifying 
glass in 1608. Anton von Leuwen- 
hoek, born in Delft, this day 1632, 
improved this clumsy toy and evolved 
a compound microscope which has 
become the most valuable sanitary 
tool yet devised by man. That first 
microscope was as far removed from 
the high-powered instrument of today 
as is the modern American from the 
original caveman. Yet by this faulty 
means, Leuwenhoek, naturalist, phy- 
sician and botanist, discovered certain 
minute bodies which he called “little 
animals.’”’ He made drawings of these 
and today we know them for those 
useful friends and malignant enemies 
of man—bacteria. 
We spend our days surrounded by 
another world, a living world of 
countless billions, invisible to the 
naked eye, silent, tireless, destroying 
the living, consuming the dead, useful 
in the sciences and arts, yet often 
followed by a train of sickness, suf- 
fering and death. A curious paradox 
this, yet bacteria are at once the 
greatest friends and the fiercest foes 
of every living thing. Not animals, 
as Leuwenhoek thought, but vege- 
tables, bacteria consist of two classes, 
would have produced if living. 
those which prey on living things and 
those which reduce to their original 
minerals, fluids and gases, every dead 
thing which they attack. They are 
of various shapes, round like marbles 
or straight like sticks, They grow in 
clusters, chains, and in pairs. They 
are ubiquitious. The dusty air, the 
earth and its waters, the interior of 
animals and plants all contain them. 
They cause the fermentation of 
foods, they make cheese, they produce 
disease and some of them when killed 
and injected into an animal protect it 
against the very disease which they 
Many 
of them live as harmless creatures in 
the body of an animal for years, only 
to kill their host when the oppor- 
tunity presents. Their study has 
given birth to a science, bacteriology, 
one of the foundation stones of pub- 
lic health. 
heir meré presences ‘doese not 
necessarily produce disease. Recall- 
ing the parable of the sower, some 
bacteria fall by the wayside, some fall 
upon stony places, and some fall in 
good ground and bring forth the fruit 
of suffering, perhaps of death. A 
normal, temperate life, free alike 
from the gluttony of idleness or over- 
work, the sound mind in the sound 
body, a cheerful, normal environ- 
ment, these form the stony places in 
which bacteria take no root. 
oP MCR et ee 
Oct. 29, 1915. 
MANCHESTER 
Edward Walsh of. Allen’s Drug 
store, is having a fortnight’s vacation ~ 
He plans a water — 
beginning today. 
trip to Norfolk, Va. 
Mr. and Mrs. Edw. W. Ayers have 
moved from their home on School st. 
to the family homestead, cor. Sum- 
mer and Lincoln streets. 
The state election will be held next 
Tuesday and for that purpose the 
polls will open (in Town hall) at 6 
a, m. and will close at 4.30 p. m. 
Inventories have been filed at Pro- 
bate court of the estates of Annie ©. 
Higginson of Manchester Cove (and 
Boston), $6897.32, and of Elizabeth 
T. Coughlin (Mrs. David), $244.61. 
An automobile struck the hand- 
some shepherd dog owned by Mrs. 
Thomas B. Macdonald, Summer 5t., 
last Sunday, injuring him to such an 
extent that Dr.-J> J-) Rierdanenad ta 
chloroform him. 
Mr. and Mrs. Benj. L. Allen have 
returned from Conomo, Essex, where 
they have spent the month of Octo- 
ber. 
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Lee plan to 
move to the John Babcock house on 
School st., from the Lee block where 
they have lived for 30 years. 
Members of the Manchester Wom- 
an’s club are asked to come to the 
meeting next Tuesday prepared io 
vote for a director to fill the vacancy 
caused by the resignation of Mrs. 
Geo, Dean, who has been such an 
efficient member of the board. The 
best wishes of the club go with her 
to her new home in Lexington. 
James Salter, formerly of Man- 
chester, now one of the instructors at 
the Essex County Agricultural School 
at Danvers, was one of the judges at 
the Flower Show of the Lenox Horti- - 
cultural society this week. He also 
spent a few days in that vicinity visit- 
ing friends in Stockbridge and Lenox. 
Mrs. Salter was a visitor in town 
Wednesday, renewing acquaintances. 
The thunder shower Wednesday 
night, at midnight, was one of: the 
sharpest and the thunder and light- 
ning most severe and vivid ever re- 
membered. It lasted only a few 
minutes, A bolt struck the cottage 
house of William Spry on Morse 
court causing some damage. ‘Tne 
house was filled with a smell of sul- 
phur, and a number of boards were 
ripped off the side of the house. Ail 
telephone lines on the street were put 
out of commission. The water pipe 
leading to the residence of John Silva 
was also broken. A large oak tree 
was struck at Smith’s Point. 
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