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14 THE MORNING OREGONIAN. FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1U03. WARDS OFF DISEASE Vaccination Only Weapon to Fight Smallpox With. HO KNOWN DRUG WILL AFFECT IT Record or the Cases at Shanlko and Prlnevllle Confirm the Csefnlness of Vaccine Vlrna Inoculation The Flame Is Abating. The latest reports from Prlnevllle and Shanlko received from the Mayor of Shamko and the City Physician of Prlne vllle. Dr. J. H. Rosenberg, to whose de votion more than that of almost any one man the checking of the epidemic In Prlnevllle Is to be credited, bear out fully the encouraging view of the situation held by the State Health Officer. Dr. Woods Hutchinson, ever since hla re turn. There have been no third-crop cases whatever at Shanlko. and the time has now practically expired within which new r-m would be likely to develop. The only new case there In ten days was that of a stage driver, wno grot nia imecuon In Prlnevllle and fell 111 at Shanlko. The epidemic may therefore practically tw considered at an end. At Prlnevllle the situation Is almost equally encouraging. No new cases have developed since those of Dr. Taggart and Mr. Dillon. Sr.. both of whom .were well known to have been exposed and were carefully watched. Dr. Taggart's case Is Droving very mild: Indeed, he has practically recovered, which fact will re joice those who know of his devoted serv ices. The other bravo volunteer, Percy Davis, has escaped the disease entirely. and his vaccination Is taking well. The two surviving cases of the second crop. Miss Claypool and little Miss Boyd, are out of danger and rapidly recovering. Of the third crop of cases only one Is at all serious, that of Clark Swing, the stage driver. Vaccination the Sole "Weapon. The sole weapon which has enabled the city and county authorities to success' fully cope with and limit the epidemic has been vaccination. Their work has been admirable from the start, and It was a pleasure to the State Health Offi cer to be so Intelligently and actively supported In the campaign against the disease. Bo many were tne willing worn era that It seems invidious to mention names, but It Is only fair that the people of the state should know the men to whom their thanks are really chiefly due. Too much in praise cannot be said of Mayor Hurl be rt, of Shanlko. Acting-Mayor Brink and Councilman Elklns, of Prlne vllle. All three of these men practically devoted their entire time and energy to grappling with the situation, and their success has been ncniy oeserreo. The Impression which seems to have gone abroad that either Bhaniko or nine- ville Is or has been quarantined by the authorities of the state or county is mistake. The only quarantines which have been declared at all are local ones on the part of the surrounding towns. These have been strongly discouraged by the state authorities on the ground that they were unnecessary and often mischievous In their action. In a number of instances towns and counties have taken the advice of the State Health Officer and agreed not to quarantine, and others which are now quarantined have agreed to raise the em bargo. The methods In which vaccina tion was used were two first, to miti gate as far as possible the type of the disease In those who were exposed to it. and second, by a diffusion throughout the whole community, to lessen the supply cf further material for the spread of the disease. Both of these measures were carried out with great promptness and care by the local authorities, only a few strangers who were exposed ' escaping without vaccination. Practically the en tire population of Shanlko and Frlne- vllle were 'vaccinated within a few days. Method Most Effective. As to the effectiveness of the method. let the facts speak for themselves. Of those who have contracted the disease 18 In number nine had never been vac cinated. In which class all the deaths oc curred. Not only was this so, but every unracclnated patient who contracted the disease either died or had a hard fight for his life, six out of the nine dying out right, while two of the surviving three will probably be pock-marked for life. The dead are Vaablnder, the original source of the Infection; Morgan and Baker, livery stable men at Shanlko Bond, the carpenter at Prlnevllle; young Dillon at Prlnevllle. and the young wo man who died In Chicago. Of the nine vaccinated persons, two had been vac cinated IS and 30 years ago, respectively. both of whom had sharp attacks, but were never In danger of their lives; two bad been vaccinated within five years, and had a fairly mild attack; four had been vaccinated within five or elx years and again after exposure, and they had the disease exceedingly mild, and one. the stage driver, Sumner, who was not vaccinated until after exposure, had light form. Of the third group of cases all had been vaccinated either In early childhood or after they were exposed, and all are hav- lng the disease In a mild type, with the exception of Clark Ewlng. who Is still seriously 111. and who says that although he has been vaccinated several times It had never "taken." Vaccination Insures Aettnst Death, Hence the following conclusions reached on the basis of hundreds of thousands of case are plainly confirmed by the ex lerlence of this epidemic, namely, that one vaccination will practically Insure against death by smallpox, two vaccina- tlons will practically Insure against scar ring, and. indeed. In fO per cent of cases against contracting the disease at all. This Is peculiarly gratifying, as the discouraging fact stares the medical pro fcsslon In the face, that after at least row years of experience with this disease absolutely no remedy, drug or agency. Is known that has the slightest effect upon Its course. The disease Is probably contracted by breathing Infectious material Into the lungs, and wben once this has effected a lodgment tn the system of an unvac clnated perron it makes not the slightest difference what the age or constitutional vigor of the Individual Is. the disease will run Its course In some shape or form, in something like eight cases out of ten. it Is a" most frightfully contagious dls ease known, and until the discovery of vaccination It raged absolutely unchecked throughout the entire civilised and un clvllixed'world. exterminating whole races and tribes. It is a most discouraging position for the physician to be called to treat a disease upon which tie knows his remedies will hare practically so effect. If the disease assumes a mild type In a particular case It will probably pre serve that type to the end. regardless of what may be done or left undone. If. on the other hand. It develops a severe ma lignant type, that also will ran Its prob ably fatal course, utterly uninfluenced by treatment or handling. Every remedy which has been vaunted for the disease has been found practically useless, whether it be the most potent tonic and antiseptic or the whim of popular Im agination, like cream of tartar, lettuce leaves and the red light. Improved Modern Method. 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PRUNES PROMISE WELL WEATHER HAS BBEN VERT FA VORABLE SO FAR. Effort Being; Made to Reach Ont for Foreign Markets Little Fruit "Has aea Held Over. SALBM. Or.. April S.-fSpeelaLV-TVlUi a continuance of' the present very favorable weather conditions, Oregon will this year harvest a bumper crop of prunes. In all except the hill, districts the trees are In fall bloom and the orchards present the appearance of great banks of snowy white. The trees nave blossomed periecuy. ana u the weather shall be fair the remainder of this week oollenlzatlon win be com plete, and the crop will be practically as sured, in the mgner amiuces ujo hot blossom a week or ten days later. The great fear of the prunegrowers is mat cold, pelting rains during the blossoming period will prevent fertilisation, and when this danger la past all feel easier. The outlook now Is very encouraging. The "Willamette Valley Prune Associa tion. whlSb. last rear handled nearly one third of the entire prune crop of the state. Is looking forward" to a very busy season. Last year's crop In this vicinity was short. The association handled about SO per cent of the crop In the Salem district, and ex pects to handle the same proportion a galz; this year. The trees which bore light crops last year will have gained strength, and are expected to yield neavy crops In 1S03. A branch association has been organised at Boseburg under the name of the Vmpqua Valley Prune Asso ciation, and the fruit controlled by tho two associations will be put upon the mar ket under one management, thus extend ing the scope of the association's business nd enlarging Its opportunities ior secur ing new and better markets. Marketing the crop Is the purpose 01 tne association's organization. To this end "the growers who form this union nave pro cored tho machinery for grading, process ing and packing prunes, and all the good fruit is placed upon the market neatly pucked and bearing an attractive brand. In -this way a reputation has been estab lished for this fruit in several parts of America. Canada and England, and a foot ing has been gained In France. This year a move will be made upon Germany, and the association management has received encouragement to believe that a regular demand for Oregon prunes can be created In that country. An attempt will also be afo to find a market is. Australia, to wmen Oregon prases can be snipped year after year. In 1381 the prune crop of France was ex ceedingly short. Aa a consequence French dealers cams to America to buy prunes, and they took away some 25 carloads of Oregon fruit Advices from France are" to the effect that the fruit was more favor ably received than had "been expected, and that the Willamette Valley Prune Asso ciation's brand of prunes will hereafter have a definite place. In the markets of that country. Should France have a full crop this year, Oregon could hope to ship but a small quantity of prunes to that country. Nevertheless, the Oregon prune has become known In France, and there will always be some demand for It. be cause of Its peculiar flavor. The dealers who handled the frlut last year In Euro peon markets write that, by reason of Its being processed before packing, the fruit keeps well and gives entire satisfaction. To Induce the growers to pack all their good fruit In boxes and ship it each season under the same brand will be-one of the strong efforts of the association this year "With the American market practically bare, except for a small quantity of In ferior holdover goods In California, the present outlook for a market Is at least fair. Advices from California are to the effect that prune trees In that state have but few fruit buds this. Spring. As a consequence the crop there will probably be light, though the prunes will run to large sizes. Home consumption must be depended upon principally for a market, but each succeeding year finds a gradually extending- demand from countries across the Atlantic To develop this latter trade Is one of the problems of great Import ance to the Industry. Bishop Potter's Ideal Saloon. NEW YORK. April SI. Backed by a number of well-known men In this city who share Bishop Potter's Ideas regard ing saloons, the Acorn No-Treating Tav ern, to be located on upper Broadway, will be shortly opened. Bishop Potter and Dr. Balnsford will be asked to In dorse the enterprise and be present at the opening. The objects of the new tavern are thus set forth tn the prospectus: To eliminate private profit from liquor selling; to divorce the liquor traffic from politics, and to attack blackmail; to de crease the per capita consumption ot liquors; to disassociate immorality from the drinking habit The managers ot tha new tavern are to all be teetotalers. Drinks will be sold "for 10 cents. No women are to be permitted In the place, and no Intoxicated man can buy & drink. Biliousness, dizziness, nausea, headache, are relieved by small doses ot Carter's Lit tle Liver Pills. BECOMING A MOTHER Is an ordeal which all women approach with indescribable fear, for nothing compares with the pain and horror of child-birth. The thong of the sufforjne and- danger in store for her, robs the expectant mot of all pleasant anticipations of the coming event, and casts over her a shadow of gloom which cannot be shaken off. Thousands of women have found that the use of Mother's Friend during pregnancy robs confinement of all pain and danger, and insures safety to life of mother and child. This scientific liniment is a god-send to all women at the time of their most critical trial. Not onl7 does Mother's Friend carry Yeomen safely through the perils of child-birth, but its use gently prepares the system for the coming event, prevents "morning sickness," ana otner dis comforts of this period. Sold by all druggists at containing valuable information free. MSStStSkM The Bradfield Regulator Co.. Atlnti.G.. K f WaEsBaf W MOTHER'S rect transference of the pus of a mild case of the disease from the arm ot children. In this way they could be Im munized against future attacks at a com parative slight rtek. and this method of innoculatlon. Invented In Arabia and Tur key, was Introduced Into England by tho celebrated Lady Mary "Wortley Montague. It almost always resulted In two or three deaths, no matter how carefully the virus was selected, and It was not until Ed ward Jenner, of Gloucester, discovered that by lnnoculatlng the human with pus of a modified form of smallpox as It ap peared In the cow, called cowpox. the future danger of smallpox could be pre vented without any risk of life what ever. With this weapon smallpox has now been practically exterminated In civilized regions. Practically exterminated by re ducing the death rate to one or two In the million, whereas up to 75 years ago In England and on the Continent about one person in three was marked with its scars. In countries like Germany, where vaccination Is compulsory and revacclna tlon Is required, the death rate has sunk to practically nothing. Although In the past when using lymph tsken from the arms ot children. Infectious human dis eases have In a very few Instances been transferred by vaccination, now that the lymph which Is used has been passed through from 30 to SO generations of care fully inspected, healthy Jersey calves, the risk of transferring Is absolutely abol ished. If every child In Oregon could be vaccinated and again reracclnated. In seven years. It would be but a very short time before smallpox would be almost un heard of In the state. HURTS TICKET SCALPERS PASSENGER ASSOCIATION ADOPTS NEW FORM OF TICKETS. The Labor Problem. PORTLAND. Aorll a (To the Editor.) Arbitration Is good, but to be effective the unions must be held strictly respon sible. Ia there any reason why they should be less responsible for dsmages than the trusts whom they oppose? If ft Is unlawful for railroads to merge their Interest In opposition to public policy is It less unlawful tor the unions to combine? It la postble for the unions to maintain their contention that skilled labor shall be paid no greater wage than the un skilled, for this Is only subversive ot business principles; but their Intention that nonunion men shall be denied the right to work, Is subversive of the first principles ot a free country; hence Is doomed to certain failure. M. S. GRISWOLD. Woman Killed fay Stray Shot. BUTTE. Mont. April A Missoula special says: Major Smead. Indian Agent at the Flathead reservation, who has been conducting an Investigation Into the death of Mrs. Angelina Matts. found dead on the reservation several days ago, bas as certained beyond a doubt that she met her death from a stray shot fired by an Indian boy, who was shooting at a magpie. Cloe Personal Description of the Traveler Provided For, Which Mnkea Transfer Difficult. The Transcontinental Passenger Associ ation yesterday adopted a form of round- trip Pacific Coast tickets that ia designed i to reduce the scalping of such tickets j to a minimum. While the new form will . not do away entirely with the practice of I scalping tickets. It will be one of the most severe blows the scalpers have ever re- celwd. j The new ticket Is to be used by all lines I In selling round-trip tickets either to or ! from the Coast Aside from Its value In , doing away with nearly all danger from i scalpers' manipulations, the new form In j sures uniformity, and this Is something I the railroads have been striving for dur- lng recent years. I A personal description of each passenger Is provided for In the new ticket This personal description will be made as close as possible and If It fell Into the .hands of scalpers the ticket vender would have a bard time to find some, one whir came near enough fitting the description to work off the ticket The traffic In the return Dortlon of Pa cific Coast tickets Is one of the best the ticket scalpers find on the Coast In the East scalpers cannot do much business with Pacific Coast tickets for the num ber of persons traveling from the Coast I to Eastern points upon round-trip tlck- : ets ana abandoning the journey at that end of the ime Is comparatively small. But especially during the homeseekers rush large number of travelers decide not to return to their Eastern homes, when they reach the Coast, and the return trip portion of their ticket quickly falls Into the hands ot the scalpers. The passenger association adjourned last night leaving a number of minor mat ters tor settlement at the Chicago meet ing In July. Most ot the questions which are still open, refer to Internal questions and are uninteresting- to neoDle outsldn- the railroad business. The most Important quesuon in ine- nanus or a committee Is the matter of rates1 for the Lewis and Clark Fair. This committee, composed of general passenger agents friendly to the Exposition, will take up their work as soon as possible. There were 75 questions on the docket when the association met and nrartlral. i ly an of these were taken up and passed j upon. i A Jew of the general passenger agents i left for their homes last evening, but most oi icwn rcroajnea mi ill loaay to join the lexcurrfoa up the Columbia. Blver. chair man James Charlton and Secretary Bev- Elklns law- were generally discussed, lngton. who had Intended to hurry honie These were few points the attorneys of Immediately after adjournment, found It , the different roads do not agree upon, and possible to remain over until tonight, and both will probably Join the excursionists. The excursion is to leave the union de pot at 9:30 A. M.. running as far as Cas cade Locks over the O. R. & N. and re turning by boat Tba passenger agents did not endeavor yesterday to reach an agreement on the Army and Navy rate, and the matter was left tn the same condition as It was prior to the assembly. A few of the lines will continue to grant Army and Navy officers the half-rate when traveling on their personal account, while others will refuse to make any concessions to this class of traffic There were a number .of statements made by general passenger agents to tha effect that the roads Intended to obey the law, and some of the roads which have been giving half rates to members of the two branches ot the" Federal service have Intimated that another Investigation into the law will be ordered. There was a prediction made by eome railroad men prior to the meeting that the question of party rates would be brought up by some of the general passenger agents with the Intention of securing an understanding of the questions. But If any ot the general passenger agents had any doubt aa to the ability of the rail roads tc quote party rates ho did not sug gest it to the association, and the ques tion was not discussed. 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