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SMALLPOX NO LONGER' guishes itself by abnormaVitiesVin every
stage of the disease. As most of the
DREADED.
cases are due to .incomplete protection
A Few Interesting Points on
Vaccination and How to
Disinfect.
Perhaps a little more information
about smallpox and its relation to vac­
cination will not be out of place at
The Tillamook Blackmailers.
this time, especially as Tillamook county,
i like all parts of the United States, is
The Headlight has always considered
| likely to be troubled with it for quite a
the Telephone-Register a reliable, re­
while, although it may die out some­
spectable newspaper for veracity and
what this summer, but it would not
honesty, but we cannot think so any
surprise us much to see it somewhat
longer since it has become a tool in the
general next winter if proper precautions
hands of a dishonest ring of politicians
, are not taken. We hope not. howeve,
and the worst element in Tillamook
j for it would be quite a serious state of
City, who have undertaken to hurl a lot
| affair if it should spread over the county
of personal abuse at Mr. B. L. Eddy, the
like the mumps did, or the scarlet fever
republican nominee for joint representa­
' some timt ago. As we have stated be-
tive for Yamhill and Tillamook counties,
| fore the present epidemic of smallpox is
and the other nominees on the republi­
in a mild form, but our experience with
can ticket in this county. The corres­
the disease shows us that a person can
pondence from Tillamook in last week’s
contract the disease from one suffering
Register, as everybody can readily see,
from it in its mild form and come down
is nothing but campaign lies, and |>er-
with it in its most serious form, or vica
sonal abuse, and we are surprised that
versa. For that reason, whenever the
one of McMinnville’s leading newspapers
disease appears, a strict quarantine and
should belittle itself by consenting to be­
a thorough fumigation of the premises
come a cat's pa w in the hands of those
for the purpose of destroying the germs,
who want to air their personal spleen
should be insisted upon by both county
ami who have not the courage nor man­
and city authorities, otherwise they may
hood to sign their names to their com­
have to built pest houses to grapple with
munications. Therefore, the Register
the disease. We do not think we are at
becomes a party to those campaign lies
all pessimistic, nor do we want to impress
by aiding and abetting them Probably
others with that feeling, but although
it mav plead ignorance of the situation
we are glad to know that the disease has
in Tillamook county, for that is the only
died out somewhat rapidly in Tillamook
excuse we can offer for the Register fall­
county, we look for its reappearance
ing into such a trap, unless it has been
under favorable conditions.
bribed to do so by selling so much space
Small-pox has not only historic inter­
for a certain amount of money for black­
mailing purposes. We can hardly think est. It is on the road to extinction, and
that the Register would have published may occur in our day in epidemic pro­
the correspondence if it knew the naked portion only in uncivilized lands. The
truth and history of the whole affair. most modern text-books of medicine, it
For the information of the voters in they describe it at all, disposed of it, as
Yamhill county and the Telephone of the pest and other pieagues of ancient
Register, Mr. Eddy is known in Tilla­ times, in but few words. Small-pox, as
mook as a progressive, honest, out­ we see it, occurs in the modified form
spoken gentlemen—something that can­ known as varioloid. Cases of true vari­
not be said about his traducers—and be­ ola become rarer and rarer every year.
cause of these characteristics a few big Since the general introduction of vacci­
little men are showing their antipathy nation small-pox has lost all its terrors
to him, and who are now trying to im­ for those who recognize its absolute
press the voters in Yamhill county, protection. In many parts of Europe
through the columns of the Register, small-pox patients are no longer solated
that Mr. Eddy is a bad man and respon­ in pest-houses, but are recieved into the
sible for all manner of crime, when, in general wards of the hospitals, other
point of fact, it is men, low down in the inmates being protected by, if necessary,
estimation of the community, instiga fresh vaccination. The dreadful chara­
tors of crime and perpetrators of a graft cter of the disease in former times is evi­
system they have been instrumental in denced in our day in no way better than
working upon the taxpayers, who are • by the fear inspired, the panic created.
trying to denounce Mr. Eddy. Also for ; by the knowledge of the existence ot a
the information of the Register, the casein a community. Watson said of
political fight in the republican party of it—the disease may not be studied with­
this county was upon two things. A out reference to the old masters—"The
fight made by ex-Senator J. W. Maxwell horrible aspect, disfiguring consequences,
to wrest the representativeship from Mr. and fatal tendency are so strongly mark­
Eddy, and the other upon purely county ed that its appearance has always been
affairs which Mr. Eddy did not figure in, watched with affright by mankind in
for, as everybody knows here, that was general, and with intense interest by
the Headlight's fight, but of these two the philosophic physical!.”
The hayoc which the disease has made
issues the taxpayers expressed their sen­
timent at the primaries very pronounced. in the past is apparent in the holocaust
Although an abundance of whis\y and effected in Mexico and in the veritable
money were used, when the republicans slaughters^ in India. In the two years
met at the primaries—the largest as late as 1874-75 half a million people
gatherings in the history of Tillamook in the presidencies of Bombay and Cal­
county—it
snowed
the
Maxwell* cutta alone fell victims to the small-pox.
faction so completely under all over the In 1865, TOGO natives died in less than
county that at the republican convention two months. It constituted 7 to 9 per
Maxwell’s name was not even men­ cent, of the total mortality in England
tioned, consequently Mr. Eddy was en­ in the seventeenth centuries, and nearly
dorsed by ncclammatioti. As to the rum­ 9 |>cr cent, ol that of the city of Berlin in
pus in the Tillamook precinct, it was a 1783-87. In France during the whole
saloon keeper who started the fight, and ot the eighteenth century 3000 people
Whole
who pleaded guilty at the last term of died annually of small-pox.
the circuit court to two charges out ot races of men were carried off in Brazil,
three lor assault and battery and was one-third of the populution in Iceland
fined $100. An<l because of this inci­ I in 1707, two-thirds of that in Greenland
dent and the landslide, those who in 1734. It is computed of the century
wanted nominations on the republican preceding vaccination that fifty millions
ticket and those who wanted to control of people died in Europe of small-pox.
the republican party and county officers, The Illimani race was beaten down until
a few disgrunted, disappointed office men became resigned to the disease.
seekers,assisted bv the democratic wire Macaulay called it the most terrible of
pullers, have resorted to a political all the ministers of death. The dan­
crusade of abuse. But there will lie an­ ger to life and disfiguration of the living,
other avalanche in Tillamook in June, especially loss of sight, made it, to a
for if there was ever a time when repub­ degree of which we can have now no
licans were highly indignant ami ready conception, the most dreadful of all dis.
to go on the war path to crush these eases. "There is no contagion so strong
personal abusers, it is right now. And and sure as that of small-pox,” Wat­
now that these slanderers have obtained son writes, "and none that operates at
control ol the Telephone-Register, the so great a distance."
The contagious principle has singular
Headlight np|x*als to every honest, law
abiding citizen in Yamhill county, and tenacity of life. It sticks especially to
especially every republican, to resent bedding and clothing, which, if kept
these abuses which these slanderers are secluded at a warm tempreture, may
hurling at the republican nominees, and remain infectious for months and even
by doing so they will assist the tax­ years. The body and bedding of a pati­
payers in Tillamook county to wipe out ent affected with small pox is surround,
the dirtiest lot of grafters, political dead e.l by the infectious matter as by a cloud
beats, and political bosses with their or halo. In a large, well-ventilated ap­
rule or ruin methods, who have worked artment the danger of infection on ac­
polities tor years for their own aggran­ count of dilution and diffusion of the
dizements and who are now «lying hard poison is much reduced. It is certain
because the taxpayers will not stand it that the disease has been contracted by
an individual who has approached a
any longer.
patient no nearer than three feet, and it
is well established that the disease may '
Blasts From Ram's Horn.
l»e conveyed by third persons and by
No man can become greater than his things. The contagion is given off from ;
own heart.
the body at all periods of the disease,
He multiplies his troubles who tuns to and also lor some time after death, at '
inert them.
least up to decomposition, hut not so j
It takes a very small fool to commit long as to account ter the case recorded
great folly.
by Dr. Franklin, when lie relates that |
Forbearance is sometimes nobler than "several medical men who assisted in !
forgiveness.
London at the dissection ot a mummy ■
God can only lead as long as we walk died of amaliganant fever, which it was
in the light.
supposed they caught from the dried'
The self satisfied man is pleased with ami spiced Egvptains.”
a very little.
Small pox is a very uniform disease- '
A father’s love is the liest part of a In modified tor • however, it presents
child's inheritance.
many irregu’antics. Varioloid distin-
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M c I ntosh & M c N air ,
HARDWARE, TINWARE and CHINA.
STOYES, RANGES and HEATERS.
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by vaccination, the various irregulari"
fa-.
Dealers in
AIIT it i
ties are mentioned by Morrow when he
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says that ‘‘vaccination denaturalizes
small-pox, deranges the original order;
of the disease, and effaces its mos
distinctive features."
It is generally assumed that the modi­
fication of symptoms is apparent in the
Headquarters for Dairymen’s Supplies.
inital stage of the disease. This view,
Agent for CHARTER OAK STOVES. Western Washing JWaehines.
however, is by no meaus correct. The
Large Sl.ek «f I'.lnl«. OH«, '»r.lshr« <»<’ <■»“•
disease begins with its usual train of
symptoms, and as a rule withits original
Reliable
STORE in
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violence. The difference concerns dura­
tion rather than degree. The inital
stage is often cut short a day or two,
so that the eruptions may appear by
the end of the first or second day. The
various initals eruptions occurs also in
variloiJ—the petechial as an exception*
the erythematous as a rule. It is a com­
mon observation that a pronounced
erpthematous eruption or scarlatini-
form rash betokens varioloid rather
than variola. Curschmann declares
that we may predict, in spite of the
severe depression of the general system,
HAVE or. HAND
that the form ol the disease, if erythema­
tous, will be mild, while petechiae will
nearly always be followed by variola
vere, which is not infrequent confluent.
Vaccination, if it could be enforced,
Finish
Wainscoting, Mouldings
Ship
would render superfluous all other pro-
phylayis. including isolation. Inocu­
Also all
ROUGH LUMBER.
lation, which it substitutes, has only
historic interest. Vaccination and re­
vaccination, if they could be made com­
pulsory, would eventually eradicate the
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disease ; thus but a single fatal case of Interstate Commerce Legislation.
Pacific Navigation Company’s Tariff* List,
small-pox has occurred in the German
The prospect for .legislation to streng­
army during the past fifteen years. Un­
The Pacific Navigation Company lias revised its tariff sheet, and the new
then the interstate commerce act is not
fortunately, however, vaccination can­
favorable, although the advocates of such cliedule, which goes into effect today and remain in foree for six months, is as
not be made compulsory in our country,
legislation are pressing .the matter. The follows :
"when the cry of infrigement of personal
bill introduced by Senator Elkins has
Five tons
Ten tons
Less than
liberty is the shibboleth of the demago­
been referred to the Interstate Commerce
or over
or over
five tons
FROM
TO
gue” (Foster), so that patients must
per ton.
per ton.
per ton.
commision or a report on its provisions !
still be isolated and sick-rooms disinfect­
and considerable interest is felt in regard
, GARIBALDI.
ed. A temperature of 400° F. is fatal to
TILLAMOOK, 1
small-pox. The organism of the disease to the reply the conimissian will make PORTLAND
$4.50
$3.75
$3.50
POKILANL)........... > B a Y CITY.
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are distroyed by sulphur in sufficient It is expected that the measure will be
HOBSONVILLE. '
approved in part, but an objection to it
concentration. That this process may
TILLAMOOK, ~
is looked for because notenotigh power is
be properly brought about, it must be
provided for the commission.
ASTORIA............... ^ y ' c I t T1'
done by health authorities. All com­
$3.50
$2.75
$2.50
inAYLlIi,
t
The Elkins bill provides forgiving the
bustible material should be consumed if
' HOBSONVILLE. ’
Interstate Commerce commission air
it may not be subject to the antimycotic
TILLAMOOK^
thority tinder certain conditions to fix
action of live steam ; walls should be
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railroad rates, legalizing pooling and SAN FRANCISCO- B^^aTY.1’
$5.00
$4.50
$4.00
rubbed down with bread, and floors
abolishing imprisonment as a method of'
' HOBSONVILLE. ’
scrubbed with a solution of corrosive
punishing offenses against the law. The
sublimate, 1 : 1000 : doors and windows
provision with reference to the fixing ot BUTTER
j TILLAMOOK to PORTLAND, 25c j>er box.
should be closed, and sulphur, 4 pounds
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,, Astoria, 20c. per box.
rates authorizes the commission to hear
to every 1000 cubic feet of air, should be
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,, Portiand, 30c. per case.
complaints of
discrimination made EGGS
burnt to bring about perfect fumigation :
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„ Astoria, 25c. per case.
against common carriers and directs that
at the end of two days the chamber mav
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„ Portland, 15c. per box.
any definite order made by the com mis. CHEESE
be thrown open and thoroughly venti­
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„ San Francisco, 20c. per box.
sion after such hearing, declaring a rate
lated for two weeks. Bedding, clothing,
(Empties returned FREE.)
regulation or practice to be just and
curtains, etc., after subjection to super­
15 per cent Rebate on New Settlers’ Household Goods going in,
reasonable, shall become operative and
heated steam, should be suspended in the
be observed by the party or parties a- PASSENGERS’ FARE, between Tillamook and Astoria, $3.50, which includes
air day and night for a week. The
gainst whom it is made within thirty
meals and berth while at sea.
dead body should be subjected to imme­
days after notice. The section in regard
B. C. LAMB, Agent, Tillamook City.
diate interment, as infection is dissemi­
to pooling provides that it shall be law­
nated from its surface up to the period
ful for an v two or more co in tn on carriers
of decomposition. In the interval be­
to arrange between and among them­
tween death and burial the body should
selves for the establishment of or main­
be **nveloyed in a sheet saturated in the
tenance of rates and it also shall be law­
solution of corrosive sublimate, 1 ; 1000.
ful for such carriers to agree by contract
Transportation should be permitted
in writing filed with the commission up.
only when a body is put in an air tight
on the division ot their traffic orearnings,
metal case. In the experience of the
or both. Authority is given the com­
writer an endemic was once developed at
mission to hear complaints against the
Freight in 5-ton lots and over $5.50 per ton.
a distance in a country town by neglect
fairness of such pooling arrangements
of this precaution.)
Freight in less than 5-ton lots, $5.00 per ton.
and to make an order annulling the con­
If seen early the patient should lie
Passenger rate, $3.50.
tract in the respects found to be unjust
vaccinated at once. Vaccination in the
and unlawful.
early stage of the disease modifies vari­
The measure has encountered a num-
ola. After the fourth day vaccination
j ber of objections, the chief of which is to 1
is useless. Marson puts it positively :
the pooling provision, the unpopularity
"Suppose an unvaccinated person be
of the legalized pooling proposition be- j
exposed to small-pox on Monday : it he
ing apparently as general and strong now 1
be vaccinated as late as Wednesday,
as it has ever been, l he hearings before
the vaccination will be in time to pre­
the house committee on interstate and
vent small-pox being de .eloped ; if it be
foreign commerce have developed the I
put off until Thursday, small-pox will
usual diversity of opinions, the ten­
appear, but will be modified ; if the vac­
dency of which is to confuse and thus
cination be deferred until Friday, it will
PROPRIETOR OF
necessarily to impair the chances of leg­
be useless : it will not have had time to
islation. It is stated that Chairman
reach the stage of areola, the index of
Knapp of the Interstate Coiumeice com­
safety, before the illness of small-pox
mission is rather pessimistic about the
begins ” Curschmann does not sub­
DEALER IN
prospect of securing radical amendments
scribe to these views. He declares that
to the interstate act and thinks that it is
he has seen cases in which vaccination
wiser to ask for such changes as will
was practised that infection with vac­
make the provisions of the act oj-erative.
Shop next door to Larsen's Hotel, Tillamook)
cinia and small-pox pustules developed
This feeling on the part of the chairman
side by side. He douots whether vac­
of the commission was disclosed in the
cination can render the disease even
views he gave to the house committee,
milder in its course. Nevertheless, so
which it Las been said did not produce
long as there is doubt the patient should
an altogether favorable impression Of
have the possible benefit of early vacci­
course if all that may be necessary to
na tion.
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make the law more effective cannot be I
at ers sue h elmore w h harrison
obtained at once it would not lie wise to mv
They only rule who scorn all ridicule.
retuse such changes as can be secured, 0>L\ LINE-ASTOTIA TO TILLAMOOK, GARIBALDI
Narrow thoughts are never high.
A man has never failed utterly so long but the advocates of strengthening the
BAY CITY, HOBSONVILLE.
iiT"nCtl
at As,2r'“ with the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co and
law should not weaken or a»»ate their ef­
ns he has friends left him.
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Columbia River R. R. f,„ San FranXo PoHland
You cannot expect God to honor your forts so long as there appears to be a
e a M nri*
r Of freig,lt atld P^senger rates apply to
drafts when you refuse Him your de­ chance of getting what they believe to In*
AMUEL ELMORE & CO. General Agents, ASTORIA. OR
essential. They should find encourage­
posits.
R. C. LAMB, Agent. Tillamook Oregon.
ment in the fact that they are supported
Agents
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C° • Portland.
by
a
stronger
public
sentiment
than
ever
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I A. & C. R. R. Co., Portland.
before since the policy of railway regu­
lation was instituted.
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TAFT
DRY FLOORING, CEILING,
Rustic,
Lap.
and
Sizes of
Steamer Geo. R. Vosburg
Will Run Between
Tillamook and Astoria.
Ship Freight by A. & C. Railroad in Care of
Geo. R. Vosburg
NEHALEM TRANS. CO,
F. LEACH,
Tillamook Meat Market
Fresh and Cured Meats, Hides, Wool, etc.
Pacific Navigation Co.
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Harness
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ordinarily would.
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MHt kj STANDARD OIL CO. \
Pointed Paragraphs.
The best way not to obtain praise is
to ask for it.
Wine makes the head dizzy ; power
makes the heart dizzy.
No man is ever too bad to ladle out a
little good advice.
Chicago News : Prejudice is the step­
father of slander.
What the average man needs is a cen­
sor for his conversation.
Probably men and women who flirt
act like fools because they are fools
A married man’s idea ot homecomforts
is a shirt that is made at home.
It behooves those high in polititical
power to provide themselves with para-
chutes.
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PUBLICATION.
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Oregon City. Oregon,
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March 10th. 1902.
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act of Congres» of
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"ff'r pro"f to •ho’v th»t the
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