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Nation's Decreasing Death' Rate From *; ContagtoKis Diseases in t: | TweftfrOfearPiriod. Washington.--The country should fe* congratulated on the big Improvement In the health of the people between 1900 and 1920, according to Surgeon General H. S. Camming of the United States public health service, who has just issued a bulletin on the subject. During that 20-year period there was a marked decrease In the death rate fbr typhoid, malaria, scarlet fever, diphtheria and cronp, tuberculosis of the lungs, meningitis, bron- •rttftln and All forms of pneumonia. Heart Ailments lead. 'As compared with 1900, there were In 1920 increases In the death rates for Influenza, whooping cough, cancer and other malignant tumors, diabetes, cerebral hemorrhage and softening end organic diseases of the heart. The largest number of deaths to 100,000 of copulation in 1920. as disclosed by the cwyos figures, were due to organic diseases of the heart, with pneumonia, tuberculosis of the lungs, acute nephritis. Bright's disease, cancer and malignant tumor and cerebral hemorrhage and softening coming next Although later figures are not complete, the census bureau announces that provisional figures for the first nine months of 1922 indicate a slightly higher average death rate than for the •corresponding period in 1921. The death rate for the first nine months in 1922 to 1,000 of population was 11.7, as against 11.6 for the same nine-month period of 1921. Table Gives Figure* , The following table gives the numtMr of deaths and the rate In 100,000 of population in the registration area of the United States by Important ^causes for the years 1900 and 1920: Diphtheria and cmq)u laflwut .... fifemtftr of nan ... tKbMtaMi mulifitli.. Other forma tubercnloaia Rheumatism. Cancer and malignant tunora Dlabetaa .... UenturltU, .. Orabral Kam- •rrhas* and •oftanln* .. Orranle dlaaaaaa at tha haart Bronchitis .. Pnamoili, all forma..- Other dleeaaea raaptratorr •liti .... XHarrtioaa and •nteritta (under J ream) Appendieltla and typhlitis Hernia, inteatinalobatmation Cirrhosis a C Kw mu MM H.IM MI* MM UU u.sn uni 14.114 u.m iMtr N.MI utr 14.MI *1*IS lt«,l<s u,«#» •«U 1M ni IU 1IU 1HI t.t , M M M IM ».T m ««.« lii tai km 4*.I 1S.S IMU X S0,Xt> 11M n|4 MM/ 1MN HA 114 SS.4TI MSI m tin U.T0I Mti •,141 MM Ul ««.• m IM : it Los Angeles, Cal.--Feeding pigeons In the downtown district wfll be a misdemeanor subject to a fine not exceeding $500 or six months in the city jail when an ordinance passed by the city council becomes effective. The ordinance was passed to aid the park department in driving pigeons from Perilling square, a downtown park. Half a Billion Saved by Research. Industry In this country saves approximately $500,000,000 annually as a result of scientific research work. Acuta Mph* rial land dla» un Vuerperal s«ptiejmla ... Other puerperal causes Congenital debtUty and * mil f o r m a tions SI,MS V t o I e n t deaths, except sulci da I4.94S Suicide S.SS4 Unknown or tU-daflned... SS.TM A l l . o t h e r aaasea 11S.S4* •» Mjm M M « • -. . ... _ It ,t M.IN IL1 11.1 M.I ll.SM XSS.SSS IU 1T.T S94.S Sll* All 4wtlw UI.HI l.t«S.SM UIW 1.IN.I MuM .... 1LN4 3f>l>yt> MH Jtaaales S.S«S Scarlet ferer I.1M V b o o p l i i •ouch t.Tlt 1*M •i*0» 1,114 T.T1S 4, >04 Rata 1»»0 15.» 7.1 1S.I lit Rate 1910 7.S ».« 4.S 10.141 111 M.» ss Have: New H Court System Supreme Tribunal, With Seat at Moscow, to Have Criminal, Civil and Appeal Branches. Moscow.--The revolutionary tribunals, which, along with the dreaded "cheka," were instruments of Red tor* ror during the worst period of the bolr'ievlst revolution, passed into history the other day when a new and permanent court system was inaugurated throughout Russia. While founded upon lines not unlike those of the court systems of some other European Countries, the new Russian courts have some particularly communistic features all their own. The Supreme court of Russia, which will sit in Moscow, will hive three T Prize Offered for Perfect Rjbs I follow-up of the spinal contest held last year, the National League for the Prevention of Spinal Curvature, has offered a prise of $1,000 for the most perfect Bet of ribs in America. A Chicago doctor is here shown inspecting the rttw et some young women of the theater who are contestants fee the prise. branches. One will be for criminal cases, one for civil, and the other a court of appeal. There will be also district courts to try cases of local importance, and the "people's" courts, corresponding to police magistrates, will operate in each village and city district to try minor offenses. . 8tuchka Is Chairman. Peter Stuchka, Lettish lawyer, who gained fame as the bolshevlst dictator of Latvia when Riga was in the hands Of the communists, has been named as chairman of the Supreme court. Another Lett, M. Karkin, will be his assistant In the criminal, civil and appeal branches, however, the supreme court judges are mostly men who served in responsible positions In the revolutionary tribunals, all communists tried and true, Jacob Peters, who headed the "cheka" at Petrograd during the Red terror, Is one of the Judges of the criminal department M. Kursky, commissar of Justice, will be chief procurator or attorney general in the new court system, but the active prosecutor will be Vladimir Krylenko, formerly chairman of the revolutionary tribunals. New Jury System. ? A peculiar feature of the tern Is that a species of "Juror" is Introduced. There will be two of them in each case, sitting beside the judge and having full powers to question witnesses and attorneys. They will retire with the Judge to decide upon the guilt or innocence of the accused, a majority vote of the three serving to convict or free the prisoner. Panels of these prospective jurymen are now being selected throughout Russia. The various trade unions and professional organizations select them from their own numbers, and they must be ready to go Into court at any time .they are called upon. The Moscow quota of jurors is 4,000. When they sit In trials the Jurymen are paid, not by the government, but by their employers, receiving their regular day's wages for the time passed In court * When the new court system is In full swing, It Is expected that most of-the lawyers appearing will be men trained In the law courts of the old regime. Professional unions of lawyers are being organised, subject to the approval of the soviet authorities. She Fed Save* ^ Woman From CUt " •*. ^or^---Having spent her last cent for milk for stray cats, many of *rfclcb she has fed nightly for two years, Mary Posartl, forty-five, sank vpop the bed In her dingy two-room Hat at 205 Avenue B, and slipped into unconsciousness of, starvation. Patrolman Dierktfr of the Fifth street station found her when he broke 4ewn her door recently. 'Upon the 4oor were 200 empty milk bottles. If she lives--and at Bellevue bos' pltal physicians say she has only a slander chance--the woman will owe lier life to the cats she befriended. Tor two nights they came back, as usual, for milk, and, finding nuu«, ""meowed" mournfully under her £tound floor window. Neighbors, told the police of the cats' actions. Dwellers In the Avenue B tenement «ay the woman took the rooms two -years ago, locked her door and never -appeared In the daytime. Each night fiowe\ er, die went out and returned •with six bottles of milk, which she poured into saucers placed outside her window. For a year, until three months ago, the woman had a male visitor as mysterious as she. His vLsits ceased suddenly. A milk dealer with whom she traded said she told him tills man was her husband. Diamond in Throat It Fatal to Little Girl ' * " r-v Geneva.--A Swiss dealer in precious stones named Dingier, while showing his five-year-old daughter some of his cases of Jewels, was called to the telephone. When he returned he found the child choking. She had swallowed gems worth £800. A doctor was hastily called, but the little girl was dead, having been strangled by a diamond which entered the thorax. An operation was necessary to extract the stones from the child's throat and stomach. titreat Advantage Over Taxes. We may be sure of death and taxes, but death onljr bothers us once.--Columbia Mlssourian. Visits Barber Thrice In Life. Kansas City, Mo.--Bill Knott, living up near Tina, lays claim to a certain distinction. He is fifty-four years old and has only been In a barber shop twice In his life. Once, about thirty years ago, he braved the rigors of a barber shop at De Witt, and recently he was again in a chair at Tina. Hookworm Rages in Brazil. New York.--Bighty-flve per cent of the agricultural workers of Brazil are afflicted with hookworm and the disease -has lowered the efficiency of onethird of the population, Br. Lewis W. Hackett, associated with the international health board of the Rockefeller foundation, said on his return from South America. ' Montreal Tax Largest. Montreal.---Montreal paid the largest amount of Income tax during the fiscal year to December 31, the amount being $18,195,749. Toronto came next with $11,742,770, and Winnipeg third with $4,019,380. FREED BY WOMAN'S CONFESSION After 25 Years in Prison Is Now Enjoying • Wealth. D. a-aotit tfeed Cherokee Indian, Charmer Tidweli, languished from his youth for * quarter of a century in federal pris- <CG8 before being released on a baseless murder charge, was revealed in * tragic story told by the Department of Justice. Freed from the charge tiy a deathbed confession after his gn^ars of suffering, the former prisoner is now enjoying the wealth of inherited Oklahoma oil lands. * 'Three presidents, Roosevelt, Taft «Bd Wilson, denied pardons to Tid- WHsll upon reports from three former attorney generals, Knox, Dlckerson «Sd Gregory, that all evidence In the nsnrder case pointed positively, although circumstantially, to the pris- «tter's gaM. Friends, including Senator Gore and former Representative Alice Robertson, pressed the Investigation of Tldwell's continued protestations of innocence. Finally he was released form Atlanta penitentiary upon a commutation of sentence reo omended by Attorney General Daughertv and Assistant Attorney General Grim. After President Harding's commutation a' widow's deathbed confession in Oklahoma revealed that Tldwell bad been convicted of murdering her husband upon perjured testimony. "The Lord has been wanting me to tell It for all these years, an«1 1 am afraid He "won't forgive me for not telling It" reads the affidavit of Mrs. James Brown, the dying wife of the man for whose alleged tnnrder Tldwell passed twenty-five years In prison In Ohio ard Atlanta federal prisons. One of Brown's sons, himself behind prison ban today, waa said to Wealthy Widow Heals Man's Broken Heart , The wounded heart of J. H. Buckler, traveling salesman of Minneapolis. Minn., was healed to the extent of $500 when settlement, out of court was reached In his suit for $50,000 damages against Mrs. Ellen Lilly, wealthy widow, who, he says, promised to marry him, but balked after i-e bad secured the license. have corroborated the deathbed con fession of his mother, that Tldwell was convicted on perjured evidence. The man who committed the murder was said to have been a former sweetheart of Mrs. Brown and has long been deed. Individual l&rnriee in early ROOKsometimes coutalneJ 00,000 volume* ' ^ It , BM./'.J ' r, Janitors, scrubwomen and sweepers of Chicago are out fpr lessons in good citizenship and Ri>g»«h under capable teachers provided by the Chicago Association of Commerce. The class shown above is one ,of the thirtytour that have been formed In loop office buildings. "The classes assemble twice & week. # primitive household equipment TIN house occupied by "the American experts was built through the generosity - of the late J. Pierpont Morgan, who was moved to pity by their priva- .tlons and exposure. Plague of Fliee and Ineeete. The natives of the valley are pathetically poor and untutored. . Food la scarce and expensive. Water, where It exists at all, has to be brought from afar In hand buckets. The nights are cold and fuel Is difficult to obtain. The heat of the valley Is severe during the day, and tho entire area is plagued with flies and peraldom ta* sects. Carter and His Aids Defy Torrid Heat, Wild Beasts and In- ^ •ect Plague in Search. ; •A' S'- m ^ m ^ ^ 'i" Do you think what thsy got * was. worth digging $9 y#ar* * * t * J for? Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt- While the world has been following with unabated Interest and curiosity the wonderful archaeological discoveries In the Valley of the Kings, little thought has been given to the years of toll, research and patience given by archaeologists in these far-ofT ruins. It Is perhaps little understood that the recent unearthing of the tomb of King Tut-Ankh-Amen by Howard Carter, British excavator, represents a continuous effort of 83 years of research and excavation. Carter began digging on the site of Thebes, the ancient capital of Egypt, when he waa eighteen and has neve* ceased his labors. He was never rich enough to conduct his own excavations, but has Invariably worked for others. Some of his most notable work was done under Theodore M. Davis of Boston, who from 1907 to 1914 discovered six royal tombs and a wealth of rare* and valuable antiquities. In more recent years Carter has been associated with Lord Carnarvon, who financed the excavating work of Tut-Ankh-Amen's tomb, Carter has derived no pecuniary reward from his years of research. American visitors st the newly found tomb have remarked that the now famous excavator wears the same suit of clothes, the same hat and shoes, daily; Sunday, and throughout tfce year. Called Modern Hermits. Carter's devotion and labors In the cause of Egyptological science are typical of the ekample of all excavators, British, American and French, In the ancient ruins of Egypt These men may be described as modem hermits In this 5,000-year-old Valley of the Kings. They lead a one-sided and narrow "^Bstence. Cut off from all civilising and uplifting influences. the score or more of them who comprise the foreign colonies of Luxor move within a narrow groove and seldom even come in contact with one another. . The Valley of the Kings ftid the Theban hlllft, 450 miles up the Nile from Cairo, are Infested with wolves, jackals, wildcats, foxes, snakes, lizards, scorpions, vultures, beetles and vermin. The archaeologists live in unpretentious stone and mortar houses with nothing but the barest rough-hewn furniture and the most Declares Tanlac Overcame Rheti» matism and Stomach TrouWej, Restoring Full Vigor. i'., •"Tanlac built me up twenty pounds and I am as happy over my new health as my little boy was over his Christmas toys," declared Mrs. Mary Sny* . . der, 838 Estes St., Charlottesville, VS. . • "For two years I suffered from << stomach trouble, rheumatism and a .' nervous, run-down condition. I was almost a skeleton and got to the point where, when I went to bed nights, 1 | wondered If I would be able to get U9 k in the morning. Rheumatism in sip I shoulders was so painful, and I was so thin and weak that I did little of anything except try to get well. * * L "I was In despair when I started tak> Ing Tanlac, but now my troubles art «f all gone and I am as healthy and happy as I could wish to be. Tanlac has * earned my undying gratitude." ;. Tanlac is for sale by all good dray gists. Over 85 million bottles soldr-• >; Advertisement. >', Plenty ef Weight Tm going to get hack at sowi. ft > these motorists.'* . "*. v , f "Hey?" ~ ^ "I've been afraid of them long • enough. Now let tiftme of tbem he afraid of me. I'll get a car myself.". | "Better get a truck." '"i ' 4M Cafe's OmMMi* Will! IliniTMl 1^' • and heals burning, itching and torturing ; ^ akin diseases. It Instantly stops tha pain '-tSv it of burns. Heals without scars. SOc and SOo Ask your druggist, or send SN: to Th« J. W. Cole Co.. Rockford, package.--Advertisement. .!$ Assortment Regrettably Full. Takes all kinds <>f people to make a world, and there are plenty of unnecessary kinds left ©v«r.--Wall Btteet Journal. wm-la-. The Quarrel. "They've had a dreadful quarreL** } "Were you there?" "Yes, and I was afraffl every mint*, she would lose her temper entirely and take a shot at her husband." USUALLY FOLLOWS FLU ATTACK Surgeon General Cummings Tele About Sleeping Siek-- 7 * ness. • #*shtngtofe--While reports «|f cases of "sleeping sickness" are reaching the Public Health Service from various parts of the country, Surgeon General Hugh 8. Cummlng said that the service had no statistics rufflflentlv reliable to warrant a statemenTtts to the extent of the disease throughout the United Statea. "Encephalitis lethargies, or sleeping sickness, as It is popularly known, Is reportable by physicians In only comparatively few states," said the surgeon general. "In the larger part of the country the only data available r - based on newspaper reports. Moreover, the disease Is rather easy to confuse with some other diseases, and Its prevalence is, therefore,* likely to be unduly *nagnlfled. "Thus, in an Investigation nude by Dr. H. P. Smith of the public health s-rvice, of the 1918-19 epidemic, 22 per cent of the supposed cases had to be excluded as being really cerebrospinal meningitis, cerebral syphillis. brain abscess, tuberculosis meningitis, epilepsy, poliomyelitis, hysteria, or acute alcoholism. "The disease appears to be only difficultly communicable. Not a single secondary case is known to have occurred in the immediate familes of the patients reported In 1018-19, although some 800 persons were exposed. "The fatality Is rather high. Of the 159 cases studied by 8mlth, death resulted In 46, or 29 per cent "It is Interesting, though perhaps not significant that the peak of the outbreak of 1918-19 was reached In New York City in January. In Virginia in February, and in Louislans, •Mas and Illinois in March. In California the largest number of cases reported in any one month was in April. Whether this progress was related to the season of the year, or was J irely a result of the spread of the disease. Is not known. Comparison with th4 present spread may throw some light on the subject "The disease is slow In development and long in duration. The period of convalescence Is variable; In some cases recovery Is completed within two weeks after the subsidence of the acute symptoms, but in others it is prolonged and leaves Its record on the mind, on certain muscles and on the nerves of the cranium. The mental troubles, however, usually pass off eventually. "The appearanee of encephalitis in epidemic form has, except for one epidemic reported from Austria, always been followed by an epidemic of Influenza. Forty-six per cent of the eases studied by Doctor Smith had had influenza and 54 per cent had not The Iriluenza attack rate has been ascribed to the lowering of the vitality of the patients by the influenza, but has also been explained as being really due to another attack of influenza which has Invaded the central nervous system of the body. Whether or not there Is a^y connection between the two dlssassn has not yet been established." MRS. EARLS • • ' TELLS WOMEN •mI Fain* Yield to Lydia E.PSnk> ham's Vegetable Compound Clean, N. Y. -- " Every saontfc nr blood would go to my head and I wevla ay rest sad i ssemed to donsj good. your sboutwhat Pinkham' bis Compound'hni doos for others, so I decided to try it I had only tsken two bottles wbenlbegM to be better, snd my bsek did not hart me nor mybiead scne. I felt like a new woman. The VegetableConmound isa splendid medicine and I wfll always recommendit"-- Mrs. A. D. Eabls» Ni N. 6th St, Olean, N. T. Copenhagen, Y.--' New Church Destroyed by Storm V- v ,y 'I rend year advertisement in the papers sndT urn busbsnd induced me to tike Lydia m> Ptnkham's Vegetable Compound to get relief from pAins and weakness. I was so weak that I eould not wslk st tiaass. Now I can do my housework snd bs^p my husband out doors, too. I am willing for you topublish this wtter if yon thinS H will beip others."--Mrs. HkbbuOF Kklskt, R.F.D., Copenhagen, N.Y. Stop Laxatives Whkh Oaly Aggravate CoaatipatM Nujol ts a lubricant not n med icinc or laxative--so cannot gripe. When you are constipated, not enough of Nature's lubricating liquid is produced in the bo wel to keep the food waste soft and moving. Doctors prescribe Nujol because it acts like this natural lubricant and thus secures regular bowel movements by Nature's own method-- lubrication. Try it A lJUeniCAKT-NaT ALAXAnvt ; > • ' •'Ofcs %3 ThI* cburdh, which had Just been completed' Isr the city recently, causing considerable damage. Chicago, was wrecked by the violent stona which swept DISCOVERS A PRIMITIVE TRIBE Strange People in Daghestan Think Americans Walk Upside Down. Z^trfte so primitive that tt believes Americans live on the bottom of the world, and are therefore In darkness, has "been found in the mountain villages of Daghestan by Dr. H. A. Goider of the Hoover foundation. These people. Dr. Goider said, npen his return bete, think that Americans do their plowing while walking upside down with oxen to whose horns candles are tied. Believing that the world IS table shaped, with themselves on Its top, tbey feel that the Americans are indeed unfortunate because they are compel»ed to live In eternal night Doctor Goider said that in many of the villages delegations greeted hlaf as a man from the world bel<»^. Some were anxious to know how Americans managed to get about. One what seemed an unsolvable riddle, Cnally came to the conclusion that, in> asmuch as Americans are a wonderful people, they have undoubtedly taken a lesson from the fly and learned to walk upside down. "They thought I arrived by wsy of a hole In the ground, the ladder to jjrhich is kept by the czar of Moscow," Doctor Goider asserted. These people still make fire with flint and iteel and use stone hammers and shepherds' pipes. Justice is administered through trial by ordeal. The men, who are of remarkable physique. £o about armed to the teeth, for they are feudists. The families live In stone huts In the practically valleylesg mountains. Although the people are Moslems, the women are not veiled and because of the present shortage of cotton cloth, their only clothing consists of simple sheepskin coats. "They nearly overwhelmed me with Meets Son as She ' Goes to Claim Body Notified that Harry Rowntree, of Toronto, Canada, had been killed in a fall from the window of a hotel In Buffalo, N. Y., Mrs. Rowntree, his mother, went to Buffalo to claim his body. On the way from the station to the morgue she met the supposed dead son on the street «> pointing as my special guard a entered bandit, who had thirty-five notches In his warclub. He would not let me out of his eight" A* e result of Doctor Go!der*s visit into tills nnfrequented rtftas, tb* American Relief administration has sent rations for 10,000 children to the mountain villages, where starvation is general. William DriacoU has gene to Dagheotan to take charge at ths Somebody Else. I had been going with one of these domineering sort of fellows and so f wasn't much surprised when one night while we were driving along a coua> try road he suddenly stopped the cs% put his arm around me, and said: "Dear, I have a surprise for ye% We are going to get married." And I said. "Good, but whom wfll we marry?" He was very angry, and quite need less to say. I married somebody elsa.-~ Chicago Tribune. CASTOR IA Foe Infants tuA Children Ladies Can Wear Shoes One size smaller snd watt in comfort by using Allen's Foot-Ease, the antiseptic, healing powder foe ths feet. Shaken into the shoes Allen's Foo*- Faen makes tight or new shoes feel easy; gives insmnt relief to cora^ bwikies and callow; prevents Bfiaw, CsBmrn and Sera Spots and gives test to teat »chis«. swollen feet. UOOyOOO pounds of powder for the feet wen seed bp our Armor sad Navy duiiag the Wsr. Sold PtarFVae Doll,