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T PUNNED ON SMALLPOX & FW*? "f \ v - 1 -• ' ~S MEDICAL MEN ARE PERTURBED THE RECENT OUTBREAK lUJUOISTOWNt, . . •. $- -y j •J':'..": &•'* CASES IN CHICAGO I »*• * Mora Have Been Reported to the |/ , , v health Department There Than in [/•'; \ ̂"Cthe Year 1915--Danville Ha« ^ ' "I Most Victims. ' 'Springfteld.--Smallpox, most hide- ^jtts of till infectious disease, has thrust its horrid presence into the homes of numerous Illinois, families irnd thereby quickened a widespread desire for compulsory' vaccination. Medical, men are agreed thai such 4 law is eminently - desirable--if not absolutely necessary. Rut at the pres­ ent moment, according, to Dr. C. St. Clair Drake, secretary of the state board of health, this law- cannot be passed without a ehftnge in the state &V'-* m • I. §r constitution. The matter w as broached to Doctor Drake following the appar- „ ently increasing spread , of sutalfyox • s, among school children. Chicago is comparatively free o£ the j -* disease, but Health Commissioner Rob- \ ertson asserts that every man, woman U Wl child in Chicago should be vac- , , cinated. : | "It is the only safe means of defy- M tog the disease," he pointed out Wj 'There are far too many unvaccinated f people in Chicago. Under the prevail- "i> ing laws, we cannot vaccinate children unless there is an epidemic. But we s : should not wait until the dread dis­ ease is upon us before taking some *u' preventive measure--any \nore than j x you would wait until your house was in flame before having it insured, "There are no smallpox hospitals in j Germany, and the disease Is unknown there, because vaccination is compul- ' sory. Chicago has always maintained !§*. an Isolation hospital for smallpox po- tients--possibly because vaccination *"*' is not compulsory here." The board if health statistics show that there has been an increase in the number of cases in Chicago since 1915. In that year there were 33 cases. So far this year 44 have been feported. In 1914 there were 70 cases and one death, and in 1913 there were. 136 cases and one death. Most of these came from lumber camps, and other spots where vaccina­ tion is unknown. The patients were taken immediately to the isolation hos­ pital, and all who had come in con­ tact with them were vaccinated. Chicago, however, has fared luckily lit Ciiiiijmi iSini lO Oilier liiiiiOiS tOWnS. In Danville, from November 1 to De­ cember 9, 84 cases were found. Dur­ ing this same period in Chicago only five cases were reported. Other Illi­ nois towns reported , as follows: Georgetown, 37; Decatur. 19; West- vitte, 57; Itockford, 10; Savanpa, 30; Mount Vernon, 25, and Kankakee. 9. Sixty per cent of the smallpox vic­ tims, outside of Chicago, are school children; and it is possible that com­ pulsory vaccination will be asked *6n the grounds that an epidemic is threat­ ening the public health. While the board of health cannot compel vaccination, it gladly furnishes the bfest grade of serum for all vacci­ nations which are to be performed free. • > In 1910 there was an act which pro­ vided that children could not enter school until they had been vaccinat­ ed. But In a case brought against the board of -education the supreme court held that this law was a violation of the constitutional provision that the right to a free education must not be abridged. The court also ruled that unvaccinated children could not be ex­ cluded from the schools unless an epi- T tjeg of Illinois as these eutiimunitfe* (•boose to make It. The state main­ tains a relatively complete machinery for meeting the sanitary and health needs of .the people. . . . Realizing that the state health machinery, how­ ever perfect. Is of little value unless known and utilized by the people, these facts on how to obtain the service of the state board of health are net forth." The laboratory service, which Is be­ ing used more and more by the physi­ cians, of the state, Includes free exam­ inations for the diagnosis of tubercu­ losis, malaria, diphtheria, typhus fever and syphilis. Wasserman tests are made free for indigent persons. Ex­ aminations are made ̂ of presumedly rabid animals and treatment Is given without ̂ t'ost to those bitten by such animals. The laboratories consist of a cegural laboratory at Spriugtleld with branches for the diagnosis of diphthe­ ria at Chicago, Mount Vernon, Urbana -and Galesburg, and a traveling hlbora- tory employed by the state epidemiol­ ogist in the field in times of epidemic or emergency. The preventive and curative agents furnished free by the state board of health, through Us agencies, at least one of which is to be found in each county, are: Diphtheria antitoxin, ty­ phoid vaccine, smallpox vaccine, and packages of nitrate of silver solution for use in the eyes of infants at birth. The Schick test, to determine the im­ munity of the individual'to diphtheria, can be obtained only through the of­ fice of the board at Springfield. The service incidentally, contains a com­ plete list of the state board of health agencies in Illinois. •» PA-,. , ' l . . NJV': demic exists. The state board of health then re­ scinded its • rule compelling vaccina­ tion. It is, now a question whether or not this rule will be revived to meet the present emergehcy. The situation was complicated in Itockford by the presence of chickenpox. Many cases of smallpox were at first diagnosed as (Alcken pox. Eighteen high-school pu­ pils in Savanna were found to have fully developed cases of smallpox while attending school. Practically the whole community was vaccinated. Banks Show Increases. An increase of $40,251,618 in the re­ sources of the state banks of Illinois from September 13, 191G, to November 18 is shown in the statement of the condition of state banks of Illinois on the latter date issued by Auditor of Public Accounts James J. Brady. There were 799 state banks in the state on November 18, an increase of 10 during thF past three months. The total re sources on November 18 were $1,144,- 294,978, against $1,-104,042,360 On Sep­ tember 13. Time certificate deposits on Novem­ ber 18 were $92,539,733. ah increase of $2,004,242 during the three months. Savings deposits were $338,200,226, au increase of $12,660,328. Demand cer­ tificates subject to check were $412,- 920.988, an increase of $19,694,962. The total capital stock, surplus, con­ tingent fund and undivided profits on November 18 were $163,627,251, an in­ crease of $1,734,959. The total depos­ its, including due to banks, was $963,* 592,441, an increase of $35,962,445. The total cash and due from banks was $2g9,673,603, an increase of $6,876,698. The per cent of reserve to deposits, in­ cluding due to banks, was 26-84. Joliet Honor Farm Success, The farm conducted under the honor system by the state prison authorities at Joliet has proven successful in ev­ ery way, asserts the report to be sub­ mitted to the state legislature in Janu­ ary by Warden Michael Zimtner. According to the report, $30,000 worth of farm products has been raised by the prisoners. Seventeen hundred dollars of this amount has been invested in machinery and equipment. The^farm has supplied all produce needed at the institution with the exception of potatoes, the potato crofi being the only failure. Other crops included 500 tons of hay, 400 tons of straw, 25,000 bushels of oats, 17,500 bushels of corn, 800 bushels of wheat and the products of the 2,200-acre truck patch, which yielded all the vegetable^ required for the consumption of the inmates. A large amount was saved on onions, one of the most common items on the penitentiary menu, for the price of this vegetable has been high all year. ir P" Glvfts Health Advice. The October number of the Illinois Health News, the official bulletin of the state board of health, ap­ pears in the form of a service guide of the various activities of the board, giving to health officers, physicians and laymen complete information as to • what service the "medical department Of the state government" is prepared to render and just how this service is 'Obtained. In the preface of this serv­ ice guide it is said: "The state board Of health will prove just as valuable to the various cities, towns and cQjmnwd- :V ALL AROUND THE STATE Catavia.--The mysterious "woman in black" continues to stalk abojut the Streets of Batavia at ijlght, evading every trap set for her and fleeing when anyone approaches her. Greenville.--Children'from all parts of Bond county will participate in the -annual county spiling match conduct­ ed by County Superintendent of Schools White. A representative will be chosen for the state match to be jieid at Springfield December 27. Bloomington.--Headed by Depart­ ment Commander W. p. Calhoun of De­ catur, » Committee of the Grand Army M IJ Jjiois known as the Santa Claus of the Illinois Soldiers' Orhphans' home, paiCi their annual visit and inspection and arranged for the Christmas tree and distribution of presents for 600 in­ mates. Quincy.--When Mrs. O.- H. Tharp looked in the mail box the other day febe found a child's necklace, a watch feb. a plain gold ring which had been Stolen from her home. A note said the burglar had obtained a job and become Inaugural Note Is Brief. Governor-Elect'Frank O. Louden is planning an innovation in the way of inaugural messages. Instead of a long document embodying in detail all his recommendations to the legislature, Colonel Lowden intends to prepare a comparatively short message and con­ fine himself to general principles. The greater part of the message will be devoted to the governor-elect's pro­ gram for the consolidation of overlap ping state bureaus and commissions. He has served notice that other legis­ lation must wait its turn. Following out this idea, Colonel Lowrden prob- .ably wijj touch lightly on various oth­ er propositions to which the Repub­ lican administration is pledged. In line with Colonel Lowden's announce­ ment that the consolidation bills in preparation under -his xiirectiotr writ he mainly outlines of what he desires ac­ complished, the message will not at­ tempt to set forth in^arbitrary manner how all the changes in. the govern­ mental structure should be made. Gov­ ernor Dunne is preparing a farewell message for inauguration day. This message will be largely a review of Hie last four years and will attempt to make many recommendations for the future. New Incorporations. Nestle Permanent Waving System company, Chicago; capital, $5,000; in­ corporators, John J. Riordan, James K. Welsh, William W. Scully. Pioneer Coal company, Belleville; capital. $2,500; Incorporators. Richard J. Schramm, Richard Schramm, Hen­ rietta Schramm. The Protective Alliance, Chicago; capital, $100,000; incorporators, Col. T. Wallace, George F. Jones, Joseph K. Ryan. Armour & Co., Chicago; change of object., Appleby Hinge Manufacturing com­ pany, Chicago; capital, $2,500; incor­ porators. William K. Appleby, Daniel S. Gillespie, William A. Jennings. Bigelow Electric Manufacturing com­ pany, Chicago; capita*, $5,000; incor­ porators, Leo Weisskopf, Valley A. Ap­ ple, Edward J. Hennessy. United Statey .Publishing company, Chicago; capital, $50,000; Incorror* tors, Richard Powers, J. W. Gordon, SaTnuel S. Marks. Wheeler Auto Garage company. I Je­ er tur; capital, $30,000; incorporator* Amos Wheeler, Clause AI. Ping, N Boomersbacb- AMERICAN TRANSPORT SUMNER WHICH RAN AGROUND **s- ->jr - X? » I . -- i * ~ «* • "-«> * ' & •mm ILLINOIS NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD Wire Reports of Happenings From Ail Parts of the jState. JUDGE J. A. CREIGHTON DIES t This is the United States transport Sumner whifh ran aground on the New Jersey coast off Barnegat. troops and civilian passengers which she was bringing from the Panama Canal zone were taken off safely. REVIEW OF NATIONAL GUARD ON THE BORDER The wmm. mm •mv -...., fiutl'iliffiMifivii' Some ol' t 'he 23,000 soldiers of the National Guard stat ioned in the lower Itio Grande valley district parading before Gen. James Parker, U. S. A., during a recent grand review at Brownsville, Tex. The site of the review is historic as a part of the battlefield whete General Taylor defeated the Mexicans during the Mexican war. BUILDS BUNGALOW ON ROOF Mrs. Earl Carroll, wife of Earl Cap- roll, the American composer, helping lay bricks for the flooring of her new bungalow on the roof of the Godfrey building at Seventh avenue and Forty- ninth street. New York. The bunga­ low will cost over $40,000, and it took Mr. Carroll three years to find a suit­ able place to erect his "surbarban" home. Surrounding the bungalow, which, is more than a bungalow, inas­ much as it will have eight rooms, will be in a fine Italian garden, with fit least a five-foot brook crossed at in­ tervals by stepping stones and rustic bridges. The ground about th$ vlila will contain a vegetable garden, a handball court and an orchard con­ sisting of two apple trees. BABY HIPPO" IN NEW YORK ZOO This is "Congo," the new baby hippopotamus in the Central Park zoo, New York. He was recently sold to a circus, but bis ever-alert mother foiled every effort of the keepers to crate her offspring. MAY FLY ACROSS THE ATLANTIC Canton's City of the Dead?' In Canton, about eighty miles from Hongkong, there is a place known as the City of the Dead. There are 104 small houses, in each of which a corpse is lodged at the rate of $25 for the st three months, and then fit a re­ duced rate until the geomanceVs em­ ployed by the relatives of the dead person decide when and where the corpse shall be burled. Silk or paper lanterns and imitation fruit are hung from the roof. There are screens in each room between the door and the cofiln. Tea, fruit and any other kind of food which the dead person liked when on earth are placed on an altar before the coffin each morning. There are cardboard servants standing about to wait on him with pipes or cardboard cups of tea. There are also two hand­ some paper females placed there to "guide his spirit on the way to heaven. A Risky Offer. "The other day at some distance from town I was trying .to mend a puncture*! tire when an automoblllst stopped and asked if he could help me." _ • . • "Motorists frequently 4o that as a matter of courtesy." " "But this was ah extraordinary case and shows how strong ts the force of habit. The man who spoke to me, as I learned later when I met a car full of detectives whirling out of town on his track, ma a fleeting bfcnir*mbes- «ler." Capt. A. Sundstedt (left) and Lieut. K. Nyegaard, who are making plans to fly, next April, from St. Johns, Canada, to the west coast of Ireland in a ten-torr; four-passenger airplane. They arrived recently in New York. Uefh tenant Nyegaard has been In the French aviation corps for four years. - MUCH IN LITTLE ; - Concrete is being used almpst exclu­ sively for the gate structures of irri­ gation canals In this country, displac­ ing wood for the purpose, despite the greater cost of the concrete. An Orange (Mass.) man received a check which had been made out by him and sent to a Chicago firm about nine years ago, from a friend In Gard­ ner, who found It beside the railroad tracks near Otter river. The aheck was in good condition. " ^ .... . .'3-:. ' :'., ( « t " r ' An electrically heated coffee perco lator made of earthenware has beet patented by a New York Inventor. The king and queen of Roumanh have six children--two sous and fou daughter?. Their heir'to the thron«, Prince C \rol, was twenty-three in Oc­ tober. Fire losses in oar national forest re­ serves amount to from $20,000,000 tc $25,000,000 annually. The government estimates that 20 per cent of this great loss is cattsed by sparks from wiboatf locomotives. Demise of Jurist at 8prlngfleld FoU f low* Several Days' illness--Hud Been Prominently Mentioned for Supreme Court. Springfield.--Judge James A. Creigb- ton, judge of the clrcuitvcourt, who has been ill at his home here for several days, died. Judge' Creighton was prominently mentioned In 1013 for ap­ pointment to the United States circuit court judgeship, left vacant by the res­ ignation of Judge Peter S. Grosscup, In 1915 Governor Dunne considered his appointnent to a vacancy in the Illinois supreme-court. Among the well-known cases oyer, which Judge Creighton presided was the Fergus suit, in which a Chicago citizen at­ tempted, J:o tie yp all state aj^ropria- Chlrlrgo.-^ofei Madfc, aTlfts Norton, and Edward Greeley, alias Mose- ley, well-known confidence men, are being sought by the police on the charge of having swindled William C. Prasuhn, owner of a 640-jicve farm- near New Minden, out of $5,000 by means of a fake race-track bet. The swindlers were identified by pictures In the rogues' gallery which were shown to Prasuhn after he had been rooming for more than a week with Mack at the Holland hotel across the street from the Hyde Park police sta­ tion. According to Prasuhn, Mack called on him at his farm and offered to buy it for $250 an acre. The two went to East St. Louis, where details of the deal were to be attended *t©. While there Greeley was met and placed a bet .of $22, half of which was for Prasuhn. Later he reported to the farmer that they had won $14,000, but said they would4 have to show the bookmaker $5,000 to prove good faith. This little detail was attended to by Prasuhn, who went to his home and got two drafts one for $3,000 and one for $2,000. They came to Chicago and. the drafts were cashed here. Springfield.--On evidence furnished by a "pneumograph," a crime-testing machine, George Brokaw, who con­ fessed the killing of his son, Roy, was found insane by a jury and committed to the institution for the criminal in­ sane at Chester. This is believed to be the first case in which evidence of such a nature has been admitted in a murder case. The "pneumograph" was perfected by Dr. A. A. Dollear of Jack­ sonville, a well-known alienist. It is based on a scientific discovery, that all emotions .have direct effect on the breathing. Doctor Dollear and his col-, eagues had Brokaw under observation with the machine for several weeks at their private sanitarium. They ex­ plained its workings to the jury and flashed on a stereoptlcon screen rec­ ords of Brokaw's aetions during the ex­ amination. Chicago.--To carry the light of Christianity to darkest Africa, four young women and one man, all Chi-1 cagoans, sailed from New York to be­ come missionaries in the Congo. They are: Miss Edith Ortlieb, Miss Viola Howell, Miss Rose Horton, Mrs. Adelia Stephenson, and her husband, Rev. John Gordon Sephenson. A sixth Chicago missionary, Alden Longwell, who intended to join the party, has decided to take a later ship. All the missionaries are former students of the Moody Bible institute. They will become a part of a mission of nine, under the African Inland mission, of which Charles H. Hurlbur| is,general director. Springfield.--A law compelling the 'public utilities commission to fix the price of coal was suggested by a half dozen Illinois mayors as the most rea­ sonable solution of the high cost coal problem now confronting the state. Avarice and greed of operators and dealers were given as the only causes for the abnormal price of fuel In Illi­ nois this year. Thirty-five mayors and city officials from as many* towns and cities throughout the state were pres­ ent. Adjournment was taken without definite action. Exhaustive reports of conditions from all parts of the state failed to show a single material reason for the price advance. Monniouth.--One hundred lawyers of the Fourth federal district attended a meeting of the Warren Coiinty Bar association under the direction of the state association. Ttfe principal topic of discussion was the present practice laws, which the lawyers want amend­ ed. Itockford.--T. A. Denney of Winne­ bago county, state master, presided over the session of the Illinois state grange at its annual convention here. Witt.--The coal mine Which has been idle the last three years has resumed operations. About 150 miners will be given employment. Edwanlsvile.--Co-operation received another boost when arrangements were made to open the second co-operative store. The Central Trades council is backing th? move in an endeavor to cut the high cost of living. East St. Louis.--Work on the new njanunl training school has been start­ ed. The structure is two-story brick, and will cost about $23,000, exclusive of equipment. The contract calls for Its completion by February 28. Belleville.--A state-wide pageant for 1918 to commemorate tlie centennial anniversary of the statehood of Illi­ nois was advocated at a meeting of the Federation of Civib Societies. Freeport.--An ordinance requiring merchants to sell solid foodstuffs by weight only, instead of by measure, will be pressed for passage in the city council. Mount Carroll.--Objections to the drainage of Sunfish lake, an immense pond betweeen ihis city and Savanna, have been filed by farmers and others. The cost of the proposed Is agact $75/100. C v?: CM AGAIN > APfiIZE WINNER Highest premiums Awarded at liatiy Exhibith»nsp|2l TOe Fall fair season is past and * retrospect of them shows that Western Canada is stronger than ever in, the matter of exhibits, and has taken more than her usual share of the prize money. From Western Canada to Texas is a long look, from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the southwestern corner of Texas is sev­ eral daye' journey, but the enterprising farmers from this new country to the northwest were wide awake to the possibilities that waited them at the International Dry Farming Congress held at El Paso, Texas, a few weeks ago, to bring to tlte attention of those In that far-off corner what the land of Western Canada could do in the pro­ duction of grains and roots from Its soil. And what did these farmers do? SThe first thing was to carry off the first prize and sweepstakes for wheat. That was a foregone conclusion, for it has now become an established fact that i nowhere else in the world is there ! grown wheat of the high character apd market value of Western Canadian wheat. The same may be |aid of oats, of barley and of rye. But when It came to notice that Western Canada took first prize for alfalfa, it was then that more special attention was given to the products from Western Canada. It showed that in that country there lies the opportunity for supplementing the wonderful native grasses, so full of nu­ trition that with the tamed varieties,- among them being alfalfa, the cattle with no other food, were fattened and fitted for the shambles. Western Can­ ada's worth was proved as probably the greatest mixed farming portion of the continent. When the steers from the Western Canadian prairies reach the Chicago stockyards they bring the top price and outweigh those from other places where grass fattening is the process. But it wrhs not only in grains that Western Canada carried off the highest honors at the El Paso exhibition. .Potatoes, parsnips, beets, carrots and rutabagas also took the highest honors. In root production this country is becoming favorably known. The question often arises as to mar* kets. There Is always the highest price awaiting the producer, and as soon as the 'Hudson Bay Railway, nov about completed, reaches the Bay, there will be an additional outlet for the product of the farm. The Pacific coast route, via the Panama canal, will give another outlet of which foil ad­ vantage may be taken. With virgin land selling at from $15 to $20 per acre, and improved farms at reasonable prices and on easy terms, there is no better opportunity for the man with limited means and a desire to secure a home at the least cost in a country where he can soon become wealthy, as thou­ sands of others have done, than In Western Canada. To the man with less means and who is prepared to accept a farm of 160 acrles free, the Domin­ ion Government offers him his choice in districts that have land of the high­ est type, but at present being from ten to twenty miles from a railway. The Peace River Country, now being opened for settlement and reached by railway affords excellent opportunity to* the homesteader. To secure infor­ mation as to Western Canadian lands write the Canadian Government agent, whose name appears elsewhere in this paper.--Advertisement. MATADOR DOOMED IN MEXICO • • " . . 1 1 11 ' „ ' ... General Carranza Puts a Ban ejn Bull­ fights in the Southern Republic. General Carranza has acted" $ar' the betterment of Mexico by issuing a de­ cree abolishing bullfighting, long re­ garded as the national sport of Mexico. The decree states the government is under obligations to stamp out cus­ toms which are opposed to culture, and to aid civilization by elevating the moral level of the people. It de­ nounces bullfights as needlessly en­ dangering the lives of men torturing beasts, provoking sanguinary senti­ ments and disgracing the country. Then what a commentary on the poor of Mexico follows! Immediately after the denunciation of bullfighting the decree adds that bullfights cause misery to the poor, who, for a mo­ ment's enjoyment, without toe stsc-"" essaries of life. This remarks the El Paso (Tex.> Herald, Is an admission that the masses of Mexico are willing to deprive themselves of food and clothing to enjoy something which Is a disgrace to the country. This recalls a statement ascribed to the late President Diaz, who, wfefen asked once whom the people of Mexico would elect for president if qllowed an unrestricted exercise of the nallot. Is said to have replied: "Bomblto, the bullfighter." . V There may have been some truth in the alleged Interview, or it may be wholly fictitious. If at all true. It Il­ lustrates the hold which the so-called sport has had Upon some Mexicans, especially the lower classes. > ** k ,T V . ' ̂ .•V*. $ i f / , . • : -*h ' &"il. v 'Jfe 1 An Ardent Wooer. Jack--Then you won't elope? I imagined that you loved me ! Bess--Oh! And you let your im­ agination run away with me I--Town Topics. - Good Acting. „ "What did you think of TragedMp Flubdub's acting?" '• **I saw better acting among some sf his friends in the audience." ' - "What do you mean?" "Some of them acted impressed.'* Candle lamps bright enough to fee used on bicycles and motorcycles have been invented in France. # -*£i. If some artists see things as tlM? paint them they should cut out boose, All our thoughts are original--althf ' ' * • / 1' with ourselves or k£i