The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-12-10
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is played out,


on Thursday evening.
The display of fine majolica ware at
May Bros is very attractive.
Tomorrow evening W, L, Campbell
commences series Of temperance lectures,
under the auspices of the reform club.
Services in the German Methodist
church every evening this week, Rev.
Mr.. Kuhl, of Burlington, Iowa, oficiat-
ing.
-Ne,oS That case of the states attor-
ney's was about calf The Union says
there was q 'large gathering of people"
present. Tomorrow it will be in order for
the Union to report the states attorneys
mental condition.
One hundred and two societies, %
newspapers, and So books and pamphlets
have been prohibited in Germany since
the PRONUNCIATION of the anti-Socialist law.
In northern Germany there is but one
journal of Socialist proclivities left; in GEN.
trail and southern Germany there still re-
main IL. All these have changed their
names since the new law, and try to con-
ceal their bias.
The question of women medical prae-
titioners is not yet settled in Russia. On
the Goth of October last the right Of wo-
men who completed course of medical
training to practise medicine in the empire
was brought formally under the considera-
ton of the Sanitary Council attached to
the Ministry of the Interior. After pro-
Ilouged discussion the Council unanimously
resolved as follows: Although the right
to practice medicine by the female students
of the medical faculty has not to the pre-
!, sent been recognized by the legislative
authority, having regard to the evidence
now submitted by the professors, thai
these students are'tQlly competent to ex
ercise the medical profession, the San
itary Council will itself endeaVor to lobtaii
from the Government the authorization
necessary for them TO enter upon prac
tice.
What must the poor but honest CIR
who is seeking for q living as q clerk o
servant, rather than be driven by poFert
q into the winding ways Of sin, y think of tn
: religious zealot or severe moralist VIII
brands those 10 her calling and leaves til
public to look upon her with suspicion
Shall the doors of honorable labor hilbert
preempted by men be closed to women
}, Perchance those who so demurely sit Ut
der the horns of the altar or so devoutl
i pray on the tented camp-meeting ground
Il might take lessons of Spartan virtue Of th
IS poor girl who stands behind the counte
II for the bread that feeds family at home
THE ARGUS does not believe 10 parGdip
s. these subjects before the public any nor
IT than public welfare requires, but. when
class is attacked for the sins of individual
no respectable paper will make an eKh
II bition Of mock modesty by letting such q
20 attack go uncondemned, even though it |
N done in the fear of God" Christ new
re taught SuCu SefeAlty " Iu0 NAasu"ASbo
m his time.
~ Does not our good brother Spencer,
- his zeal to make strong case. go a lit
a, beyond the doctrine of the Method
N church when he draws upon his imagin
na ton for illustrations and passes them {
f. for facts? Brother Spencer is the Sc
n. appointed surgeon to cut this social e.
,r- sore out of our body corporate. His lane
is sharp; he claims diploma signed
the Great Teacher, aud why should b
nerve fail to cut true to the mark?
% says that somebody has been stupid
IN purch asabe or wicked" aud hence the pre-
'e, ent status of this evil, IF brother Speuc
g ''acts in the fear of God" why does he Ike
OF back the names of these terrible SON
lis bo0ies2 IF there are such men in Il
40 community as he describes, let him be
ot them up to public scorn; aud not leave
Fs illustrations where the evil disposed ca
'r~ by innuendos, blackeu the character a
no soil the regulations of men, who, in
Eli things, except IN religious zeal, are
~ peers. Is this christian like-ls it mani
ne All we'll disposed citizens will SECOND a
w honest effort at regulating or prohibit
OF this terrible evil, but the road of refol
II was never paved by timid hands and
IN misrepresentation ever defaced its fms
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