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Batteries-Coombs and I4app; Sum- mers and Stanage.
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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1911-12-21
THE POOR AT CHRISTMAS.

Do know homes nhohood Santa Claus
comes Is there sick father father widowed mother
an old and INDECENT person?
Charity has been sd begins at home but shouldn't there
should the highways and byway Especially true Christ
charity which should be the highest kind charity
Your children will have and Pebans
they will have than good for them 1t will happy look
into faces Christmas
left for them by Santa Claus But there more
this that which remembering the moor AZ
Christmas
aged who will have No Sn.
Claus little gift who otherwise none looms
the eyes the recipient Surely you somebody outside
your family and circle happy this Christmas.
the the old sayings better to give than
This poverb embod exemplfes the Christmas shirt
which s the Christian spirit reduced to the concrete.
Remember the this Christmas
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1911-12-21

Several weeks the Republican press was very much ~
cened the alleged the Democratic consumed
columns from week week telling how John his faction
and other leader and his faction asund
But word has been said and been lost
these editors the candidates gubernaa honors in thai
party have been bobbng from all Of the North was
get the nomination. it outed off the leaders party in the
Panhandle but what really get n the
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1911-12-21
MELVILLE. IDAHO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER FL, 1911
THE HIGH TAXES, AND WHY.


questions people this always interested
year especially the question: the amount OF taxes
pay where all the that we pay therefor
This last question that do not think about except at tax
paying time.
year many things contributed making the taxes higher
they past attributed by not the
assigned has only an indirect way
made any material difference
The full which think the cause
being higher would have made the
higher provided they had been paying their just proportion past and
had required levied than there has been IN the
past. bn that has been the
In the first the heavy appropriations Of the legislature made
absolutely that much amount money be raised this
year than last preceding and the valuation had remained
the the levy would have through necessity been much higher for the
alone Bridge bills calling for than 100000 alone
passed Road bills calling tor thousands OF dollars passed
expanding 5OOOO finishing the
capital Many relief bills calling for considerable amount Of
were passed An the state institutions were allotted large sums of money!
of what they and could
good advantage but it took money the
All these appropriations by the legislature and the money
had be raised After these passed and became
neither the the board had
them bound make for them
being compelled these things many
people political
governor who alternative the laws
% enforce them.
being higher many of the
school districts villages districts advantage
the opportunity raise for local improvements
enough money pay off deficiency
And the face of all this industrious fellow
people should and took case
board equalization had the levied and the divided opinion o
which cce add
iona p mills should be added
Another yet which few contribute causes
which has small added this
counties but this additional will only have to be paid The
individual will about which
bng the records buying furniture and getting books
expenses This however will only except the mae
that will be required keep the books STILL
face Of all this county less than county Idaho
Locally county is not high village
high the school tax for this district In fact per cent
all here Nezperce for the village school,
Thus will who preudced that the cause
high the fault Of the governor any one pa
tuar individual but who finding fault much at fault
any and in
AS far the heavy appropriations many coul
been left and could have gotten along about as we'll and on
would have been much lower believe the money
being expended that will good account Of the hv
being and growing with valuation small
it would have been better have waited for
To the fault in the appropriations as we'll as local in
povements in places that trying grow rapidly an
expand beyond limits single year-Nezperce Herald
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1911-12-21
MR.. NORTON FOUND"

Somebody Washington ask what become NJ
who was lately President Taft The writer bast
follows Mr. Norton alright He has gone the way Of pe
retares and is now Mr. j. p Morgans banks It or,
Jump after ALL from White House Wall street. the % -
travelled, both coming and going
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1911-12-21
LOOKS THAT WAY.

The Chicago beef barons charged with conducting squeeze
the people the Of beef declare they innocent which would
lead think they would be in hurry Query Have
they battling after another years lust to keen the
public from finding that they
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1911-12-21
LOOKS LIKE BUSINESS.

An entirely unprecedented thing occurred Wasbin.
week following the converting Of the present Of Con.
although country have been too hy have noticed
The ,sa.nns q ss six
sumed in work, until time to light the lamps
This policy in contrast to the Republican custom Of m
ing day. and after remaining in session few moments ad
day the d a sa s . sas sss second
been wasted when adjournment would be taken for the
meantime Of the congsmans pay Of $2OS3 p d.
week 1925 per month would merry people ps
policy simply this that the Democrats
Grandma Hastings has been having several bad spells Of M
one Of rawlings pleads with the people for measure tn a
people from paying into the state treasury amount =
through the present system taxation The
that Hastings has paid considerable less his holdings IN ~
than heretofore which would indicate that Zone dearly h
he puts from being badly hurt he would lead rs
When the state Idaho sees fit to adopt witcc antique
the idea of Mr. Hastings will doubt be followed upOro6no
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-02-20
That Boil WeeviI Story.

Somebody has written a letter TO
Governor-elect Hoke Smith of Geor-
gie-a letter which is either an at
tempt at a gigantic hoax or the dis
covery of one of the most villainous
plots ever concocted.
The letter has been given ott for
publication. II warns Governor Smith
of a plot of spectators TO bull the
cotton market by destroying a good
part OF the crop through incubation
with the boil weevil There is no de-
nying that the plot is simple enough
to be easily carried out. 1t is gen.
orally believed to be a joke. The
story presents a good opportunity for
some of the novelists who have fren-
zied finance as the basis for their
stories. With human beings who are
not too particular to destroy human
life by the distribution of deadly dis
ease germs. il is no tout of the realm
of possibility that either for gain or
revenge wholesale attack upon the
food supply might be made by those
who would control the market for
their own benefit. The story seems
improbable. but there is nothing i'm
possible about il. If the history of the
world in the past is to be taken as a
criterion.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-02-20
ELECTION NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given. that on
Tuesday, the 2Sth day of February
A. D., 1911, in the city OF Rock
Island, Ill. an election will be held
for the purpose OF nominating can
didates for mayor and commissioners
Of the city of Rock Island.
Which election will be opened at
6 O'Clock in the morning and con-
tinue open until o'clock in the
afternoon OF that day.
Places for registration and voting
will be as follows:
First ward, second precinct-4I3
Fourth avenue.
First ward, second precinct-62s
Eighth street.
Second ward, first precinct-1O14
Third avenue.
Second ward. second precinct
919 Sixth avenue.
Third ward, first precinct-Coun-
ty Jail building. Third avenue and
Fourteenth street.
Third ward, second precinct
1434 Seventh avenue.
Third ward, third precinct-1101
Fifteenth street.
rOuTLu WdT0s uTSL pTeCluCI-1Sl1
Third avenue.
Fourth ward, second precinct
Trinity church vestry, rear 1918
Sixth avenue.
Fifth ward, first precinct-Hose
house on Twenty-second street.
Fifth ward, second precinct
Schmid's store, S23 Twentieth street
Sixth ward, first precinct-Hose
house on Twenty-sixth street.
Sixth ward. second precinct-ReaI
of 200 Seventh avenue.
Seventh ward, first precinct
311O Fifth avenue.
Seventh ward, second precinct
Peterson's carpenter shop, $40 For
tyfifth street.
Seventh ward, third precinct
Gannon's paint shop, Fourteenth ave.
nue. between Thirty-eighth and
Thirty-ninth street.
NJ T. RUDGREN, City Clerk.
Rock Island, Ill, Feb. 3, 1911.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-02-20
That Magazine Merger.

Suppose ii is true that a merger
has been effected 10 control TO a large
extent periodical literature in such a
way as to constitute a literary trust
for the defense of entrenched mon
opoly and organized greed, what
then?
The idea that the press of this
country can be bound and gagged
successfully is as absurd as to sup
pose that in this day OF enlightenment
the public mind and conscience can
be brought into subsection. Byron.
in his Prisoner of Chillon." said
Brightest in dungeons, liberty thou
art, for there they habitation is the
heart, the heart that love Of thee
alone can bind" II this was true of
Downward in his dungeon. how infin-
iteIy more ineffective must be the ef-
fort to crush out liberty in the hearts
that have known and loved and en-
ipyed il in the open.
The St. Louis Post Dispatch in dis
GUESSING the merger says very per-
tinently; The whole gigantic under
taking is already a complete failure.
however. 1t is a failure in the nature
of ideas. Men or magazines which
profess ideas may be subject TO mer-
ger and control. but the ideas which
move civilization pass out unmerged
and uncontrolled by any bill OF sale"
Whether such a scheme be engi-
neered as is said by the Morgan in
terests. the Standard OH interests or
any other interest, II courts it's own
defeat and destruction when it under
takes TO fling defiance into the face
Of the whole human race with its
aroused sense Of justice and its love
OF fair play. A few magazines and
few writers. muck rakers" as IL
calls them, may be purchased or sub
sidized. but the world is fun OF others
TO take their places along with the in
dependent newspapers which are
fighting for equal rights for all and
carry on the work of enHghtening
and strengthening the people Even
Russia has signaily failed 10 stamp
out the love OF liberty Ia its subjects.
China has given ND the fight and is
going to reform. The freedom of the
press can not be throttled in any
such way The papers and magazines
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-02-20
The Argus Daily Short Story
He Gave Up a Fortune-By James P. Walker.
Copyrighted. Li.aresy Press.

you'll learn the reason"
Go on, colonel"
From that time forward, feeling
/ that 1 might as well be hanged for an
old sheep as lamb. ! smoked like Il
I ferryboat. I was caught smoking so
often that my dement's came very near
preventing me from graduating. AS It
was, 1 was put into the infantry in
/ stead Of the engineers, where, when /
4 entered. hoped to come out
/ The course l laid out for myself was
+ this: vowed I would not remain in
the army, marry and bring up a fam
F lily OF children on IN officers pay. Be
/ ing poor as a church mouse, 1 resolved
to marry a rich girl and make the army
a lifelong profession.
after tackliEg good many girls
who supposed had money! met with
! success with one whom l will call Anne
liza Jones. She was the only daughter
Of old Jones, who had made a fortune
in a patent Of some kind, and his
daughter told me that he would settl,
half n million on her the day she was
married. provided he approved of her
fiance. Just rs soon as ! proposed 10
Amelia and was accepted she told me
that when l cams 10 meet her father
1 must stop smoking til after the we'd
ding. The Old man was violently op-
posed to tobacco
Singular" I interrupted, that the
same thing IS repeated in the case OF
your daughter"
Not so singular as you suppose
when you have heard me out
fsed settlement had been made I could
blow cloud in the old buffers face IL
I li,zed-Or words TO that effect-for rs
couldn't take Back what he'd given.
Since ! was 10 get q nice girl and S25.-
600 A year with her / thought J could
manage 10 stop smoking during an en-
gagement. especially since I was due
TO be ordered west in three months
and we were 10 be married before the
change came.
THAT was the hardest three months
to get through in nay life. I've serv-
ed on alkaH plains and in wilder
ness. but could smoke and didn't SUI
fer. I had promised my 6ance that
would take 10 r.sk-indeed that I
would not smoke once TIL the expira-
ton Of the term, or, rather, till y
O'Clock noon on the day we were TO re
married. At hrst was 50 hungry for
a smoke that ] kept a few cigars in
bureau drawer where I could smell
them. but I found it was like a drunk
ard smelling liquor. ] had 10 give It
up. kept a record Of tine days 10 be
passed before the wedding day and
scratched Off each day as it passed.
And when they began TO dwindle ev-
cry day seemed q month-nOt before
the wedding, but before could smoke.
.At last the day of my emancipation
came I had received NV orders 10
go west. and we were to take train
leaving az 8 p. m The ceremony was
TO take place at J. I bought a thou
sand Of the best cigars / could find 10
have them ready and TO take with me
where such cigars were not to be pro-
cured On my wedding day had my
luncheon served in my room, and aft
er / had eaten and drunk 1 opened
box. The odor was delicious
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-02-20
Life Lines
Copyrighted. 1911.
BY BAsILEUS.

COpyF1R hted. 1911.
When you have to be advised and
supervised your value is merely NOM
inal; the phenomenal man who al
ways draws the big fee. is the one
who can do his task without being
told.
Evolution in nature is the result
of change of nature habits; changed
conditions change natures necessi-
ties and nature changes it's habits in
reproducing.
The wounds that you receive were
meant for you TO have that you might
enjoy the healing; the more you
trust, the surer you are that God is
just in his dealing.
When you receive applause for do
ing your duty, you get for what you
do more than you deserve; duty do
ing develops the divine part of man.
When the sunlight of truth pours
through all windows OF your soul.
you will not feel poor at any time;
truth is the glory OF the universal
kingdom.
Build your life on faith and not on
strife; be kind to your brother as
you would be TO yourself and justice
and peace in you will never cease.
Solve your problems and the rid
dies Of life by sitting silently and
looking within; you will guess lesa
and use logic more when you have
learned to know yourself.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-02-20
Do Not Forget the Commissioners.

Do Not Forget the Commissioners.
The interest that is everywhere
manifest all over the city in the cam
paign for the mayoralty under the
commission form of municipal gov
eminent, should not be permitted to
overshadow the serious discussion of
the candidates for commissioners.
According to the new law the office
OF commissioner is quite as import
ant as that of mayor and any man,
regardless of his qualifications for
mayor, would be seriously handicap
Ied If his associate commissioners
should fail to come up to the stan
dard OF efficiency and reliability that
the public seeks under the new order
of control. The election of three i'm
proper or undesirable commissioners
would efectuaIly block any good &C
complishment that a creditable may
or might undertake.
AS a matter of fact under the COM
mission form the mayor has no ex
elusive prerogatives, so to speak. The
powers or administration are vested
in the commission, and hence while
it is eminently desirable that the city
elect a representative citizen to serve
as mayor il is just as desirable that
they choose capable and creditable
commissioners.
Think all these things over be-
tween now and week from tomor-
row, scan carefully the list of candi-
dates, make up your mind in advance
who are to be your candidates for
commissioners and then take time in
the booth to pick them out and vote
for them
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-02-20
Advertised Letter Lis. No. 2.

Following is the list of letters re-
naming uncalled for CT the Rock Is
land postoffice for the week ending
Feb. is. 1911: Mrs. Earl Bowen. (.
Brom. Edward Blake. Kilma Baker,
3. Berhold. Mrs. Cora BenelI, ". W.
Bills, Hiss Florence Chapman, Mrs.
II. r. Casper. Gene Chaplin, Miss Kit
~ Doyle. Miss Inez Dawson, Sam
Earlywine. John ]. Elliott, Gus Fehr-
er, Miss J. P. Freely, Lewis 4. Gre
yer, r. P. Gilpin. Ross Hanson, Craig
Haverfeld. Anna Johnson. John Jun
gems, J. l. kroover. J. NJ. Meeks, Miss
Marie McDermott. Rose Morris, Mrs.
c. d. MeAvoy, Eta ID. Northham,
Miss Emma Pain gren. Ray Piebet,
C. Z. Reno!ds. Mrs. Jennie Rimman,
F. J. Ross. Henry Rochs, Mrs. Rob
inson. Miss Conner Sullivan, A.
Shodie, Eddie Smith, Mrs. Edna Ted
ford. Miss Thelma Textrude 90. a.
n. Willard. Walter Weaver, Mae Van
Wedding. Mr.. witchiitch, Lannce
Walker, J. L. Wyrset, Mrs. Jane
Yongs. Foreign: Mynheer Clement
De Paul, Monsieur 4. Pucina, Mrs. J..
L. Wright, N. F. Young.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-02-20

the position that old heather Jones
stood toward me. Smoke. smoke.
smoke. smoke to your hearts contents?
He pushed the button again and or
Gered another cigar for me. l protest.
ed that Z never smoked two cigars, the
one following close upon the other, but
dreaded to oppose him lest he fly into
a passion.
Ny application for his daughters
hand was perfunctory. Indeed. il was
an anticlimaX- 1 was accepted on the
condition that never should stop
smoking.
Ny father-in-Iav stood I'm a very SIN
gular position. He loved tobacco, but
could not use it without the past com
ing up in such force as to risk his very
life. kept the secret that be had
conhded to me. and to this day my
wife cannot understand why 1 am
more Of a smoker than before she mar
ried me, and that, too, without any op-
position whatever from her father.
Colonel Mechard's story is an Illus
tration OF the trifiing incidents that de-
termine ones career. Had 1t not been
for his first episode-the unexpected
coming OF the inspector at West Point
he would not have been so affected by
the second. The two together gave an
important direction to his life's sur
roundings. He was devoted to his fam
fly. but somehow never could recover
from the shock of having given up half
n million dollars for a cigar. tell
him that 80 long as the fortune was 20
have been his wife's instead Of his own
he made a wise choice.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-02-20

Having proposed to Genevieve,
daughter of Colonel Mechard Of the
til United States infantry and hav-
ing been referred to her father, l
wrote him a note asking when 1 could
see him alone, there being an impor-
tant matter about which l desired TO
confer with him. OF course he knew
what that matter was. In reply l re-
ceived an invitation to dine with him
at his club-the Army and Navy. We
dined in a private room. I purposeiy
waited till the dinner was finished and
the colonel had drunk his share Of the
wine. | was about to open the sub
ject for which we had met when he
stopped me by laying his hand on my
arm. Then, reaching back of him, he
pushed a button. a waiter appeared,
and the colonel ordered him TO bring
one first rate cigar
Now, Genevieve had posted me on
one matter about which l must be
very careful. On no account was 1
to let her father know that 1 used
tobacco in any form. The colonel de
tested even the word tobacco.
Thanks. colonel" l said. Il never
smoke"
"Oh. you don't?' he replied Then,
turning to the waiter, he repeated the
order. The cigar was brought and
placed before me. You either smoke
that cigar said my host, "or the OBJ
jet
He paused. I knew what he meant,
and, taking the cigar, l cut of the
end. lit it and began to smoke
Before entering upon any other sub
ject." the colonel continued, Il have a
story to tell you. My family knows
that there is something about tobacco
that exCites my ire. If they knew the
cause it would make trouble. at least
between me and my wife. But l won't
tell the yarn wrongside foremost; III
begin at the beginning.
when / went to West Point the OBJ
feet Of my ambition was not to take
high grade ia my studies, but TO be
cadet officer. / was very careful not
to get dement's aud kept my equip
menJs well polished. l was made
corporal. which put ne in the line of
promotion. and I confidently looked
forward to being a cadet captain when
1 became first class man. Immedi-
ately after nv promotion I strolled
into the room of one Of my classmates.
where found several cadets smoking.
II was then against the rules OF the
academy for cadets TO smoke. 1 was
offered a cigar-I had never touched
tobacco in any form-and. like a fool,
took one"
The colonel grew red in the face, and
there was an irritated IooIc in his eye.
We'll. colonel?' I said. blowing a
cloud
IAN inspecting officer walked in and
caught US ali smoking Ny chevrons
were stripped from my arm, and 1
the rest OF my term a private"
That was too bad" remarked SYM
at was nothing compared With what
followed That one Whit OF the weed
gave me a taste for tobacco that I
have never got over
But you don't smoke"
No. Isdon't. and if you'll be patient
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-02-20
Was Roosevelt in the San Juan
Charge?


Charge?
ST. Louis Republic: An artist
has drawn a picture of the charge
up San Juan hill and left Theo-
dore Roosevelt out OF It. He makes
the lame and impotent excuse that
/ Theodore Roosevelt was not as E
matter of TACT, in the charge.
! 1t is thus that art, exulting in its
/ Immortality. is fettered to the dull
corpse of excessive liberalism. What
does any form Of artistic expression
/ care for facts? History says Mr..
Roosevelt was not in the San Juan
charge. So much the worse for his
tory.
Mr.. Roosevelt wa, in that charge.
Nothing about San Juan is more real
than his presence there. He can be
proved to have been there by the
same variety of logic the New York
Sun employed to prove there is a
Santa Claus-a variety, by the way,
which was by no means invented by
the Sun and which has been rather
imm oderately eulOgized. Don't be
alarmed, good people. Yours would
be a cold and dreary world. indeed
without its kind Santa-we mean
without that mythical, herioc figure,
with eyeglasses. rough-riding it up
the San Juan slope. You positively
shall not be deprived of either Santa
or Teddy. The Santa Of the Sun
really needs the San Juan Teddy to
supplement and expand it's concep-
ton.
What prosaic, unimaginative his
tory says is that while colOred and
other troops were making the gal
liant and thrilling frontal assault, the
Rough Riders were away around on
the other side of the hill somewhere,
performing the mighty useful but I'M
picturesque duty Of cutting off the
Spaniards and blocking their retreat.
But what has prCsaic, unimaginative
history got TO do with a nation that
hangs up its stocking, buys Teddy
bears and still pins its faith to
busy civilian press agent of military
exploits away back in 1898?
We turn Artist Howard Chand-
Ter Christy over to the Sun 70 be
dealt with as the enemy of Santa and
Of society and society's illusions
ought to be dealt with.