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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-06-13

The st. Lawrence mill was traded
Yesterday by Mr. Harris for 8 con-
siderable tract of MOUNTAINEERING. A
new miller is expected this week to
take charge and run the mill.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-06-13
Miller High "a ST. Lawrence 8

The Miller High School ball team
went over to st. Lawrence Saturday
and won game by a score of IA to
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-06-13

At a special meeting of Candy Post
the following resolution was unanim-
ouSlv paccad.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-15
JUDGE EDWARD F. DUNE.

Judge Edward F. Dunno of Chicago
is spending the day in Rock Island ana
Moline in pursuance of his candidacy
for the democratic gubernatorial nom
ination. Judge Dunno has graced the
bench of Cook county and also the
mayoral chair OF the city of Chicago
and has discharged every duty and obi
cation imposed upon him with distinc-
ton and signal ability.
Above all things he has esta blished
reputation for honesty. and in the
executive office of head of the second
greatest city on the American cont
nent his stand was always on the side
of the people and their interests.
He is making an affirmative cam
paign on positive and clearly defined
issues. He has a host of friends and
admirers throughout the state and is
gaining others by his formidable cam
paign.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-15
is 1T GOODBYE TO THE COW?

While despite the advent OF the
automobile mans best friend. the
horse is still with It's, it looks as If
modern invention might dispense with
the COW. Now comes a scientist and
declares that butter can be made di-
rectly from grass by mechanical pro-
cess. Instead, then, Of going out in
the cleaning and calling, Goo, boss"
the romance is all strained out, there
fore, when he wants pound of butter,
the farmer runs his machine out into
the field and starts her running, and
the buttermilk will fly. AS yet they
have not found substitute for milk,
but II will doubtless be only a step
farther before we turn the babies out
to grass, confident that being up-to
date babies they will be able to milk
the meadow without the assistance OF
the muley. You never can tell what
well do next.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-15
HE ADMITS 1T.

Kinnie AOstewig, of Lee, Lee coun-
didate for the republican nomination
for lieutenant governor. He started in
life as clerk in a local store and is
now village clerk of Lee. Kline is
not joking. He sees what is running
for the various places this year
and sacrifices himself for the public
good He admits 1t in the following
pronunciamento:
With me Il is not so much the am
bition in seeking the Office, as il is to
be of some service in bringing back
the fair name of our state, which on
various occasions quite recently has
been trailed in the mire."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-15

preference, yet under the present sys-
TEN he must vote against the six who
are satisfactory the same as the one
not satisfactory to him. Out of this
bunch of eight candidates, seven might
represent one idea or one faction in the
republican party, while the other can
didate might represent the opposite
side of that proposition. The conse-.
quence OF this condition of affairs is
that the seven particular candidates
that might represent one idea or one
faction have their votes cut into seven
parts and thereby reduced in that pro-
portion, while the candidate on the op-
posite side of the proposition, having
solid vote back Of him could be NOM
mated by a plurality Of votes which
would represent only a fraction more
than one-eighth or twelve and one-half
percent of the full voting strength of
the party to which he belongs.
There is no intention Of arguing for
or against any one candidate on the
republican ticket or on any other ticket;
in endeavoring to demonstrate the
weakness OF the present system OF vot-
ing. II might apply TO any party or
any Office under the same conditions.
If each voter could express his pref
erence for all the candidates Of his
choice, voting for those who are salts
factory to him and his ideas, and
against those unsatisfactory to him,
voting for all those candidates who
represent the issue which he desires
to endorse and voting against all the
candidates opposed to that issue, It is
safe to assume that in the state of IL
l.nois the one candidate representing
idebauchery and bribery in politics
would be Overwhelmingly defeated and
some one of the candidates represent
ing the prevailing sentiment Of the
voters of his party in the state would
be nominated by receiving a majority
vote of the party on whose ticket his
name would appear.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-15
(springheld Record.)


A distinguished English lawyer con-
tends in a letter in the London Times
that Great Britain's epidemic of labor
troubles, eliminating in the great coal
strike, may be really remedied only by
limitation of families among the poor.
His contention is two-fold:
a That human beings ought not to
be multiplied recklessly when there is
no prospect of maintaining them. nor
of their being able to maintain them
selves.
CD That feeble and unfair stocks,
so far as possible, should not be per
petuated.
The doctrine has speedily found echo
among some American sociologists,
who want it applied to our own large
cities.
If this doctrine is good for England
at present, it must be good for all the
world at all times.
For idleness and poverty are every
where, always.
1t has been estimated that over 80
per cent of town dwellers are neither
strong nor healthy.
Could these 80 per cent be prevented
from having children then. in the
course of generation. instead of there
being, as there are now, too many men
for the available jobs, there would be
too many jobs for the available men.
But ar what q cost would this so,
luton" have been purchased
A large section of the population
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-15
THE FAULT WITH THE PRI-
MARIES.

II there is any fault to be found with
the system Of primary voting It is be-
cause II is upside down. Nrong end
TO, does not give the voter an opportun-
ity to express his preference, starts
witE the wrong idea. ends with a ms.
carriage and is hence apt to be a fail
ure for the purposes intended. II can
only be remedied by a complete rever-
sal of the present method of voting
and by giving the voter an opportunity
to express a preference for each can
didate who IS satisfactory to him and
70 record his objection TO each candi-
date who is not satisfactory 20 him.
This the present system utterly fails
TO do. II is a matter that could be cas-
lily remedied. The remedy would be
Logical, sane and a safe proposition
The difficulty is, under the present
law. that the voter is compelled to Sc
lect the name of some one candidate
out of all the candidates that may be
running for any particular ONCE, and
east his vote in favor OF that one can
didate. BY the same action he casts a
scattering vote against all the other
candidates running for that particular
ONCE.
A vote has two sides, a negative and
Il positive. While the average person
considers the matter OF votinng for a
.F- frsfI 10 90
this is a misunderstanding. A vote
has also a negative side. When a
voter casts a vote for one candidate,
by the same action he necessarily
casts a vote against all the other can.
didates that are running for that same
Office. II the action could be entirely
reversed and the voter instead of being
restricted by the law to vote for only
one candidate and thereby against all
the other candidates, were allowed to
vote for as many candidates as were
satisfactory TO him, the whole difficult
" would be solved by this simple pro
cess and the candidate finally selected
would be certain of the favorable votes
Of a majority Of all the electors OF his
party. instead OF being selected by a
minority vote as is frequently the case
under the present method OF voting
where there are several candidates
running for the same ONCE.
Take the candidates now in the
field and the primary ticket as it will
be arranged by the secretary OF state
Eight men are running for the ONCE o
governor on the republican ticket and
four on the democratic ticket
While seven OF those candidates OF
the republican ticket might be accept
able to a republican voter and only on,
Objectionable to that voter. he is com
RELIED under the law TO confine hi
Preference in voting to one man onl.
o., Of the seven acceptable to him
Among the seven he may not have an.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-15
The Argus Daily Story
Surgical Grafting-By F. A. Mitchell.
Copyrighted 1911. by Associated Literary Bureau

."Gentlemen." said DR.. Marou to his
fellows of the Paris Society Of Orig
inal Research, 1--WE must call halt in
the substitution Of members Of the
human body until we can determine
its effects. A case that has come un-
der my observation indicates that it
may be far better for individuals to
decline being grated with the parts Of
other persons unless they are first as
sured that the person from whom the
graft is made is not only without any
physical disease. but is not afflicted
with some especial vice.
Developments of recent years have
indicated to me that the material, the
mental and the spiritual are one, that
there is no part Of the body that does
not contribute to the whole being of
the animal. We have been accustom-
ed to consider the brain as the exclu-
sive seat of the mind and soul, while
the other members are simply useful
as auxiliaries. The case that has
come under my observation has con-
WINGED me that when we graft knee
joint, an arm ora leg on to live per
son that person Is liable to partake of
the idiocyncracies of the one from
whom the part was taken.
"Dr. Arnot and myself have recent.
ly performed double operation, or
rather, two different operations of the
same character. on the same person
Jules MERCER, young man of TWEEN
ty-two, came to me as a patient, and
after an investigation / diagnosed that
his left kidney had become diseased
and treated him accordingly. Despite
the remedies l used the tissues con
tinued to be broken down rapidly, and
finally told him 1 must engraft 8
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-15
The Overlicense of Greed

would have committed suicide.
Millions of men and women would
have been condemned to lead unnat-
ural lives, deprived of the joy and
stimulus Of home life
This policy is the policy of impotent
despair.
1t is the policy of one who refuses
to probe the evil to its source.
He should have gone step further
and asked himself why so many peo-
pie are feeble and unfit"
1t is not at all necessary or natural
that they should be.
No one could be so blasphemous as
to suggest that God intended millions
of His creatures to exist in conditions
which deprive them of health and
strength to prevent their bringing up
sound offspring.
Instead of condemning to sterility
those enfeebled by unrequited toll and
unified by hunger, would IT not be
| better to condemn to sterility the
grafters, the labor crushers, the monop-
olists and all the cunning, conscience
less schemers that snatch from skinny,
shrinking toll its last hard crust?
1t is not question of over-popula-
/ ton anywhere.
/ Eminent economists say that Eng.
land has the natural resources for sup
porting 10 times as many people as it
has now, and that the United States
could maintain in comfort so times its
present population.
The trouble comes from over-greed
! and the over-license of greed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-15
TALKS suftl--
WOMEN PEADEPS
BID
Edna. K.WOO1Q1

It's bad idea for man to leave his
wife alone too much.
have Just been reading about the
case of a man who thoroughly loveo
his wife-as he thought-and VINO mas
Just discovered that she has not Oeen
true to him. He is amazed, as well as
heartbroken. He can't understand IL.
And of course he puts all the blame
everywhere except upon himself.
The wife is pretty and young and
full of life She admits her fault, ana
this is what she says:
What could you expect? My hus-
band is a clubman. He is also en-
gagged in a business that keeps MIN
away from home six months in the
year. Separation of husband and wife
is a dangerous thing. Yes, absence
makes the heart grow fonder-of some
body else.
This other man was attentive and
kind to me, when my husband left
me at home to twiddle my thumbs
and look at the pictures on the wal
and for six months at a time.
tried to be true wife, but the
neglect grew monotonous. And
learned to love the other man"
OF course 1T will be said that she
should have been true, anyway. Mos
women would have been. Most neg
lected wives are-and there are
great many who must spend a large
part of the time without the compan
ionship of the man from whom the!
should rightfully expect it.
But a man risks much when hi
puts too much reliance upon a wife
loyalty to him in spite of prolonged
absences and constant neglect. TIT
most well meaning Of women mus
resent such an attitude, in time, ant
when a woman resents she is apt t.
do something desperate. After all,
woman is very humble, in spite o
the superhuman demands made upol
her.
Affection must be cherished, like
delicate plant: and if a husband a
lows somebody else to do the cher
ishing in his absence or through hi
indifference. he is going to wake u
some day to the fact that the 1owe
which he thought he owned has bee
transplanted and is blooming for ar
other man.
| have always pitied the wives G
travelling men and men in other bus
nesses that keep them away froI
home months at a time.
Not only do these women have tn
burden Of loneliness to bear, and pc
haps anxiety for the safety of thei
husbands, but they have every othe
burden OF attending to the famil
finances, of the household chores, {
bringing up the children, etc, withor
the needed help of the man Of tn
family. Such a woman must be bot
mother and father and If she fails
the double duty, is it a wonder?
One man who is away from HON
the larger part Of every year is tn
father of three boys They haV
grown up without any superyisio
from him. They soon learned tn;
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-15

they could take advantage of their
mother, and now that it is time for
them to become self supporting, they
are both unwilling and incapable.
They had lacked a fathers firm guild
ance from the beginning, and now that
the father is trying to take them in
hand he finds himself liable to cope
with the situation.
A woman can't do it all. though
heaven knows how often she tries.
| She needs help and advice-and that
not by letter or at six-month intervals.
She needs it all the time just as the
right kind of husband needs the CO.
operation and the sympathy of a good
wife every day in the year-except.
perhaps, for that timely separation
now and then which is good for the
best of married folks.
Here's another thing-People who
are well mated and who live the most
of their days together, do not see
times mark in each other, as they
do when coming together after long
separation. The daily changes are SO
slight that they are not noticeable to
one who sees them constantly.
But the changes of six months OF
a year may be observed. The woman
who knows that during her husbands
absence she has annexed new wrin
kles which he cannot fail to see, has q
spell of unhappiness over it. Thai
hurts, too. Or, each may have. And
he may have grown fatter and baldel
i-coarser in some way, come in con
tact with alien influences during thai
period apart-infiuence which, even Il
not spoken about, will ooze from ones
personality and create an atmosphere
of strangeness.
Two people cannot grow into one
if they are separated from each othel
for long periods every little while
There is strangeness to overcome
every time they meet.
Two people who really love eacl
other will manage somehow to be to
gether most of the time. When ;
nan deliberately leaves his wife alone
even upon the plea Of business, TO
frequent long absences; or when
wife takes long vacations away from
: home, on whatever pretext; then tn
spouse of either has a right to fee
that love is quite dead and that thei
marriage is but the shell that ono
held a beautiful ideal.
But what's a man to do when hi
job calls for long absences from
2 home?
1t is not always practicable to TAX
r his wife with him. But, there ar
r other jobs. One large firm keeps onl
Y unmarried men on the travelling lis
T AS soon as one of them marries h
t is given a stay-at-home position.
. A man really should not marry III
a til he can be a good husband in NOR
a ways than in just furnishing the fan
lily income.
e OF course, some wives are perfect
g willing to be separated from their hu.
e bands as long as the check come
n regularly. But we're not discussin
[ that kind.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-15

Assuming that Taft is sure to be
nominated the question OF vice run
ming mate is being discussed. Sunny
Jim sherman is understood to be will
ing but Is regarded as wholly impossi-
bic considering the present condition
OF public thought. Cummins is talked
about In the hope OF salving the pro-
gressiyes but Senator Borah appears
10 be the only one who is maintain
ing a press bureau.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-15
Hurnor and
Philosophy
~ DUNCAN ~. SMITH
DISAPPOINTED.

ETHls leap year business" said the man
Approaching middle life.
Is buncombe pure; 1t never brings
The worthy wight a wife
No girl. as far as can see,
Has spread for me her net
I've been through four or five of them,
And I'm unmarried yet.
When hope was young and on my lip
Soft. struggling hairs appeared
/ thought that leap year was the time
That all men greatly feared.
But when I waited half year
And no proposal came
I thought the other sex was shy
Or didn't play the game.
1"since then I've watched them come and
90.
Those uneventful years,
And no proposal low and soft
Has fallen on my ears.
For all the girls seem satisfied.
As far as 1 can see.
To Jog their way along through life
Without annexing me.
IT'S all a bluff to fiatter men.
Girls may propose, tits true.
But 1t is seldom. l am sure,
Or never that they do.
It's useless quits for signing youth
On leap years aid to plan
He must initiate the move
And win her-tf he can"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-15

Il RECEIVED VISIT FROM MILE. LUCILLE
DEvEREAUX."
healthy kidney in place of the dis
eased one or he would die. He con-
scented, and performed the operation,
having obtained a perfectly well kid
ney taken from the medical cold stor-
age vaults for the preservation of
members of the human body intended
for grating purposes. All l knew
about the person to whom the kidney
had belonged was his name, Edouard
GignouX, and that he had been killed
by a falling brick while passing q
building in process of erection.
The operation was eminently sue
cessful, the patient gaining health and
strength rapidly. But hardly had he
recovered when he was run over by an
automobile and his right leg was so
badly crushed that it was found neces-
sary to amputate it. / performed the
operation and before doing so 1t &C.
Cured to me that 1 might. graft an
other leg in place Of the one removed.
l had learned that Antoine Charlier,
who had been convicted of murder,
was TO be guillotned the day after
Mercier was injured. If l could pro-
cure his right leg as soon as he was
executed and Immediately thereafter
take off the crushed leg I might pos
sibly substitute the one for the other.
"By a small payment the leg I want
ed was secured within an hour after
Charlier was executed, and with DR..
Arnot's valuable assistance l united 1t
so successfully that In time the patient
was able to walk on it with reason
able ease OF course there was a great
advantage in tie mans youth. since
his vital forces were In prime condi-
ton for healing. During the union of
the parts we were obliged to make but
one readjustment and that was where
an artery of the grated leg had not
been successfully united to that of the
stump.
Pardon me, gentlemen, for taking
up your valuable time with details con.
corning matters with which you are
already familiar. Time was when the
substitution of knee or an elbow was
/ body as carpenter replaces a portion
/ of house or engrafts sections of the
! tubes carrying the hood as a plumbei
/ puts in a. few feet of lead pipe. Be
sides, we have the same advantages OF
/ material at hand as the builder or the
! plumber in the human organs consist
ing of kidneys. lungs. stomachs. eyes
ears and noses contained in our valua
! bic collection kept as living organisms
/ in our cold storage vaults.
Il now come TO something worthy
of your earnest attention. Young Mer
cier had been discharged as a patien
but few days when / received q Wis.
| from Mile. Lucille Devereaux, who in
formed me that MERCER. to whom sh
was engaged to be married. was actini
strangely. / asked her in what respec
and she said that while be had beel
. studying the profession of the law AM
had been much interested in il sine
my operations. though he was read.
to be admitted to the bar. he ha,
shown a great deal of repugnanee {
that profession and was hanging abou
the theaters endeavoring to secure al
engagement as an actor.
In a moment the idea that az
nounced in the beginning of my re
marks flashed upon me Could it be tia
the young mans identity had been 4
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-15
March Is in American
History.

1744-The American coloEies began
King Georges war. a name given
to the hostilities between British
and French colonists In America.
stirred up by their sympathies with
the home government in the war
of the Austrian succession. By the
treaty Of AixIa-Chapelle the war
ended In 174S.
i767-General Andrew Jackson, sew
enth president Of the United States.
born: died 1s45.
i7s1-Battle of Guilford Court House.
n. c.; General Greene's colonials
defeated the British under Corn
wallis.
1911-Ffrst aero war message deliver
ed at San Antonio. Tex. by Lieu
tenant Ben. ID. Foulois, Y. s. A.,
who few 81 miles in 4S minutes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-15
Friday Dickens Lucky Day.

Charles Dickens was not one Of those
who are superstitious concerning Fri
day. 1t was on Friday that many of
the good things came to him. and ii
was on that day that he entered upon,
paid the price and took possession OF
Gadshilf. the one thing he cherished
more than all of bis other possessions.
1t was Gadshin that he had gazed
upon when a wee bit OF boy with q
hope. then giving little signs Of frui-
tion. that be might live TO own it some
day, and 1t was GadshilI whose walls
he covered with mirrors In almost ori.
eatal naaziscanes.- Boston. REGARD.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-15

There is a fine opportunity for the
always unique and always commenda-
bic booster spirit to assert itself in
an effort 20 have the senate Of the
United States attend TO that small
matter OF $25O.OOO for the small arms
plant at Rock Island arsenal, which the
national house casually overlooked.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-15
ILLINOIS NEWS
Plan Teachers Federation.

Rockford, March 15.-Members Of
the Northern Illinois Teachers associa-
ton favor the federation of the district
teachers organization of the state. A
meeting to promote that plan will be
held at Decatur this week.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-15

Time does change people as well as
events. When Dick Yates came to
Rock Island eight years ago a candi-
date for reelection TO the gubernator-
ial chair, he said he was a fighter, be-
lieving the people always like a fight
or. When ne was here Wednesday he
was preaching the gospel of political
harmony and good will
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-15
poa,s Bite Kills Girl.

Champaign, March 15.-Miss Dina
Luebben Of Flatville, this county, is
dead and her sister. Minnie. is dying
in the Pasteur institute Both were
bitteD by dog.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-15

Teddy established an Ananias club
for all who disagreed with him, and
yet is again running for president on
the theory that the people like liar.