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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-30
Il MORE WILL MAKE TT.

A very peculiar feature Of the birth
OF the daughter of Judge and Mrs.
William Blodgett IS the fact that she
was born on the 23d of the month.
The Judge was born on the 23d OF a
month. Mrs. Blodgett was also born
on the 23d of a month; their mar
riage occurred on the 23d Of a month
and the bride was % years old on the
day of their marriage. Their first
child was born on the 23d Of a month
and this little daughter was born on
the 23d Of month. This seems odd,
but Is all true.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-30
RUN HIN DOWN, BROTHER HALL
Port Byron Globe.l


Some anonymous writer, who has
dated his letter Port Byron, has writ
ten 20 a Moline paper a communica-
ton to the effect that Port Byron has
no Booster club" as the paper has
said, and that the papers account of
a recent meeting of the improvement
association was hot air" stunt The
writer of the communication, whoever
he is. must have a sore spot at the
business men and apparently he is very
much afraid they will do something.
Some effort is being made to learn
who the writer Is, and il is to be re-
GREETED that the efforts 80 far have
been fruitless, for the writer of this
letter deserves nothing better than 10
be exposed, which appare ntly he would
very much dislike TO have done OF he
would have signed his communication.
The improvements as mentioned in the
paper came before the club at their
meeting and we can see no object in
anyone Directing to these things ex-
cept IT is some taxpayer. who is afraid
II is going TO cost something.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-30

Lyndon, KY. az have been taking
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
for headaches, neuralgia pains, backache,
nervousness and general run down con-
dition of the system, and am entirely re-
lieved Of these troubles i recommend
your remedies TO my friends and give
you permission to publish what write. I"
Mrs. II. Won RoDEN, Lyndon, KY.
When a woman ike Mrs. Won Roden
Is generous enough TO write such let
tar as the above for publication, she
should at least be given credit for a
sincere desire to help other suffering
women.
II yOu want special advice write to
Lydia Z. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confl-
dentiaD Lynn, Mass. Your letter will
be opened, read and answered by q
woman and held in strict confidence.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-30
Bows Under Ten Criminals.

Lincoln, March S0.-After having
been refused admittance to the st.
Charles school for boys, because they
were under the age limit of 10 years
fixed by the state board of adminstra-
ton, Herbert Rowe and Lloyd Arnold,
both of Mount Pulaski, were ordered
admitted today after Special Agent
Virdon declared their criminal in
stincts were the worst developed of
any lads of equal age in his knowledge.
The boys, aged and 8 years, were
caught attempting to wreck the Hi
nois Central daylight special at Lake
Fork to see the cars pile up, as they
had seen in moving pictures.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-30
RECOVERING, BUT LOSING BUsI-
NESS.
Henry, Ill. Republican,

AAA'S hACpdbAAS1AsJ
Rev. r. L. Vivian is enjoying beau
tiful Los Angeles and the pleasant
California climate, and while recovery
is slow, We hope it is sure. He is
much in the open every day and is
looking forward to the time when he
will be able to take up his work again.
All his friends, both here and in Cali
fornia, advise him to wait his return
until the weather here is settled and
spring is with US to stay. He and his
family are approaching most keenly
the prayers going up in his behalf by
the church and other friends. During
his infirmity the Methodist minister of
Sparland has OBLIGATED in his stead at
nine funerals, which is quite a record
for the minister of a sister town.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-30

March S0-John p. Weyerhaeuser,
w. II. Marshall and Fred c. Denkmann
have peturned from their extended
western trip.
City Attorney NJ. E. Sweeney, who
recently returned from Wichita, Kan,
is arranging TO remove there, or to
some other town in Kansas, for future
abode.
The Northern Illinois High School
Teachers association will hold its an
nual meeting at Hyde Park, Friday and
Saturday. April Is and 16 The princi-
pal of the Rock Island high school.
who is a member, will represent this
CITY
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-30
USE ALIENS FOOT-EASE.

The antiseptic powder to be shaken
into the shoes. II you want rest and
comfort for tired. aching, swollen. sweat
ing feet, use Aliens Foot Ease. Re-
lieves corns and bunions of all pain and
prevents blisters, sore and calfous spots.
Just the thing for dancing parties. pat-
ent leather shoes, and for breaking in
new shoes. It is the greatest comfort
discovery of the age. Try IL today.
Sold everywhere, 25 cents. Don't accept
any substitute. For free trial package,
address Allen S. Olmsted, LIE Roy. N. Y.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-30
peneen Has the Grip.

Springfield, March 3Ol-Governor De
neen was taken i'll suddenly with the
grip Friday evening. DR.. l.. c. Taylor,
his physician, was summoned and the
executive was ordered to bed. DR.,
Taylor said that the governors tenn
perature was high and that he would
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-30

James S. Sloan of Biggsville, Hen
derson county, who is a candidate for
the democratic nomination for minor
ity representative, in the course of
an interview with The Argus today,
stated that his Henderson county OPP
ponent for the nomination, E. L.
Werts, is responsible for a lot OF
paid newspaper publicity not only
boosting himself but misrepresenting
the facts of the situation as they per-
tain to recent history. "Werts in
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-30

not be able to leave his bed before
Monday at the earliest. Today he
passed a part of the forenoon debating
to James Whitaker, his private sec
rotary.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-30
THINK THIS OVER, NEIGHBOR.
(Taylorville, Ill, Courier.)

= g. w 'aaANf AAAst CSNAANA'J
This week we looked in the neigh
count of how a young man had gone
wrong, as it appeared in the city dali
les. Not a line about the young man
could we find. And we know why at
once. A broken hearted wife or rela-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-30
BY J. NJ. C.
GRANTED, OF COURsEs
Port Byron Globe.)

Hon. n. 8. Ketchum, candidate for
railroad commissioner of Iowa, re-
quests US to correct our statement in
our last items that he is now seeking
his fourth term in that office. when it
is really his third term. We cheer
fully do so and beg his pardon
princeton, Iowa, Correspondent
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-30
Piles cured n 8 to 14 par,.

Your druggist win refund money II
Pazo Ointment fails to cure any case
CT itching. blind, bleeding or protrud
ing plies in to II days. so cents
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-30

March 29-L. S. McCabe has return
ed from an extended business trip in
the east
A telephone has been placed in the
Diamond 10 quarters. The number is
1920.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-30
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

messed q most excellent Interpretation
Of Shakespeare's immortal Comedy of
Errors by the distinguished Ameri-
can comedians, Robson and Crane, at
Harper's theatre last evening 1t was
a sumptuous production, the most sig
nificant dramatic event of the season
at Harper's.
The series Of revival meetings at
the First NJ. f. church closed last
night. There have been 40 conversions
during the meetings.
March rs Notwithstanding Oliver
Olsens interchangeable labors as a par
ty worker in the past, and the arduous
duties performed by him in the con
vention, the delegates passed him by
and nominated P. O'Mara for city at.
torney. The republicans are evidently
afraid that OMara wiz desert them il
he is not given an office, while they
know that Olsen is ready to take of
his coat at any time for the cause
And there was Sturgeon, too, who was
sighted the same way
Hon. w. II. Gest fell on the sidewalk
in front of Mitchell & Lyndes bank
last evening, inAicting a serious and
painful sprain to his lame knee. He il
doctoring 1t today. and hopes, with
proper care, TO be all right again in q
few days.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-30

Medicines that aid nature are al
ways most successful. Chamberlain
Cough Remedy acts on this plan. 1t
loosens the cough. relieves the lungs.
In restoring the system to a healthy
condition. Sold by all druggists.
All the news all ,ne ume-The
Argus.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-03-06
A Menace to Peace.

Theodore Roosevelt must expect
his attitude on public issues to be
thoroughly studied now that he has
become a candidate for the presi-
dency. We spoke last week of
his demand for the recall of
judicial decisions and the prece-
dent he proposes to break in be-
coming a candidate for a third
term in the presidential chair. There
is still another way in which he
would be a dangerous ruler for this
country at the present time. The
United States has just taken a very
important step in it's international
policy in the arbitration treaties
made with France and England
which were ratified by the United
States senate yesterday.
These treaties are the result of
years of agitation and centuries of
development in the spirit of justice
between civilized nations. They may
not prove perfect but they are ire
mendous advancement over the in
tolerance, perfidy, treachery and
hostility Of the seventeenth century
when all civilized Europe was pitted
in devastating warfare. At that tin7
a personal oath or agreement was
ignored and repudiated if personal
or religious interests made it desir-
able. There was no national honor
when hostile nations were attempt
ing to exterminate each other. But
now things are changed and the
slaughter OF noncombatants and
innocents will never again stain the
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-03-06
Vocational Education.

The praise which has been given
/ to the bill introduced by Senator
Page, of Vermont, with a view to
| instructing the growing generation
in vocational studies, should be suf-
fRcient warrant and suggestion to
Congress to give more than ordi-
nary attention to the measure.
Senator Pages bill attacks uni
versal problem from the right angle.
For many years Congress has been
trying to improve mankind after it
has become ''sot in its ways" 1t
has been trying to instill a high
standard of business ethics by put
ting trust laws on the statute books,
apparently refusing to admit that
laws will not cure the weakness of
ignorance or habit. 1t has been
trying to develop industry and i'm
prove the condition of men when
they are past the period during
which character and habits are
formed.
The measure introduced by
Senator Page gets to the root of
every small evil that faces the pub
lie today. 1t provides, in brief, for
encouraging instruction in agricul-
ture, the trades and industries, and
instruction in these vocational sub
iects in state normal schools; for
maintaining extension departments
in state colleges of agriculture and
mechanic arts, and for an appropria-
ton by the government for co-opera-
ton with the states to all those ends
For the government to enter the
field of education may be decried as
an invasion of states rights, but
the fact that the states must do their
share before they receive national
aid seems to dispose of this objce-
ton. Already the government is
doing considerable educational
work, and there is no good reason
why it should not extend its activ1-
ties much further.
If there is one important work
that the government can do it is
along the lines of education. Coop
Grafton between the government and
the states in the announcement of
vocational studies would lead to
greater uniformity in education.
The kind of studies suggested would
lead to a higher sense of business
honor in the future, and would
equip the coming generations for
real service in the world. Instead
or young men anu young WOnCA
trying to find themselves and fit
themselves into the system after
graduation, they would be directed
from the beginning toward the acti-
witty for which they are best quail
fed. There would not be so much
fumbling and cropping. The prog
ress of future generations would be
surer and more sane.
The present congress cannot en-
ploy its time better than in the con-
sideration of Senator Pages bill. 1t
strikes in a certain, sensible manner
at all the evils congress is seeking
blindly to correct. The whole prob
lem Is one of education, and not of
laws. 1t is not possible to legislate
morality or intelligence into man.
kind, but Senator Pages measure
presents the one chance for a law
that will come near to the accom-
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-03-06
Manual Training.

We are distinctly in favor of the
introduction of manual training in
the St. Johnsbury Academy. 1t is
move in the right direction. The
persons who gave the $4,000 for
this work are rendering a valuable
service to the cause of education In
the state and especially to all young
men who will be students at this
Academy.
1t is proposed to install the best
possible equipment such as carpenter
benches, lathes, jointers, circular
saw, twenty sets of tools, a motor,
a grinder, etc. This sounds very
much like a shop, just what it
should be, practical place for prac-
teal work, where a student can APP
ply his arithmetic, algebra, geo
metry to the affairs of life; place
for the union of theory and practice,
which is true education.
Manual training will help every
boy who takes it. Constructive
work with the hands increases the
interest in every other study, and
often stimulates an interest for
books where none existed, so will
afford a great opportunity for stu
dents who carry with difficulty the
old line Of studies and will pro-
long the school days of many a
boy. 1t will help the boy to find
the work for which he is best fitted
and assist him in planning his fu-
ture career. 1t recognizes the dig
nifty and value of hard work and
opens a new field of investigation
to those who find the so-called
higher education Impossible or i'm
practicable.
We hope the Academy will soon
embrace a work for girls, such as
the preparation of food, the care of
the home, the proper selection of
material for clothes, for proper nu-
triton, sanitation and clothing
which are of vital interest to every
home and community But this will
soon follow.
The St. Johnsbury Academy is to
be congratulated upon it's forward
movement, for it shows that this in
stitution is to remain what it always
has been, a leader in the educational.
affairs of this state.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-03-06
vermont,s Rurnl ProbIem.

The article headed Study in Rur-
al Life" published elsewhere in this
issue was written by ]. Sterling
Moran, secretary of the Young
Mems Christian Associations Of Adj
Olson County and Brandon, and
one of the men who worked with
DR.. E. A. Ross in making the study.
The correctness Of their findings
will be admitted by all familiar with
rural conditions. The remedies they
propose are good as far as they go
but other work is necessary to bring
success. The serious lack in the
small towns which have been losing
population for the past so years, and
the majority of Vermont towns
have, is an organized progressive
force large enough to exert the
necessary influence to lead the town
into new and progressive life. Most
of these towns are keeping open to-
day as many churches and their re-
ligious people are divided into as
many denominations as they were
when their population was at its
maximum. The result is two or
more large church buildings with a
mere scattering of attendants in
each town. These small bodies are
able to merely maintain a separate
existence. The struggle for existence
absorbs all their vitality and they
have no spirit or force left and can
not win confidence enough to give
them leadership in the best life of
the community. Weak as they are
numerically and financially they are
unable to pay salary enough to
maintain a vital moral leader in
their pulpit and as a result they
cannot lead.
and wiping out of UNCONVENTIONAL
divisions and jealousy is necessary
if the smaller communities are to
be a real force in moral develop
ment. There are in nearly every
town enough people interested in
it's moral welfare to form live and
forceful organization for moral up
lift and vitality if they can be
brought together. But they cannot
be brought together so long as the
amount of water used for the bap-
tismal service forms an impossible
barrier between them. Together
they could support and employ a
forceful moral leader and turn the
tide in rather than out. The crying
need of rural Vermont today is for
larger and more vital religious units
in every town and community large
enough to support one.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-03-06
PRESS COMMENT


There is every indication that
Colonel Roosevelt is a very much
disappointed man at the way his
candidacy for a nomination for
third term to the presidency has
been received by the people of the
country. 1t is plain that his Col
umbus speech was part of his
carefully worked out plan of pro-
yoking the contest 1t was to be his
platform, upon which his candidacy
was to be based, following the letter
of request from the willing govern
ors, preparing the way for his for
NAL announcement, which was to be
brief. The radical attitude taken in
the Columbus address astOunded
his closest personal friends, as they
have since declared and have re-
gretfully admitted they could not
follow. For the two days he has
been in position, he has been busy
explaining and qualifying, but he
has failed to satisfy and he has be-
come petulant over it. He has said
he became a candidate because the
progressive republicans needed a
leader, but the radical stand he
has taken has never been that of
the progressive republicans over the
country. Scores of leaders of that
party faction, who had been in
closest sympathy with him have been
forced to declare opposition because
of his advocacy of initiative, refer
endum and recall, going to the ex-
treme of applying the latter to
judges and fundamental law itself.
Conspicuous among them is Con-
gresham Gardner of Massachusetts,
a progressive leader in the house.
1t is undisputed that the last re-
publican convention in New Hamp-
shire was of strong progressive ma
jority; the platform was distinctive
ly and up-to-date progressive, and
yet there was no suggestion for it or
in it of the extreme policies that
Roosevelt now demands as ma
tional policy. In this he is not
speaking for a majority of the pro-
gressives, and they are not following
him in it, here or elsewhere, as far
as has yet appeared. There are no
abuses yet disclosed that it is not
certain connot be speedily and eff
fectively reached in another way.
10 make plausible room for his can
didacy, Roosevelt has gone farther
than the people of the country are
prepared to follow. He has seri-
ously and fatally overstepped.-
Manchester Union.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-03-06

records of the civilized world. Even
in China. engaged in internecine
war. the horrors OF the Middle Ages
are not perpetrated. In all civilized
portions Of the earth the diplomatic
representatives OF the nations meet
and discuss the right and the
wrong of international demands and
proposals They negotiate just
settlements Of disputes and the le-
gal heads of the various govern
ments bind their nations to observe
the regulations agreed upon. And
now three of the leading nations of
the world have entered into a
solemn contract to submit all ques-
lions of international dispute that
cannot be settled by their diplo-
matte agents to an Independent and
disinterested tribunal for decision
as to whether or not they shall be
arbitrated.
Still we are only at the opening
of this new era which promises to
make international justice a reality.
Other nations are waiting to make
similar agreements with US. We
are at a stage where men in SYM
pathy with this latest effort to abol-
ish war between nations can give
the country the best service, in fact
where their sympathy and zeal are
necessity not only to America but to
the world at large. Theodore Roose-
welt has publicly expressed his hos
tility to our present international
policy. His whole history is one of
a belligerent nature. The chip on
his shoulder is as prominent as his
teeth in the cartoons and to place
him at the head Of this nation at the
present time would be a reputation
of the greatest accomplishment OF
the Taft administration. United
States holds too prominent and hon
orable a position in the effort to
bind the nations to the decisions of
Justice to sacrifice its honor for the
of Roosevelt's person.
al ambitions. international peace
and international justice require the
of the rule of a man
bearing a nobler emblem than a
Khaki uniform and a sombrero hat.
The nomination of Theodore Roose-
Welt at this time would be a serious
menace to the greatest and most
honorable undertaking to which the
civilized world ever committed itself
under the able and judicial leader
ship of the United States of America.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-03-06
EAST BARNET
Lyman Harvey is improving.
IUilIin N AEoNiII l. LII

Lyman Harvey is improving.
William McGill is sick.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. p. McLaren are
rejoicing over the arrival of son in
their family Tuesday morning, Feb.
27.
Guy Lindsay was home over Sun
day from Goddard Seminary, Barre,
last week.
Little Alice GilIander is visiting
her grandmother, Mrs. Margaret Nc
Leran at Charles Chamberlin's
Miss Vera Goodrich from St.
Johnsbury was a guest of Portia
McGill last week.
Ed. Wild and Alfred Morse pur-
chased some registered Holstein
COWS last week.
R. B. Abbott and Albert Orr from
Groton visited at Charles Harvey's
last Friday.
The Helping Hand will meet We'd
nesday, March IS, with Mrs. Z. g..
Farnsworth. Dinner will be served.
The apron sale Thursday after
noon and the play 1.-THE Heart of a
Hero" in the evening were we'll at
tended and very much enjoyed and
quite a little sum was added to the
treasury of the l. @. s.
Charles Ames went to Morrisville
Saturday to visit his sister, Mrs.
James Ramsdell.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-03-06
What makes a Savings Bank Safe

What makes a Savings Bank Safe!
The man or woman who thinks OF
making a deposit of his or her lit
tie savings, oftentimes his or her all,
naturally does some hard thinking
with reference to the matter of safe
ty. There are a great many finan-
cial institutions which parade at the
head of their announcements a long
list of distinguished names, names
which are an ornament, and names
of men whose association with any
Savings Bank ought to make bank
worthy of confidence.
Depositors should not be deceived
by these names. The names of Gen
eral So-and-So and Hon. So-and-So
and Col. So-and-So do not add to the
safety of the bank. if they belong to
that class of directors who are not
direct.
In this connection the Hyde Park
Savings Bank has word to say. It
is a matter of common knowledge
that the managers of this bank have
given to it's investments such care
full consideration and scrutiny that
In its more than twenty-three years
of existence it has never lost dollar
by a poor note-a record perhaps
unparalleled in the history of banks.
Not only do it's managers scrutinize
with a painstaking care every detail
connected with it's investments, but
the results show that those invest
ments are made conservatively and
with a determination that safety
rather than high rates of interest
shall be the guiding principle of the
Bank.