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LIEUT.. H0USER DISMISSED.
President Approves Sentence of Gen.
eral Court-Martial.

First Lieut.. Ora L. Houser of the
Philippine Scouts has been dismissed
from the service as result of his con-
viction by general court martial of the
charge Of having inflicted cruel and un-
authorized punishment on several mem
bers of his company in the Philippines.
and also of the charge of drunkenness
on duty. The President approved the
sentence.
Lieut.. Houser is from Ohio and served
in the volunteer army during the Span
ish war and the Philippine insurrection
He was appointed second lieutenant Phil
ippinc Scouts in September. 130S. and
was promoted first lieutenant in June.
1911.
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PRAISES DOLLAR DIPLOMACY"
Huntington Wilson Cites Results Oh.
tanned in Santo Domingo.

In announcing the annual report of
American administration of the Santo
Domingo customs revenues, which
showed total for 1911 of $4,000. 600.
or an increase of $S0S.456 over 1910.
Huntington Wilson. acting secretary of
state. said ii was an excellent example
of dollar diplomacy"
This policy, which the State Depart
ment wishes To adopt with. Nicaragua
and Honduras, he said, prevents en-
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tanglements. promotes peace and pros
perity, pays just debts and gives an
impetus to foreign trade.
I'm the case of Nicaragua and Hon.
duras," said Mr.. Wilson, this foreign
trade will benefit. above all. the south
ern states. their factories and their
seaports. Here is a case where We are
advocating policy that has proved
good"
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DAUGHTER BY ADOPTION.
Young Married Woman Principal
in Unusual Proceeding.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, April "a petit
tion for the adoption of young married
woman by a Boston man is granted in an
order of the East Cambridge court on
file here today The young woman IS
Bernlce NJ. Roberts. formerly of Rolling
Dam, n B., where her husband is a sue
cessful contractor. Before her marriage
she was stenographer and confidential
clerk of George A. Cochrane, commits
sion merchant.
Mr.. Roberts assented to the adoption of
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in each department. In addition there is
a buggy. two freight wagons. a mail
wagon and pay wagon owned by the
Treasury Department Five men are en-
ployed drivers and stablemen The bu-
reau of engraving and printing which is
under the Treasury Department has fif-
oT,.,a, nerlcies; , @ nnc,uo,ms TWO carriages Tor
as drivers or stablemen.
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MUNYON'S
PAW=PAW PILLS.

] want every person
who is bilious or has
any stomach or liver
ailment TO try a package
OF my Paw-Paw Pills.
l want TO prove that
they positively cure In
digestion. Sour Stomach.
Belchipg. Wind, Head.
cche, Nervousness, Sleep.
lessness, and are an ia-
:allible cure for Coas;s-
patton.
Sold By druggists for
&c a vial. Eor fres
package address Munr
yon. pblla.. Pa.
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Vehicles Government PAYS For.

Uncle Sam furnishes the Secretary Of
the Treasury a broughan. a victoria and
a. landau for his own use. according to
report submitted TO the Senate in response
to the BriStow resolution calling for sta
tistics as to the number OF conveyances s.
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WOULD MAKE HIGHWAYS SAFE.
Judges Comment When Sentencing
Farmland for Molestino Girl

POUGHKEEPSIE, ". Y, April g.
Walter +. Davis, a farmland must
spend the next sixteen years in Sing Sing
prison for attacking Miss Elsa Holtja,
the young daughter of wealthy New
York contractor, while she was on her
way home from Sunday. school near
Pleasant Valley.
In passing sentence Supreme Court Jus
tice MorschauSer said, II plan to make
the country highways as safe for 2 young
woman to traverse as city street patrol
led by policemen"
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hour and in trials has made thirty-seven
miles 1t is modelled like the famous
Dixie ", but is much smaller.
According to insiders. the rival >own-
ers are prepared to back their boats for
a stake which may total as much as
500, COOS
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At a meeting of the Caroline Coco
Roads Association at Fredericksburg, Va
resolutions were adopted calling on the
board of supervisors to petition the cir
cuit court of Caroline county to enter ar
order calling for a special election or
the issuing OF bonds Of S125.0OQ for per
maneht good roads.
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VOTES FOR WOMEN.
1.-THE SIX SUFFRAGE STARS.
BY Frederic ]. Haskin.

the political honor of the women of Ida
no. Women constitute less than ~ per
cent of the population of the state, and
by official statistics they cast more than
35 per cent of the vote throughout
the state. while in Boise, the capital.
they cast 40 per cent. Women sometimes
ride twenty miles on horseback through
the snow and over the mountains to vote.
Utah also gave women the right to vote
in 1896. but here there were complica-
tions on account of the Mormon ques-
tion. The legislature in 1870 gave women
the right to vote, and they used this right
until 1887. when Congress took away the
franchise of all women, Gentle as well
as Mormon, as means of stopping the
practice of polygamy. In 1895 a conven-
tion was held for the purpose of formu-
lating constitution for statehood. This
convention was composed of both Cen
tiles and 'Mormons, and after thorough
discussion an equal suffrage provision
was put into the new constitution. It
carried i'm the November election on a
vote of 2S,6lS to 2.6S7. This was the YER
dict of the men of Utah after an expert
ence of woman suffrage covering seven
teen years. This constitution met no OBJ
lection In Congress, and the women of
Utah have been better organized polit-
ically and have worked harder than any
others. Women have been sent to both
houses of the legislature, have filled state.
county and city offices and gone as dele
gates to presidential conventions
When Colorado. which was the second
state to grant suffrage to women, made
UP its constitution for statehood, in 1876,
1t refused to grant full enfranchisement.
but gave women the school suffrage. A
special provision was made by which the
legislature might at any time by a ma
Jorfty, instead of the tWo-thirds major
ify required for amendments. enact a law
extending the suffrage. but this law must
be approved by a majority Of the voters.
1T was ordered that such a law be SUBJ
mitted at the first election after the state
came into the Union. This was done,
and in 1877 the men Of the state defeated
the measure by vote Of two to one The
matter rested until the early nineties
when there were many more women in
the state and they began to organize
their forces.
In 1893. when the legislature was under
the control of the populists. another suf-
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Wyoming First to Give
Political Equality.

the voters in 1894, receiving a favorable
majority of G,3t7. The women, entered at
once upon their political duties, and Off
cial records show that during the past
eighteen years they have voted in as
large proportion as the men. They have
evidenced no special desire to hold Office.
although about dozen have been elected
to the legislature and to a. large number
of county offices. The Office Of state SUI
perintcndent OF public instruction has al
ways been held by a woman. Women
serve upon state boards and commissions
and arc eligible to jury service.
The first state in the Union to give po-
litical equality TO women was Wyoming,
where the first legislative council, after
the organization of the territory, passed
a bill in 1859 The council was demo-
cratic, and it hoped to embarrass the re-
publican governor. John A. Campbell,
| who was expected to veto it. He signed
it, however, and when the council re-
pealed it two years later he vetoed the
was held to form the constitution for
statehood, the clause equal political
rights for all male and female citizens"
was adopted unanimously. and this con-
stitution was ratified by more than three
fOurths majority of the people and sent
to Congress for approval. Members OF
| that body fought three days to have the
clause eliminated, and the territorial dele
gate telegraphed to Wyoming that it
looked as though it would have to be
done. The legislature wired back, I'VE
will remain out of the Union a hundred
| years rather than come in without woman
suffrage" The struggle in the United
States Senate was equally strenuous. but
after three days oratory the excitement
ceased. and President Harrison signed the
bill admitting the new state, with woman
/, suffrage, in June, 1890.
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his wife but none OF the persons con-
the case.
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HEAVY STAKES PUT UP
IN MOTOR BOAT RACE
Contenders Represent Two
Different Ideas in Engines
and in Designing.

NEW YORK, April 5.-Arrangements
are to be concluded here during the next
few days for motor boat race, the
prize in which probably will be the larg-
est ever put up for a contest of this
kind. The contenders will be the Reliance
V. owned by j. ]. Ryan, and the Dixie,
Jr., built from the designs of Clinton IL.
Crane. Both are small boats-only twenty
feet long-and equipped with engines Of
about sixty horsepower.
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II you want work read the want COL
umns of The Star.
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California Women
Are Proving Worthy.

held in their honor by stalwartly living
up to their political privileges In San
| Francisco the women celebrated st. VAL
entine's day in proving their devotion to
Uncle Sam by registering for voting. The
New Era Club kept open house and was
headquarters from which the women were
taken In automobiles to register. AS the
| result of this crusade more than 60,OGO
women were registered voters In Los
Angeles S2,54j women registered for vot-
ing at the hast election. There were 3d.
600 more men than women registered, yet
more than 10000 men failed to vote. while
the WOmenS $ vote was more than 90 per
cent of the number of names registered.
In San Francisco there were three times
as many women as men registered the
first day the books were opened.
The suffrage victory in the state of
Washington was gained in 1910 after a
strong fight. In this state there had been
practical experience of woman suffrage,
as the territorial legislature granted Wom-
en- the right of ballot in 1SS-; and they
cast more than one-fourth of the votes at
there were less than one-third the num-
bcr of women men i'm the territory.
During the time they possessed suffrage
the official returns showed a larger per-
centage of women than men voting. even
with all of the physical handicaps Of
pioneer days. In 1856 some question as to
the constitutonality of the act arose and
in 1887 it was again questioned the legis-
lature passed it third time.
| The convention which prepared the
constitution for otatohood waS influenced
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| The flag of the National Suffrage AS
| sociation is an American flag. 1t has
thirteen stripes of red and white. and 1t
| this field, instead of forty-eight stars
representing the forty-eight states, there
are but six stars, representing the six
| states of the American Union in which
women are given the ballot and are equal
| in political rights and privileges to the
men, The suffragists believe that it will
not be long until their flag, too, will bear
forty eight stars
The last state represented by an added
suffrage star is California. which only
last year granted to its women the priv
ilege of the ballot. The campaign i'm that
state was d vigorous one, in which the
:suffragists from all over the country par
ticipated by contributions and other sup
port When the victory was won cele-
brations were held in all of the larger
cities. In New York and the New Eng
land states some of these celebrations
were elaborate affairs, strongly demon
strative of the equal suffrage enthusiasm
| of the east. In New York the Mems
League for Woman Suffrage joined en-
| Enthusiastically in number of the celebra-
| tions, one of the most important being
Political Equality Association, which is
financed chiefly by Mrs. o. II. p Bel
mont. AT one of these meetings fea-
ture was the singing OF a new suffrage
song entitled VICTORY for which Mrs.
Belmont gave prize of $15o. 1t is sung
to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the
Republic.
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Recalled" Police Chief
Mayor and Council.

was arranged that at the spring election
of 1889 the vote of a salOonkeeper'S wife
should be refused. Her case was rushed
through the supreme court, where two
out of three members decided that the
equal suffrage law was void because a
territorial legislature had no right to
extend the suffrage. The women were
thus disfranchsed, and all they could
obtain from the legislature OF the new
state was the submission of woman suf-
frage as separate question. 1t was de-
feated by nearly 10000 majority. In
1908 they made another attempt and the
| majority against them was less than
! 10000. In 1916 they made the greatest
campaign ever held for suffrage. with
the result that they carried in every
| county in the state and received a ma
jority of nearly three to one, the largest
victory ever registered for woman suf-
frage. The women registered by the tens
of thousands in Seattle, and the follow
ing month recalled the mayor, turned
out the council and the chief of police
and regenerated the city. Throughout
the entire state their activity upon every
public question continues unabated.
The struggle in Idaho was compara-
lively brief and there was little opposi-
ton. Women were granted suffrage there
in 1896. Before it's admission as a state
Mrs Abigail Scott Duniway, the pioneer
suffra gist of Oregon, had canvassed the
| territory and appealed to the legislature,
and she continued her efforts the year
following. She received strong support
from individual men and women, taut
there was no organized effort made until
1885,. In 1S9o the republicans We're in
| control of the legislature. and the reso-
luton to submit an amendment to the
vote of the people was passed almost
,Y,ir civ Tho "a N
democratic. popuist and free silver party
conventions indorsed it and it carried in
the November election by a vote of a.
most two to one.
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Difference in Construction.

The race will be interesting because 1t
will try out two different ideas in motor
boat designing and engines.
The Reliance V is what is called a one
step two-plane hydroplane. The bottom
of the after half OF the boat is about
four or five inches above the bottom of
the forward end and air is pumped into
this step. the idea being to raise the hull
and let it plane over the water.
Dixie's Guaranteed Speed.
/ The Dixie. Jr.. was built with q guar
anteed speed Of thirty-seven miles an
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Ride Horseback Through
the Snow to Vote.

ton, fifteen county superintendents and
four county treasurers were elected. This
proportion has been kept up. There has
never been any substantiated criticism of
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BOYS "CADET'

Custom-msde Shoes Of
the highest quality and
in STYLES that NJ I S 7
appeal to drcssy young
men.
BUTTON 0NSOlsDS 5
and 1 EYELET TIES
RIIND-E y T. l. T. L ENG-
LISH" OK Fol ID sand
STRIKING NEW HIGH
SHOE STYLES. Iu all
feathers. Sizes 81. to C2
-
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At the next election three women were
sent TO the Legislature and one woman
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The convention which prepared the
constitution for statehood was influenced
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In 1893, when the legislature was under
the control of the populists. another suf-
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The California women are doing all in
their power to prove themselves worthy
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-07-04
GIVING PLENTY OF DISTANCE
Common Mistake Made by Many
Gardeners Is That of crowding
Plants Too Close.

Many gardeners make the mistake
Of crowding garden vegetables too
close in the drill. Vegetables require
rapid growth and quick maturity to
give quality and flavor to the plants
when served. Unless the soil is ex
ceptioually rich, and there is plenty
of soil moisture available during the
growing season, the plants are apt to
be dwarfed and the quality Of the
vegetables impaired.
In producing vegetables for the
market, the grower will endeavor to
grow plants of high quality and de-
sirable flavor, and he cannot afford
to take any risk. 1t is far better to
produce fewer products and gather
vegetables of better quality than to
have an abundance that do not com
mand fair prices.
The safest plan is to SOW plenty of
seeds in order that a good stand may
be secured. If the plants are tender
and the spring is favorable for the in
sects, diseases, cold nights, etc., leave
about twice as many plants as you
desire to grow. When the weather Is
favorable for the growth Of the
plants, thin promptly, leaving the re-
CURED number of plants. Be sure that
the plants have sufficient distance to
produce vegetables of extra quality.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-07-04
Concrete SiIo.

The concrete silo which | built last
year Is IA feet inside diameter and the
walls 6 inches thick. 1t is reinforced
with No. 8 wire inside. The height Is
20 feet. / kept close track Of all ex
penses and figured the mems wages
for the farm laborers while on the Job
at $1.75 a day. says a writer in an ex-
change. The sand and gravel / hauled
from my own sandbank. The cost
a as follows: Fifty barrels cement.
$63.50; labor for c%oncreting, $115; Ia.
Dor on roof, $40; reinforcement, So;
bolts, $3.50; asphalt on roof, $40, or a
total of $203. My silage came out In
splendid condition. During this very
severe winter traces Of frost showed
only on the sides.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-07-04
SPREAD MANURE EVERY DAY
Practice Greatly Reduces Possibility
Of Losing F~ertlHxing Elements
Cart ls Handy.

A careful and intelligent use Of
stable manure will build up the fer
tility of any farm. The trouble with
the average former is that he wastes
his manure The habit Of regarding
manure as valueless is one of the
most expensive a farmer can have.
To properly conserve mi the
liquids as well as the solids should be
collected. For this purpose 1t is we'll
to have the floors of the stalls so that
they will drain easily into a water
tight gutter at the rear. This gutter
should be stopped at both ends, but
n end should be lower than the
other to allow the liquids to drain to
that end.
Manure should be spread every day
when it is possible. This is very i'm
portant, as 1t greatly reduces the
chances of losing the fertilizing ele-
ments. In summer 1t can be spread on
the field from which the soiling crops
have been removed, and in winter on
grain fields. Newly seeded fields
should not be MANFRED.
A hand cart may be used for spread
Ing manure. Where there are a large
number Of cattle or horses, a special
dump cart, drawn by a single horse,
may be used. Daily spreading insures
that any teaching by rains shall carry
the leached materials into the soil
where they are wanted.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-07-04
PLAN OF TW0-sEcTIoN DOOR
One illustrated and Described That
Has Been Found Entirely Safe
to Open or Shut.

We use the two-section door on our
barn and have found it successful.
Each section is hung on an enclosed
barn door track which is bolted to the
siding just under the cornice. By cut
ting the doors at the bottoms at the
same angles as the tops we can use
stay rollers to hold them in place at
the bottom, thus preventing Tapping
by the wind, We fastened a small side
pulley on the inside near the top of
each door and a double awning pulley
to the first rafter in the comb Of the
roof, writes r. Schnacke in the Farm
ers' Mail and Breeze. By threading
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-07-04

behaved exactly as at the cattle mar
ket, scrutinizing the boys and girls,
sometimes feeling their biceps, and
then making an offer to the person in
charge of the party.
Owing to the demand this year be-
Ing so much greater than the supply,
the prices ruled high, $50 being given
for a sturdy lad Of sixteen, big enough
to WELD the hayfork or a scythe ef-
fectively, while $50 was given for one
Of the older girls who looked as IL
she could do a long days wedding in
the sun. One the other hand, $12 was
considered enough for little, underfed
mites of eleven, who ought to have
been at school.
The money, of course, goes to the
children's parents, landless men in the
remoter valleys of Tyrol, woodsmen
and the like, who, one would be glad
to believe, are driven by sheer desti-
tuition to send their children to work
for strangers in a foreign country.
The child slaves are sent home at the
end of October-all, that is, but some
who succumb to overwork, ill-treat-
ment, and inconsistencies. That the
children are not always well treated Is
we'll known, but a blacklist Is kept,
and an offender has a poor chance OF
making a purchase thereafter.
The whole business Of the child
market, which is of great antiquity, is
now arranged by a clerical society,
the activity Of which is violently at
tackled by part of the local press,
which demands It's suppression.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-07-04
DUBIOUS
About What Her Husband Would Say.

A Mich. woman tried Postum be-
cause coffee disagreed with her and
her husband. Tea is just as harm
full as coffee because 1t contains caf-
feine-the same drug found In cof-
fee. She writes:
my husband vas sick for three
years with catarrh Of the bladder, and
palpitation Of the heart, caused by
coffee. Was unable to work at all
and In bed part of the time.
II had stomach trouble, was weak
and fretful so / could not attend to
my housework-both Of US using cot.
fee all the time and not realizing 1t
was harmful.
"One morning the grocers wife
said she believed coffee was the cause
of our trouble and advised Postum. /
took 1t home rather dubious what my
husband would say-he was fond Of
coffee.
But I took coffee right of the table
and We haven't used a cup Of 1t since.
You should have seer the change In
US, and now my husband never COM
plains of heart palpitation any more.
MY stomach trouble went away in two
weeks after / began Postum. My chill.
dren love 1t, and 1t does them good,
which can't be said of coffee.
"A lady visited us who vas usually
half sick. I told her I'd make her a
u Of Postum. She said 1t was taste
less stun, but she watched me make
It, boiling It thoroughly for Is minutes,
and when done. she said 1t was splen-
did. Long boiling brings out the ia
vor and food quality" Name given by
Postum Co. Battle Greek. Mich.
Look IN pkgs. for the famous little
book. The Road to Wsliviils.""1
Dver read the nbsvs Isttsrs a new
60 appeaxs kxuu time 60 tfRs. xhsy
ess ssaSAnAs tsuss snA fsli ~ hunsa
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-07-04
GARDEN dnd
FAPM NOTES

Potatoes after alfalfa are bound tn
make a fine crop.
The easiest way to kill a weed is
never to let 1t sprout.
Try this rotation: Alfalfa, potatoes,
grain. 1t Is a good one.
Hen house cleanings make the best
fertilizer for the onion patch.
Wide rows and a c~ultiyator in the
garden means less hand work.
Rotation makes use of all the ele-
ments of plant food in the soil.
The best time to fight weeds is the
very first day they show their heads
above ground.
The surest way of getting rid of
moles is to set one of the steel spring
traps over their runs.
Smaller and more frequent pant
ings of vegetables. will lengthen out
the garden sas season.
A row of p~arsnips, carrots and sal
sify planted now will come into good
play next fall after frost.
Beg, borrow or buy all the wood
ashes you car to use in the garden;
work 1t well into the soil.
If blossoms appear In the newly sst
strawberry beds, pick them off; this
will make the plants stronger.
Cut the clover when a majority of
the blossoms are turning, and the al
falfa when the new shoots start from
the crown.
Soil taken from a well-established
alfalfa field and spread on land T., be
sown to alfalfa is a very good wsy to
~inoculate 1t.
Rotation of crops is n Of the sim-
pie. practical methods Of mere sing
the productivity of the farm and dis
tributing labor.
The most profitable way Of ma ket,
ins grain and fodder Is through STOCK.
They produce manure. which II very
necessary to the soil