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Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1914-06-04
Survivors Tell Of Fog.

II was foggy. according to survivors.
when the Empress OF Ireland. a steel
hulled, steefbulkheaded ship Of more
than eight thousand tons. left Mon
treal at 4:30 Thursday afternoon In
command OF H. G. Kendall Of the
Royal Naval Reserve. one Of the most
skilled OF Transatlantic navigators.
Forest fires also obscured the At
mosphere and the big ship. in charge
OF q pilot. proceeded slowly on her
way to sea. At midnight the pilot
aide left near Father Point. shouting
a merry Bon Voyage" as he went
down their ladder to his waiting boat
The darkness at this time was In
tense and the ship under the siovest
speed possible with steerageway held
her course. Her decks were deserted
The passengrs had all sought their
berths with no thought Of impending
death.
Out OF the darkness. on the port
side. soon after $3.50 In the morning
there loomed the little Norwegian col
lier, not half the size Of the Empress.
but fated to be her destroyer.
Not until the collier was almost
abeam Of the big liner was the danger
known on either ship The fog had
b,otted out the lights as well as the
port and starboard lights OF both ships.
Quick orders trumpeted on both yes
sells were heard But they came aii
xoo late
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1914-06-04
sunraaettes Meet.

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Leaders OF the Votes for Women
movement In Mississippi attended the
meeting Of the Mississippi Suffrage
association which was called to order
In the senate chamber.
The gathering was presided over by
the state president. Mrs. Annie Kin
caid Dent. of Yazoo City. who led the
eventful fight at the recent legislative
session to secure the enactment OF o
resolution proposing constitutional suf-
frase for women. and in behalf Of
which a surprisingly large vote was
polled.
After the formal exercises OF wei
come two addresses touching phases
of the suffrage question were deliv-
cred. the first by Rabbi Abram Brill,
Of Greenville, and the other by Mrs.
Alex Y. Scott OF Rosedale.
During the convention plans will be
formulated for the statewide campaign
to be waged between this time and the
next legislative session. One plan In
view IL to have all legislative candi
dates closely quixsed to ascertain theii
views on the suffrage question. and 4
is quite likely that some very effective
quiet campaigning will be done by tn
women In behalf OF their movement
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1914-06-04

| g0ftntn O&p0k (&Se.
Chancellor r. x. Jones will give a
hearing TO the celebrated Corinth de-
pot case, which has been pending on
the Kinds county chancery docket for
several months.
The Mobile & Ohio and Southern
railway are resisting an order issued
by the railroad commission requiring
them to erect depot on a certain site
at Corinth. The two common carriers
have conceded the necessity for larger
depot accommodations at Corinth. but
are opposed to the site chosen by the
commission. which is located in an an
gle formed by the two lines. and they
claim that the tract is not large
enough.
The litigation involves the right OF
the railroad commission to arbitrarily
fix depot sites. a question that never
has been passed upon by the courts
in this state. Commissioner W. r.
Wilson OF the Northern district, is
making the fght for the site chosen
by the commission.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1914-06-04
1854 PERISH IN SEA DISASTER
Great Liner Goes to Bottom at Mouth Of 81. Law
renee River Following Collision
With Collier.

Rimouski. Que. May 31.-Nine hun
dred and sixty-four persons lost their
lives Friday morning when the great
Canadian Pacific twin screw liner EN-
press Of ireland was rammed amid
ships In Q thick fog on Father Point
in the ST. Lawrence and sunk By the
Norwegian collier Storstad-
Four hundred and three survivors
we're picked up from floating wreck
age and two lifeboats.
And only 12 Of the saved are women.
Gathered piecemeal from survivors
the horror OF this wreck grows with
the telling.
Waters Quickly EnguIf Ship.
The doomed ones had little time
even to pray. They were ensulfel by
the onrushing waters that swallowed
the big ship inside Of nineteen min
utes from the time she was struck
The wireless operators on the En-
press, sticking to their posts to the
last, had time only to send few IS.
o. s." calls for help when the rising
waters silenced their Instruments
That silence told the rescuers miles
away more potently than bugie that
doom had overtaken the ship.
Only six hours before this fateful
collision the passengers sang as .
goodnight hymn God Be With You
TIL Me Meet Again." played by The
Salvation Army band on board
The members OF that band and most
Of the les Salvationists we're among
fha loaf
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1914-06-04
Help Rushed 10 the Scene.

Capt. J. n. Beianger OF the Eureka
Immediately rushed to the scene and
Captain Pouliot. with the Lady Eve
iyn. followed later. his ship being
three miles farther away.
Meanwhile daylight broke and
scanning the horizon with = telescope
l saw the two government steamers.
nine iifeboats and a collier In the VI
cinity. going here and there. Later
the Eureka arrived at Father Point
wharf with % survivors and several
poor drowned bodies. also several OF
the survivors who had been wounded
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that your grandsons may have the
But 1 am SWISS" she said.
1T makes nothing" was the astound-
ing answer. This episode, on account
Of the lady's eminent position and ven
cradle age, has made a stir in Switzer-
land Another. equally, has gone the
round of the press.
In frst-class railroad car along
Lake Leman, all admired the magnifi-
cent panorama. Four were Germans.
and they spoke up. "All that will be
German shortly" they said. The Swiss
press. in printing it broadcast. have
summoned Germans in general to deny
the saying as individual bombast. But
neither German government function
airy, nor newspaper, nor chamber of
commerce, in close touch with the
Swiss, nor volunteer letter to the edi-
tor has taken it up.
They have already annexed Belgium.
For years before the war they told
what they would do with France. And
the colonial empire, which they have
set out to win. would realize dream
of power and grandeur greater than
was that of Alexander, Caesar or the
holy Roman empire.
Victorious over France, whose armies
and wealth they would destroy: mas
ters Of -Algiers. Tunis. Morocco and
Egypt; disposing of the Balkan PENN
sula by their ally, Austria, and stretch
ing their powerful arm across Anatolie
and Mesopotamia to legendary Bagdad
and the distant Persian gulf, they
would join to European and Mediter-
ranean hegemony the African gran
airy of the world" and the tabled east
for German colonists to populate and
multiply by millions, selling German
goods by billions. prodigious field Of
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activity for German force and genius.
Deutschland uber allesi
And yet more. Only yesterday from
Berlin the state secretary for colonies
declared: 1.-The fate of German posses
sions abroad is being fought out In
Europe. Against England we combat
for booty which must be in proportion
to our enormous sacriaces!" India. for
example.
Deutschland uber allies! It IL song.
The pan-Germans have all but made It
the imperial anthem.
Deutschland uber allies.
Uber allies in der welt!'
Germany over all, over all in the
They made so little account of
French resistance that, according to
Gomez Garlic, the plan of the, war
lords was to pass through Belgium
like cannon ball and arrive in Paris
August 10. The program-just to save
time-was to capture President Poin-
care, the English and Russian am
France and the presidents of senate
and chamber. They would sequester
the Bank of France. lay hands on a
considerable number of politicians,
bankers and newspaper editors hostile
to Germany and confiscate the great
book of the public debt. in, view of
obliging holders Of French government
bonds to accept German terms and
conclude a rapid peace"
Actually, they have requisitioned the
following sums, apart from moneys
conquered in banks and trust compan-
les and. the unissued Belgian $40 and
$40 bills which they signed with the
proper Belgian names and put into cir
culation under right of eminent do
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pathetically neutral you have all to
gain" German merchants insist on
paying their bills due to Swiss manu-
facturers in war bonds instead of cash.
Another offers to ship fireworks
cheap to Italy and Switzerland be
cause our great victories will soon in
crease the demand for fireworks enor-
mously." Another explains: las our
generous armies use no reprisals
against Franco Anglo-Belgian atroci-
ties. so we apply the same noble man
suetude in commerce. Peace must lift
US to the flights we merit. The in
ternational market Of the world will
be ours. 1t will be our field of battle!"
So President Roetget, replying for
the Association of German Manufac-
turers at manifestation presided over
by Herr Kaempf. president of the
retchstag, declared confidently: Ger
many must be victorious at any cost.
Our industries can subsist only in the
midst of a victorious German enpire.
In that extraordinary volume, Gross
deutschland und Mitteleuropa," which
attracted so much attention just before
the war. we read the following pre-
diction:
within "a short space of years we
may expect to see the German flag
flying over $4,000 900 Germans, who
will govern a territory peopled by 180-
100000 Europeans. Over this vast ter
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GERMAN WAR CARTOON.
behold m What You going do about it:"

come a diplomatic appendix of trium-
plant Germany"
All Germany entire lives in this
dream of justice and glory, says the
Swiss publicist Rossiter, from the
imperial chancellor. who lightly I'M
ballasts himself of encumbering for
mulas and treaties, to the humblest
Uhlan freighting home his booty from
Compiegne."
I'VE make a loyal effort to under
stand what is passing today in the
Germanic BRAIN" says the Lausanne
Gazette Great mysteries are there.
Nothing is more curious than the Wis
editors against those hang-dog Bel
gians. You bash their door in and
they fight like devils. What audicity!
They are like the bear in La Fontaine:
This animal is very bad; when you
attack him he fights back.
Germany was not always thus. In
1870 her great heart bled for Belgium.
Bismark unmasking the design of Ma
poIeop III (so-called Benedict pro-
iect) to annex the little neutral land,
the Kolnische Zeitung exclaimed: IF
treaties concluded in the name of the
Holy Trinity are to preserve their
awful sanctity, a robber who shame
lessly tramples all laws, human and
divine, like Louis Napoleon, should be
banished from among the nations!
Seeking to lay hands on Belgium.
whose neutrality is guaranteed by all
the states of Europe. he insults and
threatens all. How long will the SOW
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Already Belgium perhaps" annexed!
King Albert of Belgium has been
talking more freely of late than a king
usually permits himself to do. In the
past six years on numerous trips he
was struck by the trend of converse
ton in high German circles and the
increasing aggressiveness of the mill
tary caste. His conclusion was that
Belgium ought to prepare"
Eight months ago." he says, the
situation became alarming, and Bel
GUM learned facts of a nature SO
threatening that in December, 1913, on
the express wish of the king, the Bel
CLAN parliament held a secret session
to study urgent precautionary meas
ures' AS we see. they were adopted.
Deutschland uber allies! To edify his
fellow -countrymen, Prof. Ernest Ro
gum, the eminent Swiss member Of the
Institute Of International Law, draws
the grandiose picture of two formula
BILE empires stretching their frontiers
and spheres of influence from the
mouths of the Scheldt to the back of
Asia Minor and OVERLOOKING the Medi-
terranean to all north Africa from
Morocco to Egypt. IF half France and
all Belgium become reduced to con-
quered provinces; if. as in Prussian
Poland, the Inhabitants of their most
fertile cantons are to be evicted to
make room for Pomeranians, while
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KEA THE cRoMNP

ritory Germans only will exercise po-
litical rights. Germans only will serve
in the marine and army. Germans only
will have the right to hold land. AS
in the middle ages, they will be a peo-
pie of masters, condescendlng simply
to permit the lower grades of work to
be exe9Nted by the peoples submitted
to INSTRUMENTATION"
Two years and more ago the Pan-Ger-
man organizations were circulating
maps of the empire. in which the
French provinces of Champagne. Bur-
gundy and a broad slice to Calais sea-
port were shown as German posses
sions. In December, 1913. Paul Berger,
in his Cutting the Swiss Melon Gle
Partage de la Suisse"), quoted. among
German military writers. ,Adolphe
Sommerfeld's "Frankreichs' Ende." 1t
has the entire story of the "attaque
brusquee" via Belgium year before
it happened-and the "slicing' of
France at the end of the war. Ger
many will obtain Champagne, the
actual departments Of Meurthe-et-
Moselle and Meuse, with, perhaps.
Fart of F1anders!'
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ereigns of Europe tolerate in their
midst a hfghwayman who. pistol In
hand, cries to his neighbors: Your
money or your life""
ITO understand all this" concludes
the Swiss editor, I'VE must remember
that the German mind has been sub
jected to rapid transformations. The
Germany of today is no longer, COM
pletely, the Germany which We admir-
ed and loved in our youth. She has
been submitted to regime OF high
intellectual preston
Germany has been overlistenfng to
herself.
Her historians and her poets, her
professors and her Journalists have
formed, little by little, an imperialist
mentality whose power has become
Irresistible The idea Of right has
idea of force is incarnated in that of
race. 1t is this race instinct which is
the enemy, as virulent as in the bar
barrie invasions. Yet Switzerland and
America have proved that true culture
can sidestep it." And he quotes Victor
Hueo's praise Of the mountain land.
where three races. in mutual love and
forbearance, respect each others rights
and tastes Switzerland, in history,
has the last word"
Deutschland uber allies! It Ii . won-
derful song. They go wild when they
sing it. But, alas! 1t frightens the
nations.
II is Napoleon the Great over again.
And the nations will not have 1t.
Deutschland .uber allies! The. song
>''' STERLING HELLO.
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main; Brussels, $40. 900. 900; LieEe, s1o,-
100000: Louvain. 5000. 200: Lille..$1 ,soo,-
900; Armentieres. $10O. 900; Lens, $780,
900: Roubaix, 100000: Termonde,
100000: Brabant. $9o.o0o.oo0; Gand.
100000. This does not include
multitude Of smaller towns, from
whose mayors or councils they received
$500. 5000, So. 400, etc.
Ettore Janni, the eminent italian, is
seeking to discover why the opinion Of
the world in general seems to have
turned against imperial and conquer
ing Germany.
For forty years past, he says-ever
since they got the milliards Of money
and two. provinces from France-and
increasingly during the twenty-five
years Of Willfam II, Germany has lived
: in state Of perpetual exaltation. with
a profound and quasi-religious senti-
ment Of Teutonic grandeur and the
destiny which must lead them rapidly
to absolute supremacy. In this reli-
gion-Teutonism-G the God of i'm
perfal speeches and dispatches. is a
sort of celestial chancellor who, in
answer to German prayers, will ar
range for the earth to become little by
little German colony.
The Italian view is particularly in
tere4ting. Full justice is rendered to
the formidable Germany, which. like
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the populations Of their cities. forbid
den to speak their language, are to
learn the happenings of the world only
through the news of a Wolf agency
under the guidance of a stock COM
pany created to favor German indus
trial prestige then" says the Swiss
jurist the international rights of man
may be declared to be deceased.
Prof Jester, historian of the Univer-
sity Of Halle. has been deputed to dem
onstrate to Italy the superior future
which Germany alone can offer her
Germany would give her Tunis, Savoy
and the French Mediterranean coast to
beyond Nice. "Italy's future is on the
seaw says Prof. Jester.
Italy cannot see it. "German-A
TRAN hegemony would become so all
powerful" says the symposium of the
Corriere, that admitting Italy to gain
greater maritime liberty in face of
France and England IN the Mediter-
ranean, she would not really be free in
Europe or the world. Italy would be-
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lion at bay, faces all it's adversaries at
once. Austria is a mere appendix.
every German" says Ettore Jannt.
: "is today part and parcel OF Germany
warning. The merchant sends his Gus
toners along with the bill bulletin
Of German victories. The poet Ger
hart Hauptmann, in reply IT,. to com
of son of Attila.' and says that the
life Of German soldier is more sacred
than a burning city The flight of
imperial and princely eaglets dashes
itself against the enemy's fire as de-
votedly as the humblests peasant regi-
ment. And in a hundred old Teutonic
towns blond women tender and ro-
mantle, send their men to conquest or
German university professors bonn
bard. their, brethren m ITALY, Switzer-
land and Holland with confidential let
tiers, recopied a hundred times. Com
mercial houses, political men and jour-
nalists are inundated with clippings,
private letters and kilograms to this
effect: 'You see, we are already vic
tors; by joining US or remaining SYM
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AS to war news, we are the forum
of Europe. Great persons of all ma
tons freely come and go and talk in
Switzerland. Italy and Switzerland
have news from all sides. More and
more, the grandiose secret of the war
is known to all.
For text, I take the seventy-seven-
year-old mother Of famous university
professor, who was visiting her mar
ried daughter over the French from
tier when the Germans went in over
the Grand NORM. The bridge being
on their villa property. the general
summoned the proprietor for passage,
and Nine. Delbet appeared alone be-
fore him. In view of her great age
and distinguished bearing, he told the
soldier to lower his revolver, and. fix
ing his monocie with gallantry, he in
vited the supposedly French lady to
watch the passing of his army. It
was equivalent to an order. He also
ordered chairs and refreshments Dur
ing seven hours he kept her seated,
watching. talking - and refreshing
himself-affably the while.
said. you will be proud to have seen
NY army pass before your door. l
shall have a tablet put up for you to
commemorate the event oh. yes. YOU
will be German. And il, as you say.
your son is a distinguished physician.
YOU should rejoice because you must
know that the French are an utterly
degenerated race: worn out, worthless.
finished. And I'll tell you what we
shall do with them: it is. our ultima
,um; have signed the text Of 1t. We
shall keep the best of the French men.
those who are least degenerate and
vile. marry them to German girls and
have race perhaps worth while All
The other survivors-trash-we shall
pack them off to America"
But suppose America" began the
lady.
Tut. tut. Deutschland uber allies!
Listen. madame. to that war-marching
music! Do you imagine we will clutter
our new African possessions and the
East with trash. We might have left
the major part of France intact for the
French to rot in and have made it up
with their colonies. But now, as a
Frenchwoman. you ought to rejoice
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ASEL Is on the
triple corner of
France. Germany
and Switzerland.
We hear the. fort
ress guns of Is
tein and Belfort.
On clear days we
can discern troops
moving. rain I
come the volleys
of Altkirch and
Mulhouse.
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An Effort to Brighten
the Nations Ger
many Over ALP Sung
by the Invading Ar
mics of the Kaiser.
Early Plans for Great
War Switzerland as
the Forum of Europe.
Has the News From
All Sides.
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Special Correspondence of The Star.
FRANCO-GERMAN FRONTIER,
BASEL, Switzerland. October 20. 1914.
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tnating by Survey ground before you your
and your money Half the wrecks of enterprise be
traced to the mis- calculations of theory.
An aeropLane follow the shortest because it
nothing but the way but railroad train
deal with and and the
best of engineers challenged by physical conditions of
which encountered overhead.
Study the field in which operate and make
provision. accordingly Any idea which won't stand practical
is unfeasibLe
Pessnnss ex-opn,s who didn't Investigate before
they infested. ::. >-~@~:
The prolific of opportunity the junk piles
of misguided endeavor. H.
The majority of things which dnt go through"
fecly feasible but rashly n1aneuuered
Many millionaire his fortune the undertake
ing which responsible for another mans bankruptcy Man.
agen,ent the of gifts The ability guide oneself and
ones affairs along the lines Of least
essary and avoid escapabe hazardhese qualities
stamp the leader. You don't have bother with
notions while excellent projects calling for reclama
and efficient regulation One Of the blessings Of
day also Of greatest dangers The existing generation
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In lUhQfeUer direction. there convenient
books which explain chou do it, and of Jealous and
ambitious a-urry the and often
declarations of author. who authority without
having undergone the requisite experience qualify them for
their roles
AS old Cyrus used Fl don't know mach but
know thoroughly. My general experience limited but
teach school in my shops.
81 don't put mind matters than put
fingers
considering how many folks there trying get along in
world good sized life job pick speciality and
its details,
"rve lots Of individuals who could take map and
continental line with pencil and ruler and
listener The only thing that psets their calculations
"f could per of the enthusiasm of FOOLS
I'd rebuild the universe In year.
"Come EARTH it's the only place where you find
a solid foundation
" you higher than bedrock you'll end there anyhow
Morris tribune., 1914-01-30
FALLING WALLS HURT THREE
Accident During Serious Blaze al
Thief River Falls.

HCSiuSHt Turing serious 6laZe at
Thief River Falls.
Fire at Thief River Falls injured
three men and destroyed the Ev-
enson brick block, occupied by
Loken Bros department store and the
Citizens State bank on the first floor,
with numerous lawyers and doctors
offices on the second floor. The heat
became terrific soon after the fire
started and, as there was no vent in
the bank, it blew out the plate glass
windows, showers of bricks and glass
being blown clear across the street.
Soon after this the same condition
obtained on the second floor and the
south and west walls we're blown out
ward, the south wall catching the
three men.
Fred Eagler, a freight conductor
who was assisting the fremen, was
seriously and probably MORALLY in.
jured. His leg was broken and he was
cut severely and bruised about the
head and shoulders and possibly was
injured internally Denny La Sage
and Chris Porter, firemen, were cut
severely and bruised, The total loss
is about $4,000.