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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-01-07
THE FALKLAND ISLANDS.
Greatest Naval Battle at the World,
Jumping Off Place.
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Buried in banks of fog, drenched b!
drizzling rains, swept by bitter wind
from the Antarctic, the Falkland is
lands are surely the most dismal 0
Great Britain's family of organized
colonies The rain ceases only whel
the wind blows its fiercest, the fol
hangs low and heavy except when tho
gales whip ii to threads. 1t is a tree
less land; part barren rocks and PAL
grassy slopes. A day of sunshine
rare joy, TERRA del Fuego is it
nearest neighbor. The people, som
1000 in number, are sturdy descend
ants Of Scotch immigrants and tn
sheep that browse on the eternally
damp hills are their only source
revenue. Yet there is a capital, {
government and governor duly ap
pointed by the crown and sent to suf
fer virtual exile for time among the
moist shepherds Of the antipodes.
The Falkland islands appeal to the
Imagination as the remotest, loneliest
and least desirable Of all lands in.
habited by Europeans The war, one
would think, would scarcely send its
faintest ripple to this forgotten Ar
cadia of wetness and desolation.
Yet it was off the coast of the Falk-
lands that the wars greatest naval
battle has been fought. The victorious
German Pacific squadron, having en-
tered the Atlantic to escape the Brit
ish and japanese hunters Of the sea
were met by a mysterious and unre-
ported British force sent all the way
from the North sea to the Antarctic
on a definite mission of destruction.
And so the land of the Falkland
shepherd stands very clearly on the
map today. few weeks ago tho
Cocos islands, located in the equator
ial drift of the Indian ocean, witnessed
the destruction Of the gallant Emden
japan has drawn attention to Var
and Jaliut and other palm crowned
coral specks OF the vast Pacific. Blu
when the war reached Falkland 1t was
at the jumping off place to nowhere
No remoter Thule can be chances
choice for the next clash Of navies.
( AS a result of its small vote at thu
last election, the progressive party has
lost its legal Identity in oregon.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-01-07
YEARS OF DISCRETION.
(Ohio State JournaD

NCllio pNllN JpuiIdIJ
John w. Stewart, Vermont's Oldest
living ex-governor, at 80 has sworn Off
tobacco and rum, and intends to stop
playing bridge
Let callow youths of eighty two
Inhale tobacco's evil essence
And nonchalantly smoke and chew
1t Is vice of adolescence,
TO watch the smoke wreaths upward
Irvine
May Danish boyish melancholy,
But when one reaches eighty-n!nc
He finds it's folly,
Let lusty lads in drink delight
Perhaps the narrow way and straight
Too hard to walk in every night
For youngsters in their early
eighties,
But there's demon in he wine
Its very victims will adnat 1t,
And when one reaches eighty nine,
He has to quit it,
Let those still flushed with young ro-
nance,
Still strong with all their pristine
powers
Provoke the tickle god of chance
Until the small midnight hours.
But gambling is no vice of mine,
It's lure my spirit cannot fetter.
For when one reaches eighty-nine,
Wcll-he knows better.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-01-07
Savannah News)

DR.. "Pure Food" Wiley deserves a
new name. He should be known as
DR.. "Fresh Airand Anti-Love' Wiley,
ITO cure cold" he said the other
day, take a bottle Of cough medicine,
set it OH table in the patients room,
open all the windows and throw the
bottle through one of them"
And then he said, Three quarters
of the children who die are killed by
love. Love is the great assassin.
Then again he said that If holo-
caust should burn down every home
and the farmers burned down all their
barns there would be no tuberculosis
among either men or cows.
Dr. Wiley evidently is preaching
"back to nature" The Belgians whose
homes have been burned down and
who have to sleep in the fields ought
10 be happy for tuberculosis won't get
them
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-01-07
UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO
BIG FEDERAL SUPPORT
MUCH MORE THAN THAT GIVEN
BY sTATE-PREsIDENT
BRANNON TALKS.
tBoise Capital News)


The University of Idaho is very
much federal Institution, as well as
a state, and, based on figures, it is
really more the former than the lat
ter, a fact that very few people in this
state realize. Distinctly, however,
Idahos leading educational in
stitution, giving promise of becom-
ing one of the largest Of any state in
the northwest, is rapidly forging to
the front and becomes known and
looked upon in all parts Of the state as
belonging to all the people. These were
the points made yesterday by President
Melvin A. Brannon of the university
after days visit here and just before
his departure for the east, having been
called there on urgent business mat
ters. He foregoes the pleasure Of par
ticipation in the Idaho State Teachers
association convention which opens
here today He was on the program
to give sew eral addresses.
Support 8 to 2 in Favor of Government
Il think il is true few people realize
the University OF Idaho is q combined
federal and state institution" said
President Brannon 1.-THE actual fact
is that the ratio of support in dollars
and cents between the government and
state for the university is 8 to 2 in IA
vor of the government In other words
for every three dollars appropriated
towards the support of the university
the state, as matters now stand, APP
propriates two dollars.
University Federal Funds.
Let me show you how this comes
about There are four federal funds
from which the university receives
support, or, 100000 from the Morrill,
fund.- 100000 each from the Adams and
Hatch funds and ultimately $4,000
from the Lever fund, making a total of
$4,000. Add to this $135.OOO from the
interest and receipts from federal
school land donations and the total
federal aid to the university is $780,
600 The last biennial appropriation
for the university by the legislature
was $1S9,900 which represents state
support.
Good Work of State Board.
1.-THE university is, however, dis
tlnctly state institution by and for the
whole state. belonging to the people of
Idaho. I believe they are beginning to
look at the university in that light. We
are trying to make them I can not
give too high praise to the members of
work or TO the educational system
which has been put into effect in this
state l believe it will work out to the
best interests and the upbuilding of all
the state institutions"
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-01-07
HURT RATHER THAN KILL
More Disastrous to Enemy to Have
Wounded Than Dead.
PHILADELPHIA Ledger

A French general has figured that it
cost France in 1870 $21,00 OF okill a
German soldier. 1t cost the Russinns
$780, 400 to kill a Japanese soldier.
The generals method Of obtaining
an answer to the question, how much
does 1t cost to kill soldier was very
simple He divided the total eXperd
lures Of the war by the number Of
troops in the enemy's army.
But this calculating Gauld omitted
the value of all by-products. For ev
cry soldier killed in battle about four
are wounded. Hence part of the eX-
penses placed against the dead may
fairly be subtracted and credited to
the injured.
The chief aim in battle is not 10
kill an enemy but to wound him. A
badly wounded soldier can do no more
fighting than a dead one, so that as an
offensive measure when one soldier
shoots another through the leg he gets
rid Of an enemy as effectively as if he
had hit him in the heart.
But he does really better for his
own cause, since a wounded man at
once becomes a greater burden to his
own comrades than is dead soldier.
The latter needs no more care, but the
former must be helped to field hos
pital, doctored and nursed.
One of the most dramatic Incidents
Of the civil war was the retreat of
Lees army after Gettysburg with its
hundreds of wagon loads of wounded
soldiers.
A woman who lived by the road
down which this long line Of scream
ing, groaning and dying men were be-
ing hauled told me recently that it
was the most awesome event of her
life. They went by her home during
the night.
But even the wounded had to make
way for the guns. When the artillery
came laundering along the road the
officers in command of 1t forced the
wagons loaded with the wounded to
give them the right of way, which
was done.
A good many Of the thousands of
the union wounded at Gettysburg We're
brought to Philadelphia war hospitals
by railroad trains. The nearly 5000
dead in blue and gray who lay over
the sunny fields at Gettysburg gave
the opposing armies far less worry
than the did the hosts Of wounded.
That's why have said that the real
aim in battle is to hurt, not to kill.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-01-07
DEMAND FOR SILVER
CERTAIN TO INCREASE
BELIEVE LARGE AMOUNT WILL
BE REQUIRED TO REDEEM
SILVER CERTIFICATES.

For some time past silver metal has
been in an exceptionally strong bull
warked position Nevertheless, the
price of the white metal has been ex-
ceptionally weak
! The fact of the matter is that silver
producers have been hard pressed for
ready cash and were, therefore, at the
mercy of the buyers.
A large part Of the silver output OF
the United States and Mexico comes
from the silver recovered as a by-pru-
duet in the refining of copper The
stagnation in copper and in lead caus-
ed the big smelling and refining in
terests of America to unload their sill
yer product on the market as the only
available means Of raising ready cash.
The heavy blow dealt to silver by the
war also served to dislocate temper
arlly many of the leading mines in the
worlds big silver camps-Cobau, Bro
ken Hill, Mexico, etc, at loss to the
companies.
Producers Forced to Sell.
When silver went below ~ cents the
producers practically decided to hold
and store their silver rather than sell
1t for what was then supposed to be
SO scientifically low a price. The silver
companies found the expense of opera
ton running up SO long as they stor-
ed their silver their income was next
to nil. They were therefore forced to
put their metal upon the market in
huge Jumps late in the year and it was
really matter of congratulation that
under these circumstances silver die
not slump below 4S cents.
The production of silver in the Unit
ed States in 1914 is expected to show
a decrease Of $4,000, 600 to 500 coo 0Oa
over the figures for 1913. This estim
ate is based on the shrinkage of ovel
$1,OO0OOO monthly in silver exports
from this country During the first II
months Of 1914 the exports were $46.
29l,lSl, compared with $5S,319,092 in
1913, and maximum of $64,343.611 in
1872
No Danger of Over Supply.
The imports of silver into the Unit
ed States also show a decline of ST.
100000 per month in 1914 over the fig
ures for 1913. and indicate greatly
slackened production in Canada and
Mexico. This country imported in
1914 during the first II months, $23,-
2l9,995 of silver against $S9,O57451 in
1913 and $44,402 1913 in 1912.
There is bound to be a heavy de-
mand for the white metal in the i'm
mediate future.
Now that traffic in the Indian ocean
is perfectly safe, shipments to the or
lent VIII be resumed Then, too, the
Grcat quantities Of fiat paper money or
silver certificates issued last summer
and fall in Europe, Vtba and elsewhere
will have to be covered by purchases
of the white metal very soon The talk
that resumption of operations in Mex
leo will flood the market with silver is
a contradiction of all past experience
On the whole the statistical posi-
ton Of silver is very firm, but it re-
mains to be seen to what extent mar
ket generalship and the financial ext
Gcncies entailed by the great wars will
permit the price Of the white metal to
recover to the much higher levels
which silver ought to command UNI
der the circumstances.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-01-07
NOVEL POINTS OF LAW
DECIDED BY COURTS
NORTH DAKOTA JURY DRINKS
MAIN EVlDENCE-LlAsILiTY
OF RAILROAD CO.

The supreme court of oklahoma
holds in Perrine vs. Hanacek that IL
one present at a quarrel encourages an
assault he is held equally liable with
the person who does the beating fol
the consequences of the act
The oklahoma court holds in Chi
cago, L. |. and F. Railway Co, VS.. Ev-
ans, that "A person who enters pass
enger train at a station without tick.
.et or money to pay fare for the pur-
pose of collecting an account from a
passenger on such train. and remains
ON the train after it leaves such sta
ton, is not passenger and the com
pany, through its servants and EN-
ployes, may eject him from the train
at proper place for failure to produce
ticket or to pay fare or on account
Of boisterous conduct, and the COM
pany is not liable for injury resulting
to such passenger when only such
force is used as is reasonably neces
sary to eject him under the circum.
stances.
Jury Drank the Beer.
A novel question involving miscon-
duct of a jury was before the supreme
court Of North Dakota in State VS.. APP
plegate, in which it appeared that the
jury was hearing a prosecution for the
illegal sale Of liquor and took three
bottles of beer. the chief exhibits OF
the case. into the jury room. The bot
tiles were found empty after the jury
had reached verdict finding the de-
PENDANT guilty. Counsel for the de
PENDANT objected to the jury drinking
the evidence, and in finding the jur-
)rs guilty of such misconduct as to re-
quire a new trial of the case, with new
aVidencc the court said
IF the jury drank the contents o.
he bottles in order to test it's quail
Ties as an intoxicant they clearly vio
lated the law, as they had no right to
ny such an experiment. Even if they
drank ii from a spirit of bravado pre-
judice will be presumed. There is NJ
merit in the contention of the counsel
for the state that in this case there
VAS no proof that the contents of the
bottles We're drunk during the deliber.
atoms of the jury or before they hat
signed their verdict. The affidavit OF
The bailiff clearly shows that it was
drunk before the jury notified him
that they had arrived at a verdict, ant
their deliberations in the eyes Of tho
law must be presumed to have CON
tinued not only up to such time but
up to the time that their verdict was
returned in open court, and in fact
until the jury had been polled if g
poll had been demanded. Up to this
time indeed any juryman might hay,
Withdrawn his signature and repudi-
ated his action. 1t is not even neces.
sary to decide the case on the ground
that the jury wrongfully experimental
with the evidence. Both parties have
a right to the cool, dispassionate and
unbiased judgment of each juror ant
the rule seems to be well established
that prejudice will be presumed /
liquor is drunk otter the jury has re
tired TO consider the case"
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-01-07

Without any meark of protection
against the pressure If the water a
Greek Sponge fisherr ian recently made
dive to a depth Of 262 feet, believed
to be the worlds cord.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-06-11
THE GERMAN ALLIANCE.

Marse Henry Watterson is now the
object of the bitterest attacks of the
German Alliance, whatever sort of
an organization that is, of Louisville.
The members of this alliance seem to
feel that their obligations to their
late sovereign, Kaiser Bill, outweighs
their obligations as American citi-
zens. They have taken umbrage at
Marse Henrys denunciation of the
sinking OF the Lusitania, the activi-
ties Of Won Bernstorff and the mouth
ings of Dernberg. He is too intensely
American to suit their German souls.
As a result the Courier Journal and
zone Henry Watterson' have been
formally denounced in resolutions
adopted by hypenated Americans.
1t is difficult to understand why the
so-called German Americans should
have taken such umbrage at Col. Wat
terson and the Courier Journal.
Neither have denounced the German
people and both have been the de-
roted champions of the liquor traffse'
of which the German Alliance is q
stout defender. In the same issue of
the Courier Journal in which appears
the resolutions denouncing Col. Wat
Eerson there is published an appeal
% the citizens Of Louisville to vote
gaainst all prohibition candidates for
efice and 1t is signed by the executive
Aoard Of this alliance. Upon at least
one point Col. Watterson and the al
Aance are in perfect agreement. They
neither will take prohibition. They
DO not agree, but radically disagree
upon the proposition that the armies
q the kaiser and the submarines of
the German empire may at will car
~ death and murder and destruction
60 the helpless, the defenseless and
Che innocent, but they are both agreed
that the liquor traffic may destroy
its thousands and blight the hopes of
Its tens of thousands. In this con-
troversy at least the German-Ameri-
can Alliance, Of Louisville, has the
virtue of being consistent.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-06-11
sRYAN's RESIGNATION.

With deepest affection for and admi-
ration of Mr.. Bryan, The Herald new
ertheless must confess that 1t is dis
appointed at his course. It is aston
ished that he should, in this great crt-
ais, refuse to yield his judgment to
the necessities of the occasion. 1t is
difficult, to us impossible, to see how
any patriotic American can, in this
hour of stress and conflict, fail to give
the full measure of his loyal support
10 the President and the patriotic
course which he has outlined. 1t is
not time for deserters or for quib-
bling over what one may desire or
wish. A condition and not theory
confronts the American people, a fact
of which Mr.. Bryan seems not to be
cOgniZant.
The Herald does not like the word
ing of Mr.. Bryans letter His an
nouncement that he resigns when the
Forthcoming note to Germany is sent
has a bit too much Of the threat, an
intimation that he might like to CO.
cree the President. Having signed
the note of May IA, which solemnly
admonished Germany and warned
that, government Of what might be ex-
pected in the event of failure to
yield obedience to the law of nations
and the dictates of humanity, Mr..
Bryan's course is plainly and manifest
" inconsistent. II he was not willing
on May IA to follow the note of this
government to its logical conclusion
he should have resigned then. The
course that he has pursued has been
Inconsistent and apparently without
cnart OF compass.
In this crisis Woodrow Wilson loses
his secretary of state but he gains in
the love, esteem and unbounded con-
fdence of the people of America. He
is the more thoroughly trusted and
more devotedly loved than ever. ST.
lently, quietly, in the love and fear Of
Almighty God, whose guidance he con-
etantly invokes, deeply conscious OF
the task that is before him, and mind
full of his obligations to humanity and
world civilization, this great and mo-
BILE man maps out course and firmly
pursues it with out the shadow Of a
turning. He is another Abe Lincoln,
God-given to the American people for
this great world crisis.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-06-11
RAISING SHEEP.

For several days Tennessee lambs
have commanded a premium over
western shipments in the great live
stock markets Of the country, St. Lou
is, Chicago, Louisville and Kansas
City. They have sold in car lots as
high and SLIPS per hundred pounds
Of course this is exceptional but farm
ers in this county have during May
received as much as ten cents per
pound and the shippers have then
gotten good profit ON the invest
ment. Wherever the Tennessee lamb
is known it commands premium. 1t
is the one lamb that goes on the mar
ket, too, in fine flesh without food.
Lambs that have been sold in this
county at ten cents and nine cents a
pound were never fed at all. They
went through q hard winter on pastur-
age and finished fat.
Not only do the farmers OF Maury
county have an advantage over the
farmers Of the west in climate. but
we have the additional premium in
prices. Yet the farmers and feeders
Of the west have made big profits
from sheep and lambs during the past
two years. They have to feed during
the winter because their country is
covered big portion of the time with
snow. In Maury county it is seldom
that we have to feed lambs at all If
we have been provident in sowing
winter cover crops which enrich the
soil as well as provide feed for the
sheep and lambs. One farmer in the
county who made net profit of over
$1,000 on an investment of $500 in
less than a year did not feed his
sheep a single day during the past
winter.
Sheep are less trouble than most
any animal on the farm. They do not
require great and expensive barns to
cover them. Except at lambing time
the sheep actually do better in the
open than when they are housed. If
they are moved at frequent intervals
from one pasture to another and are
dipped occasionally there is little
danger from disease. They are splen-
did weed and briar destroyers. Where
sheep run there are fewer weeds than
in any other field. They eat what
other stock viii scorn to touch.
We should have more sheep in this
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-06-11
county. They can be made our great
est source of live stock wealth. Now
is a splendid time to begin with
small flock.
MEXICAN SITUATION.

From President Wilson's statement
on the Mexican situation the conclu-
sion is inevitable that this govern
ment seriously contemplates interven-
ton in that unhappy country. 1t is
a foregone conclusion that the solemn
, warning of the chief executive will
avail little. There is not likely to be
peace and law and order in Mexico
until this country by force of arms
compels the establishment of gov
eminent with power to enforce its or
ders. The President speaks of saving
Mexico from the Mexicans. This is
fine and humane sentiment, beauti-
full in theory, but not very practical
If the President simply intends to use
the forces of America to restore or
Ger in Mexico and then turn the gov.
eminent over to the illiterate, ignorant
and semi-eivilized brigands and poor
peasants of that country to admins
ter it, we shall have, in few years
at most, to do the task all over.
II the United States should forci-
bly, intervene in Mexico it should do
so withsthes solemn determination to
remain there. The administration of
the affairs of Mexico by this govern
ment, insuring the people law, order,
liberty and justice, is the only effec-
tive way to save Mexico from the
Mexicans. The people Of Mexico are
unfit and incapable of self govern
ment. They have tried it for a centu-
ry. The only time that they enjoyed
peace and security was under a dicta-
torship. There has been no real gov
eminent in Mexico since Diaz was
overthrown. The United States
should either keep out of Mexico leav-
ing it to anarchy and constant revolu-
ton or intervene, establish govern
ment and then administer it in per-
petuity, Under such a government
as this country would give Mexico it
would bloom and blossom as the rose
and its great resources would be de-
veloped.
If this country is simply to inter
vene in Mexico, sacrificing lives and
property, in order to restore Mexico
to the government OF the Mexicans
we very seriously doubt if there will
be much enthusiasm for the Presi-
dents policy. Once the stars and
stripes are unfurled in Mexico there
they should remain forever. There
should be no repetition of the Cuban
blunder.