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The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

A girl in Wisconsin, who received
Sc a week. distracted 1910 from the
money drawer. She was arrested and
convicted. and explained to the court
that she was in love with a certain
man and in order to win his affec-
tons, concluded she must dress better
than the other girls. So she borrowed
some money for this purpose and took
this way of paying it back. There
upon the court decided that her pay
was so small that she was not great
ly to be blamed so assessed a fine of
only $25 against her. Just how to
classify such decision would be diff
fcult, says Ohio State Journal. 1t is
no doubt against the law and the evil
dence, but there is doubtless back OF
that somewhere sort of sympathy
for the weakness of human nature
that runs so closely to the border OF
justice that 1t crosses over and be
comes a part of it. But we ought no,
to encourage stealing, even to buy
clothes to win lovers with, if for nc
other reason than lovers won thai
way are not worth capturing.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31
MAN WHO REFORMS.

The man who reforms must be pre-
pared for ridicule. Ridicuie is a
powerful weapon. In politics 1t is
sometimes invoked successfully when
other expedients fail. There are IL
Vulnerable occasions when 1t is em-
ployed in the ordinary affairs OF life
to the complete discontinue OF the
victim. There are men who will go
into the most strenuous struggles OF
business, of ambition or for adyan,
tage of whatever kind, who will face
odds unflinchingly and submit to
disappointments philosophically, TO
whom the fear OF ridicule is a night
mare. They ask to be spared but one
thing. and that is ridicule. Thus 1t
is with one who makes up his mind
to reform. To ridicule he is bound
to be subjected, and in a larger or
smaller degree according as circum-
stances may be. There will be some
body to question his motive. There
will be others who sheer at both the
necessity and the virtue of reform.
1t is not always possible either, when
one turns over new leaf, to escape
the feeling that there is more ridi'
cule being heaped on ones head than
is actually the fact To be deter
mined, therefore, for a stout resist
ance of the influence and effect OF
riducule and it's accompanying hui
initiation is essential. That is the
,armor man must put on. He needs
to cultivate the quality of moral cour
age. He has to thicken his hide.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

Eastland because of faulty construc-
ton. He held that the Eastland was
net properly designed and charged
that United States inspectors under
Captain Charles H. Westcott OF De-
troit, chief of the lake district, had
played into the hands of shipowners
at the expense of sailors and passen-
gers. He said this was shown by the
fact that thirty-one ships passed by
the inspectors had sunk in the great
lakes since 1906 several of them TAX
ing all on board to death.
The coroner, the states attorney
and city officers reiterate their charge
that all the possible causes for the dis
aster could be blamed to negligence
by federal inspectors, or failure Of
federal officers to enforce marine laws.
The last inspection of the Eastland
was made by Robert Reid, government
inspector at St. Joseph, Mich, who de-
clared the steamer fit this spring and
procured a position as chief engineer
of the boat for his son.in-law, j. M.
Erickson.
Captain John H. O'Meara of the tug
Kenosha, which was hitched to the
Eastland to tow the ship out of the
river, testified that he did not take
hold of the Eastland until after 1925.
several minutes after the ship had be-
gun to list, according to other wit
nesses. Even than he waited for
word to go ahead and the captain of
the Eastland was not working out the
stern as was necessary to protect the
screws. Captain OMeara said he IN.
ally got the word to go ahead, but be.
fore the towline was taut, the East
land listed dangerously and he
stopped, but the ship never righted
He had towed the Eastland four times
and she always listed, he said
Overlooking, underballasting and
grounding on the river bottom were
!. cited in testimony at the coroner's In
quest by two experts as reasons why
the steamer Eastland toppled over al
it's wharf and drowned hundreds Of
excurionists.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

: M. Prechat, in a lecture delivered in
Paris, described the "House of Gold
which Nero had built fer him between
the Palatine and E. outline hills in
Rome. This huge pace was co cred
with plates of gold and carvings OF
ivory and contained a multitude OF
beautiful statues 1t occupied a.
area equal to the Champs Elyset
and the Place de la Concorde, OVID
description of the Palace of the ST
in the "Metamorphosis," suggest
the blouse of Gold" to Nero, who / ,
a statue of himself, as the sun & l
erected in great four-horse chario
before the entrance to the palace
This statue was nearly ninety fee
high. Inside the palace was a lax,
on which were given the sumptuou
nautical banquets and other festiyltie
which were common during Nero
reign. The House of Gold" arouse,
much resentment among the Roman
people, who were heavily taxed t
pay for its construction, and it did no
long survive after Nero's death Notf
ing is left of it today but some sui
Easements discovered beneath til
Coliseum
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31
DRIVING RUSSIANS
TOWARD THE BUG
GERMANS cENTERING OFTEN
slvE IN WARSAW CAMPAIGN
NORTH OF Capital.
Warsaw Still Holds Out, But the Gem
eral Belief is That Its Loss by the
Russians Is only a Matter
of Time.

Field Marshal Won Mackensen's
sustained effort to throw any consid-
cradle body of Austro-German troops
astride the Lublin-Chelm railway hav-
ing to date met with no success, the
Germans are now centering their main
offensive north of the Warsaw salient,
and having crossed the Narew river
along forty-mile front are driving the
Russians toward the Bug, where 1t
joins the Narew north of the Polish
capital
Warsaw still holds out, but the gen.
eral belief is held that its loss by
the Russians is only matter of time.
Dispatches reaching London from
Petrograd predict that the much
discussed climax to the great struggle
in Poland will come within a fort
night, with simultaneous attacks on
the city from the north and south.
In the meantime General Won Bue-
| lows troops, driving south from Cour
land, are thirty-five miles southeast OF
Shawl, having reached the Pomewesch
railway junction, linked with the Viii
naDvinsk line, which the German cav
airy is attempting to seize preparatory
to cutting the more important Kovno-
Wilma line. The effective German cav
grad at 10000.
German air raid on the Vistula
bridge at Warsaw was without ma
terial result, but several civilians were
killed In southeastern Poland the
capture of large number OF Russians
is claimed by the Germans and minor
gains in the Chelm-Lublin region.
The fighting in the western wal
theatre continues, as for several days
past. 1t consists mainly of artillery
engagements and sapping operations
in which no material gains have been
made by either side.
Fierce fighting continues to rage or
the eastern sectors of the Austro-Ital
ian front, especially on the Doberdt
plateau, where the Italians have at
tackled relentlessly, but according t
Vienna have secured only temporar!
local successes which the Austrian
afterward counterbalanced by recap
turing their original positions.
In the region OF krn the Italians ar
declared to have suffered heavy losse
from the Austrian artillery after hav
ing been repulsed in hand-to-han'
fighting, in which the Austrians role,
boulders down the mountainside OF
their foes. An Austrian aviator ha
dropped bombs on Verona.
Fresh successes for the British
against the Turks along the Euphrate
river and the capture of the town O
Nasiriyeh are announced by LondoI
Five hundred Turks were slain i
front Of the main position and severa
hundred others were captured. Tn
British, however, did not gain the viz
, tory unscathed, their casualties nun
bering between 800 and 400
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31
REvoLUTloNI IN HAITI.
Political Prisoners Shot Down by
Order of Governor.

Port Au Prince, Haiti.-A revolu-
ton more terrible in the toll thus far
taken than any event in the days Of
Nord Alexis famed out in the Haitien
capital on Tuesday. 1t was an off
shoot of the movement to the north,
where the adherents of Dr. Rosalvo
Bobo, twice expelled from Haiti, have
been striving for several months to
break the power of THE Haitien presi.
dent, Gen. Vilbrun Guillaume.
One hundred and sixty men, includ
ing former president of Haiti, Gen
Orestes Zamor, have been executed by
order Of General Oscar governor OF
Port au Prince, who later In the day
was dragged from the shelter of the
| Dominican legation and riddled with
| bullets.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

Capt. Harry Petersen, 81 years old,
who was in command of the steamer
Eastland when it capsized, said:
Il was on the bridge and was about
ready to pull cut when l noticed the
boat begin to list. shouted orders to
open the inside doors nearest the
dock and give the people a chance to
get out. The boat continued to roll
and shortly afterwards the hawsers
broke and the steamer turned over on
her side and was drifting toward the
middle of the river. When she went
over | jumped and held on to the up
per side. 1t all happened in two min
uteS.
The cause is a mystery to me.
have sailed the lakes for twenty-five
years and previous to that sailed on
sat water twelve years and this is
the first serious accident | ever had.
| do not know how it happened"
Efforts to discover the cause of the
accident were begun long before the
work of rescue was over. Federal
and county grand juries were ordered
coroner's jury was impaneled and all
the officers and crew of the Eastand
were arrested.
President Wilson has ordered thai
a complete investigation be made by
the department of commerce into
the sinking of the excursion steamer
Eastland. Acting Secretary Sweet, O
the department, sent him word tina
the cause of the disaster would b
looked into and the president directe
that nothing be left undone to fix tn
responsibility.
| Identification of victims was all blu
completed Monday night, except TO
corpses still in the river. Checkini
against Implications in the variou
lists proceeded all night
More than 100000 was subscribe,
by business houses and individuals Of
Monday to alleviate any SUFFERING
among those who had lost thei
sources of support in the tragedy
While several families were almos
wiped out, most of the households al
fected lost only one or two members
Many Of the employees of the Wes
ern Electric company had been worl
ing on part time, but with the aid c
the National Red Cross it is though
that there will be no suffering for lac
of funds.
William Olander, secretary of/th
Lake Seamen's union, said on Monda
that there were many other ships 0
the Great lakes as dangerous as tn
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

We come across them all the time,
those persons whose unfortunate dis
positions win for them the name OF
cranks. We see them and hear them
so often that we come to regard them
as indispensable factors of society
and accordingly we try to accept
them with resignation. Crankiness
however. does not appear to be alto
,gether product of disposition; con-
usyions sare as much ii not more &c
do with its presence, and while VIC
are quick al times TO call a person q
crank we do soSwitlwsat in the leas
understanding our reasons for 30 DO
ing OF course, a man may have al
natural requisites for being
CRANK and the world is never SLOW Il
find this out, but on the other nanl
many persons who are really not il
the least. inclined that way by natur
are, because of some temporary pc
culiarity, characterized as such, ant
such characterization is hard t.
combat Crankiness of itself is har,
ito define in few words, perhaps be
cause it embraces so large a proper
ition of human failings, and 1t is fo
this reason, probably, that we fin
ourselves discovering so many NOR
varieties of the crank than we In
agined existed. If man grow
tiresome and morotonous in his col
versation; If he harps on one srbjec
indefinitely; If he holds unusus
views on any question-he is called
crank.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

II has long been a subject Of Joke
making that musicians have long
hair. Now a Boston physician comes
forward to explain that harmony
makes the hair grow. This news VIII
cause a vast addition to the music oil
the spheres, although there may De
some anxiety among the uncultivated
masses as to whether love of syn.
copated tunes will cut hair short.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

The authorities of Baltimore col
lege for women announce, as result
of an investigation. that Statistics
show that college women marry
somewhat later. but more wisely, and
among college-trained women is at
present negligible All Of which il
very easily explained After a course
in philosophy and psychology and
logic and all the other things they
fire at a girl in college. she estab
fishes habit of reasoning from
cause to effect, or the other wa!
around, and that is destructive of thu
sporting instinct to take chances.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

A Philadelphia court has decided In
q suit for damages against a police
man that a suspect does not under al
circumstances forfeit his right to live
lin attempting to flee from arrest A
few more decisions like this would
stop some of the promiscuous an
highly dangerous official shooting on
city streets. where innocent bystand
ers share with fugitives an unjusti
able death peril. Only exceptional
circumstances should justify potentia
summary execution for any crime
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

The excessively scrupulous individual
who has been Directing to the swat
the-fy' crusade on the theory that
there is a good reason for every work
of creation, although we may be who'll
ly at loss TO find or even to imagine
it, will consider himself justified by
what has happened to the crow. The
ly-swatter is a comparatively modern
device compared to the scarecrow.
Generations that have known nothing
of the deadly possibilities of the
disease-spreading fly have been firmly
grounded in the belief that the crow
is an enemy to man, to be scared off
or shot at sight. Yet, If the bureau
of biology, in the department of agri-
culture, is right, that has been all
wrong. The crow is not an enemy,
but a positive aid to the very class
that has been most anxious to eX-
tirpate it. Biological examination OF
the crows menu has proved beyond
doubt that, instead of ravaging the
seed-filled soil, the crow finds its chief
sustenance in grasshoppers, cut
worms, white grubs and other injuri
GUS insects that menace the crops
says Pittsburgh Dispatch. 1t is ad
mitted that crows destroy young birds
and bird eggs; but this is accounted
a trivial offense compared to the in
| calculable good accomplished in the
destruction of crop pests.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31
What does it avail the farmer II h,

What does 1t avail the farmer II h.
fertilizes his land and takes othe
measures to encourage the growth OF
his crops, but is victimized by dealers
in seed? Seed swindlers are engaged
in one Of the meanest kinds of illegiti
mate business, which menaces not onl,
the immediate victims, but the countr,
at large. for everybody is injured b,
what lowers the quality or reduces tn,
yield OF the crops. For this reason thu
strong arm of the law should be raised
to drive dishonest seed dealers out O
business
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

A British doctor says: Beware OF
speedy surgeons" That's good advice
Sometimes they turn corners so swift
ly In their automobiles that it Is hare
for a pedestrian to keep from beint
run over.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

A Paris savant claims to have found
cure for love that will also cure al
coholism. The man who is driven to
drink by unrequitted affection will
find cure of this kind suited to his
needs.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

A Pennsylvania farmer suggests
somewhat difiidently that it is just a.
absurd to suppose farmer could e
into mill and do millhand's worl
without training as 1t Is to assum,
that a millhand can 60 out on farm
and be satisfactory farmer. But tina
is common urban misrepresentation
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31
Rock sprIna. Flooded.

Rock Springs, Wyo.-Property loss
estimated at 100000 was sustained
here Tuesday when floods resulting
from two cloudbursts rushed through
the city. flooding the entire business
section. One person. Thomas Baker.
II reported drowned,
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31
More Land for Settlers.

Washington Secretary Lane sign
ed an order Tuesday opening for set
tie ment more than 100000 acres OF
dry farming land in Harding, Perkins
and Corson counties, South Dakota.
The order Ia effective September 10.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31
Plans Aerial Torpedo Boat.

Washington.-An aerial torpedo
boat for attack on ships in protected
harbors is projected in patents just
issued, it was learned Thursday, to
Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, now
attached to the navy war college, but
formerly aide for operations to Sec
rotary Daniels
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31
Destroys Submarine Depot.

Toulon, France.--The new French
destroyer lie Bisson has demolished
the Austrian submarine and aeroplane
depot on Lagosta island with the loss
to the French Of only one man killed.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

Solomon's line, How beautiful are
thy feet, with shoes o princes daugh
ter" indicates that even in the wise
mans day the feet were made to AT
the shoes rather than the she the
feet
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

There was this advantage the old
fashioned horse had over the automo
bile: The owner didn't have to tinker
with its internal machinery every Sun
day morning be'ore starting out fol
a drive.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

You may have noticed that the
daughters of rich papas who marry
the coachman, chauffeur or gardener
repent and hurry back to the protec.
ton and joys of papa's pocketbook.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

Possibly one reason why circuses do
not pay as well as they did Gan b.
found in the fact that the summer re
sorts have cribbed so many of the
circus adjectives.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

movie" in which the heroine
takes breakfast in bed is no sort of
picture for working girl to see 1t
makes her hate her S0-cent alarm
clock.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

Man admits kissing a girl, chatters
love to her, and then asks if her moth
er expects to live with them. Modern
courtship is too practical. Romance
is dead!
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

Gloves and cinnamon are working
overtime in these young onion days
and yet they leave much desirable
work undone.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31
Miners are Destitute.

Columbus. 0 Ten thousand fami
lies in the Hooking and Sunday Creek
valleys are dependent on outside aid
for food. There Is no strike in these
districts, but most of the miners are
out OF work owing to the shutting
down of the mines.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31
Eioht Meet Death In Mine.

Christopher, Ill.-Eight men were
killed and fifteen badly burned In q
gas explosion at one Of the entrances
Of the Moderwell mine here. Three
men are missing.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31
Bandits Rob Train Auditor.

Muskogee, Okla.-Two masked men
held up and robbed the auditor Of st.
Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern pas.
senger train No. IL near Fort Gibson
Sunday night. The robbers obtained
$25. I
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

Now that 1t is possible to locate ore
by wireless telegraphy, the old-fash-
toned prospector may be weaned away
from his divining rod.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

do not ask sick man how he
feels" says a philosopher: tell hin
a funny story" But is any story fun
ny to a sick man?
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31
Brings Us Nearer Japan.

Toxic, Japan.-Wireless communi-
cation was successfully inaugurated
Tuesday between the new station at
Funabashi. near Yokohama, and the
Hawaiian islands.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

Cheap monographs from Germany
are being sold extensively in oriental
countries, despite the fact that sleep
is highly regarded there.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31
casuaItie. Of British Army,

London.-The casualties In the Brit
ish army and navy have reached
total OF 330,995. according to a print.
ed statement issued by Premier As
uuith,
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

1t was bound to come, following the
reports of agricultural prosperity
tomobile bandits have robbed q
farmer.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

The location of the western thea
ter of war" seems to be more or less
permanent.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31
Italy to Buy Supplies.

Rome.-The Italian government has
decided to make large purchases OF
American meat and grain, not only
sufficient to supply the army and the
navy until July 81, 1915, but also for
the use Of the public.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

Every time we hear of a wife beat
ing, we wonder why civilization trav-
els with such a snail pace.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

A fashion journal has h2lf-column
description of a bathing suit, but the
suit itself isn't that Icing
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

There is the silhouette gown for
women and then there is the Palm
Beach suit for men.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

What has become of the old-fash-
toned statesman who used to keep his
ear to the ground?
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

Most self-made men create the i'm
preston that there were no mirrors
when they were in the making.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

A slump in batting is bad medicine
those who are already too batty
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

Still when you see girl kissing
dog you ought to remember that the
dog doesn't smoke cigarettes.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

laugh, to use magazine language, 'hol
lowly"
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

The music originating in this coun,
try is not popular abroad.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

In hot weather some reasonable sub
stitute for food might make hit.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

"Aviatrix" is such a nice word that
the sport ought to become most pop
ular among young women.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

II looks good to see the girls wear
ing old-fashioned ears again.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

Love is what makes man imagine
two can live as cheaply as Oce.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

Ambidextrous people will be ex-
pected to swat flies with both hands.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

The war entanglements are not all
harbed wire.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

since the law itself does not claim
this supreme power of. life and death.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-07-31

Sunday Joy riders make a busy
morgue on Monday.