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The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1915-10-21

Whatever its effect on the popular
college game in this little corner Of
the world, the sad fatality on the
Nezperce football grounds last Satur-
day has brought two communities to
mourn as one No blow struck by
the Grim Reaper has thrown such a
pail over this city and its environs,
and throb of sympathy went from
every heart to the grief-stricken par
ents and friends of young Floyd
Gilbert when the news was received
that the accident of which he was the
victim had resulted fatally. 1t was
one of those deplorable mishaps for
which nobody is to blame, and is, if
possible, the more touching in that it
took place during contest of sport
between friendly groups from COM
munities that have ever held the
kindliest feelings toward each other
and Nezperce.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1915-10-21

WD. C M Lamb and VT tc
Earnest Richardson 1t 5 blk Dc
Morrow $40.
WD. Western Hdw & Imp Co to
Samuel Wheatcroft Its d, %, 25 blk
25 Vollmer. 81 90.
QCD. BENZ B Cross and VT to
John B Lehman 1t E blk "A Nezperce
$10O.
WD. John M Swartz and VT to
w O Barbee is II, II blk 8 Nez-
perez. S100.
WD. Western Hdw & Imp Co to
Simon A Hjelmstad Its S, 6, 7, 8, 9,
blk Do Nezperce. S1.00
WD. Walter P Sims and VT to
Torger K Hansen II - blk / lilo.
$1,000.
WD. John Stuart and VT to
Henry Clelland Its 10, 10, % blk q
Jackson's add to Kamiah. $500.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1915-10-21
COSTLY PRIDE

In considering the causes which
we're principally responsible for the
failure of the Southern Confederacy
John Trotwood Moore, the well
known writer and lecturer OF Tennes-
see, pointed out "a pride bordering
on arrogance" as the primal reason.
And Moore, is born and reared
southerner, and speaks with full light
on his subject. An editorial of ty-
pical force appeared in Tuesday,
Lewiston Tribune and treats Eng
lands case along something the
same line. 1t starts with, sWhat is
the matter with England" and con.
tinues:
"If one trouble could be set up
more than another as accounting for
the comparative disorganization of
the English nation at time when it
most needs the benefits of organiza-
ton and solidarity, we should say
that trouble is pride. England has
been, and is, SO proud of itself, in
practically every material respect,
that it has underestimated everybody
and everything else, and it has been
20 confirmed in that attitude by rea-
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1915-10-21
CLEANING POLITICS

"Politics can be cleansed only
from the inside of the political
party" says Rev. Joseph H. O'Dell,
in the Ladies' Home Journal. "Men
who exert any Influence in elections
must play the game three hundred
and sixty five days in the year. A
hundred circumstances make it I'M
possible for the minister to be di-
rect factor in the results, but this does
not render him a political nonenity.
He can understand enough of the
working methods to apply the great
determinative principles; he can in
spire the sluggish citizens of his con-
gregation to performance of their
civic duties, he can FIRE the men of
his church with such passion for
righteousness in public life that they
will serve on their party committees
and become candidates for office he
can luster registering and voting
with a sacramento signifi cance.
What he cannot dc himself by direct
action, he can cause a hundred or
FIVE hundred of his pensioners to
do as an integral part of their
Christian lives. There are certain
spheres of influence in which min
lister is at discount because of his
professional standing. But he is
not thereby shut out from part in
the development of modern society.
Jesus did not legislate by specific
acts, regulations and bylaws, but by |
the proclamation of determinative
principles. Those principles are as
applicable today as they were sixty
generations ago. 1t is the minister's
privilege to show the relevance of
those principles to modern life; to
bring them to bear upon such prob
lens as local option, factory regu-
lation, child labor, workmen's COM
pensation, capital and labor, trade
competition, penology and hundred
kindred themes. If he can lay the
divine compulsions of such principles
upon the men who fall within his pas
toral domain, he will have become a
social, civic and political power of
the first order without jeopardizing
his influence by plunging into game
for which he has had no training and
to which he can give adequate time
without sacrificing his own unique
and privileges"
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1915-10-21
Married.

On last Thursday, October IA,
Arthur H. Pierce of Weippe and
Miss Margaret 0 Zantzis, who has
been making her home with her
brother at the E. H. Waters ranch
nine miles north of this city, were
united in marriage at the parsonage
of the Methodist church, by the pas
tor, Rev. T. II. Fertig.
The happy pair departed at once
for Weippe, near which place they
will make their home on the groom's
farm.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1915-10-21

son of the fact that so large share
of world affairs has in the past CEN
tered in London. Society, finance,
commerce, industry, diplomacy,
naval and military technique and
numerous other interests and con-
ditions have received the last word
of approval or disapproval in that
center. When the war broke out
England naturally felt that its power
would be deciding factor, and that
quick and easy victory was in sight.
From that day until nigh the present
day that delusion has been kept up
and even yet England does not en-
tirely realize its peril and its duty.
"The English government now
seems unable to cope with the stu
alton, apparently because pride and
tradition stand in the way.
privilege also has something to
do with 1.-THE privilege of birth,
which extends throughout the naval
and military services as we'll as the
civil administration. The obligation
of privilege or caste also develops
instances of the most magnificent
galantry and heroism, but which for
lack of organization and system, too
often prove to be an empty waste of
precious life. A tragic aspect of
failure and peril is that
many public men fully realize the
of disaster but are unable
to impress their knowledge upon
their countrymen.
''It is even more impossible to un-
derstand a national outlook that is |
SO complacent, so remiss and so OBJ
structive, considering the issues at
stake and especially considering
hat not only its own liberties but
he liberties of Europe and even of
Shristendom are hanging in the bal
lnce, with its own sword as their
asst defender and hope
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1915-10-21
CITY TREASURER'S FINANCIAL
REPORT

To the Honorable Board of Trustees of the Viii
lage OF Nezperce, Idaho:
herewith submit the following report OF The
finances of the Village of Nezperce, Idaho,
from May 10, 1915, to Sept &c. 1915.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1915-07-02
Warfare rhen and NOW.

In 10 days the allies rained ON Sc
bastopol $4,000 balls. averaging As
pounds in weight. making a daily
shower of 2,7OO.O00 pounds of iron, or
a total storm of 35.1O0,O0O pounds,
worth at the rate English pig iron is
selling (let alone transportation and
manufacturer $313,380. II the cannon
balls fired from the allied lines dur
ing the Is days were rolled into rail
bars weighing go pounds to the yard.
the bars would extend 1872 miles: or II
laid as railroad would suffice for q
single track road from New York to
Albany, with all the necessary turn
outs. 1t is estimated that 4,6S0.000
pounds of powder was required to
push the iron. At Is cents a pound
this cost $7O2,OOs.-From the Spirit
of the Times. 1856
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1915-07-02
THE BRITISH NOTE
EVADES THE ISSUE.
Declares Americans Have No
Substantial Grievance.
THE NOTE UNSATISFACTORY
Note Sent Through Ambassador Page
States That Time Limit On Ex-
ports To This County Has
Been Further Extended.
tCopynKht.l

Washington. Lord Crewe's memo
randum to Ambassador Page dealing
with the complaint Of detention of
American cargoes bound for neutral
ports was made public by the State
Department.
State Department officials would not
comment op the memorandum. In the
opinion of experts on international
law who have followed the con-
troversy between the two govern
ments, the memorandum is not Of a
character to AFFORD much satisfaction.
1t holds out little expectation of ma
terial relief to American commerce
from the hardships inflicted upon it
by British regulations established in
violation of the principles of interna-
tional law, as pointed out by the
United States in its note of March 80.
Consequently its effect. It Is believed,
will be rather to sharpen the edge Of
the issue between the two govern
ments
Another note to Great Britain is
now in course of preparation at the
State Department and is expected to
be dispatched as soon as the negotia-
lions with Germany over submarine
warfare have been cleared mp. While
this communication probably will
make reference to the latest memo
randum, it is understood that the man
ner OF enforcing the Order in Council
will not be treated as relevant to the
question at issue whether there is
any warrant in international law for
the powers that Great Britain and her
allies have assumed to exercise over
the commerce OF the world. s+
Protest To De Strong.
& Against this arbitrary policy OF the
British government the American note
will protest as vigorously as was the
note to Germany demanding an end Of
the murder of Americans on the high
seas. President Wilson will be
equally irm demanding an end to the
present throttling of American com
merce, and it is believed here that
there is nothing In the British note
just made public which will produce
any change in the present tenor of
President Wilson's next note to Eng
land.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1915-07-02
All. LIFE Is CHANGE
NATURES LAW Against WHICH
SO MANY REBEL.
Wome, Especially Refuse to BE Rec
oneiled to the Observation-Disclosures
May Well Teach a Lesson
to Mankind.

Beauty is something to be striven
for In every relation of life. Beautiful
homes, beautiful cities, beautiful peo-
pie are to be desired, but human be-
ings are living creatures and men and
women should remember that the law
Of all living things is change. The
rose, blooming in loneliness. drops.
without protest, its petals when its
radiant hour is past, when its mission
of beauty is accomplished.
But that does not mean that the
rose tree dies. 1t only obeys natures
law without rebellion. Women are
like roses; they bloom in beauty in
their youth and then, when their lit
tie day of physical charm is past they
refuse to be reconciled to q temporary
autumn of life and shrink from the
passing winter of death.
An Indian poet has said: The
flower blooms for the fruit; when the
fruit comes the flower withers." Even
so women exchange their physical
beauty for the work of their lives, and
who shall say that the lifework of a
woman is not more fair than the phys
ical price she paid to achieve it,?
Spring only promises; autumn's hands
are filled with fruits.
Women are only given youth,
beauty, strength-mental and physical
that their lives may bear fruit, and
who would stand in maturity woman
in experience and girl in appear
ance? There is nothing more par
thetic than the man or woman Of ma
ture years whose life has been SO de-
void of experience that the entertain
ments of youth still appeal to them as
the highest ideals of pleasure.
You do not want man grown to
look like a boy! Riding within a
street car the other day the writer had
time to observe a young father stand
ing upon the platform whose little
child has recently passed through a.
critical illness. His youthful face, IN
conscious of the scrutiny, was begin
ming to wear a mans expresSion-a
fathers expression. No one would
have called him boy. With mans
responsibilities his features were at
tanning manhood's dignity.
And. somehow, upon another occa-
sion, the secret of an especially ideal
woman's life seemed to be revealed,
when that woman's daughter re-
marked: Mother never had any sym
pathy with women who tried to make
themselves look younger than they
are by artificial means. Mother be-
lieves the true spirit Of life is to ac-
cept life's changes as they come
Baltimore Sun.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1915-07-02
LANSING MADE PREMIER.
Named BY Wilson To Succeed Bryan
AZ Secretary OF state.

Washington.-Presi Wilson has
appointed Mr.. Robert Lansing Secre-
tary Of State to succeed Mr.. William
Jennings Bryan. The announcement
was made at the White House just be-
fore President Wilson left Washing
ton TO spend a fortnight at his sum
ner home al Cornish. Secretary Ian
sing therefore is the head of the adj
ministration in Washington during Mr..
Wilson's absence. He will, Of course.
be In constant touch with MI. Wilson
during the latter's absence.
Odicial announcement of the selec-
tion OF Mr.. Lansing, who has been
serving as secretary ad interim since
the resignation Of Mr.. Bryan on June
8, was made in the following state
ment: s
Before leaving for brief rest in
New Hampshire, the President an
nounced that he had offered the post
Of Secretary Of State to Mr.. Robert
Lansing, the present counselor of the
Department of State, and that Mr..
Lansing had accepted the appoint
mert.
A commission was prepared which
President Wilson signed. giving Mr..
Lansing a recess appointment.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1915-07-02
Activities of Women.


Marriages are contracted very early
in Persia. gss
Connecticut will open a college for
women in the fall e3.i',s,8
The average wages of 5000 work
ing women in Chicago are less than Sc
per week.
Mrs. G. HI. Comstock is sales mana
ger of the woman's department of q
large real estate firm in Cleveland, O.
If the proposed constitutional
amendment becomes law in Cali
fornia, every bachelor girl in the state
between the ages of twenty-one and
thirty will be taxed every year.
Since the war began Russia has
given the Order of st. George to so
women, all of whom served in the
ranks either as fighters or were under
fire as Red Cross nurses.
Several women prominent in official
circles in Washington have organized
a patriotic organization to be known
as the Paul Jones association. the OBJ
ject of which is to preserve as a ma
tional heirloom the old colonial man
sion near Halifax, N. c.. where the
great naval hero spent several years
of his life.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1915-07-02
s1,,2O,OOO.OOO MORE FOR wAR.
French Deputies Vote Funds For Next
Three Months.

Paris.-The bin appropriating $780,
OOO. 900 francs ($1. 120 ,0OO. O0O) to cover
Government expenses for the three
months beginning July was passed
almost unanimously In the Chamber of
Deputies The vote was 4S2 to I.
Alexandra Ribot, French Minister of
Finance, in speech on the bill prior
20 passage. said he recognized the
necessity OF France buying as little
abroad for the requirements of war as
possible. To do so, he asserted, would
be one of the most important
economies for the country. This would
tend also to facilitate exchange, al
though up to the present there had not
been the least monetary depreciation.
French credit was intact and France
felt no embarrassment, notwithstand-
ing all her requirements.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1915-07-02
THE GRANDFATHER
CLAUSE IS VOID
Unanimous Opinion Of the y. $.
Supreme Court.
VIOLATES 18TH AMENDMENT
Effect OF Unanimous opinion Likely
To PrecIpitate Suits To Remove
Franchise Restrictions tn
Several States.

Washington The Supreme Court
of the United States dealt death
blow to the grandfather clause"
which. as a part Of their registration
laws. Is employed to bar thousands OF
negroes from voting in many Of the
Southern States.
The unanimous opinion Of the
court. as handed down by Chief JUS
tice White. applies only to registra-
tion cases coming from Oklahoma and
Annapolis. Md. It can, however, be
made applicable to other Southern
States which have adopted this clause
as part of their election machinery,
If some interested party makes an at
tack upon it in the Supreme Court.
AS a result it is now anticipated that
immediate steps will be taken to
knock out the grandfather clause" in
North and South Carolina and in
Mississippi.
uphoids 18th Amendment.
This is the first time that the Su-
preme Court has passed upon the
validity of one Of the most effective
weapons used by the Southern States
to bar the ignorant negro from par
ticipating in elections. The court has
passed upon cases having an indirect
bearing upon efforts to restrict sui
frage, but it has never before handed
down an opinion directly bearing on
the grandfather clause.
In its opinion. the court unanimously
sustains the Fifteenth Amendment to
the Federal Constitution, prohibiting
discrimination against negroes In cleo
tions because of their race, color, or
previous condition of servitude." The
court, however. pointed out way by
which a State can restrict suffrage If
it sees fit 1t held that State can
apply the literacy test to persons seek
ing to register for elections or seeking
to vote, but this test must be applied
with an equal hand to both white and
black. aB
The grandfather clause" OF both
the Oklahoma and Maryland enact
ments was designed to restrict negro
suffrage In Oklahoma the clause was
written in the State Constitution and
applied to Federal, State, county and
municipal elections. In Maryland the
clause applied only TO municipal cleo
lions at Annapolis and has no bearing
whatever upon Federal or Statewide
elections in that Commonwealth.
This clause provides that any per
son whose grandfather was not a
registered voter of any State cannot
register. The grandfather clause"
as written in the Oklahoma Constitu
ton, was copied from the North Caro-
lima law. It is a product of the mind
of Senator Simmons, of that State,
who led the fight 25 years ago and
overthrow negro domination of his
Commonwealth. AS can be readily
seen. only few negroes can produce
evidence that their grandfathers were
voters, and as result, the black vote
was wiped from the registration books
in wholesale lots,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1915-07-02
FLlERs CRASH ON MOUNTAINS.
Fast Mail and Blue Mountain Express
Come Together.

Thurmont, Md.-Six persons, four of
them Baltimoreans, were killed and a
dozen more or less seriously injured.
when the Blue Mountain Express and
the Fast Mail of the Western Mary
land Railway crashed together on a
bridge. leo feet high, over Owens
creek, a few miles west of here.
The Blue Mountain Express. west
bound, known on the railway schedule
as train No. IL. was late. II on SEIZED
ule, 1t would have passed the Fast
Mail, No. 10. eastbound, not far from
the point at which the wreck occurred.
The change in the schedule, in the
course of which a mixup in the orders
given the conductors of the two trains
is said to have occurred, resulted in
bringing the two trains together. both
running at high speed on the bridge,
which spans mountain ravine,
through which the creek, shallow
stream, runs over a rocky bed.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1915-07-02
GEN. HUERTA HELD
UP ON THE BORDER.
Charged With Conspiracy to
Incite a Revolution.
IS RELEASED UNDER BAIL
Former Dictator Alleged To De Con-
cerned In Plot Backed BY Amerl-
cans To Seize Control OF Mex
lean Government.

FL Paso, Texas.--Charges of con-
spring to incite revolution against
friendly country were filed against
General victoriano Huerta, former
President OF Mexico. who was placed
under arrest at Newman, N. NJ, by
Federal officers
Similar charges were fled against
General Pascual Orozco. who was ar
rested at the same time.
Hnerta was released on SIS 900 bond.
Orozco's bail was fixed at $500 and
be also was released.
Ell Paso, Texas.-Instead Of being
given an enthusiastic welcome by his
supporters, many of whom had gath
cred at the border, General Huerta
reached FL Paso in the custody of Fed
eral officers and under guard of %
United States troopers.
The former Mexican Executive and
General Orozco were taken to the Gus
tom house here and later removed to
Fort Bliss, where they were held until
their bonds had been provided. Cen
eral Huerta in answer to question
denied he had intended to re-enter
Mexico at this time.
Met BY cavaIrymen.
General Huerta had planned to leave
the train at Newman and motor 20
miles to Ell Paso accompanied by
Major Luis Fuentes, his son-in-law,
and General Orozco, who had been one
Of his most active commanders in the
lighting against the ConstitutiOnalists.
That portion of his plan was carried
out, but his party was augmented by
the addition of the Federal officials
and a detachment of the Fifteenth
United States Cavalry.
The coming of General Huerta to Ell
Paso had been predicted here, but
news of his detention came as sur
prise to the public.
Federal officers learned that General
Huerta was travelling toward Ell Paso
on Ell Paso and Southwestern train
No. /. Tack L. Cobb. Collector of Gus
toms at Ell Paso. acting for the State
Department, assisted by Clifford
Beckham, of Fort Worth. special agent
for the Department of Justice, ar
ranged to meet the train at Newman,
New Mexico. accompanied by a small
force OF Federal officers and Is cav
alrymen from Fort Bliss under Colonel
George Morgan, the troops being used
as an escort and guard against disor-
ders on the drive through the city.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1915-07-02
.LEMBERG TAKEN
GERMANS JOYOUS
so, 600 Russian Prisoners and
Nine Guns Taken.
WILD FLIGHT OF. RUSSIANS
Cologne Gazette Correspondent Says
Russian Units Became Disbanded
In the Rush and the Army
Deteriorated Into Mob.

Berlin.-The long, desperate cam
paign in Galicia has ended in the fall
of Lemberg. the capital, and a notable
Austro- German victory.
The War Departments official re-
port says:
"Lemberg was taken by storm by
Austrian troops. The positions be-
tween the Dneister at Mikolalow and
Lemberg were also taken. Further
north, the line east OF Lemberg- Zoltan-
Ceturynka, northeast of Zolkiew, was
reached during the pursuit at Rawa
Ruska and to the east thereof.
"The situation remains unchanged
in the San and Vistula districts and
to the left of the Upper Vistula. The
Russians are beginning to retreat"
stormed Positions.
An official statement issued at
Vienna describes the fighting imme-
diately preceding the fall OF Lemberg
as follows:
"The Russians defensive positions
to the south of the town have been
completely broken by our troops. Some
Notifications on the western and the
northwestern front of Lemberg came
into our possession after violent night
ing. in which the Vienna Landwehr
particularly distinguished themselves.
German troops stormed the posi-
tons west of Kitlikow and north Of
Lemberg repulsing all the Russian
counter attacks"
The news was received with great
jubilation in Berlin.
Saved Some Artillery.
A special correspondent OF the
Cologne Gazette telegraphs that the
Russians, before the general retreat
began, hurriedly sent back all the
artillery they could move. This was
done instead of endeavOring to cover
the retreat OF the artillery and saving
all of it. Part of the cannon were use
less on account of poor ammunition.
Continuing, the correspondent says:
1T was after the artillery had been
sent to the rear that the panic-strick-
EN- troops began their fight. Wagons
and supply trains blocked the roads.
Men detached the horses from these
vehicles and rode many of them, heed
less of the crowd Of soldiers Of all
arms crowding back to the rear. Gem
erals and colonies were helplessly
carried away Units were disbanded
and the army became mere mob 1t
was readily to be seen that catas-
trophe was unavoidable.
A report given out sets forth that
since June IL, 10000 Russian soldiers
and nine Russian guns have been cap
tured. wf
Emperor William has given the
Archduke Frederick, of Austria. the
rank Of Field Marshal In the Prussian
army In recognition of his services In
the campaign which resulted in the
fall of Lemberg.
General August Won Mackensen, OF
the German army which is operating
in Galicia, has been promoted to be a
field marshal for his services In the
campaign.