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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-01-07
ToMBsToNES AS GUIDES.
Some Changes Are Made as a Result
of Ore Boom In Nevada.

of Ore Boom In Nevada.
Reno, Nev.-Tombstones are being
used for location monuments in the
new mining district near Sodaville.
where a supposed fabulously rich ledge
of tungsten ore was discovered, ac-
cording to reports brought to Reno by
men who answer the call of the desert
and mark the boundaries of their
claim.
One miner located the village Gene
terry, and as there were no rocks near
he used some of the best looking tomb
stones to mark the boundaries Of his
claim.
Others soon followed suit, and now
the relatives of the departed, inferred
three years ago, would have a hard
time recognizing one grave from an
other
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-01-07
Dog Trees Big Bobcat.

Salt Lake City.-A % caliber poodle
dog freed a As centimeter bobcat near
the tank house of the city waterworks
in Parley's canyon and kept him in a
state of siege on the top of telephone
pole until the feline was shot by Louis
Shricker caretaker at the tank house.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-01-07
eaaqed Fifty.two Pound Wolf.

Balaton, Minn.-Two boys, Evold By
lander and John Bollman, bagged fif-
ty-two pound wolf recently in rather a
novel way. They were out hunting.
one boy on a motorcycle and the other
with a gun in the side car, when they
spied the wolf and gave chase. After
wild ride of several miles they made
successful long shot.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-01-07
MARRYING SoUIRES BUSY.
So Busy They Want to Put an End TO
Runners" In Jeffersonville, Ind.

-
Runners" In JeffersonVille, Ind.
Jeffersonville, Ind.-Some of the six
justices of the peace of Jeffersonville,
who fight among themselves for mar
rage couples" are proposing a combi-
nation whereby all six would establish
central marrying parlors and would
pool and divide equally all their earn
ings.
The chief benefit would be the elm
nation of the runners" with whom
the justices Of the peace now split
their fees, which only in exceptional
cases amount to more than So. One
result of the competition has been the
cutting of fees. Many clipping couples
get married for 81 and some for 'six
bits" Secret weddings generally cost
the clippers little more, and a twenty
five dollar fee shows up once in awhile.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-01-07
AMERICANS AIDING
FRANCES BLIND
Victims Of War Are Being
Taught Trades.
WINIFRED HOLT ACTIVE.

She Went to Paris After the Outbreak
of War and Succeeded In Gathering
Funds Among American Friends to
Carry on housekeeping Away De-
spondency Big Task.
Paris.-Blind for life is the fate that
has overtaken many of Frances sons
who have not been permitted to offer
their lives on the altar of patriotism.
Trench warfare. the conclusion OF
huge artillery, poisonous gases, flaming
tar, have all contributed to cause
wounds in the head, only too often re-
sulting in total blindness.
American initiative again has step
ped to the fore. A group of Americans
have banded themselves into a COM
mittee to assist In teaching the blind.
Miss Winifred Holt, well known in
America for her work with the blind
in the Lighthouse in New York city,
was the originator of the idea.
She was in London when the war
broke out as American delegate to the
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-01-07

In order to make a lady feel good
you must tell her that she looks ten
years younger than she really is.
The Irish standard., 1916-07-08
THE IRISH PRISONERS.

In Parliament last week Pre-
mier Asquith announced that APP
proximately 5000 persons were
arrested in Ireland in connection
with the Sim Fem revolt, and
that of this number 1000 have
been released. What of the other
1900? Are they to remain in
English and Irish prisons with
out trial until the clemency of the
British government asserts it.
self? OF these prisoners, as of
all those arrested, many are abb
solutely innocent of connection,
directly or indirectly, with the
revolt, while large percentage
are mere boys. Following the re-
volt, the police made wholesale
arrests. and from their viewpoint
it made very little difference
whether or not they had the
slightest grounds for doing so.
The dragnet was simply out, and
who was caught in its meshes was
of no consequence to either the
police authorities or to Dublin
Castle.
1t is a striking commentary on
the British governments sense of
justice that while every single
Boer prisoner engaged in the re-
cent revolt in South Africa has
been released, these 1900 Irish
men are still detained in prison.
In each case there was an upris-
ing against English domination,
and in each the "offense" was
precisely the same. Whv, there
fore, should there be any dis
elimination, and least of all in
favor of the Boers?-"The Hiber-
man."
The Irish standard., 1916-07-08
PERFIDI0US ALBION

The outstanding documents relating
to the Irish Instruction are three:
the testimony of Chief Secretary Bir-
rell before the Commission of in
quiry, that of Sir Matthew Nathan, the
Under-Secretary, and that of Colonel
Moore of the Cannought Rangers, In
spector-General of the Irish Volun-
teers. Each of these formal state
ments is characteristic and Individual
The first reveals quality extremely
rare In the ranks of British officialdom
IN Ireland. namely, the candor and de-
tachment of the man of letters. Mr..
Birrelrs explanation has the literary
flavor one would naturally expect in
the author of "Obiter Dicta"; but it
has also-what one would not expect
sympathetic references to those lit
erary and artistic movements which
were after all the real breeding-ground
OF the insurrection. For the Gaelic
League and kindred activities such as
the Abbey Theater, he has nothing but
praise. Nor does he condemn outright
as do so many ill.informed persons
In the press and outside 1.-THE Sim
Fem movement. In reply to the ques-
ton: Was not Sim Feinism in its
inception an idealistic policy?" he
says: I'm its original inception, yes.
But l think that idealism consisted
In the idea of IrisRalife, character, lit
erature. education, and everything else,
all being entirely separate and remote
from the English connection. think
that idea lay at the root of it-that
there should be, not necessarily a po-
litical. but practically q real divorce
between England and Ireland" This
disposes of the notion that the "raison
detre" of the Sim Feiners was oppo-
sition to John Redmond and the Par
liamentary Party. 1t is true that they
did oppose him in the end; but it
was only when he had identified him.
self, and sought to identify the nation
also, with the sordid cause of British
Imperialism. E
Among the contributory causes of
the insurrection Mr.. Birrell stresses
the Ulster rebellion. and the Govern.
ment's treatment of it. The former
may be called negative, the latter a
positive influence. The arming and
drilling Of the obstetrics gave the
South and West their cue. Says the
Chief Secretary: There was no anger
The Irish standard., 1916-07-08

Rev. Father Joyce, chaplain OF
the Fourth Field Artillery, has
been with General Pershing's ex-
peditionary command since the
soldiers entered Mexico. Accord
ing to recent letters which come
to this office-censored, by the
way-his headquarters were To-
Gated at Namiquipa. In camp his
altar is the tailboard of a wagon
and soda bottles supply candle
sticks. No tent; and because of
absence of cover Of any kind, it is
rather dangerous proceeding to
distribute Holy Communion in
the wind, which often prevails
The war department. supplies
chaplains, but they must shift for
themselves, strange way to help
in preserving discipline in the
army.-Advance.
The Irish standard., 1916-07-08
MOUNT SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE
HOLDS COMMENCEMENT,

Mt. Saint Mary's College of Emmits.
burg, Nd, held its commencement ex-
ercises on last Wednesday. His Emil
nence, Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore,
presided at the ceremony. The Bac-
calaureate sermon was delivered by
Rev. Chas. Watterson, of Newark, O..
Rev. Watterson took for his text: Go
therefore into the whole world, teach
ing them to observe all things whatso.
ever have taught you, baptizing them
In the name of the Father, and of the
Son and of the Holy Ghost, and behold
I am with you all times even to the
contamination of the world" Solemn
High Mass was celebrated by Rev. Fin
ton S. Tehan, of Hartford, Conn. A
feature of the program was the Ora
trical Contest won by Robert J. Dono.
van, of New York City, whose subject
was 'The Evils of Child Labor" At the
annual alumni banquet held imme.
diately after the final commencement
exercises the following men delivered
speeches: Rt. Rev. Edward P. Allen,
Bishop of Mobile; Rt. Rev. Mgr. B. ].
Bradley. LID; Rev. Charles H. A.
Watterson, LID, Newark, Ohio; ].
Rogers Flannery, LID, Pittsburgh,
Pa; James A. McCreery, LID, New
York City; Frank H. Ball, Sc. B., Pitts
burgh, Pa; Fitzhugh Lee, Sc. D., Cleve-
land, Ohio.
The Irish standard., 1916-07-08
BLEEDING IRELAND.

The Childers commission Of
1895 estimated that Ireland hac
been overtaxed for 90 years by al
least $1l,0o0,0oo a year-and SC
arose demand for restitution
by; means of preferential treat.
ment. This estimate was based
on the net product of the income
tax, which showed that Ireland's
taxable capacity was not more
than one-twentieth that of Great
Britain, some members of the
parliamentary commission assess
ing it at one-thirty-sixth. Ireland
was then paying in taxes to the
common exchequer one-eleventh
Of what Great Britain paid. Dur
ing the nineteenth century Great
The Irish standard., 1916-07-08

Britain's population had trebled,
while taxation per head was low
cred by Is per cent: Ireland's
taxation per head was increased
by l40 per cent, while her popula-
ton had decreased by IA per cent.
Fifteen years after the Childers
commission made its report, the
Primrose commission recon-
mended that quite apart from any
change in political relations there
must be radical change in the
financial relations of Great Britain
and Ireland. ireland is now pay
ing an imperial contribution of at
least three times the amount OF
the former deficit" says the Lon
don New Statesman april %,
1916): continuing: 100000
pounds will be collected this year
in a country from which in 1913
though then alleged bankrupt
only about half that sum was rails
ed in net revenue" An Irish
American newspaper gives $685.
$4,000 as the estimated taxation
of Ireland, l916-19l7, against $780,
927,1OO for 1915-1916, SOL, 947,50O
for 19l41915, and only SIS, 672,5OC
| for 1913-1o14-before the great
war.-From "The Rebellion in
Ireland" by Warren Barton Blake
in the American Review of Re-
views for June, 1916.
The Irish standard., 1916-07-08

There have been many parallel
cases to the recent German at
tempt to land arms into Ireland,
which ended in a failure and the
capture of Sir Roger Easement.
The most notable took place at
the end of the 18th century, the
first being that of the famous
French general, Hoche, who, &C
companied by the Irish revolu-
Zionist, Wolfe Tone, attempted in
December, 1876. to land $500
troops, an imposing array of
heavy guns and thousands of
rifles. with which it was proposed
to arm the Irish people.
Bad weather, however, upset
the calculations of the leaders of
the expedition. which never land
ed. and with great difficulty got
back to Brest.
Two years later Gen. Humbert
met with little better success
when he landed 1000 French
troops in Killala bay. The Irish
people, however, refused to join
this daring raider, who was
forced to surrender.
The Irish standard., 1916-07-08
TWO NAMELESS PATRIOTS

Under the caption Defiant
Irishmen," the "Irish Indepen-
dent" has the following news
item: 1.-TWO Irishmen charged at
Altrincham, Cheshire, yesterday,
with being absentees, were very
defiant, and said they were deter
mined not to join the Army
They declared they would rather
be shot than do so. They also
pleaded they were not liable, as
their homes were in Ireland, but
they had lived in England fol-
some time. They were hand.
ed over to the military author:
ties"
1t is really pity the "Indepen.
dent" does not give the names
these two fearless sons of the Ole
Sod. The spirit which they ex
hibited was the spirit of genuin,
Irish patriotism, and the mora
bravery evidenced in their re
fusal to take "the blood-stainee
Saxon shilling" and wear tn,
scarlet uniform of England wa.
nobler and grander by far thai
all the acts of physical bravery
of score of Sergeant Mix,
O'Learys combined in one.
Such men John R e d m o n
would repudiate as traitors" ant
"nobodies;;" such men Irelant
should honor, if Ireland onl,
knew their names.
The Irish standard., 1916-07-08
ARE WE MONEY MAD?

The belligerents in the World
War have complained loud and
long about the money-grabbing
policy of Americans. We have
been accused of making millions
out of the death-blood of suffering
Europe, and denounced as hard
hearted, unsympathetic and mon
ey-mad people. But, are we? A
recent report is authority for the
information that the people of this
country have already donated
twenty-five million dollars to the
suffering, through the medium of
the American Red Cross, various
relief funds, private hospitals, etc.,
and the money still pours in. In
fact, we have given many times
more than all of the other neutrals
of the world combined, and done
this freely and ungrudgingly.
There is still another phase. AM
erican men and women have given
up their time and energy and have
acted as surgeons and nurses in
the field hospitals throughout the
war zone. All this has been done
voluntarily, without any hope
or expectation of future reward,
simply for the sake of humanity,
for the sake of the comfortable
feeling that one has after the COM
pletion of a worthy deed, and the
knowing that you have contribut-
ed your bit" in striving to re-
lieve the suffering of mankind.
The Irish standard., 1916-07-08
olics in Mexico, of which there are

olics in Mexico, of which there are
some fifteen million. OF course
this was misquotation, or per-
haps deliberate falsehood. Mex
leo is a country whose population
is, according to reliable figures,
composed of ninety per cent Cath
olics. OF course, if the First Chief
wants to put the balance OF the
population of his unhappy coun-
try at work building detention
places for his Catholic citizens, he
is at liberty to do so, and we have
a faint suspicion that a certain
class of people on this side of the
border would commend his ef-
forts.
The Irish standard., 1916-07-08

The Manchester Guardian, one
of the most influential papers in
England, makes direct plea for
clemency for Sir Roger Case
ment. 1t says: "For the sake
of the new Ireland which we hope
to see, it is a moment for elem
ency. 1t may be that Sir Roger
was a dreamer, but the death
penalty will do nothing to kill
such dreams, as his. Rather it
will give them life" Other Eng
lish papers have made an indirect
plea for mercy on the ground that
the execution of Easement would
not assist in settling the Irish
problem.
The Irish standard., 1916-07-08
The Oratory of st. Joseph, in Mon.

The Oratory of st. Joseph, in Mon
treal, Canada, is known as a place of
pilgrimage. Recently Archbishop
Bruchesi blessed the corner stone of
the first crypt of the Oratory, which,
when completed, will cost about $780,.
A handsome window, costing more
than $1,000, will be placed in the new
st. Matthew Church, Conshohocken
Pa, in memory of the late Rev. Rich.
ard P. Kinahan, for more than fifty.
three years rector of the church. II
will be the gift of former and present
parishioners.
The Irish standard., 1916-07-08
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GRAgE $ D 'sses eoyke!E
\sssss:"S:Sss

Latest press reports would
seem to indicate that war with
Mexico has been avoided and that
a peaceful solution of our difficult
ties with that ,war-stricken repub-
lie will be reached. The presence
of our national guard on the
border has evidently had a sooth-
ing effect upon the temper of the
first chief and his latest note in
dicates that he is rather anxious
to avoid trouble. President Will
son has refused to make political
capital of the threatened war, and
has ignored the opportunity of
forcing the issue, for which he is
entitled to the wllole-hearted
thanks of the American people.
In refusing to allow our soldiers
to restore order in Mexico, which
would necessarily mean years OF
guerrilla warfare, in which thou
sands of lives would be sacrificed
he has but followed the dictates
of the great majority of Ameri-
cans, for whom war has lost its
glamor. People have come to
realize that war, as fought in the
10th century, is not the thing that
has been heralded in song and
story for centuries, but that hui
man ingenuity has reduced it to
a mathematical calculation; that
war has become a grim, inhuman
slaughter not between men, op-
posing each other in glorious
charges, in wonderful hand to
hand conflicts, but that the hu-
man equation has been removed
and man is necessary today only
to man the death-dealing ma
chimes, that he in his blindness
has allowed to be manufactured
for the sole and avowed purpose
of committing murder upon the
person of his fellow men. We
Americans are not pacihsts,
neither are we too proud to fight,
but every right-thinking Ameri-
can believes in military prepared
ness, not in the spirit of aggres-
sion, but in the spirit of self-pres-
ervation, believes that the best
way in which to keep out OF
trouble is to be ready to fight.
We all hope that after this world
war is over that man will see the
folly of strife and that the spirit
of the Prince of Peace will reign
throughout the world. 1t may be
an idealistic dream, but let us
hope and pray that it will become
a reality.
The Irish standard., 1916-07-08
FLAG OF IRISH REPUBLIC TO FLY
OVER CONVENTION HALL.

Knowing how the delegates to the
Hibernian Convention at Boston would
glory in a flag of the Irish Republic
that would have some history attached
to its beauteous folds, 1 wrote to the
widow of our beloved departed Fenian,
jeremiah O'Donovan Rosa, to beg of
her the inestimable favor of the privi-
lege of using the flag presented to her
by Patrick Pearse and his colleagues
on the occasion of O'Donovan Rossa's
funeral In Dublin. The accompanying
letter will show what Mrs. O'Rossa
thinks:
622 w. 135th St., New York, N. Y.
June 26, 1916.
Dear Mrs. Jolly:
1t goes without saying that l feel
honored and pleased by your request
for the presence at your Convention
of my Irish fighting flag which prize
beyond words, not only as sacred relic
of Rossa's glorious funeral in Dublin,
but still more as q treasured personal
gift from the Irish Volunteers and
the Executive Committee through the
martyrs Pearse, Clarke, and Mac
Donagh.
Your great inspired Irish heart and
eloquent tongue will, know, do it all
honor at your convention. It floated
over the Irish Volunteers, the symbol
of their hopes and aspirations, before
enfolding Rossa's body, as the most
significant sign of their love for and
faith in him. And, oh thrilling and
awesome thought! The hands that
caressed and folded it about him are
dust, and the hearts that throbbed to
Its message have shed their bright
blood for 1t, and have put their names
forever, unsurpassed amongst the glo.
rious roll of Ireland's patriot martyrs!
l will send you the flag, probably by
mail in plenty of time for the Conven-
ton.
Thanking you affectionately for the
kind things you say of me and with
bright hopes for the outcome of the
Convention, remain, dear Mrs. Jolly,
Ever sincerely yours,
MARY ]. O'DONOvAN ROssA.
Besides the precious memento of
Rosa we shall have the death mask
of Robert Emmett executed and loaned
to the Convention by the eminent New
York sculptor, Jerome Conner. At the
Irish Race Convention Mr. Conner sug-
gested the loan and in a recent letter
| reminds me that he is ready on my
demand to send us the revered relic.
This death mask of Robert Emmett is
a replica of the original one made
under most tragic circumstances by
the noted Irish archaeological special
list, DR.. Petrie, Robert Emmet's friend
and admirer, a lifelong adherent to
the Emmett family and to the princi-
pies of Irish independence for which
they suffered exile and execution
With such relics before our eyes how
can our Convention fail of ultimate
success? The sight Of. Robert Emmet's
heroic features and the folds of the
sacred flag that enshrouded a Fenian
form and that emanated from the
wealth of affection borne to Old. Rosa
by our latest Irish martyrs, will thrill
us and urge us on to great and high
resolves to assist in making ireland
a Nation once again.
ELLEN RYAN JOLLY,
Natl Pres. L. A. A. O. H,
The Irish standard., 1916-07-08
ADDRESS OF
SIR ROGER
EASEMENT
CONTINUED from Page IL

Continued from Page ~
being tried here not because It is just,
but because it is unjust. Place me be-
fore a jury of my own countrymen,
be it Protestant, Catholic, Unionist
Nationalist, Sim Feinaech or Orange
men and shall accept the verdict and
bow to the statute and all its penal
ties.
IF they adjudge me guilty, then
am guilty.
ut is not who am afraid of their
verdict; it is the Grown. If this is
not so, why fear the test? 1 fear it
not. but demand it as my right!
Il would add that the generous ex-
preston of sympathy extended to me
from so many quarters, particularly in
America, have touched me very much.
In that country, as in mine, am sure
my motives are understood the
achievement of their liberties has been
an abiding inspiration to Irishmen and
all elsewhere rightly struggling to be
free.
Il hope to be acquitted of presump.
ton if say that the court seek now
is not this High Court of Justice of
England, but the far greater, far high
er and far older assemblage of justice
of the people of Ireland.
Since in the acts which led to this
trial, it was the people of Ireland 1
sought to serve-and them alone. l
leave my judgment and sentence in
their hands.
ireland has outlived the failure of
all her hopes-yet she still hopes. Ire
land has seen her sons, aye, and her
daughters, suffer from generation to
generation, always for the same cause,
meeting always the same fate, al
ways at the hands of the same power,
and always a fresh generation has
passed on to withstand the same Oh.
preston.
"A cause that begets this indom-
table faculty, preserving it through
centuries of misery and the remem.
brance of lost liberty-this surely is
the noblest cause men ever strove for,
ever lived for, ever died for!
my counsel referred to the Ulster
Volunteer movement. Neither l nor
any leaders of the Irish Volunteers,
founded in Dublin in November, 1913,
had any quarrel with the Ulster Vol
unteers, as such, who were born a
year earlier.
I'VE aimed at winning Ulster VOL
unteers to the cause of a united Ire.
land. 1t was not we Irish Volunteers
who broke the law, but the British
party. The Government permitted the
Ulster Volunteers to be armed by Eng
lishmen; to threaten not merely the
English party in its hold on office, but
to threaten that party through the
lives and blood of 1rishmen.
"The battle was to be fought in Ire.
land in order that the political Outs
today should be the ms tomorrow in
Great Britain. The law to benefit Ire.
land was to be met, not on the floor
OF Parliament, where the fight could
indeed be won, but on field of battle
much nearer home, where the armies
were to be composed of Irishmen slay.
ing each other for some English
party's gain.
"The British navy was to be char.
tered transports that were bringing
to our shores numerous assemblages
of military and ex-military experts in
the congenial and profitable business
of holding down the subjects of the
populations abroad.
Our choice lay in submitting to
foreign lawlessness or resisting it, and
we did not hesitate to choose.