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Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-09-14

FOR RENT-My 10 room brick
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houses, garden pasture etc. One
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For particulars write Monroe
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phis, Tenn.
AIT E. U-37-4t.)
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FOR SALE-Good mich Coz
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Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-09-14

The J. E Nelson Co.'S Millinery
Opening Friday, September 22nd-
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-09-14

= Buy Singer Oil from j. II.
Morris, it is the best, guaranteed
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Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-09-14

Call on j. H. Morris, for any
Style Singer Machine, he has it.
Headquarters II. 4 j. Friedman's
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Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-09-14

The ]. E. Nelson Cos. Millinery
Opening Friday, September 22nd.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-09-14
..CIassifeo..
Va advertisement accepted for less
than 25c each Insertion.

MULES wANTED-Will be ut the
following named places on the dates
gwen be Glow 70 buy war mules, 14%
to 1914 hands high, and from four to
nine years Old, in medium good flesh,
Ripley, Monday, September Is.
New Albany, Tuesday. September
Pontotoc, Wednesday. September
Calhoun Cis, Thursday. September
81.
Pittsboro, FrFay, September %.
Oxford, Satur@y, September ~.
Zone man at esh place.l
Holly Springs, saturday, Septem-
Der 81
Zone man at eachNace.1
DALE M ROGERS
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ed special interest. Col. Mitcham was
reported saying:
I'm spite Of all the talk about the use
of forty-two centimeter mobile guns by
the Germans. there has been only one
of them in use. The large caliber
howitzers used by the Germans are de-
scribed constantly as sixteen-inch. Prac-
tically all of them are eleven-inch guns.
The Austrians loaned one twelve-inch
howitzer for use in reducing the cities
Of Belgium That one forty-two cent?
meter mobile gun was used in the siege
of Antwerp
Of the general staff of the United States
Army. the French army is now using
howitzers of the 370-milimeter Gas
irch) type against the Germans. six or
eight having been recently completed,
ready to be sent into the field
After the opening battles of the war,
says the War College. the French REAL
lied that they must have heavy field ar
It as soon as possible. The result was
that between August. 1914. and March.
1915, they had sent a number of four
gun batteries OF 10.5-centimeter guns to
to the service considerable number of
new nfteen-centimeter rapid fire howit-
zers, and had started to construct four
teen-inch mortars.
The Army and Navy Journal saws.
"A recent memorandum of the War
College division describes the new
weapon and those pitted against it
trail powers. with some lessons drawn
from the use of big f1eldpieces thus
far In the course of the war. The
French 37O-millimeter howitzer, it is
stated, was under study when the war
broke out, and is comparatively simple
In construction. The trials have given
most satisfactory results. At the out
break Of the war the mobile artillery
of France consisted substantially of
the 65-millimeter (2.65-inch) mountain
75-millimeter (2.92-inch). field gun, and
the 155-millimeter t6.1-inch) rapid-fir
Rimailho gun. About one month before
the outbreak of the war six regiments
of 105-millimeter 4.14-inch) guns were
authorized, but the guns were not
ready for issue at the outbreak of the
war. Since then these regiments have
been furnished these, and other calibers
have been introduced: 150-mlllimeter
(6-inch) Schneider rapid-lre howitz-
ers: 260-millimeter (10.5-inch) howitz-
ers: 305-millimeter G2-inch) navy gun.
mounted on railway carriage. and S4o-
ed on railway carriage"
The War College expresses no doubt
as to the existence of a number of
16-inch howitzers with the armies Of
the Schtidi poWCISs dHu LUZ COY o.
ut is claimed that the Krupp company
now has perfected the 54-centimeter
(21.26-inch) gun. with a range of
thirty eight miles"
Artillery is still the master military
arm, and the War College says: Prom
the artillery point of view the lesson
to be learned from the war Is the same
lesson that has been taught by every
war since the discovery Of cannon.
namely, that, everything being equal.
the side having the heaviest gun and
the best ammunition supply system Is
the one that Is best able to give the
proper support to its infantry, and,
therefore. has the greatest chance of
a,ccess"
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Part Played 10y Women in the Recent Dublin Revc

greatest prominence in the revolt
There were others. however. without
title, unrelated to great families and
unknown by name. who were most
courageous and heroic. Not all were
Sim Feiners: on the contrary. there
were many Red Cross workers. who
were often under fire. who were not.
These looked after the wounded of both
sides. as. truth to tell. did some of the
Sim Fem nurses These Sim Fein
nurses were not mere volunteers, with
no experience. Some had gone through
a regular Red Cross course and held
certificates of efficiency.
On the Wednesday following Easter
Monday the Sherwood Foresters
marched from Kingstown to Dublin.
into what has been described as a
veritable death trap. Into this death
trap the lady superintendent and nurses
of ST. Patrick Dun's nursing home
came forth at about in the after
noon. They carried quilts and blankets
to serve as stretchers. With the aid OF
the residential medical staff they car
diers and insurrectionists, into the
home The ladies of the Red Cross
branches of the city and county of Dub
lin also did fine work. Some of them
put their houses at the disposal of the
wounded, and thus a large number OF
beds were provided. One of the curious
incidents of the revolt occurred when
woman volunteer and a doctor went
into burning house to warn the &C.
cupants to leave. They found only a
maid servant, who refused to depart
because of valuable jewelry of which
she had charge The doctor broke open
the ca binet containing the jewelry and
carried it a stretcher to another
house.
The stretcher bearers of the city of
Dublin branch of the Red Cross were
all women and from time TO time they
made tour of the city to find if their
services were required. Both nurses
and doctors acted with great courage.
constantly risking their lives in the
work of rescue. Seldom has the cour-
age of women been so well shown.
Copyright, 1915 by Curtis Brown)
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than Red Cross work and cooking
Some of them. dressed as men. actu-
ally fought. others acted as messen-
gers. incidentally. some Of the men
who engaged in sniping wore female
attire. The women did their work
with a cool and reckless courage and
were in the firing line from beginning
to end. There were women OF all ranks,
from titled ladies to shop assistants;
Some were snipers. The girl dis
patch bearers had one point of honor
to get their messages through or be
killed. There was one young Dublin
woman. well known writer, whose
relations hold big crown appointments,
who took a dispatch to Gen. Connolly
under heavy machine gun fire. She
accomplished her mission and reckless
ly dashed back with Connollys dis
patch to her own headquarters. This
girl was lucky to escape arrest, but
she did so. and even after the sur
render she. and others. continued their
work. They went about destroying
papers and disposing of ammunition
had not already been caught by the
military.
Not all of these young women were
Sim Feiners. Some. indeed, belonged
to the most loyal families in Dublin
and were carried away by the agita-
ton of the eloquent leaders of the
rebellion. They are now paying the
penalty. for many have been disowned
by their families.
The Countess Markievicz was, OF
course, the most prominent of the
woman rebels She held direct mill
tary command. She dressed in male
attire and led her men with great dash
They had great confidence in her ana
obeyed her implicitly.
The countess has since been tried and
sentenced to death, but this has been
committed to penal servitude for life
1t was unusual and most severe to SEN
tence woman to death, and the writer
believes that he can for the first time
tell the reason. 1t was not solely that
the famous countess took an active
military part. There were other wom-
en- who were technically as guilty IN
this respect as she. But what the
countess did was to organize a Red
Cross corps composed of women and
set them to shipping. There could be, OF
course. no greater crime in the eyes OF
the military, and that is the reason for
the severity of the sentence given by
the court-martial. Whatever the
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Miss Gore-Booth. and was with her in
Queen Victoria in 1887, the jubilee year.
This presentation took place when the
young lady was eighteen, so that she Is
now about forty-seVen years of age.
Mrs. Nelson says that the countess was
always a constant source of trouble and
anxiety to her people owing to her &c
centricity. She declines to believe that
she Is good shot. as has been stated
in the papers, as she has always suf-
fered from defective vision and is very
short-sighted. Mrs. Nelson married and
went a-soldiering with her husband,
and in this way lost sight of the coun-
tess for many years, but she had often
seen her recently, and sometimes in
such a shabby attire as would almost
cause one to offer her charity.
The countess, Mrs. Nelson states, was
always peculiar about her religion and
was student of occult science. In her
early youth she went in for spirit-rap-
ping and table-turning. and later is
said to have had a room for her spirit
ual exercises, the shelves of which con-
tanned many human skulls.
Although connected with some of the
noblest families in England, she ap-
pears to have cut herself completely
adrift and to have consorted with a
class of persons of a kind very differ
ent from those with which she was &C
ISOLATED in early youth.
One of the families with which she
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GREAT GUNS USED i'm WAR

TFHE heavy mobile artillery of the
German army. which was one Of
the surprises in the opening
phases of the war. continues to be one
of the mysteries. or at least one of the
perplexities. When the news reports
brought word to the United States that
forty-two-centimeter or sixteeninch,
howitzers were being used against
Liege and Antwerp ordnance experts
In the United States were incredulous.
Pictures of these great howitzers at
length came into print, and many
ordnance men in this country said that
they were pictures of the eleven-inch
howitzers which had been built at the
works of Krupp and at the Austrian
Skoda works.
1t was perfectly we'll known in the
United States that there were eleven
inch howitzers in the German and Aus
TRAN military establishments. They had
been infinitely described in the military
technical journals in the United States.
but nobody outside of Germany. so far
as known. had ever heard of a sixteen
inch howitZer that could be hauled
around with a mobile army. But 1t
came to be accepted as a fact that there
were such monsters. There was SO much
cumulative testimony to this effect that
all doubt as to the existence of sixteen
inch howitzers passed away. When the
war ends and all the facts come to
light American ordnance experts will
go into the matter of these super
howitzers with a great deal of interest.
The War College. in late memoran-
dunn. has said: Before the present war
started most of our artillery officers
believed that the heaviest field gun or
howitzer which would be needed by an
army was the six-inch howitzer. firing
120-pound projectile, and. in Justice
the exception of the German and Aus
trian armies. this belief was general.
They also believed that the function
of the heavy field guns of more than
six-inch caliber, which 1t was known
Germany and Austria possessed. was to
destroy field forts of steel and con-
crete. and that it would not be pos
sible to transport either of these guns
or the ammunition they required with
the field armies. How wrong this as
sumption was is shown by the present
war, In which the Germans and Aus
TRANS have actually transported with
their field armies eleven Inch howitzers,
twelve-inch howitzers. sixteenth h
reports now indicate that the great
successes obtained by the German and
Austrian armies on the eastern front
were due In no small measure to the
use of these enormous fieldpieces.
which must hereafter be considered as
essential to success in war"
+
X
One OF the foremost Of American ord
nance men. Col. O. B. Mitcham, U. s. A.,
chief of ordnance, Department Of the
East, in a recent public address illus
trated his remarks with lantern slides
showing the larger type Of guns in Eu-
rope and the United States. and the pic
lures and description of tho new sixteen
inch gun recently completed for the
Notifications Of the Panama canal Great
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suburb and conducted small farm.
She wore male attire and was constant
ly to be seen digging, pushing wheel
barrows and doing all the manual work
of the place She always took part in
public affairs and she was one of Jim
Larkins stanchest supporters. She
was supposed to be a Gaelic Lacquer.
She was supposed to be Sim Feiner.
Whatever she was she was most I'M
doubtedly stormy petrol in Irish af-
fairs
Mrs. Katherine Nelson. who herself
was one of the heroines of the insur-
rection. having under fire taken water
to wounded men of the Staffordshire
regiment, knew the countess well and
tells an interesting story of her. Mrs.
Nelson is the wife of an officer in the
British army. Before her married days
she had been closely associated with
the Countess Markievicz, when she was
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She is an exceptional woman. She
married Count Markievicz. a Polish
nobleman. who is now fighting with the
Russians. The count was popular in
Dublip on account of his personality
and because he belonged to Poland.
with which Ireland has a hereditary
sympathy. The countess comes from
the landed gentry" class-the Gore
Booths of County Sligo-a progressive
family in Ireland which has risen to
new opportunities.
The countess used to live in a Dublin
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was connected was that of the late
George Wyndham, chief secretary Tor
Ireland under Arthur Balfour. at that
time prime minister.
Saddest among many sad cases is that
of a young Irish girl, Miss Grace Gil.
ford, and her sister. The husbands OF
both were executed. Miss Grace Ginord,
who married Joseph Plunkett in cell
only an hour or so before he was shot.
is a woman of talent and beauty. Will
liam Orpen, the famous Irish painter.
did her portrait and called it Young
Ireland"
Miss Clifford contributed to reviews
and was something of caricaturist
herself. Joseph Plunkett. the man she
married under such painfully romantic
circumstances. was the eldest son or
count, who is under arrest. is literary
man. an Irish archeologist and keeper
of the national museum in Dublin. Miss
Grace Gifford's sister married Thomas
McDonagh three years ago. McDonagh
was executed at the same time as
Plunkett.
The tragedy of the Plunkett-Gifford
family recalls that of Robert Emme
as the martyr of Irish liberty, and the
story of his betrothed has been made
immortal, not only in theminds of the
far-hung Irish people, in all the lands
of the earth. but in song by Thomas
Moore in his She Is Far From the
Land Where Her Young Hero Sleeps,
and in beautiful prose by Washington
The Broken Heart"
Another woman who takes an unfor-
tunate place in the revolt is Mrs
Sheehy Skeffington, whose husband was
summarily executed without trial The
case caused a great sensation, and the
responsible officer in being court-mar-
tailed. Mrs. Skeffington has the SYM
pathy of every one in Dublin. for 1t Is
not believed that her husband was TAX
ing part in the revolt. On the con-
trary, 1t is claimed that when arrested
he was engaged in an effort to induce
the people to stop looting.
The writer has mentioned the part
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Of the o
soide

front all the men she could spare. the
Sim Feiners began to organize for re-
volt. Their women also prepared for
war. An organization called the Cum l.
ann ma Ruban' was brought together
to learn the principles Of first laid and
other things which would be useful
in time of stress. They trained in Red
Cross work precisely as Englishwomen
have trained.
These Sim Fein women did more
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Old Louise Nolan Went the
Soldier the Battle Mound Street BndgeCounte ecz
Had Regular Red Cross Organization
Romantic Marriage Prison.
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countess may have done, she certainly
showed the courage of her convictions
and took every chance that she asked
her followers to take.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-25
GRACE CLIFFORD.


by liam
gIreand Miss n
hours efore he wasexe
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Special Correspondence Of The Star.
DUBLIN. June Is, 1915.
CRING the great Dublin revolt
i'm the Sherwood Foresters adj
III vanced to Mount Street bridge.
~ under fire all the way. with
men constantly dropping. The Sim
Feiners were on all sides. firing from
windows. doors and roofs. The ARRAY
has taken the name of the battle of the
Mount Street bridge.
The Sherwoods reached the bridge.
One man crossed and was shot down.
There he lay in the road still under fire.
There were many spectators looking on.
including nurses and doctors. They
hesitated to go forward, so obvious was
the great danger of being hit.
The soldier lay there half an hour,
when there darted forth a young Irish
girl. dressed in green. She carried
water, and amid the bullets she rushed
to the fallen mans side. A cheer went
up from the 300 spectators who looked
on. The heroic action of the girl was
purposeless. however, for the man was
was one of the heroic things of the re-
volt.
The girl was Miss Louise Nolan,
daughter of an ex-head constable of
the Royal Irish constabulary. She is
only sixteen years of age. Her exploit
at the Mount Street bridge was not her
only splendid action during the revolt.
Again and again she was seen. in her
green dress, going under fire, rescuing
and succoring wounded men. Sim Fem
ers and soldiers of the king alike.
Many men owe their lives to her. and
she is a heroine of Dublin.
Here is not an isolated case of hero
ism on the part of women There were
many others. The women OF the Sim
Fein element took large part. They
did all they could to help in the revolt.
Office which was the center of all
things, and remained there from begin
ming to end. They cooked for the rebels
who were beleaguered in the building.
they passed out ammunition; in some
cases they engaged in the fighting
Elsewhere the Sim Fein women fought
side by side with their men. Not few
were killed. taking the penalty of re-
beIIion with all the fortitude and cour-
age exhibited by their husbands and
brothers In Red Cross work they did
well and went about under fire with
great aplomb and lack of fear.
AS the Sim Feiners made all prep
arations for actual warfare. so did
their women make ready TO take their
ahare. When Mr.. Redmond at the out
break of war made his famous speech,
stating that nationalist Ireland would
support the empire and send to the
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The writer has mentioned the part
played by the women who achieved
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-10-07

three of article nine of the Constitu-
ing increase of bonded Indebtedness
of state from 100000 to 1 per cent of
assessed valuation of State.)
proposed and passed at the Twen-
ty-Sixth Session of the Legislature,
March IA. 1918. Statutes of 1913. page
5S5, agreed to and passed at the
Twenty Seventh Session of the Leg
islature, February 8, 1915, Statutes of
1915. page. SIC. and subject to ratifi
cation by the people at the general
election of 1850
Resolved by the Senate, the Assem-
bly, concurring, That section three of
article nine of the constitution of the
State of Nevada be amended so as to
read as follows:
Section 8. The state may contract
public debts, but such debts shall
never in the aggregate, exclusive of
interest, exceed the sum of one per
cent of the assessed valuation of the
state. as shown by the reports of the
county assessors to the state con-
troller, except for the purpose of de-
fraying extraordinary expenses, as
hereinafter mentioned. Every such
debt shall be authorized by law for
some purpose or purposes, to be dis
tinctly specified therein; and every
such law shall provide for levying an
annual tax sufficient to pay the in
terest semiannually, and the princi-
pal within twenty years from the
passage of such law and shall spe-
cially appropriate the proceeds of
said taxes to the payment of said
principal and interest; and such ap-
preparation shall not be repealed, nor
the taxes postponed or diminished,
until the principal and interest of
said debts shall have been wholly
paid. Every contract of Indebtedness
entered into or assumed by or on be-
half of the state, when all its debts
and liabilities amount to said sum
before mentioned, shall be void and
of no effect, except in cases of money
borrowed to repel invasion, suppress
insurrection, defend the state in time
of war, or, if hostilities be threaten
ed, provide for the public defense.
Witness my hand and the seal of
said County this End day of October,
A. ID. 1916.
j. w. DAVEY.
(SeaD County Clerk.
BY James Ritchie. Deputy.