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The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1916-08-15

Having been urged during the
past two months by the good cit
izenship of Benewah county, re-
CARELESS of political lines, TO en-
ter the race for prosecuting at
torney, l have decided to do SO.
In obedience to the will and wish
es of my many friends, | consent
ed to have my nomination filed.
I hereby take pleasure i'm an
nouncing that am a candidate
for the Democratic nomination
for prosecuting attorney sub
iect to the will of the voters of
the Democratic party as expressed
at the primary election to be held
September 5th.
If nominated and elected. my
motto will Doe a square deal for
every citizen, regardless of their
political Affiliations. influence or
financial Standing. and the most
economical administration of the
affairs of the Office consistent
with the very best efficiency and
Twill perform the duties of the of
flee without fear, favor. bias or
partially and with equal fairness
and Justice TO all.
ALLEN A. HOlSDLAW
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1916-08-15

cUANCgOA NNsb
H.R. Renfro, livery hire, coun-
ty superintendent $50
5. $. Bouton, expenses as Jail
or 7.3O
Dr.. John w. Owens, railroad
fare and expenses of insanity pa
tient 6S5
Children's Home Finding Assn.
care of INDECENT 5000
Emmitt pfost, expenses serv-
ing papers 400 |
c. W. zeiglitz, team hire, poor
farm 300 |
Mulcahy Undertaking Co., bur
ial pauper dead 5000 |
Oscar Davis, registering voters, |
4.65 |
Geo. e. Mitchell, registering
voters $40 |
C. Il. English, registering vot-
crs $40
John j. Nickles registering vot-
crs 800
Carl NJ. Kraemer, registering
voters 1850
Geo. J. McFadden. registering
voters 1865
w. A.. Sargent, registering vot-
crs 6s.s5
Robert p. Hyde, registering vot-
FRS .S5
Allen A Holsclaw registering
voters 900
w. G. Tren'ry, registering vot-
ers i.O5
w. G. Trenry, registering vot-
ers 4.95
r.. E. Stout, Justice fees Horst
man case 600
LOWE Machell, Justice fees.
lIorstman case 100
Joe Nickodeemas, Witness fees
lIorstman case 2.25
w. r.. Marsh, Witness fees,
Ilorstman case 225
Albert Hickman, Witness fees
! IOrstman case 2.25
Stanley Slrulhers, Witness fees
Iorstman case 2.25
Guy Thompson, witness fees
| IIOrslman case 2.25
Raymond Gilbert, Juror fees
Horstman case 225
Frank Ray. Jurors fees Horst
man case 2.25
w. T.. Kcrns, Jurors fees Horst
man case 2.25
Lee King, Jurors fees Horst
man case 2.25
Burt Kinney, Juror fees Horst
man case 2.25
Lawrence King, Jurors fees,
Horstman case 2.25
f. Woodward, Jurors fees i'm
Tracey case 2.25
G. l.. Bruun, Jurors fees in
Tracey case 2.25
A. O. Dewitt, Witness fees,
Milbrandt case 2.75
Clarence Butler, Witness fees
Milbrandt case 2.75
Mrs. e. G. Martin, Witness fees
d Steele Case 2.25
f. G.. Martin Witness fees
Steele case 225
Murray Dodson. witness fees
Steele case 2.25
W. Il. Kalb, witness fees steele
case 2.2-
z James Abel, Jurors fees steele
case %!
; f. G. scott. Jurors fees steele
case 2.2'
b Chas. vanHouten, Jurors fees
$ Steele case 2.2l
Chester Gaskill, Jurors fee
! Steele case %.
A. sames. Jurors fees, Steel
! case %
r. E. Stout, Justice Fees il
Marsh case %
Frank Eldridge, Witness fees
S Marsh case 2.2
e. r. Stewart, Witness fee.
Marsh case %
= d. w. James, Witness fees
% Mash cae -
- John May Witness fees Mars
10 ease %
e Art Tryon, Wilncs fees, Mars
o case p
e Joe Yanmclken, witness fees
o Marsh case p
r. r. T.. Stout, or bearer, Con
q stable Marsh case 2.7
D At this time The Board adjourn
+ ed to meet July fl, 1916, at 1880
ID a. m.
% ). II. MORA
"a Chairma
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-06-25
Slang

IF you don't know enough words. make some. W.
need a few better ones than our present stock
The English language is surfeited with poly
sylabics The old photographers tore whole handfuls
right out of the Greek and Latin to pad their works.
Back there, at the birth of printing just about per
cent of the community learned and those scholars
took advantage of posterity and overloaded the die
honar with sOnorous derivatives.
If the Helenes had been simpler speaking nation
their descendants would probably dominate the universe
to the hour. But their coonizing was a failure and
their conquess futile because the barbarans couldn't
acquire the language No country assimilate
folk unable to learn its speech.
Don't resent slang. 1t is the simpliied form of
nercourse-the effort of native intelligence to over
come the handicap of limited knowledge.
Some Of us equipped to express ourselves
have full range of prepared pigments for the trans
Iation of any impression But there are bright minds
among the masses, eager to paint their thoughts viz
idly that necessity forces them grind their own color
otherwise they can't shade meanings
OF course slang violates precedent, but SO do fau-
Gets and elevators.
Precedent is the voice of yesterday-the best that
the past could do u.s. It's an inheritance Of ruts
Some old fossils regard all innovation as synony.
nous with desecration-but don't mind them. The
world never benefited through their existence
If you manage to crowd mouthful of sem
tence into compact reaching punch Of phrase-iR
the name of clarity and charity-give it to u.s.
Certain hghbrows will resent your pathological en-
deavors but they and their sort have bucked list of
orgnaities from the globular theory of the earths
form to telephones and automobiles-none of 'em has
loaned leg to progress yet
The most picturesque and succinct words in the
vernacular born out of the difficulties of brains
cropping through pOvertystrcken vocabuaries for eff.
fective symbols of intercourse.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-06-25
The Molasses Attitude of Mind

handle
constantly dtep ground yield the moment,
to
MIST Like moas be marked method but absorbs attempt
to placid unchanged
o isn't
sufficiently interested. 1t hold it,
Whats
"Were well is these the little eches which
splendid
blankets them
when he's whipped, he's
these sess slippery compacen
They're
problem conceptions executed
Ty the Republic Their toughe continually elect the
offices How wrest with jeyfsh, build with blanc
mange?
Enough dynamite
equanimity OF a qicksand.
Nothing utterly exaperang the elfsafd null
tud bother themselves sufficiently convinced of necessities
Copyright b orssH tan NJ u
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-06-25

n0N'T let busy bodies turn you from
- the path you have selected.
Incredibly and mbeIief are quite to be
expected.
What il butters.in DO seOId you!
What Il fools Try to remOuId you!
II you aren't sreaked with yellow such
disbursement won't hold you.
Some will doubt you.
Lots will ROut you.
More than one will lie about you.
They'll deride you
And decide you
Need an older hand" to guide you.
Do not listen to the rOakers-6ghI il out
once you've commenced it.
II you meet with opposition simply run
your head against it.
All the big things that we know about were
won by self-belieyers.
Cutters never yet have been, nor can
they ever be, aehieyers,
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-06-25
Pity the Poor

THE old man who just rode past specializes In
trusts, banks, milk and mush. But his cash is
counterfeit 1t won't buy what he needs He
can't digest his meals his money Would you trade
places with him7
Well, then how about the blind man there on the
corner7 He never saw the sun fash on the hills of
Dawn or looked on the face of his mother.
Or perhaps you think the old woman who owns
your apartment house is pet of Providence. But
did you know that she is deaf that she can't hear the
birds chirping outside her window and not one of all
the songs minted in the golden Threats of the trouba
dours ever reached her cart
Your boss is eating his heart out in the stark empt
ness of chdless home, and his feather-headed wife
has not imagination enough to find happy use for
her income.
Putocrats like you must pause occasionally and
consider the unfortunate Most folks are not nearly
so well off.
Pity the poorl Pity the poori
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-06-25
Trials are but files
to rasp men into
form


THE Sidir lives. That bit of truck,
Lost somewhere in the ocean muck,
Was but passing phase. He came
Awhile to teach the splendid game
Of sacrifice, and then went home.
His brothers held the banks of Rome
And fell upon the Persian sword
When Xerxes thrust bearded horde
Against the Lacedemon will.
His memory will last until
The waters wash the cloud-swept hill.
They do not die-such men as he
Are Scions of Eternity
The children of the stars His name
Is song deep in the throat of Fame.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-06-25

s:s e: = := Herbert @1gtm)anC Weeks
What They Didn't Tell You at Commencement
By
whose grandoquen
superiority moa ooemate the
diploma simply tells ended and education
thar couldn't conducted
History applied
Now facing
old mind dM
and
intelligence citizenship
graveyard
the bones of dealing with which
not anticipated by professors
You without
where the n is liable o
hold the the
P9aucton familiarity with the ldom weigh the balance
e1ofce
bgahn the probable
We buy all the textbooks you've plugged through for about 500
much
But
introduce
We and exalted
their
The factory all material make that it will We
don't take quality for granted The mills delivering identical tn
widely
We
You can Academ but aresRmn in school,.
co0t Eyd YOUR
false
manan tmadeof
job Confidence doesn't ask for odds. ambition will 70
Jimmy gd in The who Influence prejudice
feet folks believe that an
u4@ MoIoc 44i4rJoo f find
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-09-03

at hand to strengthen him. / have
heard that many and many time the
French soldiers would have been
completely disheartened and dfssat-
isfied had it not been for the 10000
clergy administering constant ex-
ample and encouragement. 3
1.-The spiritual hunger of the human
heart in crisis is stronger than any
hunger of the body. The opportunities
for religious service, for prayer, for
confessions have cleared the consci-
ences. of the French soldiers. With an
irreproachabTe conscience, with res
olution to do right, with their souls
at peace, the French soldiers are fear
less. They do not care for danger.
They do their duty magnificently be-
cause religion has set their hearts at
rest
France owes this wonderful patriot
ism of her soldiers to religion.
France is spiritually stronger to-
day, after two years of fighting, than
she was before the war began"
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-09-03

Forbear, forgive, forget.
Three little words that help to build
great happiness.
Three little words that mean great
victory.
Three little words that prove us
worthy of great privilege.
The great happiness which these
simple words build is the happiness
OF peace The victory they mean is
victory over ones self, And the
great privilege which they gain for us
is the privilege of being through our
conduct adjudged worthy sons and
daughters of the Heavenly Father of
us all. .t
Men anger us. We are human and
therefore we resent. But every time
we resent we lower ourselves to the
level of him who offends u.s.. we lose
our own selfzrespect. Mhich is a .valu-
able asset; we raise the offender to
the opinion that he is worth noticing,
which be may desire but which we are
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-09-03
Imaginary Campaign Speeches
(THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPENED)

| guess there amt farmer presen
who doesn't know me, and it's the
farmers I'm going to depend on.
spent most of my time this past two
years rubbing up the farmers and if
can only make them think | am the
stuff in the primaries | don't care a
snap about the towns
You know, fellow farmers, just why
want to be elected county commits
sioner again, don't you?
If wanted to fool you | would say
that it's because l think | am a good
business manager for the county and
can save it money and get the peo-
pie the kind of roads they want for
very little money and without sending
thousands of dollars of county money
outside the state for road material
THAT we don't need and that we can
get the superior of right here in La
|tah county for absolutely nothing.
If | got right down to brass lacks
| would tell you that there are sew
eral reasons why you've simply got
to get me nominated in the Republi-
can primaries on September fifth.
In the first place. a whole lot of
county business that | wish. L had
figured differently in, has got to be
Strengthened out. | wouldn't like to
give. up the office now before I had
chance to put better face on some
of the OUTLAWS I've stood for. O..
These politicians and these timber
cruisers and these fellows. that have
got gravel, machinery and other
things to sell-why, they keeprputting
things over on me all the time and ]
never find out till long afterward that
business to spend. And hten to keep
everything hushde up i have to- go on
voting for more of those things until
the amount of unnecessary if not Illegal
expenditures I've.- stood for is just
something appalling. You don't need
me to tell you that the kind of roads
you have to go to town on and the ]
way your taxes keep jumping up have
shown you just how much of bus.-.,
ness head I've got on me. Please let !
me stay in just once more. Ibet III
be more careful. They say if you
can't be good be- careful and I'll try
to be careful because | know I'm not /
much good. !
There's another reason why I've
Just got to be county commissioner +
gain. l like the salary pretty we'll.
t comes in handy and the way l do
he work it's mighty little trouble to
ne and almost no responsibility.
But apart from the salary the way
et most good out of the job is be-
ause l own part interest in store !
hat / try to make the farmers think |
hey can get profits out of too Most /;
f the farmers seem to think that a
is pretty big fish In 4
ne town puddle, and 1t brings them II
, the store because they like to trade ]
18th a commissioner and think may Il
Q he will favor their district soAe: II
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-09-03
MORE RELIGIOUS
BECAUSE OF WAR
WAR HAS PROVED TO BE BLESS.
ING IN DISGUISE, SAYS FA-
THEIR PECOUL
France is Spiritually Better Of Today
Than She Was Two Years
Ago

Because of the war, France is pray
ing more today than she has prayed
for thirty years past. Thus war is a
blessing in disguise"
This is the statement of Father Pc
coul in regard to the spiritual effect
OF two years of war upon the French
nation. Father Pecoul is a native of
France. He has, in the army of the
Allies, four brothers, one brother-in-
law, and fourteen first cousins. One
brother is at Verdun at the present
time; one is in the Vosges; one in the
Somme district, and his brother-in-
law is a pointer with the artillery in
the English army, among the 1000
men sent by France to the English to
supplement the English ranks.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-09-03

Father Pecoul spent the summer O
1914 in France and has since tha
time by letters and periodicals KEEP
in close touch with the conditions o.
the French nation.
Before the war broke out" said
Father Pecoul, France was spiritual
ly much worse off than now. The
people were drifting to self-comfort
and to reliance upon their material
| prosperity. Now they are inclined to
believe in God, to pray to Him, and
to return to the Christian ideas which
they got in their homes from their
mothers French mothers are very
careful to raise their children in a
Christian way even when they do not
themselves follow that way. The
French mother is most remarkable in
her inclination to oppose anything
which would hurt her family. Women
in France have more Christian spirit
than the men. The French mother
is woman of practical experience
more than of letters She will stay
by what her church will say and by
what her foremothers did and said
And she has taught her children to
live the Christian way.
War Takes Men to Church
"Since the war broke out men who
had not gone to church for 5, 10, or 20
years went the very same day that
there, was a declaration of war and
they were called to the colors. The
people who did not go to war, after
millions had left for the front, f1ocked
to the churches in such great num-
bers, morning and night, that the
clergy had to hold extra services to |
accommodate the influx of the public |,
Before the war it was common |
among the military people to jeer and |
scott at the clergy. Many a time the
clergy were insulted for no reason.
AS soon as the war started, when
many thousands of the young clergy at
once joined the ranks and went to
light, they received an ovation from
he soldiers. Today religion is the
great bulwark of the soldiers in the
trenches. When the regiments get
90 discouraged, when they feel their
asks have become too great, and
heir burden unfair, the officers send
he clergymen to talk to the men of
heir patriotic duties. The change is
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-09-03

marvellous. 1t shows the influence OF
religion upon these people.
In the French trenches there is to-
day no cursing, no swearing. Before
the soldiers were inclined to it. My
brother is witness to that. He writes
me that his ideas of religion are
greatly altered.
Portable Chapels Demanded
THE French government is in the
hands of clique who call themselves
Free Masons. They were formerly
Catholics, but they have abandoned
their church. They have abandoned
religion altogether The French gov
eminent today is not only anti-Chrls-
tian, it is anti-religious. But the de-
mand of the soldiers has obliged an
infidel government to supply portable
chapels SO that the soldiers may have
religious services to comfort and
cheer and console the living and the
dying.
1.-The soldiers say, Just as well we
die decent as we have to go to die
or fight
After the war there Will be mil
lions of men who before had no in
terest in Christian principles who will
be friendly toward religion.
twenty-five thousand priests are at
the front. OF these 10000 are actual
ly fighting; and when the days hard
work is over, they hear confessions, |
encourage the men, and stimulate their |
patriotism. They are never tired, |
they are always jolly and taking |
things in a good cheerful way. This
has an immense influence
On their comrades.
Patriotism Sustained by Religion
1.-THE French people are very patrio-
tic. They are a dangerous nation
when it comes to attack them i'm their
But even French patriot
SIN could never have Withstood the
awful tests of the last two years I'M
ess the French soldier had religion
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-09-03

I've noticed it's great boost for ou1
, trade for me to be on the board, and
wouldn't like to give it up.
I've got a good automobile now anc
l can get over the country in greaI
|style. 1t helps a fellow to keep the
road overseers and all the rest of the
parts of the political machine in good
running order. l don't think it's ex-
actly fair to turn a man down because
he doesn't konw his business when
he's so willing as l am to do my part
for the ring. | think the ring ought
to help me out now.
| was awfully surprised when one
OF my best friends went and filed for
nomination against me the name of
the man that I'm scared to pieces is
going to lick me good and plenty. l
didn't think that friend of mine would
ever go back on me like that. The
mischief of it is that he had to go and
pick man that all the people have
found to be a crackerjack. But 1
made my friend eat his words. He
may get the Indigestion, but he has
certainly swallowed them. Now what
worries me is that people will suspect
there was some unpleasant reason
why | wanted to avoid a fair fight
and why I'm SO afraid of competition
at the polls l would give my right
hand ii 1 had never let any one go
after my friend and get that retrac-
ton. I see now it was terrible mis-
take. That's the trouble with me-. /
never know what's what until ito too
late. l hope there won't be any law
suit. A..
+ or course you've all kicked terribly
about the county roads Well, what
can l do? Haven't sat on the front
seat at every road school and road
conference you ever heard about?
What more can l do? I'm sure |
never saw good road actually made.
never saw any experts handle. road /
machinery. l never saw anybody who
knew how to make a road actually
go out with a drag or a scraper on
a bad road,-no, never in my life. But
I've been awfully patient about thee
ries and I've told the boys over and
over that complaints were coming in |
and that they'd have to work on the
roads some of the time, anyhow.
1t seems mighty queer to me that
after the way I've worked politically,
people don't have more confidence in
me. | guess after | get turned down
at the primaries maybe I'll gradually
get next to why I've been such a mis-
cradle failure as a county commits
sioner.
If the ring don't save my hide this
election, | never will get over being
mad at them. Why, every farmer in
he county will be laughing at me,
md I'm liable to lose lot Of trade.
l hope you'll find my name on the
'allot and put cross after 1t. I'd
ike mighty well to tell you who am.
sut though I've got a brave name I'm
lot brave. enough to speak 1t after
cling you this inside dope. .,..,,
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-09-03

When the telegraphic news comes in
with Przasnys, Przemysl, Berenzszasz,
Hajdu, Szoboszo Nyiregyhaza, Dzialos-
zice, Wlosczowa. and Szszuczyn, II
seems as if the monkey wrench had
been dropped in the linotype.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-09-03

One of the best summer stories we
have read in a long time is a two-part
story in the Saturday Evening Post
called Such Little House." House
guests inclined to aniable sentiment
alities might find in this story val
uable hint