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Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-07-01
Love Of Country.
From Harner,s weeL,y

From Harper's Weekly.
Sixteen years ago, we entered into a
war with a people living in a semi-tropi-
cal. dirty and unsanitary country. Clean
young American men left their homes in
the north and went down in the heat of
summer to crowded. unsanitary. encamp-
ments along the coast of Florida and in
Cuba. Train load after train load came
back from the war, never having heard a
single shot fired or seen the seat of war.
They were sick. and many of them came
home to die from the epidemic Of typhoid
fever which swept over the steaming en-
campnnents. Today. young Americans are
going down into a semi-tropical country
among unsanitary surroundings. They
may be killed in battle. They may occa-
sionally be afflicted with obscure tropical
diseases. but they will not sicken and die
from the two worst scourges of white men
in the tropics, malaria and typhoid fever.
For wherever compulsory incubation is
possible and sanitary precautions can be
enforced, as they can be in the army, the
men of science. the so-called vivisection-
lists, whom the patriot Hearst has SLAM
dered so fiercely, have wiped these two
diseases off the earth.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-07-01
Matrimonial Craft Hits Shoals
When Hubby Goes to Work
at So Per Day.
DOROTHY DALE DEFENDANT

ST. Louis. Mo. Special: Richard
Jackson Howard, young st. Louis mil
lionaire. who married Dorothy Dale.
an actress. in New York last Decem-
Der, and then left her tt Jake up his
abode under the parental roof. a filed
dispositions in Judge Taylor's court in
support of a petition for divorce.
In suing for divorce, Howard appears
to have come around to the point Of
view adopted by his family when his
marriage was announced. The young
mans mother gave a chilly reception
to the young woman when her hus-
band brought her to st. Louis. 1t was
declared that If young Mrs. Howard
had married with the notion that her
husband was rich. she had another
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-07-01

Miss Ethel Peters is teaching the
women prisoners in New York to sew.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-07-01

guess coming to her. as Howard had
~squandered his fortune and must de-
pend upon his WI exertions thence
forth.
There was a place for him in the
ancestral b~rickyard. where his grand-
father laid the foundation of the fam
lily fortune. and mere he was free to
work as a common laborer at $2A day.
To any part of this income, it was an
%nounced. Mrs. Dorothy Dale Howard
was welcome. But that was the limit.
Dorothy Dale is 20 years old and the
stepdaughter of the late Della Fox,
who died about two years ago. Della
Fox married Diamond jack Levy, q
dealer in gems. in 1900. Dorothy Dale
was his daughter by q previous mar
riage.
The marriage with Howard took
place two months after a romantic
meeting in London. They were both
passengers on the Mauretania, return
ing to the United States. Howard be-
came involved in some difficulty in the
smoke room. where he said he had lost
heavily at cards and had given checks
for part of his losses. Miss Dale rave
him worldly wise counsel and he
stopped the checks when he came
ashore. The marriage followed.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-07-01
POSTOFFICE SEIZED BY
IRATE PARIS CARRIERS

Paris. June 24.-The letter carriers
strike. which had threatened to result
In scenes of violence and which struck
a severe blow at business was brought
to an end today by a promise from
Castor Thomson, minister of COM
merce, posts and telegraphs, to make a
searching inquiry into the mems griev-
ances provided they returned imme-
d1ately to duty. A deputation from the
men, who had held possession of the
central %postoffice all night and pre-
vented the distribution of the mails,
called on the minister and obtained his
promise.
A quarter Of an hour later, the postal
service was again in full operation.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-07-01
EXPENSES
STACCER AuSTRIANS
Estimates for Coming Year
Double Expenditures Of
Seven Years Ago.

Vienna Special: The Austro-Hun-
garian tax payer has become gravely
alarmed over the act that the military
estimates for the coming year are near
ly double the army and navy ex-
penditures of seven years ago. From
government sources there have came
frequent assertions that relations with
amicable. If this be true, the people
are wondering why h government
comes forward with a military budget
which could not be much greater If the
empire was on the verge of war.
The sun asked by the minister of
val is 1886, 900. 900. The army wants
s115, DOC. 900. while the navy will get
along with $780, 900, 200. The remaining
$35, 600, 900 will be spent on h militia
and reserve forces. Seven years age
the total budget for the three branches
of service amounted to only $96, O00, 900,
a sum considerably less h is now
demanded for the army alone.
The popular protest is that the adj
vance is utterly out of proportion to
the normal increase in the nations
financial and commercial wealth, but
the most disquieting feature is that the
present budget contains no extraor-
binary items. SO there is no reason to
expect that next years estimates will
bring any relief.
l. ll1O III VI SlIS VVoA SSLA W N4A Tag
the annexation of Bosnia in 1908, n
during the more recent Balkan wars.
the ministry of war too advantage Of
the situation to procure everything
that was needed to bring the army up
to a high state of efficiency. and
enormous sums were spent on two mo-
bilizations. The rate of spending them
inagurated seems to have been kept
up, and each succeeding budget has
been larger thar the one before. Inn
mense sums have been put into
news guns and technical equipment
for the engineers and field forces.
While it is commended that the general
increase in the cost of labor and ma
terials has much to do with the in
creasing budgets, the press has lately
been discussing the influence exerted
by the ring of manufacturers of steel
and ornaments.
Since Austria-Hungary started to
build ships of the dreadnaught type
been astonished to find that these are
costing many millions more than war
ships of similar size and power built by
Germany and Great Britain. The iron
and steel and other materials en-
ployed are all considerably dearer than
in the other two countries named. 1t
is charged that the government is be-
ing held up by a ring Of manufacturers.
Since it is the settled policy OF the
various government departments not
to buy anything outside the country If
It can be obtained in Austria Hungary,
1t has been difficult to find q remedy
for the situation.
Apparently the manufacturers ring
constitutes q very powerful Organiza-
ton. The shareholders include many
influential and exalted per n The
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-07-01
Books a Slice of Life.
BY Irwin S. Cobb. in the Book-News
MONTHLY

Books seem to sum up and amply
comprehend and include all tha there
is of life and to life. What other men
What each of US has known Of life we
hope some day to put into a book or
to see put into a book, which
to pretty much the same thing. After
all what is a book but a slice Of life
with a v on it 1t may be a book
about life that is dull, but n thing or
the other it is very apt to be be. An
unabridged dictionary may at first
reading appear to be a tolerably stu
pid, not to say turgid work. The style
is certainly very jumy and the theme
is not sustained, but the words which
made literature before now. We must
remember that. a
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-07-01
STAYS IN AIR OVER
10 HOURS IN 'PLANE

Johannisthal, Germany, June PA
worlds record for a duration flight was
made today at the aerodome here by
Gustav Basser. He remained in the
air for 1S hours, 10 minutes without
making a landing. The best previous
record was made by Bruno LANCER, on
February 3. an uninterrupted flight
lasting IA hours z minutes.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-07-01

shares in one of the principal ship
building concerns have risen in the
past few years from $50 to 1,840, an in
crease Of 1900 per cent.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-07-01
SHE 10 q S

: Washington. June 24.-Presi-
: dent Wilson. today, gave a little
girl from Los Angeles. Cal. what
: she described as the sweetest
kiss I eve had" The girl was
Laura Margaret Reilly. the 10
? year-old daughter of Charles T.
: Reilly. a Princeton graduate.
= Little Miss Reilly called on
e the president today with her ia
: ther and mother, dressed in a
: dainty pink gown and bonnet.
After Mr.. and Mrs. Reilly had
: shaken hands with the president
: the little girl stepped up and
= pleaded:
please. Mr.. President, 1 want
to take a kiss from you back to
: California;"
Certainly" said the presi-
! dent.
The little girl left the White
House. bubbling with JOY.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-07-01
GUARD HON0Rs
DEAD AUSTRIAN BIRDMEN

Vienna, June 24.-An escort of 20
aeroplanes flying mourning flags and
manned by aviators from several ma
tons. formed a flying guard Of honor
at the funera today of the nine Austri-
an officers and men killed in the tragic
air castrophe Of last Saturday.
While the funeral service was in
progress, the small air craft circled
round and round the cemetery and then
flew off in company.
The aerial tragedy which cost the
lives of h nine aviators buried today,
occurred during Austrian army
maneuvers. A military dirigible was
participating in the movement and
was followed by an aeroplane. The
smaller craft SCARED above the balloon
during the sham battle with the OBJ
ject Of taking up a position to drop on
Its adversary a mimic bomb. The
pilot of h %aeroplane approached SO
closely that one of the wings of his
an immediate explosion.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-10

should be ready, as never before. to
serve itself and mankind; ready with
it's resources, it's energies, its forces
of production, and it's means of distri-
button.
1t is very practical matter, a mat
ter of ways and means. We have the
resources, but are we fully ready to
use them? And, if We can make
ready what we have, have we the
means at hand to distribute it? We
are not fully ready; neither have we
the means of distribution. We are
willing, but We are not fully able. We
have the wish to serve and to serve
greatly: but We are not prepared as
we should be. We are not ready to
mobilize our resources at once. We
are not prepared to use them immedi-
ately and at their best, without delay
and without waste.
To speak plainly. we have grossly
erred in the way in which we have
stunted and hindered the develop
ment of our merchant marine. And
now, when we need ships, We have
not got them. We have year after
year debated, without end or conclu-
sion. the best policy to pursue with
regard to the use of the ores and for
ests and water powers of our nation
al domain in the rich states of the
west. when we should have acted: and
they are still locked up. The key is
still turned upon them. the door shut
fast at which thousands of vigorous
men, full of initiative, knock clamor-
ously for admittance. The water pow
err of our navigable streams outside
the national domain also, even in the
eastern states, where we have worked
and planned for generations, is still
not used as it might be, because we
will and we won't; because the laws
we have made do not intelligently
balance encouragement against re-
straint. We withhold by regulation.
| have come to ask you to remedy
and correct these mistakes and omis-
sions, even at this short session OF
congress which would certainly seem
to have done all the work that could
reasonably be expected of it. The
time and the circums tances are ex-
traordinary, and SO must our efforts
be also.
WV 6iSe1I ouA SS
finely conceived, the one to unlock,
with proper safeguards, the resources
of the national domain. the other to
encourage the use of the navigable
waters outside that domain for the
generation of power. have already
passed the house of representatives
and are ready for immediate consid-
Grafton and action by the senate. With
the deepest earnestness l urge their
prompt passage. In them both we
turn our backs upon hesitation and
makeshift and formulate genuine
policy of use and conservation, in the
best sense of those words. We owe
the ole measure not only to the people
of that great western country for
whose free and systematic develop
ment, as it seems to me, our legisla-
ton has done so little, but also to
the people of the nation as whole;
and we as clearly owe the other in
fulfillment of our repeated promises
that the water power of the country
should in fact as well as in name be
put at the disposal of great industries
which can make economical and pro
titable use of it, the rights of the pub
lie being adequately guarded the
while, and monopoly in the use pre-
vented. To have begun such mea-
sures and not completed them would
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-10

of navy to build? We shall take leave
to be strong upon the seas, in the
future as in the past; and there will be
no thought of offense or of provocation
in that. Our ships are our natural bull
warks. When will the experts tell us
Just what kind we should construct
and when will they be right for ten
years together, If the relative efficiency
of craft of different kinds and uses
continues to change as We have seen
lit change under our very eyes in these
last few months?
But I turn away from the subject.
1t is not new. There is no new need
to discuss it. We shall not alter our
attitude toward it because some
amongst us are nervous and excited.
We shall easily and sensibly agree
upon policy of defense. The ques-
ton has not changed it's aspects be-
cause the times are not normal. Our
policy will not be for an occasion. 1t
will be conceived as a permanent and
settled thing, which we will pursue at
all seasons, without haste and after
fashion perfectly consistent with the
peace of the world, the abiding friend
ship of states. and the unhampered
freedom of all with whom we deal
Let there be no misconception The
country has been misinformed. We
have not been negligent of national de-
Tense We are not unmindful of the
great responsibility resting upon us
We shall learn and profit by the les
son of every experience and every new
circumstance; and what is needed will
be adequately done.
close, as I began, by reminding
you of the great tasks and duties Of
peace which challenge our best powers
and invite us to build what will last,
the tasks to which we can address
ourselves now and at all times with
free-hearted zest and with all the finest
gifts of constructive wisdom we pos
sess. To develop our life and our re-
sources; to supply our own people, and
the people of the world as their need
arises, from the abundant plenty OF
our fields and our marts of trade; to
enrich the commerce OF our own
states and of the world with the prod
ucts of our mines, our farms. and our
factories, with the creations of our
thought and the fruits of our character,
this is what will hold our attention
and our enthusiasm steadily, now and
in the years to come, as we strive to
show in our life as nation what
liberty and the inspirations of an
emancipated spirit may do for men and
for societies, for individuals, for states,
and for mankind.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-10
PRESIDENT WILSON DELIVERS
ANNUAL MESSAGE TO CONGRESS
Packed Galleries
Applaud Wilson s
Army Objections
. i i i 4 + ). + !. i i +

Washington, D. c., Dec. s.
Galleries were packed to the
doors and senators and repre-
sentatives crowded on the floor
of the hall of the house. on the
arrival of the president exactly
at 1890 o'clock. He was ap-
plauded and cheered as he
shook hands with the speaker
and the vice president and be-
gan reading his address. He
was first interrupted when he
asserted that 1--WE have stunted
and hindered the growth of our
merchant marine A scatter
ed outburst of applause greeted
the statement.
Another burst of handicap
ping greeted the presidents
statement that the bill for the
building of government ship
ping lines to South and Central
America was imperative.
The democratic side of the
chamber applauded loudly and
at length when the president,
in discussing national defense,
declared that the country never
would be ready, in time of
peace ito put in the field a ma
ton of men trained to arms
Another outburst greeted his
declaration against compulsory
military service.
I'VE are the champions of
peace and of concord" said the
president, and again the demo-
cratic side applauded. Hand
clapping frequently interrupted
the presidents argument that
the United States should pre-
serve it's reputation as a peace.
loving nation and his conclu-
sion that it shall never have a
large standing army
Applause from both sides of
the chamber greeted President
Wilson's announcement for ma
tional defense "citizenry
trained to arms" When the
president declared that I'VE
shall not change our attitude
toward the national Defense
because "some among us are
nervous and excited an out
burst of applause and laugh
ter interrupted him for nearly
minute. The president con-
cluded his address at ITO p. m.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-10
NO EXTRA SESSION OF
CONGRESS NEEDED

Washington. D. c., Dec. s.-Presi
dent Wilson said today he did not ex
pect the administration Legislative
program would necessitate an extra
session of congress after March 4, and
added that Senator Kern and Repre-.
sentative Underwood, the democratic
leaders of the two houses, agreed with
his view.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-10
PRESIDENT LAUGHS
AT AN IDLE RUMOR

Washington, D. c., Dec S.-Presi-
dent Wilson laughed heartily today
when a report was brought to his at
tention that Senator William Alden
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-10

Smith of Michigan had said the eyacua'
ton of Vera Cruz was caused by an
ultimatum from General Carranza CIV
ing the United States twenty-four
hours to withdraw American troops.
The president said it was useless to
comment on the report
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-10

A powerful navy we have always re-
garded as our proper and natural
means of defense; and it has always
been of defense that we have thought,
never of aggression or of conquest.
But who shall tell us now what sort
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-10

There is another matter of which
must make special mention, if I am
to discharge my conscience, lest it
should escape your attention. 1t may
seem a very small thing. 1t affects
only a single item of appropriation.
But many human lives and many
great enterprises hang upon it. 1t is
the matter of making adequate provi-
sion for the survey and charting of
our coasts It is imm ediately press
ing and exigent in connection with the
immense coast line OF Alaska, coast
line greater than that of the United
States themselves, though it is also
very important indeed with regard
to the older coasts of the continent.
We can not use our great Alaska do
main, ships will not ply thither, If
those coasts and their many hidden
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-27
Americans Are Advised
to Leave British Isles
BY associated Press

London. Aug PA statement is
sued to-day by the American COM
mittee through Herbert C. Hoover, its
chairman, advising Americans to re-
turn home at the earliest possible op-
portunities brought a crowd of ex-
cited people to the relief headquarters
to-day They had not read the state
ment carefully and believed England
to he in a serious plight.
Mr.. Hoover explained his point of
view as follows:
1T is bad economies to consider
that an American traveller, by spend
ing money here, is doing any good.
He is consuming foodstuffs and in
creasing the difficulties in financial
exchange. All Americans not able to
Justify their presence in this country
by some productive effort. or who
have not brought actual gold with
them should reconsider their decision
to linger in these islands,"
Mr.. Hoover feels that the Amer
lean committee has enough to do in
caring for the arrivals from the con-
tinent
There has been considerable COM
plant in London by travellers against
certain steamship companies.
There are fifteen sailings scheduled
between now and next Saturday. All
of these vessels will carry full pas
sengers' lists.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-27
BLOOMER GIRL GETS
TRUNK FROM SHERIFF
Everything Was There, Even to
the,-Well Everything Was
There

Left Fielder May Novak, OF the West
ern Bloomer Girls baseball club, got
most of her Spring clothes from Sheriff
Harry C. Wells last evening. Thereby
hangs this tale:
Some weeks ago several members of
the team began an action here against
Mrs. Kate Gage. who was manager of
the nine, and who, they claimed, owed
them some funds. The execution was
issued and Deputy Sheriff William
Honman attached a couple of trunks;
They were stored away pending hnal
settlement of the case.
Early last evening pretty May Novak,
who claimed to be the left fielder, and
the real rightful owner of the trunks
and their contents, appeared and after
satisfying the complainants attorney
and the deputy sheriff that she was the
rightful owner. and that the clothes
had been attached by the evident false
statements of the protesting fellow
players, she got the trunks.
One contained the costumes of the
players; the other-well, Miss Novak
glanced appealingly at the deputy
sheriff, Mr.. Hoffman blushed and
obligingly turned his head, and Miss
Novak snapped open the smaller trunk.
You may look now" she said finally;
there all here even to the-well,
everything's here, anyway
She and the trunks took late train
for Chicago
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-27
Japanese Have Not Yet
Landed Troops in China
BY Associated Press

Toxic. Aug. 27.-The news of the
declaration of war by Austria Hun
gary upon Japan, following the official
announcement of the disarmng of the
Austrian cruiser Kaiserin Elizabeth in
the port of Using Tau, caused surprise
in Toxic. 1t had been hoped here
that Austria Hungary, having but
small interests in the Far East would
not force a breach of relations with
Toxic, especially as Austria Hungary
always had been regarded as friendly
to Japan. Baron Mueller De Scent
gyorgy, the Austrian ambassador and
the members of his staff always have
been popular here.
The censoring of news from China
is most effective. 1t is believed here,
however, that Japan has not yet land
ed troops at Kiao-Chow.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-27
New Minister of War
Can See Only Victory

Paris, Aug. %, 4.O5 p. M.-Alex-
andre Millerand, who became minister
of war in the new cabinet formed last
night Immediately after the old cabi-
net resigned, to-day addressed the fol-
lowing letter to General Joffre. COM
mander-in-c chief of the French troops:
MY Dear General: on assuming
control of the ministry of war ] wish
my first act to be to send to the troops
under your command and their chleis
the tribute of the admiration and con-
fidence of the government of the re-
public and country. France is assured
of victory because she is resolved 10
gain 1t.
Following your example and that
of your armies, France will maintain
until the end calm self-control with
an earnest of success. Subjected to
iron discipline, which is the law and
strength of the armies, the whole ma
ton rising in defense of its soil and
Iibe rites has accepted resolutely every
ordeal, even the most cruel