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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-04-26

ANSWER TO IN. w. H."-Further
in regard to the Convent Hair" al
legged to be offered for sale by Sears,
Roebuck & Co., their catalogue, page
LOG. You are undoubtedly right in
assuming that Patriot" and myself
are of the same caliber, which is that
caliber which should characterize a
full-fledged American citizen, but
that is an item foreign to the discus
sion.
You are also right in stating that
Mr.. Rosenwald has had something
in the way of notoriety, but as the
catalogue in question is issued under
the name of Sears, Roebuck & Co.,
and not under the name of julius
Rosenwald, this item is also foreign
to the subject in hand.
Although l am not in accord with
Mr.. Rosenwald's ideas along certain
lines, l am of the firm opinion that
any article advertised for sale in the
Sears, Roebuck & Co.'s catalogue
must be accepted at its face value,
owing to the standing of the above
mentioned firm in the business world.
Assuming then that they have for
sale First Cut Convent Hair" we
would naturally conclude that they
must have some considerable stock of
these goods on hand when you con-
slider the territory covered by their
mail.
do not believe that there are
enough novices confined within all
the converts in existence to supply
the required amount of hair, unless
forced so to do, neither do believe
that any institution would go to the
trouble to be co-partner in this sort
of trade unless there was enough
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-06-15

in effect, said to SonnonScheIn: o
satisfy the debt which you are now
too poverty stricken to pay, you shall
be rendered more destitute yet, your
Job shall be taken from you, every
thing possible will be done to make
it harder than ever for you to reim-
burse your creditor!"
Attorney Abraham S. Gilbert, one
of the leading lawyers of New York,
told me today of a certain Pietro An
toneIi, who was arrested under this
wicked law last winter and put into .
prison
The plaintiff then allowed the case
to lapse, Antonelli was too ignorant
and poor to procure legal redress, and
lay forgotten there in his cell until
late in March, when Gilbert discoV-
cred his tragedy and secured his re-
lease!
Sheriff Max S. Grifenhagen of New
York county declares that the Son.
nenschein case, now so notorious
throughout the country, is even more
unjust.
Samuel SonnonSchein was an hon
est, hard working, intelligent father
of five. He had come from Hungary
to this promised land" in order that
his children might have better ed
ucation and a better chance. By
working all night as Waterman, and
half a day as janitor, he was earning
enough to give his brave little wife Z
a comfortable existence, and to send
his children to school.
And the liberty the republic has
given him consists in what lawyers
call ''the liberties of the JAIL" which
means that he can be let out on ball..
if charity provides it, but he can't
leave the county! A good job awaits
Sonnenschein in Brooklyn, but under
the wise law his family must starve
before he can take it!
80 ~-~rrHYT -~~
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-06-15

the statutes OF NEW OIk SLdIes
BY KENNETH W.~PAYNE
New York, June 15.-JAILED FOR
A TINY DEBT!
Torn frem his starving family, his
wife penniless, his homeless children
i'll, Samuel Sonnenschein has been
sentenced to three months in steel
cage-just for the ''crime" of Pow
ERTY! Just because he is too poor,
too unfortunate and friendless, to
pay a paltry sum of money to his
creditor!
This is the case of amazing legal
iniquity whoch has shocked this en-
tire >city-the metropolis of the west
ern hemisphere raised echoes of
horror in far states of the union, and
will probably force an important
amendment to the constitution of
New York state.
For New Workers have suddenly
relied that that wicked relic of the
dark ages, DEBTORS PRISON, as
evil as the Spanish inQuisition, and
long since abolished by nearly every
progressive, civilized state in the
world, STILL EXISTS as a rotten
rudiment among their institutions of
justice!
Samuel Sonnenschein, victfmized,
he is convinced, by shysters and an
alleged accident faker, was ordered
to pay Judgment for damages sus-
tanned by child who fell in the hall
of building leased by him.
He was too poor to pay. There
upon, under the antiqHated section
$40 of the New York civil code, he |
was thrown into prisonI The law, !
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-06-15

braska and Georgia are a few of the
states in which it is restricted or pro-
hibited. But the cruel and obsolete
law still remains as a black blot in
the statutes of New York state.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-03-05
ALLIED FORCE is
FORCING STRAITS
Many DardanelIes Fortresses Fall Be-
fore Huge Guns-ShelIed BY
Forty Ships.

London, Feb. 27.-The forts at the
entrance of the Dardanelles have been
reduced after an all-day bOmbardment
by the Franco-British fleet, according
to an announcement made on Thurs
day by the admiralty.
The announcement states:
"The weather moderating, the bonn
bardment of the outer forts of the OAR
danelles was renewed on Thursday
morning. After a period of long range
firing, close range firing was adopted.
Cali the forts at the entrance to the
straits were successfully reduced.
.. The operations are continuing"
This means that the bombardment
and possible capture of Constantine
pie by the allied feet, which has been
reported to include 40 warships,
is imminent, and that the feet is at
present smashing it's way through the
straits.
The Dardanelles forts, for years con-
sidered among the strongest military
barriers in the world, have been sub
jected to almost incessant battering
by the shells of the battleships' guns
since last Friday, when the supreme
effort to force the straits was com
menced. Before that there had been
several attacks on the Notifications.
The bombardment was continued all
day Saturday and Sunday, and more
than two thousand shells were dropped
on the forts in that time. Bad wealth
er for the time compelled the cessation
of the efforts of the fleet to reduce
the forts, but the bombardment was
resumed Monday afternoon, again to
be ended by bad weather until Thurs
day.
Constantinople reported that the
bombardment had been almost without
effect, but the official announcement
of the British admiralty said that the
| ports were unable to reply because the
ships were out of range, and that
five of them were reduced by Satur
day night.
The attack on Constantinople will
| be simultaneous, it is believed here
with an effort on the part of the Rus
sian army to take the Turkish capital
from the land side. 1t was announced
last week that Russian transports haG
been sent with a large army to the
Turkish port of Midia, 60 miles north
west of Constantinople, for an over
land march against the gates of the
capital.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-03-05
PALATABILITY OF
Different FEEDS
Care in Preserving Feeding Crops
Will Add Much to Their Nu-
tritive Value.

When animals are confined in sta
BILE and must eat what is placed be-
fore them or starve, hunger leads them
to eat things which are not suitable
to their needs.
The manufacturers Of continental
stock foods recognize the high value
of palatability of feeds, and mix to-
gether fenugreek, gentian or various
other appetizers, to encourage COWS
to eat larger quantities of unpalata-
BILE feeds.
The average dairy farmer fails to
take proper care in preserving his
feeding crops in such condition that
they will be most palatable and diges-
tible. If not palatable, they will not
be eaten, and if they are not digestibie
they will produce no good results.
Much of the coarse forage and fod-
der given his COWS finds its way into
the manure heap without being eaten,
simply because the cows did not like
it. and what is eaten fails to nourish
them as it should, for the reason that
it is indigestible.
By cutting his hay and forage crops
at the right stage of their growth, he
can add largely to their palatability
and nutritiye value.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-03-05
STEAMER DAC|A
HELD BY FRENCH
American Ship With Cargo OF
Cotton Captured.
WAS ON WAY TO ROTTERDAM
Vessel Formerly Owned by German
Company Had Transferred to
U. S. Observation-Disclosures
Interested in Case.

Paris, March "A French cruiser
has arrested the American steamer
Dacia in the channel and taken her TO
Brest. This announcement is ofhclai-
ly made.
Washington, March 2.-Oficials here
were tremendously interested to learn
that the American cotton steamer Da-
cha. formerly of the Hamburg-Amerl-
can line, flying the German flag, nao
been seized by French cruiser and
taken to Brest. The capture OF the
Dacia causes no surprise in Wasnlng-
ton. and even the fact that a French
instead of an English warship would
take her into custody had been fore
seen. But this transfer of the ques-
ton of the ships status combined with
the already intricate points in the Da-
cha transfer from German to American
registry bids fair to make an 1nterna'
tional case of unusual interest.
Edward N. Breitung, an American
bought the Dacia from the Hamburg
American company, secured American
registry, replaced the German crew
and undertook to lay down cargo OF
cotton in the German port of Bremen.
The German destination of the Dacla
on her first voyage under American
registry aroused British fears lest
American registry be used simply as
shield to permit the ship to reach a
German port, where she would resume
her discarded nationality. To meet
this objection Mr.. Breitung changed
his routing to the Dutch port OF Rot
terdam.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-03-05
GERMANS ADVANCE a MILES.
Capture Position in vosges and Near
Verdun.

Capture Position in vosges and Near
Verdun.
Berlin wireless via Sayville),
March 1.-The following official report
was received from first headquarters
of the army:
"in the western theater the enemy's
attacks in Champagne continued, but
all we're repulsed. To the south of Ma.
lincourt and north of Verdun the Ger.
mans stormed several of the enemy's
positions, driving him out. The Ger.
mans made six officers and $50 men
prisoners.
"On the northern slopes of the Vos'
ges the Germans, after considerable
violent fighting, succeeded in dislodg
ing the French from their positions
The Germans attacked the intrenched
line from Verdinal to Bremeuil, to the
east of Baronviller, thus pushing the
enemy back.
Paris, March 1.-THE afternoon
statement issued on Saturday said:
I'm the Champagne district impor
tant progress was made. We carried
two German works, one north OF
Perthes, the other north of Because
Jour. We made 200 prisoners.
"The total number of German sol
diers who have surrendered the last
ten days amounts to more than one
thousand"
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-03-05
(By WILLIAM A. FREEHOFF.)

(By WILLIAM A. FREEHOFF.)
Did you ever realize the large num-
Der of topics included under tillage,
such as preparation of land, seeding,
care of crop, kinds of crop in order to
improve the mechanical condition of
the soil?
This is in it's broadcast sense, Of
course The narrower view of the
subject would include, strictly speak
ing, blowing, narrowing, cultivating
and rolling.
The advantages of fall blowing are:
1t facilitates the putting in of the
crop to have portion of the spring
work done in fall; the action of the
frost and other elements tend to pull
verize the land; all soils, but particu-
larly a stiff, clayeg one, will then re-
tain moisture better.
When grass lands are top dressed
with manure, spring blowing, especial
ly on light soils, is preferable for the
following reasons: The work can be
done early; the coarser manure is re-
moved out of the way of cultivation;
the liquid will have had time to leach
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-03-05

into the soil; weeds are not so liable
to get a good start; land washing
is much less severe.
Try both methods on your farm and
carefully note results. Comparison
with your neighbors might prove val
liable, also.
Plow deep, by all means, unless the
subsoil is of such nature as to render
this impossible. Work gradually to a.
greater depth. The land so treated
will conserve moisture better, holding
a greater rainfall.
The object of narrowing should be-
to simply drag the surface, pulverize
the soil, kill weeds, and put in grass
seeds in the very best condition.
Shallow and frequent cultivation is
best. Deep cultivation Is death 10
good root growth.
1t requires more judgment to do
rolling at the proper time and in the
proper way, than to use any other i'm
p1ement on the farm. Compact the
soil must be, but not hard. 1t is i'm
perative that the land be narrowed
Immediately after rolling.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-03-05
LOREE GOT $45O,OOO
WHEN LET OUT BY REID
Ex-Head of Rock Island Says Others
Fared Observation-Disclosures "Mil-
Iion-DoIIar Salaries"

Washington, March An annual
salary of $37,500 as chairman OF the
Rock Island & Pacific railroad, the
same amount for serving simultane-
ously as chairman of the executive
committee of the Frisco system and a
guarantee of 100000 additional con-
stituted the compensation pledged to
l.. F. Loree when he left the pres1-
dency of the Baltimore & Ohio road
to join the Rock Island forces. He
held the new places ten months in
1904 and then was asked by Daniel G.
Reid to resign.
Complying, he received in settle
ment of his agreement with Mr.. Leeds
$450,000 in Rock Island railway bonds.
Mr.. Loree testified to this effect on
Friday at the interstate commerce
commissions investigation of the
Rock Islands financial affairs during
the Reid-Leeds-Moore control from
1901 to 1914.
Another witness was Mr.. Reid him
self, who defended the "big salaries
paid to Rock Island officials, declared
that he would not now accept as a
gift the control of any western or
southwestern railroad and that when
he and his associates took over the
Rock Island it had surplus" OF
$S,OO0,OO0, "but no railroad being
merely a STREAK of rust" He said
also a man capable of operating an
8,OO0-mile railway was worth $1,000,
900 a year.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-03-05
FRESHNESS OF EGG
is NOT IMPORTANT
First Chicks Secured From Eggs
Allowed to Accumulate for
Several Days.

It has been known that in every
universal opinion, considered not an
opinion, but fact, has been that the
freshest eggs Matched earliest, but a.
correspondent of the American Poul-
try Advocate states that he has found
just the contrary to be the case. He
trapnests the hens from whom he
secures the Matching eggs, stamps the
number of the hen laying each egg
upon the shell, and also stamps upon
them the date of putting into the in
cubator.
Last season, little before filling
the incubator, it occurred to him to
mark the eggs laid that day so as to
test out the theory of early Matching.
The specially marked eggs received
exactly the same care as the others,
but the surprising thing was to find
that the early chicks came, not from
the marked eggs, but from the others,
and to cap the climax, the percentage
of eggs Matching from the last laid
eggs was far below that of the earlier
laid eggs. If the late Matched eggs
had been laid by hens deficient in
vitality, there would have been a
reason for this, but the hens were all
tested breeders, and this explanation
could not hold. For further test
eggs were dated and it was found
either that the date of laying made no
annarnnt difference Or that eggs laid
ten days or so before setting were
slightly more likely to hatch early
than the latest laid eggs.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-03-05
$1,000 RUSSIANS ARE TAKEN.

Germans Capture Przasnysz and TO-.
600 of the Cars Troops.
Berlin, Feb. 27.-The capture of TO-.
600 Russians, twenty cannon, machine
guns and great quantity of war ma.
terials at Przasnysz, as well as the
city itself, was announced by the Ger.
man war Office Thursday.
The capture of 5000 Russians in
battles north of the Weichsel wis.
tu1a river) is also reported.
London, England, Feb. 27.-Russian
troops have reinvaded Bukowina and
four miles north of Czernowitz, &C.
cording to a dispatch received on
Thursday by the Evening News
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-03-05
REVENUES HIT HIGH MARK.
Month Shows $43,636,272, Against
S43,633,857 Year Ago.


$43,633,s57 Year Ago.
Washington, March 2.-For the first
time since July government revenues
for month of the present fiscal year
have beaten the pace set during the
fiscal year 1914.
During February the treasury de-
partment received in revenue from all
sources $43,636,272, compared with re-
ceipts in February, 1914, of $4S,633,S57
Ordinary expenditures, however
amounted to $50. 1924. leaving net
deficit for the month of about $12,50O,
900. The excess of ordinary disburse
ments for the eight months Of the ifs
cal year which ended yesterday over
receipts for that period amounted tC
$83,356,6 22.
The net balance in the treasury's
general fund at the end of February
was 42,636,065 and the total cash as
sets in the treasury $1,975,859,376.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-03-05
SOIL Fertility IN
BRUSH and WEEDS
Phosphorus Compound, a Most
Essential Element, Formed
by Their Decay.
(Rv TT IT SHEPARD)

(By H. H. SHEPARD.)
Last summer clump of elder
bushes growing near the walk was
cut away. One evening in the sum-
mer, after shower had made the soil
moist our boys found something glow
ing at this point.
Through boyish curiosity they dug
up the glowing particles and found
them to be decayed masses of a last
summers elder stump. The stump
had died and returned to dust" or
had been decomposed to earthly ele--
ments and compounds in one short
year.
This glowing substance in the elder
stump and in many other decompos-
ing woods, is of course a phosphorus
compound-one of the most essential
things for the best soil fertility, and
one which is now being extensively
used in the commercial form as rock
phosphate.
But there is good farm lesson in this
elder stump. II it gives up phosphorus
through decay, then it becomes a valu-
able fertilizer, one which we cannot
afford to burn up or throw away.
And if the elder bushes contain
phosphorus, other bushes and weeds
contain it. They also contain potash
and other needed elements for grow
ing good crops of feed and food.
All farmers have noticed that an
ia eoooo rouy xybop o1oopod I'm and
plowed for a crop is very fertile soil.
The reason for this is that many diff
ferent bushes and weeds which grew
in. this old fence row drew up phos-
phorus, potash, lime and many other
mineral elements from deep down In
the hard SOIL
\ Through the decay Of the stumps
and roots of this wild growth these
valuable fertilizer elements and com
pounds are left in the surface soil
for feeding the crops.
On many farms all weeds, bushes
and wild growths are cut and burned
when they are to be got rid of. TO
burn such things means TO destroy
MUCH OI IuG1T fdlhO. LIZ
better way is to pillow the smaller
growth under whenever possible, and
to use the larger trash for filling in
needless bitches and gullies.
Here, covered with soil, they will
decay and fill the soil with just such
compounds as the growing crops are
in need of. And, besides, all weeds
and trash plowed under or used for
filling gullies loosen up the soil for
better air penetration and for bench
cial bacterium life and activity, thus
rendering double service in making
the soil more fertile.
The farmer who maintains and in
creases the fertility of the soil he
tends must use every means for civ
ing back to the soil large amounts OF
waste vegetable matter.
This can be done most economically
by making weeds, brush and all man
ner of trash contribute their share.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-03-05
Famous Paris Resort Burns.

Paris. March 2.-The Moulin Rouge,
the famous resort along the Paris
night coast, burned. The entire fire
department was called out, but high
wind famed the blaze and the build
ing is almost a total loss.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-03-05
Becker Denied New Trial.

New York, March 1.-Supreme
Court Justice Weeks on Friday denied
the application for a new trial for
former Lieutenant of Police Charles
Becker, who is under sentence OF
death for the murder of Herman Ros-
enthal. The application was based on
an alleged affidavit by James Mar
shall, a negro.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-03-05
TO CLOSE GERMAN PORTS.
Austria and Turkey Also to Be Cut
Off, Says London.

London, March 2.-Great Britain
and France and their allies have adj
vised neutral countries that they hold
themselves at liberty to stop all ship
ping to and from Germany and the
countries of the latter's allies. Public
announcement of this action will be
made this week. The text of the dec
laration will set forth that this de-
cision is necessary because of Ger
man submarine attacks, but that Great
Britain and France will respect the
lives of crews and passengers in any
steps they may take.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-03-05
Won PohI Will Lead Fleet.

Berlin, March 2.-Admiral Won Pohl,
chief of the admiralty staff, has been
selected as the successor to Admiral
Won Ingenohl. whose removal from
command of the German battle fleet
was made known last week
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-03-05
Thought IL Was a Zeppelin.

Islip, N. Y, March g. Believing that
a Zeppelin" was about to lombard
the town, many residents fed into the
cellars of their homes when Henry
Oates, school boy, sent his kite aloft
with lantern attached to the tail.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-03-05
chilean steamer Is seized.

Berlin, March 3 (by wireless) The
Chilean steamer Rancagna. bound for
Venice, Italy, with cargo of saltpeter.
has been seized by French warships,
the official German news agency an
nounced here.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-03-05
Enuineer Is Killed

Cedar Rapids, Ia, March 3.-H. M.
TitZel. Rock Island engineer, was
killed and ten people were slightly in
jured when a runaway switch engine
crashed into Northwestern fast mail
here.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-03-05
To Reioin REGIMENTS.

The Hague, March 3.-Au Dutch Of
ficers On furlough have been ordered
to rejoin their regiments. This action
was taken after conference between
the foreign minister and Queen Will
helmina.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-03-05

krupps Invest in German Loan.
Essen. March 1, via London.-The
Krupp firm and family have subscribed
100000 marks (s7,5OO,O00) to the
new war loan.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-03-05
REV. DARNELL is INDICTED.
Former kenosha Pastor Held Under
Mann Act.

Chicago, March Rev James
Morrison Darnell, marrying parson,'
charged with violating the Mann act,
was indicted in Milwaukee on Satur-
day on a series of eight counts. The
Indictment is for alleged transporta-
ton of Ruth Soper from Owatonna,
MINI, to Kenosha, Wis, where Oar
nell introduced her as his wife. The
name of Doris Vaughn, whom the
minister married in Chicago, was not
mentioned in the indictment.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-03-05
NEGROES Replace FOREIGNERS.

New York, March 3.-One thousand
negroes are being imported from the
South to work in the new subways
that are being constructed here They
are taking the place of foreigners who
have left the country.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-03-05
Hiuh Producers,

According to experiments carried on
at the Maine station, high producers
are not nearly always reproducers of
high producers. Medium producers
produce more high producers.