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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-07-13

When Miss Loney, Is, is p, she
will take control of the S1,452,000
estate left to her by her mother, Mrs.
Catherine Wolfe Loney, who, with
her husband, Dr. Allen D. Loney, lost
her life when the Lusitania was sunk,
according to a will just prObated.
Miss Loney was with her parents on
the liner.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-07-13

TODAY IN ILLINOIS HISTORY
July 10, 1787.-Congress enacted
the famous Northwest Ordinance,
providing for the organization and
government of the territory between
the Ohio and Missippi rivers.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-09-20
Work oil a Spider.

For several years past | have OBJ
served always one. and sometimes sew
eral, great gold mt black spiders liv-
ing ~eontentedly among my wild honey
suckle vines. Why they prefer these
vines to any other is more than / have
oeen anle to find out, writes Ell Com
ancho In Our Dumb Animals, unless it
rs because the flowers attract many
KINDS OF insects. At any rate, these
pig spiders. spreading nearly three
,acnes across from tip to tip of their
long legs, and with bodies nearly as big
as the end of my thumb, make their
wen homes In these vines, and do not
Iioiest them, as they are very interest
ing creatures.
1 saw n spin his web from Begin
ning TO end one warm, cloudy day. Be
ginning with a straight silken cord
running up and down, he fastened
ooln end securely. and then climbed
TO the middle n attached a second
ilne, which he carried off to one side
by crawling over the leaves. Then he
came back to the center over this line
a1ter ne has pulled it tight and fast
e e1eu r; AT the center he attached an
nlher line. crawled out over the second
me. and off among the leaves, where
he soon had his third line attached
ms process was repeated deliberately
and slowly until he had all the
"spokes" of his wheel in place.
tlieH ne Went TO the center, attached
a line to n of the "spokes' about half
an inch from the center, and then
turned deliberately round in a circle,
attaching this line to each spoke in
turn at about the same distance from
the center In each case.
Next. using this first as a path. he
travelled around the web with a second
llne, attaching it to each spoke, in
turn as he reached 1t. and keeping it
paralie to the first by mechanically
gauging the distance with the natural
reaching length Of one leg, which he
used to hold himself up away from he
first line. This IS how the round lines
or the web are made SO nicely parallel
and even" all around-the distance in
each web being determined by the leg
length of the spider that makes it.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-09-20
SOME HOT WEATHER QUESTIONS.

At 1 o'clock today the temperature in
a certain room registered 81; that of a
shaded porch, 100. An electric fan was
turned on. l felt much cooler, but
when two hours later l looked at the
thermometer in the room the tempera-
ture was 90. Then l went to the porch
and hat thermometer registered SO.
If a fan increased ones comfort on
a hot day why did the thermometer in
the room go up one degree while the
outside thermometer was falling four :?
Answer-The fan actually increased
the temperature a fraction by the fric-
ton of the moving air. However. that
was not the important factor. The fan
was in a warm part of the 1t
drove the warmer air against the COOL
er inside wall where the thermometer
was placed. But you say if this is the
true explanation why did the fan in
crease your comfort?
The air next your body was both hot
and wet. 1t was about SO in temporal
ture, and 100, or almost about, that in
humidity. The fan blew the wet and
hot air away from your body, increased
thereby added to your comfort.
Question 2-Why do baseball players
wear wooden shirts on very hot days?
Answer-They work in the sun. The
temperature of the air in the sunlight
is a good dea hotter than that of the
body. When one works in the sum
light on a hot day he car shield him
self from some of the heat by cover
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-09-20
Wags-Earners in Particular
Should Be for Universal TRAINING
Medical Examination Feature Alone Worth Many Times the
Cost-Hidden Defects and Diseases Revealed BY Beg
ular Army Tests.

who is the youngest survivor OF that
conflict.
The news OF the frs. battle in Mex
leo reminds ne that the war with Mex
leo IN 1S46-4S commenced in d similar
way, IN April %, 1876, although there
was not a formal declaration of wa.
1--WE the two countries. j.!ka the
IlSht or two days agJ it vas az am
Duscade for the Americans. and sim
llarly the Americans We're attacked by
superior forces OF probably fOlr TO one.
captain Thorn1on, Unitel States
array, marching at the head os 20 men
or the Second dragons in Texas, fell
INTO an ambuacade of Mexican regular
troops on April ~. 1916, numbering be
tween 800 and 400. After = gallant re-
sislance he was killed, with IS mem
bers of his command, ana 80 wcr.
The remainder of ;ha force
were taken prisoners. In tbs fight, As
IN that OF two DAYS ago, ii ray be
noted that apparently the approximate
numbers OF the slain and wounded We're
the same on both sides"
IL was six days later when the Next
cans attacked Fort Brown and we've
repulsed, said Colonel Mu,pny. On
May 8 General Taylor defeated the
Mexican army of Generals
n Arista at Palo Alto.
" IL a noteworthy fact mat these
oatties were fought without a d-clara
S'on o. war on either side" continue.
the colonel. Indeed, ne declaration a..
var was ever made by either Of tn
TWO c~ontending republics"
These conflicts We're followed by {.
can for 10000 volunteers by Prcsiden.
POLK. More than $4,000 volunteers re-
sponded promptly. AS a comparison OF
the quotas furnished by each state
with the present mobilization of the
militia on President Wilson'S call, these
flsures are given by Colonel Murphy:
Alabama. 1881; Maryland and Dis
trlct of Columbia, 1872; Arkansas.
l:214; Florida, 2S9; Missouri, 6,441:
m n1innI > l,sS7; North Carolina, sos;
New York, 1880: Indiana, 1929; Ohio.
o.a34; Iowa, 229; New Jersey. 42O; Ken
lucky, 4,o94; Louisiana, 7,34l; Penn
s%ylvania, 2.117; Michigan, 1.071; Ten
nessee' 1884; MASSACHUSETTS,, $50;
ueNas' !,394; Mississippi, 2,235 and
Wisconsin, 146.
At that time Mexico had a regular
army t $4,000. and had called into the
field an additional force, chiefly VOL
unteers, of nearly 200, 900 men.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-09-20
Germans Don't Think That wav.

from .tle Milwaukee Journal.
Wilson has not enforced American
rights. 1T is a shame and a disgrace
the way Americans are treated
abroad due to the nonenforcement of
our rights. Wilson has beer partial
to the allies and particularly to Eng
land. He cannot be just to GERMANY.
LOOK at his cabinet and you will not
find one man Of German extraction
in it,"
This, from a speech by Edward s
,Voigt. candidate for the republican nom
inatlon to congress in the Second district.
is a fair sample of what that district ia
Delns treated to in the present campaign.
Congressman Burke, a democrat, voted in
favor OF the McLemore resolution to sur
renaer American rights On the high seas
ana leave this the only great nation which
denied protection to its citizens. His
paid advertisement states that he voted
Tor an embargo. State Senator Rarwis
VINO IS o~pposinng Mr.. Burke, advnr.jses
That he is the fright kind of German
american. Apparently there is not a
candidate in the district who is stand;ns
up for America.
u our judgment is worth anything.
nothlng could be more disgusting to Ger
n.Amerlcans certainly nothing more
hurtfui. If the belief is allowed to gain
ground that they challenge rights diff
lerlhg from the rights of other Americans
ana nays other interests than the inter-
est or all Americans. the challenge will be
taken up. and we shall have an America
of racial groups. each seeking its own
end and none the good of the nation. We
dont finq the great majority of A,neri-
cans OF German blood talking that way:
the evidence is that they don't think that
But they are all being included in
with which the Second district seems -
be oppressed. ~
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-09-20

ing his body with a n~onconductor. A
flannel shirt is a poor conductor of
Heat. If you ask a ball player why he
wears a flannel shirt he will probably
tell You that it picks up the sweat and
holds some of it, thus preventing rapid
evaporation and chilling. Chilling
makes the muscles stiff. There is a lot
in this point. A cotton garment on n
ball player would become wet as a dish
rag in a few minutes. When drenched
with water but little air could pass
through 1T. Wool absorbs moisture
more slowly n holds it better. A per-
son who wears woolens is not so liable
to chill.
Question 3-What is the best way for
a man who does clerical work in a hot
office to dress on a hot day?
Wear just as few clothes as the rules
OF the office will allow. Since the local
Irritation from a stiff collar will add to
he amount of heat produced go with
out collars and cuffs. Even the light
est coat serves to hold in some of the
heat from your body. The shirt should
nave a soft bosom and be made Of cot
on or linen. Silk is warmer than cot
ton. The underwear should be of the
lightest weight possible. An open
weave is best. A close weave is liable
TO become saturated with Swea and.
therefore, quite impervious to air. The
trousers should be light in weight and
open In texture. The socks should be
OF cotton or some combination consist
ing largely of cotton, light in weight,
ana rather open in weave.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-09-20
The Wall Street Fee]jno.
From Bache's Financial Review.

The seaman's bill which stabbed the
progress of a great American merchant
marine.
The Clayton antitrust prohibitions from
which labor trusts are exempt. making
possible such Il holdup as now exists.
Inc Tavenner amendment forbiddinX
efficiency III government work.
And many other class measures.
That is why the threat of n great rail-
road strike which has been hanging over
the country tor two months or more with
certainty OF trouble coming. and which
could have been prevented by legisla-
ton, did not receive any attention from
the government or congress until the
edge had been reached.
That is why the saving principle of
arbitration has been given a body blow
by the presidents ignoring it. AT the
Very first session with the strike threat
ensrs. which was held behind closed
doors. he espoused their cause and re-
fused to insist, as his power would have
enabled him to do. upon arbitration. which
is the only just, the only fair to both sides
method of settling big or little labor dis
puJes.
That is why the president in his adj
dress To- the joint session of congress-,
most unfairly eudeavors to lay upon the
railway presidents the blame for the fail
urs OF the conferences and says not a
word against the bomb setting action of
the brotherhood leaders. in secretly isssu-
ing q strike order, while the negotiations
We're in progress.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-09-20
GENERAL BRUSILOFF IS
FIGHTING SOCIETY MAN

Petrograd-(by mail).-Gen. Alexis
brusiloff. commander Of the Russian
army which swept through Bukowina.
was little know outside Of Russia be-
fore the present In fact, it was
not until 1914 that he was given COM
mand OF an army corps. His work in
the wal won him promotions. He is
almost the only one of the many promi-
nent social figures in the army who
a made good.
General Brusiloff is 60 years old.
but looks more like 45. He is alert
n modsin. He has dark, steady,
searching eyes and nose with a high.
commanding curved bridge, and q
square jaw. His hair is close cropped:
he wears a long thin gray mustache.
1t was General Brusiloff who COM
n an army in the first Carpa-
THAN campaign when the Russians
We're ready to pour down into Hungary,
out We're forced to retreat for lack Of
ammunition. Unlike many Russian
generals. Brusiloff had the advantages
OF an excellent education and began
army life in a fashionable cavalry regi-
ment. Ability and influence combined
TO make his advancement rapid. He
held many positions. was recognized a
favorite at court. distinguished HIM
sell as 9 daring rider. encouraged cav
airy officers to go in for polo and
cross country steeplechases and was
popular In Petrograd society. Then
came the war to try out the capacity
ana characters OF men. Brusiloff was
one OF h studious. professional tyne
q officer who came to the front and
made good.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-09-20
Conceptions Of the State.
The English Conception.

I|iEVf'NtN' 1T NtV .N0ft0F4N'Vs
English writers think OF the state as
consisting of and existing for individuals.
Their fault is to eXaggerate the independ-
cnce and self-suficiency of the individual
citizen; to be unduly optimistic as to the
results of free unlimited competition be-
tween individuals, and unduly distrustful
OF state action. Yet English political the
DRY is of immense value in that it clings
to the fact that state action, like all other
action, has to be done by individual peo-
pie who will not escape the failings of or
binary humanity by being in office; and
that it insists that the results of state ac-
tion are to be measured in the lives OF in
dividual citizens and nowhere else. 1t con-
ceives of the state as men working in
common for the common good: existing as
a commonwealth. for the sake of the COM
monwealth and for nothing else.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-09-20

The power of abor is already too great.
In a country like this whenever a power
becomes too great or the people think it
IS 700 great the people rise up and smash
IL. Inc people are greater than any other
class.
mat is the only salvation against a la
DOT ollsarchy-against the labor leaders
avlng all the power there is.
LABOR mas a stronger medium to cajole
or threaten the politicians with than the
railroads had In the old days. when they
~" as they pleased and controlled every
lhlnS tlat affected them. The railroat.s
aia IL with passes and money.
When the people roze up against the
railroads the politicians were willing to
give up the passes and even the money,
because it was necessary to do that in or
der to keep their political positions. So
tae politicians joined in the hue and cry
AGAINST the railroads ana made a noise
llke pubic benefactors and We're re-
elected.
Sat labor has something better than
money or passes to offer-at least the poll
tlrians think it has-and thai is votes.
n" TABOR vote is the DOGGY of thu poll
ilcian. He sees it in the shadows every
where. He wakes up In the night with a
shlNer because in a dream he has offended
it.
In the daytimes he carefully reviews ev-
efNthinS he does or says To be sure he mas
rot done anything thai can be twisted into
1itagoniZinS the labor vote.
Ihat is why We have on the Statute
books
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-09-20
BABY FOODS.

For years physicians have denounced
the baby foods as a class. In spite of
the denunciation they have continued
to sell. In fact, there is a steady
growth In the use of baby foods.
For years the manufacturers have
made use of printers ink to exploit
baby foods. Books filled with rosy
claims are reinforced by thousands OF
testimonials from satisfied parents n
illustrated by beautiful pictures of
fort the use of baby foods has not be-
come universal, nor is it materially
greater thar it was a few years ago.
Kerley avs: "Hysteric condemna-
ton of the proprietary infants foods is
unjust" Shortly afterwards he follows
of Photographic of growing. fat, red
checked babies to illustrate the sup
posed virtues Of this or that manufac-
turer's food, composed principally OF
maltese. is not a very high minded pro-
Queer, who thus stoops to steal the
credit which belongs to Il cow"
Very close, careful, feeding studies
made at the University of Illinois have
shown that certain Of the infant foods
not only contain all the elements need
ed for growth, but that animals fed on
these foods will grow, thrive, mature
normally. and propagate their kind.
Some Of the foods are intended to be
- ~ IA 9oSb ~
made from dried milk with the addi-
ton Of some cereal OF foe made from
a cereal. The advantage of such foods
is that they keep we'll. they neither re-
quire ice nor an ice box; they can be
had through ordinary grocery stores or
drug stores. The baby fed on such
foods is not closely tied to a rather
fixed basis Of supplies.
The disadvantages are: They ave
been cooked, they are deficient in fats,
and many of them are not properly bal
anced chemically Tor q baby food. The
worst of them, however. are better bal
anced than is sweetened condensed
milk.
) The disadvantages can be overcome
by giving the baby. in addition to his
infant food, some. orange Juice, prune
juice, or other fruit juse. some butter,
some meat juice. and. when the time
comes. some spinach. carrots. and meat,
finely chopped.
And now to summarize. The best
food for a baby is breast milk. If a
baby is to b. bottle fed the best SUBJ
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-09-20
The PoiIu,s Altered Poll

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Plenty of hair upon the chin has been
supposed to make the soldier Formidable.
If Russia would shave" said Dooley be-
fore the war, I'VE shouldn't be afraid of
her" Shakespeare's mar of war was "full
Of strange oaths and bearded .like the
pard;" Yet the beard in the French army.
which has given his name to the "poilu."
the hairy one," is at last to pass under
the shears; and General Pierre Chnrfts
estimates that with 1900, 600 men on the
firing line, at 60 grammes apiece. this
means a sheer loss in weight of 100 tons to
the French army. 1t was to be expected
that academicians and artists, sculptors
and literati would unite in elegiac strains
to Lament the passing. Auguste Rodin.
who Is bearded like unto the Spanish live
oak with its moss. delivers himself of an
itmpassioned apostrophe. MEN without
boards, women without sex, statues with
out heads, bodies without arms. human.
ity without weakness. that is nv
opinion
Some men, infrm of purpose. wea,
boards to hide the vacillating chin. Some
some to e~xasperate the barber and save
money, some to elude the sheriff or the
income tax collector. The beard is the
iirst aid to oracular philosophy, as enab.
ing one to appear inscrutably sage with.
out saying a word. 1t bestoWs on a yo,1ne
doctor the p~hysiognomy Of matured ex.
perience. But above all to the soldier T.
imparts a dreadful mien: to be hirsute Is
TO be h~orrendous. Let the French nation.
sorrowful because Of the altered aspeci
or the '"poilus," take comfort in the fact
that 1T has now become impossible for the
Bosches to beard them in their trenches.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-09-20
The Germen Conception.
ID. Lindsay, in the Atlantic

y u. i-tIIISdN, III me NtIlIltlC.
German political theories agree remark.
abiy IN their insistence on the doctrine
tnat the state is u person, having an en-
ist4nce OF its own over and above the in
ulVtduals who may happen TO be its citi-
Zens al any one moment Having an eX-
istence OF lis own. the state has ideals and
Naiue OF its own, and to these the inter-
ests and ideals of the individuals must be
freely subordinated. While, then, to the
English thinker the state is a means of
doing something for individuals, to be
tested by its results on individual lives, to
the German the individual is an instru-
ment for carrying out the rpo of the
state; it is by serving ana working for
these purposes that the Individual finds
his highest freedom. Hence arises the Ger
man scorn OF MISUNDERSTANDING. and of the
English ideals of free commences: hence
too their glorilication of war, in which the
subordination of the individual finds it's
most complete expression.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-09-20

stitute is cows milk, provided it can
be had pure and fresh, and provided
there are facilities for keeping ii. In
homes where it is impossible to get
good liquid cows milk or where there
are not proper facilities in the way of
ice boxes and ice for keeping liquid
milk, it is best to use a proprietary
food or else some form of canned milk.
or even dried milk. Especially is this
true in hot weather.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-09-20

Data accompanying a recently pub
lished official map of North Dakota
show that the state has $4,000, 900 set
in land as a public school cndow-
rnent.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-09-20

Company G. of Madison. First regi.
ment Wisconsin national guard. has an
Egyptian in its ranks. His name IL
Ramsey Meena.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-09-20

"UnbeIief."
There is no unbelief:
Whoever plants a seed beneath the sod
And waits to see 1t push away the cinI
He trusts in God. 1870
Whoever says when clouds are in the skv.
by" ~ ""o
Trusts the Most High.
Whoever sees meath winter field OF snow
The silent harvest of the future grow,
Gods power must know.
Whoever lies down on his couch 10 s,aer
Content to lock each sense in slumher
deep. o
Knows God will keep,
The heart that looks on when eyelids
And dares to live when life has woes.
Gods comfort knows.
There is no unbelief:
And day by day, u%nconsciously.
h heart lives by that faith the Inns
deny. "p'
God knows why!
Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-09-20

The most valuable cargo of copper
ever shipper from Lake Superior re-
Gently left Houghton. Mich, on the
steamer Underwood with valuation Of
$2.1O0.O00. The weight was 3-5Oo tons
and was collected at Copper Range
Dollar bay n Hubbell docks.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-09-20

who is tho youngest survivor of hat
Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-20
EIow Peanuts are Cultivated

The seed put in the ground is the meat or kernel, and care is taken not to break the skin. The plants grow like a vine and the nuts hang on it like peapods. A single vine in good condition will, it is estimated, produce about one hundred nuts. That is, the yield per acre is forty bushels.
 The peanut grows in many parts of Africa and is the chief food of many regions of that continent. It is found in South America and in some parts of Europe.
 In the United States it is cultivated in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennes- see, and in some of the prairie states, where the climate is warm.
 Three varieties of these nuts are grown in the United States: the white, the red and the Spanish.
 The next time you eat peanut with two kernels very white, with pink skins, you will know ft is one of the white variety which is the most val uable.
 The shell of the red nuts sometimes holds three or four kernels, and its skins are a dark red.
 The Spanish nut is smaller and it's skin is lighter than either of the oth- CTS.
 Several million bushels of peanuts are used each year in the United States alone.
 MILDRED T. DUNN, Age 12.
 Norwich