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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-25
WHAT MACHINERY HAS DONE

A correspondent of the Nations
Business, q publication Issued by the
chamber Of commerce of the United
States, with which various commercial
associations are af1liated, discusses in
an inter esting manner the revolution,
airy changes wrought on the farm by
the introduction of improved machin-
cry. The increased productivity of
human labor by the use OF implements
and machinery, says this writer, is
strikinEly stated in the case Of corn.
He continues: ~-~ =:
From 1855 to 1894 the time Of human
labor required to produce one bushel
Of corn on an average declined from
four hours and "a minutes to forty
one minutes. This was because in
ventors had given to the farmers of
1894 the gang plow, the disc harrow.
the corn planter drawn by horses, and
the four section harrow for pulveriz-
ing the topsoil; because they had given
horses to cut the stalks and bind them;
a machine for removing the husks
from the ears and the same operation
for cutting the husks, stalks. and
blades for feeding, the power being
supplied by steam engine; because
they had given to the farmer
marvellous corn shelter, operated by
steam and Smelling one bushel Of corn
per minute instead Of the old way of
Smelling in which the labor Of one man
was required for 100 minutes to do the
same work. ..
Most of the improvements 60 no
farther back than 1870, and that date
may be adopted even more appropri-
ately for farm machinery, since, as
recognized authority assures us. "a
really scientific plow was unknown be-
fore 1870" BY August, 1907, the
United States patent ONCE had grant
ed 1922 patents for harvesting ma
chimes, 1911 for plows, 9,649 for
Seeders and planters, $3.50 for har-
rows and diggers, 1882 for threshers.
According to the United States census
the total value Of farm machinery was
In 1900 nearly double its value of 1880.
It is plainly impossible to catalogue
the machines introduced since 1870, or
even q satisfactory selection Of in
stances. Among the introductions Of
the last few years, We may note the
Kasoline engine for grinding food,
churning butter, saving wood, Smelling
corn, all formerly done by hand Or
horsepower. On smaller farms the
gang pillow and the double-row cult.
vator have proved highly labor-saving;
much work is spared in the early
stages, owing to the corn being planted
with two or three row planter. The
Improved steering guides on the trac-
tor blowing machine, the automatic
hay or straw baler. dispensing with
The man at the feed table are Instances
81 progress within the last year
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-25

Gov Cole Blease, who recently
gained notoriety, in lieu of fame, when
he said, Ito blinkety-blink with the
constitution" or something like that,
wants a law passed to send reporters
to Jail when they misquote some pub
lie speaker. If he will build wing
on tat Jail for the public speaker who
craw-fishes and denies he said it when
he finds his speech unpopular, We'll
he in favor Of that law
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-25
viii Aid Suffraqists.

Des Moines, Jan. 23-Sufrage work
ers are claiming the support Of the
votes Of John Sullivan OF Polk county
and r. H. Smith Of Shelby county,
both members Of the house. Two
men have been opposed to the measure
In the past.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-25

tions he could be as democratic as
need be by simply standing UP and
letting persons in line be presented
to him and receive his greeting, with.
out giving his arm to be man handled.
No other chief OF state is subjected to
such a strain as the president under.
goes, IT Is a false view of democracy
which takes his time and uses up his
energies by miscellaneous handshak-
ing. President McKinley's murder
was facilitated by the handshaking
custom.
Let Mr. Wilson keep the steel hand
In the velvet glove for the uses OF
state-craft and force the would.be
handshakers to be content with Will
son smile and genial word when
they throng about him.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-25

and Pittsburgh had elected competent
men as city officials they would not
have had the trouble they are now
having. The citizen who votes to
nominate a man whom he knows is in
competent and unfit to fill the ONCE
sought is menace to the safety and
progress of that community.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-25

An Indiana farmer broke one of his
farm implements the other day. He
telephoned in to the hardware mer.
chant, and asked that the repai-s be
sent out. The hardware man filled the
order promptly, caught the rural car.
rier as he was starting out, and had
the order filed by parcel post in two
hours. The parcel post Is proving It,
self to be something worth while.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-25

A sensible plan has been adopted
by the highways committee OF the
senate and house in the Iowa legisla-
ture. They will hold joint sessions to
consider proposed road legislation, in
stead OF proceeding with two separate
There are more than
fifty members on the two committees,
and. sitting as a joint body, when they
reach an agreement on good roads
It'll 1t ought to be one on which the
legislature can unite.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-25

Senator Kenyon says he will go back
to the senate and carry out the work he
has mapped out regardless Of his poll.
tical future. The senator needn't
worry for some time about that future.
He's got six good years ahead of him.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-25

level. 7--.
Wheat is the father-in-aw of the breakfast food
industry and has taken the place Of number OF popu-
lar substitutes. such as shavings sawdust and soy
beans If it not for wheat, several of our most
prominent and plethoric breakfast food magnates
would have to get acquainted with work instead OF
riding around in coonskin overcoats and writing ad
vertisements addressed to people who are long on
appetite and short on bright. red corpusces
Wheat invented by the Chinese about 200 B.
c. The Chinese cautious people, they fed the
first crop the missionaries. then sat down and wait
ed for results AS of the missionaries was seized
with anything more wheat planted the next year
and the hotel pancake introduced This teaches
us that no nation which lives hoary traditions pan
cakes and chop suey will rise very high in the scale
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-25

intelligence.
buhe shoestg peculators who buy on
10000 bushels of wheat with collateral consisting OF
the ticker the close OF the morning
Liverpool
melan advances in the cost OF -four
for people
compositors would
itted in society column
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-25

The prohibitions party has settled on
Milwaukee as the headquarters for a
to raise funds for the 1916
election. This is carrying the fight
into the enemy's camp. e- -.>,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-25
A Multitude Of Reasons,

Washington Post: Gov. Wilson
says he will get nine hours of sleep
in the white house or know the rea.
son why. There being 435 represen-
tatives and So senators, the officeseek-
ers will increase the total to 10000 ,531
reasons why.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-25
Got An Awful Fright.

by fear of appendicitis? Take DR..
Kings New Life Pills. and soon see
bowel trouble vanish. Guaranteed.
% cents. Frank B. Clark, druggist.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-25

This is the way Des Moines sizes
up the legislative situation; Every
little solon has measure all his own
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-25

Shed a tear for the coal man. He
isn't beginning to get his usual share
of our pay envelope this winter.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-25
Fierce Attack

OF malaria, liver arrangement and, Kid.
ney trouble. is easily cured by Electric
T'.'e-s he ~,-aranteed remedy. Scots
Frank B. Clark
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-25
Mr.. raft.s Great Service.

St. Louis Globe-Democrat: All of
the new democratic congressman
ought to unite in a vote of thanks to
President Taft for freeing them from
the annoyance of picking out village
postmasters.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-25

And, warm as it Is, the ice man is
getting cold feet. -. ...,. s.,...
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-25
Sidewalk Sketches
BY Howard L.Rann
w III E A T .


cultivated with
the igd northern
Canada efrostca 1000 feet below
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-25
soup Kjtchens In Jerus.Iem.

Chicago Inter Ocean: Nathan Straus
has sailed from New York to relieve
the necessities of the poor in Jerusa.
lem.
He will establish twenty-one soup
houses, among other things.
We sincerely trust that nothing will
happen in the next four years of demo.
cratic administration to remind Mr..
Straus that charity begins at home.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-25
Gov. Wilson's .Enaliah.

Topeka Capital: Gov. Wilson Is a
speaker not dinicult to understand. In
his Trenton speech, OF Jan. 10 one par
agraph contained s. words, of which
all but nine were words of one syl.
liable, and the longer words were such
as gentleman" private" arranged
etc. The next sentence was one of "a
words, of which the only word not Of
one syllable was Center" and Of that
paragraph of 81 words all but nine
were words of one syllable. That is
snappy Anglo.Saxon speech.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-25

If the citizens Of Chicaxo. New York
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-25

A woman was in law court when
she was asked her age, and answered.
: ',irty-flve."
But" objected the Judge, you were
before me two years ago, and you said
then you were So"
"Your honor" she loftily replied, Il
am not one who would say ono thing
at ore time and another thing ut an
other time,"-Ladies' Home Journal.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-25

Two chance acquaintances from
Ireland were talking together.
An so yer name Is Riley" said
one. ere yez amy relation to Tim
Riley"
Very distantly." said the other.
"Oi was me mothers first child, an
Tim was the twelfth"
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-10-09
ASKS AID OF THE CHURCHES.
Governor Urges Reform Along Various
Lines in Address in Baltimore
Last, Knight.

Governor Goldsborough excoriated
the vicious saloon, race-track book
making and the flashing of the cour-
age and hope and manhood out of
prisoners and appealed TO the people
of the churches to help him in Kidding
the state of such things in speech
last night at West Baltimore Metho-
dist Protestant Church.
1t was the opening address Of sthe
convention of the Union of Young
Peoples Work of the Maryland An
nual Conference of the Methodist
Protestant Church. The edifice was
crowded to standing room only
and with very little even of that.
On the program the Governor was
simply to preside and TO introduce
Father" Francis h. Clark, of Bos-
ton, founder of the Young People :
Society OF Christian Endeavor, who
was the special guest of the conven-
ton.
But in his introduction he begged
"Father" Clark's pardon for taking
his time and delivered stirring APP
peal for the support of the Christian
people of the city to aid him in these
reforms.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-10-09
Col. M'Lane TiItOn is Slightly Better.

The condition of Col. McLane Til
ton, u. S. NJ, retired, who has been
i'll at his home, on Maryland avenue,
for some time, is reported as slightly
improved. Colonel Tilton, who il in
his 18th year, is connected with
some of the first families of Mary
land, and is great nephew of Francis
Scott Key. He was very i'll from
Bright's disease last spring, but rail-
lied, and after stroke of paralysis
last Sunday rallied again. giving hope
that be would survive.
Colonel Tilton's mother was jose
phine Nicholson Harwood, niece of
Key. His father was Edward Gibson
Tilton, commander in the United
States Navy, and on both sides Of
the family he is highly connected. A
brother is Gibson Tilton, of Harrison
vile, and a sister, Elizabeth Tilton,
lives in Washin yton, d. G. He has
two sons, MaLane Tilton, whs is in
business in Pels City, Ala, and John
Tilton, q prominent attorney in Nor
folk
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-10-09
SAME AIDE TO SERVE BOTH.
President and Daniels win Share Lieut.
Jones' Time.

BY Executive order issued yesterday,
Lieutenant Commander Needham l..
Jones. aide to Secretary of the Navy
Daniels, will also become aide to the
President. Lieutenant-Co m m r
John W. Timmons, for the last two
years aide to the President, will be as
signed to duty as navigator of the bat
tleship Texas.
Commander Timmons was assigned
to sea duty at his own request. His
shore service ordinarily, would not ex-
pire until next spring. His wife,
whom he married in 1913, is a daughter
of former President Fairbanks.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-10-09
To be Married.

Marriage licenses issued from the
Clerks Office at the Court House in
clude the following
Frs1k-Smith-E Edwin S. Frank,
50, Baltimore; Agnes r. Smith. 81,
widow, of Washington, ID. c. Appli-
cant, Ennlls Waggaman.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-10-09
PERSONAL MENTION.
liems Of Interest Concerning Those
IN the Go-To and FrO-AbOut
You and Your Friends.

zen have visitors snd sTe not
:, aad of them. please send tne
..s. 20 as, or give Personals over
phone. People like 10 know Nheh
So Tava, visitors that they may CAL
{. t.,l your friends. Personals published
&. -En.l
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-10-09
To Teach Engineering.

Junior Lieutenant Charles G..
Windsor, of the Navy, reported today
at the Naval Academy and was as
signed to duty as an assistant in the
Department OF Marine Engineering
and Naval Construction.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-10-09

C., is the guest of Mrs. kirkpatrlck
HOwat.
Mrs. Richard Ely, of Washington, is
visiting her son-in-law and daughter,
the Superintendent of the Naval Acad-
envy and Ms. John II. Gibbons. She
wall return shortly TO Washington and
open her house in N Street for the
winter.
Mrs. Alonzo l.. Miles. of Salisbury,
Nd, is visiting Mrs. A. Eugene dc
Vries, at her residence No. 24S Prince
George street.
Mrs. John II. Gibbons, wife of the
superintendent of the Naval Academy,
will leave Annapolis in a few days to
spend the remainder of October at her
mothers country estate, "Deercliffe,
Connecticut. Upon her return Mrs.
Gibbons will inaugurate the series Of
official receptions on Wednesday after
moons. the first to be held on Novem
bCr 5.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-10-09
Sale Of Ladies' Tickets.

For the Monday night performance
Of the Myrkle Harder repertoire com
pany that is to play a week s engage
met here at the Colonial Theatre next
week, the sale Of ladies tickets starts
tomorrow, at the theatre box office.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-10-09

Mr.. j. Revell Carr, of Monterey,
Ind, is on visit 10 the home OF has
parents at Broad Creek, South River.
Miss. Ella Enoch, of Washington. ID.
C.. is the guest of Mrs. kirkpatrlck
HOwat.
The menace., 1913-12-06
CERTAIN VICTORY


William Z. Gladstone. the great
Premier Of England. fought the pap
acy with learning and skill. He. how
ever, realized the strength OF the sa-
tanic system. and in view OF its inter.
national power and great sge uttered
these significant words:
~You cannot fight against the fu,
ture. Time Is on our side. The grea,
social forces that move onward in their
might and majesty are arrayed against
you-they fight with us-they are
marshRlled In our support. and the
banner which we carry in the strug.
gle. though at some moment IL may
sink over our dropping heads. will yet
float again before the eye OF Heaven
and will be borne by the firm hands
OF rejoicing people-not 70 an easy
but to q certain victory"
Lost out in Europe, the papacy is
making It's last stand in America. but
this. nation Is awakening. The Men
ace is on, its two million march with
songs Of victory. Hurrsh.
The menace., 1913-12-06

i, Take a good look at Priest Esser.
Of Italy. who Is now In our midst. lie
is more wonderful than a fre and glass
eater. sword swallower. or man who
handles deadly serpeuts in a circus.
During the past fifteen years this
heroic man has daily exposed his
faith TO. the most awful dangers with.
out getting II even scratched-and all
that yours might be preserved lie is
the secretary OF the Sacred Congre.
CATION OF the Index, and his duty Is
10 read the books Of all languages In
order to find out which should be pro
hibited 10 you because your faith
wouldn't stand the jolt! How did the
pope End a man whose faith could en-
dure the constant strain OF reading
books which should not even be in
the possession Of a Catholie!' or Is
his faith only normal but fortified with
snakebite autidote and some simple
rule OF action like Prohibit all books
that might put the faithful wise 10 our
skin game?" The Catholic committee
appointed to watch our public school
textbooks aud protest against anything
In them uncompllmentary 20 the Cath.
olic church, might get some valuable
suggestions from Priest Esser!
The menace., 1913-12-06

The foreign correspondent Of the
Catholic Tribune says: American
readers should take 20 notice OF the
story about the mutluy among the
Swiss guards at the vatican" And ye,
there is not a Catholic paper that does
not give some account Of the strike Of
the pope's Swiss guards. The Catholic
Register thinks the boys aid not have
sufhcient occupation: whereas. the
truth Il. the boys rebelled at the
strenuous exercises they had 10 un.
derEo such as scrambling over house.
tops 20 repel attacks OF imaginary
enemies, constant bayonet drills and
target practice, The pope was upse,
by the scandal OF the mutiny. coupled
with the winedrinking advertising, but
the entire corps is TO be re-established
with other men. Those who have
been discharged are threatening 20
make some very unpleasant revela-
tions!
The menace., 1913-12-06

Spanish priests In the Philippines
drummed mp false charges against
Rial because he wrote a book called
"The Social Cancer" in which he eX.
posed the doings OF tho priests and
'riars In their unjust dealings with the
helpless Filipinos. A priest now writes
from there asking every one OF the L..
900 priests OF the United States to send
$50. lie says; in that way we could
give help TO those poor struggling
priests. believe II the great province
Of the United States would assume
zach one or the other OF our poor do
ceses there. by sending It's share OF
money 10 the support OF the mission
aries, that this question would be
nearer solution" He further states
hat Protestants regard the church In
he Islands as n thing OF the pasta
lead Institution. In fact, that they. have
been boasting that the power OF Rome
here has been crushed! lie insists
hat Protestants are proselytlzing the
Islands, "whilo American Catholics are
sitting with their hands folded and
CLOSED TIGHTLY at that" Rome's
scheme is to get American dollars in
her clutches.
The menace., 1913-12-06

-My Theological works. says Rome
-arc ell written In Latin. The people
can't read them and therefore cant
BE- dehled." One sentence OF the
priests manual used IN the oonfes
slonal " printed In the English len
gunge. would land a man behind the
bars az quickly as though he had CON
mitied murder! But" asks Chiniquy,
are not the hundred thousand priests
bound TO explain Ia every known
tongue and present TO the mind OF
eyery nation. the theology contained
In u.ose booksg Aro they not bound
20 make every pollutins sentence In
them flow into the ears. Imagination,
hearts and minds OF an the married
and unmarried women whom Rome
holds In her graspg No fewer than
half a million women are every day
compelled 90 hear In their own Ian.
yuage almost every polluting sen.
tence and impure notion OF the dia.
bollcal sciencel" Perhaps the priest
editor OF the Brooklyn Tablet means
10 be understood literally. when he
says. GOD ALONE knows tho
AMOUNT OF GOOD accomplished in
the Catholic confessional" Sure
enough. God knows whether there 10
anything IN Il or not!
The menace., 1913-12-06

Society will never know how much
pro1t Il receives from the good advice
and suggestloH given TO its citizens in
the sacred tribunals Of penanee." says
the Brooklyn Tablet "The thought
has often come TO us" says the same
writer that II Catholics are so prone
and weak 10 relapse into sin in spite
OF the wonder.working confessional,
what indeed must be the moral state
OF the uon.Catholic young men and
women who have no knowledge OF CT,
perience With this soul saving sacra,
ment? n confession were not
OF divine origin Il would have been in.
vented as the most ecicaclous means
OF lifting mems souls from the dung.
hill OF human inhrmity." An ex-priest
asks: "Iiow can one be surprised at
the rapid downfall OF the nations who
are under the yoke Of the pope? How
can the Roman Catholic nations hope
TO raise themselves in the scale Of
Christian dignity and morality as long
as there remain 100000 priests IN
their midst, bound in conscience ev.
cry day 10 pollute the minds and the
hearts OF mothers, wives and daugh.
ters?" II frequent confessions to cell.
bate priests were really a good thing,
then Il would speak for itself with its
own good results. and wouldn't need
Catholic papers 70 boost II!
The menace., 1913-12-06

Tie ceasus of 1919 tbo~s . poruia,
ton q ninciytuo millical of pcopie
.n ths uuiict States ~ . liberal a..
tlniation aholi twelve millio1s q these
arc kouau Cafholict. lcavinE = bal
ance of eighty miiiions Mo arr non
Cafhoucs Tue siatirtician1 have d..
rldcd hat thcrr a. o. an avcraEe. onc
Rad q . family out % efery ave pco.
De IN = general porulation. Thia Eirca
Ilaiecn millions uf non-Catholic heads
of families In the United states: and.
uith q little enori b. the Firing line.
every one of these can b. Induced 20
become q subscriber % the Menace. A.
any rate. these sixteen millions of pco-
DE compose the source from which the
Menace may expect o. secure aubtcrib.
ere: and. with such = Geld. u VIII Be
hard lines Indeed n the dirty little
sheet can not eventually secure. and
permanently retain. \ steady circuln'
tlon Of ave millions Of paid subscrib.
err. With a permanent circulation of
ave millions the Menace surely could
make Rome Howl
The menace., 1913-12-06

After denouneine woman sunfage
and stirring up Catholic women to
form antl-suflrage societies, Cardinal
Gibbons is now forced TO confess that
The jig Is up. He recently said: "Suf.
'rage will come, OF course, (Sigh)
guess Il is inevitable. (Three sighs)
have always thoughr, that women
would work greater good In citizen.
ship in being great and good mothers
(fiye sighs) than in being great and
crooked politicians" 1.-TWO groansJ
Gibbons opinion Of politicians seems to
be colored by his knowledge OF those
with whom he has rubbed elbows
the kind that send a private messenger
TO the pope; whose campaign speeches
always include the highest praise OF
the Catholic church; who supplied the
United States navy to boost a bishop
into the presidency OF San Domingo,
and negotiated for Uncle Sans pur.
chase OF Catholic lands in the Philip.
pines at mountainous cost, etc. Let
the cardinal take heart-in twenty
five years the lying church will be
making capital OF woman suffrage by
saying that she secured enfranehise-
ment for women as she now says she
abolished negro slavery.