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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-21
STORY in A NUTSHELL.

Columns of news dispatches have
been printed about what happened at
Tampico when the men from the nava!
dispatch ship Dolphin were arrested
and the flag of the United States In
suited. But this short description
written by Seaman James Cole OF the
Dolphin's boat crew to his sister in
st. Louis, takes the prize for clear
ness:
"The other day we went ashore, ten
of us and the paymaster, to get sup
plies, and we got too far down the
river on the firing line. AS soon as
we hit the beach the federal army
captured us, and we were flying the
American flag, too. They held us pris'
oners about fifteen hours. Our captain
came over and got us. They took the
American flag off our boat and threw
1t overheard. They thought the pay
master was a relative Of ex-President
Madero The admiral certainly did
rave"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-21

Newspaper has become synonym
for neighborhood. 1t has enlarged the
circle in which men live, the area OF
their interests. Instead of village Cos
sip, we have the whole worlds at
fairs to concern us. All of earth and
sea are laid under tribute. every TWEEN
-ty-four hours, now that distance has
been annihilated by the wireless tele-
graph, for the information of every
body. The millionaire and the labor
er read the same newspaper. The city
man in his club and the farmer hun.
dreds of miles from the metropolis
scan the same columns daily. All of us
have entered into a new community
of interest and intelligence. The first
step toward brotherhood is know
ledge: we cannot long be unsympathet-
ic with anybody and any class if we
have sufficient information about them.
SO that marvellous disseminator of
news, the daily press, is one of the
golden chains that bind the whole
world about the feet of God.-The Rev.
William T. Ellis.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-21

terminate. In case manure Is not
available, commercial fertilizer. may
be used. Many lawn soils are In need
of lime and it is often wise plan
to use it, especially if white clover Is
to be sown. After plowing the lano
should be narrowed or raked frequent
ly to reduce it to a good seed Ded con
dition. This will encourage the cary
termination of the weed seeds VIII
the subsequent determination OF the
seedlings. Thorough cultivation al
this period will destroy the dandelion
plants, both those that come from
roots and seeds. After following either
plan sketched here, the lawn should
be maintained in good condition by
careful moving, rolling and watering
Spraying with iron sulphate solution
to Kill dandelions without killing the
grass is not recommended by the de.
partment although it has been tried
by some who consider it SUCCESSFUL
Experiments do not seem TO estapllsn
lit as a practical method.
The dandelion is not a native Amer.
can plant, having been introduced
from Europe several centuries ago. !.
was first introduced In the east ana
has spread westward with our emil
grafton. The weed Is common all over
Europe and has gone into other lands
with settlers from the older country
always being found near the commune
ties of man.
The name "dandelion" is said to
come from the French Dent de
Lion which means tooth OF lion and
refers to the tooth shaped edges OF
the leaf of the plant.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-21
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THE DANDELlON.

The best way to kill individual dan
delion plants is to cut off their tops
and put a pinch of salt (about a
thlmble full) on the surface of each
exposed root. This will kill most OF
them. AS salt if generally applied
ruins the soil, the salt should be used
sparingly and applied only to the root
tons of the dandelions. The United
States department of agriculture has
for some time, been testing various
poisons to discover the most efhclen'
means of graduating this troublesome
weed from lawns, but although others
have been found satisfactory, the com
mon salt is best for general use as
there is no danger of accompanying its
application.
The departments specialists say
that much effort is wasted IN merely
cutting off the dapdelion top without
applying some poison to the root that
remains. The dandelion has tar
root that grows deep into the soil
and cutting off the plant merely en-
courages the dandelion to come up in
a thicker growth.
The time to eradicate dandelions
is In the spring before the plant has
had time to form seed. The seed
spreads rapidly, blown by the wind
The blossoms should be close mown
before they have gone to seed and
salt should be then applied to each
root. A man may be very diligent
in caring for his own lawn and yet
have seeds blown in from nelghbor
ing lawns. This is of such import
ance of those desiring fine lawns that
1t might be made a matter for com
munity action.
IL the lawn is very full of this weed
1t is too tedious a process to treat
each plant by the salt process. In
this case two possible methods OF
eradication may be recommended
The, first method is to thicken the
stand of grass to tend to crowd out
the dandelion. The grass should be
put in a vigorous condition by tor
dressing with we'll rotted manure OF
fertilizer in the fall, and by re-seed
ing in thin places The second meth
cd advised in extreme instances is
to start all over again. Plow up the
avn first Cor spade it up if the area
A.s small). A generous amount OF well
rotted manure should then be worked
into the soil, but not fresh manure
for that is full Of weed seeds ready to
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-21
UNFAIRLY MUZZLED.

The Interstate trade commission
bill, which has the final approval OF
President Wilson and his advisers,
contains section that in the opinion
of many observers, will have to be
worked over before there is final legis-
lation. 1t is section IA, which provides
for the safeguarding of information
In the possession of the commission,
and reads as follows:
"Section A. That any person who
shall make public any information OBJ
tanned by the commission without its
authority shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanorIand on conviction there
Of shall be punished by fine not ex-
ceeding $5,oOQ or by Imprisonment not
exceeding one year, or by fine and
Imprisonment, In the discretion OF the
court"
The point is made that judicial
Interpretation of this language would
point toward muzzling the press. A
reporter, city editor, managing edi-
tor or anybody else in a position OF
responsibility on daily newspaper. 1t
Is pointed out, would be liable under
the section if he were able to write
and cause to be printed anything
which would amount to disclosure of
information in 1.-The possession of the
commission, and that, too, without re-
lation to whether that information had
been obtained from commission
sources, or through independent chan
nels.
The moment it were to become
known the commission was investigat-
Ing a certain question, it is claimed,
hn in la
were to discuss that question as other
questions of public interest are dis
cussed.
The purpose of this section. it is
said, is laudable but the language used
In outlining it is unfortunate. The
Z section will have to be redrafted, It
Is. claimed, before it will leave the
press of the country free to discuss
broadly and intimately matters com.
Ing before the commission.
The purpose of section IA, of course,
Is to throw about the work OF the pro-
posed trade commission something OF
the secrecy which surrounds the work
of the supreme court and the state de-
partment; but it is pointed out it has
not been necessary in either OF these
cases to enact law in order to insure
that secrecy. A correspondent OF The
Fourth Estate writes:
IF it has been possible for more
than hundred years for great di,
visions of the government to conduct
their work in secret, and only permit
such publicity as was deemed adyis.
able, why will it not be possible, it is
argued, for the proposed trade com.
mission to operate in similar way?
"This line of argument applies di'
rectly to section IA of the trade com
mission bill and it is quite certain that
It will be gone over thoroughly before
the bill becomes a law"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-21

. In letter written to friend, Byron
Shimeale Beloit, Wis, boy, who took
part in the United States marine oc-
cupation of Vera Cruz, declares that
three of the Americans hit were shot
by their comrades who mistook them
for pigs" He declared one was shot
five times by detachment of troops
stationed on the roof of building.
The other two were shot at the out
post when they did not stand on COM
mand to pass words.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-21

The curfew law which requires all
children to be off the streets at 8 p.
M, will be enforced in st. Louis ac-
cording to an announcement by the
acting chief of police. The law will
be enforced rigidly and even news
boys will not be exempt.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-21

The next move on the part of the
federal reserve banks through the
country will be the election. of direct.
.ors, after which the new Institutions
will be qualified to do business. The
federal reserve banks Of the eleven
other reserve centers of the country
with the exception of San Francisco
were also incorporated today.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-21

A rebel general at Tampico says
he will guarantee the safety of Ameri-
cans in that city. The question now.
lis: Who will guarantee a statement
that Mexican general makes?
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-21
NEW BANKS ORGANIZED.

The, federal reserve bank Of the sec
ond reserve district organized in &C
cordance with the new federal bank
ing laws, was formally launched at
the New York clearing house yestef-
day when representatives of Albany,
Syracuse, Buffalo and New York City
national banks were sworn in as incor-
Dorators Of the new institutions.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-21

When a resident Of Iowa gets so
that he will not try to do anything
he ships himself off to California or
Canada.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-21

face in the looking glass;" t
Phoebe Immediately became inter
ested and stopped crying.
(Which one, mother?" she asked.
Cubist Art.
"What are you painting from, a soap
box?"
81 am using soap box as a model
answered the cubist with dignity, but
the subject of the painting is young
girl standing by brook"
"Slashed stockings are the latest"
Everything comes to those who
wait. Now women with holes in their
hosiery will be in fashion,"
She was very literary and he was
not. He had spent narrowing eve
ming discussing authors, Of whom he
knew nothing, and their books of
which he knew less. Presently the
maiden asked archly: "Of course,
you've read Romeo and Juliet'?" He
| floundered helplessly for a moment
and then, having brilliant thought
blurted out, happily: I've read 'Ro-
meo.
District Attorney Whitman of New
York said the other day of business
man who had failed disastrously.
HE didn't work hard enough. He
was too self confident That Is why
he failed
With a laugh the district attorney
added "He who feels sure that the
world has an opening for him is apt
to land in hole"
Soft Snap.
| Some men can't recognize opportun-
ity. What's the use of trying to hold
on as president of Mexico when you
might be earning easy money in vaude-
Vile?
| Duncan MACPHERSON was hard
headed old Scot, one of the unusual
kind who loved neither the kirk nor
the minister On the icy pavement
he slipped and fell and as he sat
there gathering his wits the minister
who CHANGED to pass, said: Mac.
Pherson, the sinner stands on slippery
ground" Aye" said Duncan, dryly,
| Il see ye."
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-21
Press Comment

Marshalltown imes-Republican The
most that Meredith will confess is
that he worked for Professor Holden"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-21

ing the unhappy child up in her arms,
and cuddling the tear stained little
face against her own, the mother walk
ed over to the looking glass.
"Just look, Phoebe. at the ugly little
face in the looking glass;"
Phoebe Immediately became inter.
ested and stopped crying.
(Which one, mother?" she asked.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-21

Mr.. Meredith claims that he is still
running on the democratic ticket.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-21

DIR. sHALLEEBERGER makes specially o.
The treatment Of Chronic and Nervous Diseases
siye practice. has made him SO proficient that he
can successfully treat chronic diseases after
other physicians have failed. This Is why he has
nhvsicians have made few visits and stopped
You should consult him II you have any Chronic
Disease A Specialist who has made lifetime
study of such diseases IS ceT Il PREPARED TO
need scientific treatment.
Dr. Shallenberger treats Diseases OF the Eye,
Ear. Nose, Throat Lungs, Heart. Blood. Skin
and bladder; Catarrh. Ringing In Ears. Deaf.
ness, Paralysis. Neuralgia. Epilepsy. Headache:
Goitre. Eczema. Scrofula. Appendicitis, Gravel
and Rheumatism.
PILES. FIsfULA, FIssURE, and OTHER
RECTAL DISEASES TREATED
WITHOUT SURGICAL OPERATION.
WOMEN who are WEAK, NERVOUS,
and suffering from the many ailments peculiar
TO their SEX find that his advanced and scientific
methods, save many surgical operations.
PRIVATE DISEASES A SPECIALITY.
Cases Of long standing havs
hehlv importantthat you obtain the services OF
q physician who has established 9ooo seputa-
tion for treating these diseases.
NERVOUS DEblLll l..
Are YOU nervous and despondent easily exc-
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m mornings; without ambition. energy OF strength
ifeiess easily fatgued; distrustful and without
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or blurred eyes: piinples on your face; weak
back, or deposit in urincI
Or. Shallenberger spares no effort to cure mis-
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much to him as to his patients. Most OF his new
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others whom he has treated.
Specia! attention given to Surgical Cases
and Rupture
Consultation and Examination Free and
Confidential.
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1868 Lake Ave. CHICAGO. ~
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for governor. But if he can't do more
for himself than he did for Holden.
Louie Murphy can quit getting red In
the face and calm his fearful heart.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-09-03
THE JEFFERSO OMAN

a gigantic trap, to catch the cotton farmer in.
1t is the proposition to get months
strongle-ho1d on all the cotton.
The national banks are to bait the trap.
with month loans of money on cotton,
Watch ont, Farmer!
That Theodore Price scheme is a conspiracy
to get your crop at s cents, and sell it for
IL to 20 cents.
LOOK OUT, FARMER!
If your cotton goes into that months trap,
you will be absolutely at the mercy of Wall
Street spectators.
STAY OUT OF THAT TRAP!
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-09-03
The Great European War.

NO community will allow any one to
keep it In state of terror. The person
who tries that game, is soon squelched.
Nations are the same way: they will not
permit one to terrorize all. For instance,
when the Emperor Charles V. attempted a
universal monarchy in the Middle Ages, other
nations banded against him, and taught him
the vanity of human ambition.
Later. the same lesson was taught to Louis
XIV. and to Napoleon Bonaparte.
The world cannot, will not. and ought not
to endure one-man Despotism.
The scrofulous Kaiser of Germany in
herited powerful military machine from his
ancestors He neither invented it, perfected
it, nor knew how to manage it. But he
thought he did, and for 25 years he has been
browbeating the world.
The prestige of Frederick the Great, of
Butcher and Gneisenau. of Moltke and Room
enabled him to do this Metz and Sedan
were names to conjure with. The mailed fist
and spiked helmet inundated mankind.
This German Kaiser has bullied France,
threatened England, outraged China. hectored
Japan, heckled Russia, and trampled upon
democracy In Germany itself, until he is the
best hated man on earth.
He is monster Of conceit, of selhshness,
of arrogance, of pride, and of insolent i'm
perialism.
Yet he is the sIavish tool Of the Jesuits
who pushed Austria into trouble with the
Greek Catholics of Servia. It is everywhere
admitted that Austria would not have put
such utterly impossible demands on Servia,
had not the Kaiser prompted her.
Austria flung herself upon the Greek Cath
olics, at the instigation of the Roman Catho-
lies; and it is entirely possible that the Pope
and the General of the Jesuits died a few
days prematurely, when they saw the fright
full consequences of their hellish attempt to
force popery on the Greek Catholics.
After nearly month of development, the
situation is this:
The young men of England, France. Ger
many, Belgium, Russia, Austria and Servia
are marching in millions to kill each other,
because they are ordered to do it,
Not one of those soldiers understands what
started the War. although the Servians, the
Belgians and the French have cause sufficient
In the barbarous invasion of their home lands.
The harvests which have not been beaten
down by the tramp of leglons, stand unreaped
in the fields. Cities have been sacked and
destroyed. Old men, women, and children
have been butchered. Wanton waste has
scared hundreds of miles of prosperous terri
tory. Since the days of Attila, of Tamerlane.
of the Cloths and the Vandals no such loosing
of savage hordes upon peaceful homes has
been known.
No such cynical contempt of treaties has
ever been equal to that of Germany in violat-
ing the neutrality of Luxembourg and Bel
GUM
The Germans are pressing nearer to Paris
but the Russians are in full march upon Ber-
lin. Thus the crazy Kaiser is in imminent
danger of being caught between two mill
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-09-03
PAGE TEN
Lookout, Farmer! Beware OF
That Four Months Trap of
Theodore Price, the Wall
Street ssBear.'

and other Wall Street spectators have in
duced the Government to issue money on cot
ton at cents pound, on 4 months notes, the
4oans to be made through the national banks.
Farmers cannot repay within 4 months, and
they will therefore be closed out on the notes,
which means cents for cotton. instead of the
II cents promlsed)
WHEN President Thomas jefferson was
confronted with the sudden need to pay
for Louisiana. he issued u. S. notes. aight
from the Treasury to the people.
When President James Madison was con-
fronted by the sudden needs of the War Of
1912 he issued .. S. notes. straight from the
Treasury to the people.
When President Andrew jackson needed
more money for the Government, he issued
y. S.. notes. ight from the Treasury to
the people.
When President Abraham Lincoln needed
more money to finance the Union side of the
Civil War, he issued U. S. notes, straight
from the Treasury to the people.
But In our day, we have seen the Govern
ment abjectedly surrendered to the sharks Of
Wall Street and European finance
All that our Government can now do, is to
ask the national banks to do something.
Jefferson, Madison, Jackson and Lincoln
kept the Government above the banks.
Wilson and Bryan base put the banks above
the Government
The Government does not dare to exercise
its sovereign power to create AND CON-
Troll the money of the country.
The Government kindly creates the cur
rency for the banks, and surrenders all Of it
to the banks. to be controlled By the banks.
If Wilson and Bryan are Democrats, were
jackson. Madison and Jefferson Democrats?
If Lincoln and Jefferson were patriots. are
Wilson and Bryan patriots?
Ii so. please reconcile the lrrecOncieable
differences between them.
For 100 years, the Democratic statesmen de-
nounced the national banks as deadly enemies
to democratic principles and general pros
perity
For 100 years, Democratic disciples be-
Geved in the teachings Of those Democratic
statesmen.
Now. all is changed No Democratic states
man takes his stand where his forefathers
did. On the contrary, Wilson. Bryan & Co.
are more Hamilton and Republican, than the
Hamiltonians and Republicans ever were,
previous to 1900
Were the Democratic statesmen of the 10Th
Century all wrong?
Was wisdom denied to them, and reserved
to Wilson, Bryan & Co.?
A European Jew. who was an unnaturalized
foreigner three gears ago. sits on top of our
financial system, operating the national
Money Trust machinery which he and Sena-
tor Aldrich devised.
That's the system which the Rothschilds of
Europe have been scheming to fasten on us,
ever since the Civil War.
That's the system which throttles every
American industry that will not Enuckle to
the Money Trust
Th0ts the system q0hich GOTENRS
YOUR GOVERNMENT
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-09-03

Life and Speeches of Thos. E. Watson will
encourage every ambitious young man who
has to struggle for success Price SOC. The
Jeffersonian Publishing Company, Thomson,
Ga.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-09-03


STAY OUT OF THAT TRAP!
Bishop Warren Gambler Will
Enjoy This!
WHEN the Coca Cola endowment of MIL
lion dollars, was begging the Georgia
Legislature for an exemption from taxation,
Hon. G. j. Borough telephoned me- asking
for some hell in fighting the dangerous pre-
cedent.
BY telegraph, I gave him some help as fol-
lows:
The fundamental principles of our system
of government include complete separation of
Church and State. Subsidies to religious
work are forbidden; such work should be sup
ported by voluntary contributions; each de-
nomination should support its own churches
schools, hospitals, ETC. An exemption from
taxation is equivalent to a subsidy taken out
of the public treasury. It is wrong to exempt
Baptist or Methodist schools at the expense
of the Jews, Unitarians and believers. 1t
is wrong to exempt the sectarian school of any
church because the tax thus removed falls on
those who are not exempt.
When Methodists, Baptists and Episcopal
lians stultify themselves on the complete
separation of Church and State they open the
doors to pOpery. A tax emption of thous-
and dollars is the same as an Appropriation Of
a thousand dollars.
Now. see how quickly my apprehensions
have been indicated: the Romanist Sunday
Visitor, in it's latest issue, has this headline:
BROTHER OF METHODIST BISHOP ENDORSES
CATHOLIC PRINCIPLE.
Asa G. Gambler, Brother of Bishop Gambler
OIeth.) Gives 81 100000 to Church School,
BY Substantial Gift He Endorses the Catholic
Principle, and Expresses His Convictions on
Religious Education
The Sunday Visitor might have gone far
Their. and stated that Bishop Gambler himself
was personally urging upon members of the
legislature the exemption of that endowment
from taxation.
Il will not say that Bishop Gambler lob
bied. for the word "lobbying" implied crimi-
nality, until Hoke Smith persuaded the legis-
lature to legalize, by license, practice qOhdcH
the Constitution Of 1877 says KS crinoe.'O
Isn't it enough to cause you to stop and
think, when a Roman Catholic paper, devoted
to POpery, eXults over the fact that the
'Brother of Bishop Gambler endorses Catholic
principle"
John Bonzano the Pope's Ambassador to
our Government illegally received by Presi-
dent Wilson as such-aficiazzy endorses The
Sunday Visitor.
The Sunday Visitor editorially announces
that Bishop Gamblers brother endorses Ro-
man Catholic principle"
Where are we "gwine," anyway? N4g'