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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-05-26
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By GEORGE E. COBB

Copyright, 1916. by w. G. Chapman,

where did you get me-"
Outside of the Dew Drop, tossing
your money to a crowd of loafers and
Dragging that you had come back to
Oreville to show people how to mine. -
That's mel" observed Rufe Gid
den, sitting up in bed and staring
curiously about the dainty orderly
room he was in And you took me
in, the Good Samaritan, eh?"
Il was sorry for you, Rufe, and /
didn't forget that you gave me my
grub stake five years ago, when you
left Oreville."
Forget that"
81 never have. The claim, low
grade as it is, has enabled me to send
a living back to the family in the
East, and when my wife died /
brought my daughter and the little
ones out here. I've saved two thou
sand dollars. When double that, I'm
going back to the old home town, buy
out modest little business and edu-
cate the kids. Breakfast is ready"
1--we not got much appetite, said
Rufe, and he looked around as he said
it. Then, left to himself, he got up
and dressed. His first move was to
search his coat. Yes, there was a
flask for the morning swig" He re
garded the fiery stuff gloatingly. Then
his eye CHANGED to rest upon the bu-
reau cover. A dozen dainty female
toilette accessories showed. A deli
cately embroidered sachet sent out a
sweet perfume. Beyond the closet
door light pretty dress showed. The
man observed. An odor of sanctity
seemed to appeal to his manliness.
His daughters ROOM" he muttered
-"she gave it up to me! Bah! they
ought to have slowed me in some dog
KENNEL Through"
He gave the liquor flask a violent
fling through the open window. He
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-05-26

ing in great luXuriance, while the
whole landscape assumes the aspect OF
a flower garden.
One of the most interesting trees to
be found on the mountain slopes of Du-
range is a species of pine, the needles
of which the Indians and Mexicans boil
and use as a remedy for stomach trou-
bles. It's taste is like that of anise
seed The wood of these trees is much
used by the Indians in the manufac-
ture of their primitive violins.
One of the products indigenous TO
Durango, but one of which the state
does not boast, is a venomOus species
of scorpion whose sting is almost in
variably fatal in the warm regions Of
the state, but which is more painful
than dangerous in the higher and cool
er attitudes. In the vicinity of Duran
go City $4,000 of these spiders are
killed annually, some Of the natives
making a business of destroying them,
collecting from the municipality a
bounty of one centavo per scorpion.
City Has Wonderful Climate.
At an elevation of 5000 feet, the city
of Durango, capital of the state, enjoys
a matchless climate, which has earned
it the sobriquet, town of sunshine. "
1t is one of the oldest Spanish settle
ments in the republic, having been
founded by Captain Ibarra two years
before the followers of Don Pedro
MenendeZ de Aviles initiated the per-
manent colonization of the United
States at st. Augustine. THE site of
the present city was reached by the
adventurer and silver-seeker, Mercado,
who in 1852 discovered the famous
Iron mountain of the suburbs. When
Ibarra arrived with his colonists the
country was occupied by nomadic saw
age tribes.
One of the odd customs of the Du-
range district is the funeral ceremony
for children. "An angel is being bur-
led" is the explanation which native
will give of a gay procession headed
by woman bearing aloft on board
a bundle bound in white. The parents
of the child are obligated to give it
joyfully to heaven, to the accompani-
ment of music and dancing. If there
is weeping the baby cannot enter para
disc until it has gathered all the tears.
One of the places of historic interest
is the town of Santiago de Papasquia-
70, said to derive its name from "paz
quiero," meaning Il want peace" The
phrase alludes to the defeat of the In
dams following a massacre of the mis-
sionaries and burning of the churches
by the Tepehuanes and Tarahumares
in 1916. After the outrage the Indians
gathered a force estimated at $4,000
and marched on Durango City. The
governor of the province, with 600 val
liant whites, determined to resist and
save the territory for Spain. In the
battle which followed, the Spanish
chroniclers declare, the governor COM
pletely overcame the insurgents, who
lost $4,000 men, After this overwhelm-
ing defeat the Indians wanted peace.
Durango derives its name from the
old Spanish town of that name, in the
Basque provinces.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-05-26
Nice Distinction.

Bert, who was fond of a young man
who was home on his vacation from
a medical college, injured his hand
quite severely, and his mother told
him to go over and let Jack-the stu
dent-look at it. The little fellow
said: shall / call him doctor, or just
Jack?" Then quickly he added: ooh,
know. il he has on his old clothes
TIL say Jack, but If he has on his
good clothes and is all fixed up. then
I'll say Doctor
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-05-26
He Sold.

He was trying to sell dog, a handy
legged brute. with features calculated
to stop a motor car. and the I'D lady
did not seem averse to buying one.
Their ideas as to the brute's value
scarcely correspondent, however, and
there was little prospect of agreement,
when suddenly the lady demanded:
"Will he bite?"
"Only his meat, mum, responded
the fancier.
.eOh. but wanted one for tramps."
''Tramps is his meat, mum, was the
artful reply. and there was deal after
all.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-01-06
''The 4th Degree Oath of the
knights of Columbus

ITO meet the bluff and the falsehoods of
those Americans who have foresworn
loyal principles, and have become oath bound
subjects of foreign power, / have carefully
prepared the above-named pamphlet.
The men who take that oath are traitors
to our government, and spies in our camp.
They are armed and drilled, as military
men, and kept in readiness to use their steel
swords, and their up-to-date rifles against
their fellow citizens.
Get my pamphlet, and study the facts for
yourselves. Priced ten cents.
This question of Popery is the most import
ant question now facing the people of
America
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-01-06
PAGE FIVE

anything that will relieve the borrowing class
from the crushing yoke of the lending class.
Monopoies sprout on the grave of COM
petition; and the Money Monopoly doesn't
1ntend that any Gabriel trump shall ever
bring to life competitor in the business Of
lending.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-01-06
A Delusive Rural Credit Bill.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE

fStsn ms cream, by plaster1ng his farm with
mortgage, for money FURNISHED by National
banks.
The defects of the proposed law are fatal:
Il 1t does not create q competitive
sMpply Of 1oonabze money!
1t the Government meant to act white
with the farmer, it would liberate him from
the iron chain of the Money Monopoly.
1t would lend him money which is
created for him By the Government. issued
directly to hina, By the Govermnaent and
supplied in sufficient volume to meet such
applications as he can secure, not only with
land, but with cotton, wheat, tobacco and
other staple products.
Competition would automatically regulate
the national banks. Nothing else aciz. There
can be no competition, and therefore no regu-
latlon of their interest rates, until the Gov
eminent deprves them of their illegal mo-
mopoty Of money.
Let the Government create new money for
the farmers Just as it did for the bankers
Then you'll see the Moguls and High Fin
ance make obeisance to the Law of Supply
and Demand
~ The proposed bill shuts out the very
men who most need relief. Many land
owners have only life estate, and many
farm belongs to minors, and more than half
of, the land is cultivated by troopers and
tenants
[ know of tenants who make from so to
100 bales OF cotton year; why should these
men be denied Rural Credits?
Any system which is restricted to the
owners of land, will bring bitter disappoint-
ment and dissatisfaction. Such discrimina-
ton is unjust-a rank discrimination against
millions OF our best citizens and producers.
Heavens above how much cotton would
the South send to the gins this year, if all
the tenants and choppers were to drop out?
How much corn, oats, wheat, and hay
woull the West have to spare, next year, if
all the 1andless quit work?
Statistics prove that more than half of all
the arabic land in the Union is worked by
those who don't own it. Won't the Demo
cratic party court Waterloo in this years
elections, and for years to come, if it goes
before the country with law which insults
and outrages the cropper and the tenant?
When England went into the land loan
business, the tena7t was the first recipient of
her bounty. So it was in Prussia. when
Frederick the Great first established the
land loan banks, more than $50 years ago.
It is my understanding that all of the
European Rural Credits system are so framed
as to make the za1adze8s farmer the special
ben ry.
Nl...4 a shameful thing it will be if Presi-
dent Wilson forces Congress to violate the
spirit of the Baltimore platform at the same
time that the letter of it is kept.
President Wilson has been the sole obstacle
TO RWrGl Credits. It was he who called off
Henry of Texas, and made the Democrats
in the House kill the bill qohich the Repub-
Jicars had passed through the Senate.
It was Wilson who told the leaders of the
farmers organization that no relief need be
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-01-06


plated by the bill would be subscribed by the
Federal Government.
COOPERATIVE LOCAL BODIES.
Business would be done directly between the
regional banks and the local bodies which farm
ers would be authorized 20 organize in the form
CT cooperative farm loan associations, or Joint
stock Banks, charters for which would be passed
on by the land bank board.
Applications for loans approved by the local
organizations would be recommended to the
regional bank of the district. The banks would
be authorized to loan of capital stock or to
sell bonds to obtain sufficient funds to make the
loans, and the farmers would be charged as in
terest on the bonds, plus per cent.
To reduce the rate of interest on the bonds the
bill would provide that they must be accepted by
banks as security for the deposits of public funds
The borrowing associations would be divided
into two classes, those organized with limited liza
bilities and those with unlimited liability. They
would appraise the land which a farmer
sought to obtain money and would themselves
become liable for the loan.
Thus the bonds would be backed by the
regional banks the local association, the bor-
rowing farmer and mortgage the land, given
to the association.-New York American.
Now, if you will grind that up in your own
teeth, you will see that the grist is
The farmers who own lands may get to-
gether, mortgage the property to the loan
banks and the t00n-b0nhs a05W go to the No.
h0naz banks, and borrow money on such
terms as the two gangs of robbers may agree
on.
The two gangs of robbers will interlocl1,
you may be sure; and by the time the farmer
gets his land back from under that mortgage,
he will be an older man, wiser man, and a
poorer man.
Think of that kind Of lemon being handed
to the farmers, by this administration
Capital stock Of six mllions To finance
some 100000 farmers! And who's to fur
nish the Sc 100000?
Why, if no other son Of gun will do it,
Uncle Sam will
Six millions When the same Uncle Sam
ran the machines day and night, Sunday and
Monday, printing new money for handful
of cotton gamblers who were crazy to buy
cent cotton.
Within few days, $3.50, 100000 Of new
paper money went to these gamblers; and,
with it, they bought your cotton at $50 a
bale, and then turned round and made the
Government insure it for $40.
And now, you may form ''co-operative as
sociations", and mortgage your homes; and
if nobody else will lend you six million dol
lars on hundred million acres Of improved
land, Uncle Sam will do it!
But he will not even create $6,000000 of
nelO money.
Oh no; that would never do. He will use
six millions of that which is already in ex-
istence, and thus leave the monopoly of the
National banks unimpaired.
That's really the crux of the whole matter
President Wilson and, McAdoo, his SON.
in-law, belong to the Money Trust, which the
Republicans created and the Democrats
legalised.
President Wilson has no intenti0n Of doing
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-01-06
Do You Intend Go Enrich Such
Roman Catholics as These?
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE. J

Advertise with The Jeffersonan Publish
ing Company?
No! A thousand times, NOU
Smith rallied out on Mr. Lee-Watsons
son-in-law-and he heaped hatred upon Wat
son; and he wouldn't touch a thing that
Watson was connected with: he Cletested Wat
son, he had no use for anybody that lrQs
friendly to Watson.
So. That is 4. A. Smith, of Atlanta, the
seller of guanos, and fertilizer generally.
DO you want to enrich A. A. Smith!
DO you want to line his pockets with your
money?
Do you want to increase his ability to fight
non-Catholics, and to insult them with i'm
punty?
Please make a note of this creatures name
IT is 4. Il. SMITH,
Be certain to buy your fertilizers from the
Companies that employ THIS BRUTE.
Be certain to build him up in trade, and
thus nourish the murderous bigotry that
testers in his popish veins
Friends! The time has come lciel1 re must
fight back.
Boycott the Roman Catholic bigots and
thus feed them out of the same spoon.
For several years, it has taken all of my
time, all of my labor, all my resources to es-
cape the assassin-li1e persecution which the
Federation of Catholic Treason Societies
started against your Jeffersonian Publishing
Company.
That fight is not ended Their malicious
criminal prosecution still hangs over my head.
Rally to me! Stand by me and with me,
during this New Year, 1916
Let's all march and fight, shoulder to
shoulder.
Lock shields with me, and strike where
strike
Boycott this insolent ruffian, A. A. Smith,
and don't give your patronage to any firm
which has Roman Catholic in it.
FIGHT TIE DEVIL WITH HIS OWN
FIRE.
Give them exactly what they give u.s.
Let them realize that they cannot single
out one Protestant for persecution and des-
truction, without having to fight you, as well
as him.
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THE JEFFERSONIAN

editors and speakers to claim that the Balti-
more promise has been fulfilled.
80 The proposed law contemplatcs a
sale Of 6rn3
Read the following, and see what you make
of it:
The bill would provide for a comprehensive farm
mortgage credit system under the control and
supervision OF a Federal land bank board Of five
members to be appointed by the President, with
the approval CT the Senate.
The country would be divided into twelve
districts, each with regional land bank having
a capital stock of 100000 to be issued iii $40
shares for purchase by the public. ANY sucty
stock not taken within ninety days with private
capital or by local loan organizations contem-
plated by the bill would be subscribed by the
Federal Government.
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The Jefersonlan, $100 per year; in Clubs
of Ten, so cents.
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Advertise with The Jeffersonian Publish
ing Company?
No! \ thousand times. NOU
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-10-04

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 4.-"The
mysterious British tank described as
car of death resembling ponderous,
slow moving steel caterpillar, is the
current 'enfant terrible in the large
family of strange engines of destruc-
ton sired by the God of War; says a
bulletin issued today by the National
Geographic Society.
THE modern fighting man has been
so schooled to expect unique and
powerful inventions designed to de-
stroy human life that the tanks have
inspired more curiosity than terror,
but far dikerent has been the story Of
the vast breed of monsters that have
engendered panic in the hearts of
soldiers in ages past.
Reviewing the history of warfare
among civilized nations, one Of the
earliest engines of destruction whose
fame has been perpetuated on the
pages of legendary epic, was the great
wooden horse which the crafty Ulysses
left on the plains of Ilium, and which
the Trojans believed to be an offering
sacred to the goddess Athena. Couns
eled by the false Simon, the Trojans
razed their walls in order that the
gift of the Greeks might be brought
into the city. After nightfall the
warriors hidden inside the wooden
animal crept out, threw open the
gates of the city and admitted their
companions, thus bringing about the
destruction of the city of Priam and
wreaking vengeance upon the people
who had sheltered Paris and the fair
but false Helen of Troy.
IAN engine of war which energies
from the cloud of legend and takes its
place among historical actualities was
that employed by Alexander the Great
ing his seven-months siege of the fam
GUS Phoenician metropolis, Tyre. This
ancient city was strongly situated on
an island and as there were no long
range catapults in the fourth century
beofre the Christian era, Alexander
conceived the plan of building mole
or causeway from the mainland to the
island. This engineering enterprise
was hampered by the Tyrians who
launched blazing ships against the
assailants as they sunk piles to hold in
place the rock and debris that formed
a roadway over which the army was to
march. In order to protect his con-
struction corps Alexander devised as
an engine of war great towers covered
with green hides. These were set up
as shields against the floating flames
of the enemy and the result was one
of the memorable victories in Alex
ander's conquest of the eastern world.
zone of the most terrifying engines
of war of ancient times was the battle
elephant employed by Pyrrhus, Alex
ander's cousin, in the first of the fam
Gus 'Pyrrhic victories over the Rom
ans. Twenty of these huge beasts
were used against the enemies of the
Tarentines at the battle of Heraclea in
29O BIC. The strange, moving noun
tains of flesh caused wave of fear to-
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watched.

watched.
Greek Fire is term which has
Teen applied to various compounds
through a succession of centuries go
ing back as far as 424 B. c., when at
the siege of Deliub cauldron filled
with sulphur, pitch and charcoal was
placed against the walls OF the city,
ignited and the flames intensified by a
bellows attached to a hollow-tree
trunk. The most famous of the Greek
Fires, however, was that invented by
Thea architect Callinious during the
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British Tanks Bring Back
To MIND The instruments Of
War OF The Olden Times Too

sweep over the Romans and they fled
from the field of carnage, but after
one experience with the animals their
courage returned and henceforth the
war elephant was more of curiosity
than an effective engine.
"One of the simplest and yet one of
the most effective inventions of an
Gent times, was the javelin, with a
point of soft iron employed by julius
Caesar in one of his Calls wars. The
Roman legionaries hurled these wea-
pons against the shields of their enc
mics. The iron head penetrated the
outer covering of bulls hide, but fiat
tened out against the hardwood or
metal back of the shield, and thus be-
camehooked to this protector. The
shanks of the dangling javelins i'm
peded the movements of the barba-
ljan soldiers so that they were forced
either to throw away their shields and
fight uncovered against the Romans,
or else stop long enough "a fatal de-
lay in their advance) to disencumber
themselves from this unique weapon
which may properly be called the dunn
dunn plum, the progenitor of the soft
nose, or dum-dum bullet of today.
Perhaps the strangest engines of
destruction in the history of the world
were the seven trumpets of rams horn
which the priests of Israel blew as
they encompassed the walls of Jericho
once each day for six successive days
and seven times on the seventh day,
AIIeT lue HHdl UldSL IhS AooCS VI 10
lael gave a great shout and the walls
fell fiat, according to the Biblical &C
count in the Book of Joshua. Those
who endeavor to explain all miracles
on the theory that they are the result
of extraordinary applications of the
natural law, have seen in this remark
able event a demonstration of the vast
destructive power of sympathetic Vi
bration- the same principle which
has been known to shake to its very
foundation a great bridge of steel and
concrete when a dog trots across it.
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GideOn'S Ruse.

Another arms oddly of Biblical in
terest was the ruse employed by Gid
con. leader of only three hundred Is
raelites, who successfully engaged a
vast host of Midianites and Amalekites
that lay along in the valley like grass
hoppers for multitude; and their cam
els were without number, as the sand
by the seaside for multitude. Gideon's
engines of destruction were 800 trum-
pets, 300 empty pitchers, and 300
lamps within the pitchers. AS the
enemys camp was approached during
the night the pitchers were smashed,
the lamps held aloft in the left hand,
while terrifying blasts from the 300
trumpets spread CONSERVATION and aeH-
Tor among the sleepers who in dark
ness imagined that they had been at
tackled by great army. The result
was wholesale slaughter among them
selves, while the followers of Gideon
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reign of Constantine Pogonatus. This
particular engine of destruction was
known as wet fire, on account of its
property of bursting into fame when
wetted. Thrown from siphons, it fell
upon the ships of the Saracens caus-
ing them to burst into flames, and thus
Constantinople was saved to the Byz-
antine emperor for the time being
(e6S).
Probably more far-reaching in its
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