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The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-08-19


way to get Mr.. Bryan on that date if
possible.
One of the most important gather
ings in Fredericktown this summer
will be the meeting of the Mt. Vernon
District Women's Foreign Missionary
Society at the Methodist church on
August 30 and 81. The following pro-
gram will show the good things are
in store for our people:
Tuesday Afternoon
3:0O-Devotiona Service-Miss Mae
Gorsuch.
Welcome-Mrs. Howes, Frederick
town.
RESPONSE
w. F. M. S.-Mrs. Weekley, Ches-
terville.
Standard Bearers-Miss Florence
Walker, Mt. Vernon.
Kings Heralds-Cora Conard, Mt.
Vernon.
Standard Bearers.
Music-Mary Lyon, India; Elsie
Simester, China; Helena Hessenauer,
Straits Settlements; Lettie Da(native)
China.
why l am Going Back to China
Mary Rebecca Brewster.
Music-Frederickto choir.
"Crandon Hall as / Saw It"-Miss
Barber, Mt. Vernon.
"Our Need"-Miss Da, China.
Awarding of Honors-Mite Box;
membership.
Benediction.
Tuesday Evening
6:30- Reception - Fredericktown
Auxiliary and Standard Bearers.
7;3O-Song service.
Anthem-Frederickt choir.
Devotional services-Mrs. V. W.
Wagar.
solo-Mrs. Fred French, NJ. Yer.
non.
Reading, Thanksgiving Ann"-Mrs
Rudolph, Mt. Vernon.
Chinese Idol Worship Explained
Miss Da, Foochow, China.
Music-Delaware Quartet
Address-Mrs. Emma Shellebear
Malaysia.
Benediction.
Wednesday Morning
| 9:00-Sacramental service-Rey. F.
/. Johnson.
Reports of District Officers.
Business-Roll call.
Reports of Auxiliaries.
Minutes.
Talk, "Kwassui as / See It"-Miss
Russell.
Awarding of Honors Increase;
Mite box.
Appointment of Committees-Reso
lutions; Nomination.
Music-Delaware Quartet.
Benediction.
Wednesday Afternoon
2:OO-Devotiona service-Mrs. Win
ters.
Reports of committees.
Election of officers.
District Training School,
(a) Spiritual Work-Mrs. Con
dit; Social, Mrs. Lybarger; Financial
Mrs. p. S. Kelser.
(b) President, Mrs. c. r. Cary
Secretary, Mrs, Balo; Treasurer, Mrs
Vance; Supervisors, Mrs. Hambly
Mrs. Taggart.
A Study in Finances-Five Minut
Drill.
Music-Frederick choir.
Question Box and Round Table.
Greetings from Miss Ashbaugh.
Benediction.
Wednesday Evening
6:45-Song service-Frederick
choir.
Devotional service-Mrs. Ball.
m-Fredericktown choir.
"The Voice of the Women"-Fret
ericktown Standard Bearers.
Chinese Songs-Miss Da, China
Esther Blair, Mt. Vernon.
Solo-Miss Wilkins, Fredericktowr
Chinese Idol Worship Explained
Miss Da.
Address = DR.. Lowrey, Picking
China
Address-E. Dow Bancroft, Colum
bus, Ohio.
Conservation Service and Call t.
the Field-Dr. Lowrey, Miss Russell.
Minutes.
Benediction.
DR.. NJ. l.. Bates, president of Hiram
College, will address a union Sunda
school picnic in Browns Grove nea
Waterford on Saturday, August 2O.A
so will speak on Sunday morning an
evening at the Christian church Il
Waterford. A cordial invitation is eN
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-01-12

RESIDENT TAFT has thrown a
i bombshell into the ranks of that
portion of the secret service which is
assigned to the duty of protecting the
chief executive of the nation from as
sassination. It is soft job for the
secret service men and often leads to
something better, several of those
who formerly guarded presidents now
holding government positions that pay
we'll and make the holder man of
some consequence in his home terri
tory.
1t is feared among Chief Wilkes
men that some Of them will have to be
looking for other jobs if the president
continues to go out for long walks
through the busiest streets of Wash
ington unprotected. The president
has had the laugh" on several of the
sleuths recently when. without max
ing any announcement of his inten-
tons, he left the White House and
started out for walk. Generally he
has been accompanied by some cabi-
net official, but none of Wilkes men
was along.
On his last walk the president was
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-01-12
WASHINGTON people on
W coming to Washington for the

WASHINGTON.-Most people on
W coming to Washington for the
first time and about to meet public
official are greatly perplexed as to the
form in which they shall address him.
Naturally uniformity is desired in this
respect by all government officials
and for that reason there is an estab-
nshed manner in which to greet pub
lie officials with whom one may come
IN contact. The social code which
governs social intercourse in the Off
c1al set in the national capital sup
plies prescribed form which it is
necessary to follow If one would be
correct in his dealings with officials,
whether of a social or a business ma
ture.
There are some titled officials in the
army and navy who are granted a
higher rank socially by courtesy than
they are actually entitled to. For in
stance, lieutenant commanders in the
navy are, by courtesy, in social life
called commanders, while those below
that rank lose thier official title and
are addressed as plain Mister"
The same rule applies to the staff
officers of the navy. Likewise the as.
sistant secretaries of executive depart.
ments are called Mister" and the
reason for this is obvious. 1t is not
an easy matter to introduce a naval
officer by the long and harsh-soundine
title Of "lieutenant-command OF
to refer to the first lieutenant of an
executive department as 'Mr. Assist.
ant Secretary" while it would be more
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-01-12
FINLAND

At the Helsingfors deaconess insti-
tute is a compound human being
which is far more CHASTITY than the
famous Siamese twins. They are
both females. They are grown to.
gether at the loins, with their backs
turned half way towards each other.
there is only one anal and one urin.
airy opening. The upper parts of
their bodies, which are separated, are
not symmetrical. The inner sides of
their faces are thinner than the outer
sides, and their skulls are slightly
flattened on the inside. In each of
them the heart is in that side Of the
chest which is farthest away from
the other, that is, the left one has
the heart in the usual place, while in
the other the heart is in the right
side of the chest. The hearts beat
independently of each other, and each
has rate of about 1870. Their limbs
are normally developed. excepting
that the one to the right has no thumb
on her left hand. Their mother is
a farmers wife, and she had two
we'll formed children before she gave
birth to the twins. They are half a
year old, and have grown consider.
ably. One of the twins is a little
larger and more vigorous than the
other. DR.. A. Ackren has given a
full account OF the phenomenon in
Finska Lakarsallskapets Handlingar,
December, 1909.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-01-12
News Of Scandinavia
Principal Happenings Of the Week
in the Scandinavian Countries.

Some Norwegian students attended
the dedication Of the Stockholm high
school, which fs really university
One OF them wrote an account of the
visit for Norwegian daily, saying
In part: when leaving for Sweden
we Norwegians were afraid that our
meeting with the Swedish students,
on account of the events of 1905,
might be characterized by certain
GOODNESS, and in our talk we were
careful to avoid all questions that
might tend to revive painful memo
ries. But during a several days stay
our apprehensions proved to be en-
tirely unfounded. From the first mo-
ment we were met with an exceeding.
ly fine knd winning amiability, and.
far from being coolly received, we
have constantly felt that the Swedish
students made extra efforts to prove
to us that they look upon the events
OF 1905 as past history. After the
ball the first toast was proposed in
cordial terms to the representatives
of the Norwegian students, and we
were deeply moved when every one
rose and sang the Norwegian national
hymn. ia. vi elsker." 1t was strong.
ly impressed upon us that it was not
an expression of ordinary Swedish
politeness, but that there is a strong
feeling among the Swedish students
that the young people of the two coun.
tries again ought to find each other in
common interests"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-01-12
Nagers Department Caused Commotion

that his department had decide to let
the ships plying between the United
States and Central and South Ameri.
can ports clear for their destinations.
Tones of international law were
brought forth and diplomatic etiquette
produced and quoted to show that it
invited grave international complica-
lions If American ships should sail
from our ports during internecine con.
fl1cts and insurgent movements in the
Central American states.
then McHarg brought out the stat
utes of the United States and showed
that the collectors of customs would
be subject to damages If they held
these ships when there was no state
of war existing in any of the coun-
tries, but simply little Instructions.
He told the officials of the state de-
partment that he didn't want to en-
barrass thier diplomacy, but the de-
partment of commerce and labor had
decided to let the ships have their
clearance papers. That was what hap
pened.
Up to the present time no one has
heard of the wreck or ruin of the dip
lomacy that exists between the gov
eminent of the United States and
those of the Central American States.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-01-12
SWEDEN

The sugar beat crop was all dug be.
| fore the tenth of November.
Many cartridges have been seen on
the streets of Gafle, where they come
to find something to eat, a crust OF
snow covering everything in the coun.
try around the city.
During the month of November
1,143 tons of coffee was imported to
the cpstom-house district of Sundsvall
as compared with only 229 tons for
the same month last year.
The department of war is soon go.
ing to publish textbook for the men
of the army and the navy. The aim
of the publication is to inculcate pat
riotism, fidelity, and respect and love
for military pursuits.
The engineer of a passenger train
running from Sveg to Orsa was sur.
prised to notice that his engine
worked hard going down hill. and
he stopped to see what was the mat
ter. It was soon found that freight
car in the rear was derailed, and had
run on the ties about half mile.
A number of professors of the uni
| versity of Upsala have published a
protest against the canvass made by
the temperance people of Sweden to
ascertain bow many persons are in
favor of and how many are against
national prohibition. Fifty-two ply
sicians of Gothenburg have publicly
endorsed the protest of the Upsala
professors.
The total number of persons emf
grating from the seaports of Stock
holm, Gothenburg, and Malmohus dur
ing the first eleven months Of the
year 1909 was 1923. as against only
$500 for the same period in 1908.
Thousands Of able-bodied Swedes left
their country for good on account Of
the strike.
Prof. Karl Starback stated in
public lecture at Vasteras that the
present aim of the Liberal party is
to capture a majority of the seats Of
the first chamber of the riksdag He
explained that this was made feas-
ible by the new election laws.
The most popular novel ever writ.
ten in Sweden is COSTA Behring'S
Saga" by Miss Selma Lagerlof, who
has just been awarded the Nobel prize
for literature. Since 1891, when this
romance appeared, her publisher, Al
bert BONNER, has printed about
$4,000 copies. This means much in a
land of only 100000 inhabitants.
The customs, the sugar tax, the
railways, and the liquor tax brought
the government about $25.500,0 900 dur
ing the first eleven months OF the
year 1909, which was 100000 less
than the receipts for the 3ame months
n 1904
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-01-12
Taft BATTLES the Secret Service Men

accompanied by his brother, Charles
p. Taft, the millionaire Cincinnatian.
They walked up to the capitol and
strolled through its wide halls.
So far as runs the memory of Alon-
20 Stewart, deputy sergeant at arms
of the senate, and that is a full gen.
Grafton, it was the first time that a
president has visited the capitol on
the Sabbath day.
On another occasion the president
walked through Pennsylvania avenue,
Wcshington's most prominent bust.
ness street. He was wearing a sack
coat and gray sweater.
THAT looks like President Taft" re.
marked one man as President Taft
passed the fve-cent theaters on the
avenue. Brig. Gen. Clarence Edwards,
who was with the president, giggled
and the president smiled. Mr.. Taft
DID not look much like himself in hia
sack coat with sweater underneath.
The walk began when the president
and the general eluded the secret SER
vice men at the White House. They
walked briskly down to the Potomac
flats, along the Southern railroad right
of way and back through South Wash
ington, around the capitol building
and library. The return trip was down
Pennsylvania avenue at dusk
A president who walks the streets
of Washington is too much for Wash.
ington. Mr.. Taft's predecessors rode
in carriages or took their "constitu-
tionals" across country.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-01-12

THERE was a commotion, almost
/ CONSERVATION, in the state depart
ment a short time ago when the ener'
getic and active Assistant Secretary
McHarg of the department Of com.
merce and labor went over and talked
United States statutes against inter
national law in the department.
There was Assistant Secretary Adee,
who is so STEPPED in international law
Lat it exudes from every pore, and
Solicitor Hoyt, who has been so long
a legal adviser of the government
that he knows everything in the way
of law that ever pertains to the Uni.
ted States, and Commissioner of Navi-
CATION Chamberlain, who has been
studying navigation interests ever
since the first part of Cleveland's last
term.
Into this gathering came McHarg in
his forceful manner, and remarked
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-01-12

makers. And even more conclusive was
the fact that she had made this state.
| ment before her aunt, and that Miss
Pat had acquiesced in it.
We had reached the church door,
and l had really intended entering
with them; but now was in no frame
OF mind for church; I murmured an ex-
cuse about having letters to write.
But this afternoon we shall go for
a ride or sail. which shall it be, Miss
Holbrook?" I said, turning to Miss
Pat in the church porch.
She exchanged glances with Helen
before replying.
"As you please, Mr.. Donovan. It
| might be that we should be safer on
the water"
was relieved. On the lake there
was much less chance of her being OBJ
served by Henry Holbrook than in the
highways about Annandale. It was, to
be sure, question whether the man
had encountered at the canoe-maker's
was really her brother; that question
was still to be settled. The presence
OF Gillespie had forgotten utterly:
but he was, at any rate, the least i'm
portant figure in the little drama us-
folding before me-
Il shall come to your pier with the
launch at five o'clock" I said, and
with thanks murmuring in my ears
l turned away, went home and called
for my horse.
1 repeated my journey of the night
before, making daylight acquaintance
with the highway. I brought my horse
to a walk as I neared the canoe-ma-
, ker's cottage, and read his sign and
the lettering on his mail box and sat-
1stied myself that the name Hartridge
was indisputably set forth on both.
There was no one In sight: perhaps
the adventure and warning of tho
night had caused Holbrook to leave:
but at any rate was bent upon ask
ing about him in Tippecanoe village.
This place, lying two miles beyond
the canoe-maker's. I found to be a
sleepy hamlet of perhaps so cottages,
country store, a post-office, and a
oAe~ShoAAAIA oAOp. AAO10 Was d water
trough in front of the store, and I
dismounted to give my horse a drink
while went to the cottage behind tho
closed store to seek the shopkeeper.
found him in garden under an
apple tree reading a newspaper. Ke
was an old fellow In spectacles, and.
assuming that was an idler from
the summer colony, he greeted nae
courteously. l questioned him as to
the character Of the winters in this
region, spoke of the employments of
the village folk, then mentioned the
canoe-maker
Eyes; he works the year round down
there on the Tippecanoe. He sells
his canoes all over the Countrywide
Hartridge, that's his name. You must
have seen his sign there by the cedar
hedge. They say he gets big prices
for his canoes"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-01-12
DENMARK

The railway employees of Copen
hagen, by vote of 1865 to 3. re
solved to go on a strike Jan. l.
The Danes are seriously discussing
the question whether Iceland is go
ing to secede from the union with
Denmark
Magasin du Nord, a warehouse in
Copenhagen, has a floor space OF
100000 square feet, and 1000 persons
are employed in the building.
Prince Hans of Scheswig- IIoktein
Sonderburg-G lucksburg, brother OF
the late King Christian of Denmark
and generally known as the "Uncle
OF Europe" is critically i'll.
The special committee of Copen.
hagen university which investigated
DR.. Frederick A. Cooks polar records,
is now considering whether or not
it will publish second report. giving
further details of its work. If the
committee should decide to do so. it
will issue tho report about the middle
Of January. A member of the com.
mittee said that some of the details
of Cooks narrative Of his expedition
were fabricated and his papers
showed that he had used calculations
furnished by Captain Loose. The Sc
cond report, he added, would present
evidence to that effect.
The Danish cabinet proposes to
reduce the military expenses about
$1.500,O00. At the same time it is
proposed to add 100000 to the civil
budget. namely. 100000 for a new
passenger railway station in Copen.
hagen. and the balance for cars for
the state railways.
Most of the Christmas trees used
in southern Sweden last Christmas
were obtained by thinning out plan
tations where the trees were standing
too close together.
The new torpedo boat Antares do
veloped a speed OF 25.4S knots on it,
trial trim .. ....>
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-01-12
NORWAY

kr1stian Lange is general secretary
OF the executive committee of the in
terparliamentary peace organization
] In other words, young Norwegian
IFS at the head ofsthe work which has
for its ultimate aim the establishment
Of something which will be tanta-
mount the United States of Europe.
\ The awarding of the Nobel peace
prize @Baernarts and d'Estournelles
de Constant was=a disappointment to
the Norwegian people. The majority
of the people seem to be in favor OF
Tolstoi. Moreover, many thought
that the division. Of the prize between
two persons was small business. The
people do not hesitate to abuse the
committee. Of awards and crack all
sorts of jokesSat its expense.
The coast of northern Norway was
visited by violent storms about the
tenth of December. At Narvik the
roofs Of many houses were damaged,
and windows were smashed. Many
boats in the harbor were broken. An
ore steamer Of 5000 tons was torn
loose from its moorings and dashed
against huge buoy, where it was
caught and thus saved from being
broken up into scrap iron. Four fish.
ermen were drowned near Tromso, land
one. at Flekkefjord. Snow and land
slides caused damage in many local
tiles in the interior of the country
At Farsund a saWmill was demol.
ished.
! The most popular story-writers in
Norway at the present time are Haug
land and Hamsun. It is a most I'M
teresting fact that they are both self
made men. All of the four great mas
tiers, Ibsen. Bjornson, Lie, and Kjel
land, had a classical training, and up
on their heels come two men who can
point to no alma mater but the uni
versal school Of life. But they car
handle their own language to perfec
ton, and their productions must be
read by scholar and layman alike
Even in literary pursuits the Norwe
gians seem to be emancipating them
selves from the time honored tutelage
of the great nations of history.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-01-12

The Right To Be Happy.

wegian's last word was that the
harder you pursued happiness the
worse trouble you would get inta.
That is the truer word. It is doabt-
full if anybody ever ran dow, md cap.
tured happiness, even in a 3ecrce
suit, with all the family peculiaritlss
published on the front page. Probably
a great many marriages fail In ihe
United States because the misguided
parties enter upon the contract With
the hallucination that they arc
fnalienably entitled to be happy-the
fact being that they are inalien~bly en-.
titled simply to pay the rent, soothe
the colicky infant and suffer mother.
in-law's Improbable conversation re
specting the duties of man-as though
you could give a note OF hand with
the mental reservation that YOU
needn't pay 1t unless doing so mads
you Joyous. Philosophy is a duhious
thing. There is always a sad anenca
that somebody will read it and th:as
it's 90 Saturday Evening Post
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-01-12

An elderly woman named Augusta
Johansson lived all alone in a house
on Olandsgatan. in the southern part
OF Stockholm. When the first snow
OF the season fell the neighbors won-
dered why there were no tracks lead
Ing to and from her house. One OF
them even made the remark that the
lady might be dying for all they knew.
But NO one looked into the matter
until a few days ago when a police.
man forced his way into the house,
and found that it's sole occupant had
been dead for months. Her body lay
on the floor, and its position indica-
ted that she had fallen down and in
jnred herself. so that she was un-
able to rise again.
A sick woman in Kristianstad re-
Gently made bad break. Her doc.
tor gave her prescription, and as
soon as the medicine was brought she
dumped it all into glass of water
and drank 1t at one gulp. Afterwards
1t was noticed that so many drops
should have been taken at such and
such intervals. Everybody was much
alarmed. and person hurried to the
drug store to find out the nature of
the prescription. The druggist con.
suited his pharmacopmia, and found
that the prescription was supposed to
contain seven maximum doses Of a
strong poison, that is. enough to kill
seven persons under ordinary circum.
stances. The messenger ran back
home as fast as he could. He was
greatly relieved to see the patient
still alive, and before announcing his
terrible information from the drug
store he asked. How do you feel,
anyway" to which the patient an
swered in a cheerful voice, Thank
you, feel much better"
The new car ferry line which has
been in operation since July 7th be.
tween Trelleborg, Sweden, and Sass.
nitz, Germany, bids fair to become a
general success, Those who planned
the line made careful estimates of
the traffic before the government
dared to embark on this enterprise.
Exact figures are available for the
first four months of the history of
the line, and the receipts from the
passenger traffic for that period ex-
ceeded the estimates by almost
$4,000. The figures for the freight
traffic are equally satisfactory. This
result is the more remarkable in view
of the fact that the period in CUES.
ton covered the great strike, which
had such a disastrous effect upon all
kinds Of business. The new line has
proved a strong stimulus to the Swed
ish export trade. OF hay, for in.
stance, from ten to twelve carloads
are exported every day, coming from
central Sweden and going far into nor
thern Germany. Those who planned
the line did not figure at all on this
export. Another unexpected item oil
export is stone from the vicinity OF
Kristianstad.