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The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-04-05
BLUFF
Of Stranger Was Not Called
And He Got The Money

Dante. Va, April ARMED with
two pistols. and masked, a stranger
broke up poker game participated
in by prominent coal men here last
night Laying his hat on the table,
the invader aid;"Gentlemen, aii I
want is your cash" Thanking them
for their donation, he melted into the
gloom with $500, officers are on his
trail.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-04-05

Mrs. Hattie Lauderbaugh of East
Chestnut street went to Akron, Friday
morning to attend the funeral of Mrs.
Orville Lauderbaugh, who died at her
home In Columbus Wednesday.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-04-05
And Profanity Becomes An
Experienced Luxury
A Yale Student And Brooklyn
Girl EIOpe
Free System OF Baths To Be
Established

New York, April For many years
Gotham has been in i'll repute through
out the country. BY those who pub
licly spoke about the great metropo-
lis on the Hudson and by those who
wrote books or articles upon the sub
ject, New York was always repre-
sented as a cesspool of iniquity, thor
oughly corrupt religiously, morally,
domestically, financially, politically
and every other way. Once upon a
time there may have been good rea-
tions must have changed great deal
since then. Now the city has a
reform mayor at the head of its gov
ernment, who even frowns upon po-
licemen who indulge in too vigorous
exercises with their clubs and who
was chosen at an election over which
Purity herself in the shape of a heroic
sized statue on Times Square presid-
ed. From time to time there have
btNll Ollltl w vi VthlNul lOS1Nll-
GRAFTON and reform in Gotham, but
all of them were insignificant compar-
ed with the latest proof. One of the
leaders of the select circles of socie-
ty has actually started Bible class
for women and, according to trust
worthy reports these meetings are pa
tronized by about fifty of the most
prominent society women of the city.
The leader of the movement has en-
gagged a minister to instruct the Bi
BILE class and to make things pleas
ant he has tea served to the members
of the class after meetings If that
does not convince the world that New
York has been slandered, nothing
will.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-04-05

Mr.. and Mrs. Barney Keys Of Cen
terburg are spending several days in
Sparta, the guests of their daughter,
Mrs. Clarence Ryan.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-04-05

Now that New York has become
family has become an expensive lux
ury. 1t costs more than coal, ice or
even beef. The other day some re-
for swearing on a subway train The
offender was arraigned in court and
upon the testimony of the reform ad-
between two stations and had become
sassy" when rebuked, he was fined
$40 which he paid without murmur.
That makes $3.50 a swear" a price
high enough to discourage the prac-
tlce.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-04-05

The newspapers contained the in
teresting bit of news the other day
that certain famous Hungarian ar
tist was now on his way to the Unit
ed States and that the principal OBJ.
ject of his visit to this country was
to paint Mr.. John d. Rockefeller, the
great Oil King. The articles did not
state what color the famous Hun
garian intends to paint Mr.. Rockefell-
er, but, in view of the pending Oil
Trust investigation it has been sug-
gested, that nice thick coat of white
would probably be most opportune
just now.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-04-05

The city intends to establish a sys-
TEN of free baths, patterned after the
free municipal baths maintained at
Revere Beach by the City of Boston,
in Coney Island. This should cause
rejoicing among the many thousands
who daily visit Coney during the bath
ing season to seek refreshment i'll the
brinY surf The owners of the resorts
along the Coney Island water front,
who monopolized the greater part of
the available bathing beach, charged
such eXorbitant prices for the use of
the bath houses and bathing beaches
that only wealthy persons could afford
dip. Fifty cents and even one dol
lar We're considered reasonable charg-
es by these highway robbers during
the busy season. Adding to this the
equally eXorbitant fare of ten cents
to and as much from Coney, brought
the cost of single surf bath to from
70 to $40
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-04-05

A propos Mr. Rockefeller it may be
interesting to learn that he has made
his debut in a new role recently. He
has tampered with Congress, with
legislatures and public officials all ov-
er the country, has corrupted rail
roads and many other public institu-
tions, has meddled with financial and
industrial corporations and has made
Wall Street dance to his music. Quite
recently, however, he has tried him
self in new role, by espousing the
cause of the village president of
North Tarrytown, n Y, who was can
didate for reelection at the recent
village election. The citizens did not
wish to re.elect the village president,
but Mr.. Rockefeller wanted him re-
elected for some reason or other and,
of course, reelected the man, by
making the hundreds of Italian labor
ers employed on his estate cast their
vote for his candidate. The citizens
of North Tarrytown evidently did not
know how futile it was to oppose Mr..
Rockefeller when he has once set his
mind upon a certain matter.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-04-05

mitteu her guilt and explained that
she had used the crepe to make for
herself automobile wells after the lat
est fashion. The fact that the wo'
man is extremely poor and has not
even a faint prospect of ever riding
in an automobile, did not seem to dis
turb her or abate her insane craving
for the useless finery.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-04-05
PEOPLES PULPIT.
THE NECESSITY FOR
THE. MILLENNIUM.

Times OF refreshing shall come from the
presence Of the Lord, and he shall send
Jesus Christ. which before was preached unto
you: whom the heavens must retain until the
times Of restitution Of all things. which God
hath spoken by the mouth Of all his holy
prophets since the world began. Acts III,
1921.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-04-05

Mr.. William Buckmaster of Sparta
spent Thursday in Mt. Gilead attend
ing to some matters of business.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-04-05

A young Yale student, the son of a
prominent business man in Brooklyn,
slipped away to Saugatuck, Conn, the
other day and was married to his
best girl by the town clerk. OF course,
the young man and the girl wished
the marriage to remain a profound
secret, at least for some time to come.
Their dismay was great, therefore,
when they found an account of their
marriage in every newspaper publish
ed in the East, At first they could not
understand how the matter had leak
ed out, but upon inquiry the young
man ascertained that the premature
publication of his marriage was due
to his own lack of circumspection.
When the town clerk informed him
that u witness had to be present at
the ceremony, the groom had picked
up the first stranger he met in the
corridor of the Saugatuck city hall.
AS 1t happened the man selected was
a reporter and newspaper corresponds
ent, The stranger, naturally, gave
no hint of his profession and, inn
mediately after the wedding made the
wires hum sending out an account of
the wedding, names and all, to every
newspaper within a radius of three
hundred miles,
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-05-05
It was right funny.

The newspapers began to publish inter
views with that remarkable man, Harvie j.,
In which he discoursed fuently on the manner
in which he had taken upon his manly shout
ders the burdens and the Affections of the
Farmer According to Harvie j., he had
spent the greater part of his life and practi-
cally all Of his Filthy, to prevent the Wolves
and the Sharks, the Lions and the Tigers
from devouring our Uncle Potiphar Pea
green.
Of course, Harvie j. was too smart to come
out In so many words, and claim that our
rural relative should rise up in all his ma
jesty and straightway send Harvie j. to Con
gress; but that was an inference which even
a feeble sick man could easily draw from
those Simultaneous Interviews.
AS | remarked at the outset, it was very
funny. And the humor of the thing smote
others, as we'll as Yours Truly. Various peo-
pie clipped said Interviews and transmitted
the same to me, via y. Samuel's mail pouches.
Being under heavy bond, as we'll as moral
obligations to keep the peace, [ couldn't do
thing, excepting to write a harmless little
editorial In this paper, venturing the ff-hand
opinion that, if Harvie j. qOouzd captain to
the public h0w he and r. Cheateno had 6Zoaom
IN taco or three hundred thousand dollars,
running q qceekZy Cotton Journal four gears,
it would be more interesting than the some
what prosaic articles which he, Harvie j.,
had begun to publish in the Macon Teze-
graph.
Now, leave it to you-was there anything
resembling a breach of my peace bond, in
that?
AS literary and editorial character, am
I not entitled to an opinion? This is land
of liberty, isn't itg Is a free-born American
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-05-05
More Democratic DeseYfeYs. All
-Four From the South!

When the Cummins amendment to the
Taft railroad bill was voted on in the Sen
ate, last week, four Democratic members. qoh0
Should haze been present, or paired IN favor
OF that amendment, WE'RE ABSENT AND
IMPAIRED!
The votes which should have been cast,
either In person or by pairing with some Re
publican who favored railroad mergers and
monopolles, were lost to the cause of the peo-
pie. In other words, the Republicans and
the corporations got the benefit of these DEM
ocratic votes.
Who were these deserters from the field of
battle! What four Democratic Senators be-
trayed their people, in that shameful way?
BANKHEAD, Of Alabama, WAS ONE.
This old man, a0hose record en- Coqqress
smells to HeGveqa! was first sent there as an
Alliance man-a Farmers AzZiance man.
just as the vile Lon Livingston was. The
corporations haze 0aoaed him, for gears. I
hope that every Alabama reader of this pa
per will write to that base deserter, and give
him reminder that the people are beginning
to talk 'rottea eggs'', and star and feothers".
Unless something is done to make such men
as Bankhead, and Pussy-foot Howard
AFRAID TO Sez1-0ut to the Republicans and
the corporations, they a0iW cease to prostitute
Themselves
But there were three others, besides Bank
head. These were Senators CLARKE. of
Arkansas; McE.NERY, Of Louisiana; and
SMITH, of Maryland.
Shoot a few hundred cards, letters and
night messages at all these deserters.
Threaten them a0ith popular qorath, and
DON'T MINCE YOUR WORDS!
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-05-05
5be Jeffersonian

to be debarred from the unfettered express
sion OF an opinion as to what will interest the
reading public?
Hoots Toots! What would life be worth,
1t we couldn't exercise our taste and Judge
ment in such matters?
But my modest expression of opinion pro-
voked an awful roar, down at Monticello,
aohere Har05e's mother oa0ns a little farm.
From the Noise that he Immediately made
in the daily apers-Virtuous, Uproarious
Noise! you'd have thought that Harvie j.
was going to rush into damage suits and
criminal prosecutions with expedition and
ferocity.
Yet, everything is serene Second thoughts
appear to have sobered him to a state of in
tense sobriety. Possibly he has refreshed his
memory. May be he recalls how much of the
Farmers money he has fingered. Doubtless,
the Cotton Journal Publishing Company
one as PRESIDENT and one as Editor in Chief
-totalling about $4,000 per annum.
He may not have forgotten that he did not
resign from the Directorate until July of last
gear! And [ feel sure that he would like
very much to have possession of the letter
which he autographed to r. Cheatem from
the Imperial Hotel, of New York City, last
April.
Oh, yes indeed! Harvie J. knew all about
the inside doings of the Cotton Journal Pub
fishing Company. Birds Of a feather, you
know.
And to think that Harvie j. had the cheek
to talk about the time and money that he had
spent on the Farmer
Was laying pipe to go to Congress!
Well, Old Man Peepul and | will see to it
that he never farms the farmer any more.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-05-05
Emoch Giles and the Assault On
His Record

The u. Samuel mails fetch me the follow
ing:
Dear Tom:-Read the enclosed. Congress
Edwards is my friend. He is clean young
man. You will from the enclosed that the
running against him has some record him
self If you do what you propose, why don't you
air the other fellows soiled garments some?
Giles the most rabid against you and
Pops when things were warm in Tattnall
sounty. I take your paper and read it, but GER
tainly think you do wrong in not showing up
both, if you show either. This is not for publica-
tion but is in confidence, and is sent in the same
loving spirit in which I hold you. I would vote
for you for anything in the world but you can't
ram "soiled dove like Giles down
yours for fair play, POP"
All right, my anonymous friend, you shall
get all the fair play you can reasonably ex-
pect.
You are probably mot Pop. Be that as it
may, the Clerks certificate, which you en-
closed, doesn't rattle me in the least.
You convince me that Enoch Giles, ta0ezve
or more gears ago, (when a young, unmar-
ried man, qualified himself to have belong
ed to that crowd which scattered, when
Christ said "Let him who is without fault
cast the first stone", at the woman taken in
the act.
Who are you, a1,y qooy, Pop?" Were you
ever young man? Did you never sow any
wild oats? Have you any right to be stab
bing Enoch Giles in the back?
# you ARE a Pop, I'm ashamed of you.
The Judge who tried the case considered it
so trivial, that he only put q fine Of S75. on
EmOch, with an alternative of 80 days in Jail.
If all the men of the first district who,
when boys or youths, did the same thing that
Enoch got caught at, he will have votes to
burn, Edwards won't be in it, at all.
Rv thn wav 7 wonder If Edwards navor
but here's where | tumble off.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-12-22
NEW SAWS BADLY NEEDED
The OId-Fashioned Ones Somehow
Don't Seem to Fit Into Mod
ern Situations.

"You know all the copybook, Nc
Guffey's reader line of talk about Ia
king the advice of ones elders?" be-
gan the sad-eyed, understood little
man on the car. Sure you do. Now
let me tell you something. See that
big apartment house over there on
the right? And that little business
block right next tC it?
well, there weren't any apartment
houses or business blocks on it when
l first clapped eyes on it. 1t was a
bowling wilderness, in fact, and you
could almost chase rabbits up here.
That was about eighteen years ago.
I had a bunch then-and / was only
eighteen years old at that time-that
this land would some day jump in
value by leaps and bounds. When
was twenty years old l came into a
bunch Of 900. l went to my guar
dian, an old man, pretty prominent
in estate management and wisdom at
that time, and / told him I wanted to
soak the whole SIS 900 in this block
of ground l pointed out to you. The
block was then on the market for
exactly $4,000. The old gentleman
pooh-poohed me.
go away, boy he said to me, with
a patronizing smile. You don't know
what you want. It's my duty to save
you from such wild notions as this
one you've got into your head. They'll
be shooting rabbits and squirrels out
there on that plot so years from now.
G'Way.'
81 argued it with him, and he sat
down on me. Then he went and in
vested my $4,000 at three per cent.
Three years ago the man who
bought that same block Of ground for
$751; sold it for about 100000 cash,
and he's now cruising over in the
Mediterranean or some place or
other, while I'm taking my wife out
for nickel car rides and wondering
where my SIS, 900 went.
There's got to be a new set of
wise saws invented for twentieth cen
fury consumption. The McGuffey's
reader kind are moth eaten"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-12-22
An Alaskan Luncheon.

Runners of woven Indian baSketry,
with white drawnwork doilies at each
of the II covers, were used on an oval
mahogany table. The doilies were
made at Sitka. In the middle of the
table a mirror held tall central vase
of frosted glass, surrounded by four
smaller vases, all filed with white
spring blossoms. The edge of the
mirror was banked with the same
flowers. Four totem poles were placed
on doilies in the angles made by the
runners.
Place cards were water co1ors of
Alaskan scenery. Abalone shells held
sailed nuts, and tiny Indian baskets
held bonbons. The soup spoons were
Of horn, several of the dishes used
were made by Alaskan Indians, and
the cakes we're served on baskets.
The menu was as follows: Poisson
a la Boring Sea (halibut chowder),
Yukon climbers (broiled salmon, po-
tatoes Julienne), snowbirds avec
auroraborealis (roast duck with jelly,
Shungnak river turnips, Tanana
beets, Skagway hash (salad), Fair
banks nuggets (ripe strawberries ar
ranged on individual dishes around
central mound of powdered sugar.,
arctic slices (brick ice cream, Circle
City delights (small cakes), KIondike
nuggets yellow cheese in round balls
on crackers), Nome f1rewater Coffee.
-Woman's Home Companion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-12-22
French Official Etiuuef,

The wives of the new French minis
tiers share in the honors conferred on
their husbands, the degree of defer
ence due to them being infinitely es-
tablished by the ''protoco1e." When
the wife of minister enters a room,
if any deputies or senator's wives are
present, they are supposed to rise
and remain standing until she is seat
ed. Other ministers wives may rest
in their chairs, but should the prime
minister's wife arise they also must
stand to attention. And even Nine.
BRAND (if there were such a PERSON.,
would have to show similar Difference
to the wife of the president of the
chamber With her, according to the
protocole, "e'est la representation ma
tionale qui entire, lie suffrage univer-
sci la France. "-London Chronicle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-12-22
Danced With Queen Victoria

ing, and before I had been in London
long I was told on all sides by her
admiring subjects that she was espe-
cfalIy graceful in the square or coun-
try dances something rather difficult
for a woman so short and stout,
We'll, there was to be a great court
ball, an especially brilliant function.
It was generally known that the queen
intended to take part in some of the
dances, and so, when I was command
ed. as they have it over there, to at
tend this court ball, was very happy.
Today, even, I can hold my own in
the Virginia reel or in the lancers,
but in those days it was said Of me
that I was an exceptionally graceful
dancer. Whether that was true or
not, I don't know, but l do know that
my pleasure in dancing made me most
impatient for the night Of the great
court ball to arrive.
How carefully I dressed for the
event,-and in those days, sir, l prid-
ed myself on dressing with scrupulous
neatness md care, and it was said
Of me that I was the best dressed at
tache in London. How eagerly 1
watched the queen dance, to discover
for myself that her reputation as an
exceedingly graceful dancer was not
a whit exaggerated. And then, sud
denly, in an intermission, how sur
prised and supremely happy was
made when I was informed that the
queen herself had commanded me to
dance with her in the next square
dance. And as I went forward to
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-12-22
Too Ardent a Lover,

Georgotto F'ontano, an embroiderer
who lives in the Rue Sevres in Paris,
has found herself condemned to a
months imprisonment for what seems
to her a harmless act.
She was going home from a concert
few evenings ago when she decided
she would like to see her fiance AS
he happens to be a fireman whose
station is in her own neighborhood it
occurred to her it would be very easy
to summon him to her side by break
ing the glass of the fire alarm and
sounding call.
She did so anr in a few moments
fire engines came from several direc-
tons, all laden with fremen, of course,
but alasi her fance was not among
them, and more than that all the fire
men were angry, and before she knew
what had happened she was taken to
a magistrate, who proceeded to make
the course of true love run unsmoothly
by sending her to prison for a month
in spite of her tears and protests that
she thought it would be a simple way
of bringing her fiance to her side.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-12-22
James D. Laying, Who Was Present
at the Famous Interview, Assert
ed Vanderbilt Didn't Use the
Oft-Quoted Phrase.

Every once in a while, when the
question of the relations of the cor
porations to the public is under dis
cussion, some one rises and retells
the story in which William H Wander
bilt, successor of his father, the Com
modore, was made to say, "Oh, the
public be damned" And playing up
on this alleged saying of a prominent
public utility man of his day-per-
haps the most famous of his time
one of the public utility corporations
of New York city and New Jersey
has taken for its motto, The public
be pleased" Yet, according to the
story once told me by a fellow trav-
eler of Mr.. Vanderbilt at the very
time when he was said to have con-
signed the public to the realms of the
damned, no such remark, or anything
lsale it, was made either by Mr.. Van
derbilt or by any other member of
the party. My informant was the late
James d. Laying, for many years a
leading railroad operator in the Mid
die West holding high positions with
the Big Four system, of which he
was vice-president, the Pennsylvania
lines west of Pittsburg, and other
prominent railway corporations. Here
is Mr.. Layng's version of the incident,
now told for the first time in print
Some eight years after the death
of the commodore, his father. Viii
liam H. Vanderbilt and few railroad
men who were associated with him
I was among the number-went'o on an
inspection trip of some of the Van
derbilt lines west of Chicago. At that
time the people of Illinois, and espe-
cialIy of Chicago, were greatly inter
ested in certain railroad matters in
which the Vanderbilts had a hand,
and when it was announced through
tho regular newspaper channels that
Mr.. Vanderbilt, with party Of
friends. was on his way from New
York to Chicago, where he expected
to stop a few days before making a
tour Of inspection over the Chicago
& Northwestern railway, at least one
OF Chicago's newspapers conceived
the idea of intercepting Mr.. Wander
bilt for an interview somewhere along
the route. remember perfectly well
that a reporter boarded our train
when we were still perhaps two hours
out Of Chicago and sent in the card
to Mr.. Vanderbilt.
TN see him. said Mr.. Vanderbilt,
and in a few moments the young man
was occupied chiefly in asking Mr..
Vanderbilt questions relating to the
railroad matters which happened to
be interesting Chicago most at the
moment. Mr.. Vanderbilt talked more
freely than I had ever known him to