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The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-12-30
Entertained

Entertained
Sunday School Glass
Miss Charlotte Jackson of East
Hamtramck street entertained her
Sunday school class on Wednesday
evening.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-12-30

On Thursday, the Plaza team will
roll a series of three games with
picked team from the Y. M. G. A.
and will roll on the Plaza alleys.
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of East Water street.
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lIrday Evening Post. It goes on to nar- rate that John P. Jones, pioneer pluto cIat in the United States Senate from the wild and woolly west, besought the re- publican leaders in 1880 to nominate either Grant or Blaine at Chicago. He was a third-termer, intimate with Conkling and friendly to Blaine. He succeeded James " Wye as a senator from Nevada, and The first anybody ever heard of him was c0uched in the answer Nye made to Dom Piatts question, 'Nye, are you a candi- date for reelection to the Senate?" That answer was, "Lor' man, the fellow who wants my seat has got $10,000,000r'
 That man was Jones and he got the seat all right. That reminds-Nye and old Daddy Stewart got to the Senate in 1864 he cause the G. O. P. needed two votes to pass the thirteenth amendment, and so ike mining camp of Nevada was made a state that was admitted to the union by q telegraph message, and Wye and Stew art became senators.
 Jones was in the Senate five full terms. iJe was one of those tremendous fellows who are pertinaciously heralded as great men, but are never caught with the goods un Session after session it was promised that Jones would commit parliamentary arson and set the Potomac afire, but he always restrained himself, perhaps for the reason that our grand and beautiful old Tiber is not inflammable to the touch of such torches as light the intellectuals of such statesmen as the Hon. James O., their name is legion. Congress is full of
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ing and yivacious companionship, Sena- tor Jones was one of the few men who could face MT. Conkling on equal tems. He was his peer as a senator he was his match in repartee he had neither the timidity that shrinks nor the homage
 that is blind; he could meet prejudice with persuasion, unreason with ridicule,
 and imperiousness with unabashed cour-
 age and consuming disdain. All in all he bad the position and the attributes that made him both the devoted friend and the wholesome check of the great New York senator"
 That is all news to me. Most folks looked upon Jones as a very rich man with a penchant for politics. It was said that he was very liberal and could give
 as good a dinner as Delmonico could cook; but as to rating him with Conkling as d senator! Bosh! Absurd!
 | Now MT. Smiths narrative has 1t that Jones sought to make amity between | the Grant camp and the Blaine camp for months before the convention met, and that he ''ingeniously and steadily pressed'' his idea on Conkling.
 | I was here that winter and it was my fortunte to have more or less intimate personal relations with one of the Grant chieftains, who was good enough to overestimate what he called a kindness I had done him. He was in the innermost councils of the third-termers and talked to me with great frankness about the approaching struggle. He was a man of
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but since the introduction of steam power and motor boats, competition had been such that he had been forced out of the business and compelled to get a job on a street car. His dog. Cerberus the First, the one with the three heads, you remember, died, he told me, of starvation, due to the re- cent advances in the price of meat by the Meat Trust. The Meat Trust, it seems, has branches on both sides of the grave which seems to me to be the proper thing seeing how much it has done to depopulate one section and get his other name-is now quite alone and the other passengers for company. He gave me instructions for getting from the station up to Helicon Terrace where the nine Muses have always lived, even before the place became popular as suburban residential dis trict. I forgot to state earlier that I was going to interview Miss Terpsi- chore Muse on the subject of the present revival of classical dancing in this country and abroad. The winged horse. Pegasus usually meets incoming trains with a surrey and driver rep resenting the Mount Olympus Livery
 company, but Pegasus had been sent this Gay 10 the blacksmith's to have his tips trimmed aud the taxis were all engaged and so had to walk up to the house.
 Modern civilization has produced no
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But I do not understand" said Miss observations of dancing as practiced among my modern disciples, almost any thing would be an improvement upon it. I have seen pictures of you solemnly gi- rating in couples about the waxed and polished floors of overheated bathrooms, your women locked fast ill steel-boned corselets that cramped their bodies and fettered their movements, with the upper parts of their trunks barred to the gaze of the curious; your men all attired ex- actly alike in melancholy mourning garb of dead black and cold white; your fu- neral habiliments fluttering as you spin
 Your eyes staring fxedly over the tops of stiff linen collars, your poor swollen, suffering feet stuffed into stiff and un- yielding cases of vanished calfskins. have been told that the modern man never wears such an expression of intense agony upon his face as when he mingles in the mystic mazes of the dreamy waltz and, as he would say, trips, or as I would say, tubs the light fantastic toe. You some- times call these orgies hops, and that you do well to call them so, is the judgment of Terpsichore Gyndolin Muse.
 And I have been told further that in the frequent intervals between these lachrymose exercises you drink heavily of a flat and tepid mixture called punch, which cheers, not, neither does it ine- briate, but instead lies sad and heavy on the stomach. And that betimes you sit in pairs at open windows where chilly
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blasts may smite you to your very yitals, exchanging such parroted commonplaces as You certainly do make lovely part ner, MT. Casover,' and I assure you it is pleasure to guide a young lady as light on her feet as you, Miss Fudge; really I feel as if I could waltz on for ever with you; or else one says Isn't the music perfectly divine tonight?' to which the customary and expected reply of the other is, Oh, yes indeed, abso- lutely divine, divner if anything than it was last cotillon, do you not think so, dear Mrs. Gushon?' thereafter fall- ing back upon those conversational sub jects, the weather of the past week and the moral lapses of others present.
 "Now on the other hand consider the dances in which we of the ancient days, gods and mortals alike, found joy and beauty-the bare, unfettered rosy limbs afiash in the dews of the morning, the free graceful figures of the youths and maidens, the ordered stately movements of the ceremonial march, the joyous songs of the multitudesi Surely, even such as this good Saint Comstock of whom you tell me, can see nothing that is wrong or evil in the human form? Surely it can still be said of you, as was said of your forbears long ages gone, that to the pure all things are pure?"
 Miss Terpy," I said, as I reached for my hat, it hurts me to tell you; but the Comstock School of Purity has altered things since your time, and the saying has been amended: To the pure all things are putrid"
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extraordinary force, a superb executive, and had been a stout and daring soldier in the big war Such was George R. Davis, subsequently, director-general of the Columbia exposition at the worlds fair Chicago, in 1893.
 In our conversations Davis sometimes mentioned Jones, but always as an out and-out Grant man, and such he was everywhere regarded. If he was in the convention as a delegate, I'll bet he was a "3O6-er" There was the intensest hostility existing between the two camps of Grant and Blaine all winter and spring and no effort to reconcile them leaked out. as it certainly would, had it been made or seriously contemplated.
 It is true, as Mir. Smith says. that old Uncle Blair of New Hampshire sough Blaine and doubtless he states it cor rectly. The Hon. Blair, yet living, by the way, in this very town, is the Sen ator from New Hampshire who sought by means of the old flag and an appro- priation to bribe tho south into surren- dering control of it's common schools to the federal government, for that is what tn Blair educational bill was, and all it was. And I as a KentuclSian take pride in the fact that that piece vf con solidation was knocked in the head by James E. Beck and John G. Carlisle both from Kentucky one a Senator and the other a Representative.
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CONKLING AND BLAINE-No. By Savoyard

Old Daddy Blair's speech on his bill was the most volum.nous ever mace ir
 the world. During it's delivery of a
 month John Cockri,l said of it in d
 newspaper paragraph that the way to
 stop the flood then raging in the Mis-
 sissippi was to employ old Blair s speech, that it was long enough to reach from Pittsburg to New Orleans and dry enough to cbsorb all the sur plus water in the entire Mississippi val ley.
 Well, the story is that Uncle Blair went to Blaine in the spring of 1880 and said: You know, MT. Blaine, that am your devoted friend; I shall do all I can to secure your nomination; but 1t is the part of prudent men to provide an all ternative course, ard if it shall be
 found impossible to nominate you, wha-
 do you want your friends to do?" To
 which the story is that Blaine in'imated they could do as they pleased. Then Blair said: Well, for one, I want 2 positive man; I don't want milk and water candidates I am opposed to Grant | on principle, because I don't believe in a third term. Now. if you caL't be | nominated, what do you say to Conk- | ling?"
 MT. Smith says this was a startling proposition to MT. Biaine." But after a moments reflection he answered: 'Yes,
 MT. Conkling is a strong man, and New York is q great and necessary state We must have New York, and Conkling
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ciety amateurs at the Waldorf included
 at least one bare-footed selling platter
 with a fillet around her hair and not much else of note on, going through all the intricate steps of the choral dance up to about the first two steps and half.
 And told her how in the earlier days the only dances we had in this country were the round dance, the square dance and the March of the Amazons in the Bloc. Crook, and after the Chicago
 Worlds fair, the hoochie-cooche; and that those were positively all unless you wanted to include the green corn dance of the SiouXs, occurring in the harvest season and the soft corn dance of the whites dating from the toothpick era in patent feathers; but that now we had the Classic Greek and the Ancient Egyptian and the Mystic Hindoo and the Old Red Sandstone Dance; and sandalled Greek dancers parading Broadway in flowing draperies with their feet on the half shell and their pinky-winlly toes exposed to the climate and being arrested withal be- cause it was all; and Miss Gertrude Hoff- man doing Ostermoor Springs Song in a costume Just economical enough to draw tho public and not 30 saving as to give Anthony Comstock a chance to jump in and make trouble hence causing Anthony to leap mady from precipice to precipice uttering hoarse shrieks of impotent rage I meant ATendelssohn's Spring Song of course 1t being only my own little joke based on the way the lady dressed; but Miss Terpsichore never saw the point, l
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assassin, but this I question as l have frequently seen the Emperor on horse back pass at a walk down the Inter den Linden far in advance of his at tendants and saluting with composnre his subjects right and left.
 About the only aristocrata in every sense of the term among the rulers of Europe is Francis Joseph, emperor of Austria and though he has more than once passed under the rod and drained his cup of Marah to the dregs diversity has failed to subdue his naughty spirit. He never shakes hands with an inferior and eXacts to the very letter all the homage which his position demands. His numerous shooting boxes and hunting lodges scat tered throughout Austria, Hungary and the Tyrol are absolutely isolated from the public and are regarded by the popu- lace with spirit amounting to reveren- tial awe.
 To be sure when state occasion de- mands it the royal functions of these monarchs are fringed with all the rigid ty and sumptuousness that etiquette may reauire but it is the habit and custom of the royal individuals indulgence when left to his own will and volition that marks the democratic heart beating be-
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father and predecessor, the late Christian K, whom the writer has often seen shop ping in the streets of Copenhagen with a package of purchases under his arm. The royal equipage of Denmark is a most ordinary looking affair and fails to compare in it's trappings with many of the handsome turnouts of which Bir- mingham could boast, at least prior to the advent of the automobile. The livery is a dull red, innocent of any bizzare or namentation, and single footman is perched beside the coachman who navi- gates the rumbling coach containing his royal master.
 A close second to this simplicity is found at the court of Sweden, where Gustaf V has not varied an iota in the court reg ulations of the deceased Oscar IT. In some unaccountable manner the sover- eigns of Sweden have manifested, an ex- treme fondness for American diplomats for the last half century, and it is said that this partiality has been so marked as to arouse the jealousy and excite the comment of European representatives. Os- car II was "every inch king. but he was likewise true man flor all of that" Illustrative of this noble trait it is re- corded that having entertained at a state
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can carry it; yes, nominate corkiing if you think best.'
 Now, I have not the slightest doubt that such an interview and such a con versation occurred. It was a passage between Lawyer Pleyden and Dominic Sampson, as related by Sir Walter Scott in Guy Mannering." Blaine knew that Conkling would go to the stake sooner than represent Grant iE con- vention and take tie nomination him self. Blaine knew that Conkling would have died sooner than take the nomina- ton at his hands as his gift. f'ath CT Blair could not understand these philos- ophies. He was a plain, blunt, honest, patriotic man. Blame was schemer from crown to heel.
 Then MT. Smith tells of a conversa- tion between Postmaster James If New York city and Conkhng, the last day of the balloting, and the intimatlon is that Conkling had made up his mind to nom- mate Blaine and how Jones of Nevada said: Now is your chance!" and what not
 Conkling would have nominated the eternal old horned devil himself sooner than his enemy from Maine.
 I sat down to tell a story of Conklins and Blaine that has never been in print. It is u prosperous anecdote and true characteristic of both men. But I am too lazy now; besides, this letter is al- ready too long. Later on.
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family of young ladies that I can think of as worthy to be included in the same class with the Grecian Muses unless it is the Seven Sutherland sisters, and there were only seven of them; whereas there are nine Misses Muses, one more than enough to make a pony balletfi and they present a splendid ap- pearance when you first meet them, all in graceful draperies with their hair flow ing free like the pictures of the ladies who pose for the dandruif cure ads. Miss Terpsiehore was in and asKed me to ex- cuse the appearance of the place, as she said she and the girls were right in the midst of house cleaning. She appeared glad to see me and said she was passion ately fond of animals, which I take 1t was a compliment for my overcoat; If not, there was no compliment to anyone and that's all l have to say.
 First I had to tell her how the classic dancing cult had grown in New York and also in England. l told her how Lady Constance Stewart Richardson and Isa- tiore Duncan on the other side and Maud Allan and Ruth St. Denis and the rest of them on this side had spread the fad how no vaudeville show was regarded as complete any more without dance by a young woman who looked as if she had been awakened about 2:30 a. m. by the flames bursting through the roof to find the Eraye fireman waiting at the win dow to take her down a ladder, and had come away dressed just as she was how every charity entertainment given by so-
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A MAJORITY of Americans, especial "A ly those who have never visited < A Europe, are prone to exaggerate the-a'divinity that doth hedge a king about" and attribute to royalty a degree of solemnity and statelness which is far from being it's chief attribute.
 Most of these ideas are obtained from the perusal of semi-historical works of fiction treating of court episodes and penned by many who were never present sI court function.
 The fact is that the state receptions given by the President of the United States compare most favorably in dig nhy and etiquette with the most elabor- ate drawing rooms' and court functions of foreign pOtentates.
 The respective monarchs of Europe are much more democratic in their senti- ments and manners than we are aware of, and this spirit of democracy and free dom of action varies in the divers gov ernments which dot the map of the con tinent.
 The most simple and democratic crowned head in all Europe is the mon arch of Denmark, where Frederick VIII closely follows in the footsteps of his
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and though the bystanders and the heads of the ward urged all sorts of reasons why they should agree, the two dispu- tants argued more and more obstinate y and would not listen.
 It was impossible to leave the matter in this condition, and both sides appealed to the mayors office. My Lord Ooka was then mayor, and having heard the facts he exclaimed: ''Well, welll It is curious case" Then hastily calling for the two men. "Chojuro." he said, you are a wonderfully kind man. Saburohei! Why won't you take the money?" Saburohei answered respectfully, 'I reply respect tully with trembling. The money would not stick to me. The fact of Chojuro picking it up was what is called heav- ens giving it to him. I have no intention o1 taking it, especially considering that he set aside his business for four or five days and searched for nie as he walked about. If I took 1t he would have picked up money and lost by the transaction"
 "Of course," answered Lord Ooka, lon both sides it is just contention. I will send for you again bye and bye''
 The litigants then left the court, but were summoned again after three or four lays. The mayor addressed them as fol- lows.
 AS for you two. the honesty of the one who picked up the lost money and put aside his own business to seek the owner and deliver it, and the f1rmness of the other in regarding the money as the find er's property. refusing also to take the money he had lost, insisting on it, and even quarreling-this Is being upright to excess. Long have been judge here, but such a suit as this has never before oc- cured. cannot contain myself for joy.
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, constant customer in the neighborhoo pod of Izumi Bridge, and borrowing three dollars of money he wrapped them up in c letter that was in his pocketb ook.
 But when he had hastened home and As 1t was not to be found, though he was greatly surprised and search ed everywhere, he resigned himself to the loss saying, AS the God of Poverty sticks so close to me, there is evil
 dently nothing for me but work" With these words he devoted himself early and late to his business.
 uBt man named Chojuro, the screenmaker of Kodemma street, was going on business to Shamisen- Bori and on his way back at Yanagiwara he
 saw something wrapped up in a scrap of paper. Picking it up and muttering "What can it be-" he found three pieces of gold.
 Now Chojuro was a man of great kindness and he said to himself: "The owner must surely be troubled at hav- ing lost money to the extent of three
 dollars in December, at the end of the
 year." Looking attentively, he dis
 covered that the paper was letter addressed to "M. Saburohei the mat
 maker" and concluded that the money
 must be his. Though 1t was a sea-
 son when he himself was also busy, lie forthwith devoted himself to in-
 Quiries wherever he could find a sh op
 sign reading "Matmaker." As day by
 day, fully dressed in brooches and san-
 dals. he went forth on this quest, the
 neigh bors as we'll as his own house. hold passed remarks, saying When
 man picks up money 1t ought to benefit him, whereas your laying aside your own work every day, incurrins
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down and the carriage hasn't come yet.
 Divers pressing invitations come from
 for me to go and preach. "Why don't you go again, MT. H.?' said an enthusiastic young lady friend from the place. 'The people were carried away with your preaching when you were there before l went preached some three sermons. had large congregations, and after paying travelling expenses and los- ing some two or three days from my own regular work. found myself in pocket the fee simple of 40 cents in clean cash Didn't think the people were carried away very far If a trip costs me SlO and the services are interrupted (greatly against my will and without notice to me beforehand), by q collection ''to pay Brother HIS expenses" said collection amounting to $5, I would rather pay $lO than go through with another such col lection, and I'm not enthusiastic after wards
 Now, there are good. honest, pious, sensible people at all the places from which these invitations came. If any one of them wanted a lawyer to do two or three days work for him he would expect to pay for it. But it seems to be understood by sort of general tacit consent that a preachers time is not a
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out of place here. At a private supper the then Prince of Wales essayed to wash the face of Mrs. Langtry, the Jersey Lily, with a wine of rare bouquet. In retalia- tion. however the beautiful actress adroitly slipped piece of ice down the princes back, after which it is said that Edward was quite "cool
 Moving unpretentiously among his loved and loving subjects may be seen most any day Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, Close to the Piazza del Popolo at Rome is the famous Pineian hill from which is to be obtained a most mag nincent view of the city. This eminence known as the hill of gardens" was always a favorite spot with the Ro- mans.
 Here were once the famous gardens of Lucullus, in which Messalina, the wife of Claudius. afterward celebrated her orgies, and here today, especially in the afternoons the nobility resort with their equipages. Under the eo shade of a long avenue of majestic trees the carriages are brought to a stand and are discarded by their oc- cupants who spend an hour or so vis- iting one another and awaiting the pas sage of their sovereign.