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The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-09-26
Birthday Party
For Little Folks.


Little Miss Eloise Scott entertained
at her home, No. 11S North McKen-
zie street, Saturday afternoon, from
@ until 5, in honor of her sixth birth
day anniversary. The little hostess
was assisted by the little Misses Mar
tina Willemin and Helen Lorey. After
a happy afternoon, devoted to childish
games, the merry little guests were in
vited to the dining room, the table be-
ing beautifully decorated with pink
and white asters and ribbons, and half
hidden in bank of foliage and flow
ers, twinkled the six pink candles.
While the little guests counted six,
the small hostess blew out pink can
dies, after which the wee tots de-
parted, each one wishing her many
happy birthdays and taking with them
tiny basket filled with candy as SOU
venirs of the happy occasion. Those
present We're Harriet Cleveland Fair
child, Marcella Cooksey, Eleanor Dor
gan, Gwendolin Singrey, Elinor Lorey,
Louise Atwood Virginia Gamble, Ma
rion Clements, Louise Paige, GaneIl
Cook, Vivian Davis, Helen Breeze,
Margaret Synder.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-09-26
Artificial Teeth.

Artificial teeth were used in the first
century, Martialis then referring to
them thus: "You use without blush
false teeth and hair; but Laella. your
squint is past repair"
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q r n r. i. r. r r 4. 'a q n +
OBITUARY :
The c. r. GarIinaer Funeral

Tho remains of c. F. GaIlinger, who
unfortunately met death on the rail
road at Hunts Station several days
ago, were taken to the late home in
Baltimore, Nd, Sunday morning for
the funeral and interment.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-09-26
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Family
Reunion

Reunion
The children of Mr.. and Mrs. L. B.
Alderman of Fredericktown gave their
parents surprise Sunday, when they
assembled at the old home in COM
memoration of the fortieth wedding
anniversary of Mr.. and Mrs. Ackerman
and enjoyed dinner together. The
children present were Mr.. w. A. Ack-
erman of Mt. Vernon, Harold Acker-
man of Columbus, DR.. E. ", Ackerman,
Charles Ackerman and Mrs. J. McKin-
ney of Fredericktown and Mrs. J. X.
Heskett of near Marengo
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-09-26
chaIkina the Door.

In Scotland landlord gives his ten
ant notice TO vacate the premises by
"chalking the door" 1t is done by a
"burgh officer upon the verbal au-
ihority Of the house owner.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-09-26
Anelent Medical Schools.

Medical schools fourished at Bag
dad and Salerno In ZOO.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-09-26
HoxInq Matches.

Boxing matches were instituted in
6SS q. @.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-09-26

Charlotte Russo.
Delicious charlotte russo first became
n dessert in 1880.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-09-26

Cotton and Thread.
One pound of cotton has yielded as
much as Alto miles of thread.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-12
A Long Walk.

A LLAN A. RYAN. the president of the
Aero Club of America, said at a re-
cent aeronaut banquet in New York:
There's a chap in France who is get
ting remarkable results out OF a study of
the flight of the large soaring birds, the
eagle, condor and vulture. He tames these
huge creatures. They walk at his side
like dogs. condor Of his at the Pau
aerodrome narrowly escaped being run
over by an automobile last month
There is always something funny
about walking birds. You will remember
that windy winter day when the blasts
were SO wild and strong that the crows
all had to walk home. Can't YOU see
those crows, black and grave, trudging
sturdily homeward along the windsWept
and snowy road?
Il heard the other day about a man
who bet pigeon fancier that he hadn't
a pigeon that could make the trip from
Philadelphia to New York The pigeon
fancier accepted this bet, and foolishly
intrusted his best carrier pigeon to his
opponent The latter though, before re-
leasing the bird In Philadelphia, clipped
its wings.
1.-The next day the fancier admitted
sadly that his pigeon had not yet come
home.
Then 7 win,' said the other man.
No; you must wait Bit objected
the fancier.
THE second day the pigeon had still
not returned. But on the third day the
fancier gayly demanded payment Of his
wager.
my bird is back he said, and in
superb condition. only his feet are sore .
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Too Sophisticated.

HyY1ILL DARNBOROUGH," said a
" Bloomington man, is the sensa-
ton of the Riviera. He has been winning
at Monte Carlo at the rate of thirty or
forty thousand a day.
''Will told me last month, at the Cercle
de la Mediterranee in Nice, that he at
tributed his good fortune to the fact that
he could always tell his lucky days.
HE said with laugh that the first
turn of the wheel told him everything
In its startling revelations the wheel, he
said, suggested the young earl who fell
in love with the pretty Monte Carlo
chainbermaid.
THE young earl found a Monte Carlo
chambermad SO irresistible that he pro-
posed to her and was, of course, accented
So one night he took her motoring, and
in the course of the ride he produced a
bottle of champagne.
TIL open it, said the pretty chamber
maid. oh, let me open it,
And while the car sped along the Cor
niche in the moonlight she unfastened
the foil and wire and twisted out the huge
cork so deftly that not q drop of the
champagne escaped.
But the young earl pushed rudely
from him the pretty smiling chamber
maid.
"'You have deceived me- he muttered
hoarsely. am not your first love-"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-12
In Defense of IN. p"

I(NT P. WILLIS, under the name Of
M Mandy Pamby Willis. is held up
to ridicule In Monypenny's mediocre life
of Disraeli."
The speaker a Philadelphia ntterateur.
frowned in disgust.
Willis he said. was, as matter OF
fact wit. He had more wit than thirty
Monypennies. He could have made that
number of Monypennies look like thirty
cents.
"Once, at a dinner in Washington, Will
lis and young girl were talking with
great animation. The young girls aunt.
seated beside a Mr.. Campbell. passed
down to her niece a note that said:
"'Stop flirting with Nat Willis
willis. on reading the note. sent 1t
back to the aunt again with this couplet
scribbled on the reverse side:
Dear aunt. don't attempt my young
feelings to trammel,
Nor strain at a Nat while you swallow .
CamDbell'
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and women, from up this-a-way. stroll
ing around, the women with their para
soils opened to shield EN- from the
eager, earnest sun-the same sun that
weeks in the winter timei
Our desire to jump the job and wire
for stateroom for that winter tour
increases as we. continue to hypnotize
ment. Here. down in corner. is an
appealing picture of an old Spanish
mission house, with its little bell tower
in the middle, and, sort o. half-closine
our eyes as we view that mere scrap Of
cut, why, we see the whole thing, we
sense the whole atmosphere OF that
mission house; we see and feel the
shadowy coolth OF the wide. still patio
in the middle. and we hear the little
ancient fountain purling somewhere in
the patio as 1t has purled for centuries.
and we catch the fragrance of the flow
ers brought thither from Andalusia
more than 800 years ago. and that
have been Towering and diffusing their
fragrance ever since. and We see the
impassive donkeys nodding blissfully
in the sunlight outside, and hear the
sleepy chant Of native children going
over their exercises under the tutelage
Of some shorn monk or serene-eyed
sister, and
Shall we blow the Job or shalln't we?
We think 1t over. What's the use OF the
job anyhow? The Job doesn't get us
any winter tours, or palms, or grooming
indigo seas, anything. So we walk UP
and down, up and down. pondering, and
ever and anon, again. gazing out at the
bleak, wintry prospect and longing for
light and trivial laughter and heat and
palms and things.
Presently. not having quite made up our
mind about that giving up the job thing.
we plump into chair again, and pick up
some other newspaper or magazine
One of fate's measliest imps is waiting
for us again. The very first thing we
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-12

There are several people still living In
stroudsburg who knew Staples and re-
member that to him belonged the
unique distinction of representing Lincoln
on the field of battle. Among their num-
Der are j. T. Palmer, postmaster and
principal of the public school; G. l.
Drake, editor of the Stroudsburg Times
and Representative A Mitchell Palmer OIL
Pennsylvania It was characteristic OF
Lincoln that he kept the matter from
the public press, and a like modesty
seems to have imposed silence on the
young soldier who served his country SO
we'll.
one does not have to make very OK
haustiye study of Lincolns character In
order to understand the motive Wnlch leu
him to send a substitute TO represent MIN
in the scenes of the bloody drama tnen
being enacted throughout the land. HIS
conscience was not of that easily satlsned
variety which contents itself with allow
ing things to remain as they are, without
INDUCING in exertion for the common
good His was the hand which was steer
ing the ship of state through tempest and
crash of hostile guns, yet, great as was
the task assigned him, he perceived, with
action, a post still untitled, an unoccupied
niche where combatant could be placed
to strike in behalf of the Union. To that
post he resolved to appoint representa-
tive, that he might be practically in per-
son-as he was already in spfrit-on the
red field OF carnage. 1t was done quietly,
in that simple, unostentattous manner
that distinguished all Of Lincoln's acts,
whether In official private life. He
never played to the gallery. and the YER
dict of his own conscience was all he
cared about.
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various quarters, IL mas given DiTtn 10
columns Of print, both In support of and
denial of It's truth. Now, for the first
time. evidence is here presented that the
story of Iincoln's substitute is correct
evidence I'm the unassaiiable shape Of an
Official acknowledgment from the federal
government.
The exemption OF the President Of the
United States from the taking up of
arms. or serving on an actual field of
battle. is provided for by special
statute drawn up to meet such a con-
tingency. But there is nothing to pre-
vent the nations chief executive from
sending forth substitute TO fight in his
place, although Lincoln was the only oc-
cupant of the White House who ever
took advantage of this fact. The man
who represented in his person that of the
Inartyred President was John Summer
field Staples. whose body now lies at
rest In little cemetery at Stroudsburg.
Pa. The tombstone above his grave
testifies not only to Staples war record.
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Tours to Sunny Lands in Winter.

clap our eye upon this time II . breath
taking advertisement Of q winter tour
of the Mediterranean, which" saith the
advertisement, may, at the election or
the tourist. be prolonged into tour OF
the world"
Fine. that, isn't 1t, for a sul-lave who
has to hang around and nurse a Job In a
rawishly bleak city In midwinter7
The alluringness Of the pictures. There
Is cut OF the Island OF Capri. Even out
OF the blackness and whiteness of tho
cut we see the outline of the beautiful
Island of Tiberius rising bluishly in the
soft haze. There is a picture of the sea
promenade at Nice, a cut, again. of the
Monte Carlo casino. and one of the Monte
Carlo terrace, overlooking the sparkling
Mediterranean. We hear the chatter or
the folks who are there, and vaguely we
wonder why, being there. they are NOT
performing dervish dances of pure delight
and ecstasy
Then. for the winter tour OF the world
there are pictures OF queer, piratical-look-
ing craft, with lateen or felucca sails.
leaning to under the swift, yet soft
breeze of Singapore. There is picture
Of a temple at Nikko and we hear the
golden assonance of the temple bells The
domes and nlinaretS of the mosques or
Constantinople peer out at rs from the
advertisement, and our nostrils catch the
Whit Of the fragrant seaweed OF the Bos-
phorus. We see the misty moon rainbow
arching over the Punchbowl of Honolulu,
and from Eilo we See snow-topped Mauna
Loa rising majesticaIly into the tropical
sky, and slumbering, slumbering, until it's
hour to boil over once again is whispered
to 1t by Pele. goddess OF volcanoes.
Oh. well. We suppose It'll have to be
the job. We can't toss the job and make
winter tour. and then face the certainty
OF having to begin life all over again
when we get back. But we've got to stop
reading, stop even looking at. these ad-
vertisements of winter tours Wen be
doing something foolish if we don't stop
1t. c. L. C..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-12
The Wiser Way.

THE Rev. Aaron e. Ballard, president
of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting
Association. was congratulated on his
ninetieth birthday on his splendid health
IT impute my longevity" said DR.. Bal
lard. ito the fact that I have always
treated health As IAncofn's milho0Aaro
treated fortune.
Discussing this mirlionaarA . Nav
Yorker said to Lincoln:
"'well he wasn't out whsn fortune
knocked at his door.
"'Ah. my friend. fortune didnAt havs
to knock In his casa said Lincoln He
was holding the door open waiting hag
ha'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-12
Not DiSinterested.

A NDREW CARNEGIE, at a dinner in
New York. said OF the war scare
that started up incidentally with his ten
miliion-dollar peace fund gift. with a
smile:
1T wasn't. perhaps. a coincidence, that
war scare. Let us remember what large
interests are involved in the maintenance
OF armies and ornaments and navies
These war scares that. rising so oppor-
tunely. shut of many peace movements
make me think OF Smith.
As Smith frowned over a long dress
makers bill at breakfast, Mrs. Smith
murmured:
Who was 1T said that a woman's best
friend was her dressmaker?
Probably the dressmaker.' Smith
growled
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d
graph taken at the time he went to
the front in Lincoln's stead.
Company II. I'd District of Columbia
Infantry, and that in his second enlist
ment he was a substitute for President
Lincoln
1.-The records show that said soldier en-
listed November ., 1862 in Company c.,
176th Pennsylvania Drafted Militia, that
he was honorably discharged May 5, 1863
and that he afterward enlisted April 3,
1864, in Company II, I'd District of Co.
Iumbia Volunteers, from which he was
honorably discharged at Alexandria, Va.
September II, 1865, and the records also
show that in this last service he was en-
rolled as a representative recruit for
Abraham Lincoln, who was not liable to
draft.
1T is shown by the papers on file In
this case that during the war President
Lincoln decided that he would place In
the army substitute to the credit of the
District of Columbia, and that he COM
municated his desire to do so to the pro-
yost marshal of the District with re-
quest that he. select the person who
should be placed in the service, and that
the provost marshal then sent for Noble
ID. I.arner then a prominent citizen of
this city, and stated to him the Presi-
dents wishes, and Mr.. Larner afterward
succeeded in getting the substitute in the
ward mustered into the service.
This is about all the information I can
give you with reference to the matter
and would suggest that lie you desire to
learn anything about the private life Of
Mr.. Staples You might write to the post
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-12
Abraham Lncons Substitute Staples Who His Stead

champion" appeared before the assem-
bled multitude, clad in martial gear. and,
casting down a gauntlet upon the ground,
def1ed to mortal combat any person or
the right OF the potentate to reign over
the land
This custom dated back to the strenu-
Gus days when a monarch was also an
active man-at-arm and likely to meet in
handto-hand engagement with some
persistent foeman at any time or place.
Hence the institution of kings cham
pfon," appointed to keep all challengers
at bay, hereditary honor, and one that
was held for many generations by the
descendants of the Dymoke family. But
Edward VII, who possessed an unusually
strong sense Of the ridiculous. refused to
permit this heroic burlesque Of a medic
val custom to be introduced into the
splendid pageantry at his coronation and
abolished the Office Of a warike s,rbsti-
tute forever.
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soldier. Therefore the facts in the case
We're laid before the federal authorities.
and I received from the office Of the COM
missioner of pensions at Washington an
official statement confirming the entire
tradition concerning Lincoln and his sub
Stitute. This document reads as follows.
Department of the Interior.
Bureau of Pensions,
washington, May II. 1910.
John Summerfield Staples, residing at
Stroudsburg, ra-. filed an application for
pension in 1882. stating that in the civil
war he had served III Company c, 176th
Pennsylvania Militia, and afterward in
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COncelninU
Well-knOWn peODIp
Our Doctors.

"THE late Count Tolstoi loathed phys
icians.' said, at dinner in Wash
ington, a Russian diplomat
You remember how Tolstoi ridiculed
physicians in War and Peace? Well,
heard him ridicule three OF them to their
faces over a vegetarian dinner at Vas
maya Polyana.
Physicians he said, bitterly, looking
up from a plate of lentils. may be d.
vided into two classes-the radicals, who
kill you, and the conservatives. who let
you die
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B r A III A NJ LIN
COLIN had a sub
stitute who served
as a defender of
the Union through
I h e bloody and
epoch-making pc
Rod of the civil
war. This asser-
ton has been made
many times before.
1t has aroused bit
ter controversy in
1,-xIz -
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While this is probably the only case in
history where the leader of a nation sent
a substitute to fill his place In the ranks
Of fighting men. a sort of precedent may
be said to be found III the custom, but
recently fallen into disuse, of appointing
a kings champion who was supposed
to offer his body in opposition to any
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-12

~F we're to have any happiness at all
we've got to stop looking at the pic
lures and reading the potrylike text
of these winter tours in the news
papers and magazines and things.
It's too disqueting. 1t gets us going too
nauch--whereas, as a plain matter or
fact, we can't go at all
II the winter tour pictures and text
would simply get us going and we actual
ly could go. 1t would be an entirely diff
ferent matter But to read about winter
tours, and to be got going. and then to
be chained. tied, hobbled. hawsered, rop-
ed, bucked and gagged. and not to be
able to go-that's why, IL we're going to
enjoy enough common contentment oe
mind to attend to our work, we've got
to give up reading these advertisements
OF winter tours
1t works out miserably. reading about
winter tours. Right now. for example.
is the period when winter has become a
positive nuisance. We've the bunch, OF
course, that spring is only around the
corner. and that soon the jonquils and
crocuses and hyacinths in Thomas Circle
and Lafayette Square and so on will De
popping.
But, all the same. winter still is here;
raw, bleak, grayiSh, marrow-penetraung
uninspiring, dispiriting, non-exhilaratins
winter. 1t has become bore. Oh, yes,
we wanted it last August, when We were
sitting on the, front steps, gaspinS Tor
breath, and making bets with ourselves
that not one leaf on the poplar in front
of the house would be stirred by even a
symptom of breath of breeze for the
next quarter of an hour. OF course, We
wanted winter then. But now we hate it.
1t has worn out it's welcome 1t has hung
around too long.
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master or some other person at Strouds-
burg, Pa, where Mr.. Staples lived and
where he died, January II. 1888
(Signed) y. l.. DAVENPORT,
commissioned"
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They ask and they make compromise They aim at the
game and not at the fame They struggle and toll and resist
and persistthey peever till they make good but they play
according fixed and ruthey take trick by tr1cery
They refuse the price of shonor They prefer
just defeat to a sn,irched success.
Obstacles expected their They antici
pate the eckmate of opposition legitimate percentage
to be reckoned with
They neither bear price, They fight with steel
and with gold Therefore, they neither proer accept
bride They mark cards. They choose to lose by
tue Of clean hands,
Their N the mpacab relentless and terrible force
that from the souls of humans They desire quarter
and they extend They strike with all their might but by
the token they do 0hine when the heel of the
uictor is ground into their hroats
They hard conditions and demand equal
fortude those who challenge them. Pity and senmentalty
foreign their and their nethods-BU7 they
do soften the appeal of the weaker neither do
they than their just allotment in settlement
They of without stain of upon their
OF their
They Makers of the Roads and Pilots of the Seas guided
only by their charted plans They the Builders in the VIII
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challenger of the reigning monarch of
Great Britain. Until the accession of the
late King Edward VII to the crown of
England this functionary was a member
OF the royal encourage. Whenever the
new king was publicly crowned the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-12

His crave also bears the g. A. r.
marker, a metallic star upon which the
words Post 1907 appear. small
American Gag Autters In the breeze. but
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-12
BY Prof. Bernard J. Cigrand.

Copyright, 1911. by ". G. Chapman,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-12

Well, anyhow, there were the palms in
the picture. And there, standing In the
cool soft shadows of the palms. were
the dark-skinned hombres with the wide
hats of straw going to point at the
top; the black, Spanish-fsping field
women standing with hands on hips.
their babies sprawling close to them;
the bedight and bediked tourists. men