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Knox County Farmers
Test Your Seed Corn

2 inches deep partially filled with
damp earth or saw dust and then laid
off in 2 inch squares, is all that is
needed to make good testing box.
There are many good testing devises
on the market, and IL one has s or 10
bushels of seed to test 1t would pay
to get one Of them. After the test.
ing box Is provided, take six kernels
from different parts of each ear and
place them in each square numbering
the ear to correspond with the square,
then place damp cloth over the box
and then layer of damp earth or saw
dust on the cloth; this done place the
box in room of normal temperature,
in week the corn should be thorough.
ly sprouted. Then the cloth can be
removed and a record made Of the
test.
From this record the good ears can
be separated from the poor ones.
Every rural school teacher should,
with the pupils take up the study of
testing seed corn.
There are at last three reasons why
teachers, especially In the rural dis
tricts, should be interested in seed
con testing as school exercise:
Q). 1t furnishes an easy and inter-
esting study in seed termination and
plant growth; (2) the extended use
Of a good method has vast economic
value in improving the productiveness
Of agriculture; (3) the teaching of 1t
in the rural schools exerts a strong in
fiuence toward increasing the conf
dence of parents in the permanent
worth of good school work.
Almost every farmer and rural
school boy now understands the i'm
portance of testing seed corn before
planting. But many farmers fail to do
as well as they know in this matter,
because they regard many of the meth
ods that have been recommended for
testing seed corn as too much trou-
ble" Any of the plans advanced are
simple enough to be easily followed by
any boy or girl in the public schools,
and they cost but little This spring
the testing of the seed corn will mean
much to the man who does 1t, when
the crop is harvested next fall.
JOHN CUNNINGHAM.
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Mr.. Jacob Struble, who has been
dangerously Ill for some time, is still
very low.
Mrs. Warren Kemp of Goodland,
Kan, and Mrs. e. c. Howell of Blad-
ensburg were guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Douglas Wilson, last week.
The M. e. missionary society will
meet with Mrs. Bryant Meredith on
Wednesday at 2 p. m.
Born, on Tuesday, TO Mr.. and Mrs.
George Kunze, daughter.
Mr.. John Fry and son, George, of
Rich Hill, spent Tuesday with Mr..
and Mrs. Douglas Wilson, south of
town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Willet visited
Wednesday with Mr.. and Mrs. Morgan
Pipes OF Hedding.
Mr.. viii Wilson of Center Corner
has moved In the Carnes property or
South street
(. Chester township is agitating a pike
road from the Fulton pike into Ches-
terville and the outlook is very prom
ising. May the good work prosper.
DR.. Hodges is able to attend his Of
fice now after a serious illness OF
typhoid pneumonia.
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come to a conclusion? 1t is not with
us as 1t was with our Saviour. He was
without sin, and therein lies much of
the mystery of His temptation, but
we are sinners. You have perhaps
dallied with some temptation. 1t
knocks at your door, and though you
have not admitted it, still you have
not driven it away. 1t remains before
you, a recognized temptation to wrong
doing to which you may yet yield. Or
perhaps you have yielded to it al
ready, 1t may be more than once, and
still you believe that you have power
to resist it when you will, and you
mean to do so some time. But il you
are unwilling to recognize the temp
ter's mastery over you, why not have
1t out with him now! Why not, ! say,
face the question squarely and de-
eide what your attitude towards this
evil thing shall be? Does not Gods
Holy Spirit urge you so to do? Does
He not drive you into this forbidding
region OF moral conflict and decision
There are plenty of wild beasts
there, some springing at you fiercely,
some creeping up with sly approach.
These are the temptations of sloth, OF
selfishness, of worldliness, of a way
ward temper. of lusts, and ungovern,
ed appetites. With some Of these, or
others as bad as they, you will have
to meet. But have 1t out with them
now. Face them promptly and man
fully, as Christ faced His spiritual
enemy.
To you also, in such conflict, an
gels will minister. Holy powers will
help you. All the means of grace
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-03-08
RepeIs Attack of Death

Five years ago two doctors told me
had only two years TO live" This
startling statement was made by Still
man Green, Malachite, Col. They
told me would die with consumption.
1t was up to me then to try the best,
lung medicine and ! began to use Dr..
Kings New Discovery. 1t was well l.
did, for today I am WORKING and be-
lieve owe my life to this great throat
and lung cure that has cheated the
grave of another victim" Its folly To-
suffer with coughs, colds Ior other
throat and lung troubles ndW. Take
the cure that's safest. Pric4 so cents
and s1.Oo. Trial bottle free at G. r,
Baker & Co., Mt. Vernon.
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Gambler, O., March 6.

Editor of The Banner
The seed corn problem is quite a
serious one in this county, as well as
elsewhere, this year.
From inquiries coming to us this
winter, many corn growers did not
save enough seed or are afraid of
what they have.
Owing to the improper maturing of
the corn crop last fall and the excess
i've rains after the corn was In the
shock, the corn did not get a chance to
dry out before freezing weather.
These conditions have sapped the
vitality from ears that were not har-
vested early and stored with great
care.
From 1917 to 25To of the corn ex-
hibited in the shows this winter was
dead. and this corn represents the
very best of the seed.
We have just completed test Of
400 ears and the result is worth not
ing.
OF these 400 ears $50 were carefully
selected and dried, from corn husked
late in November. Only $40 of these
$50 ears are fit to plant.
The other $50 ears were selected
from the standing stalk just before
cutting.
They were strung up by the husks
and left in an open shed until late in
December. These $50 ears show a
termination test of 800. Since the
greater portion of the seed corn used
in Knox county is selected during the
husking season, 1t is very evident that
the vitality of the seed corn, to be
used this spring, is very poor.
If we are to increase the present av-
erage yield for Knox county of "a
bushels per acre, we must first, be
sure of our seed; for without good
stand of plants we cannot obtain max
imum results no matter how well we
prepare the seed bed or how thorough
we cultivate the crop
To test each ear is not a difficult
task nor does it take much time. Now,
before the rush of spring work, is the
time to test the seed corn.
A box, 20 inches by 80 inches and
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-03-08
COHEN
Bound Over To The Grand
Jury For EmbezzIGmGnt

David Cohen, charged by Joseph
Levison with embezzlement, was Civ.
en- lengthy hearing before Justice of
the Peace Perkins Wednesday after
noon. At the conclusion, of the hear
ing Cohen was bound over to the
grand jury under bond of $500 which
was signed by Jacob Dubinsky.
At 2 o'clock the case was begun and
was continued with a great deal of in
terest until o'clock. Considerable
evidence was submitted by both the
state and the defendant during the
progress of the hearing which develop
ed facts sufficient to bind the defend
ant over to the grand jury.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-03-08
PAINFUL
Injury Sustained By Bridge
Works EmplOye

Edward Smith, residing at LOG North
Norton street, sustained a very pain
full injury while at work at the Mt
Vernon Bridge Works at about 10000
o'clock Thursday morning. He was as
sisting other workmen' in moving a
heavy steel girter when the fastenings
with which it was secured, suddenly
loosened. The large piece of metal
fell striking Mr.. Smith -on the left
leg causing a painful bruise and tear
ing several ligaments. Mccormick 8
ambulance was summoned and the in
jured man was taken to the Office of a
physician where surgical attention
was rendered. 1t was found that the
bone in the leg was not broken.
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and Representative IN Congress-.
Third. That copy Of these resolu.
tions be sent to the Commander in
Chief OF The Sons OF Veterans OF the
United States OF America requesting
him to promulgate the same through
out his territorial jurisdiction.
Fourth. That copy Of the same be
sent to the Commander Of the Division
of Ohio requesting him to direct in hig
next general order that all Of the
Camps OF the State Of Ohio shall con.
slider the adoption OF the same or
similar resolutions.
Unanimously adopted this Gath day
OF January, A. d., 1912, by Henry II.
Banning Camp, Mt. Vernon, Ohio.
Mr.. Clarence Il. Reese, secretary OF
the camp, has received responses from
several persons to whom they we're
sent.
Mr.. Charles ID. Hilles, secretary to
President Taft, states "the interest of
the veterans of our war will always
have the presidents careful consid.
Grafton"
In his letter, Senator Burton says
that he could not support the 90
called Sherwood pension bill since it's
enactment would compel the govern.
ment to issue bonds in times OF alb
solute peace"
Senator Pomerene stated that he
favored the Smoot substitute rather
than the Sherwood bill.
Speaker Clark stated that he had
laid the resolution before the house.
Congressman Sharp In his letter
says, II shall be very glad to vote for
any legislation that will carry out the
objects of such a resolution, as / have
done since taking my oath of office
Mr.. Sharp enclosed in his letter a
copy of the speech delivered by him
upon pension legislation some weeks
previous.
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Will be yours to draw upon. God win
be with you, your strength and shield,
able TO give you the victory.
By many people In our county this
present season is recognized as ono.
in which the call to such conflict is.
especially emphasized, but certainly
that call comes to all, whether they
keep Lent or not. Shall not these
days be marked by earnest thought,
and prayer, and resolution, and effort,
serious taking of yourself in hand.
SO that, by Gcd's grace, yours also,
may be the splendid victory which Je-
sus Christ won?
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STATE OF OHIO, DEPARTMENT or,
BANKS AND BANKING
NOTICE TO CREDITORS pr THE
GAMBLER BANKING COM PANr
GAMBLER, OHIO.

The Superintendent of Banks OF the
State of Ohio, in charge of. the hquidA-
ton of The Gambler Banking Company.
ton of the Court of Common Pleas OF
Knox County, Ohio, declared a second
dividend OF twenty per cent to be paid
to all such persons who have proven and
regularly presented their claims to said
Superintendent of Banks. Sfid dividend
is to be paid at the office of skid Superin-
tendent of Banks in The Gambler Bank
Building, Gambler, Ohio.
Said dividend is available on Thursday.
A' :" M f. e. BAXTER.
Superintendent, of Banks
ID. j. SCHURR
Special Deputy Superintendent. In charge
OF the liquidation OF the Gambier
Banking Company.
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Henry B. Banning Camp, No. 207, Sons
of Veterans, Mt. Vernon, Ohio:

Henry B. Banning Camp, No. 2O7, Sons
of Veterans. Mt. Vernon, Ohio:
Whereas we, The Sons of Veterans,
of Henry B. Banning Camp, No. 2O7,
believing that the time has come when
we should exert our influence toward
the betterment of the condition of
the veterans of the Civil War, who
constituted the grandest army that ev.
er marched beneath one flag and
whose sacrifices have no parallel;
And believing that the material
growth of this nation which they, by
their sacrifices, dedicated to liberty,
has so bountifully increased beyond
our fondest hopes until a majority of
our people have plenty and many have
millions to spare. And recognizing
as we do that a vast majority Of them
returned to their homes SO. manned
and disabled as to unfit them in a
great measure for competition in the
material struggle which lay before
them, and believing that our bounties
to them have not kept pace with our
material prosperity and happiness that
an All Wise Providence has seen fit to
bestow upon us, and recognizing that
their hoary locks are now proclaiming
their heightened years of more than
three score and ten and that tents of
thousands are annually passing away,
impressing. us as on each memorial
day as we decorate their graves with
flowers that grew on soil that they
preserved to liberty, that soon all
shall have answered the final roll call.
And most earnestly desiring that all
of them may spend their last days
above penury and want and in COM
parative ease, as just and lasting
tribute to their devotion and loyalty
to country.
Be is resolved:
First. That we their sons request
the President of the United States
and our Senators and Representative
in Congress to use their good Offices
and their best endeavor to bring about
such legislation as will give the vet
Grams of the Civil War sufficient COM
potency in the way of increased PEN
sions as will compensate them for
their sacrifices and service, and allow
them to spend their last days in COM
fort, thus paying mighty and ever
lasting debt of gratitude owed by an
unprecedentedly prosperous people.
Second. That copy of these reso-
lutions be sent to the President of
the United States, and our Senators
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(Ry Rev. George r. smythe)


An Immediately the Spirit Griveth
Him into the wilderness and He was
there in the wilderness forty days
tempted of Satan; and was with the
wild beasts; and the angels minister
ed unto Him. st. Mark, 1:12, 1S.
Our Lord Jesus Christ, Immediately
after His baptism, went into the will
derness under a strong inward i'm
pulse, to face certain temptations that
were necessarily associated with the
beginning of His work. There had to
be a settlement between Him and Sat
an, once and for ever. 1t Is almost a
savage picture-the wilderness and the
wild beasts. That is what one look
ing on from afar might have seen, and
the situation would have appeared
terrible; but there were also angels,
spiritual ministers whom no eye could
see, strengthening Him.
There Is much that is very myster'
ious about this temptation, and shall
make no attempt to explain it; but l
would ask you to consider whether the
divine Spirit may not even now be urg-
ing you to face like experience. Is
not some good spirit, some impulse
from above, driving you even now to
meet squarely, like man, some ques-
ton whose solution you would gladly
postpone, perhaps some temptation
whose power you have long felt, but
with which you have hesitated to
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-03-08
CHURCH NOTICE.

Henry w. Schwan, who, conducted
the very successful revival at the,
Messiah Christian church, will deliver
a special sermon Sunday night on the
Second Coming of Christ" The morn
ing subject Gods, Love-" These ser
vices will be at 1920 a. m. and Z. D.
m. sun time. The special, chorus
choir will lead the music. Every ef-
fort will be made with extrR chairs
to accommodate all who come.
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Dividend
OF 20 Per Cent To Be Paid
By Gambler Banking Co.

On Thursday morning Mr.. D. J.
Schurr, who is in charge of the hank
OF the Gambler Banking Co, issued an
announcement, that the company h
ready to pay. q 20 per cent dividend
to depositors. Mr. Schurr win leave
Gambler next week for a several days.
business trip. but persons who do not.
call for their money during this week
can secure It on his return.
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On Subject OF Increasing
Soldiers Pensions
Senators Expressed Prefer.
eDCe For SmOOt Substitute
While Congressman Sharp
Favored The Sherwood Bill

At the meeting of Henry B. Banning
Camp, Sons of Veterans, on Jan. "a,
the following preamble and resolutions
were adopted, and copies of the same
were sent to the president OF the
United States, the senate, the house,
Senators Burton and Pomerene and
Congressman William G. Sharp:
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-03-08

Zelda Sears is going into kaudsvilte.
with a company of FIVE in playise
by Edgar Allan Woolf.. Aihong the.
other artists returning to vaHievilfs u
Adelaide Keim. s..
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REMOVAL NOTICE

have removed my office as receiv-
or for l.. C. Penn to No. II North Null
berry street. All persons indebted to
me as receiver are requested to call
and make settlement at once.
GEO. W. SHARP, Receiver.
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BANNER WANT ADS PAY
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-02
GEORGE CARRIERS
HONEYMOON TRIP

San Francisco Examiner, January
81 Although married for a quarter
of a century, George R. Carter, for
mer governor of Hawaii is still in
love with the woman he wooed TWEEN
ty-fve years ago. AS evidence of his
affection, the former executive of the
island territory, is travelling over
four thousand miles that he may en-
joy their twenty-ffth wedding ami
versary with his wife.
Accompanied by his daughter,
Phoebe, charming lass of fourteen
years, the former Governor stepped
ashore from the steamer Sierra yes
terday morning, where he was greet
ed by Mrs Carter A few hours later
the happy trio boarded the liner Mon
golia and sailed for their pretty home
amid the palms of the Hawaiian Ar
cadia.
There is no mystery about this lit
tile trip of Phoebe's and mine said
Carter. MY daughter wanted to see
her mother, who has been visiting
friends in San Francisco, and so did l.
You see, although we have been mar
| ried twenty-five years, we are still in
love. Just a quarter of a century ago
we went on a honeymoon. 1t was a
sea VOYAGE and | shall never forget
| it. So we concluded that, all things
considered, nothing could be better
than to celebrate our silver anniversa-
ny on a big ship, sailing out of this
port over the most beautiful ocean in
the world. In few days we will be
home. Hawaii is the best place in the
world to live in, if you really wish to
continue happily married.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-02

NASHVILLE, Tenn, January 19.--
well, I'll have to put on. the soft
pedal" This is the exclamation Col
.onel Harvey, editor of Harpers Week
ly, is said to have made when Gov
.ernor Woodrow Wilson, forced to re-
ply to Colonel Harvey's query said
he feared the editorial support in the
weekly was injuring his (Wilson's)
cause.
A statement purporting to be de-
scription Of the meeting between
Colonel Harvey and Governor Wilson
with Henry Watterson in New York
was given out here today by Judge
Robert Ewing of Tennessee, repre-
sentative of the state Woodrow Will
son organization. Judge Ewing, who
is related by marriage both to Gov
.ernor Wilson and Watterson, asserts
the governors statement to Colonel
Harvey was made against the die
tates of personal friendship and with
the realization that "Harvey's support
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-02

the weekly's earnest support was mil
itating against his CWilson's) pros
poets.
Appreciated Support.
Judge Ewing declares Governor
Wilson's opinion was decidedly con.
trary to this view, appreciating that
Colonel Harvey had brought him Co
the front, approaching Harvey's sup
port and feeling it to be valuable"
Then followed the meeting in New
York, between Wilson, Harvey and
Watterson. Judge Ewing declares at
the close of the conference Colonel
Harvey arose and said to Governor
Wilson:
81 wish to ask you a question and
expect a frank answer. Do you be-
lieve that the booming nature of the
articles in Harper's Weekly is iniur.
ing your cause?"
Wilson Embarrassed.
Judge Ewing says Governor Will
Continued on page ten.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-02
CHARLES RHODES DISCUSSES
HONOLULUS ESTIMATE OF DR.. SUN

DR.. Sun was born in the district of
Kula, on the Island or Maui, in the
Hawaiian group. His father was one
of the early Chinese immigrants to
Hawaii, coming in the early Cos of the
last century, when the rising sugar
industry of the islands was beginning
to seek laborers for its cane fields.
The elder Sun, after a few years In
the islands, became a merchant in n
small way, but died before his son had
reached manhood The mother seems
to have been a woman of a good deal
of force of character, and after her
husbands death carried on his bust.
ness and reared the children in thor
oughgoing sort of way.
Educated at Honolulu.
Sun Vat Sen, now president of the
republic of China, was sent by his
mother to Honolulu to be educated,
going to Iolani College. Iolani College
was the rather high sounding name
.of a boarding school for boys main
tanned by Bishop Willis, the Anglican
bishop of Hawaii school still main
tanned by Bishop Willis successor,
Bishop Restarick, the Protestant Epis-
copal bishop of the missionary district
of Honolulu.
Young sun attended Iolani College
for several years and ultimately en-
braced Christianity There seems to
have been an unexpected theological
turn in his choice for religion, for
which Iolani was a strictly church
school he chose to be baptized by the
Rev. F. W. Damon, a Congregational
minister, and to connect himself with
the Chinese Congregational church of
Honolulu. He does not seem to have
suffered any loss of standing or fellow
ship on this account at Iolani College,
for his career there has been one of
the traditions of the school, and for
many years after he left it his picture
hung in one of the classrooms.
g.. Honored by Classmates.
His choice of religion, however. did
bring him trial in another direction.
! AS he approached manhood his mother
sent him to China that he might take
his place as the representative of his
father in the ancestral village and TO
share in some property there belong
ing to the family of his father,
Whether material .selfshness or relig-
ious intolerance was the cause, his
fathers family made it very uncom-
Portable for him in China, ostensibly
because he had abiured his ancestral
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