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Parsonage
Weddings

The following weddings were per-
formed by the Rev. E. o. Ford, pas
tor of the Mulberry street M. p.
church, recently:
On October 5, Mr.. Rolla M. Myers
and Miss Mine Eckent, both of Utica,
On Saturday evening, October IL.
Mr.. Clinton Mills and Miss Mary BEN
nington, both of Mt Vernon.
On Sunday, October II, Mr.. Warner
B. Ransom and Miss Eva L. Snyder,
both of Gambler.
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A daughter was born Monday after
noon to Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Alsdorf
of West Chestnut street.
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son was born Sunday to DR., and
Mrs. Stephen A. Douglass at the Ohio
State Sanatorium.
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daughter was born Monday morn
ing to Mr. and Mrs. Robert l.. Taven-
ner of Springfield, o. Mrs. Tayen-
ner was formerly Miss Ena Hender-
son of Mt Vernon.
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Marriage Lieenses--

Deeds Filed
Ray b. Bishop to Herb Brentlinger
lot in Fredericktown, $50.
Ray B. Bishop to Anna Barton, lot
in Fredericktown S3S.
John J. Feeney to George r. Haga
man, parcel in city, $3.50.
Hattie Wingeier to Charles Ed.
wards, parcel in Clinton, s25.
Ellis johnson to Fred c. Henwood
1886 acres in Monroe, $4,000.
Charles Grant to Mary H. Ball, par.
cells in Morris, $2,100.
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Henry w. Savage may stage The
in Paris this season.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1913-10-14

rude L. Patterson, has filed first
partial account in probate. It shows
the following! Received S2S9.76,
pail out $2947, balance s251.29.
Marriage Licenses
Warner A. Ransom. farmer, Gam
bier, and Eva l.. Snyder, Frederick
town. Rev. o. K. Ford.
Clinton Mills, farmer, Clinton town
ship, and Mary e. Bennington, clerk,
Mt. Vernon. Rev o. e. Ford.
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BANNER WANT ADA PAY,
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sANNER WANT ADS pAY
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Case Taken Up

Commissioners In Session
The county commissioners were in
session Monday and expect to award
a number of contracts for bridge work
throughout the county.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1913-10-14

First PARTIAL
Harry G. Stoyle, guardian of Cert
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-20
PLAYING MARBLES.

Before the painted red man had
placed his foot on Manhattan Island,
in the days when London was des-
olate swamp, the Egyptian and
Roman kidlets used to squabble
about their taws and alleys as do
the boys playing marbles on yonder
concrete. In any good archaeology
cal museum you can find old marbles
dating back to these hoary old days
There is nothing new under the sun.
The peculiar popularity OF this
youngster game in spring is COM
monty attributed to the pleasure felt
by young life at the passing of the
frost and mud of winter. The au-
thoirties say it had still more state
ly sanction. The church fathers en-
couraged marbles in Lent as less
boisterous or mischievous than most
rowdy customs that disfigured the
penitential season.
Marbles place the bashful, quiet
and retiring boy on some equality
with the louder, bullies of the play
ground. 1t is true that the unag-
gressive and shrinking little fellow
is often cheated and elbowed out of
his turns and his rights by his rough
er mates. But the silent boy often
gets the advantage. because marbles
is a game that can be practiced in
solitude. The timid little player who
scarce dares venture in the ring Of
ten has the more blatant urchins
"skun," as the result of this secretly
acquired skill.
Parents who feel moral dstinc.
tions and obligations debate anxious.
ly as to whether their offspring shall
be permitted to play for keeps
Quite possibly this first indulgence
in the forbidden delights of a gam.
bling chance may lead to something
worse later on.
Still, when you think of the thou
sand-headed orders which 1t seems
necessary to issue to anchor boy in
J the straight and narrow path, it may
not be wise to bring up the marble
for keeps question until he raises Il
of his own accord.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-20
SECRETARY WILSON'S WORK.

1t has been the custom of the last
year or two to criticise James Will
son, the retiring secretary of agricul-
ture, for the tenacity with which he
has held office, for limitations of
executive ability and for interpreta-
tions the law office of his depart
ment has made of statutes the en-
forcement of which was in the de-
partments hands. Some of the crit
icisms are undoubtedly just But
Americans, of all people, ought to
remember that no man holds the
copyright upon making mistakes.
"None of us is infallible, not even
the youngest"
When Secretary Wilson entered
Mr.. McKinleys cabinet the depart
ment of agriculture was more bu-
Teau for the compilation of statis-
tics than anything else In his sew
enteen years Mr.. Wilson has abso-
lutely revolutionized the policies and
duties of the department. 1t is not
now merely a handy reference libra
ry for the speechmakers of congress.
1t is an institution which controls
the business of meat inspection,
which conducts a guardianship over
foods, which protects the forests,
sees that the diseases of domestic
animals are checked and obliterated,
which distributes vaccine, carries on
researches, investigates soils, watch
es at the gateways lest infected cat
tie and plants gain entrance into the
country. Mr.. Wilson says modestly:
"The great and growing movement
carried on by the department for ag-
ricultural betterment has not been
sustained solely by one man or by a
few men. A choice corps of schol-
arly experts in their special lines of
endeavor has been growing in mem
bership, in breadth of view, and in
the practical application of their ef-
forts. They have been and are men
both good and true, men with high
ideals, often sacrificing greater re-
muneration and private employment
for love of the great results of their
public service"
The new administration is not
liL al., 10 raUarca anU of Mr. Wilson G
policies. Events will show that the
department of agriculture will be
conducted upon the Wilson design,
after the Wilson pattern. Same in
minor matters will anyone dare to
tinker with the established scheme
of things. The nation has grown to
depend upon the kind of benefits the
department extends.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-20
Early Signs of a Change.

Globe Democrat: Mr.. Wilson has
given broader Interpretation of his
first order excluding office seekers
from his office except upon his per-
sonal invitation than the public was
at first disposed to put upon it..
Startling as it seemed, even when
understood to mean only the exclu-
sion of the office seekers themselves,
it becomes positively revolutionary
when seen to mean that the presi-
dent is not to be approached by SEN
ators or representatives in seeking
to urge office seekers claims. But
that was the understanding of it's
meaning and purpose which the pres
ident left in the minds of Senator'S
Bryan and Fletcher of Florida, who
had called at the White House to
urge appointment of a district Judge
and a district attorney in the south
ern district of their state. They
were informed by the president in
person that they must make their
recommendations to the attorney
general.
The dispatches report that this
was done "courteously." No doubt
it was. There is not the slightest
reason for supposing that the presi-
dent ever does anything discourte-
ously. But this sort of courtesy is
not of "the courtesy of the senate. 1"
The courtesy of the senate has be-
come traditional for the manner of
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-20
The High Tide of Easter.

Shadow and sunlight, ebb and
flood, mourning and rejoicing are not
more opposite than the subdued and
sorrowful mood befitting Lent, and
the triumphant gladness of Easter.
AS Good Friday in the solemn pass
ing recalls to us the day when the
darkness of the cross made the sun
ashamed to shine, so Easter Sunday,
with a supreme radiance, indicates
the hour that is the coronation of
humanity. Jew and Roman COM
bined in the crucifixion of Him who
came but to save but they could
have had no power against Him had
He not willingly offered Himself to
atone for the sins of the world. II
am the good shepherd" He said. 81
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-20
THE DOUBLE STANDARD.

Eugene Register Out of a great
deal of playing to the grandstand, a
vast lot of false thinking, and an
abundance of work for political eff
feet that has characterized the vice
investigation under way in Chicago
and that has characterized as well
every other investigation of similar
character that has ever been held
has come one despairing cry from
the underworld that is free from
gush and claptrap. Women who
have fallen" wrote one lost woman,
haven't got a chance, and they
never will as long as the world
smiles at one and spits at another"
The double standard of morality
is cruelty, bitterly unjust. 1t is
heathenish in its unfeeling scorn for
the erring woman and its compla-
cent failure to condemn the man who
is equally guilty. Its survival is a
DlOJ Ou LuOu6Iu ClNlllLdJlOu.
The scarlet woman is the worlds
most tragic figure. All down through
the ages she has been scorned and
flouted and despised and stunned.
Her decent sisters have drawn away
their skirts from her in loathing and
sickened horror. Unprincipled men
have exploited and oppressed her
without stop or restraint. Refrom-
ers have scored her and pulpits have
thundered at her. The nand of all
mankind has been against her.
But what of the Shiny male
creatures who have made the scarlet
woman what she is? Have they
been denounced for what they are?
Have they been cast out from de-
cent society? Have their souls been
scared by the knowledge that in all
the world there is not one drop of
sympathy for them? Most decided
ly they have not.
Without doubt, the woman who
falls is guilty and should be pun
ished. But the feet of every one of
these pitiable creatures have been
turned aside from the straight and
narrow path by some man, and the
tragic pity of it all is contained in
the fact that while the woman has
sunk to a fate that's worse than
death, her traducer has gone his way
with little condemnation-usually
with none at all.
So long as the double standard of
morality obtains, the boast of mod
ern justice and humanity will be an
empty and hollow mockery.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-20
The Easter Message.

Rev. C. F. Aked, one of the most
eloquent of pulpit orators, in his
Easter message to his congregation
most fittingly remarked that some
thing happened nineteen hundred
years ago in. the gray light of the
first Easter morning which trans
formed and transfigured the face of
the earth. History began again.
Hhe worlds heart beat with new and
gladder thrill. 'Henceforth and for
ever, beneath the all-beholding sun,
there is nothing which is "'too good
to be true" 1t has entered into the
heart of man to conceive good
which is better than the reality of
things. But we are afraid of imag-
ination. 1t is vain thing, and must
be yoked to a servile mass of mat
ter lest it soar upward and outward
into the blue sky, above the noun
tain tops, toward the glorious sun,
and lose itself in the eternal light
and eternal truth of God.
o brother-man or sister-woman,
are you afraid of your own prayers?
He is God. He ig the Father-God,
the Motherhood, the God of the but
tercups and the daisies, of sunshine
and spring, the God who cares for
the sparrows and clothes the lilies,
who spreads out the heavens as a
curtain and calls all the stars by
name, who longs for you as the
child of His heart, and loves you
with an everlasting love, so that sin
and death cannot separate you from
the might of His affection nor
uuench His hope in you. Morning
light shames our midnight fears.
And the shame is that in the dark
ness you were not sure of the COM
! ing dawn. You ought to have known
that after midnight comes the morn
ing-in the blacklist night of the
year you ought to have kept Gods
sunshine in your soul. Angels have
rolled the stone away from the grave
of your ascending Lord. Clouds turn
to solid rock beneath your feet. And
Christ is risen indeed.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-20
The Home Circle
Thoughts from the Editorial Pen
The Glorious Dav.

Ihe Glorious Day.
Easter is the Emancipation ami
versary of the Christian world-the
one day of all the year, next to the
advent that is the most glorious and
worthy of signal remembrances. 1t
brings with it a new inspiration of
faith in God and of perfect assurance
in His love for the children of men.
Every swelling bud and sprouting
leaf reminds us that the life which
conquers death in natures realm has
its aparallel in the resurrection
that great central fact of Christian
ity-in which we have the assurance
of our own spiritual revivication.
Christ in us becomes the vitalizing
force which lifts us from the dark
ness of sin and death into light and
life everlasting.
This old world OF ours needs more
Easter cheer. 1t needs to realize
that the risen Christ and the empty
tomb have for the whole race
grander and higher significance than
any other event since time began.
1t needs to feel that the defeat of
King Death and the triumph of King
Jesus over the grave have thrown
open the gates of life and happiness
to all who will enter therein. 1t
needs to grasp the imperishable
truth that, when the Son of God
burst the bars of death and the
grave, He revealed the way of life
eternal to all who accept Him and
follow his footsteps. His resurrec-
tion was the divine pledge of our
own, and the soul that rests upon
Him has already risen from the
deadness of sim ard began the life
everlasting. For such, the gave is
not an abiding place, but the vesti-
bule of the greater and nobler life
beyond.
Therefore, at this joyous Easter
time, when all nature is rejoicing,
let our own hearts join in the songs
of praise and gladness. Around us
we see the woods adorning them
selves with the living green and the
air iseresonant with the song of
birds. Over all the earth, wherever
the name of Jesus is known, it is the
glad emancipation time.
'Tis the festival of all creation,
Christ hath risen, who gave creation
birth
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-20
LONG LIFE IN THE NAVY.

1t is no reflection on the courage
of army and navy officers and men
TO assert that, including all the acci-
dents of peace and war, the mortal
ity in the services is less than in
civil life. There are numerous reas-
ons for this condition as pointed out
by Commodore w II. Beehler, U. S.
N, in The Navy, which is published
in Washington.
In the first place, according to
Commodore Beehler, no one can en-
ter the army or navy without being
physically sound. The test is the
severest of all physical examinations
and most strictly enforced. The oc-
cupation is generally in the open air,
on the ocean, or in the field, so that
the career itself is healthful. Medi-
cal officers and the best possible
medical facilities are always avail
able, and sickness is reduced to a
minimum. All officers are required
to take the best care of their bodies
and must take a prescribed amount
of physical exercise and are subject
to periodical tests, so that they
ought to be superior physically tc
any other class.
The death rate in civil life might
be materially reduced by practicint
the physical exercises which are ;
part of the daily life of army ant
navy peoplpe.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-20
WHO'S TO BLAME?

The College President:
Such rawness in a student is a
shame,
But lack of preparation is to blame. ;"
The High School Principal:
Good heavens! What crudity! The
boys a fooll
The fault, of course, is with the
grammar school,"
The Grammar School Principal:
Would that from such a Ounce
might be spared,
They send them up to me so unpre-
pared"
The Primary Teacher:
Poor kindergarten blockhead! And
they call
That Preparation Worse than
none at ALL"
The Kindergarten Teacher
,'Never such lack of training did l
see!
What sort of person can the mother
be?"
The Mother:
You stupid child! But then you're
not to blame,
Your fathers family are all the
same" Puck.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-20

it's enforcement, by all senators,
against any Infringement of senator
ial powers, or dignities, by any CO.
ordinate branch o. government. A
senator must be presumed to know
that under established forms and
ceremonies all papers to be filed in
support of an applicant for appoint
ment must be filed with the head Of
that department. To decree that
senators may not be heard by the
president, when they appear at the
White House to urge the claims of
their chosen candidates, is to strike
a blow at senatorial prestige which
will make grave ard reverend mem
bers of that exalted body gasp in
rage and astonishment. What! Are
not the ambassadors of sovereign
states at Washington to be heard as
representatives of their respective
governments touching affairs con-
nected with the relations of those
governments to the one over which
the president is called to preside?
Are senator's to be denied a hearing
when they tender counsel to the
president concerning his duty as to
an emergency in office? Or is the
president to set up his own idea OF
what may constitute an emergency
in office, in any sovereign state.
without the advice and consent of
the senator's of that state? The
Florida senators did not take their
candidates to the White House with
them. They had conceded the right
of the president to draw the line at
the actual and visible presence. But
they were doubtless unprepared for
the announcement that they them
selves could not be heard in support
of the claims of their friends.
We are rather inclined to the be-
lief that this innovation will meet
the approval of public opinion. But
there need be no doubt as to what
effect it will have upon the senate
And there need be none as to the
depressing effect it will have upon
the myriad democrats who have been
hoping that Mr.. Wilson may suspend
the Taft order extending the protec-
tion of the civil service law to
fourth-class postmasters. This ac-
tion shows the new president to be
man absolutely without policy, as
politicians understand the word.
Plainly, he has marked out this line
OF action, and he will hew to il
straight, let the chips fall where
they may. We are on the edge of
new and startling things at Wash
ington, and the public mind, always
eager for a change. and which voted
for change only last year, will not
be disappointed. There ara large
and spacious days ahead.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-20
The "Goose waddle" is the Latest.


New York World: Now it's the
goose waddle. 1t is not very far
from the dip and the on-step, at
that, except that the dancer is pre-
sumed to make as careful an imita-
tion of a goose as his intellectual
limitations will permit. All the So
ciety folks are beginning to dance
it. 1t usually comes on just before
the breakfast of sausage and flap
jacks and scrambled eggs is served.
Shortly after the ladies go home and
sleep ten or eleven hours, while the
men go downtown and try to keep
in their minds whether the market
is climbing up o. running off.
The goose waddle can best be
studied in goose yard. But il
there are no geese at hand, remem-
ber that the head is held up at what
is graceful tilt On the part of the
girls and makes the men look as
though they suffered from carbun-
| cles. Then the waddle is danced to
ragtime in straight lines up and
down the ball room. The effect is
supposed to be that of geese going
to water.
After they begin pouring the forty
year-old brandy in the champagne
punch the effect can be greatly en-
HANGED by honking occasionally.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-20
EVILS OF SLANG.

Those who appreciate the true
beauties of the English language and
abhor the colloquialisms and the
abominable slang phrases that have
crept into the speech of even the
better class of citizens of late years
cannot see the necessity of popular
iZing this inelegance in conversation
or writing. Some of the newspapers
have succumbed to the influence and
the following headline in a San
Francisco morning paper is an evil
dence of the extent to which the
evil has become prevalent:
"Old Hens Didn't Suit Capital
Mob; Miss Richards Tells Commit
tee Crowd. Yelled, We Want to See
Chickens.
Several cities have made it a pun
ishable offense to apply the title of
chicken" or ''squab" to a girl or
woman, and rightly so. The appel
'lation is an insult and merits imme-
diate punishment. Slang is express
i've, it has been argued. This to
certain extent is true, but what
makes it expressive? Merely usage.
If it were popular phraseology to
refer to a young girl as damsel or
maiden, the title would be just as
expressive as the vulgarisms en-
ployed. If persons of intelligence
and culture who make use of colo
quialisms would stop to think that
the source of the expressions used is
almost always of the lowest charac-
ter, they would be far less likely
to employ them in conversation. 1t
is disgusting thing to hear public
speaker employ some atrocious slang
phrase, and yet this is frequently
done. 1t is pitiful to hear some in
nocent young girl using words that
had their origin in a barroom or
brothel. Trace back the modified
versions of some of the commonest
terms used today in slang and see
where you will find yourself. 1t is
true that certain harmless idioms in
common use today are particularly
apt and have practically been adopt
ed into the language as component
parts thereof Take the expression
cts up to you," as an instance.
Whatever it's original significance, it
is at least innocuous now and is ex-
ceedingly expressive and finality
could scarcely be more forcibly ex-
pressed than by its use. But aside
from a few such phrases there is no
excuse for the use of slang to ex-
cess. 1t has a tendency to rob the
English language of it's dignity and
to engender carelessness in speech.
Also there is always the danger OF
the wrong construction being placed
upon an expression that may merely
have been innocently borrowed. The
comic writer's, certain varieties of
theatrical entertainments and would
be humorous orators have popular
lied the use of colloquialism, and
while their intentions have been,
perhaps, innocent enough, they have
wrought an injury. Children are the
first to grasp such phrases, and it is
not particularly conducive to pride
in ones offspring to have some tiny
toddler lisp, Hello, papa. Gee, you
got my goat. What are you trying
to hand me? A line of bull?"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-20
SPECIAL NOTICE.

All matter for the Tidings should
be directed to the paper, rather than
to any person connected Herewith.
When directed to a person, it is apt
to be sent to the home Address, thus
delaying its insertion.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-20
CRESCENT City

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