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The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1913-04-22
4 SESSION
OF COURT.
1eld By Judge Fulton In This
City On Friday
When A Number Of Motions
For New Trials Are Heard
And Other Matters Of I'm.
portance Disposed Of
Ceaterburg Woman Files Suit
Against COe Estate
Cher Items Of Interest From
The Court House

Judge Fulton of Newark arrived In
the city Friday morning at $3.50
o'clock and convened common pleas
court at nine o'clock. "A number Of
matters were taken up, including the
hearing of several motions for new
trials.
Judge Jewell OF Delaware will prob
ably be in the city one day next week
70 hold session Of court before the
February term Is adjourned sine die.
Verdict Set Aside
In the court OF common pleas, Fri.
day morning, Judge Fulton set aside
= verdict of something over $1,000.
which was In favor OF the Sun Lum-
ber Co. in the case Of J. 'B. Waight,
executor of Sarah A. Gillian, vs.
Lacy A. Mckay. The motion for
new trial was argued by the attorneys
Friday morning and the verdict was
promptly set aside by the court. The
Lumber company set up claim Tor
material used In the Gillian home on
Bast Gambler street, the executor
holding that the money had been paid
BY Mrs. Gillian to the Contractor,
Harry Clark, and that this money had
been used and applied on the back ac-
counts OF Clark, which he owed the
Lumber company.
Action For Money
Sarah ". Coe has commenced suit
in the court Of common pleas OF Knox
county against Charles w, Coe and
Judson Coe. executors OF Charles II.
Coe. The plaintiff claims there is
Awe her the following sums, based on
promissory notes and Tor work and
care OF the late Charles II. Coe:
$1,000. si2S, $75. $3.50. $32, The plain
tiif asks for interest on the above
amounts. Waight 4 Moore represent
the plaintiff.
%
motion sustained
In the case of Colgin W.. Feren'
baugh. involving the sale of horse
Judgc Fulton sustained motion fol
q new trial IN the court OF common
pleas Friday morning.
Molten overruled-
In the case OF Smoots vs. Jacobs
An the court OF common pleas on Fri
Aay, Judge Fulton overruled a motion
for new trial
a.
The Brown Estate
Alice n. Browne mas been appointed
guardian Of Harry Donald Browne
xiying bond In the sum Of $4,000, with
r.. Y. Browne and Thomas Crawford
- sureties.
marriage Licenses
Hubert Walker, wood cutter, ant
1ss n. Cos, both Of Mt Vernon. Rev
=. ID. Barnett
Lawrence Miller, farmer. ant
0isAys Grief, telephone operator bot
- Martinsburg.
iiaasay Gorsuch. farmer. Harriso1
unuuship. and Grace Tucker. unio
NDuaship. Rev. J. NJ. Helm.
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us'en n. Kline 70 W. II. Kline, pa
A1 = Morris. 81.
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The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1913-04-22
UTILITY BILL
Passes Senate, But,H Must
Again Go To House

Columbus o., April 1s-The public
utility bin providing reorganization
of the state utilities commission pass
ed the senate this morning. II has
passed both houses, but an amend
ment by the senate will have to be
concurred in by the house before the
bill is sent to the governor.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1913-04-22
! SCHOOLS
D0e Al Lock With 4 Fishing
Party

Lsek. Ohio. April ls--The Lock
~ansGls closed today for the summer
poeion. The laat afternoon of the
,vn uss cslsbrats9 YIN hships
nnutv II ths Licking river which runs
u6r ~ village. AZ ~ tho pupils a.
The Washington times., 1913-07-23
he Stories of
}FamOus Novels
By Albert Payson Terhune
5o-"SALAMMBO;" by Gustape Flauber.

50-'SALAMMBO;" by GuSave FLauber.
MIGHTY
II Carthage The city of Carthage was the host The guests
Rome and OF
themselves by wrecking the gardens. 'O' ~ A1.
Mic the great forces s absent
the of the
destroying her fathers property begging the '0s' cease
Havas
and the barbarian Matho Then she filled
lips Mar Havas jealous
scnnnage
Theft Of the Sacred Mantle
Finding The carhasnns would not pay them
definite result Then through the
the goddess Tant This mantle the hole
was the heavensen ucngr of the carthanisns % " ~ IT, And
MaHo ON learning min or TINS aS' MS MS way into Carthage by night
p % @ d % aSonnd h own ne went to the temple seized the sacred
mantle
for love OF you @ Because Sc IN IN dream dream you osde M take it.
d t Of the palace and through the W.r % ' @ through the
None mantle
saghway and his men were every.
victorious The uckOnsns mantle
Carthage
She went alone to the nsurgsnt camp and the
pointing where hung
first step Math
minded kill her Then on sudden impulse he pour
with the mantle
led them his
trmen joined crushed Maths
wasm made
The Punishment of Sacilege
down on the
between of
b
he
had dared to Tsnit
The Washington times., 1913-07-23
GETTING AT 1T RIGHT.

The Chamber of Commerce committee traffc
and rates has moved in the right direction in starting
movement for general investigation of the freight
rate situation of Washington and improvement OF
conditions. 1t has long been realized that Wash
ington is at a we!l-nigh hopeless disadvantage in
the matter of distribution rates. There is need that
the whole situation be taken up with view to cor
rectng it.
At the meeting of the Chamber Of Commerce
committee yesterday two instances were mentioned
which illustrate the grievance Washington has against
present rate adjustments. 1t was told of one Wash
ngton business man, that he actually sends freight
from here to Alexandria, unloads and reloads it,
m order to get the benefit of the superior rates that
are made from Alexandria! That seems almost un-
believable; yet it will be found perfectly plausible,
by anybody Who will look up rates from Alexandria
and from Washington into the territory which con-
stitutes the distribution area of both.
In another case, it was related, Washington
jobber Of paint went into the field and quoted lower
prices than his Baltimore competitors could make,
but he got no orders. He looked up freight rates,
and found that when he undersold Baltimore a few
cents Baltimore got the business because its freight
rate was enough lower than Washingtons to more
than equalize the quoted prices. Yet the Washington
man was forty miles nearer to his customers than
was the Baltimore dealer!
Washington is entitled to general overhauling
of its rate conditions and will get it if proper, de-
termined move is set on foot and pushed in season
and out. There is probably no city in the country
OF comparable size, importance, and location, that
has So bad commercial situation by reason of rate
adjustments.
For twenty-five years Spokane, Wash, has been
fighting against a situation which in the beginnings
was fairly comparable to that of Washington today
1t has made its fight affair of national importance
involving the whole rate fabric of the intermountan
West 1t has won important victories, and is in the
way of winning more. Its example is one that Wash
ington might we'll follow. 81, -..-.r !
The Washington times., 1913-07-23
PARCEL POST PARALYSIS ?

The Postmaster General, after ample expert
ence with the workings of the experimental parcel
post, recently announced reorganization of rates,
weight limit distance zones and other details, with
view to extending and bettering the service.
The whole country applauded This was what
was wanted; what the people needed what they had
expected and exactly what the language of the parcel
post act authorized
1t was reasonable to expect that if anybody
objected, it would be the express companies.
Yet now comes the Postoffce Committee of tie
Senate protest that the Postmaster General cannot
do this; that he has authority; that it must be
consulted; and finally that the section of law author
zng the Postmaster General to do these things is so
faulty written that it doesn't anything all
AS to the construction of that section of the stat
ute, it must be admitted that dgent effort could
hardly have made it worse. But the Senate wrote
that section the Senate then presumed that if con-
ferred upon the Postmaster General the power he
now assuming to use; the Senate took much credit
to itself for the whole proceeding; and the Senate
would today do exceedingly we'll if it would suppress
its Postoffice Committee and let the parcel post
be developed by the administrative officers, who
vastly more competent than the Legislature to do
that sort of thing.
The Washington times., 1913-07-23
MAIL BAG
Sees Menace to Public
From The Times Readers
To the Editor Of THE TIMES

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
IL Is surprising thing to me
to see the widespread approval of the
action Of Congress in escaping the dan
ger Of an immediate strike of railroad
employees. Congress has certainly
lodged a very fundamental duty In
this matter. and now takes credit for
doing 1t. 1t may be a Democratic Con-
gress in name, but Is 1t in fact? 1t
rather appears to be a supine suppli-
cant Of a trust-the labor organizations.
Here 1t is lowering the tariff, ostensi-
bly, in order to benefit the great body
of consumers instead of a minority of
producers, and yet 1t is perfectly obvi-
Gus that the final result of this labor
threat will be that some wages will
be advanced-in short possibly at most
10000 men will receive a benefit that
the millions who constitute the pub
lie" will have to pay. Is that Demo-
cratic policy? Surely the railroads will
not pay the bill, for their earnings on
the whole are not so large but that a
road now and then falls into receivers
hands, while the return to capital on
TIE money actually put into them all
is considerably below per cent a year.
1t Is not so very long ago that the
very men now about to strike received
increases. In the interest of the public
why has not the Interstate Commerce
Commission power to refuse an advance
in rates, or the proper department to
show clear case of monopoly here
in a certain commodity. viz: the labor
OF a special class?
ONE OF THE PUBLIC.
The Washington times., 1913-07-23
SUPPORT FOR WILSON'S CENTRAL
AMERICAN POLICY.

1t will not do for members of other parties merely
TO jeer at the Administrators Central American
policy as right-about-face of all Democratic trad
ton and gospel The time has gone by when the
American people a whole could have any patience
because it the proposal act of the Democratic
or the Progressive or the Republican party. That
old, blind partsanship which can't see any good
in anything that comes out of another party is about
at its end in this country.
The American people are going to pass judgment
on the Administrations Central American policy
not at all on the ground of Who's doing this thing ?
but entirely the ground of Is it the right thing TO
do? If it would be the right thing for the Progress
sive party or the Republican party to do, it's the
right thing for the Democratic party to do
The American stake of the Panama Canal isn't a
partisan stake-its national stake. It's for the
Progressives, for the Republicans for the Demo-
Gratis, for all the people of this country alike Ii
means just as much TO one il means to the other
It's going to mean just much to the children and
grandchildren of Progresslves and Republicans as to
the children and grandchildren of Democrats. It's
not thing that be played with as petty politics
It's part-and it's a vital part-of the nationalism
Of all of US.
On the face of it Mr.. Wilson's Administration is
support him in his course-just what any other Ad-
ministration, fronted with the circumstances,
would need TO do in the best interests of this
try and what any Congress responding to the highest
sense of national duty would have to support it in
doing. Until some narrower purpose is indicated or
some less worthy deed revealed than now stands to
The Washington times., 1913-07-23
Learn One Thing
Every D ay
27.ROPE.

27.-ROPE.
n EARLY all rope is made from
mi hemp. The best American
hemp grows In California and
Kentucky. A sort Of light.
elastic rope is made from the husks of
the cocoanut. But the most wonder
full rope OF all is made from plant
that grows in the Philippines called the
'abaca," or Manila hemp The island
ers receive nearly sp.Ooo.0O0 yearly
from its output.
In old days rope was made by hand.
Now IL Is all machine made. The hemp
Is first stripped Then it is split and
scraped- After that il is washed.
combed by spiked machines and carded.
More than 100 years ago DR.. Edward
Cartwright made q rope-spinning ma
chine which he called the cordelier, and
on this machine all our modern rope
making machines are modelled.
An old-fashioned "rope-walk Jthat
is, where the fibres are twisted into
of the carded hemp wound around their
space, regulating the fibres with their
fingers. so as to make an equal thick
ness of rope, while two other men
wound UP the twisted product by means
of simple machine worked by hand.
The modern "rope-walk" Is all ma
chinery. The carded hemp is fed from
container and twists automatically
while the other end of the machinery
winds it up. One OF the longest Manila
ropes ever made was eleven miles long
and cost s12,5OO. -.s.-
The Washington times., 1913-07-23
ANOTHER TRIANGLE HORROR.

Binghamton sends its tale of another factory fire
with half hundred girls and women burned to death
in twenty minutes. The building was utterly unfit
for the purpose to which it was devoted A throng
of workers on the fourth floor had just one means
Of exit, by staircase that turned into a blast
chimney and made impossible in the first moments
of the confagration.
Following the Triangle fire, in Washington
square, New York city, there was a tremendous out,
burst of indignation against the laws and the customs
that permitted people to be herded into fretrap
sweatshops. There was great activity for little
time, some laws were passed, some regulations were
issued by the police and fire authorities, the factory
inspection was aroused to momentary activity-and
now comes the Binghamton fire to prove that after
ample time had elapsed for bettering conditions,
nothing whatever had been accomplished in that in
stance at least
Human life is i'll regarded in this country that
Europeans look upon US as little more than barbar-
ians in treatment of it. Our railroads. our Mines
our factories, sweatshops, theaters all tell
the same tale Nowhere does industry or amuse-
ment claim toll of life even approaching that which
is exacted in this country
Ii will not do to say that these horrors are un-
avoidable through any of foresight and pre-
ventive effort. They don't happen in the mines,
the railways in the factories of other countries
as they do here. Belgium and Britain 90 vastly
deeper into the earth for their coal than we do vet
their mines cost almost no lives, compared TO the
annual roll of horror written in the accidents that
take place in our mines 1t is one of the most fearful
Teproaches to this nation that such recklessness
toward human life is permitted to be a national
characteristic.
The Washington times., 1913-07-23
A CanOeist's Plea.

To the Editor OF THE TINES:
In a recent newspaper article note an
article about the patrolling of the Po-
tomac above the Aqeduct bridge by
the launch TarragOn, now undergoing
repairs. This article goes on to say that
many canOeists are now using flash
lights ON their craft at night, whereas
the law requires that lights visible all
around the horizon must be provided
Heavy fines will be imposed in
cases of violation of the law"
1t seems to me unfair to let canoeists
paddle serenely along for years with
out lights and then, almost without
warning, pounce upon them and dema nd
500 as a result OF their ignorance Does
the department need cash. l wonder!
Furthermore. 1t seems to me that 500 is
a fine far in excess Of the offense, and
tbe average canoeist stands a fair
chance OF doing time" at Occoquan be-
fore coming across with this amount
|, for one. would have TO go on the
farm
If was understood at first that the
boat answered all requirements This
theory was recently knocked in the
head. with the result of "scrapping" the
hike lamps. Then 1t was said that an
electric torch was the thing: result. a
grand rush to plunk down a bone for
9his style of Elimination. Now, II
seems, the old-fashioned lantern is In
vogue, hence the hardware business is
f,oTrishing. But how long will this last?
In most every case it is ignorance of
the law. for few would pay from one TO
ave dollars for torch or lamp when
* mr. 30 cents for a lantern is all that
is necessary to comply with the reguIa-
tjons. The boathouse keepers are as
ignorant of the requirements as anyone
aise. for they recommend the torch.
Now. IL the keepers don't know what's
That. how in the world are the poor
suffering canoeists supposed to know un-
less notified In some public manner?
.. 4 EAN0EIsT,
The Washington times., 1913-07-23
HISTORY-MAKING DAYS.

1t is not unlikely that history will be made
in the next few days Relations with Mexico have
been brought near crisis by the approaching COL
lapse of the Huerta government. That the govern
ment of the usurper doomed to a brief existence
and either tragic or a ridiculous exit has been as
good certain from its beginnings. The end is now
imminent; just what sort of end it shall be is
likely to depend much on the attitude of the United
States Whether there shall be anarchy, chaos per-
laps Terror, may be determined by the course of
this Government in the next few weeks, days, or
even hours.
This is an excellent time for caution and cool
heads Senator Falls resolution, asphyxiated in the
Judiciary Committee, mi ght very we'll have been
brought out and passed. 1t would give the constitu-
tionaIist party in Mexico a chance, on even terms
with the Huertistas, to get arms and munitions and
that chance would probably mean a quick end of
Huerta. Better, hundred times that Mexicans
should do the business than that American force be
compelled to 20 in. The testimony as to Governor
Carranza, leader of the constitutonalist movement
in the north, is all favorable to him He has been
and is now capable and wise governor. With arms
in his hands, he would be President of Mexico or
else would be able to make some man of his follow
ing President, pending an election. Huerta must
60 it is plain The Mexicans will attend to the man.
ner of his going, if they are permitted Shall we
make il impossible for them to do that-and thereby
take upon ourselves the responsibility of very like
y Intervention?
1t is easy enough to send regiments across the
Rio Grande, and to blockade the ports of Mexico
Few things are easier than to get into Mexico.
Few things, likewise it will be found, are harder
than to get out of Mexico.
There is every reason why Washington should
give the Mexicans full opportunity to do their own
housecleanng They can do it with less loss of
life and property than we can. Without serious
Doubt 80 per cent of the people ready to uphold
constitutonalist government such Carranza would
restore With assurance of the kindly attitude of the
United States, that government would soon be firmly
established and ready to press forward the reforms
that Madero aspired to accomplish.
Extremists who would have the United States
intervene have pointed out, for instance that since
the period of revolution began, over eighty Ameri-
cans have lost their lives in Mexico therefore, it is
urged, the United States Government ought to move
in and subdue Mexico! good argument for jingces;
but let it be remembered that in New York city in
1910 there were 100 violent deaths; murders of one
degree or another. How about sending the asny
and navy to pacfy New York city, on the ground that
the Gaynoristas and the Murphystas and the rest of
them haven't been able to protect American life and
property
The Washington times., 1913-07-23

MIR. Wilson's credit in the matter he must be judged
as doing the right thing.
No leader in Congress or out of Congress can
make greater mistake than to imagine that if he
assails the Administrations Central American policy
in the old, blind, violent way of partisanship even
small fraction of the public will rally to his standard
of political attack. 1t will not Very nearly all the
American people will turn their backs on him in
disgust.
The Washington times., 1913-07-23

Archibald c. Hart was elected to the
House yesterday from New Jersey, and
the headlIners overlooked a bet. A
snappy head for that story would have
been Hart Beats"
The Washington times., 1913-07-23
THIS& THAT
THE LITTLE THINGS.
Wnh SOMETIMES q zntde .|.ae othe,

THE LITTLE THINGS.
1t is the little things that count,
However small they seem;
The trivial is paramount,
Pre-emiuent, supreme.
If you would rise to be king
In anything you're in,
Be careful of the little thing
And you'll be sure to win.
/ learned that pleasant saw a
school,
And so | say again:
1t is the little things that rule
The destinies of men.
'Sthe little things that min the day;
Beware the mighty small!
But Hst!. The BIGGER things
are they
Not anything at alp
The Washington times., 1913-07-23

The illustrated Sunday Magazine
has story entitled In the Lap of
Enigma" AS the Roger Brothers used
to say about the ping-pong game. no
lady would do that.
The Washington times., 1913-07-23

One Of the questions in Mexico, as We
grasp it with difficulty from the news
dispatches. is whether or not Prexy
Huerta will run for a second termoiI.
The Washington times., 1913-07-23

II the photos of that statue do it
justice, by the way. said statue con-
stitutes our all-embracing idea of moth
ing to search Is years for.
The Washington times., 1913-07-23
But How About the Soakee2

q. S. X: The height Of something:
Failing to notice an approaching pedes-
trian when you re watering the lawn
and letting him or her have the full
force Of it,
The Washington times., 1913-07-23
With the "A" as in "Knorr."

Tell me, please, if it is all
Right to mention Mrs. Prall,
Or advise me if | shall
Speak of her as Mrs. Prall.
The Washington times., 1913-07-23

Over in Atlantic they are about to
exterminate. the mosquito-which will
give "Puck. Judge" and other pub
lications given to joking on that theme
ample grounds for a damage suit
The Washington times., 1913-07-23

The gauzy, clinging haze OF cloth in
which she tripped unconcernedly down
one of the principal Streets" runs one
Of those stories. from Rochester, Pa,
was more than the last word In diapha-
nous gowns" LESS than,' we take 1t,
would be more descriptive.
The Washington times., 1913-07-23
SANDMAN STORIES.

The committee to select Charles 8.
Mellen's successor will meet in a day
or two.
The Washington times., 1913-07-23

Things that make life worth while:
Losing one-third of column of copy
on a dar when one is short anyhow.
The Washington times., 1913-07-23

Setting the Balkan situation to music,
we find that Bulgaria is playing over
lures to the European concert.
The Washington times., 1913-07-23
CURLY.

Something l.. W. cannot understand
Who buried that statue md WHY.
The Washington times., 1913-07-23

Pats notion Of why baseball hugs go
buggier: ''sir Robert Groom. the elon-
gated. attenuated, toothpick twirler-'.
The Washington times., 1913-07-23
We Don't Get the aDeafn Part.

G. S. X: If the inmates of a deaf
and dumb asylum refused to obey
orders would you. style II .mutiny7
Do you get IL?
The Washington times., 1913-07-23

Congressman Walsh has evolved
scheme for electrical voting in the
House, as suggested in this haruspicic
hillock five months ago. To keep ahead
of the times read this vaticinal vettura.
ADV.