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The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-02-13
Tho Lazy Woodpecker.

WoOdpeckeIs are the greatest stay
In beds of all the American birds, while
robins are among those who stay up
latest at night and get up eerliest in
the morning. A New Hampshire nat
uralist has made such careful observa-
tons OF the sleep habits of native
birds that he can now tell pretty
closely the minute when any particular
bird will become sleepy in the evening
or will wake up in the morning.
BY timing, day after day, the last
notes heard from various birds and by
listening in the morning for their
chirps and calls he has found that
their sleep habits are very regular,
though in the busy months of spring
household responsibilities they are apt
to get up earlier than at other seasons.
On the average, 6owny woodpeckers
were not heard from after half an houc
before sunset and pileated woodpeck-
ers after an hour before sunset. They
slept In the morning until ten or TWEEN
ty minutes after sunrise, in contrast
to the robin. which is up more than
an hour before sunrise. and the wood
pewee, which is up an hour aud half
before sunup.
The robins, pewees and thrushes, he
found, generally retired for the night
about half an hour after sunset. so
the woodpeckers usually took two OF
three hours more sleep than the pewees
or the robins. Saturday Evening Post
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-02-13
Pension
Vouchers Cannot Be. Placed
In LOCA.B0X(S

Vouhers for pensions cannot be
placed in postoffice lock-boxes. Un-
der the new, ruling of the ,postoffice
department, government pensioners
cannot get their pension vouchers
from lock-boxes in the postoffice, but
all vouchers must be delivered
through the general delivery window.
This action is taken to insure the
voucher being delivered only to the
pensioner himself or to some one
who is accustomed to call and get his
mail and is authorized to get it. There
is always a chance that mail will be
taken from lock-boxes accidently left
unlocked which happens oftener than
one would think and the postoffice de-
partment wants to insure the pension
er getting his voucher.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-02-13
MARVELLOUS TESTS SOLVE
THE AYR BRAKE PROBLEM
Stop Twelve Steel Cars Running Milo
q Minute Within Length OF Train.

Important improvements in the brak-
ing Of heavy passenger cars will be
described in paper to be read before
the American Society Of Mechanical
Engineers in New York city on Feb.
10 by S. w. Dudley OF Pittsburgh, The
tests ARE Of unusual interest at this
time because of the proposed legisla-
ton 10 enforce the use of steel cars.
and the results are considered the
most important recent contribution to
the subject of air brakes.
A train Of twelve steel ears at sixty
miles an hour stores up 224,000,O00
foot pounds of energy. This Is suf-
ticient 10 raise the entire train 100
feet. With prevailing brake equip
ment such train would be stopped
by an emergency application in dis
tance OF 1000 TO 1900 feet, according
to the truck rigging and brake shoe
design. The tests showed that this dis
tance has actually been reduced TO
1000 feet or 20 within the length of
the train. This was the result of i'm
HaONNAhNhA<s IA NhO DlNhG utSIkn
involving the clasp brake. having two
shoes per wheel and the location OF the
brake shoes with reference to the
horizontal center line of the wheels
In addition TO improved methods OF
applying the air brakes quickly and
simultaneously and at high pressure.
The tests emphasized, as has never
been done before, the possibilities of
Improvement In efficiency and econo-
my In regular service operation by
proper attention to design and install
latlcn in order to permit the realiza-
tion Of the dexibillty OF improved air
brake apparatus. The improvements
center in the electric control OF the
brakes, giving quick, simultaneous and
responsive action.
Trains OF fifteen years ago were stop
ped in about half the distances pre-
vaillng in the practice OF today. In
creased size and weight Of equipment
brought an entirely new brake prob
lem. These tests have solved It to al
persons interested.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-02-13
REBATING IS CHARGED
AGAINST LEHIGH ROAD
Coal Shipments From Pennsy!.
ganla Field Cause Trouble.

Washington, Feb. 12.-The inter.
state commerce committee announc'
od the federal grand jury at Tren-
3un had indicted the Lehigh & Hud-
1on River Railway company on 10
counts, and Morris Rutherford, it's
vice president and general manager,
for soliciting, accepting and receiy-
Ang concessions from the published
rates on bituminous coal received by
a. via the Pennsylvania railroad from
9he Wcstmoreland district, near
pittsburG. The coal was taken to
Phillipsburg, N. j., and there turned
aver TO the Lehlgh & Hudson River
and unloaded. The coal. which was
fuel coal was actually billed to War
wick. N. ]. There were approximate
ay 400 carloads The Joint rate to
Warwick is S2.30 per ton, out of
which the Pennsylvania received a
division Of $i79. Under such a ship.
ment, the commission holds that the
Pennsylvania company's local rate of
" should have applied, and by means
of this false billing to Warwick the
Lehigh a. Hudson road gained con
session OF 81 cents IL ton.
Representatives ot the commission
detected the practice in November
subsequently. according to the com
mission. officers OF the Lehigh &
Hudson admitted that the law had
Seen violated, and undercharges OF
more than $4,000 were paid to the
Pennsylvania Railroad company. Vice
president Rutherford was indicted
because II was developed that on
July 10 last the general counsel OF
ais company had written him letteT
gully explaining the Significance OF q
decision in the supreme court uphold
eng an opinion of the commission that
railroads must pay the published rate
an their engine fuel coal, thus indi
ScAting that vice President Ruther
Eord was put on notice that old prac
@ices must be STONED.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-02-13
The Creative ImpaisA

The creative impulse does not itself
know the next step it will take or the
next form that will arise any more
than the creatiye artist determines be-
forehand all the thoughts and forms
his inventive genius will bring forth.
He has the impulse or the inspiration
to do certain thing, to let himself go
In certain direction, but just the pre-
else form his creation will take is as
unknown to him as to you and me.
Some stubbornness or obdaracy In his
material, or some accident of time or
place, may make 1t quite different from
what he had hoped or vaguely planned.
He does not know what thought or in
cident or character he is looking for
till he has found it, till he has risen
above his mental horizon. So far as he
Is inspired. so far as he is spontaneous,
Just so far is the wos'id with which he
deals plastic and fluid Nld indetermi-
nate and ready to take"dny form his
medium of xpression-words, colors.
tones-affords him. He may surprise
himself, excel himself; he has surren-
dered himself to power beyond the
control of his will or knowledge
John Burroughs in the Atlantic.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-02-13
FAvORs HAGUE CONFERENCE
andrew o. White Says Third Meeting
Now imperative.

ithaca. N. Y. Feb. l2.-That third
HAGUE peace conference is highly de-
BaEable and that the efforts of the ma
aionaI administration TO bring about
-garh a meeting should receive the
support OF all Americans, regardless
: ~ party. is the statement of DR.. An
drew ID. White, former ambassador TO
Germany and chairman OF the Amerl-
can delegation to the first peace CON
ference at The Hague, Dr. Whites
health will not permit him TO attend
q meeting designed 10 promote such
u conference. he writes TO Joseph II,
.Choate. but he strongly urges that II
ha held
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-02-13
News Films of the
Passing Show

Spanked unjustly in his youth, a
Syracuse N. " man has just received
as a solace $500 extra In his fathers
will.
With a seventh son in his homt
Thomas J. Cannon Of Brooklyn, N. Y.
will follow usual custom and mans.
boy after president
Mrs. Jane Reynolds OF Croton. N. y.
aged ninety eight, told her forty chill.
dren. grandchildren and great-grand
children that to live long they should
drink plenty Of tea.
Shoplifting costs each OF the largo
department stores OF Boston an aver
age OF $4,000 year. District Attor,
ney Pelletier recommends that mer'
chants protect their goods with glass
cases or wire screens.
james Hedden OF West Livingston
N. j.. battlcd in his hen yard with q
hawk which was carrying off rOost'
er The hawk was cutting Hedden'S
face when a collie dog came to tho
mans rescue, killing the great bird.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-02-13
CRUSHED
Was Mans Toe When Heavy
Iron Fell

Hoy Lynde, employed at the Penn
sylvania shops, was painfully injured
Thursday when piece of heavy iron
fell upon his foot. He was assisting
in removing a burr from a heavy bolt
which supported the piece of iron
when the bolt broke and allowed the
weight to drop, striking him on the
left foot. The big toe was badly
crushed. He was taken to his home
where a physician was called to rem
der surgical attention.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-02-13
SHORT LOCALS

Eggs 26 cents; butter 2S cents.
FARMS FOR SALE-w.C. Rock.
cell. II
Mr.. A. F. Taylor of Cincinnati was
in Mt. Vernon Wednesday on business.
Choice cut flowers and artistic
1oral work. Charles E. Sharp.
Mrs. Ray Ward is i'll at her home
just south of Brandon.
Mrs. Lorraine Maynard of Quarry
street, is visiting her sister, Mrs.
Sherman Downs, at Barberton.
Messrs. John Brasser and Henry
Hite went to Cincinnati, Ohio, Thurs
day on business.
Mrs. James Shouitz underwent an
operation for appendicitis at her home
near Greersville Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Dowds and child
rem went to Columbus Thursday morn
ing to spend the day.
Mr.. G. L. Dudgeon of Gambler was
business visitor in Mt. Vernon Wed.
nesday afternoon.
Mrs. Charles II. Ayers and children
wnt to Columbus Thursday morning
to spend the day.
Mr.. Charles Spearman has returned
to his home in the city after an ex-
tended visit in Little River, Kansas
Mrs. ]. G. Walker of Steubenville
Ohio, is making several days visit
with relatives in Mt. Vernon.
Mr.. Miles J. Fish went to Waterford
Thursday morning to spend the day
with relatives.
Mrs. Sarah Miller of Lexington
Ohio, visited with relatives in Mt. Yer
non over Thursday.
Mrs. Chas. Critchfleld of Mt Vernon
is the guest of Mrs. Howard Jones al
her home in South First street-New
ark American Tribune.
Owens, corner Main and Gambler
up stairs, repairs watches cheaper
than elsewhere. Main spring 75c;
cleaning 75c: crystals 15c; jewels 25c
TO 75c. Guaranteed year.
"t%The regular meeting Of the Knox
County Pomona Grange will be held II
the Clinton Grange hall Saturday
February 81, at 10:30 a. m. Those at
tending will provide their own lunch
Prof r. A. Chubb, superintendent
of music in the Mt. Vernon public
schools, was I'm Newark, Tuesday
and visited some of the local schools
with Prof. G. w. Klopp.--Newarl
American Tribune.
Mrs. Il. w. Howard and son re
turned to their home in Hereford, Tex
as. yesterday, after a very pleasan
visit with friends and relatives in Mt
Vernon. Miss Irene Melick of this ci
! ty accompanied them as far as Mans
| field
The Knox County Medical Society
held Its monthly meeting at the Y. M
" "a DuiluiHB w WouHeouhy eNeuHit
with a good attendance. DR.. II. l.
Singrey read an interesting paper. DR.
Teachnor of Columbus gave an ad
dress which was not only interest
ing but was very instructive. DR.
Teachnor is councillor of the tent
district.
*'FMrs. Florence ID. Richards, Ohit
State President of the w. C. Il. u.
will deliver popular lecture at tn,
Congregational church on Tuesda!
evening, February II, at 1880 o'clock
under the auspices of the Mt. Vernon
w, G. II. U. Mrs. Richards was TO
many years popular Lyceum lectur
er before she became Ohio's stat
president, Don't miss this treat. Goo,
music. Admission free.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-02-13
GET ANOTHER CHANCE
GUizer and Ryan to Testify as to
Campaign Contribution.


Campaign Contribution.
New York, Feb. 12.-Former Gov.
ernOr Sulzer and Allan A. Ryan, son
of Thomas f. Ryan, are to have an
other opportunity Of testifying to a
$4,000 campaign contribution made
by Mr.. Ryan in October, 1912. The
Board of managers for the assembly
In the Impeachment trial charged
that this contribution was made to
Mr.. Sulzer by Allan r. Ryan; that 10
$1,000 bills were placed in his hand
by I. e. McGlone, secretary to Mr.
Ryan. Ryan and McGlone were both
witnesses at the impeachment trial
and Mr.. Ryan said that Sulzer ap-
poaled to him for the money. No an
wwer to the testimony on this point
was made until Oct. %, when Sulzer,
chen campaigning for election to as
Bembly, declared that the money went
TO Charles f. Murphy and was never
accounted for by him.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-02-13
FederaIa Reeapture Port.

Guayaquil, Ecuador, Feb. 12.-Es-
meraldas. capital OF the province OF
Esmeraldas, which has been in the
hands OF the reyolutionists since Dec
10, was bombarded by government
gunboats and heavy artillery and, ac-
cording to the latest advices. was re-
captured by the government forces.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-02-13

Defiance, o., Feb. l2.-Dehance has
'saseded site to the state on which
a $4,000 armory win be erected this
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-02-13

We know there's very much deceit
In this old world of toll,
For many man smells of gasoline
Who is not in the Standard Oh.
-Yonkers Statesman,
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-02-13

He-Alice holds her age well.
She = Yes. but she tells everybody
else's.-Spokane Spokesman Review.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-12-22
DUTY OF A DRAMATIsT

Walter Howard, in the Strand
In writing plays I always have in
mind one thing, and this is that the
public who spends money to see play
is entitled to a pleasant evening. The
author of the piece is the host. No host
deliberately lures a friend in to spend
an evening and sends him away stunned
and depressed by the brutalizing things
he offers as entertainment. Instead /
take the so-called gentle emotions and
show that they are quite as big in their
way and infinitely more entertaining.
When a man or a white bloused girl
goes to the box office and pays money
for good evenings entertainment that
one Is entitled to many laughs and
some tears-for white blouses and most
persons like to cry--and a happy end
Ing. No other ending should be per-
mitted. In life we cannot always man
age fate, but on the stage, where the
author is the arbfter of fate, he has
no right to let the curtain fall on any
thing that will send one person home
depressed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-12-22
The Land of Opportunity

The announcement was made in De-
troit that fifty of the city's wealthy
business men, former newsboys, would
on yesterday put aside their respon-
sibilities and their dignity and sell
newspapers for charity. Nothing else,
probably, could show in more strik-
ing way the chances for advancement
that this country offers to those who
possess pluck and ability. Not in De-
troit alone, but in every large Ameri-
can city there are numbers of sue
cessful business and professional men,
some of them millionaires, who got
their start in life by selling newspa-
pers. Horatio Alger has been indie
fatigable in writing books for boys
with this very theme, or similar one,
and his efforts in fiction have been
outdone by the careers of men who
are today high up in the world.
No other country contains so many
self-made men as the United States
because no other land has SO many
opportunities for self-advancement as
America. The chasm between news
boy and a millionaire is not a wide
one, necessarily, and it is often bridged
in a surprisingly short time. The boy
who makes a success selling newspa-
pers is apt to have the qualities that
will win when the time comes for him
to. enter broader field. The sturdy
youngsters who today cry their wares
along our city streets are in many
cases the millionaires Of tomorrow. If
they do not reach the stage of
"bloated plutocracy," they may at
least be depended on to make good
in every sense of the word and prove
citizens well worth while.
And it is not only the newsboy who
frequently attains to ease and COM
petence. Immigrants who come to the
United States with little or nothing,
by thrift and industry accumulate in
a few years enough money to make
them independent. The average Ameri-
can is by nature and experience a
spendthrift. The foreigner who has
made economy fine art is frequently
more than match for him in &C.
curing a competence.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-12-22
sERvIA's FUTURE
From the Kansas City Times.
sfxHThfol, xxro,,Il h,k,,, 49, -o1-I. -

FROM the Kansas lily IlmeS.
which would bring the people of servia
to higher grade of civilization, Aus
trials rule. Russa's rule or their own
government? G. SEITZ.''
The question raised by Mr.. Seitz is one
of the most debated in European politics.
Every great nation has feeling that it
is chosen people, and that Ii has mis-
sion to civilize the world. Kipling's lines.
Take up the white mans burden" is an
expression of this feeling.
But the American idea has been and still
is that on the whole the best results
will be obtained II peoples are left to
why the United States will withdraw from
the Philippines as soon as possible.
The Servians are a people with a strong
national consciousness, and their own
language. They have been out of the
main current of European life and SO are
still in many respects primitive. But there
seems to be no reason 10 suppose that
they wouldn't be able to make their own
way in the world il they are allowed to
decide their own destinies,
A Balkan federation, patterned after the
Swiss model, if only the Balkan states
were able to sink their differences to the
extent of forming one, would seem to Of
fer larger possibilities for the states of the
Balkan peninsula than absorption in any
of the great military monarchies.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-12-22
As To National Prohibition

1t is reported from Washington
that many congressman are greatly
troubled in mind over the question of
national prohibition, or rather be-
cause they will have to put them
selves on record when a yea and nay
vote is called today.
Not a few congressman who are
opposed to nationwide prohibition
number among their constituents
many advocates of Hobson's propo-
sition to write prohibition into the
constitution. At the same time these
representatives are afraid that if they
support the nationwide measure they
will lose votes among those who are
opposed to any such radical legisla-
ton.
Congressman who lack moral cour-
age are opposed to the rules commit
tee allowing vote to be taken. These
dodgers are sure to lose caste with
their constituents. The public admires
the legislator who votes his convic-
tons.
Oscar w. Underwood is a type of
the true statesman who lets all the
world know how he stands on every
important issue. Some of his friends
were not in favor of the anti-shipping
bill, but Mr.. Underwood said he
thought it was right and he made
its passage possible. Had he opposed
the bill it would never have got
through the House. He is a strong
local optionist, and therefore will al
ways be against nationwide prohi-
bition. Some of the most active pro-
hibitionists in Alabama supported I'M
derwood in his candidacy for the Uni
ted States Senate as against Hob
son. They were for Underwood be-
cause they believed in him as a public
man. They admired his frankness.
Anti-prohibitionists can but respect
the man who votes for the Hobson
measure if he votes his real convic-
tons. Any congressman who lodges
the issue should be defeated at the
polls the next time he runs
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-12-22

comes neither rain nor snow can stop
the rush. Christmas shopping is some
thing that must be done, and as we
are now on the home stretch the mer-
chants of Birmingham will have high
record trade today and tomorrow and
the next day.
As Christmas is a religious festival
as well as legal holiday the busy
merchant will have rest not only on
Christmas Day itself, but on the Sat
urday following and perhaps on the
week following.
But there is a glad feeling now be-
cause there will be a great business
revival with the new year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-12-22
Appreciation of Classic Music

The fact that the First Methodist
church, with its large seating capacity
was crowded Sunday afternoon-hun-
dreds OF men and women standing
when Haydn's classic oratorie, the
creation was rendered evidenced real
appreciation of the best in musical art
said an old citizen.
Admission was without charge, but
unless the people enjoyed the music
they would not have remained through
out the performance. l have never
known an audience to be more rapt than
that of Sunday"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-12-22
FAMOUS ALABAMA POEM

But Alabama owes Meek additional OBJ
LEGATION, for no one man is as much re-
sponsble as he for the preservation of
the earlier and more dramatic history of
the state, A student at the University of
Alabama, when it opened in 1881, he grad
uated in 1885, and Immediately won state
wide notice, because of his literary and
oratorial gifts In an uncongenial age
for literature, about 1910, when that
matches genius, Edgar Allen Poe was
going hungry and ragged in New York.
Richmond, Philadelphia and Baltimore.
Meek in Alabama started The Southron
in Tuscaloosa, a magazine devoted to lit
erature, and made it notable by his Wig
orous sketches in prose, and by poems
of the highest order. The magazine was
born, only to die, but it was made the
vehicle for the beginning of the Romantic
Passages in Southwestern History, which
preserved the exploits of the pioneers and
their Indian foes, and which had power
full influence in inducing Col. Albert J.
Pickett to write his History OF Ala
bama.
The RED eagle was written by Meek
about 1886. a friend said, but it was
finally published in 1855 in book form by
Appleton & Co. of New York. It met
with instantaneous favor, not only in
Alabama, but in the cites of the east as
well. But greater and more tragic events
were marshalling than the production of
an excellent poem. Mighty issues were
dividing the north and south, and the ap-
preaching war repressed for a time
growing interest in Alabama in poetry and
literature.