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SIZE
Does Not Always Count In
Making Good
(Kansas City Star.l

"You can't tell by the look of a
frog how far he can jump" That
old and crude philosophy is as ap.
plicable to men as to frogs.
A story in the Star the other day
told of the arrival at the Union Sta
ton of four men, three of them alert,
well dressed, impressive looking. The
fourth wore q battered old gaberdine,
frayed at the button holes. His man
ner was timid and retiring. In size
he was insignificant.
lie was little-great man, DR..
Charles II. Mayo, one of the greatest
surgeons the world has ever known.
John b. Cough, the great platform
orator, used to tell story about him
self, how he arrived late at a hall in
Glasgow, where he was to speak. The
place was packed. He could not get
in.
To the crowd wedged into the front
entrance he told that he must get in,
he was Cough, the speaker. They
looked at him, he was an understood
man, and laughed. They imagined
that Cough, the great orator, must
bo a tall man.
He went to side window, hoping
to be able to crowd in there. 1t was
already jammed full, and they, too.
10, nI xrrh hn f<II hn
John B. Cough.
Finally he went to rear door and
told the man on guard there that he
was Cough.
"Yes, five or six other men have
already told me that" the watchman
said. Cough gave him shilling to
pass him in to the stage and after
the lecture the doorkeeper went to
him and said:
well, Cough, you're like singed
cat; better than you look
Many men who do great things are
small in stature and insignificant look.
ing. Nearly all Of them would pass
unnoticed in crowd.
General Sir John French, Field
Marshal in command of the British
forces in France, "the Incompatible
Ney" of the British army, is described
by Herbert Cory as: "Short and squat
in stature, a ludicrous figure on horse.
back, and not at all the sort of man
in appearance one expects a cavalry
leader to be-"
And he is quiet and unassuming"
They all are-all the men who do
great things.
Lloyd-George, British Chancellor of
the EXchequer, one of the great men
OF England, is described as follows in
Golfers Weekly;
"a short, stocky man, about the size
OF LaFollette, there was nothing dis
tingushed in his appearance" He is
known as "the little Welsh lawyer"
Lord Roberts, great General, was
known as Little Bobs."
Grant was short and stocky, Lord
Nelson, "the greatest sea fighter the
world has ever seen," was understood
and delicate Napoleon was "the
Little Corporal"
Stephen A. Douglas was "the Little
Giant. Hartman and Jay Gould, wiz.
ards of railway finance, we're under.
sized. So is John ID. Rockefeller
The list might be extended to col
nmns, disproving the popular belief
that for man to be genius he must
/ be big; but still the world will keen
| on believing It.
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FOR SALE-One team good mules
Bell phone 447-R. 22d3Os
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-03-23

Mr.. D. NJ. Dorsey of North Gay
street was Columbus business Wis
itor on Monday.
Mr.. Emil Villain has returned from
Pleasantville, o., where he has been
employed in glass house.
The Vermont maple sugar men ex'
pect to clear $1,5O0,000 on this
springs crop. Some 5000 tons of
sugar has been made.
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lakes the Fire Out

10 take the fire out of burn or
scald quickly use Hanford's Balsam
Oh Myrrh. Apply it lightly at once
and the inflamed skin should be quick
iy cooled. Be prepared for accidents
by always having bottle on hand.
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Official Denial

NO WAR TAX on HOMESTEAD LAND
IN CANADA. The report that war tay
Is To hc placed on Homestead lands in
Western Canada having been given con-
siderable circulation in the States, this Is
10 advise all enquirers thai no such tax
has been placed, and there is no Intention
to place war tax Of any nature on such
lands ,Sgned) w. ". SCOTT
Supt. of Immigration
Ottawa. Can. Mar l5, 1915.
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For Sale, &c

RATES cents oer line, each inser.
sion. Six words to line.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-03-23

That one.legged colored man
voted eight times in the Terre Haute
election is one of the entertaining
the fraud trial.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-03-23

"When l was poor and got sick I
sent for a doctor
"Wellp"
'NOw that I'm rich get III and send
for "a physician" Philadelphia Ledger
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gentleman had reached the border
line of dotage and had to be pretty
carefully watched. 1t happened that
in the room over his some water was
spilled on the floor, and, leaking
through the thin ceiling, 1t dripped
on the old mans head. When his
daughter entered his room in the
morning she found her father sitting
holt upright in bed, just under the
leak, with an umbrella spread over
him, and an expression of terror on
his face. Maria, Maria" he whis-
pered huskily, "the day of Judgment
has comet
Jessie Chatterton went away from
home to attend select seminary and
in short time became infected with
the craze among the girls to diversity
their names. She therefore wrote q
letter to her brother at home, signing
herself "Jessica" Bill detected the
signs of the times, and replied as
follows:
Dear Sister Jessica:
Your letter received. Aunt Annica
and Uncle Johnica started for Bos-
tonica this morning. Motherica and
Fatherica are both we'll.
Your affectionate brother,
BILLICA.
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TRUST THE PRESIDENT.

Stephen Decatur, one of the most
intrepid naval commanders this coun'
try has ever had, originated the follow
ing famous toast: "My country-may
she always be right-but right or
wrong-my country" All sober mind.
ed people in the United States will
pray that the administration follows
the right course in its dealings with
the events that are threatening to
engulf us in the European struggle.
But there is little doubt but that the
sentiment expressed by Decatur is not
yet dead.
With great men like former Presi-
dent Taft telegraphing to President
Wilson, his successor, and expressing
confidence in the administrations in
tegrity, patriotism and ability to
handle the situation, the rest of the
nation can afford to keep calm in the
face of the grave situation that con-
fronts the United States.
His most bitter political fees will
not fear for moment that Wilson
will plunge this country into an I'M
necessary war.
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considered for moment had not
European world powers been too bus
lily engaged among themselves to
bother about the fate of the Chinese.
DR.. Toyokichi Iyenaga, PROFESSIONAL
lecturer at the University Of Chicago,
a native Japanese, gives the Japanese
view of the controversy which came
near meaning war in special editor
ial feature on this page of The Courier.
In being fair, it is necessary to know
both sides Of the case whereas in the
China-Japan case 1t is doubtful If more
than a very limited number, knew
either side of the case. DR.. Iyenaga
places the Japanese side of the matter
before the readers of The Courier and
it is possible the other side may be-
come known later during the negotia-
lions now in progress between Japan
and China Read the article today.
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NOT GOING TO WAR.

It Is very evident that England and
her allies hoped that the sinking OF
the Lusitania and the drowning of a
hundred and fifty Americans would
cause this nation to take measures
that would practically mean the en-
trance Of the United States into the
war on the side of the allies. The at
titude taken by President Wilson and
the resultant comparative calmness OF
the general public, has already con-
WINGED the London newspapers that
this nation is not going to jump into
the fray with million lives and many
billion dollars to avenge the death OF
Americans who, to say the least, had
not acted with the best of judgment.
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A CLEVER REroR1.

Emperor William of Germany, &C
customed as he is to doing his own
thinking and ruling according to his
own desires, must have appreciated
the cleverness of the retort credited
to the queen mother Of Italy in re.
ply to letter from the kaiser. The
latter is reported to have written the
queen mother of Italy, pointing out
the advantages likely to accrue to
Italy through remaining neutral, and
calling upon her to use her influence
with her son, the king. to keep from
entering the war. The queen mother s
reply was: "In the house of Savoy
We rule one at a time" In other
words the matter is one for her son
to decide
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PREPARE FOR DEFENSE.

The National security league, an Or
ganization formed to conduct a cam
paign for army and navy prepared
ness. Of which Joseph H. Choate, for
mor anbassador to Great Britain, Is
Aoaeea1y president has issued an
open letter announcing the result of
investigations by its committees and
appealing for public support for pro-
gram for better national defenses
The league finds, it is stated, that
there are barely 10000 mobile troops
In continental United States, that they
are so widely scattered as to make
their rapid mobilization impossible,
that this force is short Of officers, am
munttion and equipment and has no
organized reserve. The national
guard is found to be below it's paper
strength in men, equipment and Of
ficers. Coast defenses, the letter con-
ttnues, are inadequate and fortiflca-
lions are insaffciently manned and
without adequate organized reserves.
Investigation disclosed, it Is assert
ed. that the navy is neither adequate
nor prepared for war, that 1t Is made
quately manned, is short Of ammuni-
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ton, and has no organized reserve OF
trained men; that the submarine no
tilla exists chiefly on paper; that fast
cruisers, battle cruisers, aeroplanes,
mine layers, supply ships and trans
ports are lacking and that target prac-
tice has been neglected or altogether
abandoned.
Because Of this alleged condition OF
affairs an appeal is made for support
of this program:
Legislation correcting present
wasteful methods of military appropri-
atoms and disbursements; the adop-
ton of a definite military policy; a
stronger, better balanced navy; an Ell
fective mobile army; a larger and bet
ter equipped national guard; the ere
alton of an organized reserve Tor eacn
branch of our military service"
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the market, her cheap labor, her trans.
portation facilities and the similarity
to China in race, literature, customs
and manners-these are strong points
in Japan's favor. Such being the case
it would be the height of folly in
her statecraft If Japan should adopt
toward China policy that runs coun'
ter to the open door, which would
surely invite other powers, especially
those which are not advantageously
equipped in industrial competition, to
follow. Japan's own natural re
sources are patiently limited. Next to
America, China Is Japan's best Gus
toner 1t is then but proper for Japan
to try every legitimate means to cater
to and cultivate the friendship of this
good customer.
Various powers or their subjects
have from time to time obtained
sundry concessions from China fol
opening mines, building railroads, ex
plotting oil fields and the like. When
Japan follows their example and tries
IT, participate in the development OF
Chinas resources. is there any just
ground for objection or complaint?
AS many concessions as Japan may
obtain in China, thus cooperating
with her in the creation of wealth, sc
much the better, believe, for both
countries and the world at large. The
only justifiable ground for protest by
other powers would be when those
concessions constitute monopoly and
violate the principle Of equal oppor
tunity to all nations or infringe upon
rights others have already secured.
South Manchuria, in addition to
Japan's special position secured by
the Portsmouth treaty. Affords with
eastern Mongolia, suitable field for
colonization to the Japanese. Amer
lea says to Japan "We don't want
your people," Canada, Australia, New
Zealand say to japan, I'VE don't want
your people" Where, then, shall the
Japanese who, in obedience to the
Rooseveltian philosophy, are increas
ing by 100000 annually-where shall
they go?
AS to Santung, where Kiaochu is
located, it is but just that Japan
should become, for the present al
least, the heir to all the rights and
privileges Germany enjoyed therein
until the definite settlement Is made
at the close of the war.
With the peaceful and successful
conclusion of present negotiations al
Picking. the world will know that one
forward step has been made In ce
menting the friendship of the two
neighbors, and the United States will
be the first among powers to rejoice
in the political and economic rehabili-
tation of China.
M \
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WOOD WASTE EXCHANGE.

The latest business ala SeTVlce IL
stituted by the government Is wood
waste exchange. It enables lumber
men and manufacturers in the various
wood-using Industries to utilize eacn
others waste to mutual advantage
aiming to effect a large saving In for
est material as well as in money.
The wood-waste exchange is being
conducted by the forest service OF the
department of agriculture. More than
forty manufacturers of wooden articles
already have asked to be listed as hav'
Ing certain kinds of waste wood for
sale, or as desiring to obtain their raw
material in the rough or in semi
finished form from mill or factory
waste.
Twice a month the exchange sends
out circular headed. Opportunities
to Buy Waste containing the names
and addresses of factories having
waste wood for sale, with exact In
formation as to species, sizes, forms
and quantities. Similarly, another cir
cular headed, Opportunities to Sell
Waste" gives the specific REQUIRE
ments of wood-using plants which de-
sire to buy waste material.
One of the first waste problems
solved has been that of furniture
maker in Michigan who wrote to the
forest service asking how to dispose
of sugar maple blocks and sticks
which were cut off in the process OF
furniture making and which he had to
sell merely as fuel. Samples were OBJ
tanned from him and the forest service
then located a scrubbing brush manu-
facturer who used maple blocks for
brush backs. The result was that the
furniture maker was enabled to sell
his waste at much higher price than
It had brought as firewood, while the
brush maker was enabled to buy brush
back material in suitable sizes at a
much lower figure than it had been
costing him to buy maple lumber and
cut 1t up.
Firms which have been put into
touch with each other through the ex-
change are expected to notify the for
est service when their requirements
have been met; then their names are
removed from the lists. In this way
several concerns which early took
advantage of the plan have dropped
OF the lists; but as more and more
manufacturers learn of the wood
waste exchange the lists are steadily
RrONing
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Citation Of international law to show

Citation of international law to show
that the Germans we're not justified
in sinking the Lusitania is all right,
but the problem Is not what right
they have; it is whether or not they
have the power to do 1t. AS long as
they seem to possess the power to
sink steamers bearing neutrals and
non-combatants, it is up to said neu-
trails and non-combatants, if they care
for their lives and are considerate OF
the best interests of their country, to
keep out of the danger zone.
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The Case of Japan With China
BY DIR. TOYOKICHI IYENAGA,
PROFESSIONAL Lecturer University of Chicago.

Nothing could be farther from the
truth than the pictures presented by
some advocates Of China, namely Of a
Japan remorselessly choking the
Chinese republic while European ma.
tons are at war, and of sad-faced
China submitting with scarcely a
struggle, beyond a reproa chful gaze
fixed on her would-be destroyer. The
negotiations now in progress at PEEK.
ing should rather be interpreted as
the sincere efforts of Japan to solve
satisfactorily some weighty outstand.
ing questions with China, and to deter
mine their relation affected by the
newly arisen international conditions.
so as to cement their friendship.
A study of Japan's proposals to
China as reported in newspapers-al-
though those like myself outside the
pale of diplomacy have no definite
knowledge of them-leads me to think
tina. they are aimed first, to safeguard
effectively China's territorial integrity
and to preserve peace in the far east;
second, to ensure and consolidate the
enjoyment Of certain rights and priv
ileges which Japan purchased at an
enormous cost of blood and treasure
third, that she be permitted to par.
ticipate with China to mutual benefit
in the development of her resources.
Chinas weakness constitutes con-
slant menace to peace in the far east.
The loss of her independence would be
a calamity to japan, as it would mean
the setting up of different European
kingdoms at her door, to the great
detriment Of her interests. 1t was to
forestall such calamities that Japan
concluded the Anglo-Japanese alli-
ance, and entered into an understand
ing with Russia and the United States.
the latter as expressed in the Root
Takahira exchange of letters. 1t
would not be far-fetched to imagine
that Japan would be mighty glad to
enter into a stronger compact with
the United States than the existing
understanding, If the latter power is
ready to go to the extent Of spilling
blood and spending dollars instead of
ink and paper for the upholding of
China's integrity and the "open door,"
Would America be willing? 1t is for
the same reason, then, that Japan,
doubtless after consultation with her
ally, made certain proposals to China
that will go to effectively protect her
territorial integrity and preserve
peace in the far east.
The open door is corollary to the
principle of China's integrity. The
closing Of the open door would spell
disaster to Japan, for her future pros
perity depends largely upon the open
market of her neighbor. Japan has no
fear of being beaten in open competi-
ton in the Chinese market by western
rivals. Every advantage except cap
(Copyright, 1915, by Ma
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Two wrongs don't make right. The
harassing and attacking Of naturaliz-
ed Germans by exasperated Britons.
will not augment the sympathy ex-
tended to England on the torpedoing
of the Lusitania with the loss of more
than a thousand neutrals and non.
combatantS.
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/ Ing Company of Newark, N. j., 1915.
"You had better be careful where
you go this morning" said Nurse Jane
Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady house
keeper, to Uncle Wiggily Longears, the
rabbit gentleman, as he started on one
morning.
! "Why so?" Uncle Wiggily wanted to
know, as he carefully took an egg out
of his tall hot. why so, Nurse Jane
"Oh!" exclaimed the muskrat lady,
not answering Uncle Wiggilys ques-
was much surprised.
ooh what?" asked Uncle Wiggily
sort of careless like as he took prick,
| ly pineapple out of his hat.
"Why how did you find those
things in your hat?" Nurse Jane went
on. Are you going to be magician
on q stage or what?"
"Oh, no! I'm just doing this for fun, >
SAID Uncle Wiggily, as he took another
egg out of his hat. you see." he went
on, ~ met Mrs. Chuck Cluck, the hen
lady, on my way home last evening
and she gave me some fresh eggs for
you to make pineapple shortcake
AS / had no other place to carry them
since my paws were filled with the
| things | was bringing you from the
store, put the eggs in my hat knew
they would be safe there unless some
of the animal boys knocked my hat of
with SNOWFALL. And none of them
did that"
But the pineapple In your hat!" ex-
- ho
get there?"
Il put 1t in" said Uncle Wiggily.
After Mrs. Cluck- Chuck gave me the
eggs, I happened to think we had no
pineapples, so bought one for you to
make shortcake, or long one, II you
would rather"
well, of all things!" cried Nurse
Jane. Have you anything else in your
tall silk hat?"
"No, nothing else" Uncle Wiggily an
swered, and he turned it upside down.
Nothing came out but one Of Mrs.
Chuck Cluck's feathers, which had
stuck to one Of the eggs.
well, guess I'll go take walk"
Uncle Wiggily said, as he started out
from his hollow stump bungalow.
"But be careful where you go" Nurse
Jane said, putting away the eggs and
pineapple. Don't 60 sliding on thin
ice any more with squirrel boys and
fall in"
81 won't" promised Uncle Wiggily
Though that was an adventure - fall
ing through the ice."
Away went the old rabbit gentleman,
humming little tune and making his
nose twinkle like starfish down at
| the seashore. Over the fields and
through the woods he hoped, and he
was just thinking he would have no
adventures that day, when, all at once
as he went around the corner by big
stump, out in front of him jumped the
bad old tail-pulling chimpanzee mon
key.
How do you do?" asked the monkey
as he grabbed hold of Uncle Wiggily
by the rabbits ears. How do you do?
"Well, l think could do better with
out seeing you, not to be impolite, but
just to tell the truth the rabbit
gentleman said. II suppose you have
caught me to pull my tail, have you
not?'
you have guessed 1t the first time, .
said the chimpanzee monkey am
going to pull your tail. Not that it ia
much of a tail to pull" went on the
unpleasant creature with a face like a
cocoanut, "but it is better than moth.
ing. l have pulled no tails in a long
time" said the chimp, which Is his
shortcake name when am in a hurry
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CHICAGO'S DRINK
BILL IS ENORMOUS

Chicago, May 13.-Chicago pays
$14O,OOO,OOO annually for liquor and
other intoxicants according to a
manual issued today by the Dry Chi
cago federation. which has opened q
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didn't know what l was dom. So
come out all clear-an' dc preacher
scused me!''
A family of four, including the
grandfather, were coming up from
Florida by easy stages, and stopped
over night in Richmond. The old
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Oh me T.
S tort y

A cyclone is not sucn udu ,n.ng,
after ALL remarked the portly sales
man as he settled himself comfortably
in his chair. Zone saved five dollars
for me once"
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Dr.D.E.. Graham,
Hours-e 20 Il .. M; 20 8 .. ~
Ennis Office Bldg, ottumwa. lows.
ACCIDENTS DELAY
RAISING OF SHIP

Washington, D. c., May 13.-Admiral
Moore, commandment of the naval sta
ton at Honolulu, has advised Score.
tary Daniels that the submarine F-4
had been raised to depth of about "a
feet and moved approximately 40
feet nearer shore when one Of the
cables under the stern parted. The
cable was replaced and preparations
were made for continuing the work
when the other cable also parted. II
was then decided to splice the broken
cables, shackle them to chain cables
and pass them under the submarine.
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A traffic cop would find his hands
full for while If he started to work
suddenly at the corner of Market and
Main streets. With Market partly
blocked on account of building opera
lions in progress, the congestion is
serious. Furthermore, many of the
usual rules of traffic are violated.
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JAPAN AND CHINA,

During the recent crisis in the
orient, the belief was quite general
that Japan was selling favorable
opportunity to obtain concessions
from China that would not have been