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The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-07-21
Picnic At
Bangs Home

A picnic was held at the home OF
Mrs. Carl Critchfield in Bangs on
Wednesday. A very good time was
had by all Those present were as
follows; Mrs. Elmer Morrow, Mrs.
John Nolen, Mrs. Russell Weiss, Mrs
Irwin Critchfeld, Mrs. Henry Smith,
Mrs. Frank Martin, Mrs. Eldon Hyatt,
Mrs. j. Wineland. Those from out-of.
town were the Misses Georgia and
Louise Blocher, Mrs. Edward Weed
and Mrs. Dale Barre of Mt. Vernon,
Miss Candy Shrimplin of Alliance,
and the Misses Harriet and Imelda
Thayer of Cleveland.
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A daughter was born Wednesday
night to Mr., and Mrs. Oscar Frye OF
Brown street.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-07-21

These are the days when the city
man likes to get into the hay field
and worlk-for an hour or less.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-07-21

By the way it isn't necessary to
lead some men into temptation-they'll
go around and look it up.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-07-21

Juvenile officer Patrick Purcell of
this city received a telephone mes.
sage Thursday to be on the watch for
the girl. She was described as wear
ing a dark brown coat and a skirt
with red stripes. She was barefoot
when last seen. The girl limps quite
a bit, being crippled in her hips.
e. S. Vautard, father of the girl.
talked to representative of The
Banner Thursday afternoon, stating
that he has well-nigh exhausted his
resources for finding the girl. He has
been hunting for her ever since Wed.
nesday afternoon, but has failed so
far to turn up a single clue which
would lead to her apprehension.
Vautard said that three years ago
the girl ran away frequently, but her
parents were very patient and indul-
gent, treating her kindly when locat-
ed and warning her against the dan.
gers of leaving home. The past two
summers, little trouble has been ex.
perienced with Josephine from her
vagabond habits.
About two weeks ago, the girl left
home again and stayed the longest
time of any Of her previous adven-
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-07-21
Josephine Vautard, Missing for over
Twenty-Four Hours, Defes All
Attempts to Locate Her
Parents Frantic

Mt. Liberty, July 2O-This village
is stirred up over the Disappearance
of little Josephine Vautard, who has
been missing from her home since
yesterday noon. She is IL years Of
age.
Searching parties, headed by the
girls father, E. S. Vautard. have
secured all the adjoining country with
no results at all. Nobody can be dis.
covered who has even seen the little
girl There is an unusual lack of
clues.
Josephine left home sometime yes
terday morning. Her absence was
first noticed tnoon and hunt started
Immediately. All nearby towns, both
in Knox and adjoining counties, were
notified to be on the lookout for the
girl, but no word has been received
as yet. Her parents are frantic.
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Cause Dismissed

Cause Dismissed
The action of William ]. Hamilton
against the Louisa Coal Co. has been
dismissed and the costs paid.
Certificate Recorded
The medical certificate of DR.. Jo-
seph Edwards Harris, physician at
the Ohio State Sanatorium, has been
placed on record.
Account Confirmed
The first and final account of P. A:
Berry, administrator of Albert B.
Clark, has been confirmed.
Proofs Filed
In the petition to sell real estate
OF B. o. Evans, guardian of Ella La
ferre, insane, VS.. his ward, proofs of
service Of notice have been returned
and filed.
Deeds Filed
Alfred A. Perrine, mayor, to L. S.
Bradfield, lot in cemetery, $50.
Harley Beal to James Brown. lots
5 and 6, Buckmaster addition to Fred
ericktown, 81.
Mary e. Landers to Charles E.
Goodyear, parcel in Jefferson, $40.
Frances A. Contryman to Hulda ].
Riley, parcel in Union, $50.
Arnold Rush, guardian, to Charles
q. Pilkington, 30.6O acres in College,
5000.
Effie e. Workman to Charles E.
Pilkington, 5000 acres in College, 81.
The Parker post., 1916-06-10
Alabama Coal,

The earliest known record of the ex-
istence of coal in Alabama was made
in 1884, but the first statement of pro-
duction in the state is contained in the
United States census report for 1S40,
in which the amount mined is giver as
946 tons. The mines of Alabama were
probably worked tc considerable ex-
tent during the Civil war, but there are
no specific records until 1870, for
which the United States, census re-
ports production of II, 1000 tons. The
development of the present great in
dustry really began in 1881 and 1882,
when attention was directed to the
large iron deposits near the city of
Birmingham. In 1914, according to
the United States geological survey,
the production was 1858, ,422 tons.
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CA[ONEL MAKES
YOU SICK, UGH!
"Dodson's Liver Tone" better
than calome1 and can not
salivate.

Calomel loses you day! You know
what calomel is. It's mercury; quick
silver. Caiomel is dangerous. 1t
crashes into sour bile like dynamite,
cramping and sickening you. Calomel
attacks the bones and should never be
put into your system.
When you feel bilious, sluggish, con-
stipated and all knocked out and be-
lieve you need dose of dangerous
calomel just remember that your drug
gist sells~for 80 cents a large bottle
of Dodson's Liver Tone, which is en-
tirely vegetable and pleasant to take
and is perfect substitute for calomel.
1t is guaranteed to start your liver
without stirring you up inside, and
can not salivate.
Don't take calomeI! It makes you
sick the next day; it loses you days
work. Dodson's Liver Tone straight
ems you right up and you feel great.
Give it to the children because it is
perfectly harmless and doesn't grippe.
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Meant Well, But

Meant Well, But
Viscount French of Ypres often tells
an amusing story about French re-
view that he attended a good many
years ago.
General French-as he then was
attended the mems dinner in camp one
day, and as he puffed on his cigar he
noticed that 800 young Frenchmen had
nothing to smoke whatever.
Accordingly, he sent to his tent for
three boxes Of Havanas and these were
quickly distributed among the troops.
A rare treat, truly.
To show their gatitude the soldiers,
without consulting with their ser.
geants, lined up in two files, marched
toward the English general, and, rails
ing their right hands to their caps and
holding their lighted cigars in their
left hands, they shouted as with one
voice:
''Vive la Russia!"
They had mistaken the Uniform
Washington Star.
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Caruso's Grievance,

Pity the sorrows of Caruso Many
people think of him as the most en-.
viable of mortals, who gets his $2,5OO
night-or is it $2,50O?-with the
maximum of pleasure and the mini
mum of exertion. How different is the
reality-as recently confided by the
famous tenor to sympathetic friend:
When | was unknown I sang like a
bird, careless, without thought of
nerves. But now my reputation is
made my position is very different.
Here am today oppressed by repu-
tation which cannot increase, but
which tho least vocal mishap, may
compromise. My audiences, we'll dis.
posed toward me as they are, have
to pay such high prices to hear me
that they imagine I am unique
singer who must give them unheard.
Of results. That is why I am often
the unhappiest of men. I tell you
frankly I was happier when I was
earning ten francs a night. I spent
seven francs, kept three, and knew
that my reputation was not ruined If
happened to give croak. Today"
And the great singer finished the sen
tence with a groan. Yet how many
self-sacrificing souls there are who
would be only too glad to take up
Caruso's burden!
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BE BELIEVED IN RECIPROCITY
Proposition to Opticlan-Would
Dazzle Their Eyes.

He was a typical street gamin with
a backing kit slung over his shoulder,
and as he walked boldly into the store
of a Pennsylvania street optician his
curly head scarcely reached the top of
the counter.
Say" he queried of the elderly gen.
tleman who came forward, "are youse
de guy wot runs dis joint?"
Il am the proprietor" was the reply.
what can l do for you, my boy?"
"I've got one Nv dem reserprosity
propositions t. shy at youse," said the
urchin. Gimme one Nv yore chairs,
an I'll open up shoe-shinery in front
Nv your winder. Seer
mot exactly" replied the optician.
Il fail to see what benefit I would de-
rive from such an arrangement"
well, it's like dis, mister" an
swered the youthful f1nancier, "yer
see, puts such dazzlin' shine on me
customers kicks dat it hurts dere eyes
an dey'll halter come in an buy
specks Nv youses Savey?"-Indianap-
oils Star.
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Modern Farming.

United States Secretary of Agr1.
culture Houston was describing at
a dinner in Washington the changes
that have come over farming
methods.
tits an age of machinery today"
he said. "The milking machine has
succeeded the milkmaid. The phono'
graph has succeeded the melodeon.
The motor plow has succeeded the
horse plow.
There's an appropriate story Adopt
. young farmer who loved two girls
equally-the one slim and petite, the
other tall and herculean.
"The young farmer in this dilemma
asked his fathers advice. The ia.
ther, putting thoughtfully on Havana
for your modern farmer is too pros
porous to smoke domestic cigars
answered.:
There's so much machinery USED
in farming nowadays, James, that a
big, strong wife is hardly needed. !
advise you to take the little one
she'll eat less" :.
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ELDER NOT ALWAYS THE BEST
Modern Science Has Thoroughly Dis
proved Belief That Was Held
for Many Centuries.

There was a time when the eldest
son was supposed to be superior in
all respects to his younger brothers.
That time is past. Modern science
has proved that when there is any
difference the eldest son averages
somewhat behind later.born children
in mental strength and ofttimes in
physical endurance.
Does this, perchance, help to ex.
plain why hereditary government is
so unsatisfactory; why the direct
royal line so frequently runs out and
the crown shifts to the descendants
of some younger brother; why the
first prince of new line is so often
superior to any of his successors?
Under the royal rule the eldest son
of the eldest son takes the crown. II
there is even a trifing handicap in
being the first born the constant null
tiplication of this handicap would
raise it to considerable proportions in
few generations.
The Turks avoided whatever evils
may lurk in the law Of primogeni'
ture. They allowed the sultan to
name his successor, but provided that
this successor must be the son of a
slave. In practice he was usually one
of the younger sons of the monarch.
and always the child of a woman who
had wit or beauty enough to make
herself the leader of the harem. AS
a result Turkey had the most wonder
full succession of able sovereigns
known in history, but the palace in
trigues and fratricidai wars to which
the custom gave rise proved intoler
able.
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In Uniform,


It seems that over there where the
war is, II any civilian goes to the
front, upon any of the grave missions
which permit a civilian to get within
the lines, he thinks it necessary to
adopt sort of uniform. He rigs him
self up like Richard Harding Davis
war correspondents, in riding breeches
and the leggings that go with them.
Not long ago, according to report, two
high officials of the civilian admins
tration in Paris went to view the
trenches on official business-more or
less. Both followed the fashion. M.
s. was equipped with fine nodded
pigskin leggings, M. L wore put
tees, the kind that wrap round and
round in spirals.
A general and a couple of colonels
were on hand to receive the eminent
visitors when they left the train at
the last station behind the front. AS
they dismounted from the special COM
partment it was observed that M.
s. had his leggings on backwards,
giving the extraordinary effect of
wearing the calves Of his legs in front,
while M. L. had not taken five
steps before his puttees came un-
wound, and trailed sadly upon the
earth, revealing a pair of slender shins
garnished with stockings of tender
purple silk. The general and the
colonels did not even dare to laugh.
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People are realizing more and more
every day that the kidneys, just as do
the bowels, need to be flushed occa-
sionally. The kidneys are an elimina-
tive organ and are constantly working,
separating the poisons from the blood.
Under this continual and perpetual
action they are apt to congest and
then trouble starts. Uric acid backs
up into the system, causing rheuma-
tism, neuralgia, dropsy and many
other serious disturbances. Doctor
Pierce of Buffalo, New York, advo-
Gates that every one should drink
plenty of pure water between meals.
Every day should exercise in the out
door air sufficiently to sweat profusely,
and from time to time stimulate the
kidney action by means of "Anuric." !"
This preparation has been thoroughly
tried out at his Sanitarium, in the same
way as his "Favorite Prescription" for
The Parker post., 1916-06-10
Work of Js3anese Girls.

For Japan's coronation ceremony o.
taishosal next November 27 pretty
young women have been assisting in
transplanting the young emerald rice
plants in the sacred fields of the
Mikawa province. Half way to their
knees in water, they toiled daily, like
their less privileged sisters, at the
work. Bending down, they laid the
tiny shoots in place, and rising, sang
sacred Shinto songs, for the rice
grains of the rare festival must be
perfect in shape and color-true
seed pearls of the Way of the Gods.
The girls are from sixteen to twenty.
one years old. OF these things the
papers took note. The photographers
snapped them in their coming and do
ing and going. Not only from the
neighborhood but from afar have
come insistent marriage proposals.
and all but one are said to be en-.
gagged and are to be married the day
Of the coronation.
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FOUND SOURCE OF REAL FUN
Eunfce's Demonstration Of Extrav.
agance Surprised and Pleased at
the Same Time.

"A suit like the blue you can wear
through two seasons" the saleswoman
said. "Of course the brown is good
suit, too, but it hasn't equally fine
lines The difference in price is only
five dollars"
Eunice Morgan looked at the brown
suit as it was reflected in the mirror;
her delicate brows were drawn togeth-
er in a frown. She had not been pay
ing much heed to the saleswoman, but
the last words caught her attention.
1t suddenly seemed to her that all her
life she had been buying the cheaper
thing and being discontented with it
when few more cents or few more
dollars would have given her the JOY
of satisfied desires. In her revulsion
against the constant fret, she declared
to herself that for once she would have
what she liked, no matter what else
she had to do without.
"Well?" Sally Pennock inquired.
Eunice had taken Sally along for NOR
al support-which, being interpreted,
meant to tell her that the cheaper
thing was the most becoming. Er7ice
drew a long breath.
"Oh, suppose I'm going to be wise,"
she said, and I hate being wise"
Brown is always becoming to you,"
Sally declared loyalty. II think you'll
like it, Eunice-truly, do"
But when it came home Eunice did
not like it. She liked it even less than
she had at the store. She was stand
ing before the glass with tears of vex-
alton in her eyes, when there came a
knock at the door, and she turned to
see Jennie Scott with her bundle of
laundry. Jennie's eyes widened admir-
ingly.
20 Miss Eunice," she cried, isn't
it lovely! You look beautiful in it.
Eunice smiled. No one could have
resisted Jennie's eyes.
II wish liked it half as well as you
do" she replied.
Jennie's adoring face grew wistful.
"It must be so beautiful to match" she
said. Some day" she hesitated and
then went boldly on-"some day, Miss
Eunice, I'm going to have whole suit.
I have almost five dollars saved. But
when it seems long time to wait,
just remember that everyones wait
ing for something, and then, you know,
I grow ashamed"
Eunice looked from her own new
suit to the shabby, brave little figure.
Jennie" she exclaimed, II have an
idea! Will you come around once a
week and mend for me an hour
gloves and skirt bindings and things
I'll gladly pay twenty-five cents
week, and that will be eight dollars
to add to your five by next spring"
20 Miss Eunice!" Jennie cried.
AS the girls happy feet ran down
the stairs, Eunice took off the suit.
For once" she said to herself, "I've
teen extravagant, and it's the best fun
I ever knew."-Youths Companion.
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Pot Shooting at Professors.

Professional Harvard awoke the 9TH
er morning to find itself in the lime
light, and many a professor who
dropped into peaceful slumber the
night before is scratching his head
nervously and asking what can be
done, remarks the Boston Traveller.
Two rather frisky Harvard under
graduates had taken it into their
heads to give the members of
the Harvard faculty a bad three or
four days, so Elmer Ellsworth Hagler,
Jr., spent his leisure moments in a
month by drawing overzealous like
nesses Of some of the colleges most
revered professors, and prefacing
each sketch with bit of satire. Rob-
ert G. Bacon, '16, who received his
degree in midyear, published and copy
righted the book, which went on sale
to rushing business.
Hagler has been in the eye Of the
Harvard college Office before, for his
clean-cut editorials in the Crimson,
often of radical nature, have made
him more or less a marked man, and
his drawings and writings in the
Lampoon have been feature of three
seasons. Bacon has just retired as
business manager Of the Lampoon.
Harvard Inside Out" is the name
of the harbinger of disquietude that
has already created furore at Har-
ward, and everybody that is some
body at Harvard, save Prof. Adolphus
Terry, gets a jab from Hagler. The
more than a score of Harvard pro-
fessors have been hit off by the youth
full writer, and the undergraduates and
public are having more than quiet
laugh and awaiting results.
The Parker post., 1916-06-10
Germans Use New Kind of Shell.

Germans Use New Kind Of Shell.
The Germans in the Dvinsk regions
are using a new shell, which has a
cast-iron nose grooved internally and
with a central opening nearly one inch
in diameter, from which, several hours
comes a strong odor of prussic acid.
The shell, which is provided with
an arrangement to delay the explo-
sion, generally bursts on the ground.
Wounds of the slightest character
from fragments of these shells, in
evitably and usually very rapidly,
cause death.
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URIC CACID--GOING-GOING-GONE
"Anuric" Will Not Fail to Stop Your Baclkache

weak women and Golden Medical
Discovery" the standard herbal system
tonic, (both of which now come in
tablet form for convenience of carrying
and taking). "Anuric" is now being
introduced here, and many local people
are daily testifying to its perfectness.
When you have backache, dizzy spells
or rheumatism, heed natures warning.
1t means that you are victim to uric
acid poisoning. Then ask your drug
gist for "Anuric'' and you will very
soon become one of hundreds who
daily give their thankful Endorsement
to this powerful enemy to uric acid.
IF you have that tired, worn-out feel
ing, backache, rheumatism, neuralgia,
or if your sleep is disturbed by too fire.
quent urination, get DR.. Pierces Anuric
Tablets at drug store, full treatment
$1.OO, or send 10c for trial package to DR..
Pierce, Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Parker post., 1916-06-10
A Near-Hero.

"You say you saved young woman
from being drowned last year?"
Eyes. Several people lost their lives
on that day."
did you have hard battle with the
waves?"
"Oh, no. She intended going for a
sail in the boat that was capsized,
but persuaded her to spend the after
noon tangoing with me-"
The Parker post., 1916-06-10
For harness sores apply Hanford'i
Balsam. Adv.
Real ,Harbinqer of Spring.

The grounding is accepted by many
as giving the first clue to when spring
may be expected. Others wait for the
robin, but all will concede that among
the real harbingers of spring is the
small boy playing keeps" When the
genuine vernal spirit is in the air it
unerringly is manifested by Young
America who instinctively turns to
marbles The fever is not on him long,
but it is never-failing AID always coin
cident with the breakup Of winter.
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It's Red Dye Now.

So the red dye is all gone. and we
cannot put any more red stripes on
the flag nor wear red neckties. What
about beet Juice as a coloring fluid!
But just think. The war has been in
progress a year and half. We have
known about this dye shortage all the
time. Are American chemists SO poor
and American capital so short and
American enterprise so lacking that
somebody has not by this time begun
to see led in some plant ?-St. Louis
Star.
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recommend it to any woman suffering
from female weakness. You may pub
lish my letterif you wish. Mrs. JAMES
CoNLEY, SIG St. Clair St., Frankfort, KY.
No woman suffering from any form of
female troubles should lose hope until
she has given Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound fair trial.
This famous remedy, the medicinal
ingredients of which are derived from
native roots and herbs, has for forty
years proved to be a most valuable tonic
and invigorator of the female organism.
All women are invited to write
to the, Lydia e. Pinkham Medi-
cine Co., Lynn, Mass, for special
advice,-it will be confidential.
The Parker post., 1916-06-10
Minces Are Ripe.

Jay was spending the day with his
grandmother. Being only three and
one-half he was not allowed the va
riety of food that the grown-ups had.
When dessert came and he was served
with a diminutive piece of mince pie,
his Joy and surprise almost overcame
him. With an air of ingratiating in
terest and dignity, he said, why,
mamma, l didn't know. minces were
ripe. "--Exchange.
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Ready to Prove IL,

II hear bad reports of you, my boy"
said a fond father to his young hope
full. "Your teacher tells me that you
won't learn anything at school,
THAT isn't SO, dad," replied the
youngster. 1--WE learned to count up
to thousand. Now, just sit down and
listen to me-
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STRANGE. but True.

What is the title of that book you
are reading"
The Woman Who Found Herself
Would you like to borrow it?"
mo, thanks. I'm a rather senti-
mental cuss, and I notice that the
women who find themselves usually
have profound contempt for US
men,"
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Novel WeeviI Remedy.

A droll report comes from Birming-
ham, Ala, of the success Of a certain
planter in producing cotton plant
that smells so strongly Of asafettda
that all insects avoid it. The result
was obtained by sprinkling several
generations of the plant with nux
vomica. It is hoped that the new plant
has solved the boll-weevil problem by
depriving the weevil Of It's food.
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The Sort.

"You looked very sympathetic when
Mrs. Jaggers was talking to you Was
she telling you moving story?"
II should say so. She's been In six
houses in as many months"
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Unappreciated,

do you subscribe to the theory
that virtue is it's own reward?"
I'm compelled to- answered the
diligent reformer.
why SOP"
my neighbors don't even thank me
for my conscientious efforts to show
them the error of their ways"
The Parker post., 1916-06-10
For Nail in the Foot

Horses and cattle are liable to blood
poisoning from stepping on rusty nails.
For such an injury apply Hanford's
Balsam of Myrrh and get it into the
bottom of the wound. 1t should kill
the poison germs. Always have bot
tie in your stable, because you will
find different uses for it. Adv.
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= To Break In New Shoes

Always shake in Aliens Foot-Ease.
a powder. 1t cures hot, sweating, ach-
ing, swollen feet. Cures corns, ingrow-
ing nails and bunions. At all drug
gists and shoe stores, 25c. Don't>ac-
cept any substitute. Sample mailed
FREE. Address Allen s. Olmsted, LIE
Roy. Y. (advt)