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The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1922-03-17
"say 1t with flowers" from sharp's

"Say 1t with flowers" from Sharp's
Flower Store. Phone 1896. tt
Mr.. George Rowley of Gambler was
in the city yesterday on business.
Regular chicken and hot biscuit sup
per at Gay street M. e. church Sat.
urday, March 18, s to 7. xii
We pay highest market prices for
hogs. Call Cornell, 1046 red.
STuTh If
Mr.. ]. c. Rayl of Pittsburgh spent
the day here on business.
We save you money on all medi.
eines. Free delivery. Phone n for
prices. Fox G Steinhoff. 11.17.tf
Try US on your cream. We pay the
highest price. Give US a trial. j. T.
FrieI & Son, phone 1856. KIT
Mrs. Margaret Tighe of Cleveland
Is the guest of Mrs. Catherine Tul.
loss for several days.
Green carnations for St. Patrick's
day. sharp's Flower Store, phone 1896.
"Say 1t With Flowers" x16
Big Four seed oats, 1920 crop, for
sale by the Northwestern Elevator G.
Mill Co. x3O
Messrs. r. V. Gore, George Sor-
gatz and c. j. Frisbee spent the day
In Danville on business
Hiawatha Community and Teachers
Association will give a food sale at
Sharp's flower store Saturday, March
1S, at 10 o'clock. XII
Basketball tonight at Y. M. C. A.
Freshmen vs. Juniors at 8 o'clock and
Sophomores We. Seniors at $3.50. Ad.
mission 10c. x16
Mrs. Il. &. Hinger and Mrs. A. j.
Matthews spent the day in Columbus.
Mr.. j. A. Morrill, of Cleveland was
business visitor here today.
Bare to Hair" will grow hair on
your bald head. Treatments by ap.
pointment. Keys barber shop, South
Main. SruTh x16
Mr.. A, S. Beuret of Chicago was
business visitor here today.
Mr.. l.. w. Parker of Columbus spent
the day here.
Keys to the American Legion club
rooms may be obtained at Schrantz &
Heckler's drug store on deposit of 25c.
x1G
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Thuma are con-
fined to their home on East Burgess
street with pneumonia.
See John Ralston Of Howard for
cemetery work Of all kinds. Material,
workmanship and prices unexceiIed.
Tu TIL x30
James Dutt, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Dutt, Is seriouly i'll with pneu-
m0nia.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1922-03-17

FOR SALE-A drophead &C round
bobbin Singer sewing machine. Prac.
tically new. A bargain. Furniture
Exchange, 105 West High KIT
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1922-03-17

FOR SALE - Modern seven-room
house, 921 West High street. Phone
803 green KIT
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1922-03-17

"Now, cut out the monkey business
and let's get weighed" says Keeper
Parker Of the Lincoln park zoo, Chi
cag0. This Is common occurrence
at the ZOO, for Mr.. Parker keeps his
children" In the pink Of condition.
This one is tho prime favorite Of the
young visitors to the zoo.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1922-03-17
Call 1109.

WANTED-Two unfinished rooms,
close in, for sleeping purposes. Call
AGO green. XII
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1922-03-17

FOR SALE-Piece Of land near dis
posal plant. Phone 491. j. j. Feen-
ey. If
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1922-03-17

FOR sALE-f'arm. A acres, good
barn, fair house, good dirt, well wa
tered. Farming utensils. Some furni-
ture. Possession any time. IL sold
quickly $25O0, half cash, balance good
terms. Owner in the west Taylor,
Horn e. Hunt, Peterman building.
Phones: Office 1l01, homes 914 black
-507 blue. X1S
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1922-03-17

FOR SALE-Expert auto repair SER
vice. Let us retinish your old, worn
The charge for this work Is small.
Come and get our prices on our repair
work. Also leather fan belts 35 cents
each, Timer brushes " price. We
have Maxwell parts. Also transmits
$ on liners 40c set. Other stock too
numerous to mention. Taylor's Auto
Club garage, Martinsburg road, across
from water trough. Phone 1856 blue.
X16
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Mr.. G. II. Deacon of Cleveland spent
the day In the city on business.
Chicken dinner, Calvary Baptist
church Saturday, March Is, from II to
1880. Tickets 35c. Chairmen: Mes
danes Jones and McGee. KIT
Mrs. A. ID. Mink went to Massillon
Wednesday to spend few days with
friends.
Are you sending your faniily's last
seasons clothing to the Sanitary for u
thorough cleaning and pressing? We
can add many more months service
to your garments. Our prices are low,
consistent with the class Of work,
Phone 500 red. Sanitary Dry Cleaning
Co., southwest corner public square.
xiJ
Miss Bessie Steinmetz Is Ill at the
home of Mrs George Vernon, 6O3
North Main street, being threatened
with pneumonia. Last Saturday Miss
Steinmetz went to Delaware to see the
basketball games with Il company OF
friends. On the trip she contracted a
severe cold that has given some prom
ise of developing into pneumonia.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1922-03-17

FOR SALE-12-room house, built
bungalow style. Can easily be made
duplex. viii sell reasonably this
spring. Elizabeth M. Sickles, Freder-
icktown, Ohio. 1892
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1922-03-17

FOR SALE = Oak and chestnut
fence posts by Herb Bulyer, Freder-
icktown. TuThS XII
The New York herald., 1922-05-17
Rikki, the Beloved Outlaw.

Everybody who has read KIPLING's
"Rikki-Tikki-Tavw loves a mongoose.
but the Government doesn't read fic-
ton. The other day, when eighteen
mongooses just in from Cape Town
were turned back by the immigra-
tion inspectors as undesirable aliens,
it was recalled that for twenty years
we have had a law barring the little
weasel like creature from landing on
these shores.
The mongoose must have sad re-
flections on the ingratitude of man.
Time and again, when pioneers in
the tropics have encountered pests Of
rats and poisonous snakes, the mon
goose has been called upon to do his
duty. He was brought from Asia and
Africa to the West, where in the
Caribbean he cleaned out the rats Of
Jamaica for the English and of Porto
Rico for the Americans. When the
United States took over Porto Rico
its cocoa palms and its sugar fields
were infested with rats. Rikki came,
and there are no rats and few snakes
in the island. But Rikki. whom every
motorist sees skipping across the
island roads, is now hunted thing.
When there were no more of man's
enemies to kill he turned on mans
friends, particularly poultry.
A fellows got to live is the mon
goose's philosophy; but selfish man,
after Rikki has done his own job, does
not agree that he must be maintained
indefinitely, although in India the
mongoose is domesticated and treated
like the gentleman that he is outside
of meal hours. In some other parts
of the world the birds and other wor-
thy creatures which he is wont to
pursue when rats and snakes are un
obtainable have learned to roost be-
yond the mongoose's reach. But the
chicken fanciers of America will be
glad to know that Rikki has been
turned away. To them the mongoose
is bloodthirsty monster; to persons
who hate snakes Rikki is cavalier.
The mongoose is the most contra
dictory OF four footed creatures. He
looks milder than new milk; but the
naturalists give testimony that in the
presence of cobra he is the most
furious, rampaging thing that wears
fur-the Terry McGovern of the ami
NAL kingdom. For that the world
must respect him. even when 1t shuts
its doors in his sad little face.
The New York herald., 1922-05-17

West? Perhaps not until he comes
to the junction with some other
aerial mail line, Ave miles in the air
over Oskaloosa or above Omaha as
he passes the eastbound airship on
its trip to New York. He can see
the lights come and go as he fits
over the Nebraska prairies and along
the Platte valley. He can watch them
climb the foothills of the Rockies
as he mounts and see them all dis
appear over the Great Divide. With
the first glimpse of the Sierra he be-
holds the pink of the, morning touch
ing the mountain peaks.
And then he drops down over the
Sacramento valley as the sun dims
the last lights on the western slopes.
San Francisco and breakfast! One
second ahead of schedule.
The New York herald., 1922-05-17
Sir Walter Transformed.
Account Of the Elizabethan Hero
Given In an Uptown School.

TO THE NEW York HERALD: The re-
cent death of Sir Walter Raleigh IN
England brings to my mind that sew
eral years ago. maybe ten or twelve. I
was a pupil in Public School In Edge
combe avenue, and the teacher of his
tory classes always told us that the
original Sir Walter was an Irishman.
This teachers name was Green or
Brown forget which--ahd he had
his story down pat; we did not know
whether to believe him or not whether
he was serious or not. He said Walters
name was Rahily or Reilly. that when
he came TO twenty years he fed the
"disthressfui country" - always pro-
nouncing the words in this fashion
went to London. bought gay coat at
pawnshop with his last three shil-
lings. got into the palace grounds lust
for lark. observed a tub of water
near depression In the path the Queen
was walking on. deliberately upset the
tub and scraped the ground with his
stick or shillalah and let history take
the matter up at that point.
The story was so good II ought to
have been true. Sir Walter ORahilly
has always been in my mind since.
WILLIAM BERNER.
NEW YoRK, May 1e.
The New York herald., 1922-05-17
The Resourceful Bootlegger.

The zooming of "a plane in the light
Of the waning moon, the machines
descent near Croton-on-H Hudson and
the crash Of poor landing. the avia-
tor limping along nearby road to a
waiting motor car, the discovery in
the wreck of Montreal paper of the
same date and $50 bottles Of Scotch
whisky
Elementary, Watson; some one has
been trying to cut out the middle
mems profits and deal direct with a
flying bootlegger from Canada.
There is no mystery in the case, but
there is a diverting slant on the state
OF the public mind.
Twenty years ago If man had
flown from Montreal to Westchester
county all New York would have
hummed with the news. But nobody
would have noticed whether or not
the aviator had cargo Of whisky in
the hold Of the airship.
Nowadays man could fly from
Montreal to Westchester every day
for month and nobody would pay
any attention. Even the children in
the country no longer bother to look
up when a plane buzzes past. It's an
old story.
Nowadays an aviator could come
down with crash at Croton, and in
the absence OF any fatality or liquor it
would be only neighborhood news.
But when the aviator has loaded
mans wonderful invention with fine
Scotch whisky and has spilled some
OF the stuff in trying to land his con-
traband cargo, then everybody--the
vets, the drys and the neutrals, if
there are any--finds the incident
highly exciting.
The only moral in the Adventure
of the Resourceful Bootlegger is that
the prospective recipient of the rare
old Scotch should have provided
lighted landing field.
The New York herald., 1922-05-17

holding about $50 bales of cotton of
average size. Sodium cyanide, contain
ing not lesa than 81 per cent. cyanogen.
is mixed with water at the rate Of 200
pounds of cyanide to fifty gallons Of
water. For each 100 cubic feet of space
fifteen fluid ounces of the sodium cya-
nide solution is used. mixed with six
iuid ounces Of sulphuric acid which Is
about 80 per cent. pure and six fluid
ounces of water. The formula varies
where cotton waste is to be fumigated,
as stronger solution is necessary on
account of the excessive quantity Of
seeds.
Air is exhausted from the chamber
, until the vacuum gauge registers %.
The gas is introduced into the chamber
and retained for about twenty-five min
utes. including the time that 1t takes to
enter. Air is then passed through the
generator for five minutes. The air
valve of the fumigator is opened and air
is allowed to enter until the gauge falls
TO 5. The bales are> then held In the
chamber for hour and 40 minutes.
The vacuum is then applied until the
gauge reaches 25. fresh air being intro
duced into the chamber until at least
twice the volume of the chamber has
been pumped. The pump Is kept In
operation during the time the bales are
being removed to exhaust the air.
A certain amount of residual gas re-
mains in the bales after they have been
removed. A sanple of each bale is
taken, and they are sold according to
these samples. There is danger attached
to this. as a pocket in the bale may be
opened and the gas escape. The Depart
ment of Agriculture has no regulation
covering this feature. The bales should
be allowed to remain untouched for at
least twenty-four hours. There is space
enough In both plants to accomplish
this. A physical examination should
also be made OF all Of the workers.
In one plant a neutralizing tank Is
used, but there is none in the other.
The gas is neutralized by mixing with
water and caustic soda.
Cyanogen has a characteristic odor re-
sembling that Of bitter almonds. A
small amount Of the gas drawn into the
lungs may cause instant death. 1t diff
fuses rapidly when exposed to the air.
Experiments have shown that three to
four volumes of the gas mixed with
1000 volumes OF air can be breathed
constantly without Ill effects, but five
volumes produce symptoms Of poisoning.
The Fire Department has recently
consulted the Department Of Health
upon the advisabillty OF installing ap-
paratus that would be useful in case Of
fire in plants where this gas is stored.
The gas is combustible and explosive.
As IL Is readily soluble In water, the
Fire Department has been advised to
require the installation Of tanks of
water into which the gas could be
forced In case Of fire. after which the
water could be automatically discharged
into the street sewer without danger to
any one.
The New York herald., 1922-05-17
The Spell OF the Soil.

Long since It was Catullus wrote
About the bees and birds and dryads;
The lines that none Is left to quote
on branching trees; rhapsodic triads
On sunburnt toll. or juice of grape;
or honest mirth, and rustic japc.
John Evelyn we later meet.
Upon old England's chalkstones fertile
He we'll contrived a still retreat
Besprent with eglantine and myrtle.
And there did he discourse full store
or learning, charm and garden lore.
Then II you come to moderns, too.
The feats of Burbank's cultivation
Outspeed all deeds Of derring-do
To stimulate imagination.
He doesn't lop off arm or head.
But makes two grow for one. instead.
And so it is, since time began.
There works a spell In farm and garden
Elusive as the soul OF man,
Pervasive as the tale Of Arden
Though, true, some farmers" bette
know
The scrape OF pen than rake or hoe.
MAURICE MORRIS.
The New York herald., 1922-05-17
Americas Isolation.
The Forty-Elght States Form ;
World Of Themselves.

To THE NEW York HERALD; The true
policy for the United States OF America
to follow is the plain and simple policy
of common sense; and may be summed
up in three words, Concentrate on
America"
To lament the isolation of America is
ridiculous: and II Is noteworthy and
significant that the lamentations began
in Europe.
Let US hold what we have and be
content. The United States of America
is world in itself. consisting as It does
Of forty-eight States. each one as large
as a European country. intellectually rich
in everything that man can desire, and
protected upon both TANKS from It's only
possible enemies by thousands of miles
OF ocean. The only weak point, our
heel OF Achilles. lies In the Philippine
Islands which should be dropped.
Then the United States would stand,
secure and square. in its most fortunate
and magnificent isolation.
BERTRAND SHADwELL.
NEW YoRK, May 16.
The New York herald., 1922-05-17
The Poem.

How futile my attempts at poetry
Words are inadequate. I do but Jest
When I would try to give the world
my best;
Last night ] wrote and wrote, when
suddenly,
Thinking of you, seemed at last 10 sec
My efforts worthless; you are thought
expressed
In such perfection that this endless
quest
OF mine in writing seems absurdity.
I write OF life--you are a poem OF life I!
sing Of joy--you arc q song of joy !
The very atmosphere you breathe is rife
With beauty, beauty pure, without
alloy:
And you have taught me to- be glad
I live
What more could any poem. e'er writ
ten. give?
ELISABETH SCOTLAND.
The New York herald., 1922-05-17
Home Making.
The Wife's Three Requisites In
Meeting the Husbands Ideal.

To THE New YORK HERALD: 1t would
be a splendid thing to have new
clause inserted in the marriage con-
tract. something similar TO this; "Are
you willing to be a housekeeper?"
Every man who marries has in his
heart a picture of a home as the out
come. Any girl. fiapper or what not. has
to have but three requisites. a desire. a
cook book and persistent effort, and a
good housekeeper will be the result.
I know a woman who from the age
of sixteen to fifty kept books for one
flrm. She married with absolutely no
experience or knowledge OF cooking or
housekeeping. In one year her store
room of jellies. jams and canned things
would make you sit up and want to
do likewise. Let a girl just want to be
and she can be. It's the grandest thing
in the world to be a real homemaker.
Cora III. COLEMAN.
MOUNT VERNON. May IS.
The New York herald., 1922-05-17
The Outlaw.
From the Kansas CITY Timss

From the Kansas City Tfmes.
l know a pirate bold and gay.
Who struts his Uttered decks clate. .
And comes and loves and sails away
And leaves me here to watch and wait
He rides the waves of Glover Sea,
The blossoms foaming as he goes
To chase the freighted Bumblebee
That heads for harbcr in the Rose.
Then too bandit chief by moods.
lie holds a rebel prince In bond
Far In the orchard solitudes,
Or down beside the pasture pond.
He blows blast upon his horn
With every short and sharp command
Through gloomy deflles OF the corn
He guides at eve his tattercd band.
But when my wanderer comes In
From trail and camp and wild foray
There's one to kiss his chubby chin
And wash the battle stains away.
And then his eycs--a blue. blue pair
Close slowly till he scarce can peep
She hears the pirate say his prayer
She rocks the bandit chi6 to sleep.
NJ ID. BYRD.
The New York herald., 1922-05-17
School Historians Found Guilty.

While the great mind Of the Hylan
administration, Commissioner HrRsH-
FIELD, has been deliberately engaged
upon determining what American
history ought to be, jury of school
principals and teachers has distanced
him. The superintendent of Schools,
DR.. ErrINGER, announces that twelve
school books on American history
and government have been duly tried
by this jury and, in some respects,
found guilty.
The authors of the text books were
not Intentionally unpatriotic. says
Or. ErrrNGER; neither were the books
the result OF "unwholesome propa.
ganda." Some OF the writer's frankly
said that they were trying to perfect
the relations between the United
States and Great Britain and they
wrote accordingly.
The indictment against the authors
includes: Failure to recognize that
The New York herald., 1922-05-17
Lights Across the Continent.

The pilot of the aerial mail who
points the nose of his airplane west
ward for a transcontinental flight
may soon start with assurance that,
flying by night or day, he has bet
ter chance of reaching his destina-
tion than he ever had in the past.
A line of lights that will flash into
being with the dusk and burn
brightly as his guiding beacons until
he has passed the twilight OF the
next morning will mark the sky lane
he is to follow.
The program OF the Administra-
tion for the upbuilding OF an air
feet, in which the first step was
taken Saturday by the decision OF
the House of Representatives to ap-
propriate $1,900,000 for an aerial
mail. means a new service. service
OF safety and proficiency and not a
service of misadventures.
The pilot with his eye glued on the
needle of an unsteady, oscillating
compass goes with the memories of
past sacrifices to inefficiency. In his
place comes the pilot of dependable
machine guided during the day by
the radio finder. The danger and
uncertainty of finding safe landing
in case of emergency passes, too. In
place of this peril he has all along
the line of his route stations where
he may stop, visible by day and easily
identified at night by the system OF
lights which guides him.
His way is as carefully guarded for
him as the safety OF railway track
is secured by the block system. He
has no more reason for going astrav
than the mail carriers who for gener-
ations have preceded him on their
duties over the ground routes. He
can look down upon the roads where
once the post boy with his saddle
bags was happy at five miles an hour,
where the stage coaches labored in
the winter hub deep in mud, and
upon the dimly marked trails where
the pony express rider met the perils
of food and storm and the still
greater dangers of bad Indians and
worse white men. The successor of
all of them. the railroad train, now
grown into the fast mail. remains his
only COMPETITOR.
Where will he see the fash Of his
first night light? On the fields OF
Ohio or further on In the middle
The New York herald., 1922-05-17
Checking the Pothunter.

Sportsmen in general will approve
the clause of the new State game
law which forbids any unnaturaIized
foreign born individual to hunt for,
capture or kill in New York State
any wild bird or animal, whether
game or not, of any description, ex-
cepting in defense of person or prop
erty, or to own or be possessed Of a
shotgun or rife of any make.
Enforcement OF this prohibition
should mean a greater supply OF
game and the preservation OF many
of our songbirds which have been
killed by thousands by men who did
not appreciate the privilege they en-
joyed in being permitted to hunt.
Formerly 1t was difficult to cope with
the pothunters to whom every feath-
cred creature was game. Now the
possession of a shotgun or rife will
be prima facie evidence of violation
Of the law.
With the disappearance Of the pot
hunter and with alert game wardens
sportsmen may look forward to en-.
joying in this state shooting of the
frst quality. There is no reason
why pheasants cannot be cultivated
10 the same extent here as in Eng
land. These beautiful birds thrive
near civilization and in some parts
OF New York State, notably In Liv.