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The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02

lean music is more and more making
a way for itself. A good deal Of this
music. # is true, Is still composed OF
Coon Songs" and Rag Time pieces,
and very often an insult TO an educat
ed musical ear. But good music is al
so coming to the front. Ten years ago
# was not considered possible in Eu
rope that a musical composer could
be born in America. American inven-
tive genius, American machinery,
American farming methods, American
commerce and trade-those were un-
deniable facts Of respectable proper.
tions. but American music? The day
of really great and distinctively
American musical composition is still
in the future. American composers
have attempted symphony and ora.
torio, but their works rest on dusty
shelves. As a matter Of fact only one
American firm has undertaken to pub.
lish these works.
The rendering of musical compost.
tions. however, in America also, is on
a very high plane In instrumental
music musicians Of the Teutonic and
Slavic races predominate, though
there is no lack Of American perform.
ers also. Instrumental music has
reached such a high degree Of perfec
tion that the beginner, striving to
reach the pinnacle of fame, finds al
most insuperable difficulties. Thus
far American performers seem to be
most successful in vocal music. The
time when Italian singers monopolized
the field is past. German and Ameri
can singers, male and female have of
late gained great repute in this field.
Orchestral music likewise has reached
a high degree of perfection and is lib.
orally patronized by all classes of the
people, and as might be expected un'
der the circumstances the building of
musical instruments of all kinds has
here reached a stage Of perfection eX.
ceeded nowhere else. But in the field
of musical composition, especially in
popular song, thre is still a wide and
virgin field awaiting cultivation and
development.
What we Americans need and
wherein we differ from continental
European nations to our disadvantage
is the social school and congregation,
al cultivation of music. At social
gatherings of young Americans you
seldom hear good part singing in
which all, or the majority, Join. Bring.
ing a serenade with really good sing.
ing is a rare thing Not so in Europe
There one can, of an evening, often
hear good quartet singing and will be
surprised to learn that the singers are
workingmen. Our public schools and
academies also have not fostered vo-
cal music as they should have done,
though It seems that in this partic.
ular things are changing for the bet
ter. When music shall be appreciated
and understood in the home, school
and church, then may we hope to see
composers and great artists in our
midst, and when we have them they
will be valued.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02

whitewashod walls without adornmeut
Of any kind On a small circular ta-
BILE used formerly by William Penn.
is the visitors book. I'm which the
names of Americans figure largely.
The meeting house was built about
1879. At the present time two regu.
lar meetings are held In It every year.
one on the fourth Sunday in May, the
other on the first Thursday IN June
In the neighborins village of Chal-
font ST. Giles, situated some two miles
. the northeast of Jordans. is the
ottage where Milton lived and where
he wrote Paradise Lost" while two
miles further on, still in the same di-
rection, commanding the villa resi-
dences Of Chorley Wood, is the fine
old halfdmbered house Of Kings
Farm. where William Penn was mar
riod, in 1872 to Gulielma. daughter Of
Sir William Springett.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02

every clear night, and every morning
before ten o'clock the mean solar clock
is checked from it. The latter is
housed below the timeball on the
tower which dominates the hill and is
in magnetic connection with the clock
in the boundary wall, which has fur
nished the correct time to countless
visitors to the hill since it was placed
there in 1852.
To this galvano-magnetic clock in
the wall comes every Monday a wom-
an who makes $2,500 a year out of the
queerest occupation in England. She
sells the time to London watchmakers.
Her name is Miss Belleville of
Maidenhead. Eighty years ago the
then astronomer royal suggested to
her father that if he took the correct
ed time on a certified chronometer
every week he could no doubt find nu
merous clients. So he bought a fa
nous watch made for the duke of Es-
sex one of the sons of George III,
and soon worked up a business with
it. When he died his widow sold the
time till she reached the age OF
eighty-one, and then she handed the
business over to her daughter.
When Miss Belleville visits Green
wich at the beginning of every weel,
her chronometer is corrected and she
is given an official certificate. Prom
that her so customers correct their
watches and clocks.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02
GET RIGHT TO VOTE.

The diet of Wurttemberg has just
granted women the right to vote for
members of chamber of agriculture
and has also made them eligible on
the same terms as men. The chamber
of agriculture is a new institution.
The providing for it's establishment
gave votes to women on equal terms
with men, but did not make them
eligible The suffrage association at
once sent a petition that women be
made eligible as members. They
pointed out that according to the la
test census nearly as many women as
men were engaged in agriculture in
Wurttemberg. that more than twenty
six thousand Of them owned the land
which they worked. that Wurttemv
berg Ia essentially a district Of small
farms on which are carried on indus
tries that belong especially to women,
such as poultry raising, vegetable and
fruit growing, etc. The committee
appointed to consider the bid reported
against ths women, but when the
measure came up In the diet q mo-
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02

There was nothing wrong about
silas Carter. He was a strappine
young man who worked in a sawmill
and ate three square meals a day.
When evening came he sat down to
store his mind with knowledge. He
couldn't borrow Shakespeare or
American history and, In consequence
he borrowed romances They were
not eactly dime novels They related
mostly to knights and ohevaliers and
rescues Of distressed damsels.
After reading for two or three
years sllas got the idea that he was
a chevalier, and that the distressed
damsel would sooner or later heaye
Into view He didn't say anything
about IT, II might be that he wasn't
a chevalier. and It might be enat the
distressed damsel would be detained
on the road
One night when he was calling on
Miss Eunice Bebee, the daughter of
a villager, he casually observed:
"Eunice. / love you and want you
TO be my wife"
Il will" she replied
Eunice had known Silas for a long
time, and had come to realize that
she loved him, and why shouldn't she
have answered that way? Why blush
and stick a finger in her mouth and
reply that she would see her father
about IL? She did just as a plain,
sensible girl always does under the
circumstances-she waited for Silas
TO say more.
He began and ended right there.
If the distressed damsel appeared he
would tell Eunice that he had
changed his mind; If she didn't then
they would get married some day.
Eunice continued TO be a good plain
girl, and Silas kept his eyes open
for what was coming
It came one July day. A young
lady from the city, stopping at a sum
mer hotel in the village, came down
to the mill pond to fish. Silas was
in the mill yard. wrestling the saw
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02

logs about, and after a time he heard
a scream. He ran for the water and
was in time to pull very wet and
frightened girl out by the hair
When she could speak she called
him hero and said he had saved her
life and won her eternal gratitude.
She was the distressed damsel and
he the hero-the chevalier There
could be no two ways about that He
was invited to call at the hotel and
receive further thanks, and the drip
ping damsel took her departure
Silas Carter called. He was braced
up by the heroic deed he had done,
and he felt very important when he
found himself in the presence of a
young lady wearing diamonds and
fine clothes, and almost smiling at
the fresh grease on his boots. He
didn't know exactly what to do with
his hat, hands and feet, but he slowed
them away somewhere and modestly
said that he stood ready to rescue a
damsel every day in the week.
He was thanked and thanked, and
the damsel said she could never for
get him. She even went so far as to
give him her address in the city and
say that she would be pleased to hear
from her hero-occasionally. In get
ting off the hotel veranda Silas fell
over a widows poodle dog and rolled
down the steps, but he was none the
less a hero in his own eyes for this
He had read that they occasionally
took a tumble and were none the
worse for it. That evening when he
went over to see Eunice he said:
"Euny, asked you few nights
ago to marry me, didn't II"
"Yes."
We'll, we'll hold on awhile abou
1t, l guess"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02
THIEVES INVENT A NEW WAY
Clever Philadelphia shoplfters Per
feet an Ingenious Device for
Carrying on Their Work.

Pbiladelphia.-Some time ago in
several large stores in this city it
was found that goods were being
stolen in a wholesale way that set all
the floor watchers working with re-
doubled energy, but despite their ex'
ira vigilance the thieves were not de-
tected for quite awhile. Finally their
system was discovered and through
the arrest recently Of two men and
Young woman from $4,000 to $4,000
worth of stolen goods were recovered
in their room. The detectives en-
tered the room just as the three were
unloading goods of various kinds from
the big paper boxes in which the pur-
loined articles had been successfully
secreted while the thieves were at
work in the stores.
The boxes were especially designed
for making thefts easy, the arrange
ment being something new even in
he varied arts of shoplifters. A hole
about twelve inches long and five
inches wide was cut in each box, and
the box was so carried under the arm
with this hole next to the side of the
body that it was almost impossible to
discover it. The accused would each
buy some trifing articles and pay for
it. The bill was then taken and at
tached to the box in such way that
it could be seen readily by the sales
people and store detectives. Each Of
the thieves would operate at different
counters, as a rule, but sometimes one
of the men and the woman would op.
crate together.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02

and rainfall, the earth's mag
netism. and a host Of meteorological
matters forming a science OF, daily
increasing importance and interest.
There is a large galvano-magnetic
clock, fixed on the outside wall of the
and divided into "a hours.
There are still many who believe this
clock is kept going by the sun. They
do not know that the fixed stars are
the real timekeepers, from which Brit
ishers check their daily progress. The
SidereaI clock, kept within one of the
buildings o. the observatory, is cor
rected by observation of the stars
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02

ways looks for and expects the best
the highest, the happiest-and ever
allowing oneself to get into the pesst
mistic, discouraged mood.
Believe with all your heart that YOU
will do what you were made to do.
Never for an instant harbor a doubt
of this. Drive it out of your mind.
if it seeks entrance. Entertain only
the friendly thoughts or ideals of the
things you are bound to achieve. Re.
iect all thought enemies, all discour
aging moods-everything which would
even suggest failure or unhappiness.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02
FRISCO PAT PLAGUE
Federal Health Authorities Describe
Extensive Campaign Against Dis
ease-Spreading Rodents.

Washington.-Wh no case Of hui
man plague has appeared in San
Francisco in two years and four
months and no case of rat plague has
been found there in year and six
months, the deadly war for the eXter-
mination of rats in the Pacific coast
metropolis continues without relaxa-
ton
With this statement Acting Assist
ant Surgeon G. NJ Converse Of the
United States Public Health and
Marine hospital service introduces a
report containing interesting details
of the anti-plague work This war
on rats is mostly in the nature of
prophylactic measure against reinfec-
tion.
Thirty laborers are employed ex-
clusiveIy as rat trappers. There are
in constant use about 5000 traps Of
the cage and snap varieties. During
May 1861 rats were trapped. In this
time the bait used was 321 pounds of
bacon, 104 pounds of cheese and $40
loaves of bread Bread was the best
bait in cage traps; a record is kept
of the location each rat is trapped.
Destruction of rats by poison is now
limited to the sewers During May
27.452 pieces of poisoned bread were
distributed on boards placed in the
sewers.
City inspectors, acting under the
United States authorities, have been
making a reinspection of all premises
in the city and Surgeon Converse says
the result at the present time seems
to show that the people have learned
a lesson of cleanliness,
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02

dramausts Berlioz, Gounod and Mas
senet, and It is with pleasure that the
lover Of music in its higher forms
notes the development Of a school un-
der the leadership OF Caesar Frank
which gives special study to the no
bier forms of symphony and to cham
Der music, and the dep and earnest
compositions of Camille. SaintSaens,
who has followed German models, are
becoming more popular. Saint-Saens,
though II years old, lately travelled in
this country.
But if France has in modern times
furnished few important contribu-
tions to musical literature, Italy has
done still less, though this country
produced an unbroken line of great
composers from Monteverde in the
sixteenth century to Verdi in the
nineteenth. OF the newer Italian com
posers, who for the most part wrote
only superficial, extravagant and SEN
sual works, only Pietro Mascagni
achieved a genuine success with his
beautiful and fiery "Cavalleria Rusti-
cana" Puccini also, the composer Of
"Tosca" and La Boheme," has gained
the respect of the music-loving pub
lie.
The newest field of musical compo-
sition and virtuosity has been opened
by Scandinavian and Slavic compos-
ers and virtuosi. This field is, like
the new Siberian and Manchurian
wheat fields, producing immense re-
suits. Both the Scandinavians and
the Slavs have, greatly to their own
advantage, made the folk-song the
starting point of their compositions,
full, bubbling, exhaustless spring
Of the Slav peoples two nationali-
ties have of late done great things in
music; the Russians and the Bohemi-
ans. Both have only in the nineteenth
century begun to make a reputation
for themselves. Since Glinka in 1910
produced musical treasures from the
Russian folk-song, musical taste has
developed in Russia and is now bear
ing abundant fruit
But today even Russia recognizes,
as does the whole world, that the
great German masters will remain
models for all time to all nations.
In Bohemia the greatest repre-
sentative of the musical art-and per
haps also the greatest Of the later
composers--is Anton Dvorak. IN his
music the national element is even
more prominent than in that OF the
Russians, but the tragic melancholy
which is so often so noticeable in
Russian music is here replaced by live
ly, fiery melodies. The Bohemians
have specially produced great violin
and piano players. Who does not know
the pianist Paderewsh and the violin
list Kubelik? What triumphs they
and other artists among their coun-
trymen reaped in America! So that
today when an artist appears with a
Bohemian name, this is almost in it.
self a sufficient introduction and tt
it is wonderful to see, how even An.
leans can spell and even pronouL-
the most wonderful names.
The other European countries, Hol-
land, Belgium, Spain, Portugal and
Greece have fallen far in the rear in
matters musical. Switzerland has
produced several composers of mer-
it who produced especially some fine
"Alpenlieder" following German mod
els.
America has not yet produced a COM
poser of the first rank, and yet Amer
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02
CHURCH WAs BUILI ON le79
Queer old Quaker Meeting House IN
Bueklnghamshire England, Of In.
ferest 20 Americans.

London.-ln the country Of Bucking.
hamshire, England, is one spot OF pe-
culiar interest 10 Americans. by rea-
son OF its association with William
Penn. the founder OF Pennsylvania
This Is the little meeting house Of the
Society Of Friends at Jotdans Stu.
ated in a wooded hollow al the foot
of hin, It is the very expression OF
seclusion and Of peace The building
Is simple red brick structure. with
an Interior Of the plalnest-plain
wooden wainscotlng and benches. and
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02
An Annronrlate rext.

John d. Rockefeller, Jr.," said a
new York banker, asked me one Sat.
urday afternoon a good Biblical text
o base an address on. I'm thinking.
.e said, about that beautiful verse
from the Twenty-third Psalm-''The
Lord is my shepherd, / shall not
want" Beautiful and appropriate ;
| agreed. But, Mr.. Rockefeller.
there is even better verse in the
same psalm-"Thou anointest my head
with oil; my cup runneth over"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02
Good Habit to CuZtiUate

titude, of expecting that our heart
yearnings will be matched with real
tiles; that things are going to turn
out well and not i'll; that we are going
to succeed; that no matter what may
or may not happen we are going to be
happy.
There is nothing else so helpful as
the carrying of this optimistic expec-
tant attttude-the attitude which al
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02
unpreludtced Editor.

Entirely unprejudiced is the editor
Of the Allgemeine Fleischer-Zeitung,
journal for butchers. He advises
butchers who suffer from headaches,
nervousness or stomach troubles tc
give up meat and adopt a vegetarian
diet
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02
Always Expect Your Dreams Will
Come True, and Reject All Dis
couraging Moods.

There is a tremendous power in the
habit of expectancy, the conviction
that we shall realize our ambition;
that our dreams shall come true, says
Orison Sweet Marden, in Success.
There is no uplifting habit like that
Of carrying an expectant hopeful at
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02

They were heckling him at a polit
ical meeting. At last he could stand
it no longer"
who brayed there?" he cried out
sarcastically.
1T was only an echo" retorted
somebody amid much laughter.-Tit-
Bits
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02
Her Arnument.

"You allowed that young man to
hug you last night. Yet you are not
in love with him"
But, ma, how could 1 ever learn to
love a young man unless / take fev
sonR2"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02
Not Long to Wait.

Mildred-Since our engagement
George has been perfectly devoted to
me. Do you think he win continue
to love me when l am old?
Clarice- Really, dear. | can't say
but you'll soon know.
chord"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02
Rare Friends.

People who really like you are rare.
If you know anyone who really likes
you, you are a fool If you offend
Globe.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02

Water has way of drowning people
who go into it without exercising the
necessary care and precaution to pre-.
vent accident
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02
Giving Him More Employment.

Goodman Gonrong-The world owes
me a livin' and I'm goin' to collect It.
Ruffon Wratz-C'lect mine. too, ole
nal, while you're about it, an Ill let
keep part Of it as commission.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02

ton to amend the bill by making wom
en- eligible was carried by vote OF
43 against 81.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02

Nc OF the hMe 81
most elevating and
consollng gifts of
heaven TO man is
music. Who has
not rejoiced az the
singing Of fresh
chlldreu's voices!
with music the
young man woos
the maiden Of his
choice. With song
the bride or young
wife expresses her
longing for the abb
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-10-22
SMALL RESIDENCE
fire AT WESTON
DEFECTIVE FLUE is
CAUSE OF BLAZE
Prompt Action Prevents Bad Fire
ID. c. Kirk Shipping Farm Imple-
ments to Saskatchewan - Other
News From Normal Town.
Especial Correspondence.)

Weston, Ore, Oct. 21.-The resi-
dence of Mrs. E. NJ. Warren was
slightly damaged by fire this noon
heated. Prompt action and a con-
venient nearby hydrant quickly sub
dued the blaze.
D. C. Kirk, together with his sons
are busily engaged in loading four
box cars of farming outfit and house,
hold goods for shipment to their
holdings in the Saskatchewan district.
They will probably complete loading
and start during this coming week.
Ralph Stages is here on a short
visit from the Wallowa country, where
he and his brother Larkin have 1900
acres under lease.
George Waddingham has secured a
lease on the j. H. Clodius farm on
Dry Creek and will take possession
at once.
Chas. Pinkerton, G. w. Craigen
and w. Oliver, are off on a hunting
trip at the headwaters of Buck creek
Samuel Bradshaw, a former Wes-
tonite, but now living on his Prescott,
Wash, ranch, was here for a few
days during the week visiting his
daughter, Mrs, w. E. Woods. :.
After a pleasant visit at the old
home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs
G. w. DeGraw, Mrs. Cora Barnes left
yesterday for her home in CheIan
Wash.
Miss Grace Gregg has been engaged
as teacher at Gibbon station on the
Umatilla river. The school will be
sustained by subscription
]. E. Marsh and Miss Della Comp
ton were united in marriage recently
at Rockland, Idaho, and will make
their home in Oneida county, where
Mr.. Marsh has taken a homestead.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Dowd left dur
ing the week for visit at the home
of Lewis Dowd on Weston mountain
in hopes Of the change in altitud,
proving beneficial to Mr.. Dowd'!
! health, who is convalescing from {
long siege of typhoid fever.
Lee Wilson purchased from JOIN
/ Sanslyke the transfer and dray bust
ness.
Mrs. Cora Tucker and son Frani
have gone to Portland, where the!
VIII make their home for the future
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-10-22
Ak in Bed. Her Plaint.

Walla Walla, Wash.-Five times
separated from her husband and hav-
ing twice before begun divorce pro-
ceedings against him, Mrs. Rose War
rem Eisler, Of this city, is now finally
determined, she says, to be rid of her
spouse for all time. She has filed her
third divorce proceedings, alleging
cruel and inhuman treatment. She
asks for the custody of her six chill
dren, 5000 alimony and that the
They were married in Nebraska,
property they own be set aside for the
children.
They were married in Nebraska
January /, 1898. They separated first
November II, 1907. Then in June,
1908, she left him again and again
in February, 1910. In May, 1910 she
left him again and recently she desert
ed him again.
She filed her first divorce suit in
August, 1908, the second last May
and the third yesterday.
She says that prior to their last
separation her husband, John Esler,
drove her from the house and when
she returned slept all night with an
ak between them in bed.