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

Rev. Thomas Eddlestun, formerly
rector of High Roding, Essex, Engr
recently commenced his duties as
vicar of Braintree, and in an address
from the pulpit explained why he had
transferred from the one living to the
other, thereby sacrificing about $500
a year.
He said before he knew that the
Braintree living was vacant he woke
UP in the middle of the night at High
Roding. and heard a strange passage
of Scripture ringing in his ears
Take this child away and nurse 1t
for me, and l will give thee thy
wages"
The vicar said he thought there
must be a child in distress at High
Roding, and he searched about the
parish for two days to see If there
was anyone being neglected, but he
could find no one Then he received
the offer of the living at BrainTee
and regarding 1t as a direct call from
God, he accepted, as he considered II
his duty to undertake the nursing Of
the children of Braintree.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02
IILTED LOVER GOT REVENGE

A young Swiss couple at Davos
we're to have been married shortly,
but the girl Tilted her lover becaus,
he had shaved off his beard. Though
he pleaded for several weeks she re-
fused to see him or reply to his let.
ters. Then during the night he pasted
all the love letters he had received
from his fiancee on the walls Of her
residence. In the morning crowd
collected before the house and was
busily engaged in reading the letters
when the fiancee discovered the affair.
While a gendarme kept back the
crowd. the servants, armed with
brushes, soap and water, scrubbed off
the love letters from the walls. cart
less girl, l return you your letters" ,"
was written in large letters above the
correspondence.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02
PRAYER CAUSED LIBEL SUIT

If one might not be irreverent in
saying so, there is a strong humorous
favor in an extraordinary libel suit,
In which Rev. r. Fisher, pastor Of the
Presbyterian church at Neoga, ILL.,, has
been sued for $4,000 by member Of
his congregation, named Jacob
Stroll. The cause of the trouble was
a prayer 20, Lord, make Brother
Stroll better man; cause him to
pay his debts and have him cease
backbiting," fervently supplicated the
minister in front of a startled congre-
cation. Other faults" Of the parish
pner were recited in the prayer, and
divine interference was asked for, to
rectify them. Naturally, Jacob re-
sented such special mention, and re-
nuested the minister either to make
another prayer and sort Of clear his
character before Providence, or be
sued for libel
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02
PLAYS
SOME ODD FRANKS
PERFORMS MANY c"EER STUNTS
IN A NEW JERSEY
HOME.
MEYER TOUCHED OCCUPANTS
Furniture and Decorations Are Torn
or Melted, But No One Is Hurt
Though the Bolt Had to Dodge
Them.

Lightning has been known to play
queer freaks. but a streak Of the Jer
sey brand which struck the home Of
John Ackermann IN Rochelle Park,
n. j.. a few days ago, seems to have
done more queer things in a moment
than had been done since Ajax deled
the fluid From removing the four
eastors of table to shipping off the
steel stub Of a pen with which young
woman was writing in an adjoining
house, the zigzagging bolt managed to
disrupt or injure most everything in
its path.
The bolt melted the telephone wire
and hurled the molten metal against
window with such force as to make
mosaics of several panes, the spatter'
ing hot metal so deeply ENGRAVING IT,
self in the glass that there has been
no getting It out.
One side Of the hall was ripped out
and from there the lightning flashed
into the parlar. where a broken lamp
and scattered and broken bric-a-hrac
told Of its passage through that apart
ment
Then It journeyed to the dining
room, where MI Ackerman was sit
ting. The walls, blackoned, scared
and bulged out on three sides, show
that the bolt struck the room in three
places. and Ackerman is still mar
yelling how it was that the lightning
flashed all around without ever touch
ing him.
In the kitchen was an old-fashioned
clock. quite heavy and fully two feet
in height. The lightning removed this
from the kitchen and deposited the
wreck in the dining The west
side of the kitchen wall was blown
out. The kitchen floor was blown up
ward. The kitchen table was spin.
tered into bits and the range was shat
tered into many pieces.
A young woman next door was writ
ing a letter and her pen-point disap'
peared as the bolt shook the place.
Yet, strange to say, although there
were four persons in the house at the
time not one Of the occupants suffered
any injury from the freakish bolt
other than the shocked surprise that
would be expected on such an exciting
Occasion.
+ William H. Jacobs and his son
+ Charles II. Jacobs, of Aberdeen, Md,
had a most remarkable escape from
death during a terrific thunderstorm
bolt of lightning struck their barr
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02

THE United States is to test the sin
! cerity of Russia and Japan in their
recent claim of adherence to the open
door policy in China made recently CO.
incident with the signing of the new
treaty by the Car and the Mikado. 1t
has been announced at the state de-
partment that the government VIII
press at once for recognition from
these two powers Of the railroad con
cession recently granted by China TO
an English-American syndicate.
This is the concession which Russia
blocked with an emphatic protest last
winter. Since then the negotiations
have been in the statu quo. Now they
are to be resumed at once. The gov
ernment is to find out whether or not
Russia and Japan intend to bar the
United states as well as other powers
out of Manchuria by raising unJustl-
fable objections to the admission OF
other nations to that rich field.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02
WOMAN RUNS A MOUSE FARM

Why is the average woman more
afraid of a mouse than of her hus-
bands wrath over her miIliner's bill?
Why at the sight of wee, inofenslVe
rodent, will she fly screaming to
table or chair to the accompaniment
of reckless display of hosiery? Ana
can anybody under the sun explain
why the nervy young woman who VIII
grapple with and capture a burglar
and turn him over to the police, VIII
pull off a lovely fainting fit If anybody
shouts, Look at the mouse!"
Absolutely for the first time in be
friTed womandom, a real, live and nor
NAL woman has advanced to the firing
line with answers to the foregoing
question. This daring woman is Miss
Abbie z. c. Lathrop the owner OF a
successful mouse farm at CRANKY
Mass. She raises yearly from 5000 to
10000 rats and mice for medical lab
oratories.
"Woman's fear of the mouse" says
Miss Lathrop, 81 believe dates back to
the Garden of Eden. There can be no
possible doubt about it, for as far back
as I have been able to go in the his
tory of the world, women have hoped,
skipped and jumped at the sight of a
mouse"
In her rodent family, Miss Lathrop
has mice of ten different coIors and
90 combinations of color White is
ordinary and black is not startling,
but when it comes to cream-colored
mice or orange mice, one is surprised
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02
The Bolt Crashed Down on Them.

in which both were occupied at the
time in embarrassing, a horse. The
came through an end of the
building like fash, and struck the
animal, killing it Immediately, but
both men we're only momentarily
shocked. They recovered within a
minute or so and returned tn the
house. There was a large quantity OF
hay in the barn, but, strange to say,
caught on fire. The only evil
dence of the visitation of the electri,
cal bolt is the dead horse and a hole
in one end of the barn.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02
SPEND HONEYMOON IN PRISON

A strange love drama was enacted
at Hamburg recently, where a sailor
and his sweetheart determined to
commit suicide owing to their mar
riage being opposed by the girls pa
rents. With this object in view the
couple went to field outside the city
with two pistols, sat down opposite
one another, and each aimed at the
others hearts. They fired stimuli
aneously, but only succeeded in
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02
CoSTERS IN COMPETITION

American visitors at the recent in
ternational horse show at Olympia
London, were especially interested II
the novel costers' competition. The
donkeys, costers and domains, attiret
in dresses of bright-hued colors, en-
tered the arena to the tune o,
Knocked EN- in the Old Kent Road
Many Of the drivers had their clothes
literally covered with "pearliest,' re
calling a type which is now rapidly
dying out. Their presence certainly
added to the picturesqueness of the
show
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02
SNAKE CHARMER HURLS A
REPTILE AT THE SHERIFF
FOUR OTHER WRIeoLlNe POISON
sPREApERs FOUND ON THE
PRISONERS PERSON.

Greeley, Col-Gordon King, a snake
eharmer, was placed In the county
Jail here, charged with disturbance,
resisting an officer and committing an
assault with a deadly weapon. The
deadly weapon used by King was
ratt,esnake three feet long.
King goes under the name Of Count
Salvatore and travels from town TO
town exhibiting his skin. He got into
an alterchtion near the depot with
railroad section hand, Sheriff Flor
ance placed both men under ar
rest, King tried to escape and was
grabbed by the arm, and in pulling
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02

wounding one another slightly Then
the police came up and arrested them,
The lovers were tried and acquitted,
but the public prosecutor appealed.
Meanwhile the lovers had overcome
their relatives objections, and had be-
come man and wife. The second trial
nevertheless took place, and the
couple are spending their honeymoon
in Jail, for the man was sentenced to
q months Imprisonment for attempted
murder, and the woman to fort
nights Imprisonment for the same Of
fense.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02

the Thames recently. While a po-
liceman was bathing in the river near
Molesey Lock he felt something grip
his leg, and had some difficulty in
getting free. Determined to inVesti-
gate the matter further he afterwards
dived in and came into contact with
human body. Brought to the sur
face, it proved to be that Of boy of
thirteen, Leonard Williams of East
Molesey. The boy gradually revived,
and stated that he got into difficult
ties while bathing, and after sinking
for the third time and barely CON
scious he felt the constable's foot and
Immediately gripped It.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02
DEAD MAN DRIVES ENGINE

An extraordinary incident, which
might have led to a grave disaster, is
reported from Paris to the effect that
the driver of a train on the line from
Ftel to Carnac died on the footplate
the other day from heart failure. His
stoker noticed nothing unusual until
the train was just about to enter the
station, when, perceiving that the
train was still travelling at a compar-
ativeIy high speed, he turned to the
driver, and 10 his astonishment found
that he was standing up, leaning
against the side of the cab, stone dead
He at once put on the brakes and re-
versed steam, and the train stopped
inst in time to avert a catastrophe.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02

She also has silver, blue and agouti
mice.
The red mice are much the color of
the bay of a horse and the blue mouse
is about the color of a maltese cat.
The agouti mice have dark brown hair
with yellow tips which gives a golden
brown effect Her silver mice with
ruby eyes are the rarest combinations
One of the most remarkable things
about Miss Lathrop's farm is her an
CORA cat TAB. This feline will not
allow a strange cat on the farm and
she protects Miss Lathmps rats and
mice
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02
pIn chewa nYnamIte car.

Portland, Ind. - A pig weighing
about seventy-fve pounds, the prop
erty of Joseph II. Sell Of Pennville,
was killed in peculiar manner. A
dynamite cartridge accidentally be-
came mixed In the feed and was dis
charged by the animal while chewing.
The, lower jaw Of the pig was broken
by the explosion Of the cap and It's
death followed Instantly
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02
lead DOG MADE TO BAR

An interesting demonstration, iD
which a dead dog was made to bark
by the application Of feeble electric
current to certain muscles Of the
throat after the lungs had been ar
tistically inflated, took place recently
before the French Academy of Sci
ences. Howls werJ produced by mul
tiplylng the experiment, and from thia
It is argued that the so-called loss Of
voice by singers may be counteraoted
by electricity applied to restore mus
cular activity Of the larynx
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02
Took Her Nerve.

The pretty college girl gazed over
the grassy hills with a far-away look.
Beyond the Alps lies Italyl"
Just then one Of her chums whis-
pered:
Look out, Nellie, beyond you lies
mousse"
With wild shrek the college girl
climbed a tree.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02
BIG TORTOISE OF CEYLON

The giant tortoises Of the Galapagos
Islands and other lands are known to
be exceedingly long,lived, but they
probably are not older than the mon
ster tortoise that is kept near Matara,
on the Island of Ceylon. This great
creature is known to have been in eX-
istence towards the end Of the eigh-
teenth century. and since then his
continuous existence has been certi-
fed by successive. governors Of Cey'
Ion and others.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02
QUEER RESCUE OF A BATHER

A boy was rescued from drowning
An a most extraordinary manner on
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02

BY pressing q button behind the
counter a new electrical thief catcher
for stores locks ali dbors and rings Q
bell IA the street.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02

Bombay is famous Buddhist
cave temple K in the Western Ghauts m
considered
Buddhist "chaa in india
Maharajah Bhua G. u.s. AS one
ChrIah
church in form side ais terminating in an ape
and tAe cai ol eao
richly the elephants bearing man ana
the altar
is This
which little
and the mode
through single
comparative
and the whole end of
the han is open forming horseshoe shape
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02

wHE increased attention which the
suffrage cause is attracting in
Washington has astonished the Old
timers whose remembrance of the
small body of women who called upon
the Committee on Privileges ana
Elections at the convening OF every
new congress is the last impression
Of a few plucky women leading des-
perately forlorn hope.
Time was when the woman. who
had suffrage leanings was afraid to
ovow them in Washington, and when
e. was thought exceedingly courageous
~ snch we'll known society leaders
as Mrs. John B. Henderson and Mrs.
Tobn R. Mclean to entertain Miss
susan B. Anthony, the most famous
apostle Of the cause Of woman's as
rightg Belief in the right of women
70 the ballot was supposed to imply
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-02
KInn,a pauahters AsaIst charlty.

KIna's Daughters Assist Charity
The Kings Daughters are organ
wing again for the purpose Of assist
ing in the tent work Of the evangel-
Igtic committee of New York. For
the the last ten years they have had
neighborhood circles connected Win
nearly every tent center. They sup
Dly ice water, mend the tent WISH
from house to house and invite other
women to attend the meetings. They
clothe the scantily clad boys ana
girls who come to the meetings, pay
rent for distressed mothers and ma
Iomnloyment for those out OF work.
New York Sun.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-04-28
WIPED OFF, TUE MAr.

s. FAR as Is known, the only instaore
in the history OF Michigan where a good
sized town has been completely wiped on
the map within three decades is furnished
by Huron county. says III exchange
Thirty years ago Port Crescent, g. tho
entrance Of Saginaw BaE. VAS Il thriving
village Of l,lO population. and the second
laIer,t town In the county To-day
there is not n building. or even a fuundA
ton wall, TO Fhow whera the prosperous
little city once stood. In It's best days
the town boosted saw mills. a salt block.
two good hotels, tons
with Detroit, several large stores. and
many comfortable residences. hut the
salt supply gave out, the timber and
! lumber became exhausted; capitalists
Went elsewhere. labor following. and
within a feu years Port Crescent vanished
from tho face Of the earth. As there
was but little good farming land in the
Immediate vicinity, nothing remained "a
support business enterprises. EuildiEgs
that were once busy with Ne were torn
down and moved away, nan or the bot
ter ones now forming 3 part ~ the village
of Kinde, II miles distant, And thus
Port Crescent passed peacefully away
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NERMONTERs .'OPEN SEASON" ~
III <~sTIOS&J (NpJJNI.

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at their desks munchinz 1t quietly.
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mont rs being voted the most Thought
M man In Washington. The 'tt' IS
the annual cargo Of maple suga-.
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Is 20 have the FIRST consignment OF
sugar. and his "rder l. so large That
shipments to the markets are DELAYED
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tom j. out Of the way.
Each senator receives al least n doz-
~ cake1. ~ he has a family Of chill
dren with sweet teeth each l1cmhor
o. the family is remembered. Accom-
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-,a-t realize that he ought TO possess two
without the other. He must have those
qualities which make FOR efficiency; and
he must a., have those qualities which
direct the efficiency INTO channels for the
public good. He Ia useless II no Is In
efficient. There Ia nothing 10 be lone
with that type Of citizen Of who all that
can be said IL hat he Is harmless. VII
tue which Is dependent upon a siuggtsh
circulation Is not Impressive There is
little place in active life for tho umid
good man. The mt< who is saved by
weakness from robust wickedness is like
wise endered immune from ths robuster
virtues. The good citizen In a republic
must first OF all be abie to hold his own.
re ia no good citizen unless he has the
ability which will mako him work hard
and which a. need will make him fght
hard. The good citizen IL no. n good
citizen dnlcss he lie au ehcient citizen.
"There are plenty 81 mon calling them
selves socialists with whom. up 10 a
time point. II IL quite possible to work
II the next step is one which both We and
they wish 10 take. why Of course take It.
without any regard to the fnrt that our
views az 10 the tenth step may differ
But. on the other hand. keep clearly In
mind that, though 1t has been worth
while 10 take one step, this does not In
tie least mean that II may not he highly
INSTANTANEOUS 70 take tho next.
"The good citizen vil demand liberty
f"l himself. end pc q matter - pride he
viii see to r. that others receive the
| liberty phirh ne tbaS claims rs his ov.n.
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