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The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-09
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WASHINGTON-Here is a unique
w receipt for soup"
First take about ten or a dozen
mspwri hz xug, crumble II up fine
aud put II in a pan or wash bowl, then
pour over 1t enough uswhohs (either
:hhx or aky) to cover It well. Stir 1t
~ we'll with your hands, being careful
% break all the Jumps; leave II set
or a few minutes; then get a few
Yards of cheesecloth and tear II in
pieces and strain the mixture through
he cloth into another vessel, wiring
.he sawdust dry and throw II away.
The remains viii be Lhai ugX uswhohs
mixed; next take the same amount Of
water as you used Of uswhohs and
pour it IN; leave the whole set for a
,ew minutes
It is the soup Of yeEgmen, whose
particular business is robbing safes. A
crude cipher runs through the riga
marole-merely a subdivision of the
tlphabet and the substitution of one
etter for another. The first six let
ers beginning with A are substituted
ior the last six beginning with L, and
so on, with the single exception that
\ IS taken out of its turn and made
he equivalent Of G, an irregularity in
ended 20 protect the cipher from de-
lection But no cipher is proof against
expert analysis: certainly not this
one, which, though still used by
'yeggs," =" nevertheless Is known to the
police, TO post office inspectors and the
treasury secret service people.
Translating, you find that to make
he soup you take ten or a dozen
sticks of dynamite and use either
Xood or pure alcohol in the manner
iirected.
Fewer depredations by yeggmen are
reported this year than usual Last
all a series of such crimes occurred
md since that time apparently there
1as been a period of inactivity among
hese most dangerous Of plunderers.
the post Office inspectors, whose con.
act with yeggmen is frequent, since
he attacks are often directed against
country post Offices, hesitate to say
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-09
Blind Man Tells of Baseball Game

ing his entire attention to study, and,
accordingly, he has found it to his
liking to take in the ball games. Not
only is he familiar with every char
acteristic of the members of the 10.
cal team, but he knows as well the
records and playing abilities of the
visiting aggregations.
Il have often been asked how, as a
blind man, | can enjoy a game Why,
there is nothing going on l don't get.
| know the finer points of the game,
and can map out plays which l think
Jim McAleer in his palmiest days
could not duplicate. Don't you think
it is peasure to see chaps OF the
Milan type skip around the diamond?
l cannot help from yelling every time
| see him completing the circuit
Then there is Speaker of the Bos-
ton team, and Cobb Of the Tigers
How l love to watch them in ac.
ton!
1T is my firm belief that all blind
people have a sort Of intuition, and
everything that is going on around
them makes a picture in their mind.
That is the way it appears to me,
anyhow. I can sit in the grand stand
In the ball park and picture what
Walter Johnson and the rest of the
players look like.
When the game is over, don't
have the least trouble getting to the
street cars. can feel my way along
the grand stand and reach the street"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-09

the plaster cast, represents the nayi'
gator seated in a heavy chair. He
has noble, intellectual head and a
fine dreamy face He Is attired in
knee breeches and dressing gown of
ample folds On the right knee is a
large volume, intended, no doubt to
represent his great work to naviga'
tion, with his right hand resting upon
IT, At his left besides the chair, is a
globe and sextant On the other side
Of the chair are more books. The
base bears this inscription: 'Execu.
ted by Ball Hughes, 1847."
Ball Hughes not only modelled the
first statue to be cast in bronze in
America, but he is said to have carved
the first portrait figure sculptured in
marble in this country. This was a
statue Of Alexander Hamilton erected
in 1885 in the rotunda of the New
York Merchants Exchange, which was
destroyed eight months later by fire.
Among the priced relics in the Boston
Atheneum, carefully guarded in an up.
rer storeroom of the Beacon street
ibrary building, is the little model Of
this historic work
Nathaniel Bowditch who was a ma
tive of Salem, died in Boston in 1885
For some years before his death he
and the sculptor Hughes were close
friends Bowditch was an eXtraor-
binary genius. At ten years of age
The straitened circumstances Of his
parents forced him to leave school,
and from twelve to twenty-one he
was an apprentice in ship. chandler's
shop. Then he passed nine years at
sea, finally becoming master Of a
ship. After quitting his nautical life
he made his home in Boston and de-
voted himself to learning and science.
He gained a pretty full knowledge of
the Latin, Greek, French, Italian, Por-
tuguese and German languages, made
himself the most eminent mathemati-
clan and astronomer that America had
produced, and did more for the repu-
tation of his country among men Of
science in Europe than had been done
by any other man. except perhaps
Benjamin Franklin.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-09

IMAGINE, If you can, one who has
| never seen the light of day, sitting
n his accustomed place in the grand
stand roofing with all his eenrgy for
he success Of the home team, and you
;an easily figure out just why Wash
ngton always supports a ball team,
although her ball tossers have not fin
shed in the first division during the
asst decade.
Eugene BreWerton, Familiarity known
% his friends as Jack has perhaps
IS wide acquaintance among the pa.
rons of the national game at the cap.
tai as "Gabby" Street or Walter John
son, and is uuquestionably the most
unique rooter who ever patronized the
port. Jack" was born in Columbus,
5. c., "A years ago, and after receiv-
ng a public school education matricu-
ated at the University of South Caro-
ina. He came to Washington a few
sears ago to study law at the George
own University, and it is his ambi-
ion to become as famous a lawyer as
he blind senator from Oklahoma,
Thomas Pryor Gore
But Jack does not believe in CIV
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-09
THE BOWDITCH CAST
Original Design From Which
Statue Was Made.
Counterfeit Presentment Of the
American Navigator Is Real Model
Of First Bronze Statue Done
In This Country.

Boston.-In the spacious vestibule
of that venerable and interesting insti'
tuition, the Boston atheneum, the
city's Oldest library, with its wealth
of literature and art treasures, Is n
seated figure of large proportions
that is the first object TO attract the
eye of the visitor as he enters. This
figure, seated there so calm and re-
poseful, Is the counterfeit presentment
of a noted American, a son of Massa'
chusetts, and as such II Is interesting,
but aside from the great man that II
represents the statue has an historical
significance, its chief claim to distinc
ton lying in the fact, as the visitor
may learn by reading a small inscrip'
ton attached to It, that 1t is the orig
inal plaster cast of the first bronze
statue made I'm America.
The figure is that Of Dr. Nathaniel
Bowditch, the great navigator, and the
renowned mathematic and astrono'
mer. The bronze statue OF which this
IS the plaster cast, stands in Mount
Auburn cemetery, surrounded by an
iron fence, one of the most conspicu.
Gus pieces Of sculpture within that
beautiful city of the dead Ball
Hughes was the sculptor. The plaster
cast is also his. He was an English
man, who came to this country in
1929, landing IN New York 4 little
later he came to Boston and settled in
Dorchester, where he made his home
up to the time of his death in 1868
The Bowditch statue, as shown in
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-09

to improve on the plow, it is said,
and in 1855 a patent was taken out in
England for a castiron plowshare. La.
ter still came the case hardening or
chilling
Among those in the United States
who contributed to the development of
the plow were Thomas Jefferson and
Daniel Webster Webster, 1t will be
recalled, took a great interest in things
agricultural and often went into the
fields of his own farm ana held the
plow handles behind yokes of oxen.
Although better plows were then
available, in slavery days in some por.
tons of the south a plow comprising
q blade shaped not unlike fatiron
was attached to the end of sort OF
tongue. At the other end of this
tongue was a cross-stick which could
be used by two men in drawing it. Be.
cause of the sandy soil the work was
not particularly laborious.
The plow shown in the accompany
ing cut has no iron in it except the
plowshare and the bolt pinning it. The
framework is all fastened with wood.
en- pegs. This relic is owned today in
Housewife, N. Y.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-09
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REX DENHAM'S LUCK
By CLAUDINE SIssoN

II Was ten o'clock in the evening
and Rex Denham was strolling about
the streets and smoking and thinking
He had landed from an ocean liner
that day. He had been two years
abroad to forget things. He asked
himself II he had succeeded. and he
shook his head and sighed
There was a woman in question,
Whom men lose money they curse.
When a man loses the woman he loves
he sighs, It's not a matter for even
his most confidential friends, He
must fight It out alone.
No; he had not forgotten. She
probably had, Just as thousands Of
other women had. Had he been too
hasty I'm speaking the words that
brought on the quarrel?
III you CHARGE me with that I never
want TO see your face again!" she had
said.
When a lover thinks he has rival
1t is really worse than II he knows il
TO be a fact and can meet him. Was
she a coquette? Was she flirting2
Was It true, as some persons had
whispered. that she gloried in break
ing mems hearts? He had asked him
self the question IN London-Paris-
Berlin-on the land and on the sea,
but he had never answered Il TO his
own satisfaction He was asking it
again tonight as he sauntered and
smoked.
4 girl ton OF !vslTe yeass old walk
ed rapidly past him. He saw her only
as he had seen hundreds Of others
She was thirty feet ahead of him when
a man sprang out of a dark doorway
and seized her and grabbed at the
poor little purse in her hand. AT her
first scream for help the smoker
leaped forward. He reached over the
shoulder of the struggling girl and
grasped the man by the throat and
then struck with his cane The re
leased victim retreated to the curb
stone and stood to watch the affair
She enjoyed it, She grinDed and
smiled
Say, let up, will you!" called the
man after a minute q thought It
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-09

Bessie M. Baker, clever young
hCrsewoman of Lynn Mass, is so de-
voted to her horse that she faced
death lately rather than take the
chance of losing him. She looked
straight into the barrel of a revolver
held by bandit and clung to the
bride of the horse, though she was
threatened with instant death If she
did not drop it. Wasili Iwankowski, a
Russian bandit, who, with two Others
lately killed shoe manufacturer and
started to run away with $4,000 in
coin and bills, rushed down one Of the
main thoroughfares revolver in hand
IT front of the home Of Charles Ba-
ker, city official and former member
of the state legislature, he saw a
horse waiting for Miss Baker. He
rushed up and grabbed the bride
from the groom. He started to mount,
but Miss Baker darted from the house,
grabbed the bride, which by that
time was stained with blood from a
wound which the bandit had received,
and started to scream. The robber
pointed the revolver at her and threat
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-09

years ago, and like so many other in
ventions, Il was an American product
More than three-quarters of a century
before that there was a machine pat
entod in England for use In sewing en-
broidery, and in 1870 an improved ma,
chine for the same purpose, followed
by another for sewing leather gloves
Still others performed crochet work.
but none was really intended for the
work of the sewing machine which
came yet later
Elias Howe set the ball rolling in
1876 when he took out his patent for
the needle with the eye in the point
and the shuttle for uniting two edges
In a seam the stitch being made by
interlocking two threads. like SO
many inventors of that time he had
much difficulty in enllsting the neces-
sary capital TO place it On the market.
But in the introduction of 1t the at.
tention Of scores of inventors was
turned towards the usefulness and
necessity for sewing machines, and
patents by the hundred subsequently
were secured.
The plow has So more ancient his
tory than any of the articles men
toned. While the one shown in the
Illustration goes back nearly a cen
tury and a half. the first plows date
back to the days before Christ In
fact, the very earliest records speak of
the Flow. On some of the monuments
of Egypt a plow made from the limb
Of tree is shown. In Palestine, three
sticks arranged to support each other
were long used, one of them being
sharpened to wedge. This same type
of plow is used today in Ecuador In
some countries camels are used to
draw practically the same kind of
plow
In the early part of the eighteenth
century in Europe progress began to
be made in the construction of plows,
the first one coming from Holland to
England, where deep tillage was be-
ing practised. A Scotchman was next
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-09

The professor was delivering an elo-
quent address on cruelty to animals,
and, to Illustrate how a little judicious
forethought would eliminate to a great
extent the sufferings that even small
insects are subject to, said:
"As / was coming through the hall
tonight l saw a bald-headed gentleman
very harshly treat a little innocent
house-ny which had alighted on his
head.
Now, If there was any justification
for such bad temper, l would be quite
justified in indulging in it at the pres
ent moment, for fly has just alighted
on the back of my head. I can't see
It, but l can feel 1t.
Possibly some Of you can see 1t
now; It is on the top of my head Now
it is coming down my brow; now il. Is
coming on to my G-r-r-eat pyramids
of Egypt, it's a-Wasp!"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-09
WHEN INVENTORS WERE FEW
The Beginnings Of Now Common Do
Vices for Tightening Manual
Labor.

New York.-ln this day OF great
mechanical achievement about all the
children Of this generation know OF
the early day sewing machines, bed
warmers, household looms and other
like necessities of our grandfathers
must be gained from old photographs
and the printed page, To the past,
however, these inventions we're fully
as notable and important as the mod
ern ones of our day.
In an accompanying cut is shown a
chain stitch sewing machine of about
a half century ago. The first real
sewing machine-one used in sewing
cloth. was invented about seventy
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-09
Pine Gives Cadet TvphoId.

Midshipman Smith. who was strick.
en- with typhoid fever on the Indiana
at Plymouth, England, contracted the
disease, it is said from smoking a
briar used nearly a year ago by his
roommate at Annapolis who had a bad
case of typhoid This theory is taken
as proof that concentrated nicotine
cannot destroy typhoid germ. The
medical department of the navy will
examine into the theory with the de
suit that midshipmen of the future
may confine themselves to their own
pipes
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-09

Grasped the Man by the Throat and
Then Struck With His Cane.
was my own kid, and that she was 60
ing after something for her mother
The athletic assailant desisted. He
dragged the man to the curbstone,
Strengthened him up and then gave
him hoist that sent him nearly
across the street.
My, but how l do love you for
that" exclaimed the girl as she
stood twisting her apron. IF ever l
get married."
Did he get your purse?" interrupt
ed Mr.. Denham.
NO | hung on and bit his hand
I always bite them. He'd have choked
me, though, if you hadn't come up
Gracious, but how you did wallop him!
Amt a pugilist, are your"
"Oh, no." laughed the man as he
pulled at his rumpled sleeves.
Belong to the ball team?"
mo"
Just a gent, eh? Just a gent look
in for trouble?'
mo, l wasn't looking for trouble,
but when he grabbed you l thought
it time to interfere"
Say, you did it bully. l bit him,
and you caned and kicked him, and |
guess he won't come around here for
some time to come. Lawks! if he'd
got that ten cents the painter lady
would have give up and died. It was
her last cent"
who do you mean by the painter
lady?" asked Denham as they saun-
tered along together.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-09

TROUBLED by the inroads the dis
1 ease is making in some of the
eastern states at the present time,
The government has ordered an inves-
tigation into the epidemic of infan-
tile paralysis. New York, Pennsyl-
vania, Massachusetts, New Jersey,
and the city of Washington, D. c.,
have felt the disease the heaviest
this year. and the scores of deaths
that have occurred among the little
ones of that district has caused Uncle
Sam to take some action.
Dr. Wyman of the Public Health
md Marine hospital service, is the
eader in the investigation, and he
made the announcement this week
that he believes the disease to be both
infectious and contagious. Although
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-09

1.-THE Leavenworth Overland Spe-
cial" is a palatial Pullman car
which runs every now and then from
Washington to certain rest cure
out west with stone wall around it.
The tours are personally conducted
and are rapidly becoming famous.
Every once in awhile your Uncle
Sam runs across certain persons who,
he believes, are leading a too active
existence. A rest cure is what they
need. Uncle Sam takes charge of them
and sends them, after certain legal
formalities, such as a trial and YER
aict are complied with, out to Leaven-
worth to recuperate.
With Uncle Samuel there Is no class
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-09
Your Body.

your Body.
The human skull and the lower
limbs each contain 30 bones. The
globe of the eye is moved by s.
muscles The normal weight of I
human liver is between three and fou,
pounds. The human skeleton, ex.
elusive of the teeth, consists Of 2O8
bones. Each ear has four bones The
wrist contains eight bones, the palm
of the hand five, and the fingers IA.
There are over 500 muscles in the
human body.-Toledo News-Bee.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-09
BEES ROB "RAT" OF FAME
This Woman's Head Protector Fails to
Lessen the Stings Which Her
Hubby Dodged.

Woodbury., N 1.-THE vaunted rep
utation of the rat" as a protection
against injury was destroyed in the
swoop of band of rampant bees
when Mrs. Carlton Hendrickson was
frightfully stung.
Last year about the same time Hen
erickson was similarly attacked as he
was about to pick beans, and this year
he decided to turn the picking over to
his wife.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-09

wildwood, N. J-Howard L. Strick.
=. manager of the Wildwood Crest
ce of Baker Bros, the founders OF
Is resort, had a peculiar experience
while bathing in the surf He felt
something biting his foot, thought it
was a crab, but upon investigation
found imbedded in bis foot a set Of
false teeth thar had been lost by q
lady cottager who had sneezed while
bathing in the ocean. The teeth were
later returned to their owner
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-09
The Stylish Fisherman.

One of the guests of a fashionable
summer resort in West Virginia got
himself up in his best fishing togs and
started along a certain mountain
stream.
Meeting a native, he asked: Here
my good man! Kindly tell me whether
it would be worth my while to try
fishing in this vicinity"
The native regarded him scornfully
"The fishin' amt good" he finally said
but I amt informed as to how you
values your time "-Lippincott's.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-09

tne kidneys are ulb'
ordered. Doan's Kid
ney Pills cure sick
kidneys.
S. 10. Vaughan, COL
q. South st., lola,
Kan, says: Diabetes
had set in and l ex-
pected to live but a
short time. Kidney
secretions were milky
white and back pains
we're terrible. l was
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-09

so dizzy my wife had to lead me. After
trying everything else, / began with
Doan's Kidney Pills and was soon
helped. Continued use cured me-"
Remember the name-Doan's.
For sale by all dealers. 30 cents a
box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-09
Not Attractive.

THAT show is fraud
What do you mean?"
"Ah, it advertised The Girl Diver
as one Of the sensational acts"
well, didn't she appear?"
"Yes--in regulation diving suit
rubber, helmet and all that
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-09
FACES DEATH TO SAVE HORSE

ened to shoot if she did not drop it.
Miss Baker pluckily held the bride
and screamed all the louder, finally
forcing the bandit to take to his heels
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-09
ARE YOUR KIDNEYS WELT.

The kidney seoretlons tell II disease
Is lurking in the system. Too frequent
or scanIy urination, dlscolored urine,
lack Of control at night indicate that
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-09
EaahIon and Hapnlneaa.

Only those women whom fashion
does not affect can be truly happy
Exchange.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-09

Forget TO do any one an injury, but
remember to do every one a kindness.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-09

English Queen Honored.
.ondon.-The queen has become an
lorary member of the Royal Brit.
Colonial Society of Artists.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-06-16
NORTH ARCADIA

Mr.. and Mrs. r. Purvis of Alma was
the guest of their daughter, Mrs. VIM.
Godfrey, Wednesday.
Alyin Miller visited at the home of
David Cuvrell in Alma Sunday.
Mrs. +. III. Hodges was called to ST..
Johns, "Wednesday to attend the funeral
Of her sister, Mrs. w. w. Brainard.
Mrs. c. II. Clark of Wisconsin, better
known rs Harriet Butterfield. is visiting
at the VIM. Kuhlman home.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. @. Clark spent SIM
day in Sumner with their son, Ralph
Clark and his family,
Miss Francis Church closed her school
Friday for vacation. Ice cream and
cake were served.
Mrs. Hal Bancroft of East Arcadia and
little son visited Mrs. Jasper Nevens,
Friday afternoon,
The new telephones have been in
stalled on line 10 which is now owned
by the farmers.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-06-16
PARKINSON

TIE Children's day was well attended.
Ev&h Richardson is working in the
Union telephone Office at Alma.
Ray Tandermark returned to school
at Ypsilsnti, Monday after weeks
vacation.
Thurman Sprague of Lansing is
spending few days with his parents
Walter Snyder is greatly improving
the looks of his house by giving it a
coat Of paint.
Mrs. A. Walls of Alma called on
friends TN this vicinity Sunday.
Mrs. Welsh is visiting her daughter
Mrs. Balch.
Mrs. Will Myers visited her brother
Nathan Rsnghn at North Wheeler last
Friday.
Clarence Hanley called on Jimmie
Berry, Sunasy.
Frank Wyman of Hamilton, Wash,
called on his niece Mrs. Jessie Berry
last Friday evening.