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The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-10-14
PHILIPPINE W7TCHCRAFT

That firm belief in witchcraft per
sists in some parts of Pampanga prov
ince is the purport of a communica-
ton received in Manila from an tnves-
tigator, who has Investigated the
claims of Filipinos that they were be-
ing afflicted with various bodily ills
bv persons who are called Magcalums
according to the Manila Times. While
the educated inhabitants scOff at the
belief. It was found to be widespread
throughout the towns as well as in the
agricultural sections far from largN
centers Of population. Extracts from
the communication follows: THE be-
lief is an old one, probably coeX1stent
with the tribes. 1t is not confined to
one or two towns, but exists to a
greater or less degree in all, though
the idea probably is having a greater
hold upon the people Lubao, Macabe-
be and Pasantol than any of the other
municipalities.
"The belief is that a person VINO
has this power can create illness in
another, provided the other is be-
lever in Magcalums. careful and
extended search has failed to produce
a single Pampangan who impressed
Investigator as being entirely free
from the idea that people might have
this power, Many laugh at the men
tion Of such power and in a general
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-10-14

r HERE is a determined effort being
1 made in washington to have old
Representative hall in the capitol
cleaned out. This is the room now
known as-the Hall of Horrors to those
who have seen the statuary in 1t, but
which is aristocradcally titled the
Hall of Fame
This hall is almost circular. 1t
has a tiled floor, many pillars and a
low gallery all across one end. 1t is
also known as the Whispering hall"
for the reason that standing on GER
tain blocks of the tiling your voice
comes to you from the floor on other
blocks, over your shoulder into your
ear on other blocks, from the winged
victory clock that faces you, and
there are many other blocks which
give forth strange echoes when you
stand upon them. No one has ever
been able to tell why these echoes are
or why other tiles give forth nothing
at all They just do it; that is all
there is of it.
There are a lot OF statues that are
freaks from way back. There is only
one piece of really good sculpture in
the whole bunch of some 35 or 40, and
that is Father Marquette, which was
presented by Wisconsin. 1t Is an ex-
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-10-14

THE Postoflce Department daily re-
/ ceives hundreds Of complaints
caused by the losses Of packages and
money. Mails are easy to rob, but few
postal thieves ever escape final de-
lection; they are sure to be entrapped
and punished in the end While speak
ing of these numerous complaints, an
old detective, called inspector, of the
Postofice Department said: mo
thief is harder to catch than the one
who robs Uncle Sans mail The
methods of such thieves are Ingenious,
the plunder is easily hidden or de-
stroyed, and their rascality is well
masked by the honesty and integrity
Of associates.
"Postofice thieves are not arrested
every day, although valuable letters
and other articles are stolen almost
daily and an army of shrewd inspec-
tors are on the alert. Positive proof
of guilt must be In the possession Of
the inspector before an arrest is made.
Clro,1mstantial evidence does not go
at any time with us. 1t Is an estab-
lished rule that the evidence must be
positive and direct. In almost every
case an arrest means conviction.
"A pogtofice employee never hnowa
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-10-14
Much-Read Social Science Bulletins

the use of cheap cuts Of meat, that it
was the first government cook book
ever printed.
This was not altogether so. 1t is
true that 1t was the nearest approach
to a real cook book, but the depart
ment has printed all sorts Of receipts
The social science series has been
running for more than a decade, and
has, incidentally, taken in various do
nestle problems in the food line un-
der the head of Nutrition Investiga.
tions." The earliest of these was one
on the composition and cooking of
meats, issued nearly IA years ago. OF
this there has been something over
half million copies distributed.
But the most popular of all the bull
letins was the recent one on THE
Economical Use Of Meat in the
Home" This has been out only few
months, and there have already been
distributed 100000 Calls are still
coming in rapidly.
The series comprises books on all
sorts of subjects-the preserving of
fruits and vegetables, fish as food, the
care of milk in the home, the value of
peas, beans and legumes in general as
food, the cooking Of vegetables, and
more than dozen other subjects.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-10-14

WHETHER the high price of food
w is causing the public to take an
uncommonly keen interest in domes-
tic problems now, or whether the
cause is something else, the officials
Of the Department of Agriculture do
not undertake to say. The fact re-
mains that there has been a greater
run up to date on the so-called social
science" series of bulletins than on
any other pamphlets the department
has ever produced.
Up to the present there has been a
total of 16,G72,O0O bulletins distribut-
ed. Some now out of print have been
applied for so often that 1t is prob
able the estimates for next year will
include provision for reprinting.
This government is the only one in
the world that has gone into the bust
ness of printing cook books. 1t was
stated when the Department of Agri-
culture recently issued the book on
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-10-14

scares them. No one cah be more
familiar than BRAND; but no one gets
familiar with him, nowadays, without
invitation.
Born in the dull Breton port of St.
Nazaire, he conquered a degree of
law. Would he have been content to
plead party-wall cases, marry an
$4,000 dot, play the violin, sing admir-
ably, beat them all at billiards, and
talk politics at the Cafe du Com
merce?
When does he prepare those
speeches that charm, equally, in cold
print? They are all impromptu.
When he lets himself go everyone
listens. Every listener feels the pres
ence of a mighty intellect, perhaps, a
great heart. Yet every foreigner, at
first, wonders how he came to be
prime minister. He is so negligently
gay almost bohemian. And yet-and
yet, with all those easy ways, one
feels a gossamer web between him
self and the strange, worn young
man.
What will he do? Nobody knows
What does he do? He steps through
cruel difficulties without effort, non
cigarette on lip, the young
prime minister. Other prime minis
ters, gray-headed or bald, grow up,
slowly, to the perilous position
BRAND has stepped into it almost a
He never steps into a
trap.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-10-14
GUM CHEWING IN AMERICA
omnipresent Habit Strikes Visitors
From Abroad as One Of the
Country's Wonders.

Washington.-Twe students
and three professors of the University
of Commerce, in Cologne, now in this
country, find the gum chewing habit
looming large among the wonders Of
America. This ought to cause no sur.
prise to Americans as all are familiar
with the omnipresent nickel-in-the.
slot gum machine, the inexhaustible
sticks of chewing gum in jars and
piles on candy store and drug store
counters, and the jaws almost unani.
mously in activity in subway jams,
trolley car crushes and crowds at
large.
Baseball players chew gum to keeL
off thirst, children and matinee girls
chew 1t because it tastes sweet, many
persons chew in the belief that they
are aiding their digestion, but most
people chew because they have got the
habit. Probably a final analysis would
reveal an intimate connection between
nerves and habitual gum chewing.
There have been attempts to estab
lish gum in Europe. The results are
as yet inconsiderable. However, the
demand right here in the United
States calls for the manufacture O.
1900 100000 pieces of gum per yeal
and gives prosperity to very healthy
eleven-year-old trust. If one doctor
says gum chewing is harmless, an
other declares that 1t overworks the
salivary glands But to the stranger
within our gates the wonder Of the
busy jaws remains.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-10-14

VIZ ASHlNGTON.-One of the mighty
w few instances on record of the
United States having been done" in
It's cash accounts came TO light at
the treasury department the other day
IN a decision handed down by the con
troller Of the treasury. In this par
ticular instance the government is
short more than $4,000 and has no
way Of helping itself It became a
victim through the carelessness OF its
own officers, and the victlmizatlon,
too, was not criminal in its nature
Prior to 1879 the late Samuel J..
Little of Georgetown owned four GER
tihcates Of 6 per cent. stock Of the
old corporation Of Georgetown. Upon
his death he left life interest In the
stock to his sister, Mrs. Eliza A.
Ricketts,, and the residue TO his minor
children, J. C. Little and Julia A.
Little. In the settlement Of the case
before the probate court the actual
possession Of the four certificates OF
stock was passed to Mrs. Ricketts,, so
that she might collect from the treas
urer, from time to time. the interest
due her.
Shortly after this United States
Treasurer Gilhllan issued a circular
calling upon all holders of George
town corporation stock. which was
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-10-14

the pine trees. The passage says:
True 1t is that these pine trees
shed not all their leaves, their verdure
remains fresh for ages long; even
among evergreen trees-the emblems
OF unchangeablenes is their
fame to the end of time-the fame Of
the two pine trees that have grown
old together" What are these two
pine trees? Who are the old man and
woman? The ghosts of the trees are
nothing but the old man and woman
singing the age Of golden and happy
life. Oh, pine trees of the color of
eternity and life, you are the symbol
OF peace and joy. Among some 300
repertories now in existence there is
no other like THE Robe of Feathers"
that will gracefully carry the delicate
statuesque beauty of composition and
sentiment. 1t is the play of a fairy
whose feather robe was stolen by a
fisherman on Mos pine-clad shore,
while she was bathing, and upon her
promise to dance was given back
finally. Not to go to extreme even in
sadness is taught in Japan to be the
height Of cultured manners; here we
have every Oriental beauty and lamen-
tation in this fairy who could not fly
back to the sky, and sang:
Vainly my glance doth seek the heavenly
plain,
Where rising vapours all the air enshroud,
And veil the well-known paths from cloud
to cloud
And she promised that she would
dance the dance that makes the
Palace of the moon turn round
and would leave her dance behind
us token to mortal men, If her
robe should be restored her. However.
the fisherman doubted that she might
hurry home to heaven without dancing
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-10-14

at all; then the fairy said:
File on thee! The pledge of mortals
may be doubted, but in heavenly be
ings there is no falsehood."
As l said, the NO" is the creation
OF the age when by the virtue of sutra,
or Buddha's holy name, any straying
ghosts or spirits in Hades were be.
lieved to enter Nirvana. There is no
wonder that most of the plays have to
dea with those ghosts and Buddhism.
Here we have one play, called Morn
ing Glory" the flower cannot enter
NirVana on account of her short life
of only one morning and of her jeal.
ousies that burn on seeing the other
flowers who enjoy a longer life. How.
ever, her ghost will disappear with
satisfaction when the monk gives her
sermon that eternity is nothing but
a moment, and to live in a moment is
to live in the ages. The NOS" ghost.
liness and poetical Imagination reach
the climax in the play of "Yamauba,"
or the Mountain-woman, whose author
is said to be Ikkyu, the famous priest.
What does 1t represent? It IS the
play of a dancer called Yamauba, who
strayed into a mountain, and actually
saw the mountain-woman's mountain
wandering. Our life is a sort of noun.
tain where we wander; the mountain.
woman is a symbol of transmigration
of soul and endlessness. And the dan.
Ger, Yamauba, is the incarnation of
the ghost of the mountain-woman, who
dances and wanders with her own
real soul in the mountain. Such a
symbolic play, think, could be very
we'll adapted to the western stage
Who wrote those mo" plays, you ask?
The names Of the authors are forgot.
ten ages ago, because they were writ
ten in the time when we never asked
who wrote them If the plays them.
selves were good.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-10-14
Postal Thieves Comparatively Few

N he is being shadoWed. Even
oAGn not under suspicion of theft he
may be watched outside of business
hours to see If he is spending more
money than his salary will permit. It
sometimes happens that an inspector
may not be able to prove a man a
thief, and the fellow Is turned loose
with a verdict Of not guilty as his
certificate Of honesty, but he is not
wanted by the department any more.
From one point of view it is won.
derful that there are so few thieves
among the many thousands of clerks
who handle the mails first and last,
for great temptations surround them,
as they handle millions Of valuable
arcels. 1t is known that these clerks
soon learn to tell by the very touch
Of a letter whether 1t contains money.
If so inclined it would be an easy mat
ter for the dishonest clerk to slip
letters into his pocket and open them
in the privacy of his room. That the
cases Of dishonesty are comparative
ly few is high tribute to the moral
qualities of the postofice clerks.
There are but two successful ways
to catch a postofhce thief-constan
watch and decoy letters. With these,
and large supply of patience, the
game will be landed, though 1t often
REQUIRES months, and sometimes years.
1t is one Of the most annoying and diff
ficult lines Of detective work, anc re-
ouires the most earnest application.
Not q single circumstance or detail
must be overlooked"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-10-14
Hall of Fame Statuary Not Artistic

auisite piece of work. The rest Of
the statues are practical caricatures.
There is one Of Fulton, who is seated
in a chair with a piece Of machinery
in his hand. He lops all over the
chair, his legs are sprawled in all
sorts Of ways, and It is about as woe
begone a piece of marble as can well
be imagined. There is a marble OF
Webster, whom everybody knows was
not a large man, but the statue makes
him a regular giant. There is a
statue of John ]. Ingalls,, the only one
as yet sent by Kansas, and excepting
that it is like a line, has neither
breadth nor thickness, which was a
good description of ingalls,. It is the
limit for ugliness. There is a statue
of Frances Willard in a basque and
ill-hanging dress, which bears not the
slightest resemblance to that dainty,
sweet-faced woman. There is a statue
of Phil Kearny in bronze, which is
very pretty to look at, but has very
little artistic merit, and there is one
Of Shoup, of Idaho, which looks as
though It might have been sandpa-
pered out Of a piece Of marble. And
then there is Washington, a dapper-
little darling with sloping brow, as
fashioned by Houdon.
The Washington newspapers some
time ago began a crusade to have
the law placing statutes in Statuary
boU nv the statas renealed II is to
be repealed on the ground that the
hall is already iammed to overflow
ing, and if any more statuary is pre-.
sented 1t will be necessary to make
gapond and innar rpuy
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-10-14
OIL FUEL IN STEEL PLANTS,

Biologists and other experts differ
as TO the period that must elapse be-
fore the coal fields now actively min
ing will show signs OF exhaustion,
Vast areas of coal deposits exist in
Alaska, China and elsewhere which
remain untouched, but approximately
400 years is the lowest calculation OF
the time required TO consume the coal
deposits Of America and England at
the present rate OF consumption. In
the meantime vast changes In the
production Of power for manufactur-
Ing purposes are certain to take place.
Streams in all parts of the world will
be utilized for generating electricity,
says Philadelphia Press. Problems
relating TO the transmission Of the
current over long distances with a
minimum leakage are engaging the at.
tentiou of electrical engineers. A solu-
tion will surely be forthcoming A cen
tury hence the smoke nuisance in
cities may not be understood, for the
simple reason that all power used in
factories and heat for domestic pur
poses are likely TO be supplied by wa
ter-generated electricity. The produc
ton of coal has already become so eN.
penslve that experiments In the use
OF OIL as fuel in steamships and war
vessels have made considerable prog
ress Relative success appears to have
attended these trials.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-10-14
MASTER OF FRANCE
Unknown Who Has Become the
Republics Star.
Brland, Now Prime Minister, ls only
Forty-slx, and Was Not Even
Congressman 10 Years Ago
Considered a Genius.

Paris.-Briand is forty-six years olo.
He is prime minister and master OF
the French republic. He was no
body not even congressman. ten years
ago.
Also, he is a genius. In the sense
Of Pitt, Jefferson or Robespierre;
and geniuses are rare. However they
differ, they have an instinct for
greatness. BRAND win be French
president II he wishes. l say "if he
wishes" because he Is not only a
genius, but a strange one.
AT thirty-fye he was an outsider
and. worse, seemingly a failure, even
as a lawyer Suddenly he willed; and
all came easy to him.
Only genius could have led the ease
loving, hail-fellow cafe charmer, half
cases, in ten years TO dizzy power as
the great man Of France. The public
is still astounted. Perhaps BRAND re-
mains a trine surprised.
And perhaps not. He remains a
bundle of contradictions France
wonders at his erudition. AS cabinet
minister, suceessively, of public in
struction, beaux-arts, cultes justice
and interior, he appeared a laborious
specialist Of each, In the separation
he held the record of all time for
brilliant readiness in the tribune,
master of a thousand technicaliues.
Yet no one has ever seen him open a
book or take a note.
He still loves his ease In his cafe.
You cannot be with him five minutes
without feeling the amusing, easy
going companion, bubbling with the
JOY of life; yet back of 1t, even his
old cronies feel a negligent force that
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-10-14

only to be driven into a small part Of
their former territory by stronger
and progressive race. The stronger
and victorious races have often been
unjust, oppressive and murderous In
spirit and action, an the white man
was against the red man here.
Strange to say, the aborigines Of al
most all lands, when they arr crowded
back by the stronger arm, die almost
as rapidly from civilization as from
the bullet like wild animals that pine
and die when confined within pens
Christian Herald.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-10-14

The battleship Orion, which Great
Britain launched the other day, is
1000 tons smaller than the cruiser
Lion launched few days before, and
is slower; but she will throw weight
of shot and will carry an array of tor
1edoes that will render her more dan.
yerous in a standup fight. The Orion
declared to be the most powerful
5attleship afoat But how long will
she be? Only one sure thing can be
predicted of the Orion; and that is, in
a few years she will be on the scrap
heap and still more powerful fighters
will be carrying the flag in her place.
There is no end to the race in building
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-10-14

The diamond is pure carbon and
the hardest substance in nature II
burns In a temperature of 500 cent?.
Tade, producing carbonic acid. All
diamonds are not equally hard, and
there is sometimes a varying degree
Of hardness in different parts Of a
large diamond. Some diamonds glow
In a dark room: some are horescent,
appearing milky in sunlight. Dia-
monds are Of many colors-pure white
yellow, Jet black, dark brown, light
cinnamon, green, blue, pink, and
orange, the diamonds of each mine
having a distinctive character. An ex-
pert can usually tell the mine by ex-
amlning the stone Most of the dia-
monds of today come from the famous
Kimberley and De Beers mines, in
South Africa.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-10-14

ages, but only an emphasis. Yoshi-
mitsu, the third lord Of the Ashikaga
government, the propaganda of the
tea ceremonies and refined arts, may
be said to have been the first encour-
ager Of the NO." and at the time
Yoshimasa, the eighth lord, it had
been roughly completed as we have it
today. In due time, Ashikagas power
declined, and the most wonderful war
god arose on the horizon in the per
son of Hideyoshi, the Napoleon Of
Japan, who, on the other hand, was
no small patron of art and literature.
The NO" was not left in oblivion in
his time, but many new pieces were
added to the already great number of
the repertory, and alterations were
made in those already in practise.
When the times came down to the
Tokugawa feudal era of the seven
teenth century, the period of peace
and prosperity, it had become the
most important factor of the nations
life. To recite lines from the NO"
and to act on the stage If possible,
was regarded to be one Of gentle
mans accomplishments; the mo"
play in contrast to the common thea
ter held the most dignifed, noble
place of entertainment. And so it is
today. 1t was thought even sacred
and it began to assume the most nee
essary role at a wedding ceremony.
With the singing of a passage from
"Takasago" your wedlock will be
sealed.
"Takasago," the happy play celebrat-
Ing constancy, endurance, health and
longevity, is represented by an old
man and an old woman busy in the
,,,or1v 70 roIy5po IN nina poadIac 7,nday.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-10-14
ncIe Sam Is Loser in Cash Account

one of the old forms of obligation by
the District Of Columbia, to present
the certificates for redemption. Mr.
Ricketts, took the four certificates to
the treasurers Office, indorsed Il here
by assign the within certificates to
the treasurer Of the United States for
redemption, on account Of Eliza A..
Ricketts,"
The treasurer refused redemption
upon this Endorsement, Mrs. Ricketts,
then asked the first auditor Of the
treasury. as he was known in those
days, to approve the Endorsement but
he refused. She appealed TO the Of
fee OF the then first controller OF the
treasury and obtained the desired ap'
proval
Accordingly the treasurer paid Mrs.
Ricketts, $i,O12 principal and 1928 in
terest
In 1894 Julia A. Burnell, formerly
Julia A. Little, the daughter of Sam
uel ]. Little, made claim for the $4,-
O2l23, alleging that 1t had been er-
roneously paid TO Mrs. Ricketts,, who
had a life interest only The claim
was disallowed by the treasury. Mrs.
Burnell and her husband then entered
suit for the amount before the court
of claims. A year ago they obtained
Judgment for the amount, and in the
deficiency act Of June 25. 1910, ap.
propriation was made 70 pay this
claim, along with others.
Hrs. Burnen has been fighting for
sixteen years to secure the money
she thought was hers and is just now
into her own, while the gov
ernment is out over $4,000.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-10-14

way say that they do not consider it
possible, yet references to specific
cases will usually elicit the fact that
they can ascribe no other cause to
certain effects.
1T would seem that the tender
spot of these near divinities is the
neck of the intended victim the Mag
calums causing an enlargement of that
part OF the body. Sometimes the in
Fiction is related to specific event
SUT instance, in Arayat a woman once