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The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-16
mo FRILLS"
Just Sensible Food Cured Him.

Sometimes a good, healthy CONNER
cial traveller suffers from poorly Sc
lected food and is lucky If he learns
that Grape-Nuts food will put him
right.
/ A Cincinnati traveller says: "About
a year ago my stomach got in a bad
way. l had a headache most of the
time and suffered misery. For several
months | ran down until l lost about
no pounds in weight and finally had to
give up a good position and go home.
ANY food that | might use seemed to
nauseate me.
my wife, hardly knowing what to
do one day brought home a package
of Grape Nuts food and coaxed me to
try 1t. | told her 1t was no use but
finally to humor her I tried little,
and they just struck my taste. It
was the first food had eaten in near
ly year that did not cause any suffer
ing.
We'll, to make a long story short, l
began to improve and stuck to Grape
Nuts. went up from 1875 pounds in
December to 1874 pounds the following
October.
my brain is clear, blood all
right and appetite too much for any
mans pocketbook. In fact, am thor
oughly made over, and owe 1t all to
lGrape-Nuts. l talk SO much about what
iGrape-Nuts will do that some of the
men on the road have niclnamed me
FGrape-Nuts, but / stand today a
healthy, rosy-cheeked mana pretty
good example Of what the right kind
of food will do.
"You can publish this if you want to.
It is true statement without any
Ifrills."
Read the little book, "The Road to
Wellville, in pkgs. There's a Reason"
Ever read the above letterH A new
,one appears from time to time. They
larp genuine, trues and full OF human
tmkeBegtt
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-16
TERRIBLE PEST

layers, but the danger Of their infect
ing food is infinitely more serious,
concluded Dr. Back
Mr.. Leeder, the village blacksmith,
showed his fly cage, a sort of meat
safe of narrow-meshed zinc, with a be-
wildering entrance underneath. It was
so full Of flies that their restless buz.
zing positively made it roar.
His neighbor, Mrs. Culling, drown.
ed the occupants of her similar fly
cage.
Il drown them that way, just
like MICE" she said. Fly paper costs
too much.
The flies pile themselves up in
the corners of cupboards and l have
to sweep them out with a feather
in the evenings when they are
drowsy.
"All the babies in Postwick have been
bitten" added Mrs. Culling, "and in
church the drumming in your ears
makes your head ache"
Postwick and the neighboring vii
lagos are now so full of the idea that
the swarms and the smells are asso-
lated that dread of what one very
lged rustic called EARNS" has
come universal.
The poor lunatics Of Thorpe asylum
near Postwick are perplexed and per-
turbed at the noisome hordes of in
sects which are certainly more pun
gent than ordinary house flies, though
outwardly of the familiar type.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-16

ture has been more niggardly IN the
matter OF fat feel like a dish of ice
cream after five minutes in the lake
Water parties are matter of temper
ature. not temperament
On hot night, however. nothing can
be more refreshing than a plunge
and very often scream-in the lake.
And the delightful glow of warmth
tnat follows once the guest Is in
street clothes again Is worth all the
doubt and predatory shivering
The final feature of the parties Is
the dit to eat" supplied, sometimes
on the shore around a big bonfire OF
driftwood-if the policeman doesn't
threaten the entire party with arrest
and make them smother the embers
in the sand-anu sometimes in the
home OF host and hostess. And what
appetitesl Liquids and solids are
consumed with the avidity OF cast.
aways who have been adrift without
food and water for a week. and North
side grocers are growing rich salts.
flying the appetites of the clippers"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-16
Rubbish Piles Declared to Be
Breeding Ground.
Residents Of Postwick, Little Town In
England, Engaged In War to EN.
termlnate-Traps Filled With
Thousands of Insects.

London.-Rural Postwick continues
to be veXed with a plague of flies, and
despite the war waged against them by
the villagers their numbers show nc
appreciable diminution The cause OF
the plague it is said is the Norwich
corporations dust heap.
Dr. Herbert Back, medical officer of
health for the Blofield rural district,
which includes Postwick, resides out
side the danger zone, eight miles away
from the swarms of Postwick He
says:
THE flies are directly due to the
Norwich corporations giant rubbish
heaps. For some months past the cor
poration has been sending the contents
0- the dust carts down the Yare o.
ghters to some land it owns on th
shore opposite Postwick 1t is not
sewage of course, but just refuse of va
rious kinds-everything found in the
towns dust bins.
The rubbish tip being across the
stream, is not in my district, but the
deplorable state of l'ostwick is very
much my affair.
Many villagers had not connected
the flies with the smells of the rub
bish heap till this week, but it Is quite
obvious % me as a medical man that
the dust from dwellings and offices
contains myriads of eggs of house flies
which hatch out in that hotbed.
''The larvae feed on rotting vegeta-
BILE mater, which, by the way, causes
vile smells, and when they become
fully developed flies they roam about
for choicer food and adventures, and
Postwick is the first village they en-
counter.
Il have received an offer from a
London firm to exterminate the flies
and to send me the necessary mate
rials free of charge. This offer
have passed on to Councillor Ewing,
who lives at Postwick, and he has re-
ceived a keg containing Sc pounds of
fly killer for the dust heap and six
dozen tins of it for the villagers
e in their homes.
l expect the buzzing millions
lies is very bad for the nerves of vi.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-16
STRAY LETTER CUPID'S RUSE
Starts Correspondence That Finally
Ends in Wedding Of Couple Who
Had Never Met.

Scranton, Pa.-Traveling from Pen.
sacola, Fla, to meet his bride that he
had never seen, Thomas N. Mccartney
arrived in Carbondale the other night,
and the next evening was welded in
the parochial residence of ST. Rose
church to Frances Donnelly.
The marriage ends a most remark
able courtship. The bride, twenty
years old and pretty, was correspond
ing with Frank Mccartney of Atlanta,
when one of her letters went astray
and fell into the hands of Thomas N.
Mccartney. He answered the missive
and straightway the other man was
forgotten. That was year ago, and
constant correspondence fed the
flames of love until he proposed and
was accepted by mail, photographs
having been exchanged meanwhile.
When the couple met for the first
time both expressed themselves as
satisfied with the bargain and It was
sealed by the marriage ceremony.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-16
What the DOdo Looked Like.

doned. The creatures, whose very
name has become a sort of synonym
for a thing extinct, still lived on the
island of Mauritius not much more
than a century ago. 1t does not seem
to have existed anywhere else within
recent times. Were it not for the
fact that French naturalist, visiting
the island in 1926, took the trouble to
make a painting of a specimen, no
body today would know what the
creature looked like. The picture
shown herewith is its only portrait
The dodo was a giant representative
of the pigeon family. Large and
clumsy, it could not fly, and on this
account fell an easy prey to sailors
who visited Mauritius. Pigs, intro
duced there, ate the eggs and young
So 1t disappeared, and not a single
specimen remains in any museum ia
tell it's melancholy story.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-16
Woman Halter Easily Tanned

woman hater in the organization, and
warned to beware Of crossing his path.
But Mrs Gutshaw is nothing is not
brave. She determined to break the
chronic case Of "anti-feminitis" of Nit
tlestadt Her celebrated baked Gus.
tard" and her well-known sour cream
cookies" were the allies she chose
Irs. Gutshaw knew all about "the way
a mans heart is through his stom-
ach" so she brought some of her
cookies to choir practise and Mittles-
taedt ate more than any of the other
singers The next time she tried out
the baked custard," and then 1t was
all off. Mittlestaedt not only smiled
but asked to be allowed to accompany
Mrs. Gutshaw home. He has been
going regularly since then, and the old
reputation of being a woman hater has
disappeared. Mittlestaedt is going to
get married instead
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-16
Merchants Offer Inducements to Wed

Church deacon to pass the hat for
a collection for the welded pairs ben.
eft.
Brass band to play the wedding
march and other appropriate music.
Bridal dinner.
Bridal presents. mostly useful arti-
cles for furnishing a home, particular
ly the nursery.
Motor launch for the honeymoon
trip.
Steady employment for the BRIDE
groom.
Employment for the bride every au-
tumn at screening cranberries if she
desires it.
Four physicians to give free serv
ices at intervals.
Lawyers to give legal advice on any
subject except divorce
Free shaves for the bridegroom. his
clothes pressed without charge-not
by his wife, but by tailor.
To further its purpose and to make
the path to happiness even smoother
Wareham has established a wedding
bureau. They will consider applica.
tions of those yearning to be married
from every point of experience, the
wise city fathers consider.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-16

NEW YORK.-There are places
" where children have to be taught
how to play. You might think that
the youngsters wouldn't need in
struction of this kind. You would
be mistaken. Here in New York men
and women spend the better part Of
their lives teaching thousands Of
children how to play, not only with
their muscles, but also with their
minds, writes a correspondent. A
great many thousand dollars are spent
annually by the city just for that pur-
pose, and experience ha proved that
the time and money are we'll spent.
The tall tenements of the East side,
as full Of people as a warren is Of
rabbits, swarm with eager children.
Their fathers and mothers were i'm
migrants. Most of them had no boy
hood or girlhood, as most people think
Of it. They worked for a living be-
fore they came to this country; they
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-16
Keeps House at 1902.

Saratoga, N. Y.-At the age of one
hundred and two Mrs Margaret Van
Rensselaer, lives alone, cooks her OWE
meals and does all her own houseworA
in her little home here. She was born
In Montreal, remembers going barefoot
ed over the snow-covered ground at the
age of ten, has always worked hard
lever had doctor but once and that
was for an injury to her finger when
she was ninety-seven. She never went
to school and cannot read. Her father
died at one hundred and one and her
mother at ninety-nine. She attributes
her long life to simple food and to liv.
ing out Of doors as much as possible.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-16
Light Keeper Who Died for Uncle Sam

and carry the mail to the belea.
guered islanders. Such a man was
Captain Ed No day was too cold
or wind too strong TO keep him at
home.
Since entering the lighthouse serv'
Ice Captain Ed" had some Of tho
most arduous assignments Uncle
Sans men get. For ~ years he was
in charge OF the lighthouse on Stan.
nard rock, in Lake Superior. This is
the farthest from land OF any light
the government possesses, and be-
cause Of the storms In the spring and
fan furnishes about the hardest work
Il stands on the top OF a submerged
mountain, which is only six feet be-
low the surface. Many boats had
been wrecked on the rock before the
government established the light
There are eight months Of each Of
these 70 years Captain Chambers and
three assistants lived in the light
house, practically cut of from the
rest Of the world except for the occa,
slonal visits OF the supply boat. At
one time, because OF storms, this boat
did not reach the lighthouse for three
months.
Captain Chambers was in charge
Of tho following lighthouses during
his service: Waugoschanee, three
years; Iroquois, In Lake Superior,
nine years, and Spectacle Reef, in up
per Lake Huron, six years.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-16
Woman S Dream Comes True

Collver dreamed that her loHg-lo sis.
ter was alive and living in Gloucester
At first she paid no attention to the
dream, having not the slightest idea
how her mind came to be impressed
with Gloucester, as she had never
heard of her sister having gone there.
The vision seemed to grip her, how.
ever, and finally she induced her hus
band, Civil war veteran, to write to
Postmaster Anderson Of Gloucester
asking If Mrs. Corletto lived there.
The postmaster happened to know
her and her family, and he promptly
supplied the necessary information.
The happy reunion quickly followed
and the aged sisters have been hard at
work ever since trying to tell each
other all that has happened to them
and their children in the years that
have interyened since they parted
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-16
DIPPER IS POPULAR
Bathing Parties on Private
Beaches in Chicago.
Never Before In lts Recorded History
Has Lake Michigan Figured so
Extensively as Social Factor
as This Summer.

Chicago,-You are not really in the
swim this summer unless you have
attended a bathing party, says the
Post.
The statement is fact, not facetious.
for never in its recorded history has
Lake Michigan figured so extensively
as social factor as this summer The
entertaining possibilities on the lake
and by the lake have been appreciated
these many years. but parties" IN the
lake have attained a popularity this
summer that swamps the record OF
other years, Every resident OF the
north shore whose dwelling is with,
In short walking distance OF the wa
ter plays host two or three times a
week.
These water parties rejoice in varl.
GUS names; beginners generally call
them aquatic agonies," while hard
ened entertainers speak Of them as
delightful dips" and the particl-
pants as "dIppers." Refreshing re-
frigeration" is a compromise that IS
easily uttered with cbattering teeth.
North shore dwellers no longer tell
their more centrally located friends
to come out where II is cool" but
issue paradoxlcal invitations 10
come out and get in" A beach
party may include any number Of
guests, an even number not being
necessary as many persons look odd
any way when arrayed in a bathing
suit.
The guests come provided with one
bathing suit and many forebodings.
while host and hostess supply dress.
ing rooms in their home and a line Of
optimistic conversation relative to
the probable warmth of the water.
Those who get cold feet before enter
ing the water are told with much en-
phasis that Lake Michigan in its bed
Is much warmer than in a tub.
The more completely equipped
households are supplied with a num-
Der OF long and engulfing garments
in which the members of the party
wrap themselves for the dash from
house to water. Some Of the groups
that wander lakeward through Edge
water and the north shore suburbs
these summer nights are striking If
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-16
Chicago Woman Brings Dainty Pastry
to Choir Practise and Wins Her
self Husband.

Chicago.-"How to cure a woman
hated:" One way. add four eggs to a
a1art of milk, a half cup Of sugar and
title vanilla Bake until it sets.
custard hot with cream and
r. Another way, take one and one.
-.-l cups Of sugar, one cup Of sour
milk or cream, two eggs, one teaspoon
full of soda, one cup of butter and -four
to mix soft Add vanilla 1avoring and
bake untS cookies are a delicious
brown.
These are the recipes with which
Mrs. Adeline Gutshaw of Austin won a
smile from man who had a reputa-
tion Of never smiling, and cured what
was regarded as a hopeless woman
hater. The man, August Mittlestaedt,
will be married to Mrs Gutshaw with
N a few days.
When Mrs. Gutshaw Joined the choil
vi the North Berwyn Congregational
church last winter she was told 0e the
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-16
CHURCH BOWS TO "SKEETERS'
New Jersey Pastor Compelled to Aban.
don Evening Service Until
Frost Comes.

South Orange, N. 1.-THE pastor Of
the Hilton Methodist church, Rev. A.
Boylan Fitzgerald, has never taken
much to the idea of summer vacations
He has been holding services regular
ly both morning and evening and they
have been well attended But for a
while the evening service will be re-
placed by the vesper service at about
four O'Clock in the afternoon until
frost comes and drives away the mos.
quitoes.
For several weeks each Sunday
night the pests have kept the pastor
slapping at them while conducting the
service. He provided screens for the
doors and windows but the mosquito
of 1910 defes screens.
On Sunday it was announced from
the pulpit that hereafter until the
mosquito season ends the congrega.
tion will steal march on the borers
and get all the services out of the
way before he leaves his haunts as
the shades of evening fall.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-16

Not long ago Lord Kinnaird, who is
always actively interested in religious
work, paid a surprise visit to a mis-
sion school in the east end of London
and told class of boys the story of
Samson. Introducing his narrative,
his lordship added:
He was strong, became weak, and
then regained his strength, enabling
him to destroy his enemies. Now,
boys. If had an enemy, what would
you advise me to do?"
A little boy, after meditatlng on the
secret O. that great giants strength,
shot up his hand and exclaimed Get
bottle of air restorer."
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-16
a Shlpplnu Error.

The young Duchess of Westminster,
wife of the richest peer in England,
recently gave birth to her third child,
a daughter. Thus there is no heir TO
the immense Grosvenor fortune, Earl
Grosvenor, the Duchess second child,
having died at the age of four
Apropos of all this, rather cruel
story is being told in Newport about
Lady Ursula Grosvenor, the 8-year-old
daughter of the young duchess.
A friend, the story goes, called at
Eaton Hall, and as she sat in the.
drawing-room, little Lady Ursula en-
tered.
"Oh, good afternoon" she said
gravely. "Mapma can't see any one.
today. She's upstairs with the new
baby. They sent her, you know, a girl
when she'd ordered a boy, and she's
80 upset that she's quite ILL.,"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-16

be induced to sign a death warrant for
an individual and took great credit
20 himself for his humanity in that re-
spect but at the same time he has
repeatedly ordered the massacre OF
thousands upon thousands Of his sub
jects and deliberately condemned en-
tire races to torture, mutilation and
long-drawn-out death.
Abdul Hamil Is probably responsible
for the violent death of more innocent
men, women and children than any
human being who ever stained the
pages Of history with his crimes.
Hundreds Of thousands of people in
Bulgaria and in Armenia have been
slaughtered in cold blood by his or
ders, and there is not the slightest
doubt-indeed, there is abundant proof
that he deliberately determined
upon the determination of his Chris
tian subjects in both those countries.
He is absolutely unique as a wholesale
assassin, and, although the massacres
that have been committed by his army
in his name and by his orders are usu-
ally attributed to religious fanaticism,
the evidence is much stronger that
they were for the purpose Of wiping
out an insubordinate element among
his subjects who irritated him be-
cause of their resistance to this tyr
amy.
1t is difficult to imagine the thoughts
of such a man in solitude. No won
der he is troubled with insomnia and
insists upon having an innocent child
of five years old sleep with him in his
bed as a safer protection than a guard
of soldiers.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-16
sIIahty Confused.

All Of us become confused and all of
us mix our language sometimes, but
the preparation of an old negro
preachers sermon was the greatest
confusion of metaphors ! ever heard.
says a traveller. When the lengthy dis
course was nearing its close and he
had reached his Twenty and last
ly, brethren" he wound up by the fol
lowing elaborate figure:
"Everywha, bredren, we see de Al
mighty-all down de untrodden paths
of time, we see de footprints of de
Almighty hand. Human Life.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-16

I'll PASO, Tex.-Manufacturing a
u drink Of ice water with nothing
cooler than the suns rays and dry
tropical air would probably seem un-
der the province of the magician to
the easterner. It is nevertheless a
fact that from these ever-available
agencies the greater part Of the popu-
lation Of Texas, Arizona and New
Mexico manufacture their own ice wa
ter. This not only serves for drink
Ing purposes, but also provides an
efficient medium for the ordinary re-
luirements Of refrigeration-for in
the cruder sections of the great south
west the artificial production Of ice
Is still tri1e too costly to be feas-
lble.
The secret lies wholly in the con-
struction of the little red receptacle
in which the water is placed. This is
a simple Mexican creation, aud in
thata language is called an ola, the
two Is being silent according to the
Spanish pronunciation of the word.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-16

nETROIT-The big lighthouse at
" Windmill Point is sending out It's
warning 10 lake mariners every night,
as # has for many years past but no
more does Capt. Edward Chambers
attend the big lamp that for two
years has been his care. He died
recently. with the passing OF Cap
tain Chambers, or Captain Ed" as
he was known among the lakefaring
people. one Of the most picturesque
figures OF the great lakes is taken.
His was a strenuous life, given al
most entirely to the caring for light
houses.
He was born on Mackinac island IN
1852. when he went TO work it was
Tor the government, as mail carrier
from MacElnac City on the mainland
10 the island. In summer this Is n
simple task. But IN the winter Il Is
different The storms that sweep the
lakes In the cold months find a clear
passage IN the Straits OF Mackinac
and sometimes travelling over the ice
Is impossible. Il takes a strong and
resolute man 10 face these storms
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-16
THE Ex-SULTAN OF TURKEY
Abdul HamId, Arch Assassin, Has Aged
Rapidly Since His Deposition
and imprisonment.

Constantinople.- his deposi.
lion from the Turkish throne and con.
nnement in the villa Alattine In Sa'
loniki, Abdul Hamid has aged rapidly
liis face has become like a piece Of
'wrinhed parchment his beard is per
teotly white and he no longer has ais
barber dye II. as be formerly did. II
he has any conscience he is suffering
the punishment that he deserves, and
an eternity in perditlon would be
light penalty for his hideous crimes,
Like Tamerlane, the Mongol emperor
OF the middle ages, Abdul Hamid
reigned SS years. but surpassed him In
his cruelties and Wholesale assassina.
tions. Il is said that he could never
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-16

VIZ AREHAM, Mass.-The merchants
w of this ambitious Cape Cod town,
desiring to increase its fame and popu-
lation, present and prospective, offer
extraordinary inducements to sweet
hearts to marry here. The merchants
could offer no more, save to marry the
ladies themselves, and the law against
bigamy is very strict.
OF course certain conditions are at
tached to these generous PROPOSE
tions; the chief is that the married
couple must reside here. Wareham is
atruistic, but it does not propose to
help to add to the population of any
other town.
These are some of the marriage in
ducements offered by WaTeham:
A free wedding, including marriage
license and clergyman's services.
Bass soloist to sing I'm Glad I'm
Married" at the ceremony.