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The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-03-17

/ of $237.66 for horseshoeing. Missouri
representatives declared they were
from the show me state" The sec
retary OF state couldn't show the
shoes, which had been worn out
There was a quarter OF an hour OF or
atory when up rose a representative
from Pennsylvania Gentlemen" he
said, ut costs $4,000 an hour 10 run
this house, and we have already spent
$4,000 worth of words trying 10 skin
a S237 item Let's quit"
The total of the years appropria,
tion for the upkeep of the house was
S4,567S241O. Actual working days
number 30, and the average time of a
days work is FIVE hours. The normal
2160 hours in 80 days would make
the house expense run into $2,114.73
per hour, on a 24-hour basis. But al
lowing only FIVE hours of honest work
per day, the expense amounts TO $40.
57365 per hour.
The salary roll of the members
amounts to S2,9s9,O5O Their mileage
is $l54,O0O The clerks cost $59S, 500
for those who are credited TO mem.
bers, and S133,sOO for clerks of com
mittees. There are a number OF
minor items, among them the salary
Of $1,000 that goes 10 the chaplain
who prays for CONGRESSES wisdom. He
is about the poorest paid of all, con
sldering the size of his job.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-03-17

applause. The cheering and the hand
clapping at the end lasted four or five
minutes. When Lincoln was intro
duced the crowd broke out into cheers
for Douglass and kept it up for sew
eral minutes. Lincoln meanwhile wait
ed patiently.
when at length the enthusiasm
had subsided Lincoln extended his
long right arm for silence. When he
had partly got this he said in an i'm
pressive tone: What an orator Judge
Douglas isl
This unexpected tribute to their
friend set the audience wild with en-
thusiasm When this applause had
run it's course Lincoln, extending his
hand again, this time obtained silence
more easily.
What a fine presence Judge Doug
las has' exclaimed the speaker earn
estly. Again tumultuous applause fol-
lowed the tribute. More and more
easily the tall, gaunt lawyer got 81
lence as he went on with admiring ex-
clamations:
"'How wen rounded his sentences
are! How well chosen his language
is! How apt his Illustrations are!
ending up with: What a splendid
man Judge Douglas isl
Then when the audience had again
become silent at his call Lincoln
leaned forward and said:
And now, my countrymen, how
many Of you can tell me one thing
Judge Douglas said?'
MY friend told me he searched his
own heart for an answer and found
none Afterward he asked his father
if he could remember anything Judge
Douglas had said, and the latter re-
membered practically nothing. But
my friend said to me impressively,
even now, half a century later, l can
recall practically all that Lincoln
said"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-03-17
Death Comes to Dress Suit Burglar

1 danger Of robbing a house while there
were many persons about. Often h'
would stop to listen to the dinner clat
ter before making his escape. Gener
ally he selected dark or dimly light
ed parlor, jimmied the window anc
climbed in, During the months thai
the girl worked with him he relied
upon her to spill a faint" as she
called #, and draw the crowd while he
made his escape.
Wandlass was about thirty years
old. His mother, Mrs Augustus F.
Berner. is a woman Of wealth and re,
finement in Brooklyn, n. Y. Her first
husband, Wandlass, was a hotel pro
prietor and well TO do. He left a
comfortable fortune, and when he
died his son, Tom, was a model young
ster and a great church worker. He
was precocious, high strung and had
a vivid imagination.
Just when he became transformed
into a bad man" no one seems to
know. but he ran away from boarding
school at seventeen and the next his
mother heard of him was that he was
member of, a gang Of thieves. He
was never what might be called a
Rames, except that he dressed well
and committed most of his burglaries
while clad in evening clothes. He
was known to the police at Kid How
ard and Thomas Hanley and had serv-
ed time in several penal institutions
in the state of New York.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-03-17
Mine Rescue Squads Reduce Deaths

sleeping apartments for the men.
When news comes Of a mine disas
ter an engine Is attached to the car
and It is rushed to the scene of the
disaster.
Upon arrival, the mining engineer
in charge Of the government rescue
squad and apparatus takes charge OF
the mine and from the general man
ager down to the rule driver, all
obey his orders and do II on the jump.
He organizes rescue parties, equipping
each man with an oxygen helmet en-.
abling him to withstand any kind of
poisonous gases for two hours. Then,
with his helmeted squad behind him,
the mining engineer enters the mine
and begins a search for dead and dy'
Ing miners.
The rescue parties carry pulmotorsr
with which to revive dying miners
with oxygen. Fifteen lives are said
to have been saved last year by use OF
this device.
In West Virginia last year there
was a mine owner who had no faith
in the pulmotors. He insisted on going
into the mine with the rescuing party
and did not wear a helmet He was
found unconscious from the effect OF
noxious gases, but by the application
of the pulmotor was revived and TAX
en- out alive. He Immediately ordered
a consignment of the little oxygen
pumps and had his men instructed in
their use.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-03-17
Made at Haten Bank Girls Make Managing Sports

in its original plan, but the changes
have not been sufficient, in the opin'
ion of the state department, to warrant
the withdrawal of the American pro
test.
In connection with the national
bank concession Haiti is trying to
float loan to fund its interior debt,
The course which will be adopted in
regard to Haitien bonds in this rela'
tion is Of interest to the United States
government because many American
creditors of Haiti have been paid in
bonds of that government. So if such
bonds are scaled down the people who
received them on the basis Of their
former value, in the opinion of the
state department, will have grounds
for a claim in equity.
The possibility of American bankers
participating in the loan also causes
the state department to believe that
it is the moral duty Of this govern
ment to scrutinize closely the trans
action to see that no contract is enter
ed into which cannot be backed up by
the United States in case at some
future time Haiti fails to fulfill her OBJ
legations.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-03-17
Either Hand Good.

BY formal action of the War De-
partment any doubt as to discrimina-
tions against left-handed candidates
for the army has been removed. In
preparing recently to make nOmina-
ton for West Point a congressman
asked the department If the fact that
his nominee was left-handed would
operate as a bar to his admission to
West Point.
AS the question never before had
been raised, the surgeon general OF
the army was asked for an opinion on
the subject. That official reported
that a left-handed cadet may not prop
erly be considered as physically dis
qualified.
1t Is considered as certain that
there have been cadets at West Point
who were left-handed, but this fact
seems never to have occasioned com.
ment. They probably acquired the
use of the right hand, so essential to
the uniformity Of movement necessary
in military organization.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-03-17

n HE idle rich woman, who fondles
/ her poodle dog, leaving the care
of her children to servants, has been
delivered a stinging slap by western
representative. He has nothing to say
against the poodle, but his mistress he
believes to be un-American. The
American home Is being undermined
bv this kind Of woman, he thinks. She
constitutes a grave national problem
which should be speedily solved.
Poodle dogs are usurpers, and
should be returned to their proper
place in the home" said he.
while I was passing in front of a
residence that cost hundreds Of thou
sands of dollars, an elaborately dress
ed woman came out" he said. she
carried in her arms a costly poodle
dog, and as she stepped into her car
riage, two Of her servants, wearing
high silk hats, bowed almost to their
knees. One assisted her to enter the
carriage while the other draped her
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-03-17
NEW YORK,-Phosphorus matches

NEW Phosphorus matches
~ kill and main the men and girls
who make them. The working men
and girls who are engaged In the
manufacture and the packing OF the
ordinary match run a heavy risk OF
contracting phosphorus necrosis, and
those who get this disease generally
die a horrible and lingering death.
These facts are brought out in the
report of the United States bureau OF
labor, which recently investigated the
match industry.
Phosphorus necrosis, or match poi
soning, attacks the teeth and Jaws.
The teeth become loose and fall out
and the bone Of the jaw becomes por.
ous and decays. II is necessary then
10 remove large parts Of the bone, and
frequently the entire jaw. One man
who worked in a match factory In
Wisconsin had TO nave his whole up.
per and lower jaws removed, 80 bad
Iy had the disease attaked him. Then
he lived for months, taking occasional
aourishment through a tube.
Another case reported by the bu-
reau Of labor was that OF a girl OF
IA who went to work packing matches.
The poisonous atmosphere OF the place
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-03-17
HONEST CONFESSION
A Doctors Talk on Food.

There are no fairer set Of men on
earth than the doctors, and when they
find they have been in error they are
usually apt to make honest and manly
admission of the fact
A case in point is that of a practi-
toner, one Of the good old school, who
lives in Texas His plain, unvarnished
tale needs no dressing up:
'I had always had an intense preju-
dice, which can now see was unwar-
rantable and unreasonable, against all
muchly advertised foods. Hence,
never read line of the many ads of
Grape-Nuts, nor tested the food till
last winter.
while in Corpus Christi for my
health, and visiting my youngest son,
who has four of the ruddiest, healthI-
est little boys ever saw, ate my
first dish of Grape-Nuts food for sup
per with my little grandsons.
II became exceedingly fond of it
and have eaten package of it every
week since, and find 1t a delicious, re-
freshing and strengthening food, leav-
ing no i'll effects whatever, causing no
eructations with which l was for
merly much troubled), no sense Of
fullness, nausea, nor distress of stom.
ach in any way.
'There is no other food that agrees
with me SO well, or sits as lightly or
pleasantly upon my stomach as this
does.
'T am stronger and more active
since began the use of Grape-Nuts
than have been for 10 years, and
am no longer troubled with nausea
and Indigestion" Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Look in pkgs. for the famous little
book, ''The Road to Wellville."
There's Reason"
Ever read the above IetterR A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, ana full OF human
interest.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-03-17

d ASSAIC, n. death has ended
/ the career of Thomas Wandlass
the white front burglar, who was
shot and fatally wounded while break
ing into the home of Thomas Tapley,
a contractor in this city. Wandless
preferred the underworld to a life of
luxury in the home of a fond and
wealthy mother He developed from
a sort of "angel child" to a desperate
criminal Paralysis of his vocal or
gans shortly after his capture kept
the police from obtaining any correct
ed account of his amazing career.
Jean Mitchell, aged seventeen years,
who called herself his Chicken stall"
and assisted him in % burglaries, has
pleaded guilty and will receive SEN
tence. She declares she is eager to
get back to her home in the New Eng
land states as she has had enough OF
travel and nice dresses, the bait Of
fered by Wandlass when she consent
ed to become his accOmplice.
The police call Wandlass a Sup
per worker" and a dress suit burg
lar" He called himself white front"
burglar and was fascinated by the
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-03-17

DEATHS of coal miners in explo
u sions last year were reduced %
per cent. by the rescue system in aug.
urated by the federal government.
For many years this rescue work
was left to the different states and
was but indlfferently done. AS the
death rate grew about ten per cent.
annually, the federal government de-
cided it was time to take charge Of
this work itself.
Six rescue stations have been es-
tablished. One of these is at Trinidad,
Colo; another at Rock Springs, Wyo,
and others in various parts of the coal
producing country.
These stations are old Pullman
sleeping cars, in which four men
spend all their time, night and day,
never going further than few min
utes walk from the car. In charge
Of the party is a mining engineer The
others are a practical miner, a hos
pital attendant capable of giving first
aid to the injured and a cook. The
car is equipped with rescue apparatus
ready for immediate use and there are
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-03-17
mes High Match-MaIing DANGEROUS Business

I affected her teeth. and when she went
to a dentist he found her whole lower
jaw honeycombed by the phosphorus
poisoning, Assesses followed and
the child was unable 10 eat. She
slowly starved TO death.
Many other cases are cited in the
report. No one who works In these
factories apparently is immune from
the disease, and sanitary precautions
which have been taken In some OF the
larger factories have been Intellectual.
The atmosphere must OF necessity con
tain the fumes OF phosphorus, and they
are deadly.
Not all the men and girls who are
poisoned die, OF course. Some OF
them check the disease early by rad
ical operation, having their lower jaws
removed. Those who are not willing
to be maimed in this way generally
die as a result Of absorbing the pol
sons generated by their own decaying
teeth and bones.
The man who made tho investiga.
tions for the bureau OF labor was John
b. Andrews, and so strongly was Pres
ident Taft impressed by his report
that he recommended the passage OF
a bill to discourage the manufacture
Of phosphorus matches by heavy
federal tax, Such a bill was intro
duced early in the session. The match
trust. however forestalled the pas
sage Of the bill by Withdrawing the
patent on the harmless substitute II
uses in place Of the deadly phosphor
Gus.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-03-17
Dog in Arms Rouses a Congressman

dress about her feet A moment latel
negro servant came out wheeling q
baby carriage, and l crossed the street
to find out that the baby carriage held
the woman's little son. The thought
of the woman holding the poodle dog
where the child should have been
while she gave the animal its morning
outing, seemed inhuman to me, when
I thought of the child being taken out
by the servant.
But, finally, I decided that the
poodle was more to be pitied than the
child 1t was in worse company. But
the sad part about the whole incident
was that mother could go smiliDgly
away from her baby boy, while she
cuddled and patted the insignificant
little dog as her side. Poodles are
all right as pets for children, and, in
cidentally, for older people. But be-
fore they are allowed to take the
places of children in our homes, |
would rather see every poodle in the
nation drawn and quartered
THE only kind of a home which is
worth while is the home where the
mother gives her first and best
thought to her children. Too often in
America today rich women care moth
ing for their offspring, but would
rather bestow their foolish affection
or pets that really amount to moth ing
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-03-17

A MOTHER financial situation in
n Latin-America which is seriously
engaging the attention of the state
department, with view to protecting
American interests, is the confused
monetary condition of Haiti.
1t is proposed by Haiti to substitute
for the Hatien National bank, a
French corporation which controls the
financial dealings Of the country, a
similar banking concession to be
granted to group Of German, French
and American bankers, the German in
terests predominating.
Some time ago the United States
protested against the proposed ar
rangement on the ground that Ameri-
can interests we're not properly pro-
tected Since then the Haiien gov
ernment has made some notifications
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-03-17

]. L. Colonius, instructor in physical
culture, was disappointed with the
management of the boys.
They think too much of taking a
few trips away from home in order to
have good time, and too little of
where the expense money is to come
FROM" he said.
At the beginning of the basket ball
season Colonius initiated the plan
which put the girls in control, and now
the treasury has enough money in II
to wipe up the football deficit and
leave $75 on deposit At his sugges.
tion,' a new athletic association was
formed, to which girls were admitted
upon payment of the "two-bits" initia.
tlon fee. Neat badges were given to
the members and the girls of the bas.
ket ball squad conducted an enthusias.
tic canvass with the result that there
are as many girls in the association
as there are boys.
The girls are now managing both
the boys and girls basket ball teams
and will arrange the schedule for the
boys track and baseball teams.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-03-17
A Woman's Letter.

Women, it is generally admitted,
write better letters than men.
M. Marcel Provost has scovered
the reason for this superiority. The
obvious meaning is never the one we
should read into a woman's letter.
There is always a yelled meaning.
Woman makes use of a letter just
as she employs a glance or a smile,
In way that is carefully thought out,
and with an eye to effect. And, after
all, does a womans hat serve to cover
her head? Does a woman's parasol
keep off the sun? Why, then, should
a woman's letter serve to convey her
real thoughts to the person addressed,
just like the letters of some hon
est grocer, who writes: 4 send
you five pounds of coffee, because he
really does send you five pounds Of
coffee?"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-03-17

VIZ WASHINGTON.-The craze for sta.
w ustcs has invaded the most
sacred of precincts II has attacked.
assaulted, indicted and convinced the
most parlous of stausuclans them
selves-the members of congress.
Proof, by statistics furnished right
on the floor of the house, that the
speeches there cost more than the
total amounts Of many of the items
under discussion has left the entire
aggregation in chronic terror that,
when their most flowery orations are
being speeded on their way to the
morgue of the Congressional Record,
some treacherous antagonist may
arise, reverse his cuffs and read off
evidence that the honorable gentle
mans silence would be golden.
Like the famous discovery Of dry
farming in the west, because Of the
hoofprint of mule, the economy Of
words in congress was precipitated by
horseshoes.
The state department had an item
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-03-17

So impressed was the grand jury
the other day by the evidence present,
ed as to the evil caused by pistol car
rying among the rougher element of
the city that it made a special report
to Judge Witt urging that the habit be
broken up without delay. Major Wer-
ner Of the police department was the
chief witness, showing the gravity of
the situation and the crime and muir
der resulting from the habit, says the
Richmond Times-Dispatch. The grand
Jury believes with him that the matter
ought to be investigated without de-
lay and some remedy adopted There
can be no question that pistol toting is
at the root of many crimes, and that
It ought to be checked as far as it
lies in the power of the council to
check 1t.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-03-17

TOPEKA, KAN.-There are 800 or
i ganized cities in Kansas, and every
one of these cities and towns has a
theatrical censor, especially named to
watch the moving picture shows. The
legislature has passed a law naming
he mayor of each city, or some per
son appointed by him or by the coun-
ell or commissioners, a moving picture
censor.
The law provides that the showing
of any moving or stationary pictures
displaying actions which would con-
stitute a crime if actually committed,
the infidelity or unfaithfulnes of a
husband or wife or suggestive Of in
decency, is a misdemeanor in itself,
and the moving picture show man
may be fined from $10O to $500 for
showing such pictures.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-03-17
TELLS NEW LINCOLN STORY
EN-consressman Mocleary Of Mime.
sofa Spins Yarn Of Effect Of
Words Of Debaters.

Prof. James T, McCleary Of Manka,
to- Mimi. who for ID years represent,
ed a district in his state in congress,
brought TO town a new Lincoln story,
says New York dispatch in the Chi.
cago Evening Post
"A friend Of mine out west who is
now about SIS years old told me that
when a boy he attended, with his ia.
ther, one Of the famous Lincoln-Doug
las debates in Illinois" said Profes.
sor McCleary MY friends father
was a Lincoln man, but the place in
which this particular debate took
place was a Douglas stronghold
Douglas spoke first, and he was
frequently interrupted by vociferous
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-03-17
Measurements Of a Gun.

Many people are puzzled as to the
difference between a 12-inch and a
13.5-inch gun. Guns are measured by
the bore or caliber, just as motor car
engine cylinders are. A 12-inch gun
therefore is a gun that fires a shot
which is 10 inches in diameter.
The length Of gun is reckoned in
calibers. For instance, 80 caliber
12-inch gun is one 50 times the length
Of it's bore, that is to say, so feet long.
A so caliber 6-inch gun would be 25
feet long, and so on.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-03-17

COLUMBIA, MO.-The girls of the
u Columbia high school have taken
charge of the schools athletics and
will run them for the remainder of the
school year. They took the reins into
their own hands only after the boys
had made failure, and have achieved
a marked success to date.
At the beginning of the school year
the boys assumed the management of
the athletics, inasmuch as they did the
playing on the football team. They
we're very unbusinesslike, however,
and, although number of football
games were played and in spite of the
fact that the football season is usu-
ally a financial success, there was a
deficit of $35 at the close of the sea
son.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-03-17

They seem to be having fun with
the London police. The recent ex-
plot, involving a pitched battle with
two alleged anarchist criminals, sub
jected the force" to a great deal Of
more or less caustic criticism. And
now the papers and the people are
making remarks because a bulldog,
guarding the body of its master, who
had committed suicide, held a dozen
big policemen at bay and was only dis
posed Of by the roundabout method of
calling in doctor who killed the ami
NAL by feeding it poisoned meat. Still,
there is something to be said in be-
half of the "bobbies." An able-bodied
and ferocious bulldog is an enemy
by no means to be despised.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-03-17
consumptIon Spreads in syria.

Consumptives in Syria are treated
today much in the same way as the
lepers have been for the last 1000
years. tuberculosis is a comparative
ly recent disease among the Arabs and
Syrians, but so rapidly has 1t spread
that the natives are in great fear Of
it. Consequently when a member Of
a family is known to have the disease,
he is frequently cast out and compelled
to die of exposure and want. A small
hospital for consumptives has been
opened at Beyrout under the direction
Of Dr. Mary P. Eddy.