davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-06-02

synopsis.

James Wilson or Jimmy az he is called
By his friends. Jimmy Wna rOtund ana
looked shorter than he really was, Hls
but people steadily refused 70 do so. BIS
art 10 considered huge Joke. except 70
himself. II no asked people 10 dinner gv-
eryone expectsd frolio Jimmy marrles
and arc divorced Jimmy's friends ar
range 20 celebrate the firpt anniversary
OF his divorce. The party h In full SWING
Aunt Selma. who win arrive IN four hours
10 visit him and his wife. He negiecu 70
tell her OF his divorce, Jimmy takes ny
Into his confidence. He husgests thnt fNlt
Wilson pro TEN. Aunt Selma arrives and
the deception works out a. plannSo'
inns Jap servant 10 taken III. bella,
Jmmy's divorced wife. enters the house ~
and asks Kit who 10 being taken away IN
the nmbulance7 Belle insists II ig jim.
KIT tells her Jim is well and u IN the
house, HARRISON steps out on the porch
and discovers a man tacking card on
The man points 70 the plaeard and Har,
bison sees the word Smallpox prihtea
pm H. He tells him the guests cannot
leave the house until the quarantine Is
lifted. After the lifting OF the quarantine
several letters are found In the mall box
undeliyered, one is addressed 70 Henry
written by HARRISON. He describes mi
nutely Of their Incarceration. also OF his
lnfatuation for Mrs. Wilson. Aunt solina
ls taken I'll with la grippe. Betty acts as
nurse HARRISON finds Kit gulking on the
roof She tells him that Jim has been
treating her outrageouhly, Kit starts
downstairs, when suddenly she Is grasped
In the arms OF a man who kisses her sew
sral times She believes that HARRISON
aid II and is humiliated. Aunt Selma tells
Jimmy that her cameo breastpin ana
other articles OF jewelry have been stolen
She accuses Betty OF the theft. Jimmy
tells Aunt Selma all about the strange
happenings. but she persists In suapeeting
Betty OF the theft OF her valuables
Harrison demands an explanation from
KIT as to her conduct towards him., she
tells him OF tho incident on the roof, he
does not deny nor confirm her accusation
One OF the guests devises way 20 escape
from the house. They set fire to the re-
eoption room and attempt to leave the
house from the rear. The guards dis
cover the ruse and prevent them from
escaping. Max finds Anne's pearl clasp
pin IN Jimmy's studio in a discarded coat
Jimmy Is suspected Of the theft, but de-
hies the accusation. Kit finds a watch
hanging TO a pillar in the basement and
With Initials T. II. II. engraved upon II.
She opens the case and finds picture OF
herself that had been clipped from
noWsDaDer.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-06-02
'YOu're Unluoky, I'm ThInkIn'"

Jim to the telephone and, hung around
hungriIy, suggesting new dishes every
minute And then-he couldn't raise
Central It was Is minutes before we
gave up, and stood staring at one an
other despairingly.
Call out of a window and get one
Of those Internal reporters to do some
thing useful for once" Max suggested.
But he was Indignantly hushed. We
would have starved first. Jim was
peering into the transmitter and
knocking the receiver against his
hand, like a watch that had stopped.
But nothing happened. Flanagan re-
ported a box Of breakfast food, two
lemons and a pineapple cheese,
combination that didn't seem to lend
itself to anything.
We went back to the dining room
from sheer force Of habit and sat
around the table and looked at the
lemonade Flanagan had made. Anne
would talk about the salad her last
cook had concoted, and Max told
about a little town in Connecticut
whore the restaurant keeper smokes a
corn-cob pipe while he cooks the most
luscious fried clans in America. And
Aunt Selma related that in her family
they had a recipe for chicken smoth-
cred in cream. And tnen we slipped
the weak lemonade and nibbled at the
cheese.
ITO change this gridiron martyr
DOM" Dallas said finally, where's
HarbisonH Still looking for his
watch?"
"Watch!" Everybody said It in a
different tone.
Sure" he responded. Says his
watch was taken last night from the
studio. Better get him down to take
squint at the telephone. Likely he
can fix It,"
Flannigan was beside me with the
cheese And at that moment felt
Mr.. Harbison's stolen watch slip out
&of my girdle, slide greasily across my
lap, and clatter to the floor. Flanni-
gan stopped, but luckily it had gone
under the table. To have had 1t
| picked up, to nave had 10 explain now
got it, to see them try to ignore
my picture pasted in it-oh It was
impossiblel put my foot over It.
Drop something?" Dallas asked
perfunctorily, rising. Flanagan was
still half kneeling.
"a fork" l said, as easily as l
could, and the conversation went on.
But Flanagan knew, and l knew he
knew. He watched my every move
ment like hawk after that, standing
just behind my chair. dropped my
useless napkin, to have 1t whirled up
before 1t reached the floor. said to
Betty that my shoe buckle was loose,
and actually got the watch in my hand,
only to let 1t slip at the critical mo-
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-06-02

Ny voice got beyond me then. aud !
dropped into q chair and covered my
face. could feel him staring At the
back Of my head
We'll, I'll be-" something or other.
no said finally. and then turned on his
heel and went out, by the time / got
my eyes dry Eyes. was crying; al
ways do when / am angry heard
Jim coming downstairs, and tucked
the watch out Of sight. Would any
one have foreseen tho trouble that
watch would makel
Jim was sulky He dropped into q
chair and stretched out his legs,
looking gloomily at nothing. Then
he got up and ambled into his den,
closing the door behind him without
having spoken a word. II was more
than human nature could stand.
When l went into the den he was
stretched on the davenport with his
face buried in the cushion. HIT looked
absolutely wilted. and every line OF
him was dropping
Go on out, Kit" he said, in a
smothered voice. "Be a good girl and
don't follow me around"
You are shamelessl" / gasped.
Follow you'll When you are hung
around my neck like alike a"
Milestone was what I wanted to say.
but couldn't think Of It.
He turned over and looked up from
his cushions like an ill-treated and
suffering cherub.
TN done for, Kit" he groaned.
Bella went up TO the studio after
wo left, and investigated that corner"
What did she hnd3 The necklaceH"
! asked eagerly. He was too wretched
10 notice this.
mo, that picture OF you that ! did
last winter, She is crazy-she says
she is going upstairs and SIT in Ia
kahiro's room and take smallpox and
die"
"Fiddlesticks I said rudely, and
somebody hammered on the door and
opened It.
Pardon me for disturbing you."
Bella said, in her best dear.me-I'm-
glad.Lknocksd manner. "But-Flan-
nlgan says the dinner has not come. "
Good Lord" Jim exclaimed. II
forgot to order the confounded din
neri"
It was eight o'clock by that time
and as II took an hour at least after
telephoning the order, everybody
looked blank when they heard. The
entire family, except Mr.. HARRISON,
who had not appeared again. escorted
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-06-02

more data on that deadly affection.
A few suspected cases were being
| ield in the detention quarters Oh the
immigration bureau, and he was
anxious to see them. SO little Is
Known Of The disease that every case
offers new opportunities for labora-
| .ory study. This doctor examined the
suspects, went back to his laboratory,
and a few days later was stricken by
he very malady that he had been
4 lighting for years. The disease that
le had been fighting so long had
| turned upon him. He was dead with
n forty-eight hours after he was at
lacked. All the knowledge that he
and his colleagues had gained in the
ast half dozen years proved useless
and helpless in stopping the coming OF
ieath.
| Simon Flexner, the worlds great
est authority on cerebro-spinal menin-
gitis and kindred diseases, was sum
moned, and did all that was in his
eower. Serums that have proven ef-
fective in thousands and thousands
| If cases gave no relief from the
steady advance of death. There was
no response to its powers in the
nerves and muscles of the man who
was at last lying in the grip of his
enemy. Many New York specialists
watched by his bedside and fought the
/ destroyer with all the weapons at
.heir command At the last the
nalady had claimed it's vengeance
The work of the dying man and his
.o-laborers had saved thousands, but
In the end he was unable to save
himself.
A sort of a superstition has grown
up among physicians. The feeling Is
common among them that the man
who specializes on any particular dis
ease is liable to become it's victim
some time or another in life His own
particular speciality is looked upon as
being especially fatal to him if he is
ever stricken.
Some years ago there was a spe-
cialist on mental diseases in st. Louis
who was recognized as one of the
nations authorities on insanity He
was a lecturer of more than local
note on his favorite subject and his
text books are still found in the
libraries of the older physicians. Some
time ago he dropped out of sight.
His friends speak Of hin, now as one
who is dead He is lost to the world
pf rcianca of which ha was occo n
part His mind gave way under the
strain just as he himself had seen so
many minds give way. Insanity, hope
less, stubborn, incurable insanity fin
ally claimed him.
The physician has often forfeited
his life in his search for the causes
that lie back of the most elusive dis
eases. Something of the same spirit
that started the Crusaders of old in
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-06-02
NOT ovEREsTIMATED.

Let me tell you, gentlemen" said
the earnest vegetarian, who was lee
turing before the Butchers associa-
tion, that there is more energy con-
tained in a single banana than there
is in five pounds Of the best beef
steak"
Instantly a storm Of protesting and
derisive Kisses broke forth from the
Indignant audience. But above the
noisy rasp could be heard the stem
torian voice Of a husky-looking indi'
vidual shouting: "The man is right!
The man is right! But he fails to
allow enough energy for the fruit.
know from my own personal expert
ence that a mere fraction Of the out
side of a banana contains sufficient en-
ergy to take the best wrestler in the
world of his feet"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-06-02
CHAPTER XVI.
A Clash and a Klss.

klahU anu = FNlees
The clash that came that evening
had been threatening for some time
Take an immovable body, represented
by Mr.. HARRISON and his square jaw,
and an Irresistible force, Jimmy and
his weight, and there is bound to be
trouble.
The real fault was Jim's. He had
gone entirely mad again over Bella,
and thrown prudence to the winds.
He mooned at her across the dinner
table, and waylaid her on the stairs
or in the back halls, Just to hear her
voice when she ordered him out Of the
way. He telephoned for flowers and
candy for her quite shamelessly, and
he got out a book Of photographs that
they had taken on their wedding jour
ney, and kept It on the library table.
The sole concession he made to our
presumptive relationship was TO bring
me the responsibility for everything
that went wrong, and his shirts for
buttons.
The first I heard of the trouble was
from Dal. He waylaid me in the hall
after dinner that night, and his face
was serious.
"Tm afraid we can't keep 1t up very
long. Kit" he said With Jim trail
ing Bella all over the house, and the
old lady keener every day, it's bound
to come out somehow. And that isn't
all Jim and HARRISON had a set-to
today-about you"
About mel" l repeated. "Oh, l
dare say I have been falling short
again. What was Jim doing? Abusing
me?"
Dal looked cautiously over his shoul'
der, but no one was near.
ITO BE CONTINUED.)
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-06-02
CHAPTER XVI.
I Face Flanagan.

Dinner had waited that night while
everybody went to the coal cellar and
stared at the hole in the wall, and
watched while Max took a tracing OF
II and of some footprints in the coal
dust on the other side.
did not go. I went into the library
with the guilty watch in a fold Of
my gown, and found Mr.. HARRISON
there, staring through the February
gloom at the blank wall Of the next
house. and quite unconscious Of the
reporter with a drawing pad just be-
low him in the area-way. went over
and closed the shutters before his
very eyes, but even then he did not
move.
''Will you be good enough to turn
around?" I demanded at last.
"Oh!" he said, wheeling. Are you
here?"
There wasn't any reply to that, so
! took the watch and placed it on the
library table between US. The effect
was all that had hoped. He stared
at It for an instant, then at me, with
his hand outstretched for 1t, stopped.
Where did you find it?" he asked.
/ couldn't understand his expression.
He looked embarrassed, but not at all
afraid.
'I think you know, Mr.. Harbison,"
retorted.
'T wish I did. You opened it7"
"Yes."
We stood looking at each other
across the table. 1t was his glance
that wavered.
About the picture-of you" he
said at last. You see, down there
in South America, a fellow hasn't
much to do evenings, and "a chum
of mine and I've were awfully down
on what we called the plutocrats, the
the leisure classes. And when that
picture of yours came In the paper
we had-we had an argument He
said" He stopped.
what did he say?"
well, he said it was the picture Of
IN empty-faced society girl"
"OA" I exclaimed.
Il maintrtned there were posi-
bilities in the face" He put both
hands on the table, and, bending for.
ward, looked down at me. well,
was fool, l admit. l said your eyes
were kind and candid, in spite of that
naughty mouth. You see, 1 said l was
q fool"
IT think you are exceedingly rude.
I managed finally. IF you want to
know where / found your watch, II
was down in the coal cellar. And II
you admit you are an idiot, ] am not,
IL know all about Bella'g bracelet
and the board on the roof, and-oh' II
you would only leave-Anne's neck
lace-on the coal, or somewhere-and
get away"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-06-02

their march upon the Saracen is
found in the breast of the modern in
vestigator Of battling and obscure
diseases. The big battles of the race
are now being fought out in the
laboratories and in the worlds operat-
ing rooms.
Every year adds a new martyr to
the long list Of medical men who have
died in their search for the mysteries
that lie back of the most battling
diseases. Many of these martyrs live
crippled for the rest of their days by
some affection, some combination Of
chemicals or by the aftermath Of
some malady that has finally turned
upon them. Hopeless wrecks of once
strong men live on uselessly and with
out hope, drawn and twisted by the
effects of the X-ray. They were able
to cure others with these weird rays,
but they gave up their own vitality to
do So
Last July DR.. Kassabian of New
York died of skin cancer brought on
by the X.ray. He had been burned
time after time by their mysterious
radiance. He had been dying for
years. In the years that he was slow
ly wasting away under the inroads oil
the malady he was giving relief to
thousands. He saw that he was
doomed ten years before his death
In common with practically every x
ray man in the world he had been
suffering at various times from burns
caused by this mysterious energy that
is given off by the Roentgen ray he
always maintained the greatest Sc
crecy concerning his own condition.
In 1902 he came to the conclusion
that he was doomed to die sooner
or later from the effects OF his burns.
In 1908 two of his fingers were am
putated. Skin cancer had begun to
appear upon his left hand and later
il began to move slowly up his arm.
Last year it was found that the ray
induced cancer had reached the glands
under his left arm. DR.. Chalmers da
Costa of the jefferson Medical college
was called to New York to perform
an operation. The ray irritated flesh
would not heal after the glands were
removed. Kassabian, who had fought
with cancer so long, was slowly sink
ing and still another operation was
decided upon. The glands on the
right side of the chest were removed.
It was useless. In the meanwhile the
whole of his left side had become af-
fected and there was nothing that
could be done.
Thomas A. Edison lost a valuable
assistant because of similar burns
some years ago. Still another death
in the medical profession, brought
about by these powerful rays, was that
of DR.. Louis Weigel Of New York.
Daley, Edison's assistant, died by
inches.
The comparative immunity that the
race now has from many diseases
was purchased in some instances by
the death of one or more investi'
gators. yellow Jack" has ceased to
be the dreaded thing that it was be-
fore the death of Dr. Walter Reed
Reed solved the mystery Of the spread
of yellow fever and died in its solv.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-06-02

msnt Then they all got up ana went
sadly back 70 the library, and Flanni'
gan and faced each other.
Flanagan was not a handsome man
At any time. though up 70 then ho had
AZ least looked amiable. But now "a
I stood with my hand on the back OF
my chair, his face grew suddenly
menaeing. The silence was absolute;
was the guiltiest wretch alive. and
opposite me the law lowered and
glowered. and held the yellow remnant
OF a pineapple cheesol And In the si'
leneo that wretehed watch lay and
tieked and licked and licked. Then
Flanagan creaked over and closed the
door into the hall, came back. picked
up the watch, and looked at II.
You're unluoky I'm thinkin'," he
said finally. you've got the nerve
all right, but you amt cute enough.
Il don't know what you mean"
quavered GIVE me that watch 70 70
turn TO Mr.. Harbison."
Not on your lfe." he retorted
easily 4 klNo ~ uhNA AigeNiAt AANN 90
going TO give back the necklace, II yoI
act like a sensible little girl"
could only choke,
TITS foolish, any way you look a
t." be persisted. "Here you are, loti
Of friends, folks that think you're al
right. Why, reckon there isn't one
OF them that wouldn't lend you moneI
II you needed II 80 bad"
win you be still7" ] said furiously
"Mr. HARRISON left that watch-wih
me-Hn hour ago Get him, and h'
VIII tell you 30 himself"
"Of course he would" Fiannigar
conceded. looking at me with grudgint
approval. HE wouldn't be what
think he is, II he didn't lie up ant
down for you" There were voices II
the hall. Flanagan came closer. "AI
hour ago, you say. And he told m'
It was gone this morningl It's
losing game, miss. I'll give you q
hours and then-the necklace, II yot
please, miss"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-06-02


banner out ninety times in the United
States. There have been ninety Oh
these deadly invasions Of this mos
quito-borne disease. DR.. Reed made
il certain that there viii never be an
other Of any serious proportions.
Yellow fever will never call forth
the acts of heroism that 1t did in
Louisville, Memphis, New Orleans and
other cities in the old fever belt"
Reed was sent to Cuba in 1900 to
help clean up the island. Death rates
in all diseases sank steadily under
the improved sanitation. Yellow fever
remained unchanged Reed became
possessed of the notion that yellow
fever was carried from victim to
victim by the mosquito. Reed, Car
roll and Lazear offered themselves as
experimental subjects. Lazear died
and Reed came back to the states in
a weakened condition, and finally
passed away because of the low vital
ity that was left him after his battle
with the tropical disease.
Doctors and surgeons are dying al
most every month in the year from
cancer, tuberculosis, fevers, blood
poisoning or some obscure ailment
that attacks when least expected.
Disease germs lurk in the air about
them during most Of their waking
| hours. They literally lie down and
get up with death, and their waking
moments are taken up with the han
ding and culturing of germs that may
at any time infect them A single slip
may prove fatal. When a doctor
starts upon a career of research he
understands just what his chances are.
1t is just year in this month since
Dr. Ricketts, died in the little Ameri-
can hospital in Mexico City. Ricketts,
had come into the City of Mexico
| from Washington for the purpose Of
studying the germs of typhoid fever
/ He was one of the first authorities :.
typhoid in this country but his knowl
edge could not save him from the
clutches of the typhoid bacilli.
You can find men Of this stripe in
the fever-ridden areas of the tropics.
! searching for the secret of the sleep
ing sickness, of the plague and the
malignant enteric fevers that sweep
/ thousands into their graves yearly.
Armed with serums, quinlne, micro
scopes and testing tubes, they ven
/ ture into the valleys of the Amazon,
the Niger and the Ganges, hoping to
add something to the sum total Of
human knowledge in the matter of
/ diseases.
There are laboratories in America
that hold more of the concentrated es-
sence of death than all the nitro.
glycerin works that are scattered
over the country There are rooms
in many of the modern institutions
that make a speciality of investigation,
where every test tube holds enough
of sudden death to decimate a city.
Tetanus, the germs of blood poison,
meningitis and cultures of diphtheria
and the black plague are ranged upon
the shelves. Careful scientists whose
white aprons and rubber-gloved hands
brush extinction at every move, watch
the growth and the life history of
these assassins, that the race at large
may profit by their watching.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-06-02
KNEW THEIR PLACE OF ABODE
coIored Witness Certain That Princl-
pals in Lawsuit Had Not Moved
From HawkensVille.

The object Of the suit was to deter
mine the ownership of a COW. One
If the witnesses was Abram Reese, a
colored man who had worked for the
plaintiff. Il will ask you, Mr.. Reese, >,
said the attorney for the defendant,
IF you were present when the ex-
change in question was consummat-
ed?" "I didn't see muffin O. dat kind,
mistuh." Perhaps you don't under
stand me. Were you there when the
trade was made?" Yes, sub; l wuz
dah wen Mist Hibbs done trade de
buggy for Mist Simmons COW"
Wasn't there a different understand
ing between them at some later per
lod?" DE unde' 'standin' tween en-
wuz all right sub" 81 mean, Mr.
Reese, did they ever trade back?'
Not as l knows, sub" So far as you
know, then, everything remains in
statu uuo?" NO, suh," said Abram.
with much positiveness, "dey's bofe Of
'em still in HawkensviIle. Youths
Companion.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-06-02
CURED ITCHING AND BURNING

Il was taken with the itch in April
1904, and used most everything.
had a friend pay me a visit from
Cumberland, and she advised me TO
use Cuticura Remedies which / did
The cure was certainly quick, and !
use them TO this day. ] had It terri
bly, under my knees. I only used one
box Of pills, but two boxes Of Cuti-
cura Ointment, and / use the Cuti-
cura Soap all the time. I hope this
will benefit others, as It has me, after
DR.. and others could do moth
ing for me-" (Signed) Miss Lu John
son, 1923 Ninth St., N. W.. Wash
ington, D. c., April 3, 1910.
In later letter Miss Johnson adds.
THE trouble began with an eruption
under my knees, and extended up
wards toward my waist, until was
not able to sit down. It kept a con
slant itching and burning all the time,
night and day. I went to my doctor,
but he could do me no good after I
do not know how many medicines he
gave me, and then told me l would
be compelled to go to a skin special
ist, which positively refused to do. /
cried all the time Finally l made
up my mind to try Cuticura Rem
edies, and tried Cuticura Pills, Oint-
ment and Soap, and was entirely
cured Of the itching three days after
I started using them. The healing
took about eight days. l consider
Cuticura Remedies marvellous, and
would recommend them everywhere"
Cuticura Remedies are sold through
out the world Send to Potter Drug
& Chem. Corp, Boston, for free book
on skin Affections.