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The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-11-17

such a golden-haired, blue-eyed, rosy
checked boy that 1t seemed a shame
he was doomed there so soon In life.
OF course, fatalities among child
toilers are far more numerous than
among adults. Obviously youth is
less cautious than experience. Not a
day passes that death does not take
It's toll of the child workers and
passes along many more to the ranks
Of the crippled and helpless.
In Pennsylvania the fatalities and
accidents to the boys in breakers pick
ing slate out Of the coal with their
little fingers is 300 per cent. higher
than among adults and minors over
sixteen. In Indiana the physical risk
to children in factories under sixteen
is $50 per cent greater than among
adults. In Michigan 1t is 450 per cent.
against the child.
Children who go to school under the
most Objectionable conditions are con-
fined 1000 hours annually. In Massa'
chusetts the factory child is confined
1920 hours a year, and in New York
where the eight-hour day prevails, he
is still subjected to 2,496 hours Of con-
finement
All states with important canning
industries employ children without re-
striction. They can do the work just
as well as adults and for far less pay.
In the chief cities, where clothing. ar
tificial flowers and other articles are
made in the tenements, there are no
laws to protect little children. Three
and four-year-old fingers find plenty to
do for a few pennies a day more to
the family fund.
This tenement-house work, done to
save rent, carfares and to impress the
children, has other dangers besides
those Of the child. The consumer is
Just as likely to become the victim.
Physicians who will agree to conceal
the contagion from the health authori-
ties are the most popular with the
tenement-house workers. Agents found
women and children working on gar
ments while children were in the
same room suffering with contagious
diseases.
In some of these city tenements
where the child is put to work as soon
as II can use its hands and before 1t
goes to school-nearly always by COM
pulsion from the authorities-two chill
dren die for every one in localities
where the child is not put to work be-
fore its time!
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-11-17
F-KuD~n-r-=---
g OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES &
HIS ATTITUDE
BY ANNE HRNRICHSEN
(copUiaht, 1911, by Associated Literary Press.)

The new light In her eyes caught
>Wayne's attention as soon as he en-
tered the room.
what is it?" he asked. Some
thing very good, is It not?"
you know? How did you find
out?"
Il don't know anything Tell me-"
She shook her head. mot yet, Rob"
Jean" he asked abruptly, lis 1t
about Halstead?
mo, 1t is not"
Some time you will tell me that
you intend to marry him and when
that time comes"
Hush, Rob"
you love him, don't your"
You have no right to question
me-"
'You know that ever since you
were a little girl have loved you be-
yond anything in my life. We have
been the truest and best OF friends
But for several months Halstead has
had all your time and thoughts.
have no right to complain. You don't
love me. ! have no claim. Well,
we'll not talk of that. You are look
ing very happy tonight Something
truly great has happened to you.
What is it?"
I'm tell you soon. Rob. but not
not Just yet"
She glanced a little anxiously at
the clock.
Il am going," he "nnounced. when
you are ready to tell me. Jean, the
glorious thing which has added a new
charm to the sweetest face in the
world, you wal find a deeply inter
ested man."
A few minutes later Halstead came
How delightful your fire is" he
exclaimed as he entered the room.
He sat down in a large easy chair
before the hearth. Il have had a
busy day." he remarked. I've been
in court since early this morning"
"A successful lawyer has a hard
life. II you were not so brilliant and
so clever you would not have to
spend all your time handling impor-
tant cases."
He settled himself more comfort
ably in his chair and smiled approx
ingly at her. 81 am having a meas
ure Of success, of course" he said, a
little pompously.
"A great deal OF success" she
amended.
His smile depend. ITO man sue
cess means more than anything else.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-11-17

The southern lover was impetuous,
says the author Of a recent book OF
"reminiscences of eastern Virginia, en-
titled Memory Day." and the maiden
was timid and unused to passionate
proposals of marriage. "Oh, dont!"
she interrupted in a whisper. "You
Irighten me dreadfully."
Overcome by contrition, the young
nan humbly apologized for his fervor,
and painful silence ensued. The
girl broke 1t at last.
Robert" she began, with hopeful
smile. Il don't think-I-shall-be so
frightened this time"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-11-17
and didn't know how to spell his own

and didn't know how to spell his own
namel
Bob, boy who worked in the same
mill, owned up to fifteen years, and
said he had been working there for
eight years. He showed 1t, too. in his
overgrown, thin, anaemic frame, and
looked fertile ground for the seeds Of
tuberculosis. His intelligence had
stood stationary with the fight OF
years, and so he was still doing the
same thing he had started on-tak-
ing of the empty spools from the spin
dies. Anything more complex was too
much for his stunted intelligence.
In the coal mines of Pennsylvania
and West Virginia they found boys Of
twelve masquerading as sixteen. They
worked in the damp and darkness
alongside Of mules and took their lives
in their hands every time they went
down into the shafts to their daily toll
hundreds of feet down in the bowels
of the earth.
Il haven't grown any in five years, ="
said Charlie. a thin, hollow-chested,
anaemic lad OF fourteen, with a dull,
stupid face. He has been on the night
shift for seven years and makes his
go cents a night.
At Fairmont, w. Va, at work in the
glory hole" Of the glass works, where
the temperature ranged as high as the
human system can stand, there were
more boys than men at work.
The works is cluttered with kids"
remarked native.
One of the saddest cases was that OF
little Savannah, a frail eleven-year-old
THE boss says she's a cracker-jack
at spinning" declared her gaunt faith
er proudly. "She amt satisfied unless
she's in the mill"
Poor little Savannah owned up that
she had never had a doll and never
played on Sundays because she was
too tired. Her tense, drawn face was
that of an old woman.
The gruelling labor Of the mould
boys in the glass works was really aW.
full. Here we're tender youngsters
down in cellars guiltless of sunlight,
sitting in cramped positions and tend
ing moulds all day long and all night
Other boys worked the molten glass
at the furnace maws in heat unbear-
able by those unaccustomed to It, One
baby boy of five was found earning his
few pennies a day in the mill where
his mother worked He was too
young to go to school! And he was
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-11-17
Appetlte Not 3 NeeeseIty.

DR.. John R. Murlin of New York, as
sistant professor of physiology at the
Cornell university medical college, in
an article in the October number OF
the Journal Of the Outdoor Life, COM
pares the food we eat to the fuel used
In furnishing steam and power for an
engine. In selecting our food he says
that we should eat enough to furnish
energy for the days work, but that
much more than this is not needed.
He holds that the appetite is not ne
cessity for good digestion. There is
no fallacy of nutrition" he says.
greater than that which supposes that
a food cannot be digested and utilized
without appetite" Most OF the food
we eat, fully four-fifths. goes to supply
energy for our everyday tasks, while
less than one-hfth goes to supply
building material.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-11-17

all of its nutritive principles, had lost
its aromatic constituents, gone to
make the despised extract for the
preparation of broths.
The physician may henceforth ad-
wise beef tea and meat broths gener-
ally with a clear conscience and sci
entifc satisfaction; they have tri-
umphed over their enemies and de-
tractors and will resume their honored
station upon the invalid's tray as un-
approachable adjuvants to digestion
and assimilation, adding one more ex-
ample to the list of remedies founded
in Grass empiricism. but finding at last
a true scientific basis for their raison
detre.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-11-17
Science After Despising Broths for
Long Time Finds Out Why They
Are Good.

From time immemorial beef tea, or
a broth made in a similar manner
from mutton or chicken, has been
feature of the sickroom, the pride of
the housekeeper nurse, a source of
comfort to the invalid, the invariable
staple of the menu permitted by the
physician.
When 1t was indisputably proved
that the homemade broth was in no
sense a food humanity refused ere.
dence and invalids went ahead with
their consumption of millions of gal.
Ions, persisting in the exhibition OF
sure signs Of convalescence and de-
manding with insistence further sup
plies of the fragrant potion.
DR.. Thomas Darlington, in a recent
issue of the New York Medical Jour.
nal, shows at last the reason of this
unshakable faith Broth is one OF the
few genuine stimulants in the arma-
mentarium now that alcohol is known
to be a narcotic. The experiments of
Pawlow on dogs demonstrate that the
savory liquid is powerfully stimulant
to the gastric secretion and other di.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-11-17
Wedding Cake Paooda.

At Mingun, on the right bank Of
the Irrawaddy river, about five miles
from Mandalay. in Burma, there
stands peculiar pagoda known as
the Wedding Cake Pagoda. because 1t
looks like a marvelously magnitied
bridal cake 1t was built in the early
part of the nineteenth century, and is
in thoroughly good preservation. only
a few of the images inside having
been broken. The extreme height to
the top Of the minaret is 80 feet and
the circumference about 500 feet The
pagoda stands back from the river
some 300 feet and is hidden from 1t
by grove of teak trees. Close to it
is the famous Mingun bell.-Wide
World.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-11-17
How Cholera is Cured

The success Of the sea water treat
ment for infants suffering from sum.
mer cholera Is indisputable. In the
Quinton Polytechnic in Poland street
there is an incessant waiting line Of
babies
When one has become accustomed
to the sight of the emaciated babies
with old. gray faces. pale cheeks and
big ustreIess eyes, there is much 10
interest IN the quiet room AZ the
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-11-17
CANADA'S CENSUS
A THIRTY-TWo PER CENT IN.
CREASE IN THE PAST TEN
YEARS.

That Canada has come rapidly to
the front in the past ten years is am.
ply shown in the results Of the census
recently made public. The population
Of the Dominion is now placed at
70Sl, 1853, which with outlying points
TO be heard from, may bring 1t up to
7A millions as compared with 5,37l,-
315 in 1901. Though these figures are
large, they do not present total as
large as was expected but they do
show a greater increase Of percentage
In population for the decade than any
similar increase in the United States.
The highest percentage ever reached
by the Republic was 24q5; the per-
centage Of increase In Canada for the
decade is 329o. Thus 1t will be seen
that the provinces west of the lakes,
with the great broad fertile acres
ready for the sowing and immediate
reaping Of grain and the Valleys Of
British Columbia capable of producing
fruit with which to supply it's neigh
boring provinces east of the noun
tains, have attracted numbers, which
has exceeded the most optimistic of
the expectations Of ten years ago.
Upon the prairies of the ten years
ago there was but a spare scattering
of people; but today, no matter in
which way you go, take any direction,
and you find homes and farms and
good ones too, occupied by the very
best class of people in good sized set
Elements with plenty Of room for FIVE
or six times as many more. The pop
ulation Of Alberta is set down at 372,-
919, as compared with 73,022 in 1901;
Saskatchewan 453,508 as compared
with 91,270 in 1901; Manitoba's 454,-
691 compares we'll with its 255,211 in
1901; and so does that Of British Co.
lumbia-362, 76S as against 178,657 in
1901; but in territory as large as
this a population Of 1,643,OO0 is little
more than discernible in point of num-
bers. The work through it has been
great. Look at the towns that have
been built up; its cities, Winnipeg
with $4,000; Vancouver with upwards
Of 100000; Calgary with $4,000; Ed
monton, Regina, Saskatoon: Leth-
bridge; Medicine Hat, Moosejaw,
splendid cities-none better any
where; we'll maintained and equipped.
These have come with existence and
been built as they have been built by
reason of the splendid agricultural
country by which they are surround
ed. The population is scarcely dis
cernible. A population ten or twelve
times that shown by the recent
census could be easily maintained in
even greater wealth than that which
maintains the present numbers. There
is certainly a wonderful future for
Western Canada and that which goes
to the development of the west will
enrich the last. This is the growing
time in Canada and what has been
done in the past ten years is but a
beginning. The next decade will
show a far greater advancement. In
the meantime Canada is bidding well
come the progressive and industrious
citizen. The invitation is a standing
one. At the forthcoming land exposi-
tion in Chicago, Canada will have one
Of the best exhibits of farm products |
that has ever been made and it will |
be well worth while inspecting it and
getting information from those who |
may be in charge.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-11-17

he remained unmoved, and even If his
wife gave him a lead by remarking
about some special iaiT y. Isn't this
delicious?" all the response she re-
ceived was, Yes. dear" in an absent
minded manner
He belonged to that inhuman class
which eats to live, instead OF living to
eat, and Tesembled a certain old gen
tleman who went to a restaurant day
after day and invariably ordered a
chop and Clipped potatoes On one
occasion he was given steak ana
mashed potatoes instead. and after.
wards the waiter apologized for tile
mistake. Didn't have chop. rs
usual?" the old gentleman asked. Il
never noticed"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-11-17

| RANhNh1ANN NfAhAhAN AA
New York City of the horrors and
evils that follow the slavery Of little
children in our mills and mines. The
evidence OF the camera, the bald facts
OF statistics and government reports
have told the story only too truly.
Few today realize that such things
| can be.
Hundred Of thousands of children
have grown old before their time; hun
dreds Of thousands more have been
crippled for life at an age when they
ought to be running in the woods and
fields. Thousands have died before
they had even begun to live. And Of
all the misery and injury and vice and
disease and death--it is too shocking
to be more than limited at!
The exhibit which the public saw in
the rooms at Fourth avenue and Twen-
tieth street has been doing its good
work all over the country since last
autumn-in fact, It has been a travel
ing exhibit Miss Elizabeth Mem. Dim
widdle, who is in charge of It, has been
from one end of the country to the
other, showing it where 1t could do
the most good at the psychological
moment. It had been intended to
show 1t in New York first, but urgent
reasons called 1t to other places first.
II was taken to North Carolina,
where the inadequate law against
child labor is more honored in the
breach than in the observance, just at
the time that a child labor law was
pending in the state legislature. 1t
went to Providence, r. L. in order to
meet a federation of women's welfare
clubs convened there. It went to the
state capitals of Alabama, Tennessee
and Wisconsin in the hope OF In
fuencing the legislators when in
fiuence was badly needed to protect
the American child life against the
rapacity of money-mad employers.
Better than words do the pictures
and posters tell their story of the
twentieth century crime against child
life. The boys in the coal breakers.
the girls in the cotton mills, the kid
dies in the night shift at the glass
works who ought to have been in bed
dreaming Of baseball and trout brooks,
the anaemic. understood. over-worried.
sickly boys and girls who should have
been at school instead Of at the ma
chines-they all told their own stories
by their faces alone.
Go to the glass work, the mines, the
cotton mills, the canneries, the tene-
ments-there you shall see them! In
some cases the rapacity of the en-
ployers is to blame; in others it is
the greed of the parents. In some
cases it is both.
she just happened in," said the
burly overseer in a South Carolina
cotton mill when an investigator ran
across a baby girl of eight tending her
sides" like a veteran. He was lying
The child was just as handy and use !
full as a grown-up and cost only half as
much for her labor,
In Pennsylvania coal-breaker they |
photographed nine-year-old Leo. He |
was toiling nine hours a day in CRIME |
and dirt for pitiful wage. And there
was found on a musty, dusty school
file the sworn affidavit Of his parents
that he was too sickly to stay in
school!
-Four years" answered a good-look.
ing twelve-year-old boy in a South
Carolina cotton mill, when asked how
long he had been there. He couldn't
tell the letter "A" from the letter "B,"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-11-17
lmmenslty of Nature.

They were on a trip to Switzerland,
and had that day braved all dangers
and ascended one of the highest
points in the Alps.
He was very fat, and as he stood
painting and mopping his brow at the
top Of the mountain, he turned to his
wife and said, with pathos in his
voice:
See, dear, how small one is in the
face Of the immensity Of nature"
Small, indeed!" answered his bet
Ter half. why, you're standing in
front of me, hiding the whole of Mont
Blanc and the best part of the valley
1f !"-Exchange
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-11-17
Fever's On.

There's no fever like the football
fever" said George H. Earle, Jr., at
a dinner party in Philadelphia. Let
me tell you about a brokers' boy in
Third street.
"A Third street broker sat at his
desk the other morning when his Of
flee boy entered and said respectfully:
"Tf you please, sir, my grandfa'
ther's dead and I'd like to get off early
to go to the funeral match mean
the football cerem ony-that is"
"And then, blushing scarlet, the boy
withdrew"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-11-17
Man Stole Love Letters

bell stood silent throughout the pro
ceedings; Detective Taczkowski, VINO
had the two dozen letters, kept them
and their contents carefully con
cealed; and the only touch Of color in
the brief hearing was that furnished
by the bright red hair of Mrs. Lottie
Guyer, the janitress, whose prompt
tude in calling the police led to
Campbell's arrest
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-11-17

and almost instantly great blister
rises. It is the sight Of this fantas-
tic swelling which makes the mothers
at the first treatment hysterical and
in some cases faint, and so one sees
the stronger minded fathers there
awkwardly undressing the little ones.
tying up the strings after the lniec-
ton, and saving their wives the
nervous strain. The saving Of infant
life by this new treatment during tho
hot weather Is undoubted.- European
Letter to the New York Sun.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-11-17

They we're very good friends" Mrs.
Guyer told the court.
did the defendant live thereY"
asked the magistrate.
u don't know" the witness said.
He came there often for long time"
Magistrate Butts glanced at Camp.
bell, who had given his address as the
st. George apartment house. Camp
bell is a tall, slender man of thirty
He held his soft gray hat with its rim
Just touching his cheek and gazed
earnestly at the Judge; but he said
nothing New York Evening Mail.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-11-17

back sits the doctor entering case aft
er case in the big folios as anxious
mothars bring in the children. With
written directions they pass from here
to the room upstairs where the cylln.
ders Of sea water hang around the
room, and the nurse goes about the
circle Of infants, connecting each with
cylinder by means OF a tube and
hypodermlc syringe.
The puncture is made IN the back,
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-11-17

A very loyal lady OF British birth
asked an American dame in England
whether they had any painters in
America. "Oh, yes" said the Amer.
lean. you have some OF them here
Sargent and Abbey and Mrs Merritt
and Mcclure Hamilton" Dear me,
said the English lady. "youn be
claiming Whistler nextl"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-11-17
Then the Girl Had Him Arrested for
5urglary-And Trouble
Grows.

Charged with taking love letters
from the apartment Of Miss Adelaide
Lander, the orchestra leader in the St.
George apartments, Archibald ~
Campbell was held in $1,000 bail by
Magistrate Butts in Yorkvilie court
Miss Lander was not in court; Camp
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-11-17
In Defense of Beef Tea

gestiVe fluids, with the result that
real food, given with or after the
broth, is speedily and gratefully assim-
Hated
Milk, which disagrees with so many
people, will cause no distress If ad-
ministered after a cup of hot broth
The mere flavor of meat is thus shown
to be necessary and valuable to diges-
tion. What caused disgust among the
troops in the Spanish war was that
the preserved meat, while retaining
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-11-17
TIekete No rransferabIe.

The Brighton Railway company,
which has just passed its SEVENTEEN
anniversary, was, although not the
first company to run an excursion
train, the first one to run a regular
service Of such trains at low fares
Half a crown was the fare for day
trip to Brighton and back in the
early 70s, but after a time the CON-
pany found that it was losing money
by the return halves being openly
sold Rather than stop the cheap
trains, however, it prosecuted the
touts who crowded Brighton station
and importuned persons to sell or buy
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-11-17
uroent Necessity.

A distiL guished theologian was In
vited to make an address before a
Sunday school, The divine spoke for
over an hour and his remarks were Of
too deep a character for the average
juvenile mind to comprehend At the
conclusion, the superintendent, accord
ing to custom, requested some one in
the school to name an appropriate
hymn to sing.
Sing Revive Us Again" shouted
boy In the rear of the room.-Life
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-11-17
A Good Risk.

why did you trust this struggling
young man for all these goods?" de.
manded the senior partner
Il thought his prospects looked
pretty fair" replied the junior part
ner. He's struggling to marry an
heiress, with very good prospects OF
success"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-11-17

return halves. 1t was successful and,
settled the important question from
the railway point Of view that a
ticket expresses a personal contract
and is therefore not transferable
London Chronicle.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-11-17

Only a few people can follow the
lines of least resistance and obey the
alarm clock at the same time.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-11-17

The time a man begins to fear for
the future of his country is when he
fears he is going to lose job in the
election
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-11-17

ES, why? Today It is
one OF he crying evils
Of the United States.
Recently the National
Child Labor committee
has been holding a COM
prehensiVe exhibit in