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The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10

" ONKERS, N. Y.-Uncle Sam set
1 new record in rapid postal serv-
Ice when he delivered at Yonkers the
other day, letter sent from Geneva,
N. Y, on April 20, 1888.
Yonkers is just 1886 miles from Ge-
neva. It took the letter seventy-two
years to travel the distance.
Both the sender of the letter and
the man to whom it was addressed
are dead, the latter forty years ago.
Mrs. Walter Paddock, of the old Pad
dock family of Yonkers, received it.
She is a grandniece Of p. o. Paddock,
to whom the letter was addressed
He was in the lumber business. Mrs
Paddock had never seen him.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10

Spain contemplates entering upon a
scheme Of great public improvements,
with a view to providing employment
and thus keeping at home many who
otherwise would emigrate to countries
where work is more readily found.
The plan also contemplates the crea.
ton of facilities that would promote
industrial and agricultural develop
ment, big irrigation plants and the
construction of railway lines being
part Of the scheme. All this will be
costly, but Spain has large resources
which may be utilized in the manner
Indicted, and the new system may
have beneficial effects At all events
the movement indicates that there is
progressiyeness and public spirit
among the statesmen of Spain.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10

This Ming had been a leader in the
Wipyon or the righteous army of the
insurrection in 1906, and before he
had been caught and condemned to
death he had killed many of his coun.
try's enemies. The death sentence
had been commuted to Punishment,
and it was only after the general am.
nesty had been proclaimed upon the
complete overthrow of Korean indie.
pendence that Ming had dared go back
to his country.
Ming is quoted as having pleaded
with the japanese governor-generaI of
Chosen, the Japanese name of the
new province, to be allowed to join
the excursion in order that he might
see with his own eyes the civilization
and progress Of the empire of which
Chosen has now become a part"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10

The report of the fire loss for the
United States and Canada during No
vember is not as encouraging as it
might be. The total for the month
was S16,4O7OOO against S14,SOS 900 in
1909 and $15,S34,OO in 1908. The ag-
gregate for the II months ended with
November was $212,942, 900 in 1910
S1S8, 8,673,OOO in 1909 and $223,932 900
in 1908 December is generally a bad
fire-month, and the figures for the en-
tire year are not likely to generate
hope that real reform has set in. The
destruction by fire is entirely too
large, and effective methods of check
ing it would represent wise conserva-
ton.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10
Criminals Threaten Police Official

that amounts almost to madness. Yet
it is a hatred that is so tempered with
fear that, up to the present time, his
life has never been attempted. He
has been doomed to die, if the Grim
inal element among the Italians ever
find a way to accomplish it, yet he is
still at his old post. For years he
has gotten threatening letters-letters
with cross bones and skulls and black
hands and death marked all over
them-but as yet no criminal has had
the courage to put his threat into exc
cution.
Since the roundup of the big Ital
ian kidnapping band a few weeks ago,
Flynn has been an especial target for
these death letters. Distant letters
and friends Of the ten people now in
Jail for child stealing, as well as those
of that notorious and expert gang of
counterfeiters recently handed behind
the bars, have been decorating letters
with death hieroglyphics and sending
them to the deputy commissioner.
Flynn does not see half these death
letters addressed to him. He gave up
paying any attention to them long ago
His private secretary throws them all
in the waste basket, that is all except
the more ghastly ones, which he
shows to the chief.
"They are SO funny" says Flynn,
that / like to read them. l don't
believe word in them, SO they only
afford me amusement"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10
A Corner In Candles.

AS an example Of trusts and monop-
olies prevalent even in that early day
1t may be mentioned that in 1850 one
Benjamin Crabb obtained the exclu-
sive right to make sperm candles in
Massachusetts for IA years.
A year later, however, factory was
started in Providence, r. l., and with
in the decade there were eight fac
tories in New England and one in
Philadelphia. Their output greatly re.
duced the price of candles, which not
long before sold for five shillings a
pound. In those days $125 was worth
fully three times as much as it Is
now.-From the Designer.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10
Daguerreotype Valuable.

Pittsburg.-By producing in court a
daguerreotype taken nearly forty years
ago Michael Logan proved that he was
the husband of Annie Graham Logan
and entitled to her estate.
The oldfashioned picture showed a
woman dressed in the height of fash.
ion for that period.
The woman during the latter years
of her life had not lived with her hus.
band and was found dead in a hovel.
She had $500 in a bank and this was
awarded to her husband
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10
Bonuses for offspring.

Paris.-The Municipal Council OF
Tulle, in the department of the Cor
reze, has decided to grant bonus to
all employees who have two or more
children. Municipal employees with
two children will be granted a bonus
equal to 10 per cent of their salary
tbosn having three children Is per
cent; those with four children 20 per
cent. and so on.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10
Fish Tie In PLANT

Chicago.-Thousands Of fresh wa.
ter herring pouring into the hydraulic
power intake of the rail mill of the
Gary steel plant caused a tieup for
some time the other day. Just what
loss the company sustained is not
known. Foreign workmen took the
fish home for supper. Several months
ago rat was electrocuted in the
power house and the current was
shut off for several hours, thereby
rendering 5000 men idle.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10

ward into the Delaware breakwater
under jury masts after all his spars
had been carried away except the
foretopmost.
Mrs. Bergman, the shippers wife,
also has won recognition for heroism
at sea. She has an official letter Of
thanks from congress for aiding in
the saving of life. She lives aboard
the Rhine The Rhine is a steel ship,
257 feet long and thirty-eight feet
beam.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10

Greeley, Col.-Several hundred ag'
riculturists from all sections of the
state meeting here have formed the
Colorado Agricultural Antipest associ,
alton, the purpose of which is to fur.
ther efforts to eXterminate crop de-
gtroying insects. Particular attention
was paid to the grasshopper, which in
the last three years has caused loss to
farmers estimated in the millions.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10
FARM LABORER VERY SCARCE
Missouri Farmers Buy Talking Ma
chine and Refectors in Attempt
to Lure Him to Work.

Mexico, Mo.-Is the motion picture
machine in small towns responsible
for Turing boys and young men away
from the farm? viii the phonograph
and the post card reflector in the
farmhouse keep him there? Many
farmers in central Missouri would
say "yes" to both of those questions,
and many of them are buying talking
machines and refectors in order to
combat the lure of the motion pic
lures" and keep the boys--and the
hired men-on the farm.
Many of these men attribute the
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10
All He Could Garry.

An Atlanta man not long ago met a
darky who was driving horse so thin
that it staggered as it walked. why
don't you put more flesh on that nagT
Indignantly demanded the Albanian.
'scuse me, boss" replied the driver.
But rs doin de best kin. CANT
20 see, boss, dat po' hoss kin hardly
carry what little flesh he's got on him
now!.-
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10

The crop of olive oil is short and
the cotton crop is estimated below the
maximum. But it is believed that
there will be enough cotton seed to
prevent any famine in the item Of
olive oil.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10

The story that comes from England
of the ex-king Of Portugal not having
money to pay cabfare will hardly
create a wave of sympathy in this
country. Walking is healthy, and be-
fore the young man starves his rich
mamma will provide him with senten.
anCe.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10
Met Death In Hot Starch.

A fearful death was that of man
named John Baird at a mill in New
York AS he bent over a large vat
filed with boiling starch, he slipped
and fell into the hot mixture He was
literally boiled to death before work
men dragged his body from the vat
with hooks attached to a rope. The
hot starch had reduced the mans
clothing to fragments.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10

One thousand presumably vigorous
young women at Vassar, all in danger
Of hunger because they have no
cooks This looks like a pressing
need for mixture of the old-fashion-
ed girl with modern woman.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10

Five hundred fines are reported to
have been imposed in New York city
for smoking automobiles. Which nun,
Der suggests a cynical doubt that the
fines were large enough to stop the
practice.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10

"A man with low salary has a bet
ter chance to become rich than a man
with a high salary, AYERS a wealthy
Chicagoan. Hence a vast majority of
our citizens are prospective million
aires.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10

Wireless telegraphy saved the lives
of the people on that steamer strand
ed on the Alaska coast: but it should
not be taken as thereby encouraging
the practice Of piling steamers upon
she rocks.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10

They have discovered the bones of
huge reptile millions Of years old in
New Jersey. That state seems to
We had it's drawbacks as a place of
sidence from time immemorial.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10

Thinking that she was a burglar
New Mexico man shot his niece when
she called him to breakfast. These
hair-trigger people are becoming a
real nuisance.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10

Harvard physical director says
women are becoming masculine. Pos
sibly he's near-sighed and the hobble
llirt may be the explanation.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10

It is announced that the last surviv-
ing daughter of the American revolu-
tion has just died again, proving that
we are a hardy race
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10

The fashionable woman seeks a hat
that does not permit her to see and
a skirt that scarcely permits her to
walk.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10
"ow Nutmeo.

Notwithstandin' the fact that there
is a time fur everything, they's a lot
Nv people in the world who never
have time fur anything
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10

And the most komical kuss of all is
the Chicago person who has a habit
of getting soused on chloroform,
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10

had rather be kissed by an enemy
than wounded by friend who enjoyed
the job
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10

DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate
and invigorate stomach, liver and bowels.
Sugar-coated, tiny granules, easy to take
Os candy.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10

ONLY ONE "BROMO OUININE."
That is LAXATIVE BRoMO QUININH Look for
the signature Of p, W. GROVE. Used the World
over to Cure Cold In One Day. 9o.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10
Important to Mothers

So much we miss if love is weak, so
much we gain if love is strong.-Helen
Hunt Jackson.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10

For an early breakfast nothing so good
Mrs. Austins Pancake Flour.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10

1t is a wise hookworm that gets up
too late for the early bird.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10

The manly man makes altogethOE
the best woman's man.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10

Young lovers and creditors always
go through their mail with avidity.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10
Korean Party Breaks All Records
by Crossing Sea.

Expedition Planned by Japanese Mas.
ters as Little Journey of EnIighten-
ment for Fifty-odd Yangbans-
They Believed Everything.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-15
CODDLED TOO MUCH

The judge must be exceedingly
dull who does not realize a growing
impotence with the courts, remarks
the Saturday Evening Post.
The congressman must be exceed
ingly dull who does not realize
growing Impotence with congress.
The governor must be exceedingly
dull who does not realize a growing
impatience with governors.
The legislator must be exceedingly
dull who does not realize a growing
Impotence with legislatures.
The editor must be exceedingly
dull who does not realize a growing
Impotence with newspapers.
The great American public is i'm
patient with everybody except its
snug, complacent self.
We agree with Ed Howe that the
public is coddled too much. Some
body or another is forever telling il
about its hardships and it's wrongs
but nobody ever tells it about its owl
stupidity and indifference and neg
lect and passion and prejudice ana
folly which are responsible for much
of it's trouble.-World
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-15

can is capable of more work than one
of any other people. We are here to
work, is his feeling, and those who
shirk this great obligation belong to
the degenerate and unfit.
Yet he is a humanitarian toward
those whom nature has incapacitated.
The originator of the electric chair,
which makes execution painless,
gives much thought to enlightened
methods of treating criminality. He
blames the present condition of civil.
ization more than the criminal for
the evil the latter does.
There would be little crime if So
ciety was on a right basis" he says
Crime is mostly the result of ig
norance. Educate, make education
easy and within the reach of all, and
the decrease in malefactors will be
in proportion to the spread of sensi
BILE instruction"
Where others count mile-posts in
travelling, Edison counts the number
of school houses he passes on the
highways of Europe. In them he
sees the promise of the future: anC
among his many other schemes fol-
the benefit of his age those concern
! ing problems of education take a for
ward place. His pocket is always
open to the plea of the knowledge
thirsting needy. He never refuse:
help to the man who has a practica
idea that money is required to bring
into being. Generosity is one of hi;
wonderful traits. He never forgets
that he was himself among the ranks
of the strugglers. and that remem
brance makes him sensitive as {
child to demands on his bounty
And he gives his great practical
ideas as freely as he opens his purse
His laboratory notebook, where he
jots down his dreams of fresh inven
tons, is free to the inspection of any
who care to turn its pages. For il
all these things Edison is the idea
scientist before all else. To him the
evolution of life is the main thing. Il
matters little from what source i
comes, through himself or others
His great desire is that the world
shall go forward.
Behind Edison's labors is the
search after some greater "philoso
piers stone" than that of the scient
lists quest in past ages. He calls hi:
work pure business" but it is the
business of a man to whom the fats
of civilization is a vital thing
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-15

whose temnerament will be so toler-
ant and yet resolute that his lnnuen.o
will promote harmony among those
who. ignoring mean jealousles anu
trifies, will agree upon the vital 10
sues and whose aim will be the re-
clamation of the government from
the element which has made 1t the
servant of a class and not the SET
want of the millions.
1.-THE Republic will take pleasure
in sustaining such a candidacy anu
such a platform. In any event, IL VIII
adhere to the platform, wnlch Is its
own. Beyond the concern that all
good citizens and all good democrats
must have in whatever contributes
to the public welfare, to good govern
ment and good citizenship. the re
public has no personal interest ana
no personal ambition whatever.
This paper wants the democratic
party to get together" 1t wants Dy
cones to be forgotten. 1t wants &c
see secionalism and partlsanls1r
drowned in a deep sea of oblivion. II
wants to see the party aroused, lts
warning factions united and with
strong, unruffled front give Dattle
and win a glorious victory, and then
return to first principles" that made
it honored and respected in the days
| of it's founders.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-15

That the citrus fruit crop of 1911-12
is more than 100000 boxes greater
than last seasons, and that fruit
will be of more uniform size and bet
ter color, particularly the orange
crop, seems to be the general impress
sion among those who have taken the
trouble to make a careful study of the
situation. It is thought. however
that the grapefruit crop will be short
as compared to last seasons, but the
orange crop will more than make VI
the deficiency. and the entire citrus
crop will be about 25 per cent. more
than last season. and will likely total
about 100000 boxes.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-15

The Atlantic fleet, constituting the
most formidable part of the sea pow
er of the United States. has been
Stimulating war for the past
week in chesapeake bay, using the
old Texas and the San Marcos, that
cost millions not many years ago. as
targets. But what are dreadnaughts
with the Lincoln Beacheys and his
tribe, who in a few minutes can
climb out of sight in the air and
drop explosives upon fleets, forts and
cities? The parliaments of the
world must soon make up their minds
to go out of the war business. 1t be-
longs to the past, and its death knell
has been sounded by aerial naviga,
ton.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-15
Mondays Times-Union prints an

Mondays Times-Union prints an
extract from the New York Dispatch,
dated January II, 1850, in which the
paper says that it does not see, how
New York boarding houses can pro-
vide board for four dollars a week
and serve choice cuts of meat, buck
wheat cakes and all the etceteras.
Some of the New York hotels charge
now as muck as four dollars day
for rooms, without board. Time
brings its changes.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-15

There is no free press in Cuba.
The newspaper editors who were hos.
tile to the present administration
were arrested by battering down the
doors of their residences, placed on
board of a steamer and hustled off IN
Spain. The republic will lose bv this
summary method of strangling free
speech, exclaims the Ocala Banner
different methods prevail in the more
civilized United States. Let a news
per, dependent on its revenues for q
living, tell all the truth about wrong.
doing of city and county officials
give the reader the news no matter
what advertiser is touched. or shv.
larking banker is annoyed, and such
papers career will be full of adyer.
sity-St. Augustine Meteor.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-15

Despite all that was said by the
clergy, Mr. John Jacob Astor and
Miss Adelaide Force are married
and minister performed the cere
mony. But hundreds and hundreds
of divorced people re-marry and
clergymen perform the ceremony
Some divorced people live beautiful
and lovable lives. while others do not
and again carry their grievances TO
the divorce courts. As long as mar
riage is looked upon as a civil con.
tract and the state exercises the
right OF grant licenses to marry and
the courts to grant divorces, things
will go on as they are.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-15
p. v. Leavengood, Business Manager
God bless the flag! Let 1t float anC
All

Eod bless the flag! Let 1t float and
I'LL
The sky with its beauty; our heart
strings thrill
To the low, sweet chant of Its wind
swept bars,
And the chorus Of all its clustered
stars.
Embrace it, o mothers! and heroes
shall grow,
While its colors blush warm on your
bosoms of snow.
Defend 1t, @ fathers; there's no sweet
er death
Than to float its fair folds with sol
dier'r last breath!
And love It. o children! be true to the
sires
Who wove 1t in plain by the old camp
fires.
Samuel L. Simpson.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-15
THE UNREST OF LABOR AND
LABOR LEGISLATION

Some friend has sent us copy Of
the Leader, printed at Melbourne.
Australia. and labor there, as here.
is at unrest, and all sorts of remedial
LEGISLATION is proposed.
The Leader says that the labor I'm.
ions and the socialists seem to think
that parliament is omnipotent and
that legal enactments will cure all
social. industrial and economic de.
fects now extant in the universe. We
make an extract:
Labor legislators are not afflicted
with any consciousness of misgiving
concerning their capacity to deal
with the most difficult of problems.
Our prime minister Mr.. Fisher, has
obtained from the London press a
need of amused admiration over the
ingenious manner in which he ap-
proaches imperial issues. But the
labor member is seen to most advan-
tage when he attacks Industrial trou-
bles. He thinks that to recognize an
evil is equivalent to its removal, and
is firmly convinced that all the ills
that Cypress humanity can be gotten
rid of by the simple process of max
ing law for their abolition His
confidence in the omnipotence of par
lament as a remedial power is
| touching Illustration of the inno-
cence of faith Although he may dis
pute the credibility of the story about
the walls of Jericho falling down on
the loud blowing of assailing trum-
pets, he is quite prepared to act on
a similar assumption. We can see
an expression of this belief in labor
experiments in industrial Legislation.
He refuses to recognize any complex
tiles in the industrial position, and
holds that all will be put right if the
workers can be assured of higher
wages and shorter hours. Undoubt-
eddy the worker is entitled to i'm
prove his condition and insure a fair
return for his toll, but it does not
seem to dawn on the minds of those
who represent his case that other in
/! terests must also be taken into &C
count. If an industry is not estab-
lished on fair basis the result must
ultimately be disastrous. If capital
/ or So
investment, and is given no sense of
security, it will be withdrawn, and
those who are dependent on the en-
ployment which it gives will be the
sufferers. 1t seems to be supposed
that socialism viii supply a remedy,
and that all may be made safe by the
naturalization of industries This is
delusion which, if carried into eff
/ feet, would entail terrible conse-
quences. If the state becomes the
employing capitalist it will be sub
Ject to the same natural laws which
regulate industries in present circum-
stances. No more than the private
employer can the state sustain the
strain of continuous losses. If high
er wages are paid than the industry
can afford the loss must be made
good out OF the pockets of the peo-
pie, and it will not be long before
there is revolt against a system
which is founded on injustice