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The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-11-15

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Guild, Jr.,
w American ambassador to St Pc
.ersburg, desh AZ to see mounted boy
scouts. He believes the United States
government should furnish ponies for
The boys, give them instruction In
horseback riding and train them In
skill in riding and develop their hardi'
less.
He outlines his plan in a letter to
the state department, which has been
referred to James E. West, chief scout
executive of the Boy Scouts Of Ameri-
ca. West is enthusiastic over the
scheme. The scout leaders are taking
the matter up with Ambassador Guild
and the officials in Washington.
Ambassador Guild got his inspira-
ton from seeing 20 Cossack boys drill
before the czar last spring. AT recent
events" he writes, ''in the presence OF
the emperor at Krasnoe Selo, there
was one thing Of particular importance
as It opened a new vista of the possi-
bilities of the boy scout movement.
Early In May some Cossack boys,
ranging in age from eleven to four
teen years, left their villages and as
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-11-15
Washinqton's Sewerage System Pronounced Best.

VIZ TASHINGTON'S sewerage system
w has been pronounced the finest
in the world by a party, including
some OF the foremost sanitary en-
gineers. This party, which included
DR.. John Watson, chief sanitary en-
gineer of Birmingham, England. and
formerly chief sanitary engineer OF
Toronto; DIR. George w. Fuller OF
New York. author of the standard
work on sewerage systems; DR..
Soper, president of the Metropolitan
Drainage commission Of New York
City, and James C. Webster. chief
sanitary engineer of Philadelphia,
were escorted over the system by Su.
perlntendent Asa E. Phillips just at
the close of the Congress of Hygiene
and Demography. 1t was the unani'
nous opinion of this party that no
city had a better system except the
German municipalities, which were
considered to be a model in this re-
gard Washington is underlaid by
500 miles of subterranean rivers, an
average Of nearly nine miles of river
to every square mile of land. These
are really underground rivers, be-
cause they take off the howage from
half dozen or so streams which used
to drain through what is now the
central portion Of the city. In addi-
ton, they handle all the drainage
from Washington houses and all the
immense amount of rain that falls an
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-11-15
Railroad Puts Engine in the City Fire Service

ONE of the big railroads having ter
" minals here has equipped loco
motive with modern tire-hghting ap'
paratus and put it in commission to
assist the district firemen in extin-
gushing flames in the railroad yards,
particularly near New Jersey and
Virginia avenue.
Because Of the high speed OF which
the engine is capable and the fact
that it has right Of way all the time
jts service will be invaluable as has
already been shown by its efficiency
in putting out small flames in the
yards without the assistance OF the
municipal department. The excellent
switchboard service, operated from
the towers. can give 1t right of way
with scarcely any delay.
The primary use Of the engine will
be in the yards, but 1t can be brought
10 the Union station or elsewhere
along the road If necessary. The ter
minal has been so constructed that
water can be reached at any point in
the yards
This is not an innovation. as the
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-11-15

Several persons are named for the
presidency of the French republic to
succeed NJ. Fallieres, whose seven.
year term OF office expires with the
beginning of the new year. Among
them are Leon Bourgeois, who it is
said, would have a walk over"-this
American term now appearing in
French politics. But M. Bourgeois
will not declare himself candidate.
Antonin Dubois, despite his pretcn-
tions, will have no chance for the
reason that he is president Of the
senate and the chamber of deputies
will not consent to send to the presi'
dency of France for the third time
the president of that body. This
would, 1t is held, have the effect Of
giving to the senate the privilege OF
naming the president of the republic
Jean Dupuy, minister of public worl.e,
has been mentioned, but he is said to
lack prestige. Another name is that
of M. PANS, who, however, does not,
1t is said, desire this high fortune,
though he would accept 1t If it were
urged upon him as matter of duty.
1t Is said that Mr.. Poincare Is the
choice OF M Clemenceau, "le tigre,"
whose election would vacate the presi.
dency of the council, which Is the real
seat of power in France, position
that M. Clemenceau would not be
averse to filling again.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-11-15
Character In "RasseIas" Said That
Aviator Would Be Next Step
After Swimming.

Chicago.-Among the prophecies OF
conquest of the air, the account of an
inventors faith that men could learn
to fly since they have learned to
swim, as found in Johnson's "Rasse-
las" is interesting. The mechanic
says:
81 have been long of opinion that
instead of the tardy conveyance OF
ships and chariots, man might use the
swifter migration of wings; that the
fields of air are open to knowledge
and that only ignorance and idleness
leed crawl upon the ground"
This hint rekindled The princes de-
sire of passing the mountains; having
seen what the machinist had already
performed, he was willing to fancy
that he could do more. l am
afraid" said he to the artist, that
your imagination prevails over your
skill, and that you now tell me rath-
er what you wish, than what you
know. =" 80" replied the ma
chinist. fishes have the water, IN
which yet beasts can swim by nature,
and men by art. He that can swim
needs not despair to fly: to swim IS
to float in a grosser fluid, and to fly IS
TO swim in a subtler We are only TO
proportion our power Of resistance to
the different density Of matter
through which we are to pass. You
will be necessarily upborne by the air,
II you can renew any impulse upon II
faster than the air can recede from
the pressure"
The prince promised secrecy, and
waited for the performance, not Who'll
" hopeless Of success. He visited the
work from time to time, observed It's
progress, and remarked many In
genious contrivances to facilitate mo-
tion and unite levity with strength.
The artist was every day more Ger
tain that he should leave vultures
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-11-15
TRIP THROUGH DARDANELLES

trance. that although there was no
Italian loss the fotilla never got muct
farther, and that Turkish gunners on
shore II they struck anything must
have hit their own destroyers. In his
article, Signor Zoli says:
Commander Milo said that when
he reached the second cable under the
Baikouch Tepe battery, the Spica
stopped, and that this stop permitted
him to observe the water space be
yond the narrows. BY looking at the
plan it will be seen that this water
space is the Bay Of Chanak. From
this point the commander watched the
firing from the Hamazieh battery ana
considered it impossible to pass the
zone of action commanded by this pat
terry without sacrificing all the squad
ron, and therefore gave the order TO
return. Therefore the truth is that
the Italian torpedo boats did not pass
beyond the Kilid Bahr-Chanak line
"In the report of Commander Mill
there is one certainly involuntary III
exactitudev-his persuasion that he
saw the Turkish fleet and that he was
fired on by it. If he did not pass the
Kilid Bahr-Chanak line, he could not
have seen the Turkish fleet anchored
in the Bay of Niagara, and most GER
tainly he could not have been fired on
by 1t. The Turkish feet did not hre
single cannon.
But it is clear that Commander
Milo was misled by the numerous
steamships and by two or three Tur'
kish torpedo boats anchored in the
Bay Of Chanak; it was probably these
vessels that, hidden in the darkness
of the night and the shadows OF the
numerous searchlights were mistaken
for the opposing fleet, and he could
easily have mistaken for the guns OF
this fleet the guns fired from Hama
zieh and Chanak Kalessi
There is nothing strange or mad
missible in this explanation, given the
conditions of time and the nervous
tension produced on all, 1t Is even
more possible when we think that
high parsonage of the ministry OF ma
rine furnished one Of the most i'm
portagit newspapers with sketch map
of the raid in which the Bay OF
Chanak was confounded with Nagar,
placing Chanak on the other side OF
the narrows and fixing the anchorage
of the Turkish feet exactly in this
Bay of Chanak where Commander
Milo thought he saw them"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-11-15
Woman Served Six Years in PriS-
on on Arson Charge.
While lneareerated Spouse Failed to
Visit and She Believed He Was
lll-Liberated, She Has Him
Arrested.

Philadelphia.-Des she says,
Dy her husband after he had been ac-
quilted OF the charge of setting fire
to the Point Chautauqua hotel, in
Lake Chautauqua, N. Y, while she
served six years in prison, Mrs. Nora
Allen turned on him in court here
and exclaimed:
AT the trial kept my mouth shut
to save your neck. went to prison
and you went free. l gave you all but
$3.50 of the $1,000 l received for set
ting the fire"
Mrs. Allen had brought her hus-
band to court on a warrant charging
him with desertion, having taken this
action only after she had sought him
for more than a year, only to be re-
lected when she finally found him.
In the entire time she was in prison,
she said, her thoughts turned con-
stantly toward her husband although
she received no word from him. With
tear-filled eyes she said in Magistrate
Germans court that sometimes while
in prison she thought her husband
must be dead, at others he was i'll.
Numerous were the excuses she in
vented in her own mind to account for
failure to hear from him.
When she was released little more
than a year ago she started out to
search for her husband, intending, she
said, to aid him if he was in trouble.
Tracing him to philadelphia, she
learned he had been living in No. 17O6
Sumner street, but had been taken to
the -Chirurgical hospital for
treatment Mrs. Allen visited the hos
pital and sent word to her husband
that she wanted to see him.
He does not care to see you" was
the reply she received. She then went
to police headquarters and obtained a
warran' against Allen.
He still is my husband" she said
after Allen had been held in bonds Of
$500, but my love for him has turned
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-11-15

nually in the District. The system
was started in 1910, when an initial
appropriation of S12O was granted for
that purpose. The present sewerage
system has so far cost Sl2,OOO'OOO
and the annual expenditure for sew
erage runs about s35O,OOO, and The
annual increase in mileage is about
25 miles. To get rid of mosquito
breeding. all of the catch basins. OF
which there are about 5000. are
thoroughly flushed biweekly, and then
dosed with mosquito oil during the
season. 1t is estimated that the av-
erage cost for this treatment is about
six cents a basin In the hot dry sea
son these basins. uncared for in other
cities, hold water and offer breeding
places for bugs, mosquitoes and other
insects. Washington can well feel
proud OF the splendid reputation for
her sewerage system given by these
eminent scientists.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-11-15

A man really never knows when he
has reached his best. Given q reso
Lutte will and fixity Of purpose, the
good of today can be made better to
morrow. In the matters that really
count, progress and Improvement are
possible right UP to the very gates OF
death-after that they will be still
more Aossible. All that is necessary
to make our own best little better
is the steady, upward striving. And
it is a crippling delusion that makes
us think at any time that we have
reached the highest and best that ia
possible for us. Nothing will send ua
down in standard of achievement and
purposing quicker than to even So
cretly cherish that conviction. Our
best may be and ought to be ever
ahead Of us.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-11-15

There is a widespread use OF the. va
por, or Turkish bath. Even in arctic
Lapland the use of Turkish bath of
very primitive form is common. 1t
consists Of a hut attached to every
farm, says Harper's Weekly. In the
middle of the hut is raised a kind of
beehive Of the rough stones and in
this q fire is lighted. When the
stones become red hot they are drench.
ed with water, so that the place is
hlled with vapor . Then enter the
bathers, who are armed with birch
twigs. with which they belabor cne
another until all are in a state of pro-
fuse perspiration. Then all leave the
nut and roll in the snow outside. This
last function, it will be observed, is
equivalent to the cold plunge which is
the final experience in the Turkish
bath as known to US all
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-11-15
MARvELS OF SURGERY
ALMOST UNBELIEVABLE ARE THE
CASES RECORDED.
Equipped With Perfect knowledge Of
the Human Frame, There Seems
Nothing Which the Modern Doc
tor May Not Accomplish.

Since the days when Shakespeare
drew that serlo-conlc picture OF the
apothecary. surgical science has Ger
talnly made wonderful strides. You
know the BARRIERS pole is painted
white and red because In bygone days
the barber was the only dentist, and
the white streaks stood for the lath'
er plastered on the Jaws OF humanity
while the red stripes typlhed the
blood thta flows from human gums
when you pull aching teeth with an
instrument little more handy than a
pair OF tongs. Shakespeare apothe-
cary and the old-fashioned dentist
stood 70 rabout all the surgical SKID
there was in tho world.
il Is a long course from that to
the surgery practiced at Redding. CAL
not long since, when a six-year-old
boy fell from the raftsrs OF a barn
~ feet to the floor, sticking on his
stomach and producing copious hem
orrhage in the abdomen. This would
have presented a task for Shake
speares apotheeary, and the dentist
of that day which would have been
far beyond their skill. 1t was really
an easy Job for the surgical science OF
today to handle. The expert surgeons
simply laid the child on his back, cut
his abdomen open, took therefrom
every one OF the internal organs,
found the hemorrhage to proceed from
the diaphragm, an unusual place to be
ruptured, sewed up the wound, TO
placed all the organs, including the
stomach, as they should be, then sew
ed up the abdomen and laid the boy
away quite comfortably to rest and
recuperate
Every organ in the abdomen Of the
child had been taken from It's place
and had lain on a table for an hour.
they had all been replaced properly.
ana the hope of the child's recovery
at the time this is written is great.
Modern surgical science can do
greater things than this. It can take
the heart out of a human breast and
hold that palpitating vital organ In
its hands, operate around 1t with its
delicate instruments, remove obstruc-
tions therefrom, and otherwise admin
lister to the recuperation of its per-
fectly healthful action, put IT back
IN place and the subject suffer no
permanent injury.
Unrehective persons are given to
sneering at medical science, and no
doubt the medical faculty admit young
men to practice medicine who are not
thoroughly equipped for the task. But
that is a small matter weighed against
the devotion OF conscientious physi-
clans who grudge no pains in learning
how to minister to bodies and minds
diseased There is no science in
which a larger number of devoted
men spend more years or give more
thorough study to the improvement Of
professional knowledge and the sci
entifc treatment of the subjects COM
ing under their care than the medical
profession. Nor is there any other
profession to which the human fam
lily owes a greater debt of gratitude
for their unwearying attention in sick.
ness and MISUNDERSTANDING
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-11-15
Suggests the Mounting Of American Boy Scouts

sembled at Lepsinsk, mounted on
small and rough but hardy ponies.
They marched 500 miles across coun'
try to Kabul-Sai on the Tashkent rail
road where they entrained for st. Pc
tersburg toward the end OF July
ARRIVING IN ST. Petersburg. the 70
bows rode around the city seeing tho
sights for several days. and they were
then given a place In the grand re-
view. The next day they gave spe-
ciaI drill before tho emperor Inc
drill consisted OF a little troop work
in close order, OF the Cossaek exer'
cises in the saddle with the pony at
full speed, and ended with all the
boys standing In their saddles, adVahc'
ing in line and singing their natiVe
songs"
1T was difficult TO say who enjoyed
II the most. the few spectators or the
boys themselves. II made a very pret'
ty sight and the thought at once oc'
Cured to me: Why. II Russia can do
this much for it's boys. cannot Ameri
ca at least do as well for its sons?
Would it not be possible out OF the
vast annual expenditures to devote a
few dollars as a reward to some small
troop Of boy scouts-to equip them
temporarily with the few things need
ed by a troop, OF boys, to give them
trip to washington end let them see
the president?
THE horse and all that pertains
thereto is fast being forgotten by the
people at large. Is 1t not worth while
to again instill the love Of riding"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-11-15

A society of Gotham brides have
organized an antinagging club, with
rdles denouncing the new woman who
knows nothing Of housekeeping, and
prescribing that husbands shall have
their breakfasts at any old hour,
served by neatly dressed wives, that
husbands shall be kissed duly on their
return, and have an evening off every
week to spend how and where they
please. The praises Of this club will
be fervently sung throughout the land
and its members will be held up as
exemplars for their sex. but the pess-
imistic will recall that these members
will not stay brides
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-11-15

n ENEROUS Uncle Sam who for over
u a century has been giving away
homesteads in the west through his
general land office here, has decided
that in order to make these lands
more attractive to the prospective set
tiers he must make some concessions
which will render them easier to &C
ouire. AS a result of the constant
granting of homestead tracts, ranging
from 40 to 800 acres, since the enact
ment Of the homestead act Of 1868,
during which time the government has
given away gratis more than 12S,54O,-
355 acres in final homestead entries,
the land office has found 1t had on its
hands lands less suitable for cultiva-
ton and farming purposes than in for
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-11-15
GETS $4,000 ON MELON CROP
Undismayed by Failure Last Year,
Rancher Takes Bigger Chances
This Season.

Clifton, Colo.-To clean up a neat
little fortune of approximately $4,000
as a result Of couple of months
work was the experience OF ]. b.
Jobes a rancher west Of town, VINO
decided that there was money in can
taloupes despite his own experience
to the contrary.
Jobes, who was practicing physi-
clan back in Pennsylvania came to
the Grand valley to regain his health.
He bought young apple orchard and
decided that he would pay his ex-
penses by growing cantaloupes among
the trees
Doctor Jobes ran up against a bad
wear however, and last season not
only didn't make profit, but for some
of his cantaloupes did not receive
enough to pay for the crates. Instead,
however, of blaming the melons or the
valley or a hundred and one other
things, he decided that the only diff
ficulty with his returns was the way
that they were marketed. Conse-
ouently he decided to market his own
melons and anyone else's who would
trust him with them.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-11-15
RIP VAN WINKLE IS BEATEN
Believed Dead for 35 Years, Veteran
Returns to Wife Who Had Been
Drawing His Pension.

Cinclnnati.-Old Soldier Robert
Mentzel has Rip Van Winkle beat
several blocks In the way of being lost
and forgotten by the world and then
coming back. Mentzel, who is now
living in Dayton, O., is seventy-fve
years old. For the past 35 years he
has been considered dead by his wife,
who for % years Of that time has
drawn a pension from the government
as a soldiers widow.
Mentzel disappeared in 1877 and
was no more heard of till few weeks
ago, when he applied for a service
pension. His wife had been getting
pension of S12 a month for years
back as a soldiers widow.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-11-15
psNcHANT FoR THE TELEPHONE,
CELINA

PENcHANT FOR THE TELEPHONE.
or the $4,000. 100000 telephone calls
that passed through the central Offices
OF the world during 1911 no less than
l4500.0OO,OO0, or GO per cent, were
from Americans. In other words,
Uncle Sam took down the receiver
5ust about twice as often as all the
Test OF the world combined. With
this fact In mind. II is not at all sur
prising to learn that of the 12,453,00O
telephones in the world the United
States has no fewer than $500 900, or
that the American telephone invest
ment is Sl,025,0Oe00O, compared with
a world total OF Sl,729 100000, Most
Of these things should occasion no as.
tonishment, The telephone is an
American invention, its utility was
first appreciated by Americans, and
Americans have been most persistent
IN employing It and making II an i'm
portant factor In their everyday lives,
Everybody knows this, says the Gin
cinnau Times-Star But one thing
not so generally known is that the
vide use Of the telephone in this coun-
Try has been accompanied by CORE
spending neglect of that other and
earlier American invention for elm
mating distance-the telegraph. When
the figures concerning the worlds EN-.
ployment Of the telegraph are given
it is a different story Only II per
cent. Of the $40 100000 kilograms sent
in the world in 1910 were forwarded
in this country.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-11-15
FIND HAIR IN GIRLS STOMACH
Fourteen Ounces Is Removed From
Organ of Child In Los An
peles, Cal.

Los Angeles. Relieved Of fourteen
ounces of hair, which she had swal
lowed a little at time since last No
vember, Virginia Field, an eleven
year-old girl, is resting easily at a
hospital and is practically sure to 70
cover.
The girl was injured by fall last
November. Thereafter she suffered
from a nervous affection that caused
her continually to bite her hair. In
this way her stomach was gradually
filed with broken strands of hair. and
several days ago she was taken VIC
lently i'll.
The surgeons found the hair balled
up in the childs stomach.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-11-15

road has equipped large number Of
similar engines. In many places they
have grown more efficient than the
Ere department and are called upon
to do most of the work No fewer
than $50 fires have been tinguished
by the locomotive fire engines In the
various yards and stations OF the
company.
The railroad has special organ
ization which becomes effective when.
ever a fire breaks out The assistant
chief yardmaster acts as chief of the
department; he gives general direc-
tions in case OF a fire and conducts
drill from time to time.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-11-15

There has always existed in Ameri.
ca a strong admiration for the Spanish
people, sentiment of good will as
persistent as it is difficult to define or
account for on materialistic grounds
One can only record that a hustling
new world people, busy at the task
Of conquering q primitive continent,
have felt more than ordinary good
will for a reserved and dignifled race
no longer the first in military power
but excessively proud of its glorious
history
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-11-15

Today the free lunch is one Of the
deepest.rooted trees in our forest of
hardy conventions. Occasional ef-
forts have been made to tear it up
from the friendly American SOIL but
without avail, says the New York Sun.
To be sure, some of its greatest lux
uriance has been Topped off; such free
lunches as some set forth in that
Augustan age known as the Jim Fisk
Renaissance" no longer stimulate the
yitals Of the casual visitor to even the
most open-handed caterers to the pub
lie thirst.