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The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31
WOMAN REPRESENTS URUGUAY

Brussels can now boast of woman
minister plentpotentiary. She is DIR.
Clothilde Luisi, official representative
of the Republic of Uruguay. Her ad-
vent has caused quite a sensation
among foreign diplomats. At occa-
sions Of state attended by the diplo-
matte corps gallant statesmen find 1t
hard to bow to precedent and relegate
Miss Luisi to the very obscure place
assigned to the representative Of that
South American state DR.. Luisi is
unmarried and still young, and has
degree from the University of Monte
video While in Europe she hopes to
make a study of modern education.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31
MANY USES FOR PORPolSES

The only porpoise oil factory on the
Atlantic coast is established about six
miles below Cape Hatteras and near
Hatteras Inlet Along this coast por-
pOises are plentiful through about six
months OF the year. and there are
three crews of fishermen who make
a busin ess of catching them for the oil
factory. For the reason that porpoises
are easily frightened the fishermen
must be wary and quiet who would
meet with success. The method en-
ployed is to impound a school in a
wide-meshed net lrst and then to take
them with a sweep net of much finer
mesh.
The porpoises are five to ten feet
in length, big and powerful They are
skinned for their hides and the blubber
is removed. The hides are salted down
and sent in their green state to tan
merry in New Jersey to be tanned and
made into leather Porpoise hide is
used for shoe strings, pocketbooks and
travelling bags or suit cases. The oil
from the blubber is tried out at the
factory on the beach and then sent to
New Bedford, Mass, for refining.
The valuable head oil, the famous
porpoise oil that is used for oiling
watches and other delicate machinery,
is obtained from the marrow of the
porpoise's lower jawbone and from a
small quantity of blubber found be-
tween the snout and the blowbone. In
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31
NATURES FINE FLY-TRAP

1t is not necessary for one to have
sticky paper or deadly mixtures in
dishes about the house in summer time
to catch disease breeding flies, provid-
ing he has friends in the vicinity of
Wilmington, N. C. In a swamp near
there grows the wonderful plant,
known as the Venus fly trap. A speci-
men placed in moss and rich earth
will keep in wet and swahplike con-
dition in a house, and moreover will
send out numerous shoots. The part
of the plant known as the "hy trap"
looks much like a steel trap. When
fly alights on the surface, it closes
with a snap. The fly is crushed and
whatever nourlshment can be found
in its body is absorbed by the leaf
cells.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31
Child Explained.

Sinker told the following story: Ha
was one day giving lesson to hia
school children at Goole. He had been
talking to them about colors and mad
explained that white denoted good
ness and black sin.
Wishing to drive his lesson further
home, Sinker said: Now. children,
have you ever noticed the colors OF
my hood"
Yes, sir; black and white"
"Quite right, and what do those col
ors slgnify?"
After short pause one small child
answered:
please, sir, you wear black because
you are a sinner, and white because
you are trying to be good!"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

looked forward to 1t as a foregone
conclusion? Not because it was i'm
peratiye, like those problems that
the race must solve for its very ex-
istence, but merely for the reason
that man in his god-like vanity must
perforce reach the very limit, if limit
there be, of his possibilities. So men
have learned to make wings that
adapt themselves in measure to the
air, and when the untamable winds
are complaisant they make their little
flights and say, I'VE have conquered
the sky Behold the sublime!-the
work of men," And the name of each
aerial adventurer is known and lauded
and passed from tongue to tongue.
To take that same free eternal air
and rend it as we rend the earth to
make metals, to make of it helpless
material in mems hands. answering
with Indifference its raging and blus-
tering, and to do not only that, but to
make 1t answer the most unanswer
able riddle ever propounded by mother
earth-this is the work of Cne woman.
And it is a thousand to one you have
never even heard her name.
No, not strange, but only the worlds
way. For one achievement is as ro-
mantle and gratuitous as a tourney of
knights in glittering armor. But the
other is as humble as the baking OF a
loaf in the ashes. So that hesitate
to turn from the grandeur of flying
through the air to the making of fer
tilizer from that air, lest be accused |
Of willfully plunging from the sublime
to the ridiculous.
It is not only impossible, being an
accomplished fact, but it is of an as
pect yet more sublime than aviation.
Never heard of making fertilizer !
out of the air? There is factory |
now doing it in this country and an
other is being built, there are seven |
or eight in Norway, and Sweden, Aus
tria, Germany and France have them
also
Fertilizer is absolutely essential to
your life, because there is not so
very much virgin soil left on the earth,
and much Of what there is is uncul-
tivable. And in spite of the rotating
of crops earth is becoming weary with
the immense strain of feeding her
teeming millions. In the childhood Of
the race she fed us freely, as moth
er should her babes But as the race
grew up things. have changed, and
earth long since became like a bank
into which we must first put some
thing If we would get anything out.
The next age will behold a still Lore
stringent state Of affairs, for earth
viii be seen to be holding over mans
head a mortgage, with the threat of
immediate foreclosure If the giant in.
terest accruing be not met. Even
now things have reached state
where practically every acre Of land
under cultivation is first fertilized.
The end of the natural fertilizer is in
sight, which means that Mother
Earth has at last seen through our
trick of paying our board bill with
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31
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suesTIruTE FoR RuenER.

SUBSTITUTE FOR RUBBER.
The story from Philadelphia that a
man OF that city has discovered a sub
stitute for rubber which he manufac-
lures from various kinds Of waste viii
be accepted with a grain of salt until
the facts he claims are fully estab-
lished. II has long been the dream Of
chemists that a substance which would
take the place OF rubber in many of
the forms in which It is used would
ultimately be discovered, but. like the
famous passage to Cathay in the time
Of Columbus, the result has eluded
pursuit Il may be put down as fact
that some time. somewhere, such
substitute will be found. says the
Washington Herald. It may not have
all the qualities OF rubber, which seems
to have been special gift of Provi.
dence to mankind, of a value impos.
sible OF replacement or counterfeit.
But the uses of rubber have extended
so enormously. and the supply is so
limited in tropical couOtries, that the
mind OF the world has been. as It
were, concentrated upon the PROPOSE
uoA OF finding some substance which
would. under proper condition. take
its place, Until now no such product
has been found.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

been separated by a gulf from that
food that they live in and for lack Of
which earth says she will one day
extinguish them and through them as.
That is not to say that plants do not
absorb nitrogen from the atmosphere,
But plants obtain but a part of the
needed nitrates that way. The rest
must, by an edict of nature, come by
way Of their roots from the soil where
earth is Withdrawing the supply. in
stead of by way of leaf and branch
from the air, where the supply is ex-
baustless.
Doesn't that look as If it were true
that earth were conspiring against
her children? That is Just what it
has been looking like to those seer
eyed scientists who are able to peer
into the future and see the end Of
those supplies that seem 50 boundless
to the lay mind. But even to them the
question has only recently become
acute, and they have been asking each
other how this great sphinx riddle
could be answered.
But where was ever the woman who
could forever remain a closed book to
other women? The riddle has been
answered, and answered by a woman.
If earth demands fertilization and is
withdrawing her own natural supplies
Of the coin she demands, what then?
Simple" said Nine. Lefebre of Paris.
There's only one thing besides the
earth available, and that is the air.
Use it." And then she devised the
method of extracting the nitrogen
from the air and using It to make nj
trio acid, and in turn the multitudin-
GUS chemicals that man now needs,
including the humble and all import
ant fertilizer.
when did she do it?" asks the pub
lie. 1T must be very recent, or the
news would have travelled outside Of
scientific circles. When it does. the
woman will be lauded as she de-
serves"
The woman will not be lauded She
made her discovery more than half a
century ago, taking out an English
patent on the process in the year 1859,
and the decades that intervened be-
tween the time of her work and man
kinds discovery of its necessity have
been sufficient to bury her name as
completely as they hid her deed till
urgent necessity made US aware of it.
Look through the articles on famous
women scientists in the old French re-
views; look through French diction-
aries of science and histories of inn
portant inventions. You'll find the
names of those who met a tLen rec
ognized need, but you will probably
find no mention of her, though the
value of her discovery may exceed
theirs many times And listen to this,
published not long ago in one of the
chemical trade journals; Nitrogen
is so rare an article, the COM
mercial sources Of it being so few,
that he who will discover a cheap com.
process for obtaining it fror
The atmosphere and combining it in a
fora that will bs serviceable in croI |
not only will be a great
benefactor and inventor, but will |
change the economy of living on this
earth"
He who will discover!" "She" had
already discovered, and had done it be-
ore the need became pressing, just as
4 mother feeds her family so long be-
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

One notable feature OF present day
drama is the decline in popularity OF
the triangle theme, which thus bids
fair to lose its identifying adjective
eternal" Cast your eyes over the
failures of the past few seasons, and
you will find that plays dealing chief
ly with i'll mated couples and unhappy
love intrigues bulk large in the store.
houses. says Munsey's Magazine. The
public has sickened of the unsavory
mess. By the same token, we are
growing tired Of plots which call for
so-called strong emotional" work on
the part Of the heroine. This is dis
unctly a material and nonsenumental
age. Glance over recent successes.
and you cannot fail to note the pres
ence in each one of them of something
more substantial than love.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

making the oil this blubber and the
marrow are mixed. The production Of
this oil may range frcm half pint
to a quart from one porpoise. Re
fined porpoise oil for jewelers. use is
worth from $500 to $1,000 barrel.
The body oil obtained from a por-
poise amounts ordinarily to thirteen or
fourteen gallons. This is used for va,
rious purposes and brings far less
than the head OIL The carcasses are
ruade into fertilizer.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

The Yonkers judge who decided that
the woodpecker has the right to ply
his vocation of tapping the trees in
early morn, no matter whom he wakes.
Indirectly gives his sanction to a whole
lot of sleep-disturbers The cocks
shrill clarion, the quacking of the
ducks and geese, the squeaIine of the
pigs and the barking of the dogs all
get license from this judicial declara-
tion. incidentally as newspaper COM
ments indicate that the defendant
woodpecker INDUCED this habit as
early as 4 a. m. a woodpeeker who
drills for worms at that hour during
this season of the year must be a
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31
BOOKS TO SUIT CONDITIONS

There was a consultation Of librari-
ans. Just what kind Of literature
would fit the mental attitude Of worn-
en- engaged in darning socks and mend
ing shirts was question hitherto I'm
considered.
They decided on a woLnan's rights
pamphlet called "The Eternal War
fare" Apparently It suited, for the
child did not bring it back.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31
MARKET FOR ORANGES

Mandarin oranges from the Mediter.
ranean have been abundant on the
British market this season. One news.
paper says: "'rhey are always popu.
lar, especially as they are put up SO
taatefully IN liEtlo wooden packages
amhellished with gold and silver pa.
pers and decorated with pictures high.
ly colored and OF a most fanoltul ma.
tura"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31
MIDGET IN INDIANA TOWN

In Columbus, Ind, lives little girl
of ten years of age, who is only 20
inches tall. She weighs but twenty
eight pounds and at birth her weight
vas ten pounds. She has waist meas
urement of twenty.three inches Her
mothers waist measurement is only
rwenty-one inches. The child has new.
er been sick a day, has a good appe-
lite, and plays like other children.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

While we are talking and writing a
great deal and expending a great deal
Of thought on the subject of school
gardening, and the promotion of kin
dred activities which lead children to
take an interest in the soil and the
possibilities Of its cultivation, it would
be just as well for US not to overlook
the importance of this same subject
Of the soil and its products to that
class of city grownups who have the
ground or can get the ground for the
cultivation of a kitchen garden.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

} make the wind that
from Eden time blow
eth where it listeth
carry man on frail new
found wings savors of
the sublime.
But 1t also savors of
the supremely natural,
fnr have nnt the Vpars
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

A Pittsburg physician declares that
The human race Will gradually extin
iish itself. Another expert hold
hat the quantity is too far in exces
Of the quality. In the meantime. Il
race is going on enjoying itself
making itself miserable, as usual, al
probably will continue to do so Ion
after conflicting theories and theorisu
are forgotten.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31
WPERS AT 7 CENTS APIECE

French books on natural history say
that vipers are rare in France. But
the official report of the prefecture of
Seine-et-Marne states that 7,845 of these
venomous reptiles we're killed in that
one department last year and paid
for with the government bounty or
seven cents apiece, One man, Pierre
Cassi by name, killed 1878 of them.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

A Boston medical authority says the
time is coming when every household
will have its electrical apparatus to
supply its members unconsciously
with the electrical energy they need
to keep them in perfect state of
health. That's all very well, but down
this way we will have to know first
what it's going to cost We are a lit
tie sensitive about our electricity bills.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31
MICRoBE CLINGS TO LIFE

The microbe is tenacious of life, for
according to a French contemporary
Migula found tho bacillus leposporus
placed on sheet OF glass lived for
five years. Gems of potato disease,
sealed in tube, were living after
period of eight years.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31
BOY WITH TWO SToMACHS

A postmortem examination Of the
remains of a little lad who recently
died in the Royal Hampshire County
Hospital, England, revealed the fact
that there were two stomachs. one
normal, the other being smaller The
boy was very thin
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31
UNARMED, GETS WILD BEAST

Richard Tovey, California trapper.
while hunting, treed mountain lion.
Leaving his gun ON the ground ne
climbed the tree, according to reports,
and caught the animal in the folds
OF his heavy hunting coat when II
sDrang at him.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31
HEIGHT or SHOOTING STARS

According 70 Cosmos the mean
height at which shooting stars first
liocoma visible IL Al miles The mean
height OF their disappearance is about
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31
Candid Admission.

What are your ideas about re-
foTm7
About the Same as everybody's,"
replied Senator Sorghum. Il have a
general impression that myself and
my personal and political friends are
the only people who do not need it,"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

Society folk at Newport protest
against the practice of shooting big
guns in that vicinity, but they would
turn fipfaps of joy to welcome the
duke of Connaught and other big guns
from across the sea.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

A scientist arises to deny the theory
that telephone mouthpieces are full Of
germs, Possibly they are destroyed
by the superheated language that re-
suits when q patron is told that the
Inc is busy.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31
After the Quarrel.

The Heiress (ln tears) My husband
vas 50 ardent in his lovemaking.
thought he adored me.
Her Friend-My dear, a man can
put considerable fervor into his woo.
ing when it's a case OF marriage or
work.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31
Somewhat Dubious.

Il wonder would the judge consider
plea of insanity"
Doubtless he would. Why do you
hesitate?
Well, my client only stole rs
plunks."
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

A young man who steals from his
employers for the purpose of Drovid
ing pleasant honeymoon for his
chorus girl bride may mean well. but
it will have to be admitted that he is
misguided.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

A Gotham judge in a suit over p
suit decided that the dress in dispute
was fit This nearly gave the ia
defendant one, and proved again
the satisfaction of injured feminintty
the intrinsic injustice in our man
made decisions.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31
OF Course she Could.

80 you think you could dress a
chicken?"
"Oh, yes" declared the ambitious
bride, Il saw uncle take clock apart
once. You just number the pieces "a
you take 'em out"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

Many man refrains from desertlng
his post Of duty and going to the ball
game, for fear that he win meet his
boss there
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

II is hard to concentrate ones ener-
gies on the best means Of saving the
country while one is willing to hear
the score.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

drew's church, in the old English
town Of Birmingham, Norfolk, fell to
the floor the other day within three
yards Of the spot where the rector OF
the church was standing
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

Edna-tDid Mabel get that slx.shoot-
er she spoke Of providing herself with
as q protection against burglars?
Eva--No; sho got aix-footer.--
Judges Library,
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31
Bakery or Beqoarv2

What line Is poor old slipupp in
now7"
Last ! heard he was In the bread
1no,"--Judgo
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

A New York woman has been fined
$500 for gossiplng, II she 70 cured
the money win have been well spent
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31
eoo-YEAR-OLD ANGEL FALLS

Stated 10 be nearly 600 years old.
carved angel IN the roof Of Sc An
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31
NAKINQT PFEEDUS

something taken
from herself. and
is putting a lock
on the pantry
door.
What next? We
must pay her or
starve, and pay
her In advance In
the shape Of
so much fertll-
izer for so much
food. So the mad
que stion b O.
C o m e s. "H o W
shall we pay
without coin 2
Earth is our only
supply of that,
even as she is
our only supply
of food. And now
she is withdraw
ing the coin.
Could a more
impossible dead
lock be imag-
ined?
And doesn't the
deadlock become
a thing to amaze
the stars when
we consider that
one of the most
needed elements |
Of a complete
fertilizer exists
right in the air |
that all plants
grow up in and !
b re at h e n d |
stretch out their
arms In, but that
through all the
leons that have /
passed ST n { e
God said. let the
g art h b ring
'orth,' they have
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

About a mile from Whitby Bridge,
in England, is the famous wishing
chair, which is much favored by the
unmarried who are seeking mates, and
by children who desire all manner Of
things. According to legend 1t was
once the base of an old cross which
took the place of heather alter.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

5S miles. The mean length of their
visible path is As miles.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-03-15
EFFECTIVE WORK WITH THE
ROAD DRAG.

During the past seige of bad wealth
err the roads everywhere got in a bad
condition as Everyone who tried travel
over them knows. and the roads on
rural route No. | from Marietta was
no exception. But the road running
through 8lackwells by the station from
the Canton road over to Ebenezer
church was, we consider the worst
OF any on the route, but, behold on
last Thursday Feb. Goth, as we passed
along over this road, we looked up and
saw Mr.. Lee McClesky, who is one of
Blackwell's most stable citizens, com
ing with three able-bodied mules
hitched to a road drag and what Mr..
McClesky did for that road was a
plenty. He converted it from the worst
to the best piece of road on the mail
route. And further more last Sundays
rain didn't soak into this road as
heretofore
We are convinced the road drag and
vehicles with wide tires are the solu-
ton to our road problems, and both
should be fixed by law.
SUB. r. l.. c. Route No. l.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-03-15
PROMINENT MARIETTA
MEN IN ALPHARETTA
From the Free Press:

From the Free Press:
Judge N. A. Morris, holding court
here this week, informed his many
friends who asked him about the mat
ter, that he will be in the race. for re-
election to the judgship of this circuit.
He was veIy much encouraged, he said,
by the way the people were warming
up" to him, and he believes they want
him again.
Herbert Clay: The people of Milton
have been mighty nice to me this week,
and | shall never forget them. My
father thought the world and all.ofS his
many friends over here.
Col. George Anderson, court stenog-
rapher, has lost his rabbits foot and
can no longer play checkers. Still, he
remembers with pride the time when
he could play.
Among the visiting attorneys were:
Geo. F. Gober, c. H. Griffin, Col. Fos-
ter, Herbert Clay, Phil McCleskey and
John Motley.