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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-25
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FRIDAY. MARCH /. 1912.
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Horses. Carts. Wagons and Wood Saw
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other Office fixtures.
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ALADDIN KEROSENE OIL

DELIVERED ANY PART OF TIE;
city or suburbs, fvc gallons for %
cents; no odor: no smoke. HOWELL
BROS. Coz East Broad
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WE OFFER STRINGS FROM OUR
Rhode Island Reds. at sl.5o per sit,
ting. ELECTRIC POULTRY PLANT,
Glntcr Park.
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l1oo,l,s Jfpr Rent

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fOR RENT. y COMFORTABLY FUR
hished and heated room. use of bait,
nnd phone to gentleman. S3i W.
Grace Street.
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UPIIOLSTERING.

FURNITURE REPAIRED AND FOL
tsned. mattresses renovated, antiques
bought and sold. LEVY, the Uphc!-
sterer 425 West Broad.
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ANTIQUES,

ORIGINAL ANTIQUE FURNITURE:
Furniture repaired polished and
packed: upholstering. etc. /. n. Al:-
NALL &; SON, 1917 w Broad. Phone
Madison GnI a
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WATCH REPAIRING.

YOUR WATCH REPAIRED OR CLEAN
cd by WM. TOBlEE. JR.. is n guar
antee thnt it done properly; 20
years experience. Cleaning. 81: main
springs. 81. 40S East B.oad Street.
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FOR RENT, NEW. MODERN FIVE:
room flat. all conveniences; posses
SION at once. Apply 23iS ~ Street.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-20
Neighborhood ChaperOn

see that this is enforced. The bust.
ness Of getting children to go home to
bed Is a delicate one, but YOnker sue.
ceeds at it without exciting enmity.
Little girls are prone to linger in the
park after hours just as much as boys.
If the night is dark or rainy and the
little girl lives a long way off in a
lonely neighborhood, Yonker takes
her home. This often keeps him
working over hours, but the model
policeman" seems to do it cheerfully
as part of the days work.
There are six baseball diamonds at
Hamilton park. On a Saturday after.
noon teams of boys are playing all
day on these diamonds. Yonkers pre-
sides over these activities. lie knows
the baseball rules as well as Johnny
Evers, and when a dispute arises that
proves too much for the boys Yonkers
settles It by the book.
Incidentally, Yonker is bureau Of
Information. He answers a thousand
questions a day. How he stands II
without becoming a confirmed crouch
no one knows. His good humor is
perennial However, there are occa
sions when Yonker has to make II
known that he is "a limb of the law"
Many a tough" boy has felt the
weight of Yonker's hand and learned
not only to respect it but afterward
to like its owner.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-20
AduIatIon Pleased Rousseau.

Rousseau, whose biceutenary cele-
bration occasioned a riot in Paris the
other day, created a sensation when
he visited England in 1866. Rousseau
ard his Armenian dress" wrote Lord
Charlemont, were followed by
crowds when he first arrived in Lon
don and as long as this species OF
admiration lasted he was contented
and happy. Garrick not only gave a
supper in his honor, but played two
characters specially to please him.
Rousseau was highly gratified, but
Mrs. Garrick declared that she had
never spent a more unpleasant eve
ming in her life, the philosopher be-
ing so anxious to display himself,
and hanging over the front Of the
box so much, that she was obliged to
hold him by the skirts of his coat to
prevent him from falling over into
the pit"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-20

That the modern desire is universal
among men of deeds TO make use OF
the pen has been demonstrated once
more by the volume published by the
heir to the German throne. entitled
From My Hunting Diary" who like his
illustrious father, is seeking literary
expression, and whose book is well
written and quite readable. In some
. periods of history the ability to per-
perform deeds generally was regarded
as absolutely exclusive Of the ability
to portrait them by rehearsal, says the
Washington Herald. Narrative skill
in medieval times of romance even
was considered unmanly. Only trou-
badours, or court testers, were tellers
of tales and singers Of songs, knights
and squires devoting themselves to the
more serious, at least more concrete,
business Of love or war. But in all
periods of creative eras in history the
desire for literary expression has gone
hand in hand with action, one supple,
menting the other And today, in what
is the greatest Of all creative periods.
one Of its most remarkable phases is
the vast output of the written word.
A universal consciousness is, alert to
hear and, to tell. AS never before the
doers Of deeds also are the narrators
of them.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-20
Tale of Treasure Trove;

NEW YORK.-Here is a tale of treas.
~ ure trove. Not the treasure troVe
Of pirates bold, but a yarn OF the
sea, just the same.
The good ship Cinc,nnau set sail at
one o'clock the other afternoon from
her pier at Hoboken.
On the second class deck at the rail
stood ? comely German woman. She
was Mrs. Anna Luepp OF Wilkesbarre,
Pa. On the dock stood Rudolph, her
husband. Fifteen years ago they
came to this country, and by their
thrift and industry amassed a snug In
come, and now the wife was returning
for a visit to the home of her girlhood
Their happy union had not been bless
ed with any branches of the family
tree.
Longing for prattling babes at the
hearth, they compromised on the
adoption of a green parrot They
called the big bird Hans, and that he
is a bird. ell right, all right, you shall
see
Mrs. Anna couldn't think OF part
ing with Hans, so It was decid-
ed that she would take Hans
across the sea- AS she stood at
the rail, wet handkerchief in
her right hand, she swung Hans
over the rail in a newly gilded cage
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-20

Men have tried many things, but
still they ask for stimulant-the slim
ulant in use but requires the use OF
more. Men try to drown the floating
dead of their own souls in the wine
cup, but the corpses will rise. We sec
their faces in the bubbles. The in
toxication Of drink sets the world
whirling again, and the pulses playing
music, and the thoughts galloping, but
the fast clock runs down soo1ern and
the unnatural stimulation only leaves
the house it fills with revelry-more
silent, more sad, more deserted, more
dead There is only one stimulant
that never fails, and yet never intoxi-
cates--Duty. Duty puts a blue sky
over every man-up in his heart may
be-into which the skylark, happiness,
always goes singing-George D. Prem
uce.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-20
Pop Bottle Answers to

nETROIT, MICH.-To inculcate mu
~ sic into unresponsive souls of some
Of the folks of Cork town is thank
less. If not hopeless task, as Louis
Fuchs, who plays the bass fiddle in
the German band experienced the 9th
er night.
There he was, and his four fellow
artists poured forth their sweetest
strains at Sixth and Abbott streets.
With dreamy eyes Fuchs had Just
finished the intricate movements OF
Mascagni's immortal Intermezzo and
had with ecstatic mien gone into the
DEPTHS OF Beethoven's divine Moon
light Sonata, when shouts of deri-
sion unneryed his aesthetic ear.
Even that brilliant little musical
gem, "Oh, You Beautiful DOLL" which
Is said to have moved Mozart to
tears ever in his grave, struck an
unresponsive chord in that unmu-
sical crowd.
And when the little fellow with the
second fiddle passed the hat, he col.
lected jeers instead Of shekels.
Truly, the lot of a wandering min
strel is a thankless one in this TWEEN,
tieth century.
The orchestra moved away, seeking
more congenial audiences.
Just then somebody hurled a pop
bottle. It struck Louis Fuchs bass
violin in IFS vital mart smashing II
in the region of the bridge.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-20
"E4AUNTED" HOUSE is RAZED

happenings for time they fed and
no one else would move in,
Nickold declares that Of late the
manifestations have been Of almost
nightly occurrence. Sheets would be
pulled off the beds violently; the
lamps left burning at night would be
turned down mysteriously and then
as mysteriously would be turned up
so that the wicks would blaze.
Footsteps would be heard in the at
tic during the night; shades would be
run up, apparently by ghostly hands,
and clocks would be wound at all
hours of the night and thrown with
force to the floor.
A nurse employed by the Nickolds
remained in the house only a week
because of the disturbances, and no
other nurse could be obtained. 1t was
impossible to keep a servant, and the
members Of the family got into such
a nervous state that the least sound
frightened them.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-20
ELIMINATING PIE.

One of the saddest features in the
decline Of Chicago is It's attitude to-
ward pie. It proposes to supplant that
Wand with ice cream, cake, fruit and
salad, It recognizes the strong place
II holds in the American heart by ar
raging four things against 1t. No one
by itself could supplant pie, 1t takes
four charming table attractions TO dis
locate the pie. And there II will fail.
These things have stolen place OF
some distinction when there wasn't
any pie, Put in a good huckleberry,
cherry or apple pie alongside of the
other four and there will be ice cream,
cake and salad to throw out A pie
is an expression of the soul, the long
tngs of the heart blended in flake and
fragrance, combination Of the smiles
of the cook, the song she sings and the
grace OF her white arms. These are
inherent in the perfect pie. They be-
long to the divine aflnities which Chi
cago cannot appreciate, because It is
given over TO materialism, ice cream
and salad, the mere formalities and
shells Of life. How much happier this
world would be II everybody who made
pies could make good ones. There
have been pies we have eaten thai
set us alongside of angels. and there
have been pies that relegated us to
the company of other fellows.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-20
SWIMS ACROSS BAY

child, just over three feet high, and
slightly built.
In a chat which l had with the lit
tie swimmer she said: Il love the wa
ter and always look forward to my
swimming lessons. l swim at Mar
ket Marlborough and go over to Leices-
ter once a week for my lesson from
Miss Jarvis.
Il wanted to do this swim from pier
to pier, but when was out little
way / felt lonely. Then Mr.. Weidman
came along.
He has swum with me in the bay
for several days past, and / feel all
right so long as he is near.
HE is so big, you see" added the
mite, and he takes me on his back
when l feel tired"
Asked if she meant to try and swim
the channel when she grows up, the
little fairy responded with enthusi-
asm
I should like to-" she said. but
should want Mr. Wedman to come
with me-"
Little Freda mainly relies on the
breast stroke In her swimming, and
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-20
CROWD SEEKS STONE
New Workers Join Search For
$500 Diamond.
Broadway oenlzens Dig In Excavation
for Valuable Jewel for Which Re-
ward Of 500 Is Offered by Wom.
an--Lost During Accident.

New York.-Workmen are diamond
bunting in an excavation at Broadway
and ThiTty-ninth street. Every hand
full Of earth they pass carefully
through ther fingers. Scores did the
same thing and there was an amusing
contest between the police and the
crowd. For there is $500 diamond
somewhere in that hole and there is
a 500 reward for the finding of 1t.
The big gem belongs to Mrs. Ed
ward b. Walker, who owns the Knick'
erbocker line Of sightseeing automo-
biles. About 9 o'clock at night Mrs.
Walkers private car nearly dropped
into the hole. She saved her life, but
one OF her biggest diamonds fell into
the dirt.
AS her chauffeur. Edward Regan,
lodged a pedestrian crossing Broad
way, the automobile skidded on the
pavement, Just wet by the shower,
and before he could regain control
the front end of the car had plunged
over the mouth of the pit. But for
some pipes and scaffolding, the car
would have dropped ten feet to the
bottom Of the hole. AS It was the ma
chine hung suspended in most remark
able fashion over the edge of the ex'
cavation.
Neither Mrs. Walker nor Regan was
hurt, nor was the car much damaged
But in the shock of the impact Mrs.
Walker had grabbed one of the stays
of the cover of the machine and the
diamond hal been jerked from its set
ting.
Shortly after they had started Mrs.
Waller happened to notice her ring.
With 4 cry, she explained: "Oh, l do
declafL, I've lost my solitajre!"
By way of proof she held up her
hand and showed the ring, which had
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-20
Declares She PurposeIy Decreased
Property Value In Revenge for
Neighbours Wall.

For when woman will she will, you
may depend ont:
And when she won't she won't ana
there's an end ont.
Chieago.-Mrs. A. Spiskel Of SIG
Aldine avenue, asserted in the office
Of the board of review that she is the
sort Of woman who will; also she
prophesied with some emphasis that
the owner of a fiat building next door
to her apartment house at 4447 North
Paulina street will discover, to his
financial sorrow, just what degree Of
will she possesses. The bone OF con
tention in this case is a rough brick
wall, which Mrs. Spiskel says her foe
put up facing her property, greatly to
its detriment.
HE broke the building line and now
I am going to break him If have to
take in washing to do it," said Mrs.
Spiskel, and her lips became thin
line as she uttered the threat. Re-
viewer Thomas Webb, who was listen
ing to her plea for lower assess
ment, felt no doubt of her sincerity.
THAT man just laughed when l pro-
tested against that wall" said Mrs.
Spiskel, "and SO l advertised for negro
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-20
"Oh, You Beautiful Doll"

There was an uproar in a minute.
Orpheus 3oothed and tanned the wild
beasts with his Tyre, but to calm this
crowd with even a hand organ was
quite impossible. And 30 the street
artists beat a hasty retreat.
Later on, by a little detective
work, Fuchs learned that Charles
Merry l7S Abobtt street, had smashed
his instrument, and the next morning
he appeared in the police court to get
a warrant for malicious injury to
property.
In the meantime Mery's friends got
busy and fell upon one &. p. Cor
bett, politician, who draws double
pay from the city, being a water
board employe and a member of the
present jury panel Of the recorders
court. to bring harmony into this note
Of musical discord.
He offered to pay for the repairs
of Fuchs instrument and all other
reasonable expenses.
Justice Stein advised the street art
ist to accept the offered settlement.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-20
TRAMP LEFT HER A FORTUNE
Marshall McMurran Remembered Ser
want Girl Who Gave Him a
"Snack" With $4,000.

Petersburg, Ind-Several years ago
a tramp appeared at the kitchen in
which Maggie Drain was working and
asked for something to eat. The fam
lily in which she was employed as a
servant protested, but she gave the
man his breakfast and an hour later
he returned with a paper which he
handed to her, charging her to keep it..
1t proved to be document giving to
the girl the property Of Marshall Nc
Murran at his death.
McMurran owned farm in an ad-
Joining county, and when he died a
year ago the document was presented
and claim to his property made The
relatives of McMurran sought to break
the will, but 1t was recently sustained
by the court and Miss Drain will get
about $4,000.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-20

The recent explosions Of dynamite
,at Battle Creek, Mich, followed almost
Immediately by heavy showers, might
have been accepted as demonstrative
OF the theory that rain can be com
nanded by detonations, but for the
fact that the rain fell over a wide area,
Says the Milwaukee Evening Wlscon-
ein. Chief Moore Of the weather bu-
reau, who never had any patience with.
tie pretensions Of artificial rainmak-
ers, has made the Battle Creek exper-
iment a text for derisive comment,
and after reading what he says peo-
pie who doubted before will continue
doubling. Certain It is that there
have been many instances Of large ex-
penditures OF money on explosions to
break droughts with no such results
as followed the explosions at Battle
Creek
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-20
Athletic Cat Visits an

CLEVELAND, GA Maltese cat,
" with a NANCY, rat-bitten tail and
a hankering for the beautiful in art
and architecture, entered and upset
the tranquility Of the countys $4,000
900 courthouse the other day.
The cat made hasty but complete
tour of the building, led Custodian
Clay's guides and subguides merry
chase through marble corridors and
closed the performance with leap
of death" act from the marble railing
which overlooks the forum in the CEN
ter of the building. The guides dared
not follow.
How the cat entered the building
is a mystery. Guides on the lower
floor and at the entrances denied that
It passed them. Chief Watchman
O'Connor found 1t reclining against a
bunch Of grapes which form part Of
the $4,000 decorations on the upper
floors of the building.
He approached with caution and a
volume of Ohio state reports. The
latter he held behind his back. The
cat scented trouble and vanished.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-20

Medical authorities now claim that
writer's cramp" and other similar
states Of apparent muscular paralysis
are actually due, not to the firing Of
the muscles, but to brain fag. 1t ap-
pears that the particulr part of the
brain which controls special combina-
tions Of muscle action, such as the
movements Of writing or the working
Of telegraph key, tends to become
more quickly exhausted in some indi-
viduals than in others. Such exhaus-
tion leads to a state in which the brain
is actually unable to send out it's nee
essary messages to the hands and fin-
gers to write, tap a key, hold violin
bow, etc. Furthermore, once the nerve
cells, the batteries" Of the brain, get
thoroughly run down It is not easy to
restore their energy Heretofore it
has been supposed that all troubles of
the kind were due simply to overtir-
ing Of the muscles concerned.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-20
Hans Sure Was a Bird

/ "Goodby, papa" she cried. and
waved to Herr Leupp.
"Goodby, papa" repeated Hans, who
talks English with a slight German &C
cent.
AS they were about to cast on the
etern line, Frau Anna got mixed In
her gesticulatlons. Her right hand
was raised TO her eyes to dash the
tears away. She forgot that she held
the parrot, and disengaged her left
hand from the cage to help her right
hand out With futtering feathers
and indignant screams Hans went
tumbling to the dock In his gilded
cage.
'Donner and blitzen!" yelled the en-
ragged bird.
Two longshoremen put a pole
through the ring In the top OF the
cage and hoisted 1t to a portfolio
Just as somebody was about to drag
the cage through the portfolio the
cage slipped and down came the bird
to the longshoremen.
you tam FOOLS" roared Hans. Don
ner und blitzen!"
A rope was thrown from the ship, a
knot was passed through the ring of
the cage and the latter went crash
ing against the ships side as the
stern line was cast off.
"Donner und blitzen!" yelled the
bird again as the cage was dented in
against the ships side. pretty Hans
cooed Frau Leupp, stretching forth her
hands.
Pretty h" returned the pious
bird. "Donner und bitten! Goodby,
papa! Goodby papa!"
"Goodby, Hans" shouted Rudolph.
"Goodby, Mamma"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-20
Ohio Temple of Justice

O'Connor spread the alarm. Guides
responded from all sections of the
building. The chase was on.
1t took in Offices and courtrooms, in
tsrrupted trials, scattered Jurors and
frightened court witnesses. Then
pussy, after touring the two upper
floors, decided to parade around the
marble railroad which overlooks the
forum. 1t was high and dangerous
The guides called foul, but the cat
paid no heed.
O'Connor volunteered to crawl out
and capture it. He travelled with
more caution than speed. The cal
travelled ten feet ahead Of him fol
a while, then leaped to the floor below
and disappeared.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-20
John YOnker Is Official

n ICAGO.-Hamilton park, one OF
~ the prettiest public Fairgrounds on
the extreme south side, claims among
it's other attractions a model police
man His name is John Yonker, and
all the boys and girls Of that section
of the city swear by him. A police
man who is popular among children
has a pretty good certificate of eff
cheney.
Although nominally a patrolman,
Yonker really has half a dozen other
jobs. He is arbiter in chief of ali
the youngsters disputes of the neigh
borhood, director general of their
sports and umpire and court Of last
resort to their games. But the Job
which requires the most tact and
diplomacy and which has won him his
chief fame is that Of official neighbor-
hood chaperon.
Rules of the park require that no
children remain there after o'clock
in the evening. 1t is Yonker's duty to
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-20
Young Girl Makes Half a Mile in
Record Time.
Six-Year-CId Covers Long Distance at
Dover in Nineteen Minutes-Cuts
Her Way Though Waves
Like an Expert.

( Dover.-Visitors to Dover and prom
enaders on the harbor piers were
astonished recently to see a little
mite of a girl barely more than a
baby, take the water with all the ease
and aplomb of a channel swimmer,
and proceed to swim half a mile
across the bay in the record time Of
10 minutes.
And the sight was in truth re-
markable one. The diminutive swim
mer, looking the merest speck on the
sunlit waters, cut her way through the
waves with a businesslike, sturdy
breast stroke that would have done
credit to a Wolff or a Holbein.
Swimming by her side with watch
fui eyes was Mrs. Jack Weldman, the
channel swimmer. But the little
record-maker NEEDED no guardianship.
Instead, the little girl finished her
half mile as fresh as a cricket with
out aid of any kind, and this although
the sea was anything but smooth BY
some people it would have been con-
sidered choppy.
The plucky little girl who achieved
this novel performance is Freda Pick.
EFT, a six-year-old pupil of Miss Jar
Wis, sister of the English champion
swimmer.
The part of Dover bay covered by
the child is that which lies between
the Prince of Wales pier to the Prom
enade pier, a distance of half mile,
which she covered in the extraordi-
nary time of 10 minutes.
The childs parents belong to Mar
het Marlborough (LeiCestershire). Jack
Weidman is enthusiastic about her
prowess.
Little Freda is a merry-looking
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-20

An English physician finds thyroid
extract a remedy for correcting stunt
ed development; but the patient must
be treated in time. An eighteen-year-
old boy dosed with the extract became
seven inches taller in a few months.
The veterinarian who can devise an
adaptation of the thyroid extract treat
ment for promoting growth that can
be applied with success to increasing
the size of steers will contribute In an
important degree toward the solution
Of the meat problem.