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The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-13
Capital City Post-Ofice Cats Always on Job

CA RE the post-ofIice employees here
"A doing their duty?"
Yes" said Postmaster N. A. Mer-
ritt curtly.
How about the cats?" he was
asked,
They are on the job, too"
Then Mr.. Merritt stopped to con-
slider whether Washington had any
cats on the official pay roll or not. He
wasn't sure, but insisted that they
were working overtime, provided they
were recognized civil service en-
ployes.
Whereupon, a copy Of scanda-
lous report concerning Philadelphia
cats was shown to him.
Philadelphia has had her post-office
supplied with collection of high
class cats. AS soon as these cats re-
ported for duty at Uncle Sans office
there they Immediately contracted a
bad case of Philadelphia hookworm.
Although on the official pay roll, so
runs the story, they fell into line,
formed a union, and announced them
selves old-time Philadelphia conserva-
tives. The mice have recovered from
their scare and the cats are taking
graft.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-13


From this time forth the campaign
between Zapata's bandit hordes and
various expeditions of government
forces has been in full swing.
All this so-called Campaign" on the
part of the Zapatists, WIS marked by
acts Of unbridled murder, arson and
rapine.
When the government forces re-
sorted to savage reprisals, such as
burning down villages, imprisonfng
women and children and hanging or
shooting all men believed to be in
league with Zapata, the warfare in
these unhappy districts of Mexico
naturally took a turn for the worse,
and the whole region become almost
uninhabitable.
The railway traffic between the cap
ital and Morelos has been brought to
a standstill since the recent held-up
and massacre Of railway passengers
and their escort Of armed soldiers
half way between the City of Mexico
and Cuernavaca, when forty persons
were killed.
Since this event several Of the rail
way stations and bridges along that
line have been burned down by the
Zapaists, only a few hours from the
City Of Mexico, so that the railway
service between the capital and the
states Of Morelos and Guerrero has
had 10 be suspended altogether.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-13
Uncle Sans Official Fish Guesser Is Let Out

ton is necessary, for in the spring the
salmon is strangely delicate. So it is
that weighing them is entirely out OF
the question.
The government has for years hired
q veteran fisherman to make the
rounds of the weirs on the little power
boat and keep account Of the fish All
the man had to go by was his iudg.
ment, but he could tell by a glance at
a fish, even in the semidarkness Of the
car, about what it would weight-ten,
twelve, fourteen or perhaps sixteen or
eighteen pounds. 1t was guessing,
Perhaps the government officials in
Washington didn't approve Of paying
out money by guess. Whatever may
have been the conclusion, the gov.
ernment guesser has lost his Job,
thereafter twelve pounds will. be the
fixed weight Of every salmon paid for.
1t may weigh eight pounds or it may
weigh twenty pounds, but the fisher
men are to be paid for a twelve
pound fish and no more nor less. This
weight is below the average, as the
fish run, bat, of course, the fisherman
is not obliged to sell an eighteen or
twenty FOUNDER at the twelve-pound
basis to the government unless he
chooses. He can send it to the mar,
kets.
The government is buying 1000 fish
this year, which, at the twelve-pound
standard will cost from SO to $3.50 q
fish
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-13

used to denote a soft, insinuating ana
deceitful manner of speech"
It is said that Queen Elizabeth hen
self was the first to use the phrase
1T is all barney"
Samuel Lover has written about the
BIarney Stone. The best known verse
is:
20 say, would you find this same
'Blarney"
There's a castle not far from Willar-
ney,
On the top Of its wall
"(But take care you don't falD
There's a stone that contains all the.
Blarney.
Like magnet it's influence such is,
That attraction is gives all 1t
touches;"
"If you kiss it, they say
From that blessed day,
You may kiss whom you please with
your Barney"
The exact position Of the stone is
another matter of considerable dis
pute and the doubt is much too re-
munerative to be disposed Of.
The general supposition is that the
stone is the one fixed by irons to the
parapet Of the large square tower
(Which used to be the donjon or keep
of the castle) some feet from the top.
In order to kiss the stone it is nee
essary ito lie on your back over the
machicolation."
Others maintain that this is not the
stone at all, but that the right stone
lies loose on the ground. So far there
is no record Of the Lancet having
drawn attention to the danger Of pro-
miscuous osculation such as Blarney
invites, a curious omission.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-13

IXTAsHINGToN-When one looks
w on the picture OF the Camorrists
their cage in Vlterbo, whore they
we're being tried as instigators OF
crimes and members OF criminal or
ganizations, Il comes right home TO
The clerks who work in the treasury
department in Washington. Since
The economy cranks got TO work they
aave turned the old treasury depart.
ment upside down. The secretary /
The treasury has a little walk Of his
own, a little elevator of his own and
driveway made through a portion
Of the treasury plaza purposely for
him, none of these TO be used by the
common herd at all. Alkare protected
by gates OF wrought-iron from invasion
,f the clerks or any of the assistants
about the treasury department Be
.ore the economy commission got in
heir licks there was a sort Of placita
IN the heart Of the treasury, the
white stone walls being built up
around it. When so many of the cor
hdors and other rooms had to be
taken up by private elevators, drive
and runways for higher officials, this
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-13
Treasury Clerks Are Gagged Like CamOrrists

plaeita was fixed up as sort OF a
glass house. and several hundred
clerks fred out into that or course,
the sun beats down on this glass
house from the time that It rises until
Il sets, and the result was that about
half the clerks we're III all OF the
time from the heat last summer So
this summer they aave put n great
canvas over this glass house, and
keep water running on II all the time
The poor clerks that work under
this ara turned In In the morning
and the iron gates are closed Ike
stone prison, and 10 get out 10 get
bite to eat in the 30 minutes they
have at noon they have TO tell their
name, age, nativity, place Of resi-
dence and a lot OF other family his
tory. At least those who have to eat
say that II seems to them II takes up
enough time TO give their pedigree
from the Revolution to now before
they get out without having to do the
same things TO get back In, and that
takes up at least 10 minutes from
their scant half hour from eating. It
is said the iron cages are necessary
for the safety OF the money which the
clerks are counting, but the treasury
department has been running for
about 100 years with no such safe
guards, and there hasn't been 500
lost in the whole 100 years. So, after
all. the clerks in that section OF the
treasury department haven't any
Ching over the Camorrists who were
shut up in steel cages every day.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-13
SEEK PAN-AMERIcAN CODE
Two United States Delegates Are En-
eouraeed by Work Of Rio Janelro
Conference.

Washington, d, C.-Henry l.. James
and Frederick Van Dyne, two dele
gates from the United States TO the
international conference for the codi.
fcation of public and private interna-
tional law, which recently finished it's
work at Rio Janeiro, Brazil. have re-
turned to this country. Mr.. James,
who 10 assistant chief OF the Latin
American division of the state depart
ment, reported that the delegates
from this country are convinced that
a substantial foundation has been
laid In the Rio Janeiro conference for
the development of a form OF pro-
ceeding which will insure uniformity
of laws and practice in American In
ternational relations.
While the task is monumental
one, owing to the difficulty of recon-
Cling and unifying practices based
on principles so widely variant as the
Latin code and the British and Ameri-
can common law 1t is expected that
tangible results will come from work
to be performed by a number of sub
committees. To these committees
have been assigned some of the most
veXatious problems of international
relations which will be considered at
meetings to be held in the following
six capitals: Montevideo. Lima, San
tiago de Chile, Rio Janeiro, Buenos
Aires and Washington, at dates to be
determined by the chairmen.
What the conference hopes to make
reality is common code to be ad-
ministered by a great international
supreme court
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-13
REBEL MIXEDARNY.
How Zapata Recruited His Fol-
lowers in Mexico.
every Outlaw and Fugitive From Jus
tice Was Enlisted by "The At
tia Of Republic" as Poems
Call Bandit.

Mexico City.-When Zapata FIRST re
cruited his followers they told me he
had drawn TO himself every outlaw
and fugitive from justice who up to
that time had been hiding in the More
los hills or in the vast underground
caves Of Cacahuimilpa. near Cuerna-
vaca.
Later, when Zapata and his men
look Cuernavaca, Zapata opened the
jail and penitentiary, and, putting a
good rifle and a handful of cartridges
into each coavicts hands, he bade
them help themselves to horses wher-
ever they could find them. AS there
are several horse ranches and rich
haciendas with celebrated racing
studs in the immediate vicinity Of
CuernaTaca, 1t did not take long be-
fore all those new recruits went
mounted on the best Of horses, as was
here to be seen.
After the great review Of Zapata's
bandit forces, Senor Madero commit
ted the colossal blunder, as it turned
out to be, of paying of all Of Zapata's
men for their alleged services in the
Madero revolution, without putting an
armed guard over them to see that
they actually turned in their rifles and
cartridges before returning to their
homes.
The result Of this was that Emiliano
Zapata simply drew the sum of $4,000
pesos set aside for himself and his
followers, without bothering to turn
in more than a few stacks Of arms,
after which he announced that he and
his men would not give any more
arms unless they received twice the
amount Of the originally stipulated
sum.
After this the misunderstanding
between the newly constituted gov
ernment authorities and the Zapata
brothers grew apace. Zapata was
summoned to the capital. He came
defiantly, surrouSded by an armed
bodyguard. In his brief stay at one OF
the principal hotels in Mexico City he
livened things up by shooting out all
the windows Of the cantina because
they would not serve him with drinks
after in the morning.
On the following day he and his
companions Communicated some half
dozen city taxicabs and rode back to
Cuernavaca, about rs miles away,
After this Zapata and his men in
Morelos became quite unmanageable
so far as the newly constituted au-
thorities were concerned. Francisco
de la Barra, Mexico's president ad In
term, tried to temporize with the
Zapata brothers for a while, after
which Senior Madero, in his capacity
as leader Of the revolution, pending
his election as constitutional presi-
dent, made a special trip to Morelos
to Smooth down" the enraged Zapat-
lists.
But the Smoothing down" did not
last, for within a week Zapata's fol-
lowers were shooting up" the col
umns Of regular soldiers who had
been sent to garrison the most i'm
portant towns of Morelos, in response
to the frantic appeals of the bandit
harried inhabitants Of that state.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-13

on account of the serious decline
in the birth rate Of Prussia-from So
per 1000 in 1901 to so in 19lO-all the
provincial governors have been in
structed TO make inquiries into the
causes, which are thought to be
economic and social rather than
purely physiological The more small
flats and touemcuts the fewer babies
The increase Of prosperity in the
more fortunate. classes, the more
strenuous and nerve-racldng urban
life and the spread Of education all
tend to lower the birth rate. The
chief cause Of fewer births in Prus-
sia and throughout Germany where
the total of 100000 is the lowest in
the past l3 years, is believed to be in
the housing conditions. Recent sta.
tistics showed that 100000 Berliners
are living in tenements of one or two
rooms, with from to 10 persons in
each room. Babies born in such an
environment naturally die early. Such
conditions conduce to race homicide
as well as to race suicide.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-13
cELTNA
RATS.


II is doubtful II anybody Will dis
pute the general agreement that rats
are noisome creatures, Nobody wants
them around. says the Philadelphia
Press. They are voraeious, they are
destructive, they are dlrty-they are
nuisance generally wherever they
congregate. They plague the farmer
whose feed bins they invade; they
gnaw holes where there ought not to
be any holes: to men below decks
they constitute one of the few draw
backs of life at sea; to women VINO
encounter them in dark corners at
home or abroad they are source OF
terror, though not necessarily of dan
ger. In short, they are unquestion'
ably one Of llfe's pests, serving no
useful purpose-useless, or at best
superhuous. even as scavengers, for
they prefer good food to bad and thus
play a not unimportant part In boost
ing the cost OF living. They sustain
life and health at the expense Of their
betters. Therefore from the stand
point OF social economy, to say moth.
ing Of the public health and comfort
TO eXterminate them is a public as
we'll as a private duty There are
amply good and sufficient reasons for
warning against rats. They ought TO
20. As has been fully demonstrated
in the past, they perform no useful
service any more than do flies, an
equally pornicious pest But appar-
entity they are not so grievous a men
ace to health as some have feared.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-13
SCHOONER TO BE FISH BOAT
Ship Of Adventure In Which the Poet.
Novelist Sailed "ln the South
Seas" to Be Remodeled.

San Francisco.--Four lines OF agate
type, buried in the waterfront news
Of the day, carry the announcement
that the schooner Casco, immortal as
the ship of adventure in which "a
years ago Robert Louis Stevenson
sailed over the sky line Of romance,
never TO return, soon will be re.
modelled ito enter the fishing bust,
ness"
Stevenson sailed from San Fran.
cisco in 1883. Cruising through
Oceania on the Casco, in search of
health, he gathered the materials for
THE Ebb Tide" for THE Wrecker"
and "In the South Seas"
Many of the best letters in the col.
lected editions were written squat
legged on the Casco's sun-bleached
decks
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-13
MAN SEEKS STANDARD" WIFE
Doctor Who Says He Is a "Standard"
Man Appeals to Preacher Who Vol
unteered as Matchmaker.

Minneapolis, Minn.-In sermon re-
Gently Rev. G. L. Morrill, of this city
offers to aid bashful men to get wives.
Now he is seeking a Standard" wo-
man for a STANDARD" man, the latter
having written him letter in which
he describes just the kind of woman
he wants to make his home para
disc. The standard" man is a James
Vile (Wis) physician, and declared
he, as a STANDARD" man, is One-tenth
above the female sex.
The letter in part follows:
II have just read your marriage Of
fer. / lost my wife last winter, leaV-
ing lonely void in my home. Am just
past forty and have no children.
Have a fine home. Rave no intirmi-
ties and no bad habits.
"Now, if you have any lady bache-
lor from twenty-five to thirty-fve that
would like a first-class home, with
large, fine garden, one that will come
near physical standard and has good
health, you may give her my address.
A standard woman in stature is feet
4 to inches. When arms are ex-
tended the measure from tip to tip Of
fingers would be equal to height. She
should have chest measurement near
35 inches and weigh near 1870 pounds.
Must not have shoulder blades promi-
nent like wings or have short legs
from knee down. Must not have pug
nose or thick lips. Upper lip must not
be short with upper teeth projecting.
"She must not have lop-ears. Rather
fine hair and fine features preferred,
and a we'll developed chin. Good
cooks and good nurses are generally
preferable and make best wives"
The name of DR.. A. P. Burns, James
vile, Wis, appeared on the envelope
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-13
AUTOS AND SHOE LEATHER
What the Modern Luxury VIII Cost
the Poor of All Countries in
Foot Wear.

New York-The tremendous growth
Of the motor car industry is produc-
ing a scarcity of leather so great that
in a little over four years, according to
the leading authority in the New
England shoe trade. the price has ad-
vanced 70 per cent, the Toronto
Globe notes This advance, he stated,
must inevitably result in an increase
Of 20 per cent. in the cost Of shoes
all over the world. The interde-
pendence not Only of nations in mat
ters Of trade and commerce, but OF
the rich and poor, is strikingly illus
trated by the statement of the New
England expert. Poor folk in the re-
hottest corners of civilization, who
rarely see a motor car, will be forced
to spend a larger part of their scanty
income upon shoes, a necessity Of eX-
istence, because rich people are pour
ing out money upon new luxury.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-13
Alexander Bluffs Ajax In Hymenea Mix-Up

ALEX Power and Ajax Tobey, two
"A leading members Of the colored
back alley 400, who were related by
marriage, inasmuch as Alex had led
Aiaxs sister to the hymeneal altar
and promised to provide board aud
lodging for the rest OF her natural
days, were arraigned before Judge
Douglas of the police court on a
number Of charges ranging from
"cussing" to "scrapping,"
The statement made by Alex was,
hat the lightning defer invaded his
domicile and in the presence Of his
copper colored spouse had used Ian
gauge Of q very tabascoitic variety
Alex further testified that he had pick
ed up a stick of stove wood swith
which he persuaded Ajax to deslst.
Unlike his famous prototype. who de-
aed the unseen, Ajax wilted when he
saw that piece of timber in the mus
cular hands Of the brawny Alexander,
and beat it. He didn't take time to
leave by the door but jumped out Of
the back room window, which, in his
Drecipitate flight he did not stop to
open. The result was disastrous-to
the window-and the smoky Ajax
sought protection Of the police.
'"yVhat brought about the difficulty"
ueried the Highland chieftain, who
Is presiding over the police court in
the absence of Judge Hugo (to) l.
de langwidge dat niger used was
de wust ah is ever head"
What did he say?"
"He say d-n an h--ll an er heap
mo- sich words"
what did you say?"
wat did ah say, why Jedge I tol'
him dat ah'ed W-ned if ah'ed stand
hit, an dat ah would give him HI If
he didn't quit"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-13

An immediate investigation was or
dered at which Assistant Postmaster
Louis Robinson presided. Testimony
was to the credit of the local office,
and developed the following facts:
No highly cultured civil-service cats
were on the register, No cats Of any
kind had ever sought official appoint
ment, though some were on the job
If any cat crusader ever finds his
way on duty bent into the post-ofTlce
he most likely will be lynched. The
post-of1ce cats have good records, and
count their friends by the official reg
ister
When summoned before the inves-
tigating committee, the cats did not
come.
Always hustling in the interest OF
the service" chuckled the division
chief, w4 NJ 4
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-13

The Milwaukee Physicians associa-
ton. having formally decided that
kissing is "a menace to health and
deceucy" as we'll as "a blot on civil
izatl0n." will attempt to secure legis-
Iation making It a punishable offense
This action is wholly in accordance
with the modern spirit Of regulating
the behavior Of other people, says the
New York World In the unenlight-
enad times before there were pro
gressiyes," any one who thought
habit or custom Objectionable stopped
practicing it and left it to others to
do the same or not. as they pleased.
But passive action of the~,ind is no
longer regarded as sufficient. Every
body is now the steward Of somebody
clse's welfare, and the proper thing is
to prevent others by law from doing
what some individual or set deems
offensive. Never before, in fact, was
there so much prating about personal
liberty along with so little regard for
it in others.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-13
GIRLl WIFE GETS DIVORCE
Mrs. Guide Of Trenton, N. j., spurns
the So Week That Recreant
Spouse Offered.

Trenton, N. Especial Master in
Chancery Ayers has recommended a
divorce for Mrs. Elizabeth Guide OF
Newark, who sued George Guide for
divorce on the ground Of desertion.
Mrs. Guide, who is scarcely out OF
her teens, declared In her bill Of com
plant that she bad spurned her hus-
bands dirty money" which he Of
fered in three dollars weekly Jumps for
her support.
, The couple were married after a
three weeks courtsbip and three days
after the marriage he went to New
ark, telling his wife cousin" want
ed to see him. Returning the next
day, he said his cousin" did not ap'
prove of their marriage and that they
had better part He then took his be-
Iongings and left.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-13

The improved farm land area of this
country increased only IS per cent in
the decade from 1900 to 1910, That
is not enough to satisfy social and
economic demands, or even TO keep
pace with our increase in population,
which was 21 per cent, To get the
right perspective one must differen.
Fiate between farming land and i'm.
proved farm land, says the Omaha
Bee. Half Of our territory is in farm
land. but when it is stated that half
OF all our improved farm land lies
within the states of Nebraska, Kan
sas, Iowa, Missouri Minnesota, Arkan,
sas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and North
and South Dakota, the need for
wider area Of cultivated soil may be
appreciated. Allowing land to yield
less than it is capable Of yielding is
rank waste, and this waste is one Of
the vital elements in the advanced
cost Of living, It is not altogether a
matter of getting people back to the
farm" that is important, but getting
those on the farm to adopt more effec.
tive methods of tilling the soil IS
quite as necessary.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-13
RAISE MANGO IN FLORIDA
Government Experimenters Succeed
With Tree Given to Official by
Prince in india.

Washington.-President Taft has
been presented with a fine basket Of
East Indian mangoes raised in the
United States. The bureau Of plant
introduction, which is experimenting
with hundreds of foreign fruits in the
effort to find new varieties that will
grow here, raised the mangoes In
Florida. They came from tree pre-
sented to David Fairchild, chief of
the bureau Of plant introduction, when
he was in India some years ago, by
one Of the princes Of that land. Mri
Fairchild says mango growing in the
United States can be made a COM
mercial success.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-09-13
CLAM GETS PlCNICKER'S S.
How Louis LUdden Of WiTsted, Conn.,,
Lost a Gold Piece and Found
II In a Shell.

Winsted, Conn, Aug. 15-Louis Lud,
den, member of a clambake party here,
stood beside a barrel of clans which
was partly covered. In taking some
matches from his trousers pocket, he
pulled out a SIS gold piece, which
dropped into the barrel The barrel
was emptied, but no coin was to be
found.
In due course Of time the clans,
after being washed were placed in
steamer with other sea food. When
the man who lost the gold piece got
his portion of CLAIMS, he found his lost
coin reposing in a shell with q steamed
clam.