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The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31
Historic Ship Is Abandoned by Navy

embryo admirals who transgressed the
rules. In more recent years she was
used as a garrison for marines and
sailors on that station. A few days
ago a large section of her bottom gave
way and she sank slowly to the bed
Of the river.
The Santee is wooden ship Of the
square-rigged type. She was built just
before the civil war, but because of a
mistake in her design she never was
used for any important service. Ira
dition has it that the error was point.
ed out to the designer by his young
son soon after the vessel was launch.
ed, and that the designer committed
suicide by shooting himself on her
deck. The mistake was that the port
holes were built directly opposite
each other, thus affording an open
line of fire to an opposing warship.
The Santee was taken to Annapolis
in 1865, when the Naval Academy was
transferred there from Newport. Soon
after that she was dismasted and
rooted over. Huge anchors were cast
fore and aft to steady her in position
and, in fact, for years she practically
rested on the soft mud at the Naval
Academy dock.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

ing erected at Arlington. These, with
the three huge towers, which, when
erected, will be visible from any point
within many miles of the nations capt.
tai, will constitute the most powerful
wireless station in the world
When completed the station will be
able to communicate over the seas
with the Azores in the Atlantic, all
West Indian ports and South Ameri-
can coast towns as far south as the
mouth of the Amazon river, Aerial
disturbances, which are greater over
land than over sea, will, it is expect
ed, make transmission over land more
difficult, but it is said that after al
lowanoes for impediments in trans
mission over land wireless commune
cation from this station will extend
over half of North America.
The steel work on the towers has
been completed for some time. The
towers were shipped to Arlington
from the shops here III sections and
erected as fast as the different Sec
tions were completed.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31
AeropIane Gun Fires from Both Ends

TESTS Of another invention designed
l to make "war in the clouds" pos
sible are being prepared by the United
States. It consists of an aeroplane
gun that discharges projectile from
each end. One Of the pro1ectiles Is
designed for destructive work and the
other as dummy to neutralize the
recoil. Commander Cleland Davis, U.
S. NJ. is the inventor.
The practicability Of the weapon
has been partially demonstrated in
tests at Fort Wright. Two light can
vas wings, corresponding to those Of
an aeroplane were rugged up close to
The gun. Delicate springs and recoil-
ing discs we're placed under the
gtanchions to record the vibration and
poncussion and recoil. The results in
1icated that it's use on an aeroplane
hundreds Of feet above earth is prac-
bcable.
AS the two projectiles weigh about
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

WASHINGTON Prof, w. ], McGee
w of the department of agriculture
has been at work upon a curious sort
of census for some months. rhis cen
sus is not the counting Of souls, but OF
the wells of water upon which souls
are nourished. He has secured data
concerning the wells Of the country,
and they are bearing on the national
water supply and incidentally upon
the ultimate food resources of the ma
ton. This well enumeration has al
ready reached $4,000, and covers the
states and practically every country of
the United States. Records are com
piled, so far as possible, showing the
depth Of the well and the depth Of
the water and the variation of water
level from year to year. The signifi-
cant part o. the showing is that the
water level in the wells of the country
Is decreasing at the rate of a foot and
a halt for each decade. Some of the
records go back for 20 years and some
to the first settlement of the country.
The average reduction in level Of
the ground water" is shown to have
been IA feet since its first settlement
This is regarded as a serious condi-
tion, because the food-producing pos
sibility Of the country depends even
tuallS on the water supply.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31
MINGLING OF BLUE AND GRAY
Suggestion for One Common Memorial
Day While Yet the Veterans
Are With Us.

Early in 1866, just after the close of
the Civil war, Mrs. Mary A. w. How
ard, widow Of a confederate officer,
suggested the setting apart Of day
for placing flowers on graves of con-
federate soldiers and for appropriate
memorial exercises. The idea was re-
ceived with general approval, and
April &c, that year, was made the oc-
casion for the first confederate me-
mortal Observances.
This southern idea appealed to the
sentiments of men and women Of the
north as worthy Of imitation. In 1868,
Gen. John A. Logan, then national
commander of the Grand Army, issued
an order calling for Memorial day ex-
ercises May 30.
The latter date has been retained
as the time for the annual decoration
Of union soldiers graves and public
exercises commemorative Of the lives
and deeds Of the men in blue. The
ex-confederates in most Of the states
have continued to observe April 26,
though the custom is not uniform.
On both sides, the rosters Of the sur
vivors who will participate in the me-
mortal exercises are decreasing sadly,
fearfully. In a comparatively short
time all will have Joined their com
rades "on fame's eternal camping
grounds"
There still is left time for both sides
4O ,,nifa in phuerving q paupvn1 Mo
mortal day. Nothing in all the worlds
history was ever so impressive as
would be the mingling Of the blue and
gray in paying mutual tribute to the
dead Of the two armies who fought
each other in the awful days Of 81 TO
'65. Why not signalize present c0ndi-
tions and glorify future prospects by
such an obseryance?-Co NJ A. Al
drich.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

THE historic old ship Santee, which
i recently sank at her dock at the
Annapolis Naval Academy, has been
abandoned by the naval authorities
and will be sold to the highest bidder
with the understanding that he re-
move her at his own expense. An In
spection of the vessel shows that she
is waterlogged and beyond repair for
naval purposes. She rests on the
muddy bottom of the Severn with the
water about twelve feet above her
water line and probably never will
float again.
Naval officers have an affection for
the old Santee, based on recollections
of their student days at the academy.
For many years she was used as a
practice ship by the midshipmen, and
when no longer able to navigate, was
transformed into prison ship for the
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

The husband and wife were maklns
call on friends one evening Inc
wife was talking.
81 think we shall have Marian take
domestic science course along WIN
her music and regular studies when
at college.
"Ah," said a man present, VINO hau
been p stranger until that evening"
'you look rather young to have a
daughter ready for college"
col" said the mother, naively' sne
isn't old enough now; she is Just eight
months old, but | do so like to look
!-Indlanapolis News
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31
oHenses to the Eye.

The effort which is to be made IN
New York to restrict or remove the
huge and unsighuy signs which dis
figure the streets Of the city by day
and night, will be watched with inter
est elsewhere. 1t Is believed that
many of these violate existing ordi-
nances and that others might be elm
mated by proceeding against them as
nuisances. Those that threaten life
or shut out light and air ought to come
easily within that category. The pub
lie Is somewhat slower to recognize
the fact that simple offonses to the
eye may be proper objects of regula.
ton; but with the increasing apprecia-
ton of civic beauty, this recognition is
bound to come. II is futile to erect
handsome buildings and lay out at.
tractive parks II any one who chooses
can mar the effect--Providenoe Jour
nal
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

pains at monthly periods, bilious spells,
and was getting worse all the time. /
would hardly get over one spell when l
would be sick again. No tongue can tell
what l suffered from cramps, and at
times l could hardly walk. The doctors
said might die at one of those times,
but took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound and got better right away.
Your valuable medicine is worth more
than mountains of gold to suffering wo-
men. Mrs. BERTHA MUFF, sos N. 4th
Street, Louisiana, Mo.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from nativeroots and herbs,
contains no narcotic or harmful drugs,
and to-day holds the record of being the
most successful remedy for female illswe
know of, and thousands of voluntary
testimonials on file in the Pinkham
laboratory at Lynn, Mass, seem to prove
this fact.
II you want special advice write to
lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (cOnfl.
dentiaD Lynn, Mass. Your letter will
be opened, read and answered by a
woman and held in strict confidence.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

In Pliny there may be found an &C.
count of the manner in which the
bakers Of Rome were alleged to mix
with their dough a white earth, saft
to the touch and sweet to the taste
thus putting out a foodstuff that had
weight and fine appearance, but little
food value The same writer also
touches upon wine adulteration. Pliny
says that not even the wealthy Roman
noble could be sure that the wine he
bought was pure. Indeed, the most
rlmous wines were doctored, and
and wines from Gaul generally held
TO be Of the best, were, as a matter
Of fact, artiGcially oolored with aloes
and other drugs.-Harper's Weekly.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31
Taking a Census of the Water Wells

One group of 10 states was taken In
the rectangle inclosed by Minnesota
Ohio. Tennessee and Iowa. 1t was
found that this was representative OF
the general condition. 1t was shown
lhat the water level was gradually but
steadily falling all over the country
so that the ultimate outlook, not next
year. but in few centuries, VIII be
for vanishing drinking supply not
only on the farms, but In urban com
munities where the water supply Is
drawn from lakes and rivers
Prof. MCGEE says that the supply
could be increased by digging the
wells deeper, but that this would De
merely a palliative measure. The real
remedy is in changing the system oi
farm cultivation so as to conserve the
water supply.
He explains that when the country
is in a state of nature all the rainfall
and the melting snowfall sinks into
the ground and the rivers run clear
With settlement and cultivation the
ground is broken up 80 that 1t Is
washed into the streams and the riv'
ers run muddy in the spring. and
there are intervals of disastrous floods
and bad drouths.
He says further that as land be-
comes more valuable the farmer Is
unconsciously applying the remedy by
more intensive cultivation and manag'
ing his land so that it is not allowed
to erode and wash away The point
he brings out, however, is that this
situation should be clearly put before
the people, so that crop systems and
methods of cultivation might be i'm
mediately improved and the waste OF
both land and water prevented.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

built in honor of her sons siam IN Ine
Civil war. Grandsons Of the under
graduates who heard 1t when 1t was
arst read have since been born, and
have passed under the stately roof OF
the Memorial hall on their way to the
lofty dining hall of the old college
To them and to their children the
grief which had ceased to be heart
breaking when Holmes penned his
noem. is no more than a reverentlal,
dealized and ennobling sentiment.
Yet thirty-four states will by fiat OF
heir respective legislatures observe
Memorial day as a day consecrated TO
memorial services for those who
served In the wars of this country.
And to most Of us this means the sol
iiers of the Civil war, though in truth
recent visit to Arlington cemetery
3roIght home the truth that the war
with Spain demanded its toll OF the
aation's manhood.
But the custom Of placing flowers
N the graves of soldiers on certain
fixed day devoted to services COM
memorative of their patriotism came
INTO practice at the close Of the Civil
war and Memorial day is still most
Intimately associated with the men OF
hat war, most OF whom have passed
INTO the land Of memory, though a
comparatively small number OF its
veterans still survive to march in the
procession which is part OF the
lays observance.
The first Memorial or Decoration
lay which these veterans ofthe Grand
Army Of the Republic recall each year
was not as It is now in most of the
states and even in Alaska and Porto
Rico. a legal holiday 1t came as the
result Of an order issued by Gen. John
A. Logan, national commander OF the
Grand Army OF the Republic, then a
young organization. 1t was in May
1868. that Adjutant General n. p
,hysman conferred with General Lo-
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31
matter 81 porsonal Pride.

what makes you insist on taking
a curtain call after you are supposed
to have been done to death in a hand
to-hand encounter?"
Il have a reputation to sustain at
the athletic club, replied the actor.
"You couldn't expect me TO let the
audience go home with the idea that
/ actually had been put down and
out7"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

Relieves and Rests TesthIns Babies.
Mrs. Burton Gary, Toledo. Ohio
writes that she has given Kopp's
Baby's Friend to her babies when
teething: finds It gives them rest with
out making them sleep. Invaluable TO
mothers. Three sizes, 10c., 25c and
Soc, at druggists or sent direct by
Kopp's Baby's Friend Co., York, Pa.
sample by mail on request
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

fifty pounds it IS acknowledged that
the sudden loss OF weight might af-
feet an aeroplane greatly. Now the
inventor and Captain Washington /.
Chambers, U. S. NJ, in charge Of avia-
ton in the navy, are studying this
phase Of the problem.
Final tests Of the gun will be held
soon at Indian Head under the super
vision Of the bureau of ordnance. 1t
will be fired from a frail structure to
represent an aeroplane and dyna-
mometer will register the effect Of
the discharge.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31
Irrelevant Reasons.

''Why is Jones making his girl take
music lessons? She'll never learn
she practices for million years.
Jones say he knows she has no
talent, and he can i'll AFFORD the ex-
Dense, but that he hates the people so
on the next floor"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

You cannot analyze it, It is subtle,
but It is true. It often sleeps like the
lamb. but reused from it's lethargy
breaks out with the strength OF tho
lion" Never was patriotism more sub
lime than in tho soldier of 81.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31
Too Busy.

Let's see, you live in sewickly,
Iont your"
yep"
"Got a little piece of ground attach
ID to your house"
quite a lot"
"Going to make a garden this
Ipring2"
aNo: I'm busy experimenting that
NJ NV next door neighbor,"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

Silicus--Do you believe IN long en-
gagements?
Cynicus-Sure. The longer man
is engaged the less time he mas 10 DO
married
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31
WOMAN SICK
twelve YEARS
Wants OtherWomen to Know
How She Was Finally
Restored to Health.
Louisiana, Mo.:-"I think woman
naturally dislikes to make her troubles

known to the pubic,
but complete restor-
alton tohealthmean
so much to me that
/ cannot keep from
telling mine for the
sake of other suffer-
ing women.
al had been sick
about twelve years,
and had eleven doc
tors. I had drag
ging down pains,
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31


Ro MORE shall the war cry sever,
" Or winding rivers be red
They Danish our anger forever
When they laurel the graves Of
our deadl
;; Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day.
Love and tears for the Blue,
Tears and love for the Gray.
Francis Miles Finch.
Sa0N
Hay Captain does not answer
HI his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he
has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchored safe and sound,
its voyage closed and done;
From fearful trip the victor ship
comes in with object wonl
Exult o shores, and ring, o bellsI
But l, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck, my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
Walt Whitman.
SS.&9
Strike not one jewel from the crest
y The loving mother wore;
Reset the gems upon her breast
Each where It stood before.
Clasp In the glorious cynosure
The whole dear Thirty-Four.
Samuel Francis Smith.
SsaY-N
litter all
II Hark from the heights
, the clear, strong clarion call
And the command imPenous:
. Stand forth,
Sons Of the South and brothers of
the NOTtni
Stand forth and be
As one on soil and sea-
/; Your country's honor more
Than empires WORTH
Frank Lebby Stanton.
OA&N
Eonor TO iheml Far graves today
4 are flinging
Up through the soil Peaee-blooms
y 10 meet the sun,
\ And daisied heads through summer
winds are singing
4 Their long well done"
4 Irene Fowler Brown.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

To stay young or TO grow young, Garfeld
Tea can help. 1t rejuvenates both In IookR
and energy.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, Jurist was
born in Boston. Mass. March 8, lsil. He
received his education at Harvard univeT-
sity, where he received the degree OF A. b'
in 1861 and LII. b. in 1860. In 1885 ne re-
ceived the degree Of LII d, from Nale'
and in 1909 the degree OF ID. c. L. from ~ ~
ford. He served three years in the 2Oth
Mass. volunteers as lieutenant and lieu
tenant colonel; was wounded in the neck
at Antietam, Sept. II, 1864, and In the
foot at Marye's HILL Fredericksburg, May
& 1863 He was admitted TO the Massa-
chusetts bar in 1867, became professor OF
law at Harvard law school in ls2, was
associate justice from 1882 to 1893; chief
justice from 1899 10 1902 in the supreme
court OF Massachusetts and associate Jus
tice OF the supreme court OF the Uniteu
States Dec. 4, 1902.
(From an address before John Sedgwlck
Post No. 4, G. A. r., Keene, N. H.
May 30, lSs4)
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

Freedom is won through hard obe-
dience to the truth.-William James.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

shrlned in the temple we hallow today.
flushed are their battlefelds, ended their
marches,
Deaf are their ears to the drum beat
of morn;
Rise from the sod ye fair columns and
arches
born!
Emblem and legend may fade from the
portal,
Keystone may crumble and portal may
fall;
They were the builders whose work Is
immortal,
Crowned with the dome that is over us
all!
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

The man who gets gay with a busy
bee is apt to get stinging rebuke.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

That irritable, nervous condition due %
bad liver calls for its natural antldote-
Garfield Tea.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

LIVER WENDELL HOLMES,
the poet of occasions, wrote
this lyric for the ceremo-
MES attending the laying OF
the corner stone Of Har-
wards great Memorial hall,
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

oMRADES, some
of the associations
of this day are not
only triumphant,
but joyful. Not all
of those with
whom we once
stood shoulder to
ahOuldar - NOT all
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-31

While DER their
m a r b ] e s the
MOSES are creep
ing,
Stealing each name
and the legend
away,
Give their proud
story to mem
ory's keeping,
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-06-11
FIFTY-NINE LA6oRERs BURNED.
Try Associated Press.l


st. Petersburg, June 11.-Fifty-nine
field laborers were burned to death as
they slept in a barn near Tambov
s>~~~~~s~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~S~~~~~~~~~~~~~
would have to be $4,000, but the
plans called for 100000. / believe
that the public improvements made
by the state government at this time
should be lasting and permanent. The
buildings now being constructed for
public education in Texas will be in
use for fifty years, and told them |
would approve deficiency for $780,
600 because wanted to see building
of the firsst-class.
You had a second calamity.
stand ready to cooperate with the
board and the Alumni Association, the
president of this college and the Off
GERS to replace that building with one
that will be monument to this school
and its work, with as much haste as
possible, but not too much haste 1t
can be applied to the work next ses-
sion. This can be done, | believe, by
employing enough men to have it ded.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-06-11
A. { N. COLLEGE
Commencement
Graduating Exercises Held This Morn
ino--Dipiomas Delivered by
Governor coIquitt.

When Governor Colquitt presented
the diplomas to the graduating class
of A. & NJ. College this morning he
announced to the entire assemblage
that he had within the hour before
advised the board of directors of the
college that he would grant an emer-
gency deficiency warrant for 100000
to reconstruct the main building OF
the college. He gave a word OF en-
couragement to the graduates and
handed each one his well earned de-
gree. A full list of the graduates Is
printed on another page of today's
Eagle.
The exercises were held in the tenn
porary mess hall and 1t was crowded
with large number OF visitors. There
was music by the band and prayer
by DIR. Isaac Alexander, chaplain oi
the college, President Miner an
nounced the distinguished students
tut occSlOn db lOhOWbs
Senior Class-M. D. Morley of Fort
Worth.
Junior Walter Ohlendorf OF
Lockhart and Leroy w. Tilton Of
College Station.
Freshman Class-John Sherman
Bugbee of Clarendon.
There was vocal solo by Mrs. r.
w. Garfield, after which the president
of the college awarded the certificates
to students who had finished the two
year course. Miss Stella Spence of
San Angelo gave cornet solo, after
which came the commencement ad-
dress by Dr. Edgar Odell Lovett of
Houston.
The valedictory address was deliv-
cred by J. J. Brown of Cherokee.
The governor then delivered the
diplomas.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-06-11
SITUATION IN CUBAN
REBELLION BRIGHTER
No Fresh Outbreaks Taken to Mean
That Action Of United States
Has Had It's Effect.
lBy Associated Press |

Washington, June 1.-THE absence
OF fresh outbreaks in Havana encour-
aged the state department today in
the belief that measures already taken
to show the purpose of this govern
ment to maintain order in Cuba have
been sufficient.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-06-11
Taft Wins kentucky Contest.
IBy Associated Prcss.I

Chicago, June 1.-THE first contest
to be heard by the republican national
committee was from Kentucky. Two
contests among the delegates at large
we're first considered. Taft won by a
vote OF 3s to IL, thereby giving Ken.
tucky's four delegates at large to Taft
Taft delegates we're also seated In
the First and Second Kentucky dis.
tricts, and it now seems probable the
Taft men will win in the Fourth dis.
trict. thus continuing the unbroken
Taft string OF contest victories.