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The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-09-12
whx Poison Ivy Is Poisonous.

Poison ivy has long been a mystery
both to scientists and laymen; why
and in what manner it causes the Pc
culiar rash and irritating Inflammation
have puzzled both botanists and ply
sicians. At last the reason has been
discovered. Doctor Mirande of Paris
read to the academy Of sciences In
that city recently the result Of his
study Of the poisonous weed.
Poison ivy contains prussic acid.
This is found principally in the young
leaves and buds; in older leaves there
is very little OF it.
In three and one.half ounces Of
young leaves there is about a quarter
Of a grain Of the acid.
AS in other plants in which prussic
acid is found, the poisonous substance
does not exist in its perfect form, but
developes as soon as the leaves are
bruised, a chemical action being set
up through the union Of an engine
with a glucosid.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-09-12
TIGER FAILED IN HIS PART
Youthful Hypnotlst Might Have Sue
ceeded, but Savage Brute Refused
to Lend Aid.

Jack the Lion Tamer," a ten-year-
old boy who got the notion that he
could fsubdue the widest of wild
beasts by looking them in the eye,
had a narrow escape from serious in
jury in the Central park menagerie at
New York when he tried to hypnotic
Dick, the savage Siberian tiger.
Dick was lying near the iron bars
of the outer cage when the young lion
tanner came along. The boy had been
caught pulling a lions tail several
times this summer and had been
warned Of the danger.
He got inside the railing, approach
ing the tigers cage, and put hand
and arm between the bars. Then he
called TO Dick as he would to a dog,
while looking him in the eyes.
The big tiger hasn't lost any Of his
savage nature since arriving at the
park, and when he saw the arm in
his cage his muscles stifened for
action. His ears went back and his
lips curled. A group of men stood
near, but no one warned the boy Of
his peril.
The lad thought he had the beast
subdued and was bringing his hand
closer and closer. Keeper George
Sichert happened to go outside and,
seeing the, situation, grabbed the boy
by the collar and pulled him back just
as the tiger leaped toward the boys
hand.
One of Dicks claws tore the boys
index finger. The keeper gave him
lecture and expelled him from the
menagerie.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-09-12
CROSS OF PERE MARQUETTE

In a little Indian village Of Michi-
gan stands a monument cross to Mar
quette, the explorer-missionar of the
northwest. Cross village, as 1t is
known, has about 600 inhabitants
equally divided between the white
and red races. 1t was founded as an
Indian post upon one Of Father Mar
quette's exploring trips. 1t was at
the site of this little village that Mar
quette erected large cross and d.
rected his converts to preserve 1t for.
ever from time and storm. So well
have the instructions Of Marquette
been followed that the cross stands to-
day exactly where 1t was placed by
Marquette.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-09-12
SHARK TANGLES A FISH BET
In Knotty Problem Regarding
Big Catch.

Darby, Pa.-Declaring he had been
made the victim Of conspiracy which
caused the loss of an unlawful bet,
Robert E. Lee, former president Of the
Darby health board, will write to the
fish commission to obtain legal opin-
ion as to whether a shark is fish or
some other animal. Together with
Coroner E. F. Carr and Deputy Coro-
ner Charles H. DTewes of Darby; c.
Raymond Lee, former councilman of
Colwyn, and Orville Lentz, Lee went
on fishing trip from Tuckerton. Be-
for starting the five fishermen made a
pool of one dollar each the whole sum
five dollars-to be given to the man
catching the largest fish. After the
quintet had pulled in nearly 200 weak
fish, Lee excitedly yelled that he had
the pool, and began to take reef holds
on his line, which suddenly began to
slip through his hands so fast that the
skin was burned. After fifty fathom
of extra strong fishing twine had run
out and the boat had dragged its an
chor half square, Lee, after Is min
uts' hard work. pulled up 90-pound
shark. After it was landed on the
deck and killed with an ak, Lee
claimed the five dollars, but the others
in the party said a shark is not fish
and put it up to the captain, who
promptly agreed that shark is not
a fish, but a mammal and that all bets
were off 81 knew the whale was a
mammal" said Lee, but if shark is
in that class 1t is something new to
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-09-12
WOMEN OF NEW GUIANA

The women and girls in many parts,
OF New Guinea wear a skirt of native
grass, which hangs down from the
waist to the knee, each piece of grass.
being plated into a strong encircling
belt at the top. The material may
also be cocoanut or banana leaves, the
former finely shredded with a she'll.
Sometimes the grass used is laid in
the mud and stained black, or red
dened by the juice Of a root, and the
three colors, red, black and light
brown, are blended very harmoniouslyr
The effect OF wearing the skirt, espe-
cially when composed of banana
leaves, is to make the girls walk ap-
proach more closely to a waddle, and
when some ducks were introduced
lately at the headquarters of the
Anglican mission, the boys ungallant-
ly exclaimed: They walk like the
girls!"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-09-12
IN ROLE OF CUPID
Lost Baby Brings Professor to
Realization of His Own
HelpleSsness.
nY aEoRaE MuNsoN.

81 don't know what can be the mat
ter with me, Miss Johnson" said Pro
fessor Barry to his housekeeper as she
handed him his morning coffee. Il
think / must be growing old
20, come, professor. you old at forty
five!" replied Miss Johnson, laughing.
what you want is TO get married"
Get married" repeated the profes-
sor absently, as though the idea had
never occurred 10 him. Why. who
would want 10 marry an old fogy like
me?"
Some might" retorted Miss John
son, tossing her head, and for the first
time the professor wondered why Miss
johnson. with her strong, capable
hands and warm heart had never mar
ried
Miss Johnson came every day to at
tend to the professors needs. He was
instructor In Latin at the college;
Miss Elizabeth Johnson was the
daughter of a fellow professor who had
died impoverished She was not pret-
ty, but she was a universal favorite
and she was treated as a social equal
by everybody in spite Of the menial
work she did. Miss Johnson might
have been thirty-hye.
III ever I got married mused the
professor, as he wandered in the di-
rection OF the town, II should want a
wife with light brown hair, blue eyes,
n pleasant but not necessarily beauti-
ful face, and Of a stature five feet four
or five feet six. She should be a good
cook and fond of children. always
good-tempered and-why, bless me-"
He blushed as he hurried along the
street, for it had suddenly occurred
to him that he was describing Miss
Johnson.
"But I didn't mean anything, l as
sure YOU" he explained absenly TO
himself
please don't mention it," said q
pleasant female voice in his ear, and
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-09-12
EGYPT'S TOMB OF THE BULLS
Dr. E. A. Thompson Of Andover,
Mass, Regards This as One Of
country's Greatest Wonders.

Washington.-"To me, one OF the
most interesting sights of tour
around the world, which have Just
completed, is the tomb of the bulls In
Egypt" said DR.. f. A. Thompson. Of
Andover, Mass, at the Raleigh,
after a camel trip OF fifteen or six.
teen miles south of the Pyramids,
across the Sahara desert, one comes
to the tomb of the bulls, where in an
cient times the mummilied remains OF
the sacred bulls, which were then wor-
SHIPPED by the Egyptians, were entomb-
ed. After passing through a tunnel
half a mile long under the desert, one
comes to the rooms where the bulls
were formerly buried, After digging
out the rooms immense granite bowl
ders is feet long, feet high and 10
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-09-12
WYOMING'S STRANGE ROCKS

A wonderful region is that around
Laramie, in the southern part Of Wyom-
ing The rock formations to be found
here are not only of the most singular
shapes, but their very singularity tells
the story that this part of the United
experience This history extends all
the way from the early ages when
Wyoming was covered by a great sea
and before there was any animal life
in North America up through the
epoch when the sea gave place to
swamps where fiourished the giant rep
tiles of the early world then the huge
f1esh-eating dinosaurs and terrible
saber-toothed tigers; later when the
land began to rise out OF the sea and
swamp; and finally when the great con-
tinental uplift erected mountains of
granite to height of 10000 feet and
over, and when the white man began
to play his important part, first trap
ping and prospecting and later rob-
bing and numbering and when pur,
sued retreating into the maze of rocks
and gorges whence he could defy law
and order
The stone composing the Monkey
Face" (the top of this rock showing an
ape-like profle), and the Hornets
Nest Park" could perhaps tell the
most interesting story. This great
stratum. was deposited following the
carboniferous age, when the atmos-
phere was so poisonous that the man
Of today could not have breathed 1t
and lived. The vegetation of this peri
cd was the rankest and most luxuriant
which has ever grown on our globe,
and at this time southern Wyoming
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-09-12
Got Even With Her.

A few days ago two young ladies
entered a trolley car and found only
standing room.
I'm going to get seat" said one
to her companion. "Now, you see!"
Selecting sedate-looking gentle
man, she walked up to him.
"My dear Mr.. Green" she exclaim
ed. How delighted am to met you!
You are almost a stranger. VIII l ao
cept your seat? Well, l do feel tired
l admit Thank you so much"
The man rose. "Sit down, Jane, my
girl" said he, as he courteously point
ed to the vacant seat. Il don't often
see you out on washing day. You
must feel tired, I'm sure. How's your
mistress ?"-National Monthly.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-09-12

hams Vegetable Compound l improved
rapidly and today am a well woman. I
cannot tell you how happy 1 feel and I
cannot say too much for your Compound
Would not be without it in the house IL
Il cost three times the amount. Mrs.
CHAs. CHAPMAN, r. F. D. No. z, Belle
vue, Ohio.
Because your case is a difficult one,
doctors having done you no good, do not
continue to suffer without giving Lydia
Z. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a
trial. 1t surely has remedied many
cases Of female ills, such as inhamma-
ton, liberation, displacements, tumorss
Irregularities, periodic pains, backaches
and it may be exactly what you need
The Pinkham record is a proud and
peerless one. 1t is record of constant
victory over the obstinate ills Of woman
ills that deal out despair. It is an es-
tablished fact that Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound has restored
health to thousands of such, suffering
women. Why don't you try it If you
need such a medicine2
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-09-12
ElonInu coupIe Win on.

Cumberland, Md.-Henry H. Ad-
kinson and Miss Lillian Blethen,
eloped from White Sulphur Springs,
w. Va, after abandoning his auto
mobile which broke down after his
hurried flight over the mountains.
Atkinson swan across the Green
Brier river with his bride-elect on
his back. The couple were married
here. The brides father gave up the
pursuit at the river bank
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-09-12
His Bust.

Daniel c. French, the sculptor who
was commissioned to make the bust
of Ralph Waldo Emerson which is
now in Memorial hall, Harvard uni
versity, tells this story:
AT one of the sittings Mr.. Emer
son rose suddenly and walked over
to where the sculptor was working.
He looked long and earnestly at
the bust, and then, with an inim'
ltably droll expression, he said:
"The trouble is the more 1t re
sembles me the worse 1t looks"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-09-12
Box Car Romance.

Minneapolis.-As a result Of boy
writing his sisters name on a new
box car as it left the shops in Pitts
burgh a year ago, Ernest Noon of Min
neapolis, and Miss Margaret M, Bar
ker of Pittsburgh were married here.
Noon, who is railway employe, saw
the name written by the boy, wrote
to Miss Barker and a correspondence
sprang up which ended in the mar
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-09-12
QUEER CAR FOR LONG TRIP

A scientific research expedition COM
manded by Captain Kelsey and under
the auspices of the British government
is about to start on an automobile trip
from the Cape to Cairo, and for its
use a remarkable motor car has been
built. The body is detachable and
can be used as a pontoon for carrying
the chassis, engine and baggage across
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-09-12

L. p. Smith. eighty-one years old. The
aged woman stared at the child as If
hypnotized. Then she sank into a
chair, dead.
AS she fell the child dropped back
into its coffin, from which it was quick
ly taken by the mother. A physician
said there was no hope for the boy,
and death came a few hours later.
The following day there were two
coffins in the Burney home. Double
services were held and the child and
its grandmother were buried side by
side.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-09-12
Never Rode on a Train.

Lizton. Ind.-Wm. Northcutt, aged
eighty-fve, is dead, after spending his
whole life without ever once riding
On a railroad train, automobile or
street car. He claimed they were too
fast and too dangerous,
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-09-12
CATCHING the Pose.

"I guess that boy Josh O. mine win
make a reg'lar golf player one O
these days"
Has he taken up the gamer"
mot yet. But I've watched him al
work an I've noticed that whenever
he's specially interested in some
thin he Jes' naturally stands pigeon
toed."
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-09-12
LIVE BOY IN THE COFFIN

While members of the family and
relatives were grouped about the open
coffin OF Mrs. ]. r. Burney's three
year-old son at Butte, Cal. listening to
the funeral service, the body moved
and presently the child sat up and
gazed about the room. His eyes
caught those Of his grandmother. Mrs.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-09-12
underaoes zoo operatIons.

Baltimore.--Af undergoing more
than 200 operations during three years
for the removal OF a growth in his
throat, George Mcdowell, died at a
hospital here. while the surgeons were
making last attempt TO save his life.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-09-12

ANY girl will cheerfully give up q
dollar to a fortune teller in exchange
for the information that she is going
to be married within a year.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-09-12

V ege "a bl Q Com
pound. My ba ck
acheduntil l thought
itwould break, had
pains all over me,
nervous feelings and
periodic troubles. I
was very weak and
run down and was
losing hope Of ever
b eing W ell an d
strong. After taxi
ing Lydia h. Pink
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-09-12
WOMAN IN
TERRIBLE STATE
Finds Help in Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable
Compound.

Bellevue, Ohio. .-"I was in terrible
state before took Lydia e. Pinkham's
Webster City freeman., 1913-09-09
GOVERNMENT BY CAUCUS.

Senate democrats in caucus had a
sharp fight over the Kenyon amend
ment to strike protection from the
aluminium trust, which the courts
decreed to be monopoly. A large
number of the democratic senators
wanted to support it, nearly half Of
them, in fact. They were outvoted
however, and must oppose it in the
senate as they are tied down by rule
of caucus to oppose the amendment.
Washington Special.
Here is concrete illustration of
the caucus method Of defeating real
ly meritorous legislation in which
majority of congress believe. A
large number of democratic senator's
wanted to support the Kenyon
amendment. but as they were out
voted in the caucus they must ac-
cording to the senseless and indefen-
sible democratic rule that individual
judgment and the exercise OF coz
science must be stified II the eau
Gus so DEGREES. vote as others say
they shall.
Webster City freeman., 1913-09-09
SHOOTS wife AND
then KILLS SELF
Georf Z. Maloney Of Charlton
Wounds His Helpmeet.

Charlton, Ia, Sept. 6.-Returning
from Des Moines, where he had
spent several days with his two
children, George B. Maloney OF
Charlton sent the children into q
store next to the one in which nis
wife was working, went into the
room with his wife and shot her
fo,fr times. He then shot himself
in the forehead, dying instantly.
Mrs. Maloney was alive last even
ing, but doctors expected her TO die
at any moment.
Domestic trouble is believed 70
have been responsible for the AFFAIR.
A divorce case, started by Mrs. Md
loney, was pending in this term OF
court. She has been taken to q hos
pital at Ottumwa.
Webster City freeman., 1913-09-09
I IOWA'S POPULATION.

There has been more or less dis
cussion Of the causes why Iowa did
not increase in population during
the ten years preceding the taking
OF the census OF 1910. Now comes
the Long Branch. California. Press
and answers the question fully. as
follows:
Another reason for the enormous
influx of Iowans doubtless Is due to
the extreme productiveness Of their
commonwealth. They have made
money enough to get away. Hence
they seek a more congenial cline.
Then 1t is in the blood for Iowans
to want to grow up with country.
Then the Press tells where the
''lost Iowans" are. in the following
paragraph:
Editors throughout the country
are anxiously asking this question.
We beg to assure them that we can
answer promptly and satisfactorily.
The lost Hawkeyes have been found,
at least 10000 OF them, in South
ern California.
Webster City freeman., 1913-09-09

Jack johnson is not going to re-
turn to the United States. but de-
clares his intention of becoming a
citizen of England. Good for Jack.
The people OF this country will GER
tainly rejoice with him and Eng
land. Now il Harry Thaw could 60
ana do likewise everybody concern
ed could be happy.
Webster City freeman., 1913-09-09

Dangerous as the devil Is, danger
Ous as worldly amusements are, the
most dangerous enemy that we have
to encounter walks In our own
shoes. That cunning, artful,
smooth h-tongued heart-devil, Self, is
the foe that needs the most constant
watching and subjects us to the
worst defeats. heodore l.. Culver.
Webster City freeman., 1913-09-09

g.
The brewers are having quite a
gabfest over the kind of bottles that
should be used for beer. The dark
bottle men claim the eolored glass
protects the goods and keeps it bet
ter. The clear glass bottle fellows
insist that beer will spoil If expos
ed to the sunlight no matter what
kind OF bottles it is in. But the
greatest victory the clear glass bot
tie men have yet scored happened
when a couple of beer drinkers near
ly died few days ago, or pretended
to, when they drank beer from col
ored bottle and found when the bot
tie was empty that it contained a
dead mouse. The clear bottle men
say that If they had drank beer pat
up in clear bottles they could have
seen the mouse and thus avoided the
sickness. However that may be, the
Webster City freeman., 1913-09-09

and members Of the Women's Chris-
tian Temperance Union of Iowa lead
in this protest against your welcome
to any city OF the state.
Webster City freeman., 1913-09-09
CAREFULLY co Over
MEXICAN SITUATION

Washington, ID. c., Sept. 5.-Wili-
lam Bayard Hale, who spent the last
three months studying political coz
ditions in Mexico, laid before Pres
dent Wilson yesterday information
he gathered about the Huerta GOV
ernment, and also conferred with
Secretary Bryan. He declined to dis
cuss his visit with the administra-
tion oficials, but it is understood he
gave them an intimate description ct
the negotiations conducted by John
Lind and the Huerta officials up to
week ago yesterday when he left
Mexico City. So far as is known Mr..
Hale's condition with those negotia-
tions was unoficial and informal.
Dispatches from Mexico City say
ing prominent Mexicans believed
Huerta would resign in favor Of
Geronimo Trevino and thus make
himself an ineligible candidate for
presidency lacks confirmation here.
but the news was not surprising "
administration ofiicials. While they
are still hoping for definite aAsur-
ance that Huerta will not be cam
didate. they realize that q plaa to
install him in the presidency has
been under way for some time.
No inkling has been given q -
the administrations future policy
should Mr. Lind's efforts to obtain
a definite assurance of Huerta's elm
ination prove fruitless, but develop
ments of either an affirmative or
negative character are expected
soon, which will affect the Washing
ton governments policy materially.
Webster City freeman., 1913-09-09
Ordinance No. 35S.

An ordinance establishing dido
walk grades on Odeli street and Des
Moines street.
Be it ordained by the city council
Of the city of Webster City, Iowa:
Sec. /. That sidewalk grades b
and the same are hereby established
at the points hereinafter named and
at the elevations above city dAtul
las established by ordinance) as fol-
lows:
North side OF Odell Street.
At the east line of Prospect eS.3G.
SO feet east of the east liae Of
Prospect street $50.
100 feet east of the east line Of
Prospect street 100.
$50 feet east Of the east lias Of
Prospect street 81.70.
$50 feet east OF the east liae OF
Prospect street S1.40.
100 feet west of the west uoe q
Des Moines street 1890.
West line Of Des Moines strsst
1880.
West Side Of Des Moines STREET.
At the north line OF Merritt
street 1920.
At the south line OF Lucas street
1850.
North Side Of First Street.
100 feet east OF the east line a
Beach street 90.S5.
$50 feet east Of east line Of Beach
street 90.35,
Sec. 2. That all ordinances or
parts Of ordinances in conflict with
this ordinance are hereby repealed.
Passed and adopted Sept. /, 1918.
Approved Sept. 1. 1913.
Attest:
q. e. Valentine, Mayor.
w. w. Crittenden, City Clerk. di
Webster City freeman., 1913-09-09

suspicion that the clear glass bottle
men pulled of the dead mouse stunt
for advertising purposes prevails
quite generally III n
Another evidence Of democratic
hypocrisy upon the tariff question
was revealed in the senate the other
day. For years the party has de-
nounced the tariff as the mother Of
trusts and has declared that when
monopoly controls certain product
that product should go upon the free
list, yet when Senator Kenyon Offer
ed an amendment to the tariff bill
removing the duty from aluminium
every democratic senator present
Joined the reactionary republicans
and voted against 1t. notwithstand-
ing Senator Kenyon showed that
aluminium was controlled by a con-
Germ which the courts have decreed
is trust. Hereafter when demo-
Gratis are bowling about the tariff
aiding monopoly 1t might not be i'm
proper to call their attention to the
action of their representatives in
congress upon this question. It is
one thing to howl and quite another
thing to remove the cause OF the
howl. s.
The Dubuque Telegraph-Herald is
devoting much Of It's valuable space
to efforts to induce Iowa standpat-
ters to put up fight against sene-
tor Cummins. OF course the T.-H.
is hoping that republican disruption
will result in the election Of DEM
ocrat and it would gladly see such
q man as Cummins defeated. not
withstanding 1t has praised him in
the past for his fearless fight in the
interest OF the people. If only DEM
ocrat could be sent to the senate, re-
gardless OF the kind Of democrat
who might be the winner. Since its
editor secured appointment to a fed
eral position the Telegraph-Herald
has become one OF the most slayish-
ly partisan papers Iowa ever knew.
In fact. it appears to have put prin-
ciple behind it. Only few days
ago 1t was urging the city council
of Dubuque and the board OF super
visors Of Dubuque county to violate
their oaths of ofice and permit a
quarter OF million dollar hotel to
be valued at $25,00O for the pur-
poses of taxation. A paper that will
advocate such q thing ought not to
be taken seriously.