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The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-20
What Middle Statue Of Buddha Said to Teacher

m HREE Chinese students entered the
Y. M. G. A. Educational institute
not long ago to study, among other
things, English, American history ana
geography. They are young men IN
whom the Chinese government Is tax
ing an interest, it having sent them
here to acquire the English language
in the shortest possible time. They
haven't been here very long, but
they're strong on English already, as
viii appear from this exclusive story
told by Myron Jermain Jones, director
Of education Of the Y. M. G. A.
DR.. Jones took the education OF the
three boys as a personal matter. He
gave them all the time possible. and
mingled his plain language teaching
with several highly polished courses
in ethics, philosophy, philology, apollo
getics, etc. He dipped into the Gospel
Of st. Mark for some OF the great
social teachings there, and gave the
three Chinese students a lecture that
they would scarcely be able to get
anywhere else In a months Journey
The boys listened attentively while
DR.. Jones went over and over and
over this big subject. Their faces
were as immobile as Buddha statues,
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-20
LEAD DONKEY TO THE COAST.
Election Loser Is Walking From Port
land, Maine, to Portland, Oregon,
In Payment.

Newburg, N. Y.-Paying an election
bet, Benjamin H. Anderson, formerly
general secretary of the chamber oi
commerce. and now secretary OF the
Butler Ad-men's club of Butler, Pa, is
walking from Portland, Me-, to Port
land, oregon, leading a donkey. He
passed through Newburg.
Anderson is a strong admtrer of
Theodore Roosevelt, and was so GER
tain that the colonel would be elected
president that he made wager with
James Gillespie, a Democrat OF Pitts.
burg, that Roosevelt would beat VIII
son. The loser must walk from Port
land, Me-, to Portland, Oregon, lead
ing behind him the animal emblen1atic
Of the victorious party. The wager
also includes the stipulation that the
loser must call on the president OF
the United States.
Anderson started from Portland,
Me, March a. He does not have to
finish until March 4, 1914.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-20
He Found Out What the Yellow Flag Was For

Ut IS notorious that street railway
/ companies in Washington, as in 9TH
er cites, have a good deal to trouble
with rail joints and with the street
paving along the rails. The pound
ing wheels and the vibration Of the
track seem able to break down or
break up almost any kind of pave
ment which the railroads lay. The
result is that repairs are made fire.
quently necessary.
For several weeks repairs have been
making to the tracks of the Mount
pleasant cars along Connecticut ave-
nue.. Yellow clay has been piled high
up on both sides of the track. Strong
men have been working there with
crowbars, sledges, picks and other
tools. At the ends and along the
sides of the repair work has been
quite a procession of flags, mainly
red to warn of danger, but some Of
them green to indicate safety, and
marking where teams or machines
might pass.
At each end of the construction
work by day futters in more or less
harmony with the red and green flags
yellow flag, and at night lanterns
with yellow globes let their light
shine there. The question was put
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-20
HEAD PIERCED BY A BULLET
Though Thought to Be MortaIly
Wounded James 5uggIe Of Chicago
Lives to Tell of War.

James Buggie who is the assistant
custodian at Chicago headquarters OF
the Grand Army, stopped three Con-
federate bullets before he had reached
the age of sixteen. The last one
nearly brought about the close Of his
young career.
81 enlisted in November, 1862" he
said. "and I was not fifteen years un-
til December %. was under fire
less than a month after I had been
mustered into the service. My regt.
ment, the Sixty-fourth Illinois, was
at Decatur Ala, in March and April.
and then went into the Atlanta cam
paign. was wounded first at
Reseca, again at Kenesaw mountain
and again at Atlanta. A ball struck
me in the forehead. went through my
head, binding one eye and injuriLs
the other, and came out behind the
right ear. 1t broke both jawbones
too
"The battle of Kenesaw mountain
was the hardest | was in. Our com
pany went into it with thirty-six men
and came out with FIVE, and they were
all wounded We had to climb a
steep slope. In that battle General
Mcpherson was shot by some men In
ambush We caught them and took
from the knapsack of one Of them the
field glasses and private papers he had
taken from the generals body"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-20
Says Goddess Of Liberty Will Fall Some Day

newspaper Offices and arranged with
a motion picture concern. He gave II
out publicly at the Langley exercises
that he intended to climb up the
Washington monument and jump on.
This, he confded. was what is known
in New York and other sporting CEN
ters as "a stall" Bridge players
would call It "fnessing." Bridge
jumpers would call It good business
In order to get the attention OF the
police centered in the wrong place.
The Fly" went to the capitol in the
afternoon with his false friends. lie
climbed up a column on top OF the
dome, using a piece OF steeple jacks
rope to aid him in his efforts. Pre-
viously he had handed his pocketbook
and valuables to his false friends who
accompanied him. When he descend
ed they had gone. He had not heard
from them this morning when Star
reporter asked him what the interior
of a goddess of liberty holds out to
seeker after truth.
'T went all around the inside and
saw the rust. It was very dark, and
used up box OF matches in there
Then crawled up on the base of the
statue. A cop yelled to me to come
down. I slashed the ropes / had, and
a pair OF newly-weds picked up a
piece to use as a souvenir.
when l slid down the cop pinched
me. He pinched this newly-wed. The
girl cried said to the man: Say.
you must be just married by the looks
of you. He got red in the face, and
the cops all laughed so that they let
him go. / went down to the detention
room in the capitol. and, of course,
they let me go. You see, had done
nothing seriously wrong"
A rap on the door interrupted this
story. A bellboy handed in a tele-
gram. 1t was money from New York,
replacing that which the false friends
had taken with them so hurriedly.
well, guess l can have breakfast
now. So long,"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-20

to many fellow-travelers: What does
the yellow flag mean?" Day after day
the answer was: Give it up" You
got me now" or 1T stands for small
pox"
Those yellow flags were getting on
the scribe's nerves, and on one OF
the few pleasant days in early April
he got on a car determined to pay an
extra fare to find out the significance
of those strange flags. He walked
over to a stalwart colored laborer,
who was cracking concrete in the
excavation, and asked him: What
does that yellow flag mean?"
The man looked amused. There
was pity In his eyes and his voice as
he replied:
Boss, dat am de sign TO de kyars
to go slow"
Simply crushed!
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-20
CITY GETS MODEL CHARTER
Elections and Have Recall
System.

Cleveland O.-Non.partlsan cleo
tons, with the absolute abolition of
political parties. as far as municipal
AFFAIRS are concerned. is assured to
Cleveland in the terms of the new
city charter, which has been com.
pleted. Experts declare the proposed
charter is a model.
Nominations by petition instead OF
by primaries and the preferential sys-
tenn of voting in elections are to be
leading features of the new govern.
mental system Of the city.
1t Is aimed to simplify election ma.
chinery and give the greatest possible
expression to the will Of the voters,
who not only are to have their first
choice for each office counted. but
their second and other choices as
we'll.
The mayor and twenty-six members
Of the council are the only city ofIl.
cials who are to be elected under the
new charter. All the others are ap.
pointive. Candidates for the elective
positions are to certify their names
backed by the signatures of voters to
the board of elections and be placed
upon a non-partisan ballot, carrying
no party designations of any kind,
and on which the names are to be TO.
tated.
There are to be three columns in
which cross marks indicating the will
of the voter may be made. These will
be headed. First choice" Second
choice" and "other choices" Each
voter may mark his first and second
choice for each Office. and then may
designate as many other choices" as
he sees fit. II no candidate for Office
receives a majority of the first choice
votes, then the second choices are to
be counted with the first choices II
no one has a majority of both first
and second choices. the "other
choices" are to be added, and a major.
fly of all reckoned in determining the
victor.
The recall is to apply to all elective
The mayor may be recalled
upon the petition of IL, 900 voters, and
a councilman may be recalled upon
the petition of 600 of his voting con.
The mayor and councilmen are
elected for two-year terms.
The mayor is to have the veto, but
it is to be nullified to large extent
by the provision that any measure
may be passed by the council over the
veto by majority vote.
Ordinances may be initiated by peti.
tons which contain the names Of 5000
voters.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-20

A California man of thirty has
been left $4,000 by his uncle on condi-
ton that he first earn and save 1000
of his own Until the thousand is Sc
cured In the manner designated the
bequest will lie dormant One is in
clined to commend the judgment of
the uncle. If a young man has not
sufficient will power to accumulate
$1,000 he is not likely to possess the
wisdom necessary to handle five times
that amount handed to him as a gift.
The world is full of men whose men,
Ia. vision extends no further than
the next pay day, who have no more
notion Of saving money than they
have of growing tail feathers. Their
acquaintance among poolroom hab-
itues is far more extensive than
among receiving tellers. A weeks
idleness means a doubtful account at
their grocer's. This young Cali
fornian will either get his uneles be-
quest, or he will not deserve it. In
either case, the money will not be
wasted.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-20

The degree of saItness of the Irish
sea is the indicator Prof. H. Bassett
proposes to use for long distance
weather predictions. The salinity is
found to vary in a period of about one
year, with corresponding changes in
temperature, the water being more
salty and relatively warmer in winter
and spring and fresher and relative
Gy cooler in summer 1t is argued that
the alterations of temperature must
affect the number and character Of
the cyclones coming from the ocean.
The changes of salinity and their time
of occurrence have been found to pre-
cede certain seasonable types of
weather and it is believed that month
ly observations Of the sadness
would give a general weather fore
cast for the British Isles four or five
months ahead.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-20

W WASHINGTON-"Some day that
w goddess of liberty on top of the
sapitol is going to fall down and hurt
someone. know. because l was up
In IT,"
Thus spoke Rodman Law, who calls
himself the human fly" while he was
reclining on a bed In downtown ho-
tel waiting for a telegraphed remit
lance from New York, which was
necessary after the way some friends
Of his had disappeared with his cash
while he was climbing up the god
1ess' insides.
All that bracing material on the
Interior of the statue is made of cast
lron," continued the fly" 1T was
put up there before anyone used steel
construction, / suppose. and scraped
up handfuls of dust. l went all over
the inside and I'll bet that II some
thing isn't done about 1t there will
be an accident some day"
The human fly" took the impend-
Ing danger to the goddess about as
seriously as he took the fact that his
friends who accompanied him to the
top OF the capitol had disappeared
with his cash.
Any old time he wants to go back
and sit on Liberty's head he Is going
to do 1t, but he is going to make sure
that his friends can be trusted with
human fly" pocketbook before he
gets up in the air between earth and
sky, with no one but a press agent to
keep the secret.
The fly" made all his arrange
ments early in the morning. In order
to elude the public, he visited the
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-20

Only the movement of their eyelids
showed that they were alive.
DR.. Jones concluded his remarks.
The boys did not stir a muscle, and
DR.. Jones was totally at loss to tell
whether his efforts had made an inn
preston upon those mute and immov-
able orientals.
Have made myself plain7" he
asked.
Three heads nodded.
II should be glad to 80 over the
ground again. he said, III you are not
quite sure you got what was saying"
And then the middle statue of Budd-
ha spoke:
1--WE gotcha, Steve" he said.
Which is certainly making progress
In English,
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-20
no MlrInArr nANnrR-


That the automobile has introduced
another serious element OF danger
into metropolitan streets is not TO be
denied This applies to all large cit
les. They face common problem.
Loca, interest, therefore, attaches to
a recently published dispatch from
London announcing that better CON
troll OF power-driven vehicles In the
English metropolis Is likely 10 be
recommended by a select committee
for action by the house OF commons,
London's commissioner OF police sug'
gests, among the other thing, that
reckless driving as we'll as drunken.
ness OF drivers, be made penal Of
tense American cities ordinarily
f5llow foreign cities In such matters
Fer example, Governor Sulzer OF New
York establishes a penitentlary term
for any person who drives an automo
bile while intoxicated. This Is the
first law OF the kind in the United
States. There are still other pre-
cautions, however, which must be
taken to make streets safer. This
is indicated by the fact that the
n"mber Of persons killed in Chicago
in 1912 by motordriven vehicles was
in the neighborhood Of 100, says the
Chicago News. One OF the perils, OF
course, is the variety OF speeds Of diff
fe-ent types of vehicles The London
commissioner OF police proposes to
work toward equalization of speed
Separation Of traffic OF different speeds
is another possibility. Certain streets,
for example, might be set aside for
slow-moying teams, and others for the
more .rapil automobiles.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-20
GAWAR9
H1NS;cHy8EHBS
SoUTHERNER HAD NO STATE
ofieer Was Born In Territory, Father
In District Of Columbia and Grand
father OF Sea.

Just before the Civil war. when the
mutterings of secession were heard
throughout the south, a number or
West Point officers came together at
military station, among them one
of whom we will call Captain H.
and who afterward served with dis
tinctlon In the Union army. The
southern officers, one by one, declared
their intention Of going out, as IL
was then familiarly called; that Is,
OF resignlng their federal commissions
to throw in their lot with their several
states. H, In relating the Incl
dent that follows, said that great pres
sure was brought TO bear upon him
to join them.
why, don't you go with US, Cap
tain H" said one of his acquaint-
ances.
"Why should l go with your" said
H, who had a certain southern
swarthiness Of feature and softness
Of speech.
Aren't you going to go with your
statef"
why, I haven't any state" he re-
piled; "I was born in territory"
"Oh, thunder!" said another. why
don't you go with your fathers state.
then?"
Cant" protested H; he hadn't
any state; he was born in the District
OF Columbia"
"Oh, hang IT," broke in third; III
that's the case. why don't you 90 with
your grandfather's state9"
Just as difficult" said H; my
grandfather hadn't any state; he was
born at sea" And then he added: oh
no. boys, it's easy enough for you fell
lows to 60 with your states. or"-h1-
ing his eyes significantly on one OF
the party-"with your wife's state; but
as for me, intend to stand by the old
lag."-From the Century.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-20

An Irishman at a magazine explo
sion was picked up unconscious. The
doctor decided he had no bones brok'
en- and had only been knocked sense
less. As he came to his senses the
doctor was holding a glass of water
to his lips.
"Phat happened?" he asked.
"The magazine exploded, and you
had a very narrow escape, and I'm
giving you this water to revive you"
replied the doctor.
"Givin' me wather after bein' blow
ed up?" said Pat in disgust. In
Hivin's name what would have to hap
pen ter git er drink of whusky?"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-20

A pink boil worm is devastating the
Egyptian cotton fields. II is a small
caterpillar which eats the kernel of the
seeds and also Injuries the flowers. Last
year It destroyed 30 per cent Of the
crop in the vicinity Of Aboukir. Once
upon a time there we're fears on the
part Of American cotton planters that
Egyptian competition in the produc.
tion Of cotton might be a menace to
American interests. This fear no long
er is widely entertained. The appear
ance of the Egyptian boil worm will
make it smaller than ever.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-20
Grim Humor.

Even on the field of battle the sol
died is humorous, sometimes grimly
so. A soldier was seen in the trenches
holding his hands above the earth.
works. His captain asked:
What are you doing that for?"
He replied with a grim, as he
worked his fingers; I'm feeling for
a furlough Gust then a rife bali
struck him in the wrist, and queer
commingling of pain and humor
passed over his face), an l get a dis.
charge"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-20
Brides Room In Church.

New York.-Plans for alterations
to the Church of Incarnation, on Mad
ison avenue, of which Rev. Howard
Robbins is rector, provide for brides
room, which is believed to be an inno-
vation in church arrangements. The
organ loft in the rear Of the church
will be removed, and in its place a
beautifully equipped room will be
built. Here the bride may arrange
her attire after the drive from home
and assure herself that she is in readl-
ness for the march to the altar.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-20

TWO weeks ago attention was called
1 to duck on the second story win
dow sill of a fine old house on H
street. Attention was called" Is not
a happy phrase, because nearly every
body who passes along that part OF
H street knows the duck.
In the previous story 1t was said
that: perhaps the family living In
the house will be able to explain 1t,
and perhaps not, but the writer did
not care to pursue the inquiry further
than to make the necessary observa-
tion and notation"
The story of the duck is well told
IN the following letter, which was re-
ceived few days ago:
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-20
JOHN D. ALMOST A PAUPER
OIL Magnate's Cleveland Property Was
$1,000 More Valuable In 1912
Than at Present.

Cleveland, O.-John D. Rockefeller
is rapidly losing his wealth and is
becoming practically a poor man, ac-
cording to the report Of John T. Fish
er, tax assessor for Cleveland Heights,
in which place the Forest Hill es-
tate of the oil king is situated.
The figures show that a year ago
Mr.. Rockefeller returned his personal
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-20
Fears to Be Soldier; pIes.

Geneva.-A Swiss, twenty years old
committed suicide at Schaffhausen by
shooting himself with revolver in q
cafe because of his fear Of military
service. 1t was said at the inquest
that he communicated his intention to
his younger sister, aged eighteen, who
offered to replace him secretly, but
the young man refused the bargain.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-20

A director of rowing at Princeton
remarks: intercollegiate athletics as
at present organized means that few
men go periodically into training, and
into Mysteries" What rank ingrati-
tude to the noble body of rooters,
without whom athletics would lam
guish like the autumn fiower!"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-20
rh,.a,o woman pralsea presa,

Boston Mass.-The further exten-
sion of the juvenile courts system was
urged by Mrs. Frederic Scheff Of
Philadelphia at the convention of the
national congress of Mothers and
Parent-Teachers' associations. At a
round table on "The press in exten-
sion work" Mrs. Edgar A. Hall of
Chicago took the position that the
newspaper is one Of the chief educat-
ors of the day.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-20
sovereIqns Are Always Hosts

London.-When the king and queen
honor any of their subjects by being
present at dinner the banquet differs
from all others in one respect; the
sovereigns, although actually guests,
are nominally the hosts of their en-.
tertainer. 1t is they who lead the
conversation and keep 1t up, for when
royalty is disinclined for speech less
exalted mortals perforce remain quiet.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-20

Even silk IS adulterated, the recent
strike of millworkers bringing out the
fact that the tissue is weighted with
tin. It is bad enough to adulterate
the necessaries of life, but the mat
ter is going entirely too far when
even its luxuries are thus tampered
with.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-20

property as worth $7,19O This year
Mr.. Rockefeller is poorer by $2,9O5
than he was year ago, his return of
personal property being S4,2S5.
The figures show that John D. has
nine horses worth $55 each, ten head
of cattle worth $40 each, and furniture
worth $4,000. He has no automobiles
here at this time of the year the as
sessments are made, so none is re-
turned for taxation.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-20
mustered In" With Real Mustard.

The boys of the 117th ~ Y. tell OF
a real mastering" in Of darky at.
tached to that regiment, who became
fearful he would be deprived of his
pay unless he joined the service. A
huge mustard plaster was applied to
his back, and under the belief that all
soldiers were thus mustered" in he
wore 1t until 1t began to get pretty
hot. Then they took 1t off and he
was formally declared mustered in"
according to the law If that darky
didn't get his wages 1t was not be
cause ne was not mustered" in good
and plenty.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-20
BITING FLY PROVES AN ALIBl
California Scientists Exonerate It as
Paralysis Carrier After EN-
perimentinC.

Sacramento, Cal. - Sufficient evil
d@nee to convict the stable. or biting,
ny as a carrier Of the infantile paraly-
gis germ has not been established
through the experiments which the
California board of health has been
conducting. Thus far the fiy, which
Harvard and Rockefeller institute
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-20

scientists declare is an agent in trans
mitting the disease to human beings,
has proved an alibi in the California
tests. Two full sets Of experiments
have been carried ont by Professors
Hunt and Sawyer Of the state univer-
sity. The flies have been permitted
to bite each Of IL monkeys during all
stages Of the incubation of the dis
ease
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-20

Lovers Of birds will uphold the pro-
lection which it is proposed to give
them. AS has been we'll said, it is to
the bird police we must look to con-
serve our tree properties, and hu-
mauity too, joins with policy in de-
manding their wanton and cruel
slaughter be stopped.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-20

In these days of rapid evolution,
novelists should not overlook the op-
portunity to make obsolete the word
"tantalizing" as applied to a womans s
eyes. "Tangoizing" is far more up to
date.