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The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-07-11
croan and a Shrek.

"She said that at that dinner she
gave the table groaned."
THE table had the easy part; when
her husband saw the bill he shrialed."
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-07-11
cettlna II RIaht.

Greeble-Is that your baby7
Crawdon-No, sir; the possession 10
on the other side He is not my
baby, I'm his father.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-07-11

Mra. wlnslow's Soothing Syrup for Childrea
teething, softens the gums, reduces innAmms
tion. allays pain cures wind collie 25c bottls-LB
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-07-11

One great objection to summer
mornings is that they get up toe
early.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-07-11

Even baby realizes this is hard
old world the first time it falls out OF
he'd
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-07-11
UnexeeIIed

The best beauty dope on earth y
good health.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-07-11

T is not often that the Sc
rious science of archaeology
is enlivened by a hoax, but
one of a daring kind has re-
Gently caused considerable
annoyance to Egyptologists
in general, and to one we'll
known scholar, DR.. E. Reiss-
ner In particular.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22
OLD GREELEY HOME
Birthplace Of Famous Editor Is
Still Preserved.
Homestead 10 In New Hampshire
About Fifty Miles From Boston
and Resembles old-F fashioned
Farmhouse.

Boston.-Scarcely fifty miles from
Boston, isolated and alone, in de-
lightful rural community among New
Hampshire's hills, sheltered by pro-
tecting oaks and elms, decorated with
fruitful orchards and fertile gardens,
surrounded by dense thickets OF pine
forests, homelike and coy, with all its
woeful lack of paint, is a quaint, old
fashioned farmhouse.
Not the large, roomy old domicile or
colonial days, nor the rough, unfin-
ished and uncouth shack Of frontier
farmer; rather, small, real, home
like New Hampshire farmhouse. Six
rooms measure the size Of the house,
with woodshed and cattle barns near
by.
The exact date when the old house
was built is unknown, but it is pro-
duction of the colonial period of ar
chitecture; for before the revolution
band of counterfeiters occupied it,
and here manufactured, until captured
by the authorities, their spurious
coin.
A broad drive leads to the front
door. The exterior is black with age,
except for a few decorated patches
of recently applied clapboards to keep
out the wind. No blinds guard the
windows, and the sunshine sparkles
through the small window panes with
out hindrance.
A front door and a side one are the
means of egress and entrance. A
large strip of lawn fronts the house.
and besides the efforts of nature man
has unknowingly aided in the beauti-
flying by an adornment in the shape
of huge pile Of pine and birch logs
Giant shade trees shelter the roadway
leading to The house; the blue peaks
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22
k1e1EzZD cRvsw LEFw 6Y CHN16y0US
NZ<4ZHERDE s.

We were not to be daunted. however and
sayed to pass the sentry when he Enthusiastically
and undoubtedly rolled his eye and blinked at
We both stopped short and stared, but his eye
which had at first been wide Open remained
closed in wicked wink Had we been supersti
tious we certainly should not have stayed to in
vestigate. As 1t was. we found the eye was
formed by hole worn right through the granite.
with projecting piece in the interior forming
the eyeball, and moved our position the
change of angle gradually cut of the light which
shone through the eyehole and produced this
startling effect. Reassured by this explanation.
we braved the sealion and approached the main
company. Surely" exclaimed, this must have
been a council of the antediluvians!" for there
on the left ancient species Of owl
rufiing up his feathers and looking askance at
something beyond him. On the right, perched
on a higher rock stood dragon or pterodactyl.
while extended the foreground was what
might well pass for recumbent plesiosaurus.
The sight of this strange assembly, however.
had given my daughter a very different idea.
She declared 1t only proved the truth of the old
northern legends which tell how "dwarfs" and
trolls II caught out after sunrise. turned
into grotesque rocks. This mountain top
clearly place where these weird people held
their mighty revels. and judging from the COM
pany around, many reckless jewellers had evi-
IDENTIFY been caught out late" and had paid the
penalty. And here let me say that none of the
Photographs is 1akod or altered In any way.
They represent the rocks exactly they existed.
| without any alteration whatever. The mere out
ward forms Of the rocks shown in the first three
photographs are indeed remarkable but be
came fascinated with the desire to discover what
| agencies Nature had employed in producing such
results In this hard granite. 1t was at first very
puzzng, but light seemed at length to be thrown
on the problem by studying the forms of other
rocks in the Island
Photographs No. 1 (red granite) and No.
(gray granite) show examples Of a remarkable
form Of cavernous weathering very common in
many parts of Corsica. The numerous caverns
in the mass of red granite in No. l each of
them large enough to accommodate two three
people. and of or less orbicular form
inside. so that the roof of the is consd-
erably above this edge of the outward opening.
This construction is well shown in No. 6. an out
lying piece OF gray granite on the seacoast. in
which more of the front has been worn away.
My daughter is looking out through an opening
IN the side and this will to give an idea of
the size Of the interior. Now both the red and
gray granite are solid hard rocks on the outside
showing no loose particles of an kind but If you
! enter one OF the caverns and draw your fingers
along the roof you are greeted by shower of
tiny fragments falling upon you. The same thing
happens with some of the sides Of the interior.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22
COLD WATER STOPS SUICIDE
Realizing He Was Coward, New York
Man Swan Ashore and
Went Home.

Mourned as q suicide, John Meow
an. who leaped from an East River
ferry boat, turned up at his tenement
home while his young wife, with her
baby, was searching the river front
for his body. A vision of his little
family left to starve or ACCEPT charity.
had turned McGowan's intended self
destruction to eagerness to live.
A photograph Of McGowan's wife
and baby was found on the ferry boat
after he had leaped overheard in the
dark. leading to his Identification. Re.
porters were waiting at his home to
learn further of the suicide when, in
Mrs. McGowan's absence in search OF
the body, MCGOWAN. tall, muscular
chap, walked In.
Il simply couldn't stand being with
out work any longer" he said. "r
went on the ferry boat and waited un-
til 1t was in the middle of the river.
Then took of my coat and dived
into the water. / must have been
pretty close to the bottom Of the river
when / realized what a coward / was.
was almost all In before got back
to the surface. Then got on my back
and took deep breaths until my
strength came back, and struck out
Cor shore. Men at an electric light
station put me into their boiler room,
and gave me hot drinks, and when 1
left them they fitted me out in a.
coat and hat"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22
a COUNCIL az ZzE AgzZZLKU1zAEo

but not to such an extent. and it is evident that
the wasting is taking place most quickly in
upward direction Now how to account
for the formation of these caverns?
Among the most common and powerful agents
causing the weathering of rocks rain. frost
and wind. but at those levels In Corsica where
the rocks photographed occurred the climate is
comparatively dry and hot There Is little rain,
and practically no frost. 1t is clear that what
rain there is cannot to any extent gain access to
the interior of these caverns, and the same re-
mark applies to the wind. In fact 1t was our
regular practice to make Of these hollow
rocks shelters in which to sit when out sketch
ing and very welcome they were when wind and
rain assailed We often came across great
boulder. followed out with just side entrance,
which had been appropriated by a shepherd and
made into convenient hut by building up part
of the entrance with few stones In the neigh
borhood of Calvi such rocks were in great de-
mand pigsties. little yard ward built round
the entrance and the piggies. like the comics,
had their houses In the rocks" More than once
we met with where front of masonry had
been built onto a large cavern. with windows
doors and all complete and modern man had
again become a cave dweller.
The formation of these hollows remained
puzzle to until my suggested that the
cause might be sought for in much less bolster
agent than wind rain or frost. and that, in
fact where these had failed to produce much i'm
preston, the hard granite had succumbed to the
continued action of the gentle dew"
In following out this suggestion. the following
considerations have presented themselves. In
Corsica the sun is very hot during the day. and
the nights are cold by contrast, that much dew
is deposited. But when the rocks are wetted on
the outer surface by dew rain. although
minute portion of their constituents may at first
be dissolved. yet soon the wind dries
them, these soluble substances again solidi
fed. and in the process some of them at least are
changed into much less soluble condition than
they were before, so that eventually hard crust
is formed all over the exposed portions of the
rock, and upon this the action of moisture is very
slow indeed But where small hole exists in
the rock the. action Is quicker. The inside of the
hole and especially the upper part of it. is
slightly screened from the and wind the dew
which has been deposited in 1t is not so quickly
dried up. and the dissolved substances do not be-
come much hardened again. This goes on until
quite a little hollow cave is formed which
eats its way inwards and upwards into the rock
The deeper the cavern becomes the cooler does 1t
remain until at length the inner parts, cooled
down 10 a low temperature at night remain so
cold compared with the temperature of the
air that dew is formed in them even in the day.
time They are constantly damp and are never
dried up. Hence The action goes on continuously
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22
PETRlFY WITH THE HANDS.
Strange Claims of Paris Woman 10 Being Tested
by Doctors.

recent issue of the Paris Matin described
experiments in the mummiication Of such things
as meat fish, oysters and oranges. which Is
claimed can be done by the laying on Of hands.
A few months ago at Bordeaux Nine. Raynaud
is said to have petrifed fish, oysters pieces Of
meat, oranges and other perishable matter which
ication of matter. which was witnessed by sew
eral doctors. Is said to have been done simply by
the laying on Of hands.
A test the result of which is expected to be
decisive, has been undertaken by Dr. Gas
ton Durville of Paris DR.. Socquet wellknowa
medical criminoogist. gave DR.. Durville the other
day hand cut from the body Of a man who had
been asphyxiated. DR.. Durville says that he ex-
poets within fortnight to petrify this hand SO
as to prevent putrefaction.
Three persons-Mme. Raynaud, NJ Picot and
DR. Durville-have been endeavoring to mag
netize" the dead hand by the process Of imposi-
ton of hands. Three seances each lasting forty
five minutes. have been held.
Professor Dastre has examined certain matter
said to have been mummifed at Bordeaux and
DR.. Durvile. however. is certain that develop
ment of bacteria in dead matter can be retarded
by the imposition of hands, which will prevent
typhoid fever germs from multiplying.
Nine Raynaud's first exemplifcations of her
curious powers are said to have been the petrih.
cation Of fish, oranges. meat and other perish
able matter merely by pressing them between
her hands. She is normal, healthy woman. and
her hands show nothing unusual in their appear
ance.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22
Birthplace Of Horace Greeley.

Of the nearby hills look down upon the.
fifty acres of fertile farm land, where
good crops of oats. potatoes and In
dian corn are grown; the sharp lodges
which jut from the hillsides and the
rocks which rise promiscuously here
and there among the corn fields con-
vincingly prove that the fertility of
these lands was the result of much
labor and trouble on the part OF the
pioneer New England farmer.
Such Is the exterior picture Of Am
herst's most noted landmark-the
birthplace Of Horace Greeley.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

Now this curious weathering think. explains
the production of the animal forms OF our nrsI
three photographs.
Turning to No. T. the sea-lion, 1t seems prac
tically certain that this rock was once solid
from the lower part of the head down to the
toes and the remains of the caverns which have
eaten this portion away are clearly to be seen
on the front Of the neck and chest. while the
tusks are formed by persistent fragments Of hard
crust Similar causes have contributed to the
formation of our hippopotamus. No. g. and the eye
itself is a miniature cavern. while several small
ones are seen to be commencing on the face and
neck The process will of course 60 on and
who knows but that II may eventually result In
q new instance of the evolution of horse from
the hippopotamus The same process can like
wise be traced in the members of the council in
No. 2. and the constitution of the committee will
no doubt vary time goes on.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

Nature was at work with very different 'oois'
carving even more interesting Shapes IA me-
mountains and rocks, and today she. Is sun a.
work adding to the collection
When rambling about one winter IN corsica
came across many striking examples Oh nei
handiwork remarkable not only for tnelr quain'
forms but as examples of very peculiar pro
cess of weathering In district where .he
rocks are principally gray granite. my oausn'ei
and were attracted by the curious appearance
of some rocks sharply outlined against the shy
on lonely mountain top, so we started on 10 III
vestigate.
After stiff climb through the naquis' our
ing which the summit of the hill was hidden we
arrived at an open space and were almost star'ieu
as we found ourselves suddenly confronted by
sort of nondescrpt hippopotamus with a most
evil leer in his eye and who cooked his little ear
as IL to ask what right humans had on the en-
chanted ground over which he stood sentry For
indeed he was only an advance guard, as httie
further on a giant sea-lion reared up In indigna-
ton to a height of twenty feet with projecting
tusks and threatening aspect. while just beyond
stood a whole company of weird companions
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22
Miss CLARK 10 Youngest Author.

Washington.-Miss Genevieve Clark.
eighteen-year-old daughter of Speaker
Clark, is the youngest author whose
writings are indexed in the Pan-Amer--
lean Union library. An article on
Panama brought her the honor. She
is preparing series of articles on
life in the capital.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

Now some scientist has discovered
that there were two Gardens of Eden.
Adam and Eve must have been a
quartet.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

Now comes a college president who
says Eve was not all that would be
demanded Of her In society today. OF
course not! She couldn't turkey trot
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

Arthur Faller, the aviator who set
q new record while carrying FIVE pas
sengers in his aeroplane. has a splen-
did name for business purposes.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

A Harvard professor says that pige-
ons can fall in love. The individual
who wrote Of cooling doves and the
like realized that long ago.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

London women now feed their dogs
at tables in restaurants. So they can
bite the waiter IL he gets too fresh
perhaps.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

A New Jersey minister ate 80 pan
cakes at one sitting. Evidently he
had no fear of what the hereafter con.
sists of
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

New York women have pledged
themselves not to wear aigrettes or
the plumes Of the bird Of paradise.
thus practicing both humanity and
economy.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

A Philadelphia woman is said to
have cured sleeplessness by using a
coffin as a couch. Slept the sleep OF
the dead, no doubt.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

German scientists have decided
that a man is In his prime at fifty
years of age. DR.. Osler may yet take
hope
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

All that is needed to make one Of
those invisible war aeroplanes truly
a terror is an invisible gentleman to
guide 1t and an inaudible motor to
propel It
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

According to the store windows the
women's spring hats are going to be
smaller and even pleasant to look
upon. Bring on your vernal equinoxl
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

A New York dispatch states that
the reporters union struck for a five
hour day. Doesn't it mean a fifteen
hour day?
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

A live dog was sent to the Chicago
postoffice to be mailed by parcel post
The owner. no doubt, must have been
trying the system on the dog.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

From cursory reading Of the
crime news one would hardly think
that there are only ten command
ments to be broken.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

Duke Pompeia Litta wants us to
wear pale blue evening clothes. re-
CARELESS of chance affection for cerise
and mauve
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

Somebody in Boston comes to the
front with the suggestion that women
be compelled to wear aluminium hats.
Probably he is the man who COM
pelled them to give up long hatpins.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

While we are moving for universal
peace. 1t is to be noted that Krupp's
gun works show surplus of $12.500.-
900 for the year 1912.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

A New Jersey Judge announces that
$43 is enough to spend in clothing a
woman. Wonder how much his wife
uses
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

A Johns Hopkins professor has dis
covered that orange blossoms can be
used as an anaesthetic. Often they
are
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

Washington, d. C.-Augustus Smith.
ninety-two years old. who claims that
he Is the Oldest living graduate of
Yale. said that plain living and regu-
lar habits make the surest road to-
longevity.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

The parcel post is reported to be
very heavy everywhere. but wait until
Santa Claus gets his first whack at
IT. Dec. %. 1913.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

In being engaged at a large salary
by the Giants, Athlete Thorpe. the dis
qualified amateur. seems to have been
kicked upstairs.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

AID comparatively rapidly,
dissolving the soluble parts
and causing the rest to fall
off In flakes until large cav
tiles are formed.
AS this weathering action
eats it's way deeper, and ap-
proaches the surface of the
rock at any point, threaten
ing to wear a hole right
through it, it meets with the
hardened outside crust al
ready described, and its
progress becomes very much
slower. This may happen
not only because the crust
is harder, but because the
part is so thin that it gets
heated through by the sun
and so the formation of dew
is checked.
An example of these outer
crusts remaining after the
rock below has been eaten
away is seen in photograph
No. 6, and, of course, similar
thin crusts generally exist
Immediately around the en-
frances of all the caverns:
and although these outer
crusts are very durable. still
they also eventually crumble
away.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

Another good substitute for capital
punishment has been found It has
been discovered that 1t Is possible to
live In Philadelphia on $3.50 a week.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

Comes complaint from the large
cities that walking is becoming lost
art. But other facilities for getting
there is improving. SO why worryf
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

A Chicago club woman says that In
the last so years the manners of Amer.
ican men have deteriorated Does she
speak from observation?
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

Eastern man seeks divorce because
his wife hit him with tea cup. Evf
IDENTIFY the cup that jars.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

Yet It is hard for one to feel CRATE
full to the man who remarks that ones
hair Is getting thin.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

A Russian woman killed her hus.
band In a duel with rapiers. marking
the decline of the rolling-pin.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

A man of twenty in good health
may expect to live forty years longer;
a man of forty, twenty-sever years
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

Wife desertion Is on the wane In
New York Due to the increase In di'
vorces, perhaps.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

When the walters strike one can
get ones own thumb into ones own
soup.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

Much has been accomplished. Opera
is not only grand but profitable.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-22

YER since man developed the faculty
for carving or molding representa-
lions of the objects around him, much
of his ingenuity has been devoted 10
the production of grotesque forms anu
faces. as may be seen N the strange
collection of gargoyles and other fan-
tastic decorations to be found 30
plentifully in the architecture OF al
countries. Yet long before man De-
,ar falling with chisel and hammer
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-03
UP-TO-DATE WIFE IN COURT
Mrs. Tousey Again Sues odd
Fashioned" Husband.

Mrs. Clara Z. Tousey. who failed TO
obtain a separation from her husband
in August on the ground that he was
too old-fashioned," is trying again.
Notice of the service of summons in
a new case was filed yesterday in the
County Clerks office. and Justice Blur
appointed Arthur Knox as referee to
take testimony.
DR.. Tousey married his second wife
September :. 1909. Early this year she
started a suit for separa tion, in which
she said that her husband refused to
dress her according TO her station. DR..
Tousey replied that in the four years Of
their married life his wife's extraya-
gance cost him $1,000 more than his
income.
In dismissing the case Justice Guy
awarded the custody Of the Touseys'
three-year son TO the father.