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The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-02-20

the seas 10 barter the silks and riches
of the east and the tropic abundance
of the West Indies in return for the ia
nous tobacco with which Alexandria,
one big warehouse was filled. That was
a period of bounteous hospitality and
courtly grace.
On the right of the broad hallway is
the large drawing room. In Washing.
tons day 1t was finished in gold and
white, and there on many occasions he
took an active part in ball and fes-
/ tivity and led many a fair Vfrginian
| through the stately steps of the minuet
and the less eyacting reel The hall
way itself, if tradition be correst, is
| not without its sentimental interest,
| for it was at the foot of the beautiful
/ staircase of solid mahogany that
| Washington awaited the coming Of the
/ lovely Sally Fairfax upon a particular
/ evening and while escorting her into
the ballroom offered her his heart,
which she rejected.
On the opposite side of this same
hall is the blue and white room, which
was John Carlyle's particular retreat.
Within that room Washington received
his commission as a member of Gen
cral Braddock's staff in 1855. What
that meant to Washington we can only
partly divine, but there is no doubt of
its significance to us as a nation be-
cause of what it taught him Of the
fighting ways of the British soldier.
From the broad portico of Mount
Vernon Washington saw Braddock ar
rive with his transports and his regi-
ments Of red coated soldiery and pass
onward to Alexandria, nine miles
above, coming with the splendid tradi-
tions of the kings troops and with all
the martial fanfare Of regulars. As a
leader Of the local provincial troops
Washington had won for himself
creditable renOwn, but here were sol
diers supposedly Of sterner stuff and
higher military capabilities.
General Braddock promptly accented
the hospitable invitation of John Car
lyle and established his headquarters
under the roof of that gracious host,
the little blue and white room becom- |
ing the council chamber in which were
planned the preparations for that mem.
orable but i'll fated campaign against
the Indians. Washington's previous ex-
perience as a leader of local troops
against the savages made him wei.
come at those conferences and his
keen judgment and practical advice
earned for him Braddock's admiration
and the invitation to serve upon the
British generals staf. 1t is enough
to add that in the trying work that
the British records testify
that "the Virginia officers and troops
behaved like men and died like sol.
diers," and Washington came out of
the strife unscathed and riper for the
far more serious task that Law ahead
Of him.
The architectural student will find
much to interest him and to warrant
study in the Carlyle house. The old
windows, the doorways, the primitive
cupboards, chairboards, doorsteps. cor
lices, molding, etc, are exquisite in
.aste and rich in quaintness and ele.
yance Of detail. There they are as
hey were in Washington's time. and
n common with the rest Of the man
sion are regarded as among the best
specimens of the so-called colonial :
style.
In February, 1852, market was in !
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-02-20
LIGHTS CALL NEW YORK COPS
Electric Bells Are suppIanted by
Green Flashes as Signal
for officers.

New York.-Police Commissioner
Waldo's new system Of police signals
was tried out in the old Tenderloin.
The green lights at the tops of the
new poles responded to the buttons
pressed by the desk lieutenant in the
West Thirtieth street station, blinked
their four seconds, went out and then
blinked again. just as they are sup
posed to do.
The police signal boxes have been
put up on iron poles and the poles
have been surmounted with green
bulbs. Whenever the desk lieutenant
wants to find policeman he presses,
the button which communicates with
the district where the policeman ought
to be. The green light flashes until
some one gets to signal box and
calls the station. The lights take the
place of the bells now in general use.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-02-20
STEALING LARGE SUMS

simplicity cubed He would buy one
share of stock for say 500, then raise
the numeral to make it 100 shares
and so worth 100000
The operation was repeated, only in
larger figures, and these fraudulent
certificates were taken to the bank
] where a very great sum was Dor
rowed. His transaction went on for
some years before detection and then
suicide ended the case.
Earlier still, a Philadelphia street
railway official, who seemed to need
some cash, filled out bunch of new
stock certificates in his own name and
so got the money rather easily.
The case of a safe deposit superin,
tendent in Philadelphia a couple OF
years ago was even more extraordi.
nary than these others.
He took $1,9OO,0OO in securities with
about 100000 cash from the vaults OF
the trust company that employed him
The securities were carried in two
old suitcases and were checked in a
German city in an ordinary storage
house. They remained there for
months, untouched.
This man crossed the ocean six
times during the subsequent negotia.
tions with detectives for the return
of the stocks and bonds. He went
across the American continent to San
Francisco twice.
His motive in travelling was to in.
sert advertisements in about~fifty diff
ferent newspapers, as this was his
method of carrying on his communi.
cations with the authorities. He went
from place to place so that it was
dimcult to locate in which one of the
fifty cities he might be.
All the securities we're returned
but not the $4,000 cash.
Quite a number OF banks and some
brokers in Philadelphia have what
This is a different thing from the ordi
nary bonding of individuals, which is !
done by the surety companies.
A broker takes out, say a 100000 |
policy, to cover any loss whatsoever
which may occur through the error
or connivance of an employe or which !
comes from any outsider.
1t is the same thing as if a farmer
were to insure against any possible
loss to his crops through drought, ex.
cessive rain, heat, cold, hail or snow
You may insure yourself against
having a cold when the assembly ball
occurs, or against case of measles
during the next worlds series.
This greatest of betting concerns
in the world, which is known as
Lloyds', simply lays wager at odds,
which it has carefully figured out, that
this or that thing won't happen.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-02-20
"CRAZY SNAKE" is GONE

presided over by Chitto Harjo. was be.
ing held. A Snake woman was killed.
Two of Chitto's warriors followed the
white men in the dark and fired upon
them and during the battle that fol.
lowed two whites were killed This.
according to Elega Harjo, was what
started the Snake rebellion.
Elega Harjo is a part blood Seminole
and Creek and was allotted with the
Seminoles as No. 961. This allotment
corners with the famous Hickory
Stump Ground He also owns a tract
Of 1G1 acres in the heart of the Hen.
rietta oil field, the income from which
amounts TO something like $500 a
month.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-02-20
.GROTESQUESAREOLD
Quaint eargOyIes Which kdorn
Notre Dame at Paris.
Few Decorative Forms Of Architecture
Are Older Than These spouts Pro-
jeeting From Gutter Of a
Building.

Parls.-.Few decorative forms In
architecture are more ancient than
the grotesques known as gargoyles.
The word means the throat or gul-
let. and so was applied TO the spout
projecting from the gutter OF "A build
ing. or connected with IL by an open
ing. for carrying water clear from the
wall. They were made OF consider
able length so as to throw the water
well into the middle Of the streets OF
the old town, which were usually
paved with stone, with a depression
In the center so that the water was
carried away from the surface.
These water spouts were sometimes
plain, with no attempt 10 combine the
ornamental with the useful; but In the
Middle Ages there was an especial
tendency toward the grotesque In art
and in architectural embellIshment,
particularly from the thirteenth TO
the sixteenth centuries, and this found
frequent expression IN developing the
gargoyles into fanciful or grotesque
images. Commonly these represented
the anterior parts Of the entire figures
OF men or animals. the water usually
Issuing from the open mouth.
While used in all styles OF architec-
ture, the gargoyles was peculiarly de-
yeloped in the Gothic All conceivable
forms have been used--not only tho
human and the animal but the angelic
and the deyllish as we'll Nowhere,
It would seem, has the artistic faculty
run more mad riot.
Among the more ancient Of these
forms are those found in the. e.temples
Of Edfu and Denderah, in Egypt.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-02-20
MAN KILLS 7oO-POUND ELK
Must Pay $500 Fine-Father, Inform.
ant, to Keep Half Of Sum
In Family.

Lewistown, pam elk Weighing
700 pounds was killed at the borders
Of Seven mountains near Siglerville
by Dayton Aikeus. He says he mis-
took it for deer. Five hunters fired
at the animal, but Aikens was the
only one who hit It,
Aikens went before a justice of the
peace and furnished bond for the 5000
fine he will have to pay for killing
protected game. His father was the
Informant, thus keeping half the fine
In the family. The carcass was pre-
sented to the Lewistown hospital for
the use of the patients.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-02-20
Celebrates Her 18th Birthday.

New York.-Hannah Koskoff cele-
brated her birthday at the Daughters
of Israel home, 80 East One Hundred
and Nineteenth street She says she
is one hundred and sixteen years old.
She was born in Kovno, Russia, and
came to this country 81 years ago.
About so years ago Hannah thought
she was about to die and had a shroud
made. This garment still hangs at
the head Of her bed.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-02-20

Jefferson McAddister would like to
speak with him? Yes, that's the name,
McAddister, journalist.
CThe other reporters listen in awe
struck silence.)
The New Reporter-Is this really
Mr.. Dewey? My name is All, you
recognize my voice? You perhaps re-
member that interviewed you yester-
day? What's that? Best report? Oh,
thank you! You're very kind. / tried
to make it so. Has anything turned
up in regard to that case since noon?
Well, sorry to trouble you. Eli? Din
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-02-20

Alexandria played no small part in
the formative years of Washington
youth and early manhood. A repre-
sentative Virginia town, it stood then
and for generations later for all that
was best of colonial standards. Its peo-
rie had much to do with the molding
of WashinEtons character and Wash
ington richly repaid Alexandria, or
Belle Haven as it was first called, by
mis- never failing concern for its well
fare and advancement
Probably no surviving structure in
Alexandria harbored Washington with
in It's hOspitable walls more frequently
than the old Carlyle house, and Ger
raiGly none was more directly associ-
aJed with the foundation of the mill
tary side Of his life. Strange as it
may seem, for many years this his
torical landmark has been hidden away
behind the battered front of AleXan-
dria's once noted hotel, the Braddock
house. occupying one corner Of the in
uer courtyard shut away from the pub
lic gaze and denied the outlook of the
broad approach which it once enjoyed
in the days of it's well nigh baronial
importance. Until a few years ago
the Carlyle house was largely used as
a storage place by a local dealer in
colonial antiques, but few patriotic
Virginia women saved the building
from further indignity, though not en-
Jirely from danger as the old furni-
ture found a new abiding place within
the still more infiammable Braddock
house, adjoining.
In 1892 John S. Carlyle imported
from the Isle Of Wight the stone of
which the house Is built, and he alb
sorbed for part of the foundation
portion Of an old fort which had been
built many years before for the protec-
1ion OF the English traders at Hunting
Greek, as the place was then known.
against the Indians. The barracks of
that ancient defense became the cellar
of the Carlyle house, and in those |
cool, dark, dry retreats were stored in /.
Washington's day the bulging casks, |
cob-webbed bottles, and delicious old |
hams for which Virginia has long been
noted
Another part of the old fort forms
the plaza at the rear of the house upon
which the broad central hallway
opens. 1t was upon this plaza, in the
far away days that the Carlyles and
their guests gathered on summer eve.
nings to discuss the questions Of the
time or to pass the hours chatting
over heartsome glass amid the
soothing smoke Of the fragrant Orono-
ko. 1t was there the young people
watched the moon rise over the rivel
and took their pleasures in the decor.
GUS manner of those days.
Then, the gardens ran down to the
rivers bank and overlooked the docks
at which the trading craft we're moored
trading craft that came from over
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-02-20
PERIL IN EARLY SMOKING
Boys Who Use Tobacco Pay for It
When They Reach the Age of
Forty or Fifty.

Vienna.-At the instigatioin of the
Austrian Society of School Hygiene.
Prof. Frank Hochwart, the scientist
has conducted a series Of investiga-
dons of cases of nervous diseases
among smokers He has arrived at the,
conclusion that Juvenile smoking in.
wolves the gravest perils of future.
health. The professor found the most
serious cases of nicotine poisoning al
most invariably were those in which
the sufferers began smoking when
very young.
The symptoms of such poisoning
never appear in youth, but usually
take years to develop. They become
apparent in most instances between
The ages Of forty and fifty.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-02-20
HAD THE STAFF GUESSING
New Reporters Monumental Bluff A.
most Deserved to Succeed, But
He Overlooked One Point.

The New Reporter (going to the tele-
phone and ostentatiously starting the
machinery Hello, CENTRAL Let me
have 2745 c, please. "a pause) You
giddy little thing No, I said twenty
seven. Twen-ty-sev-- Hello Is that
2745 C? Is Mr.. Sawgertees Dewey in
the Office? win you tell him that Mr.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-02-20

went to the reunion, among whom was
the eldest child and an uncle of Mrs.
Houck, at the age of seventy years,
the youngest of the twelve being forty
two years old.
The other blessed thing is the fact
that there are sixty-one grandchil-
dren, ninety-one great-grandchildren
and one greatgreat-grandchild. Mrs.
Houck lives one mile out in the coun-
try from the town Of Hickory.
She has a brother living who attend
ed the reunion and Ia sighty-six years
Of age
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-02-20

moments notice. With such speed do
they get ready to start that often they
arrive on the scene before the hos
pital ambulance.
Many lives have been saved by this
almost instantaneous response to a
hurried call for help. There is much
that the nurse can do before the am
bulance comes, and not infrequently
these few moments mean the saving
of life.
Each nurse wears a plain dark cos
tune. There iS a short skirt, q sim
pie blouse with whihe tugnoveg linen
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-02-20
Cut OFF.

The world is well aware that a
stern kaiser has forbidden his officers
to dance the tango or to go to tango
parties. They say that a young lieu
tenant met friend in the streets of
Berlin the other day and embraced
him with fervor
I'm dying of loneliness!" said the
lieutenant.
What" said the friend, lonely in
Berlin!"
Just that" returned the other.
you can't go to anybody's house any
more. They all dance the TANGO
New York Evening Post.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-02-20
Robbery on Large Scale Often
Seems Very Easy.
Method Employed In Philadelphia
Successful for Long Time, But
Finally Ended in Discovery
and Suicide of Broker.

Philadelphia often seems easier
to steal $4,000 than to steal 10 cents.
The youth who recently spent 81 car
fare and ran over from New York
with a bunch of stock and borrowed
100000 in Philadelphia is by no
means an isolated individual
A Philadelphia broker not so long
ago got a good deal more than that
and didn't waste anything for car fare,
says the Ledger. His method was
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-02-20

ner? You're extremely kind. At Sher-
rvs? What? And a bottle? (Surging
interest in the entire staff It's aw-
fully kind of you. Well, say Tuesday
at eight. But really I
City Editor Gin his everyday voice.
Il have some work here, McAddister.
when you are quite through talking to
yourself. That telephone has been dis
connected since morning.-Puck.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-02-20
BICYCLE NURSE IS LATEST
So Well Drilled is This Berlin Corps
They Often Beat the Hospital
Ambulance.

The bicycle nurse is the most recent
addition to the city hospital corps In
Germany. The idea originated in
Berlin
In that city women nurses are CIV
en- bicycles and now a corps of these
highly trained and drilled women is
sent TO the scene OF any accident at a
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-02-20
At eranddauahter,s weddlnu.

New York.-Mrs. Mary Horowltz
eighty-four, at her granddaughters
wedding, led the march, and was fol-
lowed by "A grandchildren and 40
great-grandchildren
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-02-20
Euaenics and cupid Enemies.

Detroit, "Eugenics and the
little god Cupid never will work in
harmony and the eugenists viii be
eliminated by Cupid" declared Judge
Ben B. Lindsey head of the Denver
juvenile court, who was married re-
Gently in Chicago.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-02-20
MRS. ASToR IS SAVED TAX
Second Wife of MultimllIlonalre IT.
tanic Victim Saved Sum of
$2e,626.

New York.-Mrs. Madeline Force
Astor, widow of John Jacob Astor, was
saved the sum of $29,626 by a decision
in the appraising Of the Astor estate.
1t was decided that Mrs. Astor receiv-
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-02-20
TactIess.

Tactless.
say you with my first husband on
the street yesterday. Mr.. Singleton" Z"
'Yes, Mrs. Oftwed."
by the way, did he say anything
about me?"
mot a word We were Just having
pleasant little chat you know"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-02-20

collar, and dark peaked cap with
a triangle of stiff white linen in front.
The nurse carries her small outfit
strapped under the saddle of her bicy-
Gle.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-02-20

ed ownership of $1,1O9,321 under an
ante-nuptial agreement and not under
her husbands will. Therefore this
sum is free from the Inheritance tax
of $29,626.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-02-20
Biblical Hunger Strike.

And there was set before him meat
to eat; but he said l viii not eat unit
| have accomplished my Words-oene
ala xxiV- %
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-02-20
HAS LARGE FAMILY REUNION
Members of North Carolina Clan All
Seem Blessed With Unusual
LONGEVITY.

mNorth Wilkesboro, N. C.-Mrs. J. d.
Moore returned recently from Hick-
ory, where she attended reunion of
the children of her grandmother, Mrs.
A. G. Houck, who was ON this birth
day eighty-eight years Of age, One
remarkable fact is that Mrs. Houck
is the mother OF twelve children and
that every one Of them is living and
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-02-20
Preferred Jail TO Music.

Chappaqua, N. Y.-Declaring he pre-
ferred jail to music, Charles Phillips
broke a banjo over his sons head.
Thirty days.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-02-20
Dangerous Mistake.

A hobby is all right, as long as you
don't mistake it for principle.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-02-20
lHssg OMEN have done much at

OMEN have done much at
Alexandria, Va, to pre-
serve the relics OF the
days of George Washing
ton. II is not the capital
of the nation. despite lts
name, that Is richest in
intimate a S ocia tions
with the life of the first
president, but AleXan-
dria, which stands mid
way between Mount Yer
non and the city Of Wash
ington.
The Lamar register., 1914-03-11

nanas OF the states examiner which
might we'll have dried at their fount
the springs of sympathy"
She crushed up the paper In her
hand and rested her forehead on the
wet rail Idiotically rich-a vandal-
. useless. purse-proud ianeur. She
had called him all that! She could
still see the paleness Of his look as
she had said II.
Shirley. overexcited as she still was.
felt the sobs returning These. how
ever. did not last long and in a mo-
ment she found herself smiling again.
Though she had hurt him, she had
saved him. tool When she whispered
this over to herself 1t still thrilled and
startled her. She folded the paper
and FASTENED on under the cherry
trees.
Emmaline. the negro maid was wait
ing anxiously on the porch. She was
thin to spareness, with a face as
brown as a tobacco leaf. restless black
eyes and wool neatly pinned and set
on by an amber comb.
Honey" called Emmaline. Use
been fearin' TO yo' wild all that light
MIN r'arin' eroun'. .Yo' got tn Jess
mine? Give EN- to Em'line. She'll fix
EN- all nice. jes' how Mis- Judith like"
All right, Emmaline," replied Shir-
ley. And I'll go and dress. Has
mother missed me?"
Nom. SLv ain lef huh room this
whole blessed day. Now yo' barth's
all ready-all 'cep'n tn hot watah.
en- I sem Ranston with that tn fus'
thing. Yo' hurry en- peel them wet
close OF yo'se'f, or yo' have one O.
them digested chills."
Her young mistress flown and the
hot water despatched. the negro wom-
an spread . cloth on the floor and
began to cut and dress the long stalks
OF the flowers. This done she fetched
bowls and vases, and set the pearly-
white dumps here and there the
dtning-room sideboard, the hall man
tel and the desk of the living-room-
till the delicate fragrance filled the
house. quite vanquishing the rose
scent from the arbors.
As the trim colored woman moved
lightly about in the growing dusk.
with the low click of glass and muf-
ned clash of silver, the light tat-tat of
cane sounded. and she ran to the
hall, where Mrs. cambridge was de-
scending the stairway, one slim white
hand holding the banister. under the
edge OF white silk shawl which
oroopsd Its heavy fringes TO hsr daint-
ATsnod feet On the lower step she
The Lamar register., 1914-03-11

body to carry the unconscious man to
the house. Again a fit OF shuddering
swept over her. Then. all at once.
tears came. strangling sobs that bent
and swsyed her 1t WAS the discharge
of the Leyden jar. the l0osing Of the
tense bow-string and it brought re-
lief. After q time SIZE grew quieter
He would get we'll, The thought
that perhaps she had saved his life
gave her q thrill that ran over her
whole body. And until yesterday she
had never seen him, She kneeled in
the blurred half-light. pushing her wet
hair back from her forehead and smil-
ing up In the rain that still fell fast.
In few moments she rose and went on.
At the gate of the Rosewood lane
stood . mail-box on a cedar post and
she paused to tish out q draggled Rich
mond newspaper. Az she thrust It I'M
der her arm her eye caught a word of
headline. With a flush she tore It
from its soggy wrapper. the wetted
fiber parting in her eager fingers, and
resting her foot on the lower rail of
the gate. spread 1t open on her knee.
She stood stock-still until sic had
read the whole. 1t was the story OF
John Valiant's sacrifice of his private
fortune to save the ruin OF the in
volved corporation.
Its effect upon her was shock. She
felt her throat swell Es she read; then
she was chilled by the memory OF
what she had said 10 him: What
has he ever done except play polo and
furnish spicy paragraphs for the So
ciety columns?"
What beast I was!" she said. adj
dressing the wet hedge. He had just
done that splendid thing. 1t was be-
cause OF that that he was little better
than begyar. ard ] said the Sc hor-
rible things" Again she bent her
eyes. rereading the sentences: Took
his dstractors by surprise .
had Just sustained a Erllling ut the