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The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-09-10

reporter" Every good newspaper man
has served his apprenticeship as a
cub" The only managing editor who
is good for anything and the only ed
itorial writer who gets there with the
punch is the man who has reported
fires, murders, accidents and street
happenings and has written his share
of human interest stories picked up
from the boulevards and from the
alleys Of the slums.
After he had made the ordinary run
of newspaper work, Mr.. Newton be-
came what the profession calls star
reporter, and he was sent by great
press association to the Spanish-Amer-
lean war. He reported the deeds Of
our warships off Havana and off San
tiago. And it was he who secured the
first story of the wonderful fight put
up by the little ship Winslow against
odds. 1t was Mr.. Newton who first
told the world of the death Of Ensign
Worth Bagley at his post of duty in
the naval battle in which the Winslow
was engaged.
One Of Byron R. Newton's poems
has been printed and reprinted. He
was a reporter on a great New York
paper and he had witnessed the re-
suits of a great tragedy. He thought
on the tragic event and then on the
careIessness of the joyous crowds all
unheeding of the sore troubles and the
heartbreaks about them. Some peo-
pie have said it is an awful poem. 1t
is strong and very likely awful, but 1t
is doubtful if its truth is oyerdrawn.
Here it is:
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-06-24
Dog Carries Shingles.

James Dell, carpenter living in
Netcong. has an ordinary yellow dog
of the hybrid variety. The dogs pedi-
gree Notwithstanding, MIR. Dell thinks
a great deal of him and has spent a
lot of time teaching the dog to per-
form tricks. During the winter 1t oc-
Cured to Mr.. Dell that if he could
teach the dog to carry shingles up a
ladder to the roof of a house, the
dog would be a valuable assistant
when spring work began.
The dog 'ook to the idea as If It
were second nature, and now that the
season has actually begun he is work
ing with Mr.. Dell nearly every day.
People in that vicinity are astonished
at the sight of dog running up a
ladder with a big mouthful of shin
giles, and then returning to the ground
for another load.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-06-24
Uses Of Lemons.

Gargle a bad sore threat with
strong solution of lemon juice and
water.
The juice Of half lemon in a cup
of black coffee without any sugar will
cure sick headache.
Lemon juice and salt will remove
iron rust.
A strong unsweetened lemonade
taken before breakfast will prevent
and cure a bilious attack.
Lemon juice added to milk until lit
curds and these curds then bound up
on parts swollen from rheumatism
will bring relief.
Lemon juice mixed very thick with
sugar will relieve that tickling cough
that is so annoying.
A hot lemonade taken before going
to bed will cure cold on the lungs.
A cloth saturated N lemon juice
and bound about cut or wound will
stop its bleeding.
Lemon juice added to fruit juices
that do not jell readily. such as cher
ry, straberry, ETC., will cause them to
jell.-Indianapolis Sentinel.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-06-24
PARCEL POST PROFITS

You can ship your mixed produce,
poultry. eggs. butter. cottage cheese,
honey. in fact anything you produce,
In Hartley Steel Grated Box and
you can rely on it going safely. The
cost is little to mail, and the boxes
themselves are very reasonable in
price. 1t viii lpay any producer to
get the full details of just what do
ing business by parcels post means.
Many are creating a snug income in
this way and full details are cheer
fully furnished by teh largest produc-
ers of Parcel Post supplies in the
world Hartley Steel Grated Box Co.,
Saginaw, Mich, who will send their
fine catalog free and answer any in
uiries relative to Parcel Post business.
Write them today-it will pay BIG.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-06-24
The Difference,

Here are tables of crime in which
the meaning is the same but the de-
scription different:
THEFT.
Rich woman, kleptomania.
Rich man, shortage.
Poor man, stealing.
DRUNKENNESS.
Rich man, debility or heart failure.
Well-to-do man, alcoholism.
Poor man, delirium tremens.
IN WALL STREET.
Rich man, legitimate speculation.
Well-to-do man, dabbling in stocks.
Poor man, gambling.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-06-24
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WITH THE JAPANESE ARMY.
Some Of the Causes Which Helped
on Success In the Field

pofle OF the causes Wnich 1elpeo
on Success In the Field.
In the advance of the Japanese
army down the peninsula, telephone
linesmen, bearing on their shoulders
coils of thin copper wire, not much
larger and of no more weight than a
pack-thread, followed through the kaol-
lang fields on each side of the com.
mander. The moment he stopped, a
table was procured, a receiver was
snapped on the wire and a telegrapher
stood ready. More remarkable was
the advance of the telephone into the
contested redoubt of the Eternal Dra-
gon, where a station was placed and
operated for four months, with the
Russians holding trenches only forty
meters distant and on three sides. At
this station, along the front of which
twenty men a day were slain by
sharp-shooters, mail was delivered ev-
cry time that transport arrived,
which was almost daily. Men on the
firing line received postal cards from
their sweethearts and mother an hour
before death.
Telephone and postoffice followed
the flag; the Red Cross preceded IL.
The medical corps came, not in the
walks of the army, but close on the
heels of the pioneers. Before even
the infantrymen entered a Chinese
village it was explored, the water of
it's wells analyzed, it's houses tested
for bacteria and the lines Of encamp-
ment laid down. This unusual sani-
tation is looked upon by surgical auth
critics as perhaps the chief cause of
Japanese success.-Century.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-06-24
TAKE IT IN Time
Just as Scores of People Have

Waiting doesn't pay.
If you neglect kidney backache.
Urinary troubles often follow.
Act In time by curing the kidneys.
Doan's Kidney Pills are especially
for weakened kidneys.
Many people recommend them.
Here's one case:
Harry Kempf, carpenter, Kilbuck
St, Tecumseh, Mich, says: "My kid
neys were not doing their work as
they should and l was suffering from
a lame and aching back used
Doans Kidney Pills and it did not
take them long to correct the trouble"
Price soc. at all dealers. Don't
simply ask tor Il kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills--the same that
Mr.. .Kempf had. Foster Milburn Co.,
Props, Buffalo. n. Y.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-06-24
Mo job for Him

The spring had brought out the,
usual crop OF listless wanderers.
Want help. do you?" said the pros
perous-loekfng party who had been ap-
piled to for assistance by one Of these.
You're husky-looking beggar, must
say! Why don't you work."
My business isn't good at dis sea-
son." said Dusty.
What is your business?" said the
prosperous-looking party.
I'm a professional tobogganist,"
said Dusty.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-06-24
Keeping Her Down

Mrs. Lowerten-"Well. Sally, / sup
pose we've got to cab on that new
peighbcr. Just take your scissors aad
cut some sort OF a hole in the mid die
OF our visltin' cards"
Daughter-"What fer. nav? What
does that signify?"
Mrs. Lowerten-"It doesn't meaa
anything that l knows ot, but she'll
think it does, and lee mighty cheap
to tind sne doesn't know as much
about so>ie.y ways as we does"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-06-24

Just a little philosophy may enable
one TO take things as they cLme. blt
20 part with them as they go-that IL
iifferent.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-06-24

II the average man could only sell
the advice he gives away 1t would keep
him busy counting his coin.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-06-24

Mary woman who wants her hus-
band to be honest is sorry that his hon.
esty keeps him so poor.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-06-24

.1'tr"H1 Ht'- ,ss! a--, 1s..,.5
80 ,p afla9 ~ ,...C nd
Connecticut western news., 1915-07-22
Swine In Old London.

We hear much today of the dangers
of the London streets, but the inhab-
ftants are spared some of the perils of
an earlier age. The calendar of coro-
ners rolls for the city tells how the
many swine wandering about the
streets were once London's greatest
nuisances. In 1920 an inquest was held
on a child who was attacked in her
cradle by n pig which had wandered
in through the open door of her par
ents' shop. And little earlier letters
patent were issued to an infant who
lost an ear from the same cause. The
letters certified the cause Of the acct
dent. lest later on the uncharitable
should say that the ear had been cut
off in the pillory by the knife of the
law.-London Spectator.
Connecticut western news., 1915-07-22
A Costly. Quarrel.

Rowley, the English violinist, was
hard to beat in his perseverance
against one. who had incurred his i'll
will. Rowley had quarrel with a
horse dealer named Brant. 1t was n
trivial matter but Rowley took the
next house to Brant, set up a piano,
bought cornet and proceeded to make
insomnia for Brant. After one or two
assault cases in court Brant moved.
Rowley bought out the next door
neighbor and followed with piano and
cornet. Brant went to law, but found
he could do nothing. Failing, he took
a detached house. Then ROwley hired
brass bands and organs and assailed
him. This. was actionablG, and Row
ley paid $4,000 for his revenge.-Lon-
don Taller.
Connecticut western news., 1915-07-22
Through the Looking Glass.

If YOU listen 10 two men discussing
eastern rTlceS-the Chinese I'm particu-
lar-yUu will invariably hear them re-
mark with that weighty tone % final
lily in VIII, II people are wont To deliver
their obitcr dirti: The Chnaman IL
au enigma. ali iHsCluhlc mystery: he
hind his impen.'trallle mask thtrt turks
We know not what curious variant of
the hannah race" Bur does IL ever &C.
cur To us that in the barbarian" ar
Il, rciam devil the Chnaman finds
problem Of Cvnu :sreatcr pprplcNis"I
The fae-t that all or hu1.is begin at
the wrong end and that our lines are
printed horizontally instead OF verb
cally is 10 him overwhelming evidence
Of the topsy tGrvynasS of our minds:
mat we shake II woman by the hand
is. in his eyes. most unSerm.y. while
our IanCing. with its lack of dignity
and stately grace, suggests TO him
nothing less than Il war dance of say
ayes The practice Of walking with Il
stick shows Us to be in very sooth Il
most ferOcious and unciviliZed people.
fo' who wouid carry stick save foI
the purpose of beating innocent foiksf
Baltimore sun
Connecticut western news., 1915-07-22

Before taking leave of CuZco, Peru.
we went to see the very interesting
collection Of Inca relics in the private
museum of Il Peruvian doctor who has
devoted many years of his life to Inca
research. Ranged round the walls were
mummies which had been taken from
rock tombs. All had been buried in a
sitting posture, and. judging by the hor-
rible expressions of agony on the parch-
mept skin, should, imagine that some
Of them, prisoners of war, l was told,
had been entOmbed alive. The horror
Of those mummied faces and the awful
contortions of the skeletons haunted
me for long time, nor shall | ever for
get the sight.
One or two of the skulls bore evil
dence of skillful surgery, star shaped
pieces of bone having been cleverly fit
ted in to repair damage done by the
star shaped stone weapons of the pc
riod. ] did not measure those l saw
IN the museum, but one of the afore-
said stone weapons which we brought
back to England from CuZco measured
four inches from point to point across
the top-a truly formidable club.-Wide
World Magazine.
Connecticut western news., 1915-07-22

An exchange recommends the read
ing of Il fine, ss;ul felt poem before re-
firing for the NIGHTS rest 1t tends
to compose the soul and put it in har-
mony with the truth and goodness of
things. \ novel will not do that, nor
a newspaper, nor anything that sets
the mind in n fiUtter Reading a poem
one of the good Old kind that gets
into the heart and has Il nice time
THERE'S like floating down quie!
stream, past the fragrance of flowers
and the songs of the birds. Never had
that experience, Ell? How very shift
less, indeed
Did you ever try reading Snow
bound on an evening when the snow
was piling up the silence deep and
~white?" Well, try it. Whittier Will
give one something for any evening
Tennyson's "Idyls" are little more
urgent. but they are as tranquilizinG
as a gentle arm around you. Words
worth is great, but takes too much
thought; Browning, too, and Lowell,
but Longfellow not so much. But as
easy as smiling is the humorous kind,
like Riley. But there are hundreds CT
poems floating about as sweet as
bush of roses Take them in and read
them before going to bed. A good one
will last week. Like a song, they
improve with age.-COlumbus Journal
Connecticut western news., 1915-07-22
The Darkness Before Dawn.

1t is proverbial that ''the darkest
hour precedes the dawn" w. F. Den
ming. the English authority ON me-
teors, has recently called attention to
the literal accuracy of this proverb, as
established by his own observations
on thousands of nights. He says:
Before dawn a greater darkness
seems to drop down like a mantle upon
the immediate surroundings. Objects
which were plainly observable during
the previous hours of the night are
blotted out, and a nervous feeling is
sometimes induced by the dense opac-
ity of the air."
He claims to have noticed this
phenomenon when the subject was far
from his thoughts. so that it could not
have been purely subjective. He is
unable to state the exact interval be-
fore sunrise when the remarkable dark
ness comes on nor whether it is COM
mon to each season and sky conditions.
Connecticut western news., 1915-07-22
How a ZeppeIin is Made.

The building of Zeppelin is not the
work of day. The mere work on the
vessel takes an entire year, and when
that work H. done another three months
must he spent in testing. Stretched
on framework of Orders there are
from seventeen to twenty-five balloon
cites from end to end. Over these and
over the Orders is an outer skin of
proofed canvas. Slung under the great
length is a series of cabins.
Right in front is the station Of the
lookout man, who is i'm charge Of the
starting and the landing. He has an
chors slung beneath him. In the first
boat. which is entirely covered in, are
two petrol engines. Behind this boat
is the gangway. fitted up with sleeping
berths for the crew. In the center Is
the observation station. 1t is from
here that the bombs are dropped. and
it is I'm here that the marvellous steer
ing and sighting apparatus is installed,
as we'll as the wireless plant.-St.
Louis Republic.
Connecticut western news., 1915-07-22
Oliver Goldsmith and Powders.

April 4, 1774. died Oliver Goldsmith,
in his forty-seventh year, at the height
of his fame, as also Of his embarrass-
ments. Goldsmith's death was hasten
ed, as some thought, by his taking
against his apothecary's wish the IA
nous specific, DR.. James fever pow
ders. One should be just to the pow
ders. Goldsmith himself thought he
had been given spurious and not the
genuine powders, while Mr.. Hawkes.,
his apothecary, declared the sick man
had taken the right remedy in a wrong
fashion and after Goldsmith's death
published, in collaboration with the
poets other two physicians, can Ac-
count of the Late DR.. Goldsmith's Ill
ness So Far as Relates to the Exhibi-
ton of DR.. James Powders" Death
pays all debts. In no other way posi-
bly, could Goldsmith have cleared him
self.-London Spectator.
Connecticut western news., 1915-07-22
WeIlinuton's Wounded.

1t is difficult to realize the callous-
ness toward the sick and wounded
against which Wellington struggled in
the peninsula. One evening at dinner
he heard that at a post several miles
away large number of sick soldiers
were lying in the open, exposed to the
weather. He rode promptly to the
place, found the sick in the plight de-
scribed, while the healthy officers were
in comfortable houses, and was told
by the commanding officer that there
was no accommodation for the sick.
He instantly arranged in detail for the
billeting of the sick in those houses,
but, suspecting what might follow,
paid a surprise visit the next night
and found that the invalids had again
been turned out into the open. Well
ington Immediately reinstated them,
arrested the officers and had them
tried and dismissed for disobedience.
Connecticut western news., 1915-07-22
EinoLinn HIS BHdn.

In one part of the canton of Ticino.
in Switzerland, Il very quaint mar
riage ceremony prevails. The bride
groom dresses ia his Sunday lteSt'
and. accompanied by as many friends
and relatives as lie can muster for the
fete. goes TO claim his bride. Finding
the door locked. he demands admit
lance. The inmates ask him his bust.
ness, and In reply he solicits the hand
of his chosen maiden. If his answer
be deemed satisfactory he Is success.
sively introduced TO number of ma.
irons and maids, some perhaps de-
formed and others old and ugly. Then
he is presented to some large dolls, all
of which he rejects with scorn. amid
general nerriment. The bewilderct
BRIDEGROOM. whose impetuosity and
temper are now sc-ely tried, is then
Informed that his ladylove Is abscat
and is invited in TO see for himself.
He rushes into the house and searches
from room to room until he finds her
in her bridal dress ready to 90 &c
church. Then arc his troubles over
and his state as n benedict assured.
Connecticut western news., 1915-07-22
ALONG Popular Vegetable.

Asparagus has evidently been known
during Il considerable period, for ii fig
ures in the title of seventeenth CEN
fury play. Richard Bronze. who start
ed life as n domestic servant and in
that capacity had Ben Jonson for n
master, became a popular dramatist,
and one of the most successful Of his
comedies was THE Sparagus Garden"
acted, according TO the title page of the
edition published in 1910. "by the Com
pany of Revels at Salisbury Court"
One of the characters I'm this play ex-
presses wish to have asparagus at
every meale all the yeare long. Lon.
don Globe.
Connecticut western news., 1915-07-22

A country parson in Scotland on first
going to his parish resolved TO. farm
his glebe Tor himself, and nelghbor-
ing farmer kindly offered 10 send a
man to pillow one of his fields "If
ye're goin' ABBOTT" said the farmer TO
the clergyman, SANDY will be unco
weel pleased IL you speak to him and
say it's n fine day or the like o. that,
but dinna say onythin' to him ABBOTT
plowin' and sowin'. for Sandy il n
stoopid body, but he's been plowin'
and sowin' all his life, and he'll see
I'm n minute that We ken naethin' ABBOTT
plowin' and sowin'. And then" added
the old farmer. with extreme earnest
ness. "if he comes 10 think that We ken
naethin' ABBOTT plowin' and sowin' he'll
think that We ken naethin' ABBOTT ony-
thin"
Connecticut western news., 1915-07-22
Snake,n Sixth Sonxo.

That the snake has real sixth sense
by which IL finds fits mate In the woods
and unerringly trails its prey is the
belief of Il man who is special stu
dent of snakes. The seat of this sense
of direction Is supposed to be the curl
Gus forked tongue. which can have
none Of the uses 10 which the tongue
is usually applied. but is a feeler and
more and Is necessarily darting about
rs the snake travels. A lizard was
seen to come from beneath house In
the woods take n zigZag course and
disappear under box ten feet away.
Two minutes later black snake APP
peured, passed over the lizards exact
course, keeping the tongue constantly
seeking the trail, and, darting u.ler
the box, quickly emerged with the liz
ard in its jaw. Many other obscrvn-
tons seem TO prove that the tip OF the
tongue is the guide.-Exchange
Connecticut western news., 1915-07-22
wav of the BIueiav.

The bluejay-Cyapocitta cristan-a
purely an American bird. He is about
twelve inches long, is light purplish
blue above and grazing below. The
collar and frontlet are black and the
wings and tail ultramarine, barred.
the outer tail feathers being tipped
with white. What a graceful, beauti-
full bird this is, impertinent and noisy.
his raucous scream followed by a Choir
tie that sounds much like hooking
"Ha, ha. ha. oh, N.Y." He is accused
Of robbing the farmers corn crib. of
sucking the eggs of other birds and
even of tearing to pieces theft young
The sportsman as he goes through the
woods. gun in hand, thoroughly hates
the jay. which is kind of game war
den. sounding an alarm to the other
birds as their enemy approaches. Nat
uralists have placed him in the crow
family despite his beautiful plumage.
but his manners and his morals are
more like those of the sparrow hawk
Indianapolis News.
Connecticut western news., 1915-07-22

One of the most interesting verbal
or pathological trails that scholars now
are following inro the past for light ON
origins is that which has the word
''editor" stamped upon it. Yale's au-
thority on evolution of English speech,
Professor Lounsbury, could find no ear
Ter use of the term as applied to the
chief writer and director of a period
lea than in 176S, but there is evidence
in the superb collection of British and
American newspapers owned by the
Antiquarian society, Worcester, Mass,
that it was so used in 1861. The al
legged use of the title in the Boston
Newsletter of 1928 proves, on exami-
nation of the file in the Boston public
library, to be inaccurate. Undoubtedly
Isaiah Thomas, in 1773, spoke of him
self as editor of the Royal American
Magazine. The interesting point to be
noted, while the hunters are busy on
the trail, is that, relatively speaking.
editor is a new word in journalism.
printer" and publisher" preceded 1t.
Christian Science Monitor.
Connecticut western news., 1915-07-22
Gift of the Gods

A meat packers wagon Iattled over
the cobblestoneS down First avenue.
Overhead roared I'LL elevated train, and
in the sunshine OH the curb sat five
boys shooting craps.
Suddenly one of them darted out into
the street. swung himself up on the
passing wagon, seized ham and
jumped Off-into the arms OF a white
wing"
This agent of the city, after apl,ro-
priating the ham, gave the boy vigor
Gus shaking and flung him toward the
sidewalk.
Immediately all five boys vanished
into the earth.
The white wing looked down the
street and the wagon had disappeared
as completely as the boys, with the
driver quite unconscious of any un-
usual stir
He looked in every direction: then
doubtless thanking the gods for their
gift, he wrapped the ham in. a news
paper and he roo disappeared down a
side street.-New York Post
Connecticut western news., 1915-07-22
Trenches In War.

The late British general Sir William
Butler in the course of an article that
appeared in n military magazine near
ly forty years ago thus spoke his mind
about the use of trenches in time Of
war: 1.-THE spade may he nearly as
dangerous to the army that uses it as
to the one that neglects it. Like every
thing else, it is good in its way. That
way is given a long way, but its end
can. be reached. If the infantry sol
der gets thoroughly convinced that in
the sheltered trench lie his hopes of
safety he will doubtless be n hard
man to drive out of these trenches.
But it may also be difficult matter to
drive him on from them to the front.
Digging may save battle from being
lost, but it has never won n decisive
victory. and it probably never will
Manchester Guardian.