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..J . THE DEMOCRAT CELINA OHIO. A group of scientists can prove any tbltig. Does Die weather chief still claim to fee a bsitT prophet than the ground ing? Taper money may be made smaller, la whleli case it will bo just iUJ hard to get. There is tintliin;? nicer after nil than (he eeen but not. heard myle of bath lug bllit. The size or the bat pin may be re duced, but the size of the hat will continue to develop. A New Jersey woman married a man txnau.se tu- pestered her. That w:M why she iiivorcod li i in, too. A Brussels surgeon wants 5 Jrt.ono for an operalion on King Leopold. Considering the re.sults, is it worth the money. The United States of South Afrha has just been born. It will lal e lime, but the United States of the World Is bound to come. When a mini anuouii' cs that he Is ready tor a political light, he means that he is prepared to mal.e a scram ble tor a poliih al job. Lnitnchii.i: of the b..tt b -ship Florida calls a!tcn' inn to the fact that inter national peace is becoming mine expen sively at nu d all the time. The ost,-r recently lound with .r I pearls in its internal department seems to be ill a higher dn.-s than the one which contains one million typhoid get ins. A New Jersey woman wants n di vorce because her husband stutters. And yet, ivh'ti he promised, she prob ably regarded hi:u as a harming con versational i.st. "Come on to the Grass" signs have been pi iced it: certain of the New York Oily parks -an innovation which fills the' hearts of the children with joy. It is a pity that such signs are not more common. Anna Held announces that if her husband wains a divorce he may liave one without any opposition on her part. She is alleged, also, to have, declared in favor of experimental mar riages. Nearly till marriages seem to be experimental nowadays. A New York judge defends his ac ceptance of a free home telephone on the ground that, so far from being a private convenience, it is a personal nuisance. But suppose the judge had a bill for it coming in every month, with a tine for non-payment before the tenth? Edison's clerkless store, where the customer may, by dropping a coin in a slot, get what he wants done up in a neat package, will never be a suc cess until he invents a return slot in which she may deposit tike purchase to be exchanged for something else just a shade lighter or darker. German paper-makers are experi menting with various liber plants in the hope of finding a material suffi ciently cheap for use in supplying tin? constantly increasing demand. Sisal heuip, wild glasses, palm-leaves. Span ish broom, banana fiber and cotton bolls are among the substances tested. The United States government is en gaged in similar experiments. If some substitute, for wood pulp can be found the forests will be allowed to stand a little longer. Occasionally, although not usually, a parrot is talkative at the right time. It was only by the opportune loquacity of her pet parrot that an Italian wo mai. was saed from deportation re cently at the New York immigration station. She was unable to speak English, and was trying to convince the inspectors that she was returning to America alter a visit to Italy, when the parrot broke loose with a volley of slang phrases which could never have been learned in any otlx-r land than this. franco, like Germany, Great Brit ain, Belgium and Denmark, has adopt ed an old-age pension system. Great Britain and Denmark have the non contributory system that is, the ben eficiaries pay nothing to the insurance fund, but the government does it all. This is condemned by its critics as a system of mere largess which is fraught with evils and dangers. Its cost, in Great Britain is from $10,000, 000 to $45,000,000 a year. France has adopted the contributory system, much after the German plan. Belgium has both systems, offering a much larger pension to the contributing classes. The contributory system, which not truly removes the fear of a destitute old age, but also encourages thrift, is Jn effect a form of compulsory insur ance for the millions engaged in all kinds of gainful occupations, although for some classes, notably the farming class, it is optional rather than com pulsory. Employers and workmen eon tribute equally in Germany and France, and the government adds a third share to the total fund. In most cases the .qualifying age is TO, except Jn Denmark, where it is fiO. Ou the theory that everything that is done is done to the exclusion of something else, W. C. Gannett dis cusses lu Unity "the abdication of the natural, parent," and the "furious cul tivation" of fads of "child study," "child science," "child iVrislat Ion," and "child welfare" in general. Be cause we have child conferences, and because there is a bill in Congress to create a children's bureau in the Fed eral Government, he seems to have Jumped to the conclusion that the nat- tiral parent has quit, or, as he puts It, abdicated. Following the analogies which be himself invites, it would not fee difficult to show that Mr. Gannett is wrong. For Instance, becaime w have Industrial conferences and con servation congresses, it does not fol low that every Individual is not pay ing the same or Increased attention to his own business, and to the care of bis own property. Conventions of in surance men do not mean less, but more, study of Insurance. Congresses of millers, manufacturers, laundrynien or barbers mean not less, but more, study of the business represented. They moan simply that, wlkilo each man has his own ways of doing busi ness, he can see that he would galu rather than lose by sharing nonie of bis information with, the others. The child movement is probably due more to society's enlarged and improved Idea of the value of the child than to a waning Interest In the child in the home. Society formerly took chil dren us tluey were developed by time into men and women. It accepted them as they came to it, of ago. To day society looks back a stretch of years at the child who has not come out, and wonders whether there is not something It can do to bring Kim out stronger und better. It has learned through the patient Investigations of a few that a number of things which It supposed be was getting were not his. It lkas stepped iki to give lilm those things, sometimes directly, more often by stimulating parents to get them for lil in. This Is almost the en tire explanation of the child move ment, wlibh so amuses some and an- j noys Olivers, but which holds an nil waning harm for those who are inter- I ested in it The one-half of the world j is beginning to be interested in how j the other half lives. Vaei-lne irealmciil of Coltla. In a former article was explained the theory of the newly discovered opsonic or vaccine treatment of infec tious diseases, and it was shown how Hi- remedy is obtained from the pa' tient himself. It was then stated that although in some cases a "stock vac cine" could be used, applicable to all cases of a certain disease, better re sults are usually obtained if the vac cine is prepared fresh for each case from the special strain of bacteria In the patient's own body. This is especially necessary in the t, trai.nt nf cobls and of the tendency thereto, for it lias been found that j the symptoms of an acute cold or of chronic catarrh are caused by several different species of bacteria, and the vaccine good for one kind is of little or no efficacy in the others. The only way to find out which bac teria are at work is to make a culture from tlu? patient's own nasal or throat secretions, and when this is obtained it can be used as the proper vaccine. The usual form of pneumonia croupous or lolxir pneumonia is gen erally caused by a specific germ, and a stock vaccine may be used if nec essary, but it is better to use the pa tient's own bacteria even litre, for tlkere are usually certain peculiarities in each case. The treatment of pneu monia in this way is very recent, but the few cases that have been reported lvive been so successful as to give hope that eventually the disease will be conquered by this means. In regard to colds and catarrhs, the matter is not so simple. It has been found that no less than six distinct forms of bacteria may produce an acute or chronic catarrh. There is one that has a preference for the nose, an other for the back of the throat, and still another for the bronchial tubes; but no one of them has a monopoly of. any region, and sometimes a number of them are working together in the same case in perfect harmony. In the treatment of a cold, therefore, one must first ascertain what bacteria are at fault, and whether one or several kinds. Then the corresponding stock vaccine, or a combination of several, is given so as to lose no time while a new vaccine made from the patient's own germs is being prepared. Not only has it been found possible to cut short acute colds, and benefit or cure chronic catarrhs, but it seems probable that permanent immunity may be secured by an opsonic injec tion, given every six months. All this is tentative, however, and although ilie method promises much, it is still too early to speak with confidence of future results. Youth's Companion. ii f a in i I i il r C om in oil i I leu. "Any book in particular, sir?" asked the young woman in charge of the book counter of a large department store. "This Is a great novel" "Not for me." said the old gentle man, who had been examining the stock in trade with an air of con siderable disapproval. Where do you keep the classics, young woman: Lamb's 'Tales,' for example?" The young woman looked puzzled. "Bacon?" said the old man. "Crabbe? Fox?" "I don't know about fox," said the young woman, "but I guess what you must be lookln' for is the provision department." More ftcniidal. Mrs. Simnionds glanced at the scare headline, "Bank Robbed! Police at Sea!" and laid down the sheet. "Naow, look at that, Ez!" she ejacu titeil. reoeatlne the headline aloud. 'Here's a big city bank broke into by burglars, and the city police force all off flshin' somewhere! What a scan dal!" llT Self INihhcknIiui. "Miss Oldcastle is always self pos Besse.il no matter what happens." "Well, she ought be seeing that Klie has had practice in the self pos session Hue for at least thirty-flve years." Chicago Record-Herald. How far can you get from home be. fore you become a stranger? It's difficult for a landlord and ten aut o trot In double harness. vJl PATHOL HOY 3C0U71S MAMWHG Great movements have silent begin nings! Ami so it Is not strange that the organization of the "Boy Scouts'" in the United Slates should have been passed owr with a bare mention in lb.' press. The society bad Its birth in Washington, the latter part of April, nnd its sponsors were Col. 1C. .1. Spen cer and Air. William II. Thomson, of .St. Iuils. and Dr. Giinsaulus, W. D. Iloyce, R. O. West and C. II. Stoddard, of Chicago, and the bill of incorpora tion was introduced In the House of Representatives by Congressman Graff, of Illinois, a member of the Committee on Education. To the superficial observer the or ganization of a semi-military society among young boys may not appear of great moment. We have only to fol low the effects of the society In Great Britain to foreshadow its effects here. The boy is the same, the world over, and be is to be appealed to in much ibe same manner on both sides of the Atlantic. It must not be supposed that the appeal is (o ills savage instinct, to the native baibnrian that is in it Im. Indeed the reverse of this is true. The scouts are little soldiers; but they are taught so many other things besides scouting that the soldier is almost wholly lost in the embryo man. The British society, according to a writer in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, was founded by Sir Robert Haden-I'ow-ell, the hero of Mafeklng, who had seen service in India, Afghanistan and nil the British provinces of Africa before the Boer war and whose wide experi ence as a soldier was linked with the most sympathetic understanding of the timber of which armies are made. The need for some such organization among English boys was made unmistakably plain to him by the timber that pre sented itself at the outbreak of hos tilities in South Africa, or rather at the time when the fight assumed such proportions that volunteers were (ailed for. To his surprise and chagrin the general discovered that the English boy was not fitted to take up arms in behalf of his country. He was a poor campaigner because he had not learned to take care of himself, and he was in clined to look upon this service to his country as a great and unnatural hard ship. Gen, Baden Powell studied the British youth during the trying days of the struggle, and when the war was over and he bad been appointed to the post of inspector general of cavalry, he used this vantage ground to further study the soldier and to determine what it was that bad been lacking in his early educat ion. Thcjoungor boys were all around him, and with the silent idea of their appearance and at titude,' he formulated a scheme that would transform indifferent and even vicious youngsters into the type of men of which Dritain might be proud. Even Sir Baden-Powell, with his iri descent dream of a great movement for the betterment of the English boy, builded better than be knew, tor the work of the society has gone leagues beyond his dream in its splendid real ity. It is making little men, not mere ly prospective soldiers, and It is devel oping Ideals of the highest and most helpful kind in the young boys of this generation, ideals that will prove an invincible power in the men or to morrow. All tins seems e.n aviigani. iu him who has preconceived notions of the work of the army scout. We look upon the scout as the daring pioneer in a military engagement. He has ourage and ingenuity, but beyond that we have given little mought to his oth er characteristics. And we need not "OLD BILL MACABBE." Saw llnlley'n Visitor from Deck ol the Conntltotloii In is:t.".. Probably one of the most interested spectators of the comet's journey from the eastern to the western sky last night was William Macabbe, an in mate of the United States Naval home at 24th street and Gray's Ferry Road, the Philadelphia Inquirer says. "Old Bill," as he is familiarly called by his comrades at the home, is 106 years old, and when Halley's comet made its last appearance in 1835 ho was a sailor, 31 years old. When seen yesterday Bill was propped up in bed, for he has had a broken leg which has kept him In doors for more than a year, and when asked if he remembered seeing the comet seventy-five years ago, the ok' sailor, taking another pull at his corn cob pipe, said, "Yes, I believe I do." "Now, since it comes back to me, I remember the night distinctly. It was my watch, and we all had been on the lookout for the comet to cross the sky for several days. I do not re member exactly what boat I was on at that time, but 1 think it was the old United States frigate Constitution. "I had been pacing the desk for some time when I suddenly spied the cornet, and I called some of my ship mates to witness it as it trailed across the sky. It was not very large, probably as big as a head of cabbage, and It had a long, milky tail. We Iff r: consider the others, for courage and ingenuity are enough to start with. The scout Is the idol of the small boy. because be is brave and resourceful, and to call a boy a stout is to make him desire to be these two things, brave and resourceful. Gen. Baden-Powell knew the boy na ture far too well to begin with high ideals and practical work. He gath ered together a small company of in teresting little chaps and told them that he wanted to train them as scouts. That was thrilling and the youngsters took to it with avidity. Others came and when they had been on camp a few weeks they spread the news that they had bad the time of their lives, and that their friends could do the same things next summer if they would join the order nnd learn the prelim inary lessons. The result was that the Idea spread like an epidemic until there Is no part of the British empire that does not boast its boy scouts. The Hcout badge is not bestowed un til the boy has acquired a great deal of skill and information. He must learn about wild animals and how to track, trap and dress them. He must achieve skill in woodcraft and the art of building boats and bridges, must know how to set up a tent or, in the absence of tents, he must be able to construct a shelter of such materials as he finds in the woods. All the appli ances for saving life must be mas tered. The scout knows what to do when he sees a comrade overmastered In the water, and how to resuscitate the victim, who is all but dead when lie is rescued. He can swim and dive, (ran paddle any kind of boat that is seaworthy and repair, with any tools at hand, the one that leaks to the dan ger point. He is taught the simple rudiments of gun-shot surgery, so that in case of accident he can give intelli gent aid to the injured while awaiting saw it after that for two or three nights, and then it disappeared. "I have seen many comets while at sea, and several times I have seen huge meteors shoot through the sky and fall with a loud hiss into the ocean, while a column of steam caused by the meteor's contact with the water rose into the air." Last night "Old Bill" was wheeled out on the naval hospital veranda to see the comet. He has been very much interested hearing the other in mates of the hospital ward where he has been for so long a time talk about it, and he expressed a desire to again see the aerial visitor on its journey across the sky. WEALTHY UNIVERSITY. llnrvnrd Might Ue It fSS.OOO.OOO to Tench 1 ncfiil Z.'VieeiH. Harvard University presents the an nual report of the president and treas urer in a large volume filled with in teresting data. The institution starts off with nearly $23,000,000 of invested funds which produce almost a million dollars annual revenue. The "plant" is worth some more millions, while the current rtoeipU ar large. As a going concern. Harvard seems to be a very prosperous corporation. This must t Ytry gratlfyiag to Pres ident Lowell, wbo le Just completing his first year, but under the present system it is fraught with some danger. He must look upon this as a starting ' rii ...ri v .'i i nil i.. . i '.'irrii tvs.Ti 1 rr. :--v the surgeon. Many a life is lost he- ; ause those on the ground do not know what to do. and either do nothing at all or do the wrong thing. The boy makes friends with the horse, studies his habits and learns how to handle him. The true scout never jerks or teases or beats the ani mal hit has in charge, and he acquires Ibe art of stopping the runaway steed in the street, and takes It upon him self to reprimand the non-scout who Is caught abusing his horse. He learns what to do in case of fire, how to enter a burning building for the pur pose of saving life or property, and how to escape from one in the safest manner possible. Many other prac tical lessons of everyday life are In cluded in the scout's course of in struction, and through all of it runs the note of self-reliance and resource fulness. He is made to use his brains to face, problems and think out the solution, to conquer difficulties anil surmount obstacles. And all this iH given to him in the guise of play! In the woods the boy acquires a great deal of real information con cerning plants and animals. He studies the tracks of certain animals that are good for food and fur, especially those that are a constant menace to the chicken roost, and learns to trap or shoot them and then cook them so that they will be palatable to a woods man with a ravenous appetHe and no finicky notions about what is proper to eat. The boy with the puniest ap petite and the most foolishly indul gent, mother comes home, after an encampment with the scouts, ready to eat anything that is set before him. He has been impressed with the idea that It is effeminate and weak to be critical about his food. The real, hardy scout can eat anything that is not poisonous, and relish It. And he gets over the notion that cooking in point. If he manages to keep up with the record of President Eliot, he will rival the Standard Oil Company a few years hence, The balance sheet shows a nice sum carried to credit and profit and loss, but there are so many ave nues of energy in the situation that a few hundred, millions more can be used to great advantage. Thus, it seems that the chair devoted to the interests of study of Baudelaire and the Mont martre school of poets of decadent is not backed by a foundation. Any gen tleman knowing the formative value of these writers upon youthful charac ter is at liberty to give $150,000 for the purpose of founding a professorship. The study of the left hind knee of the common house fly has not been given sufficient laboratory attention, and a million might well be devoted to that purpose. , The real truth of the matter is that our universities are becoming too rl5' fuse in their offerings to young mi who have not developed either charac ter or mental tendencies. Harvard has turned out some of the great men of the country in the past, especially when it was poor and when students lived in bare rooms and dined at com mons. We do not see the young men emerging now from Harvard or other colleges who are able to tackle the problems of the age. Philadelphia Inquirer. Your second thoughts may be best If they arrive on time. m . j, work only for women or for the hired her. He takes pride in his ability to make coffee and broil bacon over a fire of coals, and greater pride In his ability to go forth and forage for a meal, capture his game and make his own bread There is another part of the play that adds the necessary thrill to keep all this serious work adequately sugar coated. It is the actual scouting. The enemy is somewhere in the neighbor hood and must be discovered. Parties of three or four are sent forth to in vestigate. They can creep through the underbrush without making a sound, can climb trees and swim riv ers in the quest. They learn to find their way by means of maps and com pass and to steer their course by the sun and stars. Instruction in the sig nal code with smoking torch and bon fi ro is a part of the camp course, nnd they are taught the system of flag signals in use in the British army There is target practice and the man- il of arms, setting up exercise and 'less parade drill In the day's work. All this appeals to the boy while It is developing bis body and molding his character. He becomes alert and strong, cultivates the habit of close observation and attention to details, and better than all these, he is im bued with the sentiment that it Is worthy nnd kind to be gentle toward tne weak ami helpless, that a fellow who would lie or cheat or in any way take an unfair advantage is a person beneath contempt, and that the fel low who "cherishes a grouch" is de cidedly in the way and ought not to be tolerated. He is saturated with the thought that selfishness anil coward ice are despicable. He Is charged to do each day some worthy and un selfish act, to help some one in dis tress or add to some one's comfort and happiness. The Hore' Prayer. Pattetlc and Ironical as it may seem, the horse looks up to man as hts god. In the Swedish they have a "Prayer of the Horse," addressed to his human lord and master, which ia sum is as follows: "O lord, ray master, I thank anil adore you for tlie kind word you spokt to me long ago, and I strive in the hope that you will pet me once in j while. If I cannot understand what you wish me to do, please be patient and show me. Don't beat me or jerk on the reins, but look and see if some thing is not wrong with the harness "I beg of you not to whip me go ing up hill, nor give me loads heavier than I can pull. Keep me shod so that I can get a foothold, and don't let the farrier cripple my feet. If I am sick or have an ulcerated tooth ;:;o easy with me for a day, as I am l in ;-,iue myseu wnu "Oh, grant me cool, clean water in trie hot weather, and let me not eat my fodder dry. "Finally, when my strength is gone, and I cannot any more work for you enough to be worth my keep, I be seech of you don't let me be sold to drag a vender's cart, but take my life in the quickest and easiest way, and God will reward you in this life and in heaven. Amen." Everybody loves a hero a. long way off, and picks unfairly at lis neigh bor next door. rrcdlcmueut lu Which " ! I'IhcviI Who l.oa Another. If a woman could have the mime lib erty of choice In the acquiring of husband as a man bus in the selection of a wife, consider the change it would make In the marling" problem and In the divorce court. It by no means fol lows that because a man loves u wom an she loves him, Margaretta M. Tut tlo say In Collier's. But lie may b tho only man who loves her, or lie may bo the only man who Is eligible, or the only man her people want her to mar ry, or any one of a hundred onllcs you can easily think of for youiielf. And what then? There may be mitu unat tainable man the woman really does love, but what can she do? Almost nothing! She Is bound to i hoove from the men who comn to her. True, hIio can stay single, and many women do so, nnd on this very accouiii Unit Uiey never have happened to love the men who loved them. Hut to stay sin gle Is not a solution of the question, and It does not appeal to the majority of women. Nino times out of ten the wovian locks up In her heart the Ideal of a husband she has fornn d, or the preferences she has Inherited or iut qulred, or tho thought of the other man, nnd takes tho man who wants to marry her, whether or not be Is the man she wants to marry. If she is a woman of character she persuades her self and others that ho Is the man she wants to marry. She lends herself to whatever form his wooim: may take. If ho is blonde and bearded, though she prefers dark eyes and shaven facs, yet you would never guess it from word of hers. She may have assured herself every day that she will marry only a man of dignity, but she will re cant when her suitor proves a down. She may adore spontaneous nierriness, and not only marry a straiglnlaced prude, but swear that it is the only kind of man she can endure. i . ha X cf nJ uftaif 1 The t ree. While the Cree Indians are not, properly speaking, United States prop lertv. exceutinc a few who have found their way into Montana and North Dakota, no list of Indian tribes is reallv complete without some remarks upon this extraordinary people a na tion which covers more territory, witn its various little bands and scattered groupings, than any other race of red men on the continent. In lact, u is doubtful whether any savage nation In the world roves over an equal space nf ground, excepting, possibly, the Arabs, and there are a thousand Arabia to every cree. A man of North America, with tho Cree hunting grounds marked in red, would have a decidedly pinkish appear ance north of the United Slates boun dary line. The Cree Indian inhabits Labrador, northern Quebec, and the wilderness of t'ngava. He rove? on either shore of Hudson bay. Ills camp fires dot the vast expanse of the north western territories from Winnipeg to far Mackenzie, from Hudson bay to" the Rocky mountains. The great for ests of Keewatin, Saskatchewan, anil even the Yukon are his hunting field. He conies down upon the plains, and even crosses the boundary line. Many of the Chippewa at Turtle mountain are really Cree, and bands of them in fest the Flathead and Fort Pelknap reservations, in Montana. The Mon tagnais of Quebec, the Neskapl of Un gava, the Salteaux of Keewatin, the Wood Cree of the western forests, and the Plains Cree of the prairie are all brothers in language. They are Algon quin, related in many ways to the Chippewa, but shorter In stature and stronger physically. The hunting grounds of the Cree must cover a total area of not much under 2,000,000 square miles, and the tribe, in its various branches, num bers perhaps 23,000 souls. Consump tion is rife among many of the Cree tribes, but the number of the whole race does not materially lose or gain from year to year. The Cree, though always friendly to the whites, have had their share of war, and have waged campaigns with fair success against the Sioux, Black feet, and Eskimo. A large proportion of them are mixed bloods, and perhaps half the tribe are descended from French or Scotch traders and trapper! of the long ago. I'lrt Jutlce to Wenr Girai. "Few people, I venture to say, even in high official positions, know what justice wore the first gown in the Su preme Court of the United btates, said an authority on the subject re cently. "When Justice John Jay took the office he thought the members of the supreme bench should wear fcowns of some sort. Accordingly he appeared in his own academic gown, which he wore by virtue of having received a degree from the University of Dublin, or, as it was then known, Trinity col lege. It was a trlcolored gown, too. Such a garment would look peculiar now, since the black gown has been adopted." t'urlon Hemeuleii. In Lincolnshire If a girl is suffering with the ague she cuts off a lock of her hair and ties it to an aspen tree. Imploring the latter to shake in her stead. In good old Ross-shire, where every once in a while a rooster is buried alive as a. remedy for epilepsy not in the rooster, but in the person who does the burying some of the hair of the patient Is generally added to the offering. London Standard. Ont of TrnlnlnK. "My boy's back from college." "How doea he take holt ' on the farm?" "I hain't seen him make no cane rush for the woodpile." Kansas City Journal. Which would you rather have cut off, providing it was necessary to lose one or the other: an arm or a kg? No man ever loves the way he thought he would. He loves the way be has to or Is allowed to.