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THE CELINA DEMOCRAT, CELINA, OHIO m SCULPTOR MAKES NEW FACES FOR WOUNDED MEN Copper Masks Arc Molded by Francis Derwent Wood, a British Officer. AMERICAN TRENCHES AT BOCA GRANDE Congressmen Want Portraits in tho Directory WASHINGTON'. Tlw CougrrsHioniil Record recently contained n petition sipncd liy (Ci members of the house recommending that 111 nil futuro Issues of tho Cldi. -r s..iiiunl directory the photographs of tho 435 members (if the house accompany t t r autobiogra phies In that annual publication. Furthermore, the house voted In formally to Include In the B;:inlart priming bill nn amendment autlii-ri.-tiipr puhlication of photographs In the directory. An amusing debnto, participated In by handsome and not bo handsome members of the house, preceded the adoption of the. amendment. Con pressmen Edward of Georgia unit Smith of Idaho sponsored the amend ment. Among the riusons advanced why thu pictures of members oiiKht to " published In the directory the following were enumernted In the petition: Members would he more quickly acquainted with each other; oIllcialB In tho department would e.isily recognize members and make introductions leas necessary; the directory would he more valuable as n public document; the expense would be nominal, only a few hundred dollars each session. When Congressman Rugsdale suggested moving pictures of members, and Congressman Walsh recommended a plush-covered album for the clerk's desk. Congressman Smith insisted that this uis a serious matter, and ho did not intend to reply to jocular inquiries. .Mr. Walsh said that "it might be wise to have the fingerprints to aid in tho identification of members." V " A "A t ' REMARKABLE FACULSUR6ERY Many Pathetic Cases Fall to Care of Celebrated Artist Spends Month In Experiments Before At- temping His First Ca New Eye for Soldiers. London. Not "new lamps for old," but "now faces for old," Is the cry of tho 'mirit-rn Arabian Nights magician. This magician is a Bculptor of renown, English by birth but half American by ancestry. Ho is Francis Derwent Wood, a name familiar ii. the I'nlted States, where various collectors possess examples of his work. Wood's steadily growing 1'iiUie, however, was extended in Amer ica Just before the war began, when lie was commissioned by Lady I'aget and the duchess of Marlborough on be half of the American women In ling land to execute the statue of William 3 Public Health Service Monkey Causes Trouble BECAUSE an Innocent, but hewhis!:ered. monkey belonging to the public health service was locked in a room vhlle a citizen of Washington was looking up the animal's antecedents, the United States may be sued for dam ige. The room was the property of a man living near the hygienic labora tory, ond although- tho monkey vcas the occupant thereof for only au Lour, what he did to the apartment was aplenty. lie made gay with a pair of trousers, smashed a large banquet l.'imp and tore oit 12 square yards of wall paper. The trouble started when the monkey left the laboratory without permission. For several weeks he had been confined in a cage in the building and, in company with a horse, many guinea pigs and several chickens, had submitted to a number of experiments at the hands of surgeons. One of the uses to which he was put was the testing of serums, but he did not like the hypodermic. Watching his chance, one day he left the cage when one of the helpers forgot to lock the door, and within a few minutes was skipping I njs ef( cheek torn open from his ear over the roofs. to tno corner 0f his mouth. Like most Tho first thing the surgeons knew about tho monkey's escape was a call 0f these victims of facial disfiguro from a nearby retail merchant, who inquired whether a reward had been raent, he had to undergo operation offered for the animal's roturn. "I will give you your monkey for $2," be said, I after operation. He received his wound "and that is cheap, too, for I had a terrible time catching him." j on jay 13 0f iliit ycar. Finally he was "Hut we have lio fund for that purpose." replied the doctor In charge of j brought to a London hospital on Sep the laboratory. "I think myself it is worth $2 to catch a live monkey. I ! tember 2, and up to a couple of weeks wouldn t do A for $10. The man wanted to get rid of the monkey, so he led one of tl'l Attendants to his house. Wjien the door was opened to the room where tho monkey was confined it vas found to be a wreck. "Oh. my new trousers," cried the man who caught the runaway. "Just look at them; they cost me $9 last week." "Perhaps you had better keep the monkey for the damage he has done," suggested the man from the laboratory. "Not on your life," cried the owner of the trousers. "If ho stays in my house two hours longer there will be nothing left. Take him away, and I will sue the I'nited States for what I have lost." - '.V a V, n Thesu trenches at Uocu yirando, Mexico, were dug and are occupied by negro troops. forces, who wns minus an eyo and part of his cheek, and a British private. whose left cheek and nose were fright fullv torn bv a shninnel bullet. All these men will now be able to follow their own trades, instead of having to exist, shunned bv all save the meet stoical of their fellows, on the prince Iv pension of 2.1 shillings ($0) a week which is all that their country can at l'ilt, which, as soon as circumstances I , , f v . . . of tuilli inca make tho thing more suitable, win do presented by them to their native laud in commemoration of the hundred years of peace between this country and America. Lieutenant Wood, ns he now is, nas 'liscovered how t? give new faces to lien who have lost theirs in the war. He can make new eyes, cheeks, fore heads, chins; in fact, he Is making them daily. Up to date Derwent Wood has made new faces, or at least parts of faces, for five such victims of war. Remarkatle Facial Surgery. The most pathetic case of all of these was that of a trooper named Everitt, whose face had been broken by an explosive bullet. His nose had been carried away almost entirely and ago, despite the fact that his wound had entirely healed and surgery ad mittedly had done all that it could for him, ho remained a sad sight. Ilefore the war he was a taxi driver. Now, made at least presentable by the wonderful "facial mask" which Wood has contrived for him, a mask consist ing of false nose, cheek and a "mus tache" which conceals his Injured lip, ex-Trooper Kvcritt is plying his old Mystery of the Missing Reindeer Is Unsolved j :Zn "W mask " : for the first time," said the sculptor, HO ate the reindeer?" is the question that Is agitating the department of 1 ne jumped for joy." the interior, it is a deep, uar;t mystery, iteroert .Meyer, private sec- mmm r retary to the secretary of the interior, affects to believe that the matter is one of no moment. But when he is pressed into discussion of the subject his face wears the expression seen upon the face of the cat after its justly cele brated interview with the canary. But lw io tlio rra m -. 1 i lint rt Vi r oonin. fii ' iL'ii A ,arys fmnlPlliate official family who Hi A I V1 ' VCfi i has produced an alibi for himself. Private secretaries, in the very nature of their work, are experts In alibis. The story of the missing reindeer starts with the beginning of the win ter's social activities in Washington. For the first time in several years official Washington determined to resume the old practice of having cabinet dinners. That is. each cabinet officer in turn was to give a dinner to the president and Mrs. Wilson. Bright young men about the department concluded that here was a chance to pu'.l a clever blu-it and incidentally advertise the resources of Alaska. Stephen T. Mather, a young millionaire who puts in some 14 hours a ay at work as assistant to t-3e secretary, put the idea into effect. He got William T. Loop, who is in charge of the Alaska school and reindeer service, to import a shipment of reindeer men, from Alaska via Seattle, and it was put la cold storage awaiting Kemt.u j Lane's cabinet dinner. The secretary was called We,,t unexpectedly, and it was necessary to postpone the feast. Therefore !!) .;old-siorage warehouse had the custody of the predouB meat for some time. VTien the dinner date approached someone thought to check up on the meat. A delegation visited tho butcher shop where it had been stored. Mother Hubbard's sensations on discovering the bareness of her cupboard had nothing on tho sensations of the delegation. The meat, to the butcher said, had been withdrawn by order of the secretary. The secretary, when this was reported to him, was mystified, but since severoj Ksva, authority to do things in his name he concluded to remain mystified. InquirB might prove embarrassing. So it was that President Wilson had somethl'ig else to eat when he tucked his legs under Secretary Lane's table. Alaska reindeer did not appear on the menu. Even the President Couldn't Resist This Show THE boy in a man remains even if the man becomes president of the United States. This was demonstrated the day President Wilson went to congress to advise the lawmakers that he had sent the ultimate note on the submarino issue to Germany. Plainly cognizant of the seriousness of the step he had taken the president left the White House in his automobile for the mile drive up Pennsylvania avenue to the capitol. Passing one of the local newspaper offices was a crowd of thousands stretched completely across the wide thoroughfare, stopping the pre3idental party, bent upon an er rand of the greatest concern to the entire nation. The great crush puz zled the president and the secret service men until they followed tho upward gaze of the sea of faces and saw suspended In midair a man struggling to release himself from a straight jacket. It was a well-known juggler performing one of his outdoor advertising feats. The police forced a passageway for the White House car, which moved ahead Blowly, the president all the while peering through tho windows, first the side, then the rear, apparently as much absorbed in the man's antics as any newsboy. He seemed disaapointed when the way was cleared for tho continuance of his Journey before the n atidevillian had extricated himself. New Eye for Soldiers. Another case in which Wood has salved human wreckage is that of Driver Fergusson, a member of the Ca nadian field artillery, who was hide ously wounded at Ypres on April 25, l&lo. A piece of shell carried away his right eye entirely, and as the surgical report professionally put It, "the sur rounding structures." In the ordinary way, there would have been nothing to fix an artificial eye "to," and, as in the case of Trooper Everitt, his disfigure ment was so appalling to behold that it is doubtful of he ever could have taken up his eld trade, which was that of a machinist. Now with the upper part of his right cheek restored, and what appear to be two perfectly good eyes beaming at you from behind spectacles, this youngster not only will be able to earn his living hereafter, but is going to get married, and the gratitude of his fian cee to Derwent Wood is only surpassed by his own. These are the two worst cases with which the Bculptor has yet had to deal, but others in which ho has been equal ly successful are those of Private Har per of the King's Royal rides, who also lost most of his nose and the biggest part of his cheekbone; Lance Corporal Davis of tho Australian imperial KAISER VISITS AUSTRIANS A ast&mm -vm fj , ' i lwyt if COLOR-BLIND BEES. According to the London correspondent of the New York Sun, Prof. K. Ton Friach of Berlin has been making a series of interesting experiments to test the color sense of bees. These experiments seem to show that, what ever color sense bees may possess, the ability to distinguish rod as red. is not comprised in it. The professor carried on his experiments on bees in the open air near his hives, and by the aid of what Is called tho food-preference method, he found that one day's training was enough to teach many hundreds of bees to distinguish between blue and gray. To test the bee's perception of color, he offered them a material induce ment to remember (and distinguish) that whatevor was colored bloe was sweet, and whatever was gray (although ho employed 32 shades) - not sweet In the same way they were taught later that yellow indlealwS sweet ness. But no amount of training was ever able to teach tho boes that thoro was any different color between red SDt black. The boss warn uu::; clor blind to r4 This picture was taken somewhere on the Eastern front when the kaiser visited the Austrian commander gen eral of cavalry. G. D. K. von Boehm-Ermolli. SOLDIERS CARRY OWN BATHS Many Ingenious Devices Displayed at Red Cross Sale in London. London. An active service exhibi tion is being held at Knlghtsbridge, at which are displayed hundreds of in genious devices for the comfort, health and safety of officers and men at the front The money raised by the sale ot these articles goes to pacity." Wood's War Service Soon after the beginning of the war Col. Bruce Porter of the Itoyal Army Medical corps made u speech to the members of the Chelsea Arts club, of which Derwent Wood is a member. The colonel asked his hearers to make a sacrifice of their art. and if they were too old to fight to accept the lowest service in the ranks of the It. A M. C, A goodly number of the Chelsea artists enlisted In the R. A. M. C. forthwith, and among them was IVrwent Wood. At forty-four he is not available for active service. His father came from Harrisburg, Pa., married an English woman and settled down at Keswick, In Cumberland, where Derwent Wood was born. He began his artistic career at Karlsruhe, later returning to Lngland. and becoming a student 'at the Koyal academy. There he won the gold iiiedal and the traveling scholarship, which took him for some time to Italy. Ho afterward became assistant to Thomas Brock, R. A., ne i.f the most fatuous of British sculptors. Honors were awarded hia at the Paris salon, and four years ago he was made an associate of the Koyul academy. Ex amples of his statuary are in the pos session jf Henry Philips, of his son, J. Phipps of Westbury, L. I., and sev eral other well-known American col lectors Moved to Aid Wounded. Having joined the R. A. M. C. as an ordinary private Wood was sent out to a London military hospital. It is one of the biggest in the metropolis, with more than L.'ou beds. At the begin ning the new orderly's duties were not of an exalted nature, fine of them be ing to assist in rolling a new asphalt path. In a few days, hiwever, the sculptor was drafted into the wards, where he began by taking plaster casts of damaged limbs. He so-in became a master of splints. And in the course of his work he saw the saddest sights of tho war, the men with the muti lated faces. Moved to intense compassion, Der went Wood went to his colonel one day and said: "Let me see what I can do for these poor fellows. 1 believe that I can do something anyway." The officer consented gladly. "I spent months in experiments," said Wood, "belore I undertook my first case. This was in December last, my patient being Trooper Everitt. My 'masks,' as we call them, consist of plates of thin copper, silvered and then painted to match the hue of the pa tient's skin. They are light to wear, they lit like gloves and the men de clare that they give no discomfort whatever. Yes, they are intended to be removed at night, exactly like a set of false teeth, and tliey are easily cleaned with a little potato juice Most of them can be kept in place by means of 'ether gum,' such as actors use, but in cases of artificial eyes and noses, I prefer to 'build' them on to spectacles, which assist to keep them in place and which themselves are held firm by means of a couple of small straps at the back. Plaster Mold Made. "In the beginning a plaster mold of the faco is secured. This is dried and a clay or plasticine 'squeeze' is ob tained from the mold, giving a positive model of the patient's dressed wound and the surrounding healthy tissues; this is fixed to a board on a modeling stand and a sitting from the patient with the undressed wound is obtained. "Having completed my model I pro ceed to cast it, and procure the plaster positive of the wound and its sur rounding structures. Another sitting is had and the portions which are to be hidden eventually by the metal plate are modeled in clay or wax, the edges being blended to the uninjured portions of the face, thus effectively masking any trace of wounds. ThiB is once more molded In plaster, and the edge of the proposed plate being marked on the negative, a cast is ob tained, edges are trimmed to marking and the model Is ready to have the ar tificial eye fitted to the lids. "The plaster eyeball is dug out, the funds of the British Red Cross ahd the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. Among the devices on sale is a small safety razor that will fit easily into a waistcoat pocket, a compact hot bath arrangement, together with pat ent cubes of "condensed heat," which will raise the temperature of water to the proper degree, a shower-bath out fit, and other toilet articles. In order to enable the soldiers to write In the dark a combination pen cil case and electric torch, to throw light on the paper, has been Invented. requisite thickness of lids is carefully worked down, the glass eye placed in position and the edges of the lids made good with thin plaster. Tho model la then taken to tho electrotyper, where an exact reproduction by galvano plostic deposit is made in thin virgin copper. The final sittings are devoted to tho pigmentation of the plate. "I have found a thin coating of cream-colored bath enamel a gftod preparation for flesh color matching. Should the patient have a shiny skin this is easily obtained by vafnish rubbed down to match it. I have tried false hair on eyelids and eyebrows they will iOt stand the weather and have adopted tinfoil split with scissors and soldered into lids for the eye, and for the eyebrows pigment applied to the modeled forms." Lieutenant Wood declared that the American mado artificial limbs were by far the best in the world, and spoke admiringly of the work that is being done at Roehampton by Americans in thu way of equipping armless and leg I vss soldierB. RELICS 125?) TRIES TO CARRY OFF GIRL Madman Whips Three Men Who At tempt to Restrain Him at Fullertown, O. Chardon, O. Charge of assault and battery was made against Blaine Red ding, thirty-two, after his arrest when, it is alleged, he tried a few nights ago to carry away Miss Ethel Springer, seventeen, from her home In Fullertown. Later the charge was withdrawn and ho was adjudged to be insane. He was arrested only after having thrashed three men who tried to hold him. He was taken in charge by a deputy sheriff at his boarding house when kneeling in prayer. I will marry Ethel Springer, no matter what happens," said Redding.as he left later in custody of Sheriff Bal lard and Deputy Rhodes for the New- burg state hospital after being ad judged insane. k-L.: . j Revolutionary Army Huts Uncovered in New York NEW YORK. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered about an excavation near Two Hundred and Fourth street, two blocks west of Broadway, to watch Reginald P. Bolton and four associates unearth relics of the Revolutionary war from huts used by both British and Americans 140 years ago. The searchers had uncovered 47 huts. A great variety of utensils, coins, buttons, and other articles wore recovered. In a cache ot the side of a squat-stone fireplace In one of tho huts were found 12 regimental buttons of the Fifty-second British Regiment of Foot, now the Oxford light infantry. The buttons aro of pewter with steel eyes and gilt edges, and are well preserved. Mr. Bolton thinka some soldier was saving them to take homo to England, when tho fortunes of war separated him from his keepsakes. Mr. Bolton and his associates are primarily seeking material for the res toration of the old Dyckman mansion. One of the huts will be reconstructed at the rear of the house and will be mado historically correct. Many of the articles found in tho excavation will be placed in It. The tops of the huts are almost level with the slope of the hill which conceals them. The buts ere about twelve feet high, and, Mr. Bolton says, were occupied in 177(1 by the American army under Gen. William Heath, and later by Hessians and English. Many Hessian coins have been recovered, a number being dug up recently. Among the relics are some from the Cold stream guards, Seventeenth Leicestershire foot, Fourteenth Buckinghamshire, Twenty-third Welsh fusiliers. Twenty-eighth, Fifty-second, and Forty-second Black Watch regiments, Inniskilllng regiments, and others. Asked to explain why the huts of l l6 years ago were covered with frow four to seven feet of earth, Mr Bo:ton said that when the British had to leue them they set fire to the huts, which had been built into the side of the Ml so that while the front was on the ground level the back was six or seven feet below the surface of the hillside. The wooden roofs and sides burnod and fell upon the stone foundations, leaving a hole where each of the huts had stood. It is his theory that after the war ended the Dyckman family carted earth into the holes on the hillside, filled them level, and planted an orchard over the the camp site, A number of ancient apple trees grow now over the huts that have not been excavated, and tree roots have been found In several of thOBO dug open. Mr. Bolton said the presence of the stone foundations caught earth washed down tbe hills by raiii and tended to put the huts farther underground. Suffrage Orator Yielded to a Chicago Newsboy -There was a conflict the other day between suffrage and com- INSECT CUTS DOWN TREES merce. ana commerce won. u was cuieuy a umira m i-ii uja,,, New Pest Is Causing Much Annoyance to Pacific Coast Fruit Growers. Grass Valley, Cal. The state of Cali fornia is on the trail of the pleocoma, a large beetle of the scarabaid family, and efforts will be made to check his propensity to chop down fruit trees. Agents of the state insectary are here collecting larvae of the pest for the purpose of breeding specimens and studying its life history. The pleocoma Is found in new, stumpy ground. It works just below tho surface, cutting down a good sized tree as neatly as i could be done with a saw. The larva is more than two inches In length, as large as a man's finger and is equipped with a powerful set of jaws. The state insectary at present knows of ro means of controlling the pest. MRS. CLARK AND CHILDREN 5a r HICAGO. Is Miss Elsie Hill of the Congregational Union for Woman Suffrage staged a street meeting at Michigan avenue and Van Buren street. She took a position on the running board of an automobile, which stood beside a news stand, and the following dia logue ensued: "At the present moment the suf frage situation is very . . ." "Just out. Score t' ball game." ". . . promising. Senator L. Y. Sherman and the other poli ticians . . .' "Poiper, latest scores." ". . . aro anxious to declare themselves with what the voter wants, and the Congressional union is . . ." "I got 'em. I got 'em. I got 'em. The latest." ". . . more than anxious to let them know what the people . . ." "All about it. Poiper, the latest." ". . . really want. The women are will . . ." "Pos'new'Journ' 'mer'c'n." ". . . to make any sacrifice to help the cause of political . . ." "Yoi, Yoi, Yoi, the latest, the latest." The crowd pushed around the news stand, and the newsie lost his temper He commenced to push the people away from the stand. "Are we interfering with your work?" Miss Hill asked. "D'ye see me sollln' any poipcrs?" returned the newsie. "I believe," Miss Hill announced, "that I am interfering with this man's business. I am going to move down out of his way." She took a position on the step of an electric and continued her speech. As she talked, other members of the organization sold the Journal which the Congressional union publishes. They carried yellow, white, and blue b&nners Mrs. Edgar E. Clark and her two young children, Mary and Edgar E. Jr. Mrs. Clark, who is the wife of the interstate commerce commission er, takes a prominent part in Wash ington society, a.nd at the same time finds time to raise her family. The "nutshell," as one little case is called, contains 83 assorted drink tab lets, tea, coffee, beef tea, and cordial ginger, six shields for corns, and a checkerboard. A steel body shield, light but effec tive, also is for sale. Cases of bath salts for disinfecting purposes are dis played. A trenching tool with numer ous uses attracts much attention. It Is shorter than a man's arm, and will cut wire and dig up a macadamized road. It Is equipped with pliers, a hatchet blade, pick and water-tap key. Unemployed in Gotham Are Mighty Particular NEW YORK. There Is plenty of work here for the unemployed, but the trouble is, according to the city's employment bureau, there are too many men looking for white-collar jobs, while the gir's expect to break into offices dressed for afternoon tea. There are few applicants who are willing to don overalls and sail right into old man w ork, Just as ii they meant to give him a regular run for his money. They all expect to land jobs In one jump as a railroad president. It's the trend of the times. Everybody's been read ing about the money being cleaned up down In Wall street in the last year, and only a few are willing to consider employment that doesn't carry a $10,000 salary, soft rugs and luxurious office hangings, Chippendale desks and things. An old-fashioned job requiring Jumpers, dirty hands and a lunch pail has about the same appeal as a hard bump on the funny bone. All New York Is running for the big stakes. The entrants in the little overnight selling events could be easily counted on the extended digits of a man with his fist closed. It's a fat job or no job a good, clean, easy going Job with a salary that you would have to have a moving van back up to the office door to cart away. All the little odds and ends that used to bring the unem ployed on the run for fear that some earlier bird would walk off with them are being left for tho Janitor to sweep out in the morning cleanup. None of the little work for Father Knickerbocker. The same goes for women out of work. The heads of the public employ ment bureau say that girls seeking work are too much engrossed with the idea of breaking into offices all dolled up in the latest fashion short skirts, high boots, etc. Just as though they were going to an afternoon tea. In Bpite of these few handicaps the city bureau is widening its activities. Employers are sending to it for help and good jobs aro being obtained for those who show a desire to perform real work. Alabama Bailiff Orders Bees Arrested by Name BIRMINGHAM, ALA. Becoming involved in a dispute over a trivial matter, two citizens of -Montgomery county struck a snag in the law when a swann of bees owned by one migrated to the home of the other. Thfs renewed the trouble, and V. C. Frizzle, bailiff of the city court, was appealed to. "I want my bees," said the orig inal owner; "they have gone to that fellow's home." Frizzle began an investigation to ascertain whether he had authority to return the bees to the rightful owner. After consulting many law books, this was his conclusion, as expressed in his own words: "T-flnd that before you can ob tain your bees you must have them arrested in the regular way. And before they can be arrested you must swear out an individual warrant against every bee In the swarm. I also find that before you can swear out an Individual warrant against every bee you must know tho name of each one." The rightful owner said he was willing to rive hia neighbor a warrant deed to one swarm of bees, but he did not know the name of each one in the warm. So the bees are still in their new home. fYOU MUST HME 7HEM 1 flB&J,