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The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-08-28

Cleveland.-The meeting of the A.
4 M. college students, which was to
have been held at the A. & NJ. college,
has been postponed by Hon. Thomas
5. Open, president of the association,
to Thursday, October 30, to be held at
Jackson. that being the day set aside
by the State Fair association as A. &
M. College Boys day.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-09-11
PUZZLES TO THE BLIND.
Lack of "Size Sense" Gives Them Odd
Ideas About Animals.

Lack of "Size Sense" Gives Them Odd
Ideas About Animals.
The path of the teacher of the blind
is beset with many difficulties, one of
the greatest being the task Of convey
ing to their mind some idea Of the
size, shape and features Of birds and
animals. Ia many cases, it Is true,
models are used. but owing to their
small size they are, to say the least,
of doubtful advantage.
The ignorance of blind children is
great, often grotesque. a teacher Of
a class may find that a child does not
know whether d sheep or a COW is the
larger, or he may even find that q
hare has wings. However carefully
they are told that a small model OF a
cow is only one-fortieth the size of
the real animal, more often than not
they are unable TO think Of the ami
NAL as being any larger than the mod
ell and will stoop and describe some
thing about the size of q kitten when
asked to Indicate the size OF q COW.
This arises from the fact that no
standard of size form and texture-be-
yond those which they set up through
handIing-can exist for those who have
never had the use of their eyes.
Even those who have had sight are
found to lose their standards unless
they are renewed from time to time
by actual contact An instance of this
was noticed not long ago when a boy
Of about twelve recovered his sight
after an operation and for several
days following went about In state
of surprise and fear, for almost every
thing which be had not been In the
habit of touching frequently differed
considerably in size from his recollec-
tons of seven years before. The size
of his parents alarmed him very much,
as he imagined they were much small
er.-Strand Magazine.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-09-11

wnLp the balloonist has been waited
to the skies If not "on flowery beds
Of ease at least on an air mattress,
with a gas bag going up in docile
agreement with laws governing the
expansion Of gas The carburetor
freezes at a lower temperature than
the balloonist's water bottles, because
vaporizing liquid in itself produces
cold.
But I have had water bottles freeze
in a balloon often enough, and the
temperature has been around zero. The
ballast freezes. and, instead Of sending
1t over the side from the scoop in a
fine cloud, you have to break up the
stony mass with a hammer lest chunk
fall on somebody's head below, One
day when we were shivering in the
thickest Of ulsters and drinking hot
soup with n relish. we could have
looked over the edge Of the basket and
seen the farmers in Iowa having sun
strokes in the hayfelds-that is, If we
had recognized either sunstrokes or
farmers, for at that height man
who is always hiding under his hat
looks like a period on this page.-Au-
gustus Post in American Magazine.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-09-11

become VERY appleoiaule ana p,rnia
nent expense From a few pllS at first
l increased my allowance day 10y day
until it took thirty or forty fun "a Chi
nese measure; there are seventy six
fun in an ouncel to give me the mental
relief l crayed The physical craving
the body's demand for it-can be salts
fed with approximately the same
amount each day The mental craving
the minds demand-increases daily,
What satisfies tonight is too little to-
morrow, and so on. To feel even nor
mai now needed three or four times
the half dozen pills which at first had
given me such exquisite pleasure. To
get the exhiaration, the soothed nerves
the contentment | craved, l. like each OF
the millions before me, had to use more
and more each day
Thirty six fun of opium at retail
costs, at an average, So. a fifty cent
tip TO my cook and quarter for the
privilege of the room In which | smok.
ed made my habit cost me about $4 a
day. which made a CHASTITY hole In even
the good salary earned. | began to
buy my opium by the can, paying from
500 to $50 for tins averaging 460 fun.
The elimination of the retailers profit
helped temporarily, but the ever in
creasing demands of my habit soon
overcame the saving"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-09-11
THAT "SINGULAR BEING"
Edmund Gosse's Pen Portrait of the
Poet SWinburne.

In the COLLECTED Essays of Edward
Gosse" is an elaborate pen picture of
Swinburne 'Of all the human beings
whom | have known" he says, 81
think that Algernon Swinburne was
the most extraordinary" And here is
the characteristic way in which he be
gins to sketch that singular being"
HE was short, with sloping shoul-
ders, from which rose a long and slen
der neck, surmounted by very large
head The Uranium seemed to be out
OF all proportion to the rest of the
structure. His spine was rigid. and,
though he often bowed the heaviness
of his head, "lasso papayero collo," he
seemed never to bend his back. EX-
cept In consequence of a certain phys
ical weakness, which probably may
in more philosophical days come to be
accounted for and palliated-except
when suffering from this external
cause, he seemed immune from all the
maladies that pursue mankind
He did not know fatigue; his agility
and brightness were almost mechani-
cal. never heard him complain Of
headache or a toothache. He required
very little sleep, and occasionally when
l have parted from him in the evening
after saying good night he has simply
sat back in the deep sofa in his sit
ting room, his little feet close togeth
er, his arms against his side, folded in
his frock coat like a grasshopper in
its wing covers, and fallen asleep, ap-
parently for the night before / could
blow out the candles and steal forth
from the door.
II am speaking, of course, Of early
days; it was thus about 1875 that
closely observed him He was more
hypertrophied intelligence than a
man. His vast brain seemed to weigh
down and give soidity to frame
otherwise as light as thistledown, a
body almost as immaterial as that Of
fairy In the streets he had the
movements Of a somnambulist, and Of
ten | have seen him passing like a
ghost across the traffic of Holborn or
threading the pressure of carts east
ward in Gray's inn road without glanc-
ing to the left or the right, like some
thing blown before a wind"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-09-11
TACT AND A PLUMBER.
slass<rIy Inactivity at a Banquet In
High Society.

High Society.
Not so very long ago there was a
dinner given in exclusive Washington
society at which the most tactful per-
son was undoubtedly a plumber in
overalls.
1t was an elaborate dinner. The
central feature of the table decora.
tions was playing. fountain, but just
before the dinner was to be served the
fountain refused to play.
plumber was hastily called. He
crawled under the table and soon had
the fountain sending a delicate spray
into the air. He was busy Tightening
the couplings of the temporary pipes
under the table when the head butler,
his mind relieved of a load of care
when he saw the fountain playing, an
nounced in the drawing room:
Dinner is served"
Before the plumber knew what was
happening the guests had entered the
dining room, chairs were drawn up,
and he suddenly found himself hem
med in by wall in which trousers al
ternated with skirts.
1t was a big round table, so he was
safe from discovery from any shifting
foot. He scratched his head and won,
dered what he should do. He looked
carefully around Neither to the right
nor to the left nor between any pair
of feet was there sufficient space for
him to wiggle through The only way
to get out would be to tap on some
knee and-"Pardon me, please"
He didn't know much about the eti-
quette Of formal dinner parties, but he
had hunch that that wouldn't make a
hit. He decided that there was just one
thing to do--stay where he was until
the trousers and skirt wall departed.
So there he sat while course after
course was served, coffee slipped, ciga-
rettes and cigars smoked, nothing to
entertain him but a ground door view
of high society.
When the dinner was at last over
and the guests had returned to the
drawing room the plumber crawled
forth.
The hostess had tarried for a mo-
ment to give a few directions to the
head butler. She gasped with aston.
ishment.
The plumber explained.
Sir" said she, you are a gentle
man" Then to the head butler,
james, give this man SO for him.
self" Then to the plumber, And
please say nothing. New York Times
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-09-11
FRANCE IN SOUTH AMERICA.
Its Influence In the Melting Pot of the
Latin Races.

South America is the melting pot of
the Latin races, and the French infiu
ence now seems to predominant over
that of Spain. Italy is we'll represent
ed, especially ir strong Argentina
Brazil seems to be the most polyglot of
them all, for here the native Portu
guese is mingled not only with the
Spanish and French and English, but a
great deal of German. In the south of
Brazil 90 per cent of the people speak
German, and Portuguese is not always
enforced as the language even Of the
public schools.
The large German colonies here do
not affiliate with these people as they
do with the Anglo-Saxon brothers Of
the north. They live to themselves,
they retain their own language and
customs. In Chile, where there are
many English, too, the Germans direct
the education Of the country. Buenos
Aires is close to this Germanic group
In southern Brazil and feels its influ-
ence, though Argentina seems the most
unified and progressive of the repub.
lies In point of literary expression and
culture
French influence also is felt IN Bra
I'll. Rio de Janeiro itself was founded
as a refuge for French Huguenots,
though they were afterward driven
back In Paris today one hears that a
youth is TO emigrate to America, but
probably it is to Rio that he Is going
There are many French immigrants,
and French is required in most of the
schools and is next to the native tongue
in Importance in northern Brazil For
merly In Brazil Spanish or German al
ways came next to French, but it is
said that some of the states now re-
quire English as the third language
and that Brazilians are proud of their
Engish.-Christian Science Monitor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-09-11
Large Crowd
Attends Labor Day Picnic On
Fair Grounds.

The parade and picnic given by
the Twenty-second Annual Labor
Day picnic committee was we'll at
tended and large crowds were on
the Butler County Fair Grounds
all day. The parade was made up
to expectations but the picnic was
not as successful as expected.
While the picnic was well attended
yet the public did not have the
change to contribute to the amuse-
ments on the grounds. The COM
mittee will realize nothing on the
outing this year. A dry picnic is
the main cause of the lack OF
patronage.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-09-11
Awards Made This Week BY
The Industrial Commits.
sion OF Ohio.

The State Industrial Commission
granted awards to the following:
Clyde DeArmond, of Third and
Ludlow Sts., awarded $57 68 in.
jured in the employ of The Central
Motor Co.
Henry Watkins, 125 Sims Ave.
awarded 1854 injured in the en-
ploy of c. E. & J. |. Griesmer.
Louis Paul, of Collinsville award
ed $1500.00 injured in the employ
of The Pan American Bridge Co.,
of New Castle, Ind, in Butler
County.
These awards of the commission
were granted under the provisions
Of the Ohio Workmen's Compen
sation Law.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-09-11
PAPER MAKERS
ORGANIZE A LARGE UNION
Old 43 Has Again Revived
And Members Are
Jubilent.

What appears to be one of the
largest and healthiest unions in the
Miami Valley was organized few
weeks ago ia Hamilton. Old No.
43 Local of the international Bro
therhood of Paper Makers has re-
vived after a peaceful slumber of
several years. After several at
tempts by different organizers of
the international Union it was up
to Organizer w. r. Smith to or
ganlze the paper makers which he
has certainly done successfully.
Smith came to Hamilton about
three weeks ago with a determine
tion to get the men together and
organize the union. In two weeks
the results of his work In this city
was more than gratifying to Smith
and to the International Brother
hood. We are informed that alter
sixty of the paper makers joined
the union that Peter Thomson, Jr.,
told the balance of the men in the
big mill that he was aware that
about that number was in the union
and that the balance might as we'll
join also. This created quite a
stir among the employees of the
mill, and on last Sunday afternoon
about seventy more joined the
ranks IF Local No. 43. Another
meeting will be held next Sunday
afternoon in the B. u. B. hall cor
ner Court and Second streets and
il Is likely that the balance of the
paper makers will join the ranks.
About one hundred and thirty of
the paper makers were in the La
Dor Day parade AID this number
made quite showing.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-09-11
ABE YOU A MATHEMATICIAN? /?
Then Solve This Problem and Win a
Prize of $4,000.


The largest single prize offered for
scientific discovery is still going
begging. The prize has been open to
competition for many years At first
sight theS problem for solution of
which the prize is offered looks no
more difficult than those with which
high school students are familiar, but
many of the greatest mathematicians
in the world have tried to solve the
problem and given 1T up In despair.
1t is known as Fermat's problem
Nearly 800 years ago Fermat, one
of the greatest mathematicians who
ever lived. stated that the equation
xn+yn=Zn could not be satisfied by
whole numbers when n is an odd prime
number different from unity The prob
lem may be stated in another way-viz,
that xn-t YIN cannot be satisfied
when is any integer greater than 2.
The one follows as logical conclusion
from the other.
The Academy of Sciences of Goettin.
gen, Germany, offers prize of 100000
marks about S25,000) for proof of this
assertion. This is the prize that is
going begging.
DR.. Joseph Bowden. professor OF
mathematics, Adelphi college, Brook.
lyn, asked by the Scientific American
to state the precise conditions for win
ming the prize, writes that the Acad
emy of Sciences will not consider any
manuscripts sent in, but only proposed
solutions printed and offered for sale
as monographs, in books on mathe
mates or in mathematical periodicals
The award will not be made until two
years after the publication of the mem
DIR In order that mathematicians may
have ample opportunity to test and
criticise the solution
The object of these restrictions is tc
save the academy from being flooded
with undigested manuscripts. 1t will
only consider solutions that have stood
the test Of some competent editor OF
publisher In the first place.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-09-11
SH0EMAKlNG IN AMERICA.
Massachusetts Now Turns Out Nearly
Half the Worlds Product.

Half the Worlds Product.
Thomas Beard, arriving by the May
flower In 1929, was the first shoemak
er to come from England to America
He settled at Salem, Mass.
More than S25O,O00,000 is now In
vested in American shoemaking and
more than 100000 wage earners are
employed
Before 1850 practically every shoe
making process was hand process.
Lynn, Mass, with over 100 factories,
is the leading shoe city of the world
OF the worlds boots and shoes more
than A per cent are made in Massa,
chusetts.
John Brooks Nichols Of Lynn adapt
ed the Howe sewing machine to sew
the uppers Of shoes in 1851, and this
was the first important step In the ap-
plication of machinery to shoemaking.
William r. Trowbridge at FELTON,
vile, now part of Marlborough,
Mass, applied horsepower to the shoe
making machinery Of 1855, Steam and
water power came later.
The poet Whittier was a shoemaker
in his youth. Henry Wilson, eight.
eenth vice president of the United
States, was "the Natick cobbler" and
was always proud of his shoemaking
days.
Ebenezer Breed Of Lynn is credited
with securing by personal influence the
first protective tariff on shoes. He was
a merchant Of Revolutionary times.
August Destouy, a New York me-
chanic, invented in 1862 the first cury-
ed needle to sew turn shoes From "a
Primer Of Boots and Shoes" Compiled
by Daniel S. Knowlton.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-09-11
Executions In Eurone.

Methods ofputting criminals to death
vary. In Europe the guiIlotlne is the
mode Of execution most generally EN-.
ployed Austria, Holland and Portugal
are the only other countries besides
Great Britain where criminals are
hanged In Oldenburg they are shot In
Brunswick they are beheaded, and in
Spain they are garroted. = London Tele-
graph.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-09-11
susnicious.

Ernest Vizetelly, who has publish
ed a record of his experiences dur
ing the Prussian war, tells a
story to illustrate the popular mania
for discovering treason" that prevail
ed in Paris.
He says that one day soldier re
marked to a comrade:
Il am sure that the captain is trail
tor"
"How's that?" was the rejoinder
We'll" said the suspicious soldier,
have you not noticed that every time
he orders us to march forward we in
variably encounter the enemy?"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-09-11
Displayed In Lobby OF
Strauss & Company Store.

A papier mache model of the
Twin Greek Reservoir designed to
be built Immediately north of Ger
mantown, on Twin Creek is being
shown in lobby of Strauss & Co.,
store.
The model is made on a scale of
one inch equals twenty feet. Hor-
izontal and vertical scales are equal.
1t is very nearly accurate as to the
typographical and engineering fea-
lures. 1t represents graphically
the flood prevention scheme pro-
posed for the Miami Valley by the
Morgan Engineering Co.
The model shows at glance
how the waters of Twin Greek,
when they exceed the bank full
stage, will be retarded by an enor
nous dam and caused to back up
and overflow the valley above.
The capacity of the reservoir is
5 200 900, 900 cubic feet. When
the quantity of water held back ex-
ceeds this amount it will flow over
the spillway, which is shown to be
700 feet in length and 10 feet thick
on top.
The ordinary flow in the channel
amounts to about 60 cubic feet per
second, but when the creek is
carrying its full capacity, 5000
cubic feet of water per second will
pass a given point. The spillway
channel, constructed of reinforced
concrete, is shown by the model to
have much greater capacity even
than the bank full stage of the
creek, In fact, IS, 600 cubic feet
per second may be carried arourd
the dam by the spillwsy channel
The dam itself is $50 feet long
ever all, 105 feet high, measured
from the bottom of the river bed
40 feet wide at the spillway level
These dimensions are comparable
with the other dams designed for
the Miami, Saltwater and Mad
Rivers.
The outlet tunnel is shown in its
relative position to the dam and the
provisions that have been made to
guard against the blocking of the
tunnel by ice, debris and rubbish
of all kinds are shown as we'll as
can be in a model of this kind
The tunnel has capacity of 4, 800
cubic feet per second.
The papier mache relief map is
9 by feet in dimensions. Several
men have been employed in its
construction for a number of weeks
An exact duplicate of the model
was originally made of clay, this
material being pliable enough to be
worked into the shape desired.
When this clay had hardened a
plaster of Paris cast was made of it.
Then papier mache, which is really
a grert quantity of thin sheets OF
paper heavily sized, was pounded
and pressed until it took the form
OF the plaster of paris cast When
this papier mache had hardened, II
was mounted on a quartered oak
cabinet which is provided with legs
that may be adjusted to suit the
needs Of exhibition purposes.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-09-11
The Myrtle Warbler.

The myrtle warbler breeds in the
northern and eastern parts of the
United States, but migrates through
every woodland path and is so numer-
Gus that it is familiar to every obser-
yer. More than three efourths Of its
food consists of insects, practically all
of which are harmful The bird is
small, nimble and successfully attacks
insects too minute to be prey for larger
birds These insects are it's chief items
Of food.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-09-11
BRAVING AERIAL lCINEss.
Easier For the BaIloonst Than For the
Man In an Aeroplane.

Easier For the BaIloonist Than For the
Man In an Aeroplane.
/ am often asked why the aereplane,
which has reached at its very highest
little over $4,000 feet, brings back its
aviator even from a much lower point,
often almost exhausted with cold,
when the halloonist floating for hours
at height of over four miles is not
overcome by low temperature and
hardly inconvenience. The answer is
simple. The aviator rushes upward
from the earth, cutting his way in
ascending spirals ever against the
wind of his own swift flight and the
roaring blast of his propeller.
He is the epitome of action He is
mans supreme defiance of natures
precedents The nervous strain Is
something fearful as the machine
claws up the side of nothingness to-
ward a mark in the heavens, invisible
yet all compelling, the mark another
man has set-the altitude record. Out
of sight of the waiting crowds, no
longer even a dot In the sky, he may
meet opposing air currents, binding
cloud banks that muffie him so that he
cannot see the tips of his own wings.
He may be forced to buck against adj
verse conditions so that he keeps cir
cling round and round with the baro-
graph fAshed to the side of the sma-
chine scarcely moving, and then he
thinks about the last mans mark and
sets his teeth-and sets the mark high
er in the heavens.
He may come back so stiff with cold
that he cannot stir from the seat, but
a good deal OF 1t will be due to the in
tense nervous strain. for no one so au
daciously affronts gravitation and gets
away with it entirely unscathed. Mean
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-09-11

Montreal is very religious. Men
kneel on the steps outside the churches
With two galleries all around, Notre
Dame will seat 10000 people, and at
times thousands stand. In the old
church of Bonseeours lamps in the
form OF ships are hung Some are an
cient galleasses, some brigantines,
some modern screw steamboats, with
proper boats hung to their davits.-
New York World.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-09-11
The Why of the Tip.

The reason why the tipping system
will never be abolished is that the at
titude of the average patron of the res
iaurant toward the high mighty waiter
Is that of Alice, who wept with delight
when Ben Bolt gave her d smile and
irembled with fear at his frown.--
louisville Courier journal.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-09-11
LURE OF The OPIUM PILL.
And the Way the Cost Piles Up as II
Ensiaves Its Victim.

In the American Magazine appears
an article entitled "A Modern Opium
Eater" written by former newspaper
man, who became a victim Of the
habit and is now a convict in peni-
tentiary. The following extract from
his article gives an idea Of the amount
of money required by an opium eater:
by this time the cost of opium had
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-09-11
An Old Acquaintance.

resourceful girl, having danced a
pink party frock to ribbons. took what
was left Of it and made wonderful
lamp shade. The next evening she was
entertaining a caller in the soft light
and she said to him quite casually:
How do yon like my new lamp
shadef'
William regarded 1t for a moment
critically. then he said: THE last time
| saw that shade danced with IT,
New York Post.