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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-01-30
WORLD OF IAbOR

Senator Borah. chairman of a
Senate investigation committee, re
ported that martial law had been
uuiustly exercised in the West Vir-
ginia coal strike
The chief of the Mine Depart
ment of West Virginia has COM
piled a statement showing that
there are II, ,321 men employed in
the States mining industry. Of
this number 81 ,612 are Americans.
IA, 900 are negroes, and %, 709
are foreigners, of whom the ma
jority are Italians.
In an interview, published IL a
Philadelphia paper Captain Grpme
of the Pennsylvania State Consta-
bulary, indicates that lis cup of
bitterness is filed to overfowjng
because the last Legislature de
feated a proposal to increase his
force 120 men. The captain is an
CRY, and expresses the opinion that
labor agitators" are responsible
for his undoing
Charles H. Meyer, president of
the Western Federation of Miners,
and thirty-seven other officials and
members Of the organization were
indicted at Houghton, Mich on
charges of conspiracy in connection
with the copper miners strik. The
true bill was SO worded that the al
legations against the men constitute
a misdemeanor. Several other true
bills ere returned, but because
they charged felonies Judge P. II.
O Brien o~ered the documents
sealed until the men named in them
have been arrested.
The Los Angeles workers have
started an organization campaign
with the object of bringing all the
unorganized workers into the vari-
Gus unions. The slogan of the
campaign is to be 100 per cent
union city" Many mass meetings
have been arranged and immense
quantities of literature is to be dis
tributed. Bill boards are to be
covered with posters giving short
definitions of unionism and argu-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-01-30
Branded AS Firetraps.

Cleveland, Jan. 30. In a report
made public by the Chamber of
Commerce many schoolhouses in
this city are branded as hretraps,
and that some buildings are ofsu b
antiquatt d construction that they
would not be tolerated by progress
+sive men for any occupation what
soever The report condemns the
method of FIRE proofing ceilings of
easements of old buildings as only
a temporary expedient which does
not safe guard the rooms above from
the spread of flames il case Of fire.
1t is recommended that many OF
the elder schoolhouses be torn down
and automatic spripklers be placed
on others.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-01-30
Increase To TeIegraphers.

Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 30-A
board of arb'trato-s has grant q a
wage increase of S. a month to tel
egraphers on the Wheeling and
Lake E-ie raj road. A minimum
wage of $65 month is fixed. Bet
ter working conditions have been
obtained aid wheie bonds are re-
quired premiums will be paid by
the road. Vacation, with pay, will
be given all employees after two
years service.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-01-30
GENIUS AND A CLUB.
Contemporary Criticism as an Unfair
and Msrciless Weapon.

! and Msrciless Weapon.
The world has never seen an age In
which there was more excuse for ques-
toning the validity OF contemporary
Judgment 1t would be the height of
folly to expect posterity to authenti-
rate the vaporings of an appreciation
which in shifting its stress from the
universal to the personnel has changed
from criticism into colloquy. from elm
less than truism that the experience
Of the artist in all ages. according to
the verdict OF history, is identical with
itself.
In the words OF Sidney Lanier. .'s
the artist shall put forth humbly and
lovingly the very best and highest that
is within him. utterly regardless of
contemporary criticism. What possible
claim can contemporary criticism set
up to respect that criticism which
stoned Stephen. hooted Paul for mad
man, bound Columbus in chains. drove
Dante into exile. made Shakespeare
write the sonnet When In Disgrace
Milton f5 for Paradise Lost kept
Samuel Johnson cooling his heels on
Lord Chestertield's doorstep. reviled
Shelley as an unclean dog killed Keats,
cracked jokes on Gluck. Schubert. Bee
thoven, Berlioz and Wagner and COM
mitted so many other impious folies
and stupidities that thousand letters
like this could not suffice even to cata-
logue them
The verdict of the 'intellectuels" has
always been veritable stumbling
block in the path of genius.
lit is from men of established liter
ary reputation" asserts Bernard Shaw,
"that we learn that William Blake was
mad that Shelley was spoiled by liv-
ing in a low set. that Robert owen
was a man who did not know the
world. that Ruskin is incapable of
comprehending political economy. that
Zola is a mere blackguard and Ibsen
is Zola with wooden leg The great
musician accepted by his unskilled lis
tener is viified by his fellow musi-
j cian 1t was the musical culture Of
Europe which pronounced Wagner the
inferior of Mendelssohn and Meyer
/ beer"
1t is not enough TO say with the bril-
liant author of "Contemporalns" that
/ contemporary criticism is mere conyer-
sation; it is often little more than mere
gossip. One is often inclined to ques-
/ ton with Lowell whether the powers
that be in criticism are really the pow
ers that ought to be.-From Archibald
Henderson's European Dramatists."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-01-30
Broken BY Degrees

Perth Amboy, N ] Jan. 30
Broken by degrees" is the term
used by daily paper in announc-
ing the gradual end of the boat
mems strike that has affected this
vicinity. The men have been on
strike since the first OF the year,
but of late the owners have been
complying with the strikers re.
quest for wage rate of $50 a
month. The men have been re
turning to work as fast as the new
rate is agreed to.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-01-30
WliY She Went.

A young MAN who is very particulai
about his washing recently wrote
note to his washerwoman and one to
his sweetheart and by strange fatality
put the wrong address on each envel-
ope and sent them Off The washer
woman was sent the invitation to take
an auto ride the next day. but when
the young lady read. IF you crumpls
my shirt bosom as you did last time
I'll go somewhere else" she burst into
tears and vowed she would never speak
to him again.-Forida Times Union.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-01-30

orders that were in contradiction to
to the roads rules and to the
agreements with the various Bro
therhoods thereby making working
conditions unsatisfactory. Repeat
ed efforts on the part of employees
to adjust their matters had brought
no relief and as last resort strike
vote was submitted to the 5000
employees, who approved this
course by practically unanimous
vote.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-01-30
Savannah In Line.

Savannah, Jan. 30.-The Central
Labor union has appointed com
mittee to arrange for trade union
revival in this city, which will
occur the early part of February
Il is intended to make the event
the largest of its kind in ais sec
tion
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-01-30
Tha Economist.

1T isn't by petty and ridiculous
economies that men succeed" said
John ID. Rockefeller. .Ir. Some peo-
pie seem to think that to get rich one
must economize like Blanco. Blanco's
faithful old dog had turned sickly and
savage. and so Blanco said to his wife
on arriving home from business Satur-
day evening:
"I1l shoot Towser tomorrow morn
ing before church.
"Blanco paused, then added sternly:
SO remember please that he won't
need any breakfast "-C Cincinnati En-
quirer
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-01-30

1t is curious how much faster a
street car humps along when you are
running after 1t than when you are rid
Ing In IT New Orleans Picayune.
Grandna's Old Frienu.
An old lady laughed immoderately
at story told at dinner in Chicago
The story teller looked at her inquir.
tngly.
on she gasped. "it's q great favor.
lite OF mine The first time heard 1t
laugheh so hard | almost kicked the
footboard off my cribw Saturday
Evening past
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-01-30
PRETTY SAFE PRISON.
5loodhounds Guarded One Exit, Man
Eating Sharks the Other.

5loodhounds Guarded One Exit, Man
Eating Sharks the Other.
Shark skin. shark teeth, shark oil,
shark meat and several other byprod-
ucts of the dead shark are articles of
greater or lesser utility. but have
never heard of but one instance where
the living shark was put to a prac-
tical use. This. says Lewis II. Free
man, was when they used him as a
prison guard in the cid days when
British convicts were transported to
Australia, the monsters serving this
purpose for many years at the Port
Arthur settlement, ten miles south of
Hobart, the present capital of Tas-
mania. The prisons at this point, some
of which may still be seen, were stu
ated upon peninsula whose only con-
nection with the mainland was by a
long. narrow strip of sand called. from
its confguration, the Eagehawk's s
Neck
The convicts were allowed consider
able liberty on the peninsula. but to
prevent their escape to the mainland
udil SLdI Ntu DlOOuIiOuHuS were cudlueu
all the way across the narrowest por-
ton of the neck. Several prisoners
having avoided the bloodhound zone"
by swimming, the authorities adopted
the effective but grewsome expedient
Of feeding the sharks at that point sew
eral times day. Ia a few weeks the
place became literally alive with the
voracious man eaters. and from that
time on the only convict who ever es-
capped accomplished his purpose by roll
ing himself up in kelp and working
along, inch by inch. timing his move
ments to correspond with those of the
other heaps Of seaweed that were be-
ing rolled by the surf Wide World
Magazine.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-01-30
II Was Ali Within.

A practical joker carried an onion in
his pocket TO the depot when bidding
farewell TO a young lady and took
bite now and hen to induce tears Be
fore the train departed he had eaten
the entire onion. The young lady, per-
reiving the situation. remarked, "Ah.
fou have swallowed your griefw
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-01-30
a. Cruel Diu.

Dolly-No, dear can't 60 any place
with Molly. | hate her, the cat. Polly
But darling, yon used to be chummy
with her What did she 90? Dolly
She told me a lot of the nasty things
you said about me- dear Cleveland
Leader
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-01-30
Well Desoribsd

Small Sadie was walking along the.
street with her mother when fero-
cious looking but friendly bulldog ap-
preached. With little scream she
slung to her mother, crying. "Oh.
mamma, look at the dog with the tan.
gled facel"-Chicago News.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-01-30

"Oh, baby exclaimed the Bostor
mother, what does make you cry so?"
II really cannot say" was the unex-
pected answer. Il have never INDUCED
IN Interrogation"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-01-30
Bound to Have the Lace.

In Evigtuk. Greenland, the women
and men dress alike and the only way
to tell female from male is by the
lace decorations which the members of
the weaker sex wear on their collars.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-01-30
Consolation.

Waiter, how do | know this isn't
horse meat instead OF beefT'
You probably don't. sir; ali kinds OF
people come here to eat Chicago
Tribune
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-01-30
Aid TO Genius.

Our idea is that there ought to be at
lelst three children in every family. so
that II one of them should become a
genius the other two could support
aim. Galveston News.
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1917.

ente,ed at he Po5to5ice at RamiIfon Ono, as
Second Cla1J Mail Matter.
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endorsed by the Trades and labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.

Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middlelown o.
Endorsed by the Labor Legislative
League of Butler, Prebie and Mont
gomery Counties.
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PROBE WAR PRICES
 IN UNITED STATES
THREE RESOLUTIONS IN CON GREsS TO INVESTIGATE UN-
 WARRANTED RATES.

Washington, D. C., Aug. t2- Three resolutions calling for information as to ''war prices on food stuffs in the United States were referred to Sccre- tary Reddeld today by Chairman Adamson of the house interstate and foreign commerce committee. AL though resolutions call upon the de. partment of commerce to explain why prices have gone up when the eX- portation of food practically has been stopped by the European war.
 The resolutions are three out of five which have been introduced in tho house, presented by Representa- tiyes Kelly, Moore and Farr of Penn sylvania. Ali directed inquiries through the department of com merce. Chairman Adamson expects that the department will make re, plies which will render unnecessary action by the house on any of the resolutions.
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Society : , . !::',..! 5. t., y "' I A. OhoChErI, Editor Telephone 224s.
 Mail Items O Ave

York where she will make extensive purchases for the fashionable mil.i- nery department of the up-to-date 5. Mondel establishment.
 *
 Mir. and Mrs Whit Stearns return ed home Tuesday after a deliehtful trip 10 Chicago and other lake points. Mrs. E. B. ToWnes and daughter Miss Thelma Townes, of Glendora, Miss, have returned home Miss ownes was one of the honorees at the Ozark Lithia house partS. Misses Lucille Hitler and Fannie Bloom of Pine Bluff have returned home after short visit to Miss Edith Katz.
 Miss Ruth Martin of Fort Smith is expected soon, to be the guest os friends here.
 Donald Bancroft of Shreveport, is ln the city for few days. Mir. Ban croft is connected with the Shreve port Times and is regarded as a very efficient newspaper man.
 *
 Mrs Wilmington, mother of Mrs E. T. Housley is dangerously ill at her home in Montgomery County.
 <
 Claudius Jones of Little Rock spent Tuesday in the city.
 John Dickinson, IT,, left Tuesday for his home in Little Rock, after attending the Ozark Litha house party.
 Birkett Williams is in Little Rock attending the State shoot
 T
 Mrs. Baker of the Milstead Apari- ments, sent a big bundle of late magazines to the Barry Hospital The inmates enjoy reading those books and thank this good lady for sending them.
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WAR TAX PROPOSED
 IN UNITED STATES
PRELIMINARY PLANS ARE TO IN CREASE TAX ON TOBACCO
 AND LIQUORS.

Washington, D. C. Aug. 12-Plans to raise something like $l0O, ,000o to offset the loss of the United States in import duties to resut from the war l iE Europe will be the subject of a | conference tomorrow between Sccre- | tary McAdoo and Representative Iln- derwood, chairman of the house ways and meaas committee,
 Treasury experts tonight completed
 statement showing imports from
 the war zone. They did not hazard
 all estimate of probable loss in rev. enues though informally it was. ad- mitted that the total might be near | ly $l00.000,000 for the year. Figures
 also have been prepared to demon l strate what misht he raised by in- creased taxes on liquors and tobacco
 and by adding to the income tax. Representative Underwood and Senator Simmons, chairman of the senate finance committee, are making
 thorough study of the situation, btt will not attempt to frame a definite plan of action until Secretary Me Adoo has outlined actual conditions
 The advice of resident Wilson will be. sought.
 Germany exports maly things that
 the custom experts say may be pro vided by England and other countries.
 Japan might take advantage Of the opportunity to increase its eXporta-
 tions of articles normally supplied by Germany The chief loss will be i% laces, pottery and embroiderieG, toys, dyes. etc.
 Among the schemes being inform ally considered is one to change the internal revenue tax on cigars and tobacco, making it an ad yalorem tax instead of flat tax on amounts. In this way 1t is estimated about Si0,- coo, 600 could be raised. From an in- creased beer tax it is estimated s20, 000.000 could be brought in. No change in the income tax could be effective uatil after July 1 next.
 Senator Shields of Tennessee. is sued a statement today urging the use of the income tax to provide ad- ditional revenue needed.
 'I favor an increase in the income tax" he said, thus placing the bur den on the wealth of the country, which although receiving greater pro tection and benefits always has borne proportionately, the smallest share or it's maintenance,
 The treasury statement today show ed that the customs receipts for Au- gust up to date aggregate $7,76G.538 against S10,205.95S for the same peri cd last year and that since July l tne total has been 30755,O03, about ST.
 000000 less than during the first six weeks of last year.
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all the doctor medicines tried. Many people have no faith in patent medicines but know this is good Mrs. E. J. ROCKETS, 354 8th Avenue, West Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
 Such warning symptoms as sense of sutfocation, hot flashes, headaches, back @ aches, dread of impending evil, timidty, sounds in the ears, palpitation of the heart, sparks before the eyes, irregu- larities, constipation. variable appetite, weakness and inquietude, and dizziness. are promptly needed by intelligent wo- men who are approaching the period in life when woman's great change may be expected.
 Lydia F. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound invigorates and strengthens the female organism and builds up the weak ened nervous system. 1t has carried many women safely through this crisis.
 If there are any complications yOudon'tunderstand write Lydia F.. Pinkham Medicine Co. (cOnfi- dentiaD Lynn, Mass.
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WEALTHY CHICACOAN
 DISCOVERED DEAD
CIRCUMSTANCES POINT TO THE MURDER OF EDWARD p.
 AMORY, RAILWAY MAN.

Chicago, Aug. 12- Edward r. Amory, secretary Of the Western Railroad Association, late today was found dead in a pool of blood in his office in a downtown office build ing. There were two deep cuts on his head. The police believe he was murdered
 Papers and books scattered about the room indicated a struggle had taken place.
 A. NJ. Thompson, ali 9mpioye, who discovered the body, was taken to the police bureau of identification where an impression of his finger tips was taken
 Miss Janet Schoben, Amory's sten- ographer, told the police she had gone to the office at the usual time today but had been unable to enter
 A note in Amory's handwriting was found on his desk 1t was scrib- hled on piece of yellow scratch paper and read:
 "Lihel and scandal. 3 Russels and SSSS. Will he malice?"
 The police believe the note was Amorys dying effort to leave mes sage to- identify his murderer.
 He apparently had made desper- ate strugg.e.
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GERMANS FORM LEAGUE.

Indianapolis Ind, Aug. 12.-"The league of 191l," an organization of German-Americals was completed here today for the dual object of ob- tairing fair presentation in the press of facts in connection with the ter rible war now raging in Europe and of obtaining funds to be used in h.p ing the sufferers living ill Germany.
 John F. F'renzel banker. was elect ed president and the charter members include many of the wealthiest and most prominent citizens of Indiana polls. It is proposed to make the membership as large and widespread as possible.
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EPWORTH LEAGUE UNION RUSI
 NESS AND SOCIAL MEETING.

The Epworth League Union of Hot Springs will have combined busi- ness and social meeting Thursday evening, August 18th at Park Ave nue Methodist Church, at o'c,ock,
 The Business session is for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year. and for the transac- ton of any other business that may come up; after which our hosts will entertain. All Leaguers and friends are invited
 CLARENCE D. MEUX, Pres.
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MRS. WILLIAMSON DEAD.
Remains Taken Back to the Old Home Near Rockville for Inter ment.

Mrs Mary Anna Williamson. sis ter of Evandor T. Housley and W E. lJousiey of this city. died yesterday morning at the home of her son, Henry Williamson, at 134 Murray Street. She hG been i'll several months She is survived by five children, two brothers, and sister
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the sister being Mrs. James Fulton of Oklahoma City. The children are Mrs. Lawrence, Henry and Roscoe Williamson, of this city, and Orvis Williamson and Mrs Juda Bradley of BuckVille. The remains will be taken 10 Buckylle for interment n the family burial plot.
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How to Cure a Spraln.

A spraia may be cured in about one-third the time required by the usual treatment by applying Chamber lain's Liniment and observing the di. rections with each bottle. For sale by ali dealers.
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SUSPEND FREIGHT RATES.

Washington, D. C.. Aug 12.-Pro- posed new proportional class and commodity rates on freight to and from Mississippi river crossings held up since last April pending inyesti. gation, again were suspended by the interstate commerce commission to- day until February 13.
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REsERvISTs REACH FRANCE,

New York. Aug. 12.-Ia Lorraine
 which left New York for Havre An
 gust with TOO French reservists among it's passengers, arrived safely in Havre late today, according to ar announcement by agents of the French line here.
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Use Liggett's Golden Tip tea for making iced tea. This tea is pro cured only from the early flowery
 picklngs, which in this country is found in but few of the most exclusive stores, and then at prices varying from s200 to $500 a pound. Price s1.00 a pound. For sale by R. c. Nor. his Drug Co. Phone 242 6-10-tf
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give up my work and take m y b ed fer some time as there was no help for me but to lie still. | took Lydia F. Pink hams Ve getable Compound and kept up my work and now l am over the Change and that is all l took. It was better for me than
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CANADA SHIPS ARTILLERY.

Wdnnepeg,, Au. 12.-Ammunition and artillery are being shipped 10 the Pacific coast in large quantities. A special artillery train passed
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KlRk--THE TAILOR.

He will make your suit, do yo'if leaning and pressing. 123 Central nbone sgR 1O-7-tf
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IOWA WOMAN
 TELLS OTHERS
How Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg. etable Compound Carried Her Safely Through
 Change of Life.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa. -''At the Change of Life the doctor said would have to
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KODATSS and Kodak finishing by an expert. Sorrells Drug Co.