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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-03-26
DEAD FINGERS.
Curious Conditions That Come With
Raynaud's Disease.

Raynaud's disease is singular atfiic-
tion In which the circulation in the eX-
tremities-in the fingers or toes gen
erally-becomes for time entirely
obstructed. 1t occurs In persons of
nervous temperament, and often fol
lows an exposure to severe cold; it may
occur alone. as purely neurotic symp.
tom, or it may be associated with some
other disease, such as epilepsy, Brights
disease, neurasthenia, hysteria or
| anaemia. 1t Is most often met with
In early adult life, and women are
more often affected than men. 1t is,
however, occasionally seen even in chill
dren, and in old people as well.
The simplest form of the disease is
sometimes called dead fingers" In
such a case the fingers of the patient
become dead white or a blush white,
and actually look as il they belonged
to dead person. The local circulation
may be so completely obstructed that
the fingers will not bleed even if they
are cut Sometimes the condition lasts
only few minutes, but it may go on
for several hours, or even days. Ray
maud called it local syncope." because
the affected finger or toe acts as IL 1t
had really tainted from loss of blood,
although the circulation is normal in
the rest of the body. The condition Is
believed to be caused by spasms In
some of the small arteries.
In the more severe form of Raynauds
disease the affected part turns purple
instead of white and becomes swollen
and tingling, just as 1t would If the
circulation were impeded by a string
tied tightly round the finger.
In the most severe form Of all-which
is happily not frequent-gangrene oc
ours; that happens only when the at
tacks have been so frequent that the
circulation is cut off most of the time
In an ordinary attack of dead fin
gers' massage is helpful, although it
should not be roughly or ignorantly
applied, since the skin is drained of its
life for the time being, and can be
easily broken. Avoid exposure to cold
and protect the extremities carefully
by warm clothing. Those who are
subject to these attacks are generally
better off In a warm climate-Youth
Companion.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-03-26
He KNEW ALL ABOUT SIAM.
Had Even Heard of the Famous Twins
From That Country.

One day President Cleveland sent for
John Barrett, now director of the bu-
reau of American republics, and said:
"Mr. Barrett, / am looking for some
young man who is not afraid Of hard
work and who wants to make a repu-
tation for himself, to go as minister to
Siam to settle the claim of DR.. M. A.
Cheek involving several million dol
lars, and also involving some delicate
matters in connection with the inter
probation of our treaties with oriental
countries. This particular case is one
of the most important we now have in
the orient. You have received strong
Endorsements from the Pacific coast
as consul general to Yokohama, but
the office was filled when your recon-
mendations arrived Will you accept
the position as minister to Siam? But
first, what do you know about SIAM"
Mr.. Barrett couldn't remember wheth
er Siam was in Asia or Africa, but a
little thing like this didn't bother him.
so he said, MIR. President, ] know all
about SIAM
We'll, what do you know about
Siam?' said Mr.. Cleveland.
Mr., Barrett was stumped for a sec
ond, and then said "Why, Siam is the
country that produced the famous 81
amese twins"
Mr. Cleveland, with a twinkle in his
eye, arose gravely and said, as he
shook hands with Mr. Barrett: "Mr
Barrett, l am happy. indeed, to get
hold of a man with such profound
knowledge and abundant information
about Siam. AS a matter of fact, am
glad you know nothing about it, as
you will not be prejudiced one way or
the other in regard to the questions
to be settled there"
Mr.. Barrett went to Siam, where he
stayed for four years. At the time of
his appointment he was twenty-six
years old and was the youngest minis
ter plenipotentiary that the United
States had ever appointed.-Portland
Journal
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-03-26
Hunger and Thirst.

While many men of science have
contended that the sensation of hunger
has its seat In the stomach and that of
thirst In the throat, the Italian yalenti
holds the view that the seat of both
sensations IL situated in the gullet He
found that cocaine injection in the
esophagus Ohe channel from the mouth
to the stomach) resulted in immediate
suppression OF the sensations OF both
hunger and thirst.
Sayages have long known that the
chewing Of coca leaves renders the
gullet 1nsensitive and destroys any de-
sire for food or drink. New York
Tribune
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-03-26
JAPANESE BAIT DIGGERs.
As Many Women as Men Work at the
Disease Breeding Trade.

An extraordinary occupation that
many of the very poor follow in Japan
is that of the esatori, or bait catcher,
who spends his days gathering angle
worms. We say his" continues the
account in the Japan Magazine, but
the bait diggers are as often women as
men. The japanese angleworm is not
taken from the soil, as is the case in
occidental countries, but from the black
mud of the rivers and canals.
Tokyo is a great place for this call
ing. The city has numerous streams
and canals connected with tidewater,
and as soon as the tide begins to ebb
and their mud forks climbing down
the stone facings Of the canals, plung-
ing their legs into the deep mud and
picking up the Wriggling red angle
worms that they dig out of the mud.
These worms are somewhat differ
ent species from the earthworm They
are slightly stouter, with jointed bod
les and peculiar mustached mouths.
The receptacles for the captured worms
are baskets or tubs with covers that
contain small square openings through
which the women drop the worms as
they pick them up. AS soon as the
bait baskets or tubs are full the wo-
men take them to the shop and sell
them. The bait shop deals in bait only,
and from these establishments the fish
ermen buy worms for their hooks.
The amount that the angleworm
catchers can make daily is very small,
not more than 40 sen for each worker,
but 1t helps out in the household ex-
penses In the summer weather the
work is not hard, although it is GER
tainly hot, with the sun beating down
on the stopping form and reflected
from the wet mud and water. In the
colder weather, however it is more
trying, for the bait catcher has to
stand for hours in the freezing mud
Diseases that are the result of their
calling are frequent among the bait
women, especially beriberi and dropsy.
The Japanese regard bait digging as
the most miserable way of getting a
living known to mortal man.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-03-26
! OF INTEREST TO LABOR.

There are 200 locals of the Western
Federation of Miners.
Philadelphia labor unions gained 50,-
900 members last year
A 'labor forward movement is to be
inaugurated in Tacoma, Wash, during
the month of June
President Gompers sets the mark of
membership for the A. f. OF l.. in 1915
at 100000 members.
Cleveland labor leaders are working
for the exemption of property of labor
organizations from taxation.
Chicago firemen have circulated pc
htions for signatures to have placed
upon the ballot at the election in April
proposition to regulate the hours OF
city fire fighters.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-03-26
Materials For Swords.

Perhaps no manufactured article has
so variously adapted itself to circum-
stances as the sword. 1t has been
made Of stone, wood, bone, copper,
brass, bronze and iron. 1t has as
sumed as many shapes and sizes. 1t
has been long and short, wide and mar
row, curved and straight, heavy and
light, pointed, round and square, sharp
on one side, on both sides and on
neither side.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-03-26
WALLACK'S SAD FAREWELL.
pathos of the Great Actors Last APP
pearance on the Stage.

Lester Wallack lived long enough to
see the fortune that he had worked SO
faithfully to accumulate almost totally
obliterated. He lived long enough to
learn how a public can forget it's one
time idol he lived long enough to feel
the pain Of an illness that literally
forced him off the stage.
There were many, very many, sad
hours In the great actors last days,
and perhaps the saddest hour was the
night of his great benefit at the Metro
politan Opera House In New York,
where Booth and Barrett and Nodes
ka and Jefferson and Florence and
many members Of his one time COM
pany, all old time friends and compan-
ions, were appearing to raise fund for
the declining days of the one time pub
lie idol
They were all there that night, all the
great artists, all society, all the great
public, every one, indeed, but the man
himself. 1t was much like Hamlet
from the front of the house came for
Wallack.
Where was he? Up to that moment
he had not been thought Of There was
hurrying and scurrying and messen-
gers were sent posthaste for the man
who sat alone In his home only few
blocks away, suffering from illness, for
gotten and neglected, on the night he
should have been feted. AT first he re-
fused to go, but better counsels pre-
vailed, and when he appeared before
the curtain he received welcome that
brought the tears to his eyes.
This, his last appearance before the
public, took place on May q, 1888. He
died at Stamford the following Septem-
ber.-Exchange.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-03-26
Taking tn. Jsyvshsrp Seriously.

The Jewsharp has been taken far
more seriously as musical instrument
than most OF US have ever imagined
It's music has been known all over Eu-
rope for centuries, and quite elaborate
effects have been produced by 1t. One
virtuoso devised an ingenious holder
by means of which he played five
harps differently tuned, and Eulenstein
used no fewer than sixteen instru-
ments. keeping them on table in
front Of him And Sir Charles Wheat
stone. inventor of the concertina. oncs
wrote an elaborate essay on the tech
mic Of the jewsharp. London Mall.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-03-26
BUILD UP THE UNION.

Does any one wish that the La
Dor movement could be more
strong? That more betterments
Of hours, wages and conditions
Of labor could be secured? II so,
let such and every such person
support the cause with unstinted
, loyalty in voice and act and try
to induce every wage Garner
with whom he comes in contact
to do likewise. Build up the un-
ion of your craft Build up the
union of every other craft.
, Build up the American Fedora
ton of Labor. Do your part to-
, ward organizing the purchasing
power Of the wage earners, and
) the successes that have been ac-
complished up to now will seem
, trivial compared with those that
are to come If only the units
) that now comprise the 100000
members Of the American Fed
} Grafton OF Labor viii do some
thing more for the cause than
merely to allow their names to
be on the membership roll.-Shoe
Workers Journal.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-03-26
New Scale For Tin Plate Union.

Representatives of the Amalgamated
Association of Iron. Steel and Til
Workers have tentatively agreed te
accept to 11.2 per cent reduction in
wages, and Representatives of the in
dependent sheet and tin plants of the
country, employing about $4,000 men
agreed to maintain, even at the sure
loss of some business, certain stand
ards among their employees. Plants
are affected in Pennsylvania, Ohio
West Virginia. Illinois. Indiana and
Missouri, where nearly $4,000 men will
shortly be at work.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-03-26
AIebama,s Child Labor Law.

Governor Henderson Of Alabama has
signed the child labor bill, said to be
the most stringent measure for protec-
ton Of working children that has ever
been passed by a legislature in any
state. The bill prohibits the employ
ment of children under fourteen years
in any gainful occupation after oct. 1,
1916. Employment of children under
thirteen years Is prohibited, effective
on the governors signature
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-03-26
Free and Prison Labor.

Quite as interesting as any other one
thing which Warden Osborne has done
at Sing Sing is his new proposal to en-
list the labor unions III a plan to re
organize the prison industries for edu-
cational purposes. The governor is said
to approve, and the promise Of officials
OF the American Federation of Labor
to cooperate is highly significant The
conflict Of free and prison labor has
long been a vexed question.-Spring-
field Republican.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-03-26

An elaborate union labor exhibit is
being installed in the PanamaPacific
exposition In San Francisco. The ex-
hibit will be one of the most complete
that has ever been presented to the
public and will adequately portray the
development and growth Of the Amer
lean labor movement.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-03-26
THOUGHT Astor Was Crazy.

People said John Jacob Astor was
crazy because he paid $1,000 an acre
when he bought the estate OF Aaron
Burr about hundred years ago. 1t
was farm of 120 acres. located about
where Twenty-hrst street is now In
Manhattan. In ten years he COM
menced to sell lots at $1,000 an acre.
but he did not sell much at that price.
What It Is worth today La hard to com
pute I'm millions.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-03-26
Why He Iauohed.

The man who had failed for $137,
653.9S laughed uproariously.
"Those fool papers" he cachinnated
''put my failure under Business Trou
bles'"
For he had managed to fail without
the slightest trouble to himself.-Ph
adelphia Ledger
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-03-26
The Maltese

The Maltese are mainly the last sur
viving remnant of the Carthaginian
branch of the old Phoenician people.
Malta was the halfway station be.
tween Carthage and Sicily, long held
by the Carthaginians and of which
Hamilcar, the father of Hannibal. was
at one time governor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-03-26
The Difference.

"The belligerent man who was ex-
PEELED from the audience is very much
unlike burning house."
"How's that?"
"He was still full OF fire even after
he was put out Baltimore Ameri-
can.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-03-26
Doinq His Share.

Are you doing anything for the pres.
sryation Of our antiquesW
"You bet | am. | sell cosmetics. y
louisville Courier journal
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-03-26
courtino with Mind ON Court.

He-So Judge Blank proposed to Al
ice last night. She-Yes, and he made
an awful break. When she asked him
for time to consider his proposal he
gave sixty days.-Boston Transcript
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-03-26

A Persian philosopher says, "The
goat climbs the rocky hill, the wise
man takes the valley road"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-03-26

Great men are they who see that
spiritual is stronger than any material
force.-Nmersou
, 1915-08-19
MEXICANS KILL TEXAS RANGER
Armed Force Crosses Border to Attack
Mercedes and Meet Cavalry.

Brownsville, Tex, Aug. Harmed
Mexicans In force crossed the Rio
Grande at a ford near Mercedes, at
lacking an outpost of half a dozen
cavalrymen at Saenz.
Ranger Lieut.. Reynau at Mercedes
telephoned state Adj. Gen. Hutchings
here that Corporal William of Troop
o. Twelfth cavalry, was killed in this
fight and Lieut.. Roy o. Henry of the
same troop was wounded.
Reynau said he understood 270 Mex.
leans had crossed and that they were
coming to attack Mercedes.
Reports of renewed attempts by
Mexican bandits to reorganize their
bands in the lower Rio Grande valley
were brought here by j. j. Sanders,
captain of Texas rangers.
Rangers and peace officers are dis
erming all Mexicans outside of the
larger towns throughout the Browns
Vile section. Firearms discovered in
the possession of Mexicans in rural
communities of this section is practi-
cally equivalent of a death warrant,
unless that Mexican is well known to
Americans as being peaceful.
After an attack lasting all day Gen.
Gales Carranza troops investing No
gales. Sonora, across the international
boundary line from here, halted four
miles from the town.
, 1915-08-19
Leo Frank Kidnapped ~ Mob.

~Milledgeville, Ga.-A mob overpow-
ssed the warden. superintendent and
guards of the Georgia state prison
Iarm near here at IL O'Clock Monday
night and quickly got Leo NJ. Frank
lnd rushed him away in an automo.
olie' First reports that it might be
friends of Frank were dispersed when
: prisoner said he had heard a mem.
Der Of the mob say that Franks body
would be placed on the grave Of Mary
, hasan at Marietta. Frank was serv
ing a life term for the murder of the
, 1915-08-19

er than the light-that chiefest sin
and the might of his will gave to him
as he chose.
But tonight the Master Mind found
1t difficult to hold his eyes shut. Since
he had seen the wife in her agony over
what had come to pass through his
Vaccinations he was unable to ignore
as before this w~retchedness OF his
making for her. He could not escape
realization of what all this must mean
to her.
In his perception now he learned.
too. as never yet in the years of asso-
citation with her, how dear she was
become to him. He altered no whit in
his resolve of vengeance OF the man
whom lie held responsible for his
brothers death, but at least he was
forced to admit the torment it must
infict on her and as well the distress
to himself that her suffering must
cause.
, 1915-08-19

-WHdt arc you 9otH9 W v VS. ess
In his novel appreciation of the i'll
she must undergo he suddenly saw his
own feeling for Lucene in n new light.
For long he had known that she was
dear, that he cherished her fondly.
that she was. In truth. more to him
than any other person in the world.
But not until tonight had he grasped
in full degree the intensity OF his re
gard. He understood now that he had
for her IA pure passion-tbat of father,
mother, friend, lover. In Il second of
illumination the Master Mind knew
why his love for the dead brother
burned less holly in this hour. 1t was
because the flames of his heart were
all blazing at the shrine of this girl,
Lucene. A new love had put out the
old. There was left only hate of that
first love.
And was hate itself left in all its
former savagery? The Master Mind
shrank appalled, from that question,
which offered to make a mock of all
his toll. He thrust 1t from him, shud-
dering. He jumped up and strobe to
and fro in Il revolt against all things.
Then presently he recollected his en-
ergies, set firm control over his emo
ton and determined to go forward un-
deviatingly as II none of these strange
things had entered at the eleventh
hour to turn the apples of vengeance
to Dead sea fruit. So. with a curious
li~stlessness that was foreign to him
1 but with no least weakening of his
purpose, he descended the stairs. went
to the library door. opened 1t gently
and stood on the threshold. smiling tol
erantly on the assembly before him.
II was Wainwright whom Andrew
first addressed. speaking in accents OF
cynical amusement.
"Ah. } see! You are engaged In tina
occupation 50 familiar to those of YOU
, 1915-08-19
r..
People Are Not
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, 1915-08-19
HURRICANE AT GALVESTON.
Three Texas Towns Fiooded.-Women
Cut OFF by Water Face Death.

Galveston, Tex, Aug. 17.-Scores Of
mail boats are missing and many
ives are believed to have been lost in
/ Gulf storm that tested the great wall
1t Galveston to the utmost. Quanti-
les of wreckage has been washed
Igainst the barricade that protects the
hty from tho ocean and people have
'een warned away from that section
u the city. Officials have issued re-
assuring statements telling the people
hat the sea wall has withstood
Ireater tests than this one and that
here is no danger of its going out.
Beaumont, Tex.-Two women and
hree men are trapped at Sabine, the
Nater having risen over the railroad
between Sabine and Port Arthur.
When all of the other residents of Sa-
hne deserted the town early. when
torn conditions became grave. the
Somen would not leave. Port Bolivar,
saplan and Follower, coast resorts. are
'eported to be under water.