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The bee., 1916-10-27
Ollie An Optimist

There is nothing small about SEN
ator Ollie James of Kentucky, when
you take him physically; and when
Ollie estimates his own persuasive
powers he evidently thinks that bulk
counts. The big Kentuckian hR
Just returned from campaigning for
Wilson In Ohio, Kansas, Iowa,
Nebraska, Indiana, ahd Illinois,.
He wires Mr.. Tumulty: "Hughes is
licked; Wilson a certainty" Ollie
is an optimist. When you see him
you just can't help smiling at him,
and Ollie interprets every smile as
'an evidence of support.
Let him dream on. Nov. 7 is far
distant.
On the morning after Ollie will
have a better standard by which to
judge the effectiveness of his
oratorY.-Chicago Evening Post,
The bee., 1916-10-27
Another Good Reason Why
Bond Issue Should Garry

The city has received assur-
ances from the railroad company
that a rate of 80 cents will apply
on rock from Hopkinsville, to be
used iu building good streets, if
such rock is ordered by, and paid
for by the city, out of the gener.
al funds, for the benefit of all the
citizens thereof, but they have
ruled that they could not give
this rate, if any part of the cost
is against the property owners.
Vote for the bond issue and
help the city get advantage of
this rate.
Every block constructed with
this rate in effect will save the
city $500 to $4,000.
The bee., 1916-10-27
WHO WILL WIN?
Nation Wide Straw Vote to
Name Pfesident-Drug-
gists Take Poll

For the past three weeks the mem
bers of the National Association Of
Rexall Druggists to the number OF
5000 have been taking a ballot Of
their customers and have already re-
corded the political views of over D.
100000 voters drawn from all walks
of life.
The result of this ballo. in 5000
hamIetS, villages, towns and cities,
ranging in population from 100 to
100000, are forwarded by mail
and telegraph daily to the National
Headquarters OF the Druggists As
ISOLATION in Boston. There the re-
suits are tabulated and the returns re-
ported back to the 5000 members.
Before the official ballotting takes
place, the name Of the president elect
of the United States will be an
nounced in all the Rexall stores.
BY special arrangement with the
st. Bernard Mining Company I'm
corporated) Drug Department the re-
suits of the straw vote, which in
cludes a representative poll Of Earl
ington, will be announced in The
Bee later, and will be published Sim
ultaneouSly all over the United
States, in the leading newspapers and
by announcements in the Rexall
stores.
Watch this newspaper for later re-
turns.
The bee., 1916-10-27
FLO"' AtAGHES
$40 MARK
European War and Crop
Shortage are Blamed for
the High Price

Consumers in Darlington are
paying SO for the best grade of
patent wheat flour in barrels.
Twenty.four pound cotton sacks
f:hour are retailing at $1.25.
In Louisville flour is selling
from $10.75 to $l1 per barrel.
The enormous shortage in the
wheat crop and the European
war are blamed for the high
prices. 1t is predicted that flour
will go higher.
The bee., 1916-10-27
OF REV,
JOHN M. BUROON
Body of Former Darlington
Citizen was Brought
Here for Burial

Funeral services for Rev. j.
NJ. Burden. aged 63 years, who
died suddenly in Evansville Mon
day night of nephritis, were held
at the General Baptist church
Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Rev. E. G. Burdette, of Evans
vile, conducted the service, as
sisted by Rev. j. l.. Burton.
Interment was in the local
cemetery. Members of the local
order of Redmen we're pail
bearers.
The bee., 1916-10-27
Goods Roads a
Personal Responsibility

Perhaps no other feature of civil
reform or Improvements Of recent
years has attracted so much attention
as has that of road building.
All over our broad land, from
ocean to ocean, from the fakes to the
gulf, the wave of enthusiasm is roll
ing. The people are realizing that
they must have better roads, and the
machinery of government in its tax
ing capacity is being ever more and
more strained to meet this demand.
But while there is a certain re.
sponSibility resting upon the state in
the maintenance Of our highways,
we are in danger Of forgetting that an
even greater responsibility rests upon
US, Individually, as cistizens. The
reason why we sometimes lose sight
of this responsibility is that we
Americans have gotten into the hab-
it of working out all such matters
through the medium of taxation. If
we want a new road opened, we
levy tax. If we want an old road
macadamized, we tax some more. Is
a bridge to be built' We impose
another tax. We tax and we keep
on taxing, and this regardless of the
fact that we all know that the hard
est money to give up is that which is
paid in taxes. Many a man will
come to town and spend in day
enough to pay his yearly taxes and
think nothing of it. But he will
sweat drops of blood. as it were,
when the tax gather rounds him up.
We depend too much upon taxes.
We should depend more upon in
dividual and personal effort. A lively
neighborhood interest in good roads
is worth all of the taxes you can
wiring from unwilling pocketbooks.
A determination by united citizen
ship of county that their roads shall
excel is worth more than all of the
road commissioners in existence.
Road commissioners work through
devious ways to reach the their OBJ
ject. The united sentiment of peo,
pie works direct to the object. 1t de-
termines what is wanted and then
takes the most direct route to accom-.
plish its ends.
Do you favor better roads in this
community? Then go to work and
arouse healthy community senti-
ment that will demand them. When
that is accomplished good roads will
be the result.
And just few wolds more, Real
ize your own responsibility. Say to
yourself, "the roads Of this commun-
ity belong partly to me, and | owe a
duty to them" Don't depend upon a
benevolent government, national,
state, county or township, but
shoulder your own responsibility.
Then you will be in a fair way to get
your neighbor to do likewise.
Try it!
The bee., 1916-10-27
Blame Earthquake
For Mine Blast

Marvel, Ala, Oct. 26.-Gas,
which entered the Roden mine
through an earth fissure caused
by the recent earthquake felt in
Alabama, Georgia aud Tennes-
see, is believed by investigating
experts to have been responsible
for the explosion Sunday, whloh
killed eighteen men and resulted
in the death of a rescurer.
The bee., 1916-10-27
To Take
GuardSmen'S Votes

Harrisburg, Pa, Oct. 90
Seventeen commissioners, ap-
pointed by Governor Brumbaugh
to take the vote of the 10000
Pennsylvania National Guards
men on the NJ x can border on
Nov. z, took the oath of Office to-
day and prepared to leave for
Texas. Oue commissioners is as
signed to each of the seventeen
commands in the field.
The bee., 1916-10-27
PLAN UNION
REVIVAL HERE

Plans are under way to hold a
union revival in darlington in
the near future. The pastors of
the local churches would COOP
crate and services would be held
in the largest building that could
be obtained. If the revival is
held it will start soon after the
series of meetings at the M. E.
church end.
The bee., 1916-10-27
Go To Take
New Workers. Votes

Albany, Oct. 26.-Henry O.
Acams, head of the election bu-
reau of the secretary of states
office, left today for McAllen,
Texas, with the ballots, on which
some 10000 New York National
Guardsmen stationed on I h e
Mexican border will indicate their
choice in the election of Nov. 7.
The bee., 1916-10-27
Sunrise Service
To Be Held

A sunrise service will be held
at the M, E church Sunday
morning and it will probably
continue for several hours.
There have been several con.
versions at the revival in prog
ress at that church. The forcible
sermons of Kew. j. L. Burton are
attracting large crowds and hav-
ing effect.
The bee., 1916-10-27
HON. D. i. EIMGHELOE
To Speak in Darlington on
Thurs d y Afternoon,
November 2

The Hon. ID. II. Kincheloe,
Congressman from this District,
and a candidate for reelection on
the Democratic District, will
speak here Thursday afternoon,
Nov. 2, at Z 80 O'Clock. "Our
Dave" an orator of ability aud
will have a large audience to hear
him on the issues of the day.
The bee., 1916-10-27
These Good
Democratic Days

Now we learn from Pittsbmg that
the wholesale price on mems shoes
has gone up from so to rs cents per
pair. Speed the day when we can
mix with our coffee and favorite
morning newspaper some item, be it
ever so small, about something gong
down in price.-Washington Herald.
The bee., 1916-10-27
HON. J. C. SPEIGHT
Spoke at City Hall Wednes-
day Evening to Large
Number Of Voters

The Hon. j. o. Spelght. of
Mayfeld, spoke Wednesday
evening at the city hall in the
interest of the Republican party
to large audience. His remarks
we're we'll chosen aud well re-.
ceived. He is an able speaker
aud delivered some telling shots.
The bee., 1916-10-27
Wilson Day. Hughes Day

Saturday, Oct. %, has been set
aside as Woodrow Wilson day" by
the Democratic national committee.
Tuesday, Nov. Z, has been set aside
as Charles Evans Hughes day by the
people of the United StateS.-New
York Sun.
The bee., 1916-10-27
Would Use Fire Hose
On Wife Beatars

San Francisco, Oct. 26.-Sit-
ting as a juror in civil case,
former Fire Chief o O'Shaughnessy
today officially advocated turn
ing the high pressure fire hose on
all wife beaters.
The bee., 1916-10-27
SURPRISE AT
SUNDAY SCHOOL

"a The Phllathea Glass Of the NJ. e.
church South Sunday School, will
have a surprise at the Sunday
School Sunday morning for the
School. Everyone who does not at
tend some other school Is invited to
be present and see OF what the sur
prise consists.
The bee., 1916-10-27
Ruby LaffOOn to Meet
With Local Lodge

hon. Ruby Laffoon of Madison
vile, will be with Victoria
Lodge No. "a, Knights of Pythias,
Monday night. All members are
urged to be present.
The bee., 1916-10-27
To Keep InIcWeIIs clean.

The ink should be poured out OF
the wells once a week and the wells
washed In hot water.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-09-08

was the precursor or JavenfIe books az
we now know them This sufferer was
Daniel Defoe. who was not only a
writer OF enhancing fiction, but IA
nous as keen political pamphleteer.
In 1903, in the reign of Queen Anne.
there came from his hand "a scandal
Gus and seditious pamphlet" entitled
"The Shortest Way With the Dissent
ers." A reward OF $50 was offered by
the government for the author, and,
rather than that his printer and pub
Usher should suffer in his stead, Defoe
gave himself up and was sentenced to
be pilloried three times
On July % Of that year the daring
satir1st stood unabashed on the pillory
In Cheapside. The punishment was re.
peated two days afterward IN the Tenn
pie, where sympathizing crowd flung
garlands instead of garbage at the
stout hearted pamphleteer, drank his
health with loud acclaim and sang his
Hymn to the Pillory." In this HYMN
occur these lines:
Tell them the men that placed him here
Are scandals TO the times;
Are at a loss to find his guilt
And can't commit his crimes
indianapolis News
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-09-08
DECORATING A ROOM.
Touches That Tell In Making II Rar.
monious and Artistic.


One of the things to remember In
planning n new house is that the walls
should be the background of the room,
and therefore that it is n mistake to
select paper that fills up the room be-
fore anything else has been put in
The best thing to do is to choose Il
neutral tint and get your color scheme
through the hangings and furnishings
If the room is dark choose Il tan or
gray paper with q pinkish or yellow
tinge; if 1t is sunny let fhe gray or
tan be of a blue or green cast. Then
IL 1t is blue room you have decided
upon choose rug with blue predomi-
mating, chintz overcurtains with blues.
yellows and green's, a big dull blue
pottery vase for the lamp with blue
and yellow Japanese shade for the
table, one chair upholstered with the
chintz and another with plain blue
and you have blue room that you
will not tire of in a week or a month.
Red, the professional decorators say,
is the least cheerful color there is and
can only be cfTe tive if used very spar
ingly. 1t fairly eats up the light. A
red shade on the desk lamp. red
cricket. red japanese bowl on the
dark bookcase or just a scarlet quill
pen on the desk may be all you need
to give exactly the right note Of color.
New York sun.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-09-08
TRUSTFUL HUMANITY.
We Often Place Great Reliance In
People We Do Not Know.

Taken acutely i'll in the midst OF a
long journey we accept the ministra-
tions of a fellow traveller whom we
have never seen before, but who says
that he is Il physician
Even the prescription given MS by our
family doctor is liza 10 be filed by
an unknown compromising clerk, yet
we swallow unquestioningly whatever
he hands us in bottle or box
We hail "A passing cab 10 take us to
our destination in the middle of the
night, feeling no alarm lest the driver
be In league with gang Of footpads.
We send our cash deposit to the
bank by the hand of a messenger con-
cerning whose virtues we have no
guaranty beyond the fact that thus far
we have not found him light fingered
We add our names to this and that
petition on the say so of some one who
may or may not. for all we are aware,
have an ulterior and illegitimate inter
est III swelling his list. and we sign
letters and other documents which we
have only hurriedly SKINNED over in
their final draft and In which our tired
copyist may have embalmed an error
fatal to our purpose. Atantic Monthly
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-09-08
Bonus For Workers.

Nearly 5000 employees of the Gen
eral Electric company's plant in Sche-
nectady, n. Y, have received their
first extra payments as result of the
most successful year in the company's
history. Similar distributions We're
made to long service employees in 9th
er localities, so that throughout all its
large organization the General Electric
company distributed about $550,000 to
$4,000 persons. The second extra pay
ment is to be made next February.
With the exception Of directors and
general officers, all employees who
have been IN service five consecutive
years received this extra payment.
The company paid out $36,000,000 in
1915 as wages to $1,000 employees in
this country. For this year the total of
wages will be nearer $50,OO0,000.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-09-08
FANATICS IN THE ORIENT.
In Persia Religious Msniscs Are Re
garded as Saints.

garded as Saints.
1t appears there are places where
lunatics are not shut up and kept
away from the rest of the world. but
are revered as saints
This Is the queer state Of affairs
that exists In some Of the interior cities
OF Persia, according to an oriental
traveller named Fetter, who tells inter
esting tales of mentally deranged men
who are looked upon In the light Of
wonderful beings
One particularly crazy man, accord
ing to Mr. Fetter the craziest man he
ever saw or heard Of, does nothing all
day long but race up and down the
streets Of the city crying out at the
top of his voice:
"Alii All! Air.
Mr.. Fetter says that this is not a
temporary form of madness. for the
man has kept 1t UP for twenty years
or so. He started 1t when he was still
young man. and his idea, Of course
is to venerate the name OF the god he
knows by ceaselessly shrieking his
name
Every one venerates this lunatic, I"
says Mr. Fetter. THE richest men In
the city have presented him with rare
gifts. One of them gave him horse
and saddle, and with that he gallops
through the streets when he is not
walking. He is privileged to break up
any kind OF meeting or assembly, and
all stop and listen to his cries as long
as he is of the notion to stay In their
midst
"At his death huge monument has
already been promised, on which viii
be carved the word All so it will tell
to generations TO come the story OF the
man who spent the best years OF his
life and all OF his waking hours shrek
ing the name Of the deity he wor
SHIPPED. Exchange
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-09-08
Water Colors.

Pigments have been used from the
earliest times and are now used by all
sayages for decorative purposes. But
the paint used in Babylon and Nineveh
and In Pompeii was composed OF pig.
ments mixed not with OIL, but with wa
ter TO which had been added little
glue, egg albumen or perhaps some
times casein, which is albuminous mat
ter from milk or the gluten from cereal
grains. Glue, however, which was well
known to the ancient Egyptians, was
the most used binding material. Such
paints are now known as fresco paints
or water colors.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-09-08
THE STARS AND STRIPES.
First Carried by Troops In Battle In
the Mexican War.


The American flag collections of the
United States National museum In
Washington include some interesting
examples of our flag, indicative OF its
development in several historical ne-
RODS, its many changes and Its gradual
STANDARDIZATION.
1t is interesting to note that during
the Revolution the flag had thirteen
stars In the war OF 1912, fifteen; In the
Mexican war, twenty-nine; In the civil
war, thirty five; In the Spanish-Ameri-
can war, forty-fiye and today, forty
eight. The American flag is among the
oldest Of national flags, being older
than the present British union jack,
the French tricolor and the flag of
Spain and many years older than the
flags of Germany and Italy, some Of
which, like those of other countries,
are personal flags, or those of reigning
families.
The history of our flag indicates that
the stars and stripes" was not carried
by troops In battle until the period Of
the Mexican war. 1867 though we
have record or Its use as garrison flag
from about 1887 or 1893 TO 1884 Bod
les Of troops carried during this period
and before 1t what was known as ma
tional colors or standards OF blue with
the arms Of the United States embla-
zoned thereon, comprising an eagle sur
mounted by a number Of stars, and
with the designation Of the body OF
troops, as infantry. artillery. etc. in
scribed on scroll.
In 1884 the artillery were given the
right Of carrying the stars and stripes
as recorded by the war department reg
ulations. the infantry and cavalry still
using the national arms with an added
scroll In the eagles beak bearing the
words "E Pluribus Unum" These flags
remained the colors OF the infantry un.
til 1841 and the cavalry until as late as
1887, when they were ordered to EN-
ploy the stars and stripes
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-09-08
TWO SIZES OF CONTROVERSY

What Mr.. Wilson Proposed to the
Heads of the Railroads lnvolved-Re-
ply of the Heads of the Various Lines.
Demand of the Union For an Eight
Hour Day Only.
The proposal that President Wilson
made to the railroads was:
First.-To adopt the eight hour day
''as basis for wages, even where the
actual work to be done cannot be com
pleted within eight hours" to quote
the presidents words.
Second.-To increase the hourly rate
of pay % per cent.
The result of the acceptance of this
proposal would be:
First.-No change in the length of
the train workday
Second.--An increase In wages of
more than $50,000,O00 a year to about
four-flfths of the train employees or
less than one-seyenth of all railroad
employees. In other words, an unfair
wage preferment would be granted
without investigation and under threat
of national strike to one man in
seven in the railroad service.
If these wage demands are just, In
whole or in part, then public tribunal,
appointed by the president as we have
urged, would speedily so determine.
The weight of public opinion must
determine this issue We cannot be-
lieve that it is the calm Judgment of
the country that we should sacrifice
the principle of arbitration In indus
trial disputes under a threat to tie up
the commerce of the country.
The railroads statement was:
That the railroads should grant, un
der threat Of a national strike, a $50,-
100000 wage preferment TO a small
minority Of their employees without a
hearing before a public tribunal is in
conceivable in democracy like ours.
All questions at issue-Wages. hours
costs, operating conditions these are
submerged by the greater issue: Shall
arbitration be abandoned IN the settle
ment of industrial disputes?
If we are To throw arbitration into
the scrap heap what hope can there
be In America for industrial peace in
the future?
A nation wide strike is unthinkable
when the railroads are urging that all
the matters in dispute be placed be-
fore any tribunal constituted by public
authority.
Arbitration IL urged by congress as
final method for settling controversies
as to both hours and wages on the
railroads. The Newlands law Of 1913
was enacted by unanimous request of
the four railroad brothcrhoods and the
representatives of the railroads. and
yet the leaders who urged this law
now take the position that question
of hours Is beyond arbitration.
But wages, not hours, are involved
In these demands. No proposal has
been made to establish an eight hour
work day The demand is for an
eight hour pay basis, and this Is the
Interpretation given by the president
In the proposal now before the rail
roads. The employees have emphat-
ically made it known that they do
not want eight hours work for eight
hours pay-a real eight hour day.
The brotherhoods' stand Is this:
1.-THE railway brotherhoods subscribe
to the principle of arbitration said A,
b. Garretson president of the Condue-
tors, "but what they object to is arbi-
tration in this instance, for the men do
not believe they should get any less
than the eight hour day"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-09-08
AN EQUINE HERO.
Story of Old BsIdy, One of the Most
Famous Horses In Historv

The head of one Of the most famous
horses In history hangs mounted on a
shield Ia the headquarters of George
q. Meade post In Philadelphia. 1t is
that or Old Baldy, General Meade's
mount In the operations Of the armies
OF the Potomac and Virginia The
horse was raised In the west and was
or Oregon, who was killed at Balls
Bluff on Oct d. 1861. General Meade
bought him In Washington for $3.50.
The horse was wounded In the nose
by piece OF shell at the battle OF Bull
Run on July p, 1861, but was not put
out OF service. He served at Dranes
Vile, Mechanicsville, Gaines Mills and
Groverton and was wounded again at
the second battle OF Bull Run, on Aug.
30, 1852, when he was shot through a
hind leg.
Two weeks later he was ridden at the
battle OF South Mountain, and on Sept.
II he was shot through the neck at the
battle Of Antietam and was abandoned.
apparently dying. He was afterward
iVonu ny I0ueEdI Medu6S s servant
browsing on the battlefield He had
recovered sufficiently to serve General
Meade In the October and November
campaign TO Falmouth In 1863 he was
at Charlottesville during the first
three days of May and at Gettysburg
on July /. 2 and g. He was shot through
the ribs on July 2
BE was In three other engagements
that year, and In 1854 he was in the
wilderness campaign at Spottsylvania,
North Anna Creek, Cold Harbor Pc
tersburg and several other places where
there was hard fighting.
At the end Of the war he was taken
to General Meade's country place near
Philadelphia, where he remained seven
years. He was led in the great parade
In Philadelphia on Dec l6, 1870, IN
honor of General Grants return from
his tour Of the world He was later
given to John !. Davis Of Jenkintown.
who cared for him until it became
necessary TO kin him because he be-
came too feeble 10 stand. This was on
Dec. Is. 1882. He survived his famous
master about ten years.-P Philadelphia
Ledger
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-09-08
How lJnions HeIp,

Last March, when workers employed
by the Rex storage warehouse, Phila-
delphia, organized and affiliated with
the American Federation OF Labor
their wage rate was $3.50 and 81 for
a week of sixty hours. These condi-
tions have resulted IN several strikes.
Recently a final adjustment was made
which raises wages to $15, provides
for fifty-six hour work week, time
and one-half for overtime and double
time for Sundays