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FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1918.
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grounds and without this source of
revenue it will be impossibe for the
picnic committee to meet the in­
creased expenses. The expenses
of the picnic will be much greater
than previous years and this is one
reason why we all should do our
best to make it one grand success.
The picnic committee is holding
meetings every Thursday night and
they are doing their best to enter­
tain all of the friends of organized
labor at the picnic. Many amuse
ments will be provided and it is up
to the good people of Butler County
to come out and help celebrate the
big event, Labor Day.
WORLD OF LABOR
It has been discovered that the
$2 a day minimum wage law for
canal laborers had been nullified by
the New York State Legislature.
Gov. Sulzer was instrumental in
having the law enacted, but a sub
sequent measure relating to me
chanics employed in State institu
tions did not have the $2 a day
amerdmeit incorporated, and it is
now asserted that this minimum
wage cannot be put into effect.
James M. Lynch, president of
the International Union, has been
appointed by Gov. Sulzer of New
York as State Labor Commissioner.
President Lynch is a residert of
SyrDcuse, N. Y., and was residing
Onl y
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Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
The last big picnic and outing
to be held this season is Labor Day
which will be celebrated at the
Butler County Fair Grounds. This
will probably be the last picnic to
be held at the Fair Grounds by the
Co-operative Trades and Labor
Council. The state laws have been
changed in the past few years that
no liquor can be sold on the
-v _,
there when elected president of the
International Union. His name
has been sent to the State Senate
for confirmation. This is the place
to which Gov Sulzer appoiuted John
Mitchell, whom the State Senate
on two different occasions refused
to confirm.
The "National Stone Cutters,"
who broke away from the Interna
tional Union during the Toronto
strike a few years ago, have per
fected arrangements to return to
the fold ©f their legitimate Interna
tional Union. The Toronto local
union will go into the International
body as a whole, while the individ
uals who left Toronto will join the
International local unions in cities
where they are located. This ac
tion removes an annoyance to the
International Union which has been
exceedingly injurious.
Nothwithstanding Premier Mc
Bride's declaration for a white Brit
ish Columbia, the number of Chi
nese coming in last year was greater
than in any previous year. Alto
gether 7,745 Chinese entered, most
ly trough Vancouver, and nearly
all intend to remain in British Co
umbia. Out of the total number
367 were admitted as students, or
merchants, while the remainder
paid $500 per capita, which aggre
gated to $3,349,442. The total
Chinese population of Canada is
now nearly 30,000, more than one
third of the Orientals having locat
ed in British Columbia.
The Railroad Situation.
Washington, Aug. 1.—Upon the
passage by Congress of the new
Mediation and Councilmen Law,
supplanting the Erdman Act, the
President appointed as the new
meditation board Judge William F.
Chambers, at one time Justice of
the International Court at Samoa,
and since 1901 a member of the
Spanish Treaty Claims Commission
Judge Martin A. Knapp, presiding
judge of the United States Com
merce Court, and Louis Post, As
sistant Secretary of Labor. The
two first named were confirmed by
the Senate, but for some reason,
based on the phraseology of the
law, Mr. Post was not confirmed.
However, the Board of Mediation
is at work, while indications point
ed to extreme difficulty in harmon
izing the differences between the
managers of the railroads and the
representatives of the Brotherhood,
a sort of understanding has been
reached, and it appears now that
a settlement will be had under the
new law. One of the disquieting
episodes which has been relieved,
was the fact that the Erie Railroad
until recently, refused to become a
part of the general mediation and
arbitration plan. Another trouble
some factor was the fact that the
railroads at first insisted on several
questions raised by the railroads
being adjudicated at the same time
that the wage question is taken up.
From the best information obtaina
ble it now seems that all of the rail
roads involved are to co-operate
with the Brotherhoods to reach a
settlement on the wage question,
and, after that is settled, then the
railroads are to bring forward the
demands which they propose to
make the Brotherhoods and the
Mediation and Arbitration Board
will be resorted to for the purpose
of arranging a settlement.
Shorter Workday, More Pay.
Washington, Aug. 1. A 25 per
cent increase in pay, with shorter
working hours, has been given to
the employes of the Auditor of the
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Men's Outing Oxfords—Rubber sole...60c,
Special on Baby Dolls this week—Patent, Gun Metal
'^nd White
for $2.50 and $3 Oxfords, Patents, Suedes
and Gun Metal last season's styles is the reason of
selling at this price.
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TEE OUT OF THE WAY SHOE STORE THAT SAVES YOU m:
The Carpenters, Plasterers, etc., kinder block the way, but we
Just walk right in and take advantage of these specials.
66c, 89c
Postoffice Department during the
last year. This was brought about
through the installation of mechan
ical tabulation for adding postmast
ers' money order accounts, At the
time Congress authorized the audi
tor to install tabulating machines,
provisions was made for converting
the salaries of 207 money order
assorters and skilled laborers, with
average salaries of $7t0 per annum
into a lump sum for payment to
machine operatives on a piece-work
basis. Following the inaugurati^u
of this system proficiency was
gained in the operation of the ma
chine, and fewer employes were
needed to handle the work, and all
vacancies were allowed to remain
unfilled, so at the present time 117
machine operatives are drawing the
salaries formerely paid to 207 em
ployes, and the average machine
operative gets $945 per annum, as
compared with the former annual
salary of $760. No employe is per
mitten to perform work outside of
the regular office hours. One
fourth of the operative complete
the maximum day's work in six
hours.
investigating Labor Camps.
Albany, N. Y., Aug. 1.—The
New York State Bureau of indus
tries and Immigration has a special
corps of investigators examining
the 2,000 immigrant labor camps
in the northern part of the state,
paper pulp and highway camps in
the St. Lawrence section, and aq
ueduct, railroad and brick yard
camps constitute the major portion
of the camps. A year ago an in
vestigation was made and the re
port declared that most of these
camps were unhealthy and a men
ace to the health of the state.
This year the investigators will
compare the conditions with those
of last year for the purpose of
recommending what reforms sug
gest themselves.
Closing Unclean Shops.
Denver, Aug. 1.—The State
Board of Examiners of Barbers is
continuing its crusade against in
sanitary barber shops. A number
of places have been closed owing
to the insanitary and even filthy
condition of the shops. The law
under which the State Board of
Examiners is operating has been
extremely beneficial in curtailing
the spread of disease, no person
person being permitted to work at
the barber trade who is afflicted
with a contagious or infectious ail
ment. Large number of tubercu
losis patients are in Colorado, and
with the enforcement of present
law patrons of barber shops are
given adequate protection again in
fection by this disease. There are
000 less barbers in Colorado than
when this law became operative
four years ago. This is considered
to be of inestimable benefit to the
general public.
Horseshoers' School.
Ithaca, Aug. 1.—Beginning next
winter a school for Horseshoers
will be opened in connection with
the veterinary department of the
University of Cornell. This will
be the first school of its kind, so it
is stated, to be established in Amer
ica. In most of the countries of
Europe the Horseshoers, before be
ing permitted to engage in business
must give some time to the study
of anatomy of the foot and limb so
that in his practice the herse may
be better safe-guarded against in
ferior practice and assurance given
the owner that his animal is being
shod by a fully qualified man.
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The Slickest Line of $3.50 and $4.00 Men's Low Cuts on the market. We'll be pleased to show them
are
$2,25
In order to ascertain whether a man
really knew the sound of his own
voice, Laloy has been at some pains to
determine the facts. His experiments
show that if person record on a
phonograph disk a few sentences pro
nounced by himself, together with oth
ers recorded by friends, and causes the
machine to reproduce these, it most
frequently happens that the man more
easily recognizes the voices of his
friends than he does his own.
It appears that the differences lies
In the quality of the tone. One hears
his own voice not only through the
air, as do his auditors, but across the
solid parte between the organs of
speech and those of hearing. The
sound thus produced has a different
timbre from that conducted to the ear
by the air above.
If one entertain any doubt as to this
him try the following experiments:
Take the end of a wooden rod between
the teeth and pronounce the vowel
continuously. Let the other end be
taken alternately between the teeth
and released by another person who at
the same time stops his ears. The lat
ter will find that every time he seizes
the rod in his teeth (ho sound will be
stronger than when it reaches the ear
through the nir above and that it has a
different quality. The passage of
sound through a solid body augments
its intensity and modifies its quality.—
Harper's Weekly.
A DIPLOMATIC KNOT.
It Wasn't Tied In a Tangle Just For
tho Fun of the Thing,
Ever since diplomacy was first In
vented its most eminent practitioners
have expended their best efforts in
mystifying if not in actually deceiving
their rivals. Uber Land und Meer cites
an amusing anecdote of diplomatic life
in the eighteenth ceutury.
In 1741 Count Bestushew was sent
by the emperor of Russia to Stockholm
to put the question of war or peace to
the Swedish government. Upon arriv
ing the count made known his mission
and then waited patiently for an an
swer.
Finally when he had almost given up
hope of getting a reply he received a
long communication from the Swedish
minister of war. Eagerly Count Bestu
shew opened the letter, for he knew
that it contained the long expected an
swer. But to his despair he found It
so encumbered with official phrases
and formalities that he could make
nothing of its meaning. For two hours
he struggled in vain to comprehend the
confused document. Then he hastened
to the minister of war.
"My dear Count Bestushew," said
the minister when the count had ex
plained his difficulty, "I have no au
thority to communicate to you orally
the contents of this document I could
not think uf it."
"But I have puzzled over this for
two hours, and still I can make noth
Ing of it"
"Pray, do not blame yourself, count,"
said the minister. "You could hardly
expect to unravel in two hours a doc
ument that took me two days to knit
and knot together."
Painfully Mixed.
A very fasbiunable young man stop
ped at a florist's one hot summer day
to order a box of flowers sent to hi?
lady love. At the same time he also
purchased a design for the funeral of
a friend. On the card for the box he
wrote:
"Hoping this may help you to bear
the heat"
The other card bore the one word.
"Sympathy."
Very soon the girl telephoned:
"Thank you so much for the flowers
But why did you write •Sympathy* on
the card?"—National Monthly.
HUMUS IN THE SOIL
This Valuable Substance Is Duo to Hi*
Presence of Bacteria.
We find a vast difference in the fer
tility of different soils, writes C. L.
McArthur. assistant bacteriologist, Ida
ho experiment station. ,For instance,
sand, although it may contain all the
elements necessary for plant food, is
still found barren and without vegeta.
tion. Garden soils, however, may con
tain less plant food thau the sand and
still be considered very fertile. This
difference is usually due to the sub
stance known as humus. Where the
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YOUR OWN VOICE
Hew You May Hear It as It Sounds to
Other Persons' Ears.
Laloy, who appears to have scien
tifically Investigated the matter, as
sures us that not only does one not see
himself as others see him, but that he
does not hear himself as others hear
him. Some Interesting experiments
were made by the French savant in
this connexion.
business.
grades tip or plain toe l^st season's
HOME STAMPS
THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
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ments 8re present In a form that plants
can use This humus is the remains of
previous plants and animals. When
plants die that part which is not used
for commercial purposes usually goes
buck to the soil. In much the same
way a great deal of the animal body
reaches the soil.
As soon as this material reaches the
soil it is attacked by millions of bacte
ria. which are known as the decompo
sition bacteria. These bacteria soon
cause a great many changes in the ma
teriol, each change tending to break
down the complex into the more sim
ple compounds.
A
part of this material
is set free in the form of gases and
lost in the atmosphere, but the greatest
part remains in the soil as a partly de
composed mass and is known as hU'
mus
Different classes of bacteria continue
their work on this material after it has
reached the form of humus, decompos
ing it still further and building plant
food and other substances from It
Thus we see that humus is continually
changing It is never the same in two
different fields, und it also differs from
year to year in the same field.
The addition of manure to a field
does a great deal toward the formation
of humus. It uot only adds decompos
ing matter to the soil, but it also add
large numbers of bacteria which form
humus out of the material already In
the soil Thus we find that if it were
not for the work of bacteria there
would not be any humus, as the various
plant and animal matter would not de
cay.
CHOCOLATE AS A FOOD.
It 8hould
Be Eaten After
Chocolate and cocoa are almost as
stimulating as coffee and tea. but have
none of the injurious effects upon the
nervous system which are for many
people the great drawbacks of these
drinks.
Chocolate Is best when made over
night and allowed to stand.—New York
World.
A Knight In Topcoats.
The late Sir Tatton Sykes. says the
Manchester Guardian, had a way of
his own of taking his walks comfort
ably.
A
visitor in the neighborhood of
Sledmere would see the baronet set out
for his morning round wearing two or
three overcoats When he felt warm
enough he would take off first one and
then another and lay it on the nearest
hedgerow. The person who found an
overcoat and returned it to the house
always received the reward of a shil
ling, and no doubt the Sledmere boys
were willing searchers.
Unappreciated.
"See. John." said Mrs. Slathers, with
a happy smile, "I have taught the ca
nary every time I come near him to
stick out his little hill to be kissed."
"Humph!" said Slathers, eying the
bird critically 'Seems to me yon
spend your time teaching creatures
how to present their bills for my atten
tiun. 1 got one from your milliner this
morning, not to mention a dozen or
two others iq the same mail."—Har
pert.
Hopeless.
woman went to the police station
to inquire about her missing husband
"What is his distinguishing feature7"
asked the superintendent.
"A large Roman nose," she answered
"Then he won't be found," emphatic
ally exclaimed a policeman, "for a nose
of that kiud never turns up."—Pear
ion's Weekly.
Hard to Find.
"Don't get down in the mouth, old
lian," said the optimist "Look on the
i'ight side of things."
"That's all very well." mournfully
f-.»plied the sufferer, "but what, tell me
is the hrlght side of a gumboil?"—
Philadelphia Ledger
WAS HAMLET FAT?
With His Own Words He Doth Pro
claim the Fact Quite Pat.
The traditional Ilamlet of our stage
la a lean, ascetic young person, an
idealized, etherealized, heroic creature
evolved for the delectation of the mati
nee girl. He is a horrid sham. Is it
credible that such a man would have
lacked the determination, the purpose
fulness, to put his revenge into opera
tion pat upon the discovery? It is all
very well to argue about his mental
balance. It was his sluggish liver
that stayed him and hampered him.
Hamlet's father was a fat and lethar
gic man by his own account
Sleeping within my orchard,
My custom always of the afternoon,
he says in h»s ghostly Interview.
We may then look for some clew to
Hamlet's character as soon as he Is
alone on the stage What are his
words?
Ob, that this too, too solid flea^ would
melt!
It Is a keynote that may not be
glossed over as a beautiful thought,
for the same Idea bursts out some lines
farther on. where be says of the world
Things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely.
Is it credible that such thoughts are
jots# HU mi Mmtm & *uid»
One
and Never
Before Meals.
Chocolate is one of the most whole
some of foods. But it should be re
served for eating after meals. Nothing
can be worse than chocolate eaten
just before a meal, for then it ruins
the appetite. Chocolate should consist
of equal parts of sugar and cocoa.
When it contains, as most of that sold
in the cheap candy stores does, more
sugar than cocoa it loses much of its
real food value.
Koenig, the great German chemist
who has done so much to enlighten the
world on the value of foods by publish
ing his analysis of them, says that
chocolate contains 6.27 per cent of pro
tein. .62 per cent of theobromine, 21.20
per cent of fat. 1.30 per cent of tar
taric acid 53.70 per cent of sugar, 4.07
per cent of starch, 1.67 per cent of cel
lulose and 5.59 per cent of other car
bohydrates. Therefore it is highly nu
tritive.
Athletes, polar explorers and moun
tain climbers know this well. In the
Swiss Alps it is usual to carry choco
late in the pocket and to eat a little
of it whenever the climbers pause for
a rest But chocolate is fattening and
should therefore be eschewed by those
who have a tendency to too great cor
pulency. It is an ideal addition to the
diet of a vegetarian.
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requMl
os as to the nature of thla prince
They serve a double purpose. Not
merely do we learn that Hamlet was
a fat man. but also that he was an un
happy fat man. Hamlet was a man to
whom his bulk was an affliction. He
was handicapped by it and knew that
he was. Some such idea 1s discernible
In every one of the great soliloquies.
He scorns himself for a sluggard:
What Is a man
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to *leep and feed?
His miud, unhinged or not, is ob
sessed by fatness, and in the mad tur
moil of emotions after he has slain
Polonius his thoughts run:
We
fat all creatures else to fat
We
Who would fardels bear
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us, and
fat ourselves for maggots.
It bursts out again in the "Oh, what
a rogue and peasant slave!" harangue.
Ere this
I should have fatted all the region's kites
With this slave's offal.
And who but a fat. lethargic man
would have said in the "To be or not to
be" speech:
grunt and sweat under
a weary life.
Does not the phrase bring to mind at
once the picture of a fat man toiling at
some loathed task?—London Express.
WON BY A DOLL
A Gift That Brought the Rebellious
Apaches to Terms.
Major Bourke. as aid to General
Crook, once showed himself an effective
peacemaker. He persuaded a band of
Apaches to go back to their reservation
by presenting a doll to a papoose. The
incident was as follows:
General Crook had been trying to put
these Apaches back on the reserve, but
could not catch them without killing
them, an action that did not appeal to
him. One day his forces captured a
papoose and took her to the fort. She
was quiet all day. but her black eyes
watched everything. When night came
the child broke down and sobbed Just
as any white youngster miirht
The fort was In despair until Major
Bourke had an idea From the adju
tant's wife he borrowed a doll that had
come to her little girl the previous
Christmas When the young Apache
understood that It was hers to keep
her sobs ceased and she fell asleep.
When morning came the doll was
still clasped tightly In her arms She
played with it all day, and seemingly
all thought
of
ever getting back to the
tribe had left her.
Several days passed with no sign of
overture being made by the tribe, and
finally in despair the papoose, with the
doll still in her possession, was sent
back. When the child reached the
tribe with the prize grasped in her
chubby bands it created a sensation
among the native Americans, and her
mother later went back to the post
with it She was received in a hos
pitable manner and kindly treated,
and the effect of her visit was such
that through her overtures were made,
with the result that soon afterward
the entire band moved back (Ml tbo re
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Writing Popular Songs.
Only those who have tried it and
failed know the disappointments of the
song writer striving to induce a pub
lisher to look at his work. For those
who would try here is a tip from one
who has made good: "If your song is
to make a Idt the air must be hard to
remember, though catchy and pleasing.
If it can be whistled by any one who
hears it once or twice it will not sell,
and the publisher will reject it"—New
York Sun.
Wonderful.
Critic—The heroine of your story, old
man. is simply wonderful. Author (de
lightedly)—You think so? Critic—Yes.
You say on page ten that she hissed
"You are a liar!" and any woman who
can hiss such a sentence as that can't
help being wonderful.—Boston Tran
script
Cold Comfort.
"Oh, papa, Mr. Rpooner proposed last
night'"
"Are you sure he loves you?"
"He said he'd die for me, papa."
"Well, you'll both die if you try to
iive on the salary he's getting."—Bos
ton Transcript.
Rather Otherwise.
"Is your daughter musical?"
"Well." replied Mr Cumrox. "she
seems so in conversation, but when
she sings opinion* differ "—Washing
ton Star.
You may stretch a truth into a lie,
but you can't shrink a lie into truth.—
Selected.
Defining the Oyster.
"Now." asked the teacher, "who can
tell me what an oyster is?"
Silence for a moment, while small
brows were knit in strained effort at
remembrance. Then little Tommy's
facial muscles relaxed, and eagerly he
raised his hand.
"I know!" he triumphantly announc
ed. "An oyster is a flsh built like a
nnt."—Everybody's.
She 8macked of
Books.
"They tell me you kissed Miss Son
net. the poetess, on yesterday's auto
mobile excursion."
"Yes. That is true."
"Indeed! And how did yon—ah—flntf
her?"
"Miss Sonnet has a marked literary
taste."—New Orleans Times-Democrat
No
Exaggeration.
"You told me you were worth a mil
llou, and 1 thid that you have only a
palfry $10,000," said Blathers* partner,
"Well $10,000 is 1,000,000 cents," said
Rlnthers Harper's Weekly
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diseases. Sold on a uarante«.
One trial will surprise you.
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yotir druKgisi or by mal oa tyf
ccipt of 26 cents.
Goodhllr R«m«dr CanMn
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