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•fcr I.V 'TS |t. It THE PRESS. Ollwm, Oitii o» Om«Airuu» IUM Or HAMILTOII AITS VlCIKITT. THE NONPAREIL PRINTING CO. PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS. Subscription Price One Dollar -per Yeevr Payable tt$ Advance. Whfttsrsr U intended for insertion mas: •utentlcated by the nme and addrem of the writer, not «ecea«arily for publication, but as a (•arantec of good faith Subscribers changing their addteaa will plea* Dotify i.hi» offic«, niving old and new addreaa to inaar* regular delivery of paper. We do uot hold ourselves responsible foi any vi«wa or opinions expressed in the articles or communications of correspondent*. Communications solicited from secretaries of all aooetifS and organixations, and should be ADDRESSED to T«II HUTI.KK COUNTY PRB*S. 82B Marky Street, Hamiton, Ohio. The publishers reserve the light to reject any advertisements at any time. Advertising rates made known on application FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1913. Entsrad at ikt Poitoficr Ut Hamilton, Ohta, a* Sttond Class Mat! Matter. teaCBB WlIXLT AT KM M*1«T 8T*K*T, HAMILTON OHIO. HOMB. TlLirBONl Ml. 6«4orMd by the Trade* and Labor Council of Hamilton, Ohio. Endorsed by the Middletown Trades and Labor Council of Mlddlelown O. Endorsed by the Labor Legislative I Hfiu of Butler, Preble and Mont gomery Counties. THE PRESS wishes all its friends and readers a Merry Christmas. YBS it would make the clerks all smile if we would do our Christmas •hopping early THB New Year will soon be up on us. Let us all hope that the year 1914 will be a much better year than the unlucky 1913. THB labor unions have prospered wonderfully in the past year and many of them were successful in getting more money and reduced hours. Indications point to much more success in the year to come if the working men will unite and hold together. It's the stick to gether that always wins. WORLDJH LABOR A. strike of union teamsters in Indianapolis, long threatened, is now on. Many of the employers, however, have granted the union's demands for higher wages. R. B. Cradlebaugh, Burns detec tive, convicted of assaulting Alfred Nelson, while the latter was in his sustody, after having been arrested for his alleged participation in the recent Wheatland riots, was sen tenced to one year in the county jail and to pay a fine of $1,000, by Superior Judge Latimer in Oakland Cal. Motion for a new trial was denied. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor paid a visit to the Panama Pacific exposition site and gave expression to his interests in the exposition, in his opinion, was practically com pleted, which he considered a tri bute to the workingman. He said that he was convinced that the 1915 meeting of the American Federa tion of Labor would be held in Sau Francisco. The co-operative systeal is being given a tryout in the operation of a shingle mill near Everett, Wash, by the members of the Shingle Weavers' and Timber Workers' In ternational Union. Members of LADIES' FINE SLIPPERS jp A V r** the shingle crew took over the plant on the co-operative plan after the mill had been shut down. The plant was bought outright from the former owners and it is asserted that so far the enterprise appears to be successful. There were admitted to United States 134,140 immigrant aliens in October, this year, according to statistics just issued by the Bu reau of Immigration of the De pal tment of Labor. This is an in crease of 25,840 over the same month last year, when 108,300 were admitted. The number admit ted however was nearly double that of October, 1911, when 69,418 im migrant aliens eatered this coun try. Of the number admitted last October 82,907 were males and 51, 157 were females. Nathaniel Ellery, civil engineer for the Brick Builders' Bureau, has completed and published the second volume of his Permanancy in build ing Construction. There is only a page of reading matter in the book but the hundred photographs make print unnecessary. It is di rected against the use of -oncrete. Two thousand copies were printed at a cost of $3100. The books will be distributed to prospective build ers as a part of the campaign being waged by the bricklayers against concrete construction. According to statement^ made at Pittsburg recently by railroad men there appears to be a plan on foot whereby 40,000 employees of the Pennsylvania Railroad east of Pitts burg are to form a close alliance. It is stated that the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, Order of Railway Conductors, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Loco motive Firemen, and the Order of Railway Telegraphers are to be the constituent organizations. This move is being made, it is said, for the purpose of forming a closer re lationship among tbe men employed on the Pennsylvania Railroad, but will not change in any manner the affiliations of the employees with their national organizations. The largest single order of gro ceries ever kuown in Chicago was made by the Western Federation of Miners recently. This union or dered $60,000 worth of groceries for the striking miners of Calumet, Michigan. Estaolishment of a Social Ser vice Commission to have charge of the work of extending church aid to labor, and the adoption of an annuity plan for preachers has been agreed to by the National Council of Congregational churches The Social Service Commission will be composed of nina members. The church plans to carry on au agreesive campaign aid in right ing industrial wrongs. The Ssc retary of the Commission will be Henry A. Atkinson of Chicago. The Seamen's BUI. Washington Dec. 19 The house committee on Merchant Marine has arranged to commence hearings on the La Follette Seamen's Bill to begin on December 13. The ship trust is marshalling its forces for the purpose of defeating the bill if there is a possible chance It will be remembered that this bill passed the Senate some time ago by an overwhelming vote and during the Sixty-second Congress a Seamen's Bill similiar in character passed the House by a strong majority. While the shipping trust will en deavor to ?mend the bill it is not believed that it will be successful in changing any of the material points now contained in the La Follete measu.e as passed by the Senate. Defective 54-Hour Law. Houston, Texas, Dec. 19.—For the second time there has been called to the attention of the mem bers of the Texas Legislature the fact that a large sized "joker" was placed in the so-called fifty-four hour law for the protection of fe 44 5°C' nrnra-wnHiTw' kather Sol£S males. According to whnt is deemed good legal opinion the statute is absolutely worthless to serve the purpose for which it was intended. When the statute was examined it was found that there was no punishment provided for a defendant charged with employing a female for more than fifty-fonr hours during the week. Another examination of the statute revealed the fact that it did not provide for any liability on the part of an em ployer for acts committed by an agent, but that only the agent could be held responsible Therefor*, in a case just disposed of tbe defend ant was discharged, and the assis tant district attorney asserted that it is very doubtful whether he will accept or receive anv more com plaints of the violation of the fifty four hour law. Old Scheme. San Diego, Cal., Dec. 19.—The local labor paper states that certain local interests are advertising in newspapers and other publications in the East and North that San Diego is in need of laboring men. It further says that inducements in the way of big wages are held up with the evident purrose to flood this section with idle men and thus reduce wages. Upon author ity of the building trades council it is asserted that there are many idle men here and there is to im mediate prospect for the need of more workmen. Teamsters Returning. Indianapolis, Dec. 19.—Over half of the 3,000 striking teamsters and chauffeurs have returned to work under new agreements, pro viding for better working condi tions and an increase in wages. It is confidently believed that the team owners now refusing to enter into an agreement with the team sters will soon capitulate and thus end whai appeared to be at first the beginning of a long, drawn out contest. Anarchy. Washington, Dec. 19.—The fol lowing is the substauce of a tele gram received on Ddc. 10 by Presi dent Gompers from officials in cherge of the Copper Miners' strike in Calumet, Mich., "Mine operators and Citizens' Alliance have announced in the morning local press that tomorrow will give all representatives of or ganized labor from outsioe of this State twenty four hours to leave. That if they fail to so they will be sent out of the district in the manner that suggests itself as most convenient and effective." President Gompers was also urged to present the matter to President Wilson to the end that the Consti tutional rights of labor representa tives in Michigan may be protected. This has been done. Pink Tea Union. Kansas City, Dec 19 —A new labor organization bound by its constitution to "opost. strikes and uphold the aroitratiou method of settling disputes," and also to favor a "graduated, rather than a uniform wage scale," has been chartered by the Circuit Court. Founders of the organization, which is known as the National Association of United Building La bor, say it is planned to extend the new association to all parts of the United States, Kirby, Mulhall, and Pest are no doubt to be honorary members of its executive board. Shoemakers Settle. San Francisco, Dec. 19.—The Shoemakers and Shoe Cutters have adjusted their differences with a large local factory, and the six week's strike has been concluded. The employers granted union con ditions and ati increase in wages. THE OUT OF THE WAY SHOE STORE THAT SAVES YOU MONEY. SHE TH£M IN OUR SHOW WINDOW OPEN EVENINGS UNTILpT ITM T» A TT T» 43 TH Christmas UJLrvM PATE,R. LAUlJia riiNJtL M-lrrhRS, in Bl^ck, Blue, Laven- MFN'S FTNF SL IPPKDQ ender Oriental, etc 79c, 89c, $1.39 Stvles^hai'niMV,»" RUBBER WEATHER—Rubbers'make a useful aud C°mf0rtS a ,- Tit* Original New Zealartdera. The original Xew Zea landers were knowu as the most ferocious cannibals and the most warlike savages. They were big. gaunt fellows, of Immense muscular force and great sagacity. These savage New Zealanders. though they ate their enemies, interred their own dead, and they believed that the third day after burin I the heart sepa rated itself from the corpse and was carried, to the clouds by an attendant spirit. Unfreezable. "Can any one name a liquid that doesn't freeze?" asked the teacher. There was a moment's silence, says the Berliner lllustrirte Zeitung. Then in excited little voice in the rear of the room answered eagerly, "Please, teacher, hot water!" Mario's Great Record. Mario, the singer, who died in 1883, appeared In I.ondoir. his favorite city, for thirty-two years, during which time he appeared in forty-six parts, a record ^vhich has never been approached by any other artist However mean yotir life Is. meet it and live it. not shun It and call It bad names.—Thoreau. Musical Possibilities. Modern composers who lack the fac ulty of creating original melodies sometimes try to console themselves with the reflection that the melodic possibilities have been exhausted. How far this Is from being true Dr. Ralph Dunstan has shown: "Even with such short musical form as the Anglican single chant, which consists in its sim ple statement of the notes, no less than i!0.000,(K)0 different melodies fire possible, without regarding the multi tudinous differences formed by passing and auxiliary notes, harmonies and rhythmical accentuation. Supposing only one In a hundred of these tones to be musically interesting, we have a possible repertory of HOO.OOO single chants. And If this be true of such a simple aud restricted form of melo dy. with what overwhelming force does it apply to longer and more im portant compositions!" The chromati scale yields over tf,000,000,000 possi bilities In the construction of melodjes. —Chicago News. London's First Stone Bridge. London only gained Its true position and importance when the first bridge replaced the ferry across the Thames. The tirst stone bridge there seems to have been begun in 1170 there had previously been a wooden structure. It is sa-id that King John, pleased with the bridges that he saw In France, brought over a skilled Freuch work man, and he decided to raise the neces sary revenue from the rent of bouses built iipon this bridge. Its arches were narrow, sometimes causing ac cidents to boats passing beneath and occasionally whole blocks of houses, falling Into disrepair, would topple over into the stream. There were twenty arches, one forming a draw bridge. Many reasons made a draw bridge desirable—not only the passing of masted vessels, but the power of raising it against an enemy.—Milwau kee Sentinel. Air Pressure In Tunnels. The effects of air resistance are well shown in the twelve and a half mile Simplon tunnel, where an exception ally high amount of energy Is required for running the electric trains. The tunnel, which is fifteen feet wide and eighteen feet high, with a sectional area of 250 square feet, has a ventilat ing current of 3.WO cubic'feet of air per second, maintained by two blast fans at the Brigue end and two ex haust fans at Iselle. Trains going with this current encounter less resistance than In open air up to fifteen and a half miles an hour, but at higher speeds or in the opposite direction the resistance Is much greater than out side. Coasting by gravity down the seven per 1.000 maximum gradient, a train, even though going with the cur rent. cannot exceed thirty-five miles an hour on account of the braking by the air. Queer Tricks of Memory. In later life Emerson's memory play ed him some strange tricks. James Cabot, his biographer, says that he met him one day in the streets of Bos ton apparently at a loss for something and asked him where he was going. "To dine," said Emerson, "with an old and very dear friend. I know where she lives, but I hope 3'ou won't ask me her name." Then Hfe went on to de scribe her as "the mother of the wife of the young man—the tall man—who speaks so well," aud so on until Cabot guessed to whom he was referring. This failing led to a pathetic scene at Longfellow's funeral. After gazing long at the face of his lifelong friend as he lay in his coffin Emerson said to a bystander, "That gentleman was a sweet, beautiful soul, but I have en tirely forgotten his name.** An Old Ruse. The influence of women in Louis XV.'s day WHS all powerful. The men, in consequence, feared them. It be came the fashion for women to dash about Paris in cabriolets, driving often somewhat rashly, and increased acci dents were put down to this cause. Gabriel de Sartines. minister of po|ice, dared not forbid anv woman to drive THE WIY THEY ARE'^ELLINGVBES^ PROOF Always pleased toP how faTori^ lre wf^ Issued prohibiting their doing so until they were forty years old. "After tills declaration," notes Mrs. Bearne In "A Court Painter and His Circle," 'there was not a cabriolet to be seen driven by a woman." Hot Remedy. pepper is said to be a re liable and effective means of prevent ing seasickness. A slice of bread is first buttered and sprinkled with the pepper and Is then folded over so that it can be eaten without burning the month and throat —Popular Mechanics. One of the Family." Mrs. l)nflf to new maid)—But Mary, there are only two in the family, Mr. Duff and myself. Why have you set |)laces for three? The New Maid—Sure, ina'am. it was the cook that told me you had a planer player in the house.— Harper's Weekly. Her Yearning. She—Do you love me as much when you are absent from me? He (fervent ly)—I love you more, darling. She—Oh, why can't I be with you then?—Bos ton Transcript. Equality In Iceland. Men and women are political equals in Iceland. The nation numbers 70.000 people and Is governed by representa tives elected by men and women to gether. On the great clock of time there la htit one word Now. Eyes of the Starfish. At the end of each arm In the com mon starfish there is a little red eye. It is sheltered at the base of the termi nal tube foot, which has become alto gether sensory. The eye or eye cushion shows little cups, each closed by a lens, lined by red. rodlike sensory cells, cloth ed externally by supporting cells and rontuining a transparent watery sub stance. Hellmuth Plessner made a number of experiments at Heligoland In order to discover how much a star fish sees with these "eyes" or eye Bpots. The answer is. not very much. It does not form an image nor does it perceive a moving object. But It has considerable 'sensitiveness In distin guishing different degn^ of light and shade. Even the skin of the starfish Is responsive to differences of illumina tion in the immediate vicinity, but by means of its "eyes" the starfish be comes aware of distant illumination that differs, either positively or nega tively. from that of the immediately surrounding area.—New York World. Just as Well Off- A man had his next door neighbor irrested 011 a charge of willfully dam iglng a chicken. Tbe judge looked at the charge with mingled amusement and surprise, and when the plaintiff was put on the stand he asked hiru what damage had been done to the bird. "My next door neighbor caught the chicken in his garden," answered the plaintiff, "and wrung its neck." "I see," returned the judge. "What was the chicken worth alive?" "It was worth 75 cents." answered tbe plaintiff. "What was It worth dead?" ques tioned the judge. "Seventy-five cents." replied the plaintiff. "1 fail to see where any appreciable damage was done," said the judge. "The case is dismissed."—Philadelphia Telegraph. Ancient Unions and Trusts. About the year 190 B. C. Thyatira came under the power of Rome, and, though in the days of the republic it suffered much from oppression and ex tortion, great commercial prosperity came to It with the inauguration of the empire. About the time that St. John wrote the Revelation it was at the height of Its wealth and prosperity as a business city. It is known that there were more trade guilds in Thya tira than In any other city of Asia, for inscriptions tell us that there were guilds of linen workers, wool workers, dyers, bronze smiths, potters, bakers, tanners and slave dealers. The selling of ready made garments was an impor tant business of Thyatira. but whether there were the accompaniments of sweatshops, long hours and scanty pay we are not told.—Christian Herald. Genesis of the Phonograph. As long ago as 1895 Sir W. H. Preece, then director of the British postofflce telegraphs, sent messages without wires across the sound of Mull when the submarine cable was broken down. Sir William was also present at the birth of the phonograph. In 1877 he spent Independence day with Edison at his house in New York, and in dis cussing the telephone be remarked to the great American Inventor. "Then if what you say is true it will be possible to reproduce the human voice." Edi son shut his eyes, said nothing, and the conversation changed. On the voy age home Sir William worked out a phonograph In theory, but. not being a mechanic, left it as an idea. In less than a month Edison sent Sir William Preece a phonograph, the first that came to England.—London Graphic. Dhd as She Asked Him. A teacher in a tenement district hur ried from the school to find the mother of a pupil who had been taken ill. r-M V,:, All 21 'ut. LADlfcS'. WORKERS UNION McCALL'S MAGAZINE 236-246 W. 37th St., New York City N«*T*—8unpl» Copy, Preta'um Catalogue ft&d Pttteni C»U!«fu* free, w reqoert relo SriiiidaIc lives':" she inquired of a cherub transplanted from the sunny south to a dark, sunless alley. "Yes. teach'. I show you." and a will ing, sticky hand dragged her on -with such speed as to make her stumble over an Italian dame seated on the threshold. After the teacher's breath less flight toward the clouds the little hand stopped tugging. "There where Mees Scandale Uve," Indicated the horizontal arm and fin ger. "but she downstair sitting on the sten." finished the smiling lips.—New York Globe. Breed and Feed the Horses. Show me a well bred horse and a poorly fed one and I will show you a poor horse Show me a poorly bred one and a well fed one and I will Show you a fair horse. Show me a well bred -me and a well fed one and I will shew .von a market topper. Wallace's Farmer. Quaint Description. Admiral Dewey once described quaintly in Washington a man who was a borrower and a sponger. "IIe is one of those chaps that one secasionally meets." the admiral said *who use all their friends as coaling stations." Remembered Him. "iid your uncle remember you when be came to make his will?" "Yes. He remembered me so well that he left my name out altogether.1 Buffalo Express. Relationship. Governess If 1 were cousin germ&n to you, what relation would my father ze to you. Mildred? Small Mildred Dutch uncle —Chicago News. The difference between one boy am) another consists not so much in talent ts in energy —Thomas Arnold. 1^iPPer8' W6'r* Double Krebs Hottte Stamps Until Christmas What Changed Him. Mistress (finding visitor In the kltcb en)—Who Is this. Mary? Mary (con fused 1—My brother, tn'rn. Mistress •suspiciously!—You're not much alike Mary (stammering apologetically)—W were. m'm. but he's just had his beard shaved off, and that makes him look different" —Philadelphia Ledger. Modern Structures. "What's the matter with this eleva tor?" asked the nervous man. "You keep trying to run it through the roof. "You'll have to excuse me." replied the operator. "I'm not used to one of these little twenty story buildings."— Washington Star. Hit Botn Ways. Tramp Yes. lady. I loved a girl She wouldn hev me. and I became a wa derer Woman Poor -hap jf 5 TTENTLEMEN'S [S1AMP Titles I I N CfcTA Iff nib U lilV/Ii I I"1 1 any excuse for Absence of the UNION STAMP JOHN F. TOBIN, Pres. McCall's Magazine and McCall Patterns For Women Have More Friend# than any other magazine or patterns. McCall's is the reliable Fashion Guide monthly in one million one hundred thousand homes. Besides showing all the latest designs of McCall Patterns, each issue is brimful of sparkling short stories and helpful information for women. Save Money and Keep in Style by subscribing for McCall's Magazine at once. Costs only 50 cents a year, including any one of the celebrated McCall Patterns free. McCall Pattern! Lead all others in style, fit, simplicity, economy and number sold. More dealers sell McCall Patterns than any other two makes cnmbincd. None higher than 15 cents. Buy from your dealer, or by mail from e s|,e ha(j tnanied yon all would have beeu well. Tramp—Oh. .1 dutum Me friend out in dp ro-,,1 dere W&7 b6l0W haUdle the aS DS" Kg:J&J -v' ^sry^ CLOTHING SUt.LINE.RY, 236 S. Fourth St., Hamiltin, 0. Cash or Credit CHlLDRbN'S HATS, SHOES. Gately=Brennan Earned shoes are frequently matfe ftOOT&sin Non-Union factories Do Not Buy No matter what its name, unless it racfcry No. bears a plain and readable impression of All shoes without tbe UNION STAMP are always Boot and Shoe Workers' Union AT TH E Bijou A A E E /. 4C J*tf 1 Any Shoe Non-Union. Do not except 246 Summer Street, Boston, Mass. CHAS. L. BAINE, Sec.-Treas. MONEY TO LOAN ON FARMS At 6 4 and 6 per cent Hiram S. Mathers Lyric Theater Building CINCINNATI Open the Year Round W I A S A S VAUDEVILLE SHOW v I ar »ge Knergy and ^ork. "What becomes of the energy of mo tion of a street ear when suddenly stopped Law—mass multiplied by velocity equals momentum. The mass of the car in pounds or tons multiplied by its specific speed in feet per second gives a product named foot pounds or foot tons. This momentum is expended at the instant of collision or impact in de livering a blow, as in the case of a cannon ball. If the body receiving the impact is movable part of the momen tum will appear in it as motion, if immovable the car will be smashed or move backward. And the molecules of the matter at point of impact will be increased in temperature and also be moved somewhat. This requires en ergy, and work has been accomplished from instant of collision until rest oh tains. The answer is the energy of raomeiltum is transformed into work.— Edgar Lucien Larkin in New York American. Three Birthdays a Year. There is apparently plenty of fun for the child In Sweden In tbe matter of birthdays, but the parent can hardly be expected to feel the same, for the children there do not confine themselves to one birthday, but they must have three. Of course the first one Is the real birthday, and the other two are those whose names the Swedish boy or girl bears. For every day in the year of the Swedish calendar has its own separate name, besides the week ly names which other nations have. Sometimes if the parent gives the child a second name or a first one that can not be found In the calendar, the child loses out on one birthday. And con siderable protest must follow, too, when the child becomes old enough to real ize what he is missing. In the German calendar every day has a name also, but the observance of these days Is not at all common in the latter coun try. English Harvest Feasta. The feasts that now take place at the close of the harvest season in Eng land are small affairs compared with the old fashioned harvest suppers held formerly. In some of the northern counties tbe farmers would give churns of cream, and it was served out in cups to the laborers. Nowadays a glass of ale or cider is the substitute for the old time feast. In some parta of the north of Ireland the ancient cus tom still lingers as "the churn supper." A very old custom is the baking of a large cake by tbe farmer's wife. This is cut up and served out to every one, including children, accompanying the "horkey cart" Into the farmyard. The "horkey cart" was the cart on which the last load of the season was drawn to the farm.—London Answers. Distinctive Dress In England. At Coutts' bank the clerical assist ants must all wear frock couts. and no one in the employment of the bank Is allowed to go about with his trousers turned up. At Iloare's bank it Is the custom of all those employed to wear white ties. Members of the legal profes sion observe the etiquette of their call ing by abstaining from the wearing of light or fancy colored clothes and al ways wear silk hats. The beadle* of some Presbyterian churches in Eng land wear dress suits instead of the Anglican cassock. Some brewers' workmen and draymen wear scarlet knitted wool nightcaps. In fact, near ly every trade and profession has Its own conventions and unwritten laws concernin/ the dress of its members.— tiootfhcnrSoap A Scientilic Remedy for the cure of all hair, sralp and skio diseases. Sold ou a guarantee. One trial will surprise you. At yotir drngifister by mal on re ceipt of 25 ctnis. Gvodbtir Remedy Com Dam Newark. Oble. -fx&r .Jfilif