Republican News Item JOHN B. ENGLISH, Editor. LAPORTE PA. GRIST FROM THE WIRES Latest Dispatches Ground Down For Hasty Consumption. WHOLE WORLD GLEANED T"he Four Corners of the Earth and the Seven Seas Are Made to Yield a Tribute of Inter esting News. Washington Ex-Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, of Rhode Island, has leased for a term of years the residence of Hennen Jen ningn in Washington, and will occupy It early next winter. Nearly fifty resolutions for investi fligations still are pending before the House Committee on Rules. Postmaster General Hitchcock desig nated fifty more post offices of the first-class as postal savings deposi tories. Thomas D. Edwards, American con sul at Juarez, Mexico, telegraphed to the State Department that 13 Ameri cans who had been arrested for violat iiie state laws had been released un der bond. Personal President Taft reached Beverly, Mass., and began his first vacation of any length since last spring. Thomas A. Edison reached Aix-les- Bains on his motor tour, expressing delight at the vast vineyard industry of Burgundy. President Taft left Washington for Rochester, where he addressed the G. A. R.; then went to Beverly for three weeks' rest before starting on a forty day Western tour. Sporting C. K. G. Billings' famous trotter Uhlan covered a mile on Goshen a half-mile track in 2:03 3-4, making a world's record. Ty Cobb will take up minstrelsy dur ing the winter, joining Lew Dock stader's show for ten weeks after the Lsseball season. Miss Gabrielle Girard of New Brigh ton, S. 1., arrived on the French liner Espagne. She made a record for mountain climbing, being the fourth woman to ascend and descend Dent Blanche, a peak nearly 14,000 feet high, near Champery, in Switzerland. Pitcher Dode Criss, famed as one of the greatest pinch hitters the game has produced, has been sold by the St. Louis Browns to the Louisville Club of the American Association. On the occasion of the golden jubi lee of Cardinal Gibbons in October, he is to be presented with a rosary of nuggets of gold in the rough mined in Alaska and fashioned into a chain of rosary beads by a miner. James R. Keene of New York was removed from the Berkeley Hotel, London, to the Nursing Home in Dev onshire Terrace, Bayswater. General Friends asked that the body of li M. Gulick, rich theatrical man o: Pittsburg, be disinterred in Greei. wood Cemetery, Brooklyn. In a special charge to the Mon mouth County Grand Jury, at Free hold, N. J., Justice Voorhees held that the Councilmen, in repealing the ordi nance prohibiting certain classes oi Sunaay amusements at Long Branca were equally guilty with the proprie tors of the park in which these amusements took place. The Beef Trust again raised the price of fresh meat and intimated it would go still higher. Depreciation in eight leading stocks since July 22 amounted to $300,000,- 000. Twenty-nine men were saved from drowning off the New Jersey coast between Normandie-by-the-Sea and Seabright when the fishing boat Cus tan was driven on the sands. Residents of the Second Ward of old Long Island City have demanded the destruction of a pack of stray dogs which have bitten many children. A party composed mostly of citizens, in five automobiles, raided the exclu sive Hewlett Club at Hewlett, L. 1., in the driving rain at 1 a. m. The names of several men found in the club were taken and they were told they would be summoned to court. Roulette wheels and other gambling paraphernalia were found in the club. The house of E. M. Dichter of Dun kirk was struck by lightning. The bolt came down the chimney, tore the plaster in the parlor occupied by eight persons and passed out the front door without injuring anyone The year book of the North Ameri can V. M. C. A. shows 536,037 mem bers, a gain of 39,446. Pursuit of the uegro who carried away the son of an Oklahoma farmer, living near Colbert, was abandoned; the child was recovered; it was feared tin 1 negro would have been burned by u mob had ho been eantured A bill signed by Governor Baldwin will restrict the sale of liquor by drug stores in Connecticut. The Massachusetts Tax Commis sion has caused the Lenox assessors to add $600,000 valuation to the es tate of Mrs. John Sloane, late of Lenox and New York. Oliver Lock, a negro wife murderer, at Eddyville, I'a was discov ered in Honduras. SIG HURRICANE AT CHARLESTON Fatal Storm Devastates South Carolina City. ESTIMATE $1,000.000 DAMAGE Damage Done to Rice Industry—Fer tilizer Mills Suffer Greatly—Wind Reaches Velocity of 94 Miles an Hour—Blows in Eight-Foot Tide. Cahrleston, S. C. —For more than thirty-six hours this city was ravaged by a storm which rivaled in fury that of 1885. A hurricane unroofed houses, felled trees, chimneys, and other high structures, broke wires in all direc tions, and whipped up the waters of the harbor so that great damage was done by a high tide to homes and shipping. The identified dead are W. H. Smith, Columbia, drowned under falling wharf; Cutter, a motorman, drowned; Ida Robinson, crushed by roof; Rosa Robinson, crushed by roof; Alonzo J. Coburn, engineer, killed by flying tim ber; Eva Myers, drowned; Tom Dooly, drowned. The property loss is very large, es timates ranging all the way from sl,- 000,000 to $2,500,000. Telegraph and telephone service was completely de moralized and the electric light and power system was put out of commis sion. Masses of wreckage cover the streets, and the business of the city was paralyzed. The wind reached a velocity of 94 miles an hour with the result that scores of houses have been wrecked. Shipping has suffered greatly, many large schooners having been blown ashore. The lower sections of the city were entirely inundated for the period of 18 hours, caused by the high tide blown in by the wind. Great damage is feared for the rice and Sea Island cotton industries. The fertilizer mills were also damaged badly. All of the mills lost their smokestacks, water towers, heads of houses, and some of their roofing. The waterfront has suffered as it has not done since the cyclone of 1885, when great havoc was done. A half dozen wharves have been knocked away. The trestle adjoining the Mount Pleasant ferry wharf was blown down, killing J. M. Smith of Columbia, and Motorman Cutter of the Cousolidatel Electric Co. of Charleston. A. J. Co burn, a southern railway engineer, was killed by a roof flying across the railroad yard and hitting him in the back. The others among the dead are almost all negroes whose names are unobtainable. SAYS EEATTIE CONFESSED. "I Wish I Hadn't Done It," Witness Declares Defendant Admitted. Chesterfield Court House, Ya. — Showing intense emotion, Paul D. Beattie, cousin of Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., who is on trial here for the mur der of his wife, declared on the wit ness stand that the defendant told him twenty-four hours after the murder that he was sorry "he had done it," a circumstance relating to the crime that the witness hitherto had sup pressed. "I wish to God'l had not done it! I would give a million dollars if 1 could undo it! But, anyway, she never loved me! She only married me for my money! I'd like to know how those detectives found out that there was a No. G cartridge used in that gun." This is what Paul Beattie swore Henry Clay Beattie said to him. An hour before this those in court had been deeply impressed by the tes timony of Mrs. R. Y. Owen, mother of the dead woman, as to the unhappi ness of her daughter due to her hus band's dissipation. KILLS CHILDREN AND SELF. Father Murders Three Little Ones, Then Takes Cyanide. South Tliomaston, Me. —Grief over the death of his wife led Edward Ben nett, a graduate of Oxford university, England, who had been a resident of this town tor the last six years, to murder his three children and then take his own life. Two of the chil dren were killed by the use of chloro form and the third by cyanide of pot assium and chloroform. To make his own death certain, Bennett went to the water's edge and there took a dose of cyanide of potas sium and jumped in. His body was found 200 feet off shore when the tide receded. His murdered children are Edward, aged six; Barbara, aged four, and Nancy, aged two. RUSH CHICAGO SKYSCRAPERS. Must Ee Begun Before Now if Height is Over 200 Feet. Chicago.—Work on no less than six skyscrapers to cost more than $lO,- 000,000 will be begun ill the down town district. This unusual rush to the construc tion of high buildings is the result of a new ordinance limiting the height of buildings to 200 feet, which goes into effect at once. The present limit on buildings is 260 feet. G Cotist "" JE|xi Harry Trying Cfrpenp Here's a toast to every man, Of every race, and creed and clan, Who By his manhood strong and free, Digs from the earth, wrests from the sea, Their treasures, And whose arm and mind, Leaves to his fellows —all mankind, His heritage —his work. So, here's to the man who digs the gold, And here's to the man who makes the mold, And here's to the man who mints the rim, And here's to the man—good luck to him, Who By his strength of arm and mind, Leaves to his fellows —all mankind, His heritage—his work. Here's a toast to the woman, too, Man's comrade stanch, man's comrade true, Who By her womanhood soft and sweet, Coaxed into light from its dark retreat, Man's treasures, That his arm and mind Might leave his fellows —all mankind, His heritage—his work. So, here's to the man who digs the gold, Who fashions its shape into wealth untold, With water or wine—filled to the brim We'll drink this toast —good luck to him Who By his strength of arm and mind, Leaves to his fellows —all mankind, His heritage—his work. Labor's Changing Ideal ORGANIZED labor's ideal of a short workday changes with varying conditions. At one time it was customary to work 12 or more hours per day, but as civilization advanced the working day has been steadily reduced. In reducing the hours of labor the unions have been chiefly instrumental, as they have in various trades estab lished a sorter workday and then fol lowed it up by legislation wherever they have been strong enough. Though "eight hours" may be the objective which organized labor now seeks to accomplish, it does not fol low that eight hours is ideal, or that it will be the goal of the future. The short-hour movement rests funda mently upon necessity. "The constant improvement in ma chinery and consequent displacement of labor, together with the further dis placement of labor by the tendency toward consolidation in all lines of in dustry, must ultimately compel us to choose between three things: First, we may shorten the hours of labor to distribute opportunity for employment, or, second, we may tax property to support the idle, or, third, we may have revolution." This masterly and unaswerable sum ming up of the underlying causes of the short-hour movement was by a statesman, no less than the late Thomas B. Reed. It follows that as long as machinery and methods continue so to improve that less and less hours are required for productive labor, the ideal work ing day will be shorter and shorter. Labor does not expect to live with out work —it complains that there are too many who live without work, and Labor Day Beginning Terence V. Powderly, the man who was largely instrumental in organizing tho Knights of Labor nearly forty years ago, tells the Washington cor respondent of the Brooklyn Eagle of the first Labor day. In 1881 there was a parade of 20,000 labor men in New York city, and one of the officials said to another on the reviewing stand: "Well, Jack, this is Labor day, all right, isn't it?" Tho remark at tracted attention and a reservation setting aside the first Monday in Sep tember for a celebration of labor's was iv»tr®duced in tho New it would like to make the hours short enough so that all will have to work. It notes that banking and profes- men work five hours or less, and hopes to reach the same Ideal some time. To provide work for the idle affects the supply of and demand for labor and favorably affects wages—as all short-hour trades well know—but the desire of the worker to have some time for recreation and amusement stimulates the demand for shortef hours. As our wage-earners become better educated they become more deter mined to have more of the benefit of labor-saving machinery. They desire more leisure that their industrial life may be prolonged. They desire their fellow-men to be employed. They desire good wages and realize that to preserve them their fellow men must bo employed. The late George E. McNeill, called the father of the eight-hour move ment, said "Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what we will." This seems like an equitable divis ion as long as eight hours is tho ob jective, but as invention follows inven tion, it is likely the figures will have to be revised. The ideal Short hour workday is the shortest day possible that will give good wages, and give the largest meas ure of freedom, recreation and enjoy ment to the worker, enabling him to support his family, educate his chil dren. and lay aside something for the rainy day. SAMUEL GOMPERS. York legislature. While it was pend ing Oregon passed a law establishing the holiday, the first state in the Union to do this. New York was the second. Later states to the number of thirty-three passed similar laws, and in 1594 the day was recognized by the national government and is row observed wherever It has juris diction. The language of the govern ment resolution was to the effect that on that day employers and employes should get together to discuss their general welfare. That result has not been generally observable an yet, but perhaps we shall nork up to it eventu ally. WORLD FAMOUS SCIENTIST PRAISES DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS. Guido Blenio, who was awarded a gold medal at the International Ex position, Turin, Italy, in 1909, in com petition with 142 chemical experts tfrom all over the world was cured by Doau's Kidney Pilla and strongly recom mends them. 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