BIG PIANO BARGAINS ! !
To make room for Fall shipments we offer the following slightly used and second
hand Upright Pianos during State Fair week at about one-half their actual value
Small Upright $ 50.00
Schomacker . . 75.00
Kroeger 5.00
Mathershek 1C0.00
Beatty 115.00
Singer Upright $135.00
Hardman 155.00
Packard .... 175.00
Jansen 175.00
Steck Grand 225.00
Terms arranged to suit purchaser by the month or otherwise.
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The Gompers Contempt Case.
A misapprehension exists in many
quarters as to the nature of the final
decision of the supreme court of the
United States upon the appeal in the
contempt proceedings, many believing
that the court decided that a civil
process could be institute vy the su
preme court of the Distiict of Colum
bia for which a fine only could be as
sessed. The facts are that the su
preme court's decision reyeised th'
-cntences upon Gompers, Mitchell and
Monition ou the ground that the plain
tiffs sued for civil damages aud relief
and that Justice Wright imposed criminal-sentences.
The new proceedings
Inaugurated by Justice Wright against
thi defendants are for criminal con
tempt of court, for which, if he ad
judges them guilty, he may impose
such sentences of Imprisonment as he
may determine.
Job for Sam Gompers.,
Governor Dix has appointed Samuel
Gompers a member of the commission
to investigate the conditions under
which manufacture is carried on in
cities of the first and second class.
The appointment carries with it a lot
of hard work, but no salary or emolu
ments of any kind whatever. -
Sensitive Meredith.
The house at 17 Red Lion square.
W. C, London, was onct occupied by
William Morris. Bume-Jones and Dante
Gabriel Rossetti. George Meredith in
the days of his extremest penury join
ed with those other three young men
in their bachelor establishment. The
state of his boots, we are told by ono
of the biographers, at length aroused
the solicitude of his fellow tenants,
who one night stealthily replaced
them by a new pair. But Meredith
was so much piqued by what was
meant in all kindness that he withdrew
from the fellowship the next day.
London News.
A Political Placard.
John B. Thompson of Kentucky, who
served in both houses of congress, was
a master of the art of ridicule. Here is
his characterization of the contempt in
which party platforms are held after
elections:
"The two or three last platform pres
idents we have had when they got In
the car of state and safely seated all
around everywhere yon could see. 'Do
not stand on the platform when the
cars are in n?. V-V " -Cluie's Mag
azitie.
Trade Union Briefs.
Painters of Guelph, Ont., have se
cured 5 cents per hour increase. v
The American Federation of Labor
Is to issue a union label directory.
Department store chauffeurs of Prov
idence, R. I., have secured an Increase
of $2 per week. -
Boston Central Labor union has al
ready begun preparation; for a big La
bor day parade.
It is said that 90 per cent of the 16,
000 employees of the Baldwin Loco
motive works are organized.
P. J. McArdle of Pittsburg has been
re-elected president of the Amalga
mnted Association of Iron. Steel and
Tin r Workers. B. Williams of Pitts
burg was re-elected secretary.
Joseph N. Weber and Owen Muller.
both of New York, were respectively
elected president and secretary of the
American Federation of Musicians ui
Its recent convention in Atlanta. .
The president of the Order of Rail
way Conductors hereafter is to receive
$8,500 annually, the senior vice presi
dent and the general secretary $5,00i
each, and other vice presidents will re
ceive $4,500.
The new scale of Peoria Typograph
ical union for the newspaper branct
provides for an Increase of $1.20 per
week for all employees from Feb. 1
1911, toFeb..Jli.lSl2and a further ad
Facts Heard In Congress.
While every utterance in congress la
duly recorded by. stenographers and
appears In the Congressional Record
and while hearings before committees
and commissions are likewise a mat
ter of record, yet owing largely to the
voluminous printed documents the
greater portion of vital matters Is lost
to view. Just recently in a speech
made on the floor of the house the fol
lowing facts were stated, having been
collected by the New York child labor
commission:
Children's dresses are paid for at the
rate of 50 cents per dozen; the average
daily output for one person in' thirteen
hours is one dozen. Violets are made
for ZYit cents per gross, and a mother,
three girls and a grandmother earn tJO
cents per day. The average wage of
an entire family at garment finishing
is from GO to 70 cents per day. Making
cigarette wrappers brings 10 cents per
1,000, and a woman working from, 6
a. m. to 10 p. m. can make $2 per week,
A JACK OF ALF TfiXDEgr
Monotony Wilt Never KIN England
Postmaster Qonorftt. '
The British postmaster general Is
what Londoners call a universal pro
vider, a regular department store of
public functions.
He will Insure your life, give you a
little bank to beard your pennies' In,
take care of your savings; sell you- an
annuity, a postal order or a, foreign
draft, invest your spare capital m s)
nice little government bond and pay si
weekly pension to your aged mother
or aunt.
He carries' letters" and other mall
matter, transmits' telegrams, cable
grams' and wireless messages, main
tains an enormous staff, of messenger
boys and conducts an express company
business for every sort o parcel, from
a halfpenny packet up to shipments of
eggs, dressed poultry and fresh fish.
He collects all the worn . copper
coins for the .British treasury. He
has factories for making his supplies
and an electric central station of. his
own in London for lighting bis ol&ees,
sending the current ' through his ca
ble ducts; He will sell you a license
for a dog," a carriage, a motorcar or a
family coat of arms, or he will put in
your telephone and take- care of your
hellos. , i ,
At a dinner the other night :th post
master general confessed that he some
times doubted whether he had any hu
man personality at all. When he
thought of his own functions, he said,
he was appalled by them. In his offi
cial capacity he is responsible for more
property than anybody else in the Unit
ed Kingdom; employs far more people
than any Individual or corporation,
prosecutes more malefactors every day
than the public prosecutor and sends
out every week more apologies for
himself and explanations of his ac
tions than all the rest of the British
population combined. Telephone Review.
LITTLE SORREL
The Favorite Battle Charger of Stone
wall Jackson.
Among the many battle steeds ridden
during the war between the states by
the celebrated Confederate Corps Com
mander Stonewall Jackson of Lee's
army his favorite was a charger affec
tionately named Little Sorrel by the
Second corps of the Army1 of Virginia.
He was about fifteen hands- and;- as
General Longstreet said to the writer,
strongly resembled, exebt11 in color.
President Zachary Taylor's Old Whltey
of the Mexican war. Jackson rode' him
at Bull Run. Winchester. Cedar Moun
tain, Manassas, Antietam, Harpers
Ferry, Fredericksburg and : on many
other battlefields. He mounted Little
Sorrel for the last time at Chancellors
ville May 2, 1863. and In the battle was
mortally wounded by bis own men and
died a week later. ,
General Bradley T. Johnson of Mary
land in a letter to the: present writer
remarks: "Jackson was air ungainly
horseman, and when he rode by the
troops Little Sorrel would strike off on
a run. The general would pull off bis
cap and ride bareheaded at full speed
past miles of shouting Confederates.
The saying was when you beard that
yell before or behind you on the march,
'There goes old Jack on a rabbit.'
When the soldiers started a rabbit
they'd scare him to death with yell
ing.'? Little Sorrel died at the Soldiers'
home near Richmond at the age of
thirty-six years and is ( now to be seen,
like Sheridan's Winchester, carefully
preserved in a glass caseafter being
prepared by a skillful taxidermist at
Lexington," Va. James Grant Wilson
in S. P. O. A. Bulletin.