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.. Return To Trinidad. Denver, Cole., March 27 —The Colorado militia has admitted that holding of military prisouers in communi:ado is illegal by the re lease and deportation of Mother Jones on the eve of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus being heard ia the state supreme court. The 82 year old angel of the coal camps has beea held incommunica do in the military bull pen for 9 weeks. There was no charge against her. The military, how ever, has long since set aside that part of the constitution providing for free speech and free press, and she was jailed because she said she intended to exercise her constitu tional rights. To forestall a reversal of the no torious Moyer decision, the militia released her and deported her to Denver. She was told that Gov ernor Ammons wished to see her. It was a palpable frame up of the militia to prevent a decision of the supreme court as to whether a citi zen of the United States can exer cise her constitutional rights in Colorado. Mother Jones, however, will re turn to Trinidad and give the mili tit another opportunity to take away her constitutional rights. The coal operators admitted the success of the strike when they an nounnced that they will sue indi vidual members and officers of the United Mine Workers for $4,000, U00. The operators seem to have some litte doubt that a half dozen coal miners will be able to pay the $4,000,000 so they will ask for body judgements. The coal operators admit that the strike has caused them financial loss and shut down their coal mines It is an interesting admission when one considers that way back in De cemher these same operators an nounced that the strike was over as far as they were concerned They said that while 50 per cent had gone ont, many had returned and the mines were then running at full capacity. They also said that they had raided $5,000,000 to fight the strike. The union leaders believe this fund has been exhausted and that now the coal operators are seeking to collect $4,000,000 from the strikers and officials to enable them to keep tip their fight. McNaliy Compensated. The State Industrial Commission has this day made an award to George W McNaliy, of W. Wood lawn Avenue, Hamilton Ohio of $48 .00 payable in weekly install ments for 4 weeks, for an injury recently sustained by him while in the employ of The Estate Stove Company at Hamilton, Ohio. A bill of $9.75 for medical ser vices was also paid out of the state insurance fund. The award was granted under the provisions of the Ohio Workmen's Compensation JUaw. V The State Industrial Commission has this day made an award to Edward L. Heckinger of 812 East Avenue, Hamilton, of $34.29 pay able in weekly installments for 3 weeks, for an injnry recently sus tained by him while in the employ of the Estate Stove company at Hamilton, Ohio. A bill of $7.50 for medical services was also paid out of the state insurance fund The award was granted under the provisions of the Ohio Workmen' Compensation Law. Organizing Mill Men. Bakersfield, Cal., March. 27. The Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners is conducting an organ izing campaign among the mill men of this section. These work ers are organized into a separate local and then affiliated to the Bro therhood. Industrial Commission -Of Ohio. An award was made to Dominic Giordano, of 638 Chestnut St., Hamilton of $37.71 for injury sus sustained by him while in the em ploy of the Hamilton Foundry & Machine Co., Hamilton Ohio. An award was made to Clay Hunley, of 332 N. 2nd and Vine Street Hamilton, of $62.18 for injury received while in the em ploy of Brown & Whiatker at Ham ilton Ohio. A bill of #14.00 for medical services was also pain out of the insurance fund. £. A. Ralston, Decorator Little Bits, SWEET CHARITY 1 Charity is a wonderful thing. "Organized" charity is more so. The census bureau has just exposed—exposed is the right word—the figures for the year of 1910. There is a total of $118,000,000 given yearly to institutions which have property valued at $643,000, 000. Out of this g.and total the institutions spent in iheir turn $11, 500,000 in charity, or about $1 for every $100 received. Of course there were positions for a small army of investigators, doc tors, lawyers, etc,—and perhaps these should also be classed as re ceiving charity. But the main fact stands out like a sore thumb that organized charity is a business like any other business and that the people for whom it is ostensibly or ganized do not receive enough ben efit from the institution to justify its continuance for a minute. No wonder a contemporary says the charitable institutions do not want poverty to be eliminated for fear they will lose their jobs.— Seattle Union Redord. DLALER IN Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Window Glass, Johnson's "Dull Kote" for walls and ceilings, etc. Estimates cheerfully furnished on all contract work. We carry nothing but the best of quality at all times cm the above line of goods. No. 106 North Third St. Bell Phone 426-R Home Phone 597-A. jan ac jui 24-2«t rr If reports are true James K. Cul len, President of the Niles Tool Works has left Hamilton to take up the work of Robert McKinney in New York. Hamilton will lose one of it's best citizens, one who at all times came to the front in any undertaking that was good for the city financially and otherwise Is there another Jim here to take his place U The Nonpareil is prepared to give your union printing matter on Union Labeled paper. All this pa per carries the label of the Paper Makers' Union. Look us up on your next order. U Reports come from every factory in the city except two that business is very dull. Many of the shops have laid off their men and there is no indication that business will pick up for at least several weeks, is hoped that the present condition will brighten up shortly so that the laborers can again return to work. U Up to this writing nothing has been done by the Hendee Manu facturing company to settle the trouble with the Metal Polishers .Union in their factory. They man ufacture tne Indian Motorcycle and it is said that the polishers are asking iheir friends not to purchase them. Urge Sunday Closing. Los Angeles, March 27.—Cali fornia barbers are enthusiastic in their efforts to initiate a Sunday closing law for barber shops in this State. The movement has been indorsed by the American Federa tion of Labor and the California trade union movement. Names are now being secured, and it is pre dieted that nearly 100,000 voters will declare that this prososal shculd be submitted to the voters at the next election. While the barbers are urging this law they also report better working condi tions are being secured with addi tiofaal shops in the trade union col umn. LINCOLN'S STATEROOM. The President Thought He Had Shrunk In Size Overnight. In "The Everyday IJfe of Abra ham Lincoln" Mr. F. F. Browne In cludes an amusing anecdote told by Admiral Porter ubout the president's short visit to the front in the latter part of March. 18G5. Mr. Lincoln had changed his quarters from the River Queen to the Malvern, Admiral Por ter's flagship, which was then lying in the James river, near City Point. Ad miral Porter says: The Malvern was a small vessel with very poor cabin accommodations and was not at all fitted to receive high personages. She was a captured block ade runner. I offered the president my bed, but he positively declined it and chose to sleep in a small stateroom outside the cabin that my secretary occupied. It was only feet long by 4V2 feet wide, a very tiny place to hold the president of the United States, but Mr. Lincoln seemed pleased with it. When he came to breakfast the next morning I asked how he had slept. "I slept well." he answered, "but you can't put a long sword in a short scabbard. I was too long for that berth." Then I remembered that he was over six feet four inches and that the berth was only six feet! That day while we were away from the ship all the carpenters were put to work. They took down the stateroom partitions and enlarged the room to eight feet by six and a half feet. A mattress four feet wide was put in the new berth. Nothing was said to the president about the change in his quarters, but the next morning he came out of the room smiliug and said, "A miracle happened last night. I shrank six Inches in length and about a foot side ways. I got somebody else's big pil low and slept in a better bed than I had on the Iiiver. Queen." He enjoyed it greatly, but I think if I had given him two fence rails to sleep on he would not have found fault. That was Abraham Lincoln in all things that related to his own comfort. He would never let you put yourself out for him under any circumstances. A NAVAL COMEDY. Surrender of the Spanish Gunboat Cal la«~at Manila. On the afternoon of the 12th (May 12, 1898) a small Spanish gunboat came steaming up Manila bay, directly toward the American fleet. The sur prise of the people in the fleet was great this little vessel seemed so con fident and friendly. Finally one of our ships fired a shot across her bow This did not seem to make any differ ence to her, for she kept ou just the same. Then we saw an officer go alongside from the flagship. We found out that evening that this vessel was the Spanish gunboat Cal lao and that she had been cruising in the southern part of the Philippines for a long time and had not heard about the war, and, the time of her cruise being finished, she was now re turning to Manila. The officers and men had been looking forward to this for a long time, because in Manila they were to find their wives, children parents, friends, theaters, clubs, ho tels, newspapers and all the things that make sailors look forward with happiness to getting home. They saw a great many ships in the harbor fly lug the American flag, but this did not give them any uneasiness, and when the first gun was tired by the American ship they did not notice that the shot came across the bow of their own ship, and thought it was simply the first gun of some sulute. But when the second shot was fired and they heard the whizzling of the shell they knew something was wrong, And when the American officer came on board and told them that every ship In the fleet was destroyed and that they themselves were prisoners of war their feelings of joyful hope went through a change that, let us hope, few of us will ever know.—From Admiral Bradley A. Fiske's "War Time In Manila." Microscopio Engraving. Perhaps the greatest feat of micro scopic engraving was accomplished by a Jewish fanner in Alberta, who pre pared an address of welcome to the Duke of Connaught. The address was inscribed in Hebrew on a grain cf wheat and contained no fewer than 800 letters. So fine was the lettering that a microscope was necessary to read the inscription with any easa— Liverpool Post 8trong en Good Form. Bank Teller—This check is all right, but you must be introduced. Can't yon bring in your husband? Woman—Who —Jack? Why, if Jack thought you wanted an introduction to me he'd knock your block off!—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Collars For Dancing Men. You can carry one or two extra col lars inside the band of your silk hat Men who perspire freely when dancing go to the cloak room when their col lars wilt and return in a few minutes with an unfaded collar.—New York World Flatterer. Lady of Uncertain Age—Have you any sma^i wax candles? Tomorrow is my birthday, and 1 want to put them In the cake. Diplomatic Grocer—Yes ma'am. About two dozen?—Life. Their Trade. "What business is this Cupid & Hy men firm in you read so much about?" "They're in the wholesale match making business."—Baltimore Amer lean. ONE BED FOR THE COURT. It Was a Big One, Though, and Held All Its Numerous Members. The first courthouse of Henry county, 111., was a frame structure eight feet by fourteen, set in the midst of an uninhabited prairie. But as little villages began to spring up in the county a lively contention for the honor of being the couuty seat began Cambridge finally won, for it was nearest the center of the county. This was in the forties of the last century. The first session of circuit court was at hand and 3** on its mettle to entertain the court suitably. The difficulties to anything but pioneer courage and resourceful ness would have seemed insuperable. The village consisted of eight ^r ten little dwellings, a tiny general store, a blacksmith shop and a carpenter shop. The new courthouse was unfinished, but would be used, as the session for tunately fell in the summer. Now the housewives laid their heads together to contrive how the court officials, litigants and witnesses should be lodged and fed. There was almost nothing that could be bought. sugjir. mobissps, ina. rnflTee and flour. But they had an abundant sup ply of yellow legged chickens, home cured bams, milk, eggs, butter and cream, as well as their vegetable gar dens to draw on. There was no fresh fruit, but they brought out their cher ished stores of wild plum marmalade and wild crabapple preserves. Both were made with molasses, and after the.v had sufficient time to season were really delicious. Besides, the hillsides were pink with the beautiful wildwood sorrel, the leaves of which make de licious pies in skillful hands. The villatre boasted one minn /t as® SV ,€ 4 loresi ciees. sman grove of sugar maples, half a mile away, and in their shade Mi. Atwater built a long table with sawhorses and boards. With the combined stock of table linen, crockery and cutlery possessed by the house wives the table was Inid with suffi cient elegance, according to pioneer standards. It was feir that the ourt would be properly feasted, but how about lodging? That was the real dif ficulty. The tiuy houses and their beds ^vere full to overflowing with their proper in mutes. But there was the loft of the car penter shop. The store had a whole bolt of unbleached muslin. It was torn into lengths equal to the length cf the loft and sewed together by hand, of course. Then the loft floor was covered deep with nice clean shavings, the immense sheet laid over them and tacked to the walls all the way round. On this Brobdingnagian bed the court lay in two rows. From the extra supply re quired for winter enough quilts were mustered to cover the sleepers. As for pillows no one gave a thought to those effeminate luxuries The lawyers might lay their heads on their saddle bags or their rolled un coats and be $ Thus was the circuit court sumptu ously fed and sufficiently lodged, thanks to the Ingenious womeu oi Henry county.—touth's Companion. Might as Well Have Seen Him. Awakening with a had headache the morning after a banquet, a suburban dentist mused, not unpleasantly, on his last evening's spree. But suddenly his wife appeared and, advancing to his bedside, shouted hysterically: "You wretch! What will the neigh bors say at your coming home drunk last night?" "But, my dear, nobody saw me," the dentist protested. "Nobody saw you! What if nobody did see you? You know well enough they all heard the way I carried on when yon got back."—New York Trib une. An Absorbing Case. "Old Soak says he never drank until after he was operated on for appendi citis." "His must be one of those peculiar cases where the doctors sewed up *ponire in the interior of their patient" —Houston Is the time to push your business, and which compels the attention of the public We believe our work will help your busi ness, for it is executed in the highest de gree of the art known to printers. 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