8 Beginning Saturday—Our Annual After-Holiday j ! Sale of New and Used Pianos j and Player-Pianos Including Instruments Taken-in-Exchange During the Holiday Season j Returned Rentals and Wareroom Samples I You know something of the world-wide success of the Chickering, | i Everett, Harcfman and Kimball Pianos, and the Angelus and Autotone Player-Pianos. You know | I these instruments are purchased by a class of people who are accustomed to the best oi everything- 1 But—have you ever considered that many of the people who buy these famous instru" ffj) jtfc. • ; ments already own a piano? What becomes of f"~\ / VV' VI their piano when a new Chickering or Angelus is * [ You will find the answer in this sale 5 were entirely satisfactory to their owners—many were exchanged only because"ot case-design or j | | y^(l( ' ed tSiese are several New Ware- jjcp* | room Samples and Returned Rentals. Pianos that are 11 perfect except lor a slight bruise or scratch. Every used instrument in this sale has been thoroughly overhauled an d practically rebuilt in our own shops, and each will 5 be sold with the same guarantee as when new. All new • j I instruments included fully guaranteed. mm» Sale Starts Saturday—Sams Early for First GSisisa ;if J j As an Example We Mention the Following: Used Upright Pianos Used Upright Pianos | New and Used S3 Note Players I Was Now Continued was now Guild, ebony .$350 SBS . J now Weser Bros, (used), ssso' $350 I Harvard, ebony 400 110 , Kim bail, nWioianv,3so 235 Pla y° tone (used), 550 365 Bollerman, mahogany, 400 125 Story & Clark, mahogany, ... 400 280 Autotone (used), 650 375 Haynes, mahogany, 350 145 Bush & Lane, mahogany,'.... 450 300 Sterling (used), (>SO 375 a \ Huntington mahogany 3°5 150 Returned Rentals and Wareroom Samples Hinzie (new) 500 385 | ! Schubert, niahoganv, m 155 - Lockhart, mahoganv m, §175 Autotone (usod) W0 400 | » T l, i. , Frances Bacon inMl'ino-.i.v is* Norns & Hyde (used ), 700 425 i Lockhart, mahogany 325 160 190 Angelus (as,,l) TOO 450 » Bennett-Brets, mahogany, .. 275 165 Harrington, niahoianv. !"! I 325 2100 Behmng 700 485 j Farley-Williams, oak 400 170 Cable-Nelson, mahogtyiv, 350 215 1 ®®. ar . s " & Wendell (now), . 650 ,>OO g ■ ttt t» , i WhitneV , n oi m(r . n , v " «>ok liinaeman-Angeius (new), .. 675 *>so i Weser Bros., mahogany, 300 185 1,7 r^ ne ny y. lu '» o S'm}, >-•> s v r Hensel, oak 300 100 KhX^'n^nv,''! i'i.' 350 io Btkliif t*m PiMtt 1 t 0 !j el ' ,ltal,0 R an ? T » 3o() 210 Shoninger, mahoganv 400 285 Hallett Davis, • sls $ 3 J. H. Troup, mahogany 350 215 I Poole, mahogany 3(50 290 Meyer, • 15 1 | <0? £T or More Cash £o* EC or More Monthly VP* Will Send a Piano Home Will Pay For It '■ ' -—: | Sale Starts Saturday Morning Promptly at 8.30. Nothing promised, pledged or I Reserved. Everybody will have equal chances. Be Early. Free Stool, Scarf, Tuning and Delivery. I J. H. Troup Music House j Troup Building | HORSE TRICKS Tliey Arc Lialile to Be Played at an Awkward Moment It is not always wise to teach a horse to play tricks, as this story, told by ; lii neral Sir Robert Kaden-BAweil in ' Pearson's Magazine, proves: John Leech's inimitable circus hor-i" > that insists! on sitting down with hU rider whenever ho heard a band play, 5* the prototype of a horse of mine wiiieb, in a weak mom-nt. I had taught ti> rear up and "salaam'' whenever 1 leaned forward to make a bow. It was all very pretty .when I was out ridin« and jaet any lady of my ac quaintancr, but it boranie an infernal nuisance when I was out pig sticking, i ! would lean forward to meet the rush j Ol a clmvying boar with my spear — up would ffo the- silly boast on end, just ! at the moment when "his safety depend-. o STAR-TNDEPENDENT, THURSDAY EYENTNO, FEBRUARY 4, 1915. cover for the life of me What that sig- J I nal was. ALLIGATORS OF PANAMA Ono Man Eater That Had Terrorized Two Neighboring Villages With other white companions [ have' ixfton plunged into the waters of the I Tuyra, a fairly large river which flows into the gulf of Panama after having i traversed immense stretches of im,- : penetrable forests. Regularly a score j or >o of alligators at our gam-j bols at a distance of thirty or forty yards, and we came to look upon them ' as quite harmless. After an absence of two years I re turned and in two neighboring villages jfound the inhabitants terripegL*. ,No j one dared to go near the riJ(flr at night fall. .No one ventured, ovftu in broad | daylight, to cross the stream in the j j narrow canoes which art- used by the ' , natives to carry bananas and vegeta- j bles £roin their plantations. The cause of this terror, I discov-1 | oreil, was an alligator that hail de-1 j voured thirty persons iu less than two! I months, surprising some on the river! bank and literally snapping others out | ot' their canoes. Thirty people, aoid the two villages together only num j bereil 250 souls! i After a series ol' fruitless attempts I we cifded in capturing the brute with | a baited hook, an enormous affair, to ; which we fastened laJf a pig. The e.roature was close on twenty->four feet I long. He was wo oli.l that soar.veed i i and mosses were browing between his 11 scales, and he presented the appear •juiicc of a tree trunk that had been a 1 long time submerged, lie was, we e«- ! fimated, more than 100 years "old i Paul Drevy in Wide World Magazine." And Catches Him "Man,"' declared the obi fashioned : I preacher, "is a worm." And, said a man who had been I j married three times and who was oc- I cupying a small sfiace in a rear pew, "woman is the early bird."—'Chicago ill era Id. Placing Him f' My father's elected on the com mittee which is going to have some j njortt driven wells put down for the i efty." J "Ah, I see; he's on the water l pored."- —St. Louis Republic. MAY ABANDQNSEAL HUNTING Once Prosperous Industry of Newfound land Suffers Through Effects of the European War B.i/ Associated Press. St. .Tolln. N. F., Feb. 4. —-Unless j some ]>laii Up devised within a month ! whereby the skins and oil of tiiie hair j seal can be utilized by the British gov ! erunrent for war supplies, tlitre is a ! strong possibility that the seal hunt I vvhijh has been an important factor in I the commerce of Newfoundland for many "years will be abandoned for the i coming season. Because of industrial j depression and the war none of last year's eatch of 233,000 has been dis -1 jxisol of, and about half of the great I i atcl of J*72,000 »kinw in 1913 re i mains in the hands of brokers in Lon | don iiml New York. The war has pre j ven'tod the transport ol' seal oil to Ger | many, formerlv one of the principal I market's for tiie commodity. Some time ago negotiations were ' started which it was hoped would re | suit in an arrangement for the 'British j I government to take over the cult:re j catch for the coming spring, for use in making winter garments''for soldiers. Word lias been received here, that the manufacturers of clothing for tihe army lind the material unsuitable, ;»nd th.it no practicable method of using seal oil in connection with military operations lias been fouml. Should the entire hunt be abandoned, it wonl';l mean the loss of, six or eight weeks' employment ordinarily given to about four thousand men. The average year's catch has brought about half a million dollars to the colony. BAYARI) REBUKES HIS SISTER Scores Suffragist for Remark —"Autis" Arguo Bel ore Delaware Legislature I>over, Del., Feb. 4. —Thomas F. 'Bay ard, democratic State chairman, one of the spokesmen for anti-suffragists at a hearing on a suffrage amendment yes terday, rebuked his sister, Mrs. Flor ence Bavard 11 illes, State suffrage lead er, for a speech at the State House. In referring to an anti-suffrage petition circulated bv Mrs. Henry B. Thompson, social leader in Delaware and daughter of 'General James H. Wilson. I . S. A., Mrs. Hilles dramatically exclaimed, '•Who is this womanW{ Bayard de clared that the remark bordered on ar rogance and insolence. Bayard's statement caused a sensa tion and scores of women gasped at his arraignment and applauded Mrs. Thompson, the "anti" leader. TTIo "anus," about fifty strong, in vaded the State Mouse and pinned red roses upon legislators. The hearings was held on the 1 foii'se floor. Members of both the Senate and House beard the ."Irgumen'ts. One lonely yellow badge, worn by IMirs. .Tallies 11. Hughes, was visible. | With Mrs. Hughes as a suffrage picket was Miss Mabel Vernon, State organ izer. The principal address against the amendment was made by Mrs. Grace W. | Goodwin, of West field, X. J., represent ing the National Committee Opposed to Woman Suffrage. A letter of protest against enfran chising women in Delaware written by former Federal George Gray, of Wil mington, was submitted by the "ant is," together with a petition sign ed by 200 representative men. ! RAILROAD SHOPS AT PEN ARGYL Means Big Industrial Boom for That Municipality Bethlehem, Pa., Feb. 4.—'At the headquarters of the Lehigh and New I England-Railroad Company here yester i day thV awarding of the SIOO,OOO con- I tract for fihe new railroad shops at Pen I Argvl was given out. The contractor, who lives in New York, signed the con tract yesterday. The main building of the ship will be 200 feet long and 160 fdet wide. The storehouse and office buildings will be forty by 250 feet in dimension. ! Beside the two buildings mentioned there will be constructed an oil storage , house and an engine building, or round ! house. The Structures will be of con- I erete and will be completed by Sep | tember 1 next. ft has taken nearly a year to grade j the tract on which the shops will be I built, and the decision of the company j to locate them at Pen Argvl menus a big industrial boom for that, town, as I several hundred men will have their I headquarters there. | UNITED HOME CROWNS SUNDAY' Evangelist's Sawdust Trail Loads Wife Back to Her Family York, Feb. 4.—"Hitting the saw-1 | dust trail" at a "Billy" Sunday meet inSg in Philadelphia, MrGeorge W.! ! Gable, of Hallain, yesterday followed it 1 back to her husband and two children whom she had deserted a few week* ago. It was the third time she had left j I tjiein, but as the result of her eonver- I sion, she declares it will be the last. I The couple are now happily reunited. The Romances of England The homes of snc.lv men' as Charles ■ Dickens, Samuel Johnson, places con-1 neeted with the lives of Goldsmith.; Garrick, (ieorge Eliot, Thackeray, an I ' others will be shown in the picture I journey through England, Wales and Scotland by William Naultv at the! Chestnut street auditorium this evening j 1 at 8.15 o'clock. The legends of the Lake region 1 wherein romantic maidens and gallant i knights have played their parts wi/l be j told, as superb views of these spots are, shown iu the charm of their reality.— | Adv. * Horse Bites Boy; Condition Serious ' Pa., Feb. 4.—Bitten by a vicious horse while helping his father' with the evening chores, Joseph Puter-' I>augh, 9 years old, is in a serious condi tion, his lower lip being almost torn oil', while the flesh is torn from the bone from the mouth to the left ear. The Waning Honeymoon "Terrible scene at my house to day," said Mr. Nnwed. "My wife 1 says 1 don't love her any longer." 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Kveu boils have been cured in a few days' time with these remarkable effective bloo I cleans ers. Your whole system will feel better in a marvelously short time, and my, what a difference in your looks! You can get Stuart's Calcium Wafers of any druggist at 50 cents a box. A small sample package mailed free bv addressing F. A. Stuarr Co., 175 Stuart I lildg., Marshall, Mich.—Adv. V. SI. ('. A. MEN'S MEETING The Rev. William B. Cooke Will De liver Address Sunday Afternoon The Rev. William B. Cooke, of the Market Square Presbyterian church, will be the speaker at the Men's Gos pel meeting to be held under the au spices of the Young Men 's Christian As sociation. Second and Licust streets, Sunday afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. Mr. Cooke will deliver a Gospel message es pecially adapted for men. This will be his liret address iu a long time before the men s meeting, and he will be greet |ed by a large audience. There will be i an interesting praise service under the direction of the Association Chorister, W. 11. Kautz. Evangelistic hymns will be sung. These Sunday afternoon mass meet ings are constantly increasing in power and interest. Men are attending in large numbers, and the one next Sunday bids lair to be among the best yet held this season Doors will open at 3 o'clock. All men are invited l . LOVE AND WANT IN TRAGEDY Pair Found Asphyxiating Die Despito Efforts to Save Scranton. Feb. I.—Leaving a note addressed to a person iu lltica, N. Y., and asking that the recipient think kindly of two persons shipwrecked on the nocks of love, M. C. Britton and a woman who had been passing as his wife, pasted strips of paper over the cracks in the doors and windows of the room they were occupying nt 513 I Adams avenue, some time vesterdav, ' turned on the gas and lay down on tiie I bed to die. Discovered several hours later by a young woman from the Associated | Charif.es, who had gone to the house to notify them that work had been found for the mm, a pu I motor was re- I sorted to, but, it failed to bring them I to lite. Photoplay Today, Sidney Drew, "Wanted, a Nurse" If you were taken sick, it would not help your case to he attended by a sour-faced nurse. Bob Orr, sick at'the hospital, has the attention of a very sweet- and considerate nurse, improves rapidly and lulls in love with her. She is replaced by a homely and austere creature, that throws Bob into a de cline and causes him to rave. His case looks hopeless until the first nurse is recalled. He soon regains a normal condition and in answer to his ardent proposal she consents to be his nurse anil helpmate for life. If you enjoy a funny love story, you will be more than satisfied at the I'hotopl ay to-day. This is not only amusing, but true io life and comes within the appreciation of every normal man, woman and child. Adv.* Victoria Oelnvia Haudworth, in "The Path Forbidden," a strong drama taken from the book by John B. Hymer, shown at Victoria theatre to-dav in five reels. "Finger Prints of Fate," featuring the famous star, Florence Laßudic, of "The Million-dollar Mystery," includ ing Keystone comedy, "Colored Vil lainy." All our pictures are shown for Hie first time. No repeaters. When you come to the Victoria you are sure to see first-class movies. Coming, Key stone comedy tomorrow, Fatty and Mabel Nonnaml, in two reels. Bon t forget Monday, February 7, ''Runaway Jane,'" iu first and second installments. ' Adv.* Making Law "How is t'ho law made?" asked the instructor in I'nitcd Stiles history. "Oh," replied the maiden cheerfully, "tihe Senate Ims to ratify it, and then [ the President bo* to—has to veto it; and then the House of Representatives has to"— she hesitated for a moment and knit her pretty forehead. "O'u, yes! I remember now," she said. "Tho House of Representatives has to adjourn until the next session!"— Youth's Conii*auioii. ■