Ercan srsssa——————————S— A Chine.e Auction. Celestial The always seems to do things differently from aothernaionsand Mast sales manner the men. Perhaps nowhere is this more apparent than at an auction sale in China. To a stranger it is a surious spectacle. It 1s a quiet, solemn proceeding, perfect silence being pre served the whole time In this par ticular it is unlike the noise and confa sion that usually reigns on like occa- sions in this part of the worl I'he wictioneer leans over a slightly Slevaied sounter and exhibits his war He jays nothing, neither does the bidder who merely steps forward to the auc fioneer and runs his fingers up his sleeve, making pressures on the man's arm, indicating in this hoy much he is willing to pay for article. Then another and another re cat the action until the one signi ving the highest price receives the ar ticle without a word being exchanged on either side. Only the auctioneer and the successful bidder know the price offered and accepted lhe op- portunity fer favoritism in this method is apparent, and doubtless 1s often act 1 upon Improved Dust-Pan. A dust-pan has been differs frem the ordin ng a receptacie in whi may be temporarily which they may be charged when desire scattering of the the pan the nan in pa overed Dv a pa wung to pen ap i natu swisg wg reuse Longest liidge Work Beware of Ointmants For © Contaln Were r #8 marcary wi smell and eon tem when snteri surfaces, Suchartie ) except on pres. riptions from rep gleians, as the damage they w to the good you cam possibly then, Hall starch Cure, o by F. J. Cheney & Co,, Tolado, ho mercury, at is taken Later directly upon the blood and mu of the system, Iub iy be sure you get the genuine, tergally, and made ia Teled J. Cheney & Co. Testimonial Sold by Druggists; price Hall's Family Pills are the hest, Death Too Fxpensive, It is a significant faet phenomenal increase in the coffins has come a inarked of mortality among local Ch natives just simply cannot at the present under that's all there Times. that ““My wife had a deep-seated cough for three years. | purchased two bottles of Ayer’s Chery Pectoral, large size, and it cured her com- pletely. ’" . H. Burge, Macon, Col. Probably you know of cough medicines that re- lieve little coughs, all coughs, except deep ones! The medicine that has been curing the worst of deep coughs for sixty years is Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. Three sizes: 25¢., 80¢c., 81. —— TN — RTT REIT All druggists. Consult year doctor. If he says take it, then do as he says. If he tells you not | to take it, then dow’t take it. He knows. Leave it with him. We are willing J.C. AYER CO, Lowell, Mass, ———_ AT E N y s, sk AD nA “on “= AND PENSIONS, Are You interested? Millions of dollars have D sa ade ont of Petey, ana Trade Maras, Mili ns of dodars ars apprope. ated to pay POusOns. Se , cars practice, For Jitutumtion ad literature, FREE, writs T w. H, WILLS COMPANY, ng, 04 Ind AVS, Wasiiugton, bs Sa A BO A PES FLEE he SY WILL NOT BURN! Lie REYSIOAE STALE Latest News of Pennsyivaazia Told io Short Order W. Ia Mathues, State Treasurer elect was tendered a dinner and reception by the members ol Media Republican Club and friends to the number of 300 Congressman ‘Thomas 5 But! was only out-of-town speaker Mr Butler, in his speech of congratulation, ‘ook occasion to predict the passage of lato for the ung of th Delaware river channel. Mr. Matheus m his speech, predicted that ii the Del aware river channel is widened and deepend that Chestes become the tron center of Pennsylva the (de ieepe: will nia. Attorney | cided that in the case of Mabel Bechtel, he will tional charges of accessories be fact against the girl's mother, her ter, Myrtha, her two brothers and John, and her lois Eckstein, all of bail, charged as fact He will of these persons clings te specify ecnle ichtenswalner de the murder bring add Ore the District aianced whom are ACCCanUrICS t also prosecule nsylvani The Pen road Compan will i SOON Col extensive bu operations yvateaviiie ihe ' Laranany betweer company purchased rua H Rambo the tract of land lying } Coates stre and Fiid here it will ere cis ight stations Ls rANCYy, 1e81 h ar chem Chester High School, wa demonstra aon a chemu il gi i 1 a lar h any ia t i high a t freon Mo: < » : ily called geveral oi | Oi remove bow! which d MIW the Wer rom a Ww Ow Living wm a getting what he boys in the neigl Of existe Yedis extend Road tle Street sidents at Av and candles to bur: hight company at place rescind its recent order advancing price of eleciric lighting 60 per [here » no gas in the town Jom Hornberger, a Mahanoy Valle enraged at a party of seve 1s that farmer Thomas Mitche James McG mgle tract mn land Ho an explosi the result of gas John Coons, aged 22 years, of Beaver Meadow, was fou mine and died afterward His skull had been fractured, and it is sug posed he was str in a fight Charles Watson, eler of Philadelph rove to Freeland and there dismissed the carriage and returned to Hazleton on trolley road In returning, the carriage wa struck by a train on the Drifton cross ing. Both horses were killed and the Iriver was hurled through the top of vehicle, landing forty feet away Rev. J. I. Hoffman, pastor of the English Lutheran Church in Tremont tendered resignation and ac cepted a call to Grace Lutheran Church Seranton James French, a barber, in Scranton on a charge of is alleged that French was sent to 2 house to shave a corpse and after hay ing concluded his labors pocketed $1 that had been left on a bureau. Mary Howells, aged 14 years. wat held up and robbed by two highway men on a lonely path between Maysvills and kor Ridge. The robber: choked her into UNcONSCIOUSNEss anc stole her pocketbook. This is the third hold-up at that place within a few weeks, The milkmen of Plymouth have agreed to make no deliveries on Sun nd unconscious in a SOON ommercial tray the his was arrestec larceny. It day, he County Commissioners offer reward of $100 for the arrest of Ho mer Quarry, who is wanted for the killing of Charles Imler at Woodburn) en the night of November » COMMERCE L REYiky Ucneral Trade Conditions R. G&G. Dun & ¢ Review of ; Ompany s Trade” say of wages and abnormally are not calculated bution oi ing staple mercial apparel and Several ndid ties « this BETS put and pr Prices of than labor graphing are Offset building coal mines, whi! tron worker in strikes resumpt Season, v tural commun £ 0 money in Ket are Arg: sum vide a mar for commodi all staples a month previous disputes in mm and eat sCVerd: by Hew trades, sire the mes, vards week of than Istreet’s larger Bra ing weeks “es AgRInS 2.144.7¢ 1901 and 61.031 LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS Flour 5; ug cicar, 3 tO $c ax h ¢e Far v 3 lo oid, DOOT do go mark, do do, 200 21. Live Stock Dressed city dressed native sides, range, 6f@oc per pound. Cables quo! ed American steers at 11%4c, top prices dressed weight: refrigerator beef WlaR's per pound; exports, $0 cat tle, Hogs Receipts, 1415 head bunch of rough mix at $5 per 100 pounds Chicago. —Cattle—Good to prime $55 70: poor to medium, $3.2 @4.75: stockers and feeders, $1.) 4.25; cows, $1. 50g: heifers, $2005; ners, $i1.306240;: bulls, $1750 calves, $2005.70; Texas fed steers, 3.50; Western steers, $yq £0, Ho eceipts today. 10.000 head: tomor 18.000; opened steady ¢ osed 10x lower; mixed and butchers $4.00605.08 good to choice heavy, $46300%; eavy, $4 2004.00; light, $4.43@5; of sales, $4.60¢14.90. INDUSTRIAL AND SCIENTIFIC NOTES A child of nine should weigh sixty pounds, . A heavy dew is the sign of a son! erly wind. A big American shoe store is cpon ed in Vienna, Mexico produces more silver than other country, A high grade of paper is now mad from cotton seeds, hile exported 008.485 tons of ni trate of soda last y A number of A hi wagons are pn wie in Landon fer heavy hauling, New York steady extrems beef 5 bul an WHAT SICK KIDNEYS CAUSE. Kipney COMPLAINTS Dia betes, Bright's Disease, Inflam metion of the Kidneve, Dri fewelling of the limbs or body), | incessant paivs in the Ivins baek ONLY GENUINE. LLACK, or. wife of roker, of living Pireel, says: | was eured udder trouble Brapper Treveres hr famwmation ef the bh Rammed passages, pa urine, incor Cuce OF much or too little Unie Acip Rheumatism €all Stones, Lum! Nenve Trove ia, Boiatica, Ne whew plessness | knew wm Rome | Erg I have ® inte Gravel (ON of Broop Bare C¢ 6a Deser:be BOvier sent @ermar Cay ines ¥y Bas Saw Frou; gh It. thall recen umbr i ghter fits nr noarvso fe Ri os and treatisefres 8 ne'a Great “t.. P fourteen year London and 1s insa Avenn radaces infla tion, sliays nain, sures wind colic, 25 tor eliildess Mrs Winslow's Sonthi 250. a bottias India possesses five universities, with 192 affiliated colleges 201 students Old Sofas. Backs of Chairs, ete, ean he dyed with Porxan ¥Yanrress Dyes A well equipped eve sanatorium will be traveling through E &ypt in a tent so0On Pino's Care cannot be too highly ane ’ O'Bnny Minn. Ken ¢ Avenue N.. Minneapolis Jan. 6. 19560 More than 5.000.000 of the 13.50.0080 pea pie of Mexico do not work H. H, Gaegex's Soxs, of Atlanta, Ga. ars world, See their iiberal offer in advertise. ment in another column of this paper, Alaska has gauge rairoac 1. only five miles of in one Hartley's Agta, mekage, Ask your dealer for Dr Great Remedy.” Bo sure vou get it, Stanley & Brown Drug Co., Balto, Md. The total deposits in Kansas banks are about 0, ow, O00 a EH wn i— Yel | | Loaded Factory SOR CTY every ¢ there Ciub los Nits aded ie : @ 88 pot Killers Catalogue free. be Union Metallic Carvidpe Co. DRIDGEPORT. CONN, Agency, 213 Broadway, § New York Best For The Dow els Pleasant. Palstanie Never Ricken 8oid in balk The gennine tabiet sis Guaranteed to pure or your mover ba Sterling Remedy Co. cago or NY, wg Potent, Taste Good Wenken or Gripe, Me ¥ Do Gnod Fever € envelopes; PAID tor a a $6; and st a4 ui Soy wmour kx Uo, ¢ sor wendy Wo 2&4 8 THERE 15 Lg SLICKER LIKE "ee Forty years ago and after many yesrs of use on the eastern coast. Tower's Walerproof Oiled Coots were introduced in the West and were called Slickers By the pioneers and cowboys. This graphic tis i uch actu Pe at it is fre wr h d to many sbstitutes You want 4 Look for the Sign of the Fish.and . the name Tower on the butions, IN BLACK AND YULOW A awtrue ton: West | A.J TOWER CO.BOSTON, MASS. TOWER CANADIAN CO. 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