» ———— e— Highest Award on Covoa and Chocolate The Judges of the Pan-American ix. pogition, Buffalo, have awarded three gold medals fo Walter Baker & Co., Limited, or Mass., for the sue perilority of the Mreakfast Cocoa and all of their cocoa and chocolate prepa- rations, and the excellence of thelr exhibit. This is the thirty-seventh highest award recelved by them from the great expositions in Europe and America, Rarely Experienced, “So Floaters has at last got a job with the corporation, eh?” “Yes, and a good salary he gets, too.” “For doing nothing, of course?” “Yes, but you mustn't forget that he brings a lifetime of experience in that line.,”—Richmond Dispatch, Her Triumph. “Have you had any stage experience?’ asked the theatrical manager. “Well,” said the fair applicant, blush- ing modestly, “I do not like to speak of my triumphs, but IT was the leading lady an a Sunday school cantata once, and my . A 3 b iriends said I acted beautifully. oapiexion, skin suffer Frequent- impure Care 01 the Many persons with delicate reatly in winter from chiappir 8. y the trouble arises from those soaps and cheap salves, " should be washed only in clcfr, with Ivory Soap. A little mntton-t almond oil may be used after the soften the skin. Eriza R. Pa Some people never attempt to look pleasant except when they are having their pictures taken. A woman can’t throw a stone, but she can heave a sigh. It takes a pretty sharp fellow to flatter successfully. fr BSCE LR LT RL I SEES NER, : Bad oughs “I had a bad cough for six J weeks and could find no relief § until I tried Ayer’s Cherry Pecto- { ral. Only one-fourth of the bottle § g§ cured me.” B L. Hawn, Newington, Ont. H Neglected colds always § § lead to something serious. 8 They run into chronic § § bronchitis, pneumonia, § i asthma, or consumption. 4 8 Don’t wait, but take § | Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral B § just as soon as your cough 3 | begins. A few doses will | cure you then. Three sizes: 25¢., 50c., $1. All druggists. If he says take it, 4 then do as he says. If he tells you not £§ o take it, then don’t take it. Ho knows. I eave it with him. We are willing. x J.C. AYER CO., Lowell, sz. ECS ST Li Pills That’s what you need; some- thing to cure your bilious- ness and give you a good digestion. Ayer’s Pills are liver pills. They cure con- stipation and biliousness. Gently laxative. Want your mon 1 brown or rich 1 kc ? Then use BUCKINGHAM'S DYE hie rs 50 ors. oF Drucaists, OR R. P, HALL & CO., NASHUA, N. H | WET? THE ORIGINAL, Consult your doctor, 25c. Ali druggists, a a tana oS or beard a beautiful 7 NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS, China Muddle Not Over. Settlement of the Chinese indemnity question by The Hague Court of Arbitra- tion, in accordance with the suggestion long advocated by the United States, may yet be necessary. With the signing of the Pekin proto: col the powers believed that they had de: termined the vexatious questions arisin out of the Chinese revolt. That protoc provided that China should issue bonds valued at $336,000,000, which should be distributed among the powers in payment of their respective claims for indemnity. Special Commissioner Rockhill has now reported to the State Department the faci that the aggregate of the claims of all Government is over $34,000,000. No European nation is likely to scale its claim without similar action by other Governments and the United States may take the initiative by proposing, as it did last spring, to cut its claim in half Should this action be taken and other nations follow its example then the ag- gregate would be less than $336,000,000, the bonds for which China has already taken measures to hand over to the dean of the Diplomatic Corps at Pekin. Ap- prehension is expressed that certain na- tions, seeing a possible reduction below the limit accepted, will increase their claims. In the interest of a prompt and satis- factory settlement the authorities here are becoming impressed with the advisa- bility of again putting forth the proposi- tion that the claims be referred to The Hague Court of Arbitration. Production o! Precious Metals. Director Roberts, of the mint, has prepared a statement showing the pro- duction of the precious metals for the calendar year of 1goo. It shows that the production of gold in the world that year was 12,457,287 ounces of the value of $257,514.700, a loss in value of $49,070,200 from 1899. The loss was mainly in the Transvaal field, South Africa, and due to the war. The produc- tion of South Africa in 1899 was of the value of $73,277,100, and in 1900 of $0,671,000. [he principal gains were $8,118,000 in the United States and $6,606,000 in Canada. The United States again heads the list. In the United States the principal gains were by Alaska, Arizona, Colorado and Utah. The silver output of the world amounted to 178,706,706 fine ounces, the largest ever known. It exceeds the product of 1899 by 11,572,513 ounces The United States again leads all other roducers, with a slight excess ovei Mexico. There was an important ad- vance in the price of silver during the year, the price ranging from 59.1 cents per ounce in January to 66.3 cents in the last month of the year. Needs of Agricultural Department. The estimates for the Department of Agriculture for the next fiscal year ag- gregate $4,780,540. This is against $3,- 862,420 for the current fiscal year, show- ing an increase of almost $1,000,000 for next year. Included in this is $10,000 for sti in- vestigation, which is to be entered upon for the first time. It is to enable the department to experignent, collect and disseminate information relative to silk culture in this country. The total for the Weather Bureau, as submitted by Chief Moore and included in Secretary Wilson's estimates, is $1,- 218,090, an increase of $169,700. There is an increase of $113,050 in salaries and $58,000 for vegetable pathological work. The total estimates for forestry work are $260,100, an increase of $113,900, and for soil investigation $173,000, an in- crease of $82,000. Miss Lilian A. Norton has been given the temporary appointment as Chief of the Postal Finance Division of the Post- office Department upon the recommenda tion of Edwin C. Madden, the Third A sistant Postmaster-General. The vacancy was created litt than a week ago through the Mr. A. W. Bingham, and carrig 1 salary of $2250 a year. Itis the permanent successor of Mg has been selected, but. canno for some time. PENNSYLVANIA BRIEFLY TOLD. Carnegie Library Trustees Get a Collec. tion of Shells at West Chester. PATENTS AND PENSIONS GRANTED. fund for Soldiers’ Club at Manila—Under- ground Flood Swept Miners Almost to Death Philadelphia Delegates to Mothers’ Congress Commends Juvenile Court— Pottstown Con- struction Lo. Receives Government Contract. Pensions just granted—Israel V. Hoag, Allegheny, $10; James Anderson, Rochester, $6; Samuel Anderson, Talley cavey, $8; Albert B. Cook, Turtle Point, p8; Thomas Armor, Pittsburg, $8; Wil- fam C., Andrews, Phillipsburg, $8; aeorge W. Thomas, Altoona, $6; Willis imery, New Castle, $12; Hugh Mec- Gahan, Taylorstown, $10; Michael Ba- ter, Cribbs, $12; David A. Gildea, Hol- idaysburg, $10; Patrick Donahue, Erie, i8; Calvin C. Moses, Eldred, $24; Jud- on N. Carrier, Transfer, $8; Samuel UC Lidy, Pittsburg, $12; Samuel Bell, Mifflintown, $17; Randall Lincoln, En- isville, $8; Leah Mentzer, Waynesburg, 8; Mahala Porter, Canton, $12; Kate vevers, Hilltown, $6; Mary Swartz- valder, Elk Lick, $8. Latest patents issued to Pennsylva- uans are—John W., Anderson, Alle- theny, ingot molds; Daniel Bernhart, Pittsburg, cash register; Horace Chris- man, Pittsburg, fluid meter; Joseph Dar- ing, Chicora, vehicle spindle; Edward Dithridge, Elwood City, manufacture of enamel ; Joseph Goldberg, McKeesport, folding box; William S. Halsey, Pitts- hurg, gas engine; John G. Hehr, Pitts- burg, bottle washing machine, also cask rinser; Reinhold Herman, Crafton, ad- justatle head for signals; William G. ughes, Pittsburg, incandescent lamp and heating apparatus; George G. Ken- nedy, New Castle, compound for polish- ing and cleaning tin plates; Arvid M. Levin, Wilkinsburg, ore gate; Henry S. Lydick, Pittsburg, plotting or protracting apparatus; William ‘G. H. Ripper, New Brighton, animal trap; Joseph S. Sea- man, Jr., Pittsburg, mold for the manu- facture of rolls; Arnold Stucki, Alle- gheny, bolster for railway cars; Levi t. Umsted and J. G. Dickie, Allegheny, Yook holder; William J. Wood, Pitts- burg, washing machine. Farmer August Sanger, who lives several miles south of Erie, was dis- wrbed by hunters on his place. He warned them off and to enforce his or- ders fired a gun in the air. The three hunters, two of them half-grown boys, fired a volley. at him with their shot- juns, riddling his head. Sanger is in a nospital in a precarious condition, one shot having penetrated the skull George Kern, William and Henry Wurst are under arrest. As the result of a practical joke, Wil- liam Reese had the index finger of his right hand torn from its socket at the Structural Tubing Works, Bloomsburg. A number of employees had a tarred rope about the machine operated by Reese that impeded its operation. As the result Reese’s hand was caught in the machine. While excavations were being made for a sewer in Cornelius Hunsicker's yard in Athens two Indian skeletons were dug up. Arrowheads and beads were also found. Patrick Tigue was instantly killed by a train at the Market Street crossing of the Delaware & Hudson Railroad in Scranton. His little daughter, who was leading him, escaped injury. An effort to find petroleum near Cam- bra is again to be made. Several hus dre iy COMMERCIAL REVIEW, General Trade Conditions. R. G. Dun & Co.'s “Weekly Review of Trade” says: “With mills, shops, fac- tories and furnaces assured of full oper- ation until the end of the year as a rule and many contracts already running far into 1002, there is no occasion for anxie- ty regarding the industrial situation. “Retail distribution of heavy-weight wearing apparel and other seasonable goods is checked bv the tardiness of low temperatures, v..ich is extremely fortunate in many cases where makers have been unable to fill orders accord- ing to specifications. “Each week the situation as to iron and steel becomes more encouraging, orders now running to the middle of 1ge2 in many finished products. “More satisfactory prices are received by domestic wheat growers, last year’s ligures being surpassed, notwithstand- ng the large increase yield just harvest- ed. « Foreign buying 1s also heavy, ex- ,orts for the week, including flour, amounting to 4,894,088 bushels, against 3,054,260 last year and 3,188,492 in 1890. Lhere 1s also a tendency to hold back tor still higher quotations, as indicated by Western receipts of only 6,182,303 bushels, against 7,411,057 a year ago. Corn was supported by estimates of a reduced yield in Roumania and a splen- lid increase in Atlantic exports to I,- 194,009 bushels, against 501,155 in the preceding week, but the current outgo is trifling compared with 2,716,582 bush- eis last year and 3,554,313 two years ago. “Failures for the week numbered in the United States 240, against 205 last year, and 29 in Canada against 28 last year. LATEST QUOTATIONS. Patent, $4.45; High Minnesota bakers, Flour—Best Grade Extra, $3.95; $2.0ca3z.10. Wheat—New York No. 2 red, 8o34c; Philadelphia Na. 2 red, 74%2a75¢c; Balti- more, 7034cC. Corn—New York No. 2, 62Y4c; Phil- adelphia No. 2, 6134a62%c; Baltimore No. 2, 58a6oc. Oats—New York No. 2, Philadelphia No. 2 white, 43c; more No. 2 white, 4oc. Hay—No. 1 timothy, $16.00a16.50; No. 2 timothy, $15.00a15.50; No. 3 timo- thy, $12.50a14.00. Fruit and Vegetables—Apples—Mary- land and Virginia, per bri, fancy, $2.00a 2.25; do Western Maryland and Penn- sylvania, packed, per brl, $2.25a2.75; do New York assorted, per brl, $2.50a4.00. Cabbage—New York State, per ton, $11a12.00. Carrots—Native, per box, 30a3sc. Caulilower—Long Island, per crate or barrel, $z.00a2.25. Celery— New York State, per dozen stalks, 15a 35¢c. = Cranberries—Cape Cod, per brl, $5.00a5.50; do Jerseys, per brl, $5.00a 5.50. Eggplants—Florida, per cra‘e, $3.00a4.00. Kale—I ative, per Lushel box 10a12%4. Lettuce—Native per bushel box 20azcc. Lima beans—Native, per bushel box 65a75¢c. Onions—Maryland and Pennsylvania, yellow per bu. 83a goc. Opysterplants—Native, per bunch, 2%a3c. Pears—Eastern Shore, Kieffer, per basket 15a3cc; do New York Bart- letts, per brl, No. 1, —a$3.50. Quinces —New York, per brl, No. 1, $3.75a4.00. Spinach—Native, per bushel box 12%5a 15c. String beans—Native, per bu. green, 40a50c. Tomatoes—Eastern Shore, Maryland, per basket, sound, 30a35c; market stock, 45a55c; do native per measured bushel. Potatoes — White — Maryland and Pennsylvania, per bu, No. 1, 63a70c; do, seconds, 4oasoc; New York, per bu, best stock, 63268; dg 4raq1¥jc; Balti- Just What he Told Him to Say. In a Massachusetts town last winter James A. Riis was asked by a gaunt, fu- nereal sort of chap what he should say by way of introducing him to an as- semblage. “Oh,” said Mr. Riis, in a spirit of levity, “say anything you like. Say I am the most distinguished citizen in the country. They generally do.” Whereupon his funereal friend march- ed upon the stage and calmly announced to the audience that he did not know this man Riis, whom he was charged with introducing; never heard of him. “He tells me,” he went on, with never a wink, “that he is the most distinguish- ed citizen in the country, You can judge jor yourselves when you have heard him. Cures Blood and Skin Troubles Medicine Free! 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