gest in the World.
Baker & Co., Ltd., Dorches-
are the largest manufactur-
oa and 4 chocolate in the
hey received a gold medal
iris Exposition of last year.
hey have received three
8 from the Pan-American
t Buffalo. Their goods are
1 for purity and excellence.
Inmmentionabloe.
What does b-u-l-1-y spell?”
\y, er—u’'m—m——"
ome! Come! Suppose
oy were to strike a little
would you call him?”
don’t dast to tell yer
holic Standard and
Cost Money.
find golf a very difficult
Not after you've ac-
wledge.
you consider the most
cquire?
and balls.
Particulars.
Mrs. Smythe tells
won distinction on
Yes, he was a shoe-
cold and could §
en tried Ayer’s
it gave me im-
on, Sidell, Ill.

SUGGESTION TO ROOSEVELT.
Chicago Paper Tells Him How to Cone
dense His Coming Message. i
Already the Washington correspond-
ents are writing President Roosevelt's
message for him—albeit he is still in
possession of his voice and can com-
thand the services of a typewriter.
If, however, Mr. Roosevelt intends
to cover ene-half of the ground laid
out for him by the correspondents our
advice to him is to issue his message
in serial form, says the Chicago Rec-
ord-Herald. He has the pen of a ready
writer and an exhaustless fund of
(deas of his own to draw on, and yet
ke is said to contemplate the incor-
poration of the reports of his cabinet
officers in his own reviews of ‘the
state of the Union” and recommenda-
tion of those things he judges ‘‘neces-
sary and expedient” for the considera-
tion of congress.
If Pr¥sident Roosevelt will consult
the ssund sense of the American
people he will make his raessage
unique fn the history of modern
presidential messages by its brevity.
He can say all that is necessary to be
said at this time in a message of 5,000
words, and by using the reports of the
departments as appendixes in less
space.
The constitutional idea of the presi-
dent’s message was that it was for
the “information” of congress and the
people. But that was before the daily
press had come to keep the public bet-
ter informed as to the state of the
union than it could be if presidential
messages were issued weekly.
The president cannot do better be-
tween mow and the first week in De-
cember than to devote his spare time
—of which he will not have too much
—to the strenuous task of condensing
what {is necessary and eliminating
what is unnecessary to be said in his
first message to congress. He should
be familiar with the superiority in
range and accuracy of a rifles over a
blunderbuss.
Every unnecessary word in a presi-
dent’s message increases the oppor-
tunity for error.
One Mail in Nine Months.
In a private letter to a Gotebors
editor dated Tjarkhlik, April 27, the
Swedish explorer, Sven Hedin, relates
that he had just got his first mail and
received his first news of the world in
nine months. His Chinese companions
and servants were gentle and amiable.
At Tjarkhlik he fitted out a caravan
of the thirty-eight camels, twenty-four
horses and seventy mules. His jour-
ney for 170 Swedish miles had led
him through an absolutely unexplored
part of Asia. On one occasion, when
his caravan was in danger of perish-
ing through lack of water, a mass of
snow was luckily found in a gulch.
Another time the party was saved by
blocks of sweet ice, floating on salt
water.—Tndianapolis News.

LATEST HAPPENINGS
ALL OVER THE STATE.
The Latest News Gleaned From All
Over the State.
A $150,000 F.RE IN BRADFORD.
City Hall Among the Dozen Buildings Burned—
Carnegie Men Receive Stock—DPittston
Woman Entertained Friends on Her 107th
Birthday—$700 Found With a Corpse—
Coraopolis Oil Plant Damaged by Fire.
These pensions were granted: Penn-
sylvanias—Henry J. Westerman, Alle-
gheny, $6; Frederick M.
Pittsburg, $6; Charles Matz, Pittsburg.
6; John Stauffer, Pittsburg, $6; John
Ashman, Greenwood Furnace, $12; Har-
non Moser, Waynesboro, $8; Jones
Shell, Mifflinburg, $8; John F. House-
10lder, McConnellstown, $8; David H.
Harsbarger, Mattawana, $24; Andrew
Donaldson, Mercer, $6; Isabella Moon,
Connellsville, $8; Aggie A. Groscope,
Pitcairn, $8; Sarah A. McKeown, Pitts-
surg, $12, Margaret Moodie, Fisher, $12;
fliza J. Irwin, Barnards, $12; William
B. Weston, East McKeesport, $6; Cur-
4s D. Cross, Parthenia, $6;
Samuel Humer, Newburg, $8; Henry C
Carmon, Huntingdon, $10; Martin
Wortse, Tyrone, $8; George Wigner,
Lewiston, $10; Justus Routh, Altoona,
p8; Henry C. Huhn, Smithfield, $8; Dan:
el Haas, Mt. Pleasant Mills, $10; Wil
liam B. Krape, Johnstown, $8; Rebecca
Risheberger, Johnstown, $8; Caroline
Kellogg, Sayre, $8.
Fire in the livery stable of F. Koche-
nour, in the upper end of Harrisburg,
destroyed the stable, with ten horses
and many carriages, and also three
dwelling-houses, were burned, and two
dwellings were badly damaged. The loss
is estimated at $10,000.
The members of the Farmers’ Union
of North Coventry attended services in
the Parkerford Baptist Church, Potts ;
town, and listened to a sermon by Rev
William T. Johnston, the pastor. His
text was “Behold a sower went forth tc
sow.”
Mrs. Mary Neiman, of North Cov:
entry, who spent Sunday visiting her
son, Milton Neiman, of Pottstown, fell
dead on her return home as she was
about to enter her gate.
William Stebbins, a two-year-old boy,
fell into a sewer sump at Berwick and
was unconscious from the effects of gar
when rescued by Mrs. Robert Good.
Milton N. Bernhart, member of the
State House of Representatives from
Lehigh county from 1891 to 1894, died at
his home in Allentown, aged 55 years.
The barn of Anderw Porter, of Pine
Grove Township, was burned together
with the season’s crops, three horses,
four cows and farming implements.
Melvin F. Weisensale, son of Amos
Weisensale, of Midway, a suburb of |
Hanover, who was shot by the acci- '
dental discharge of a revolver in the
1ands of his cousin, Harry Miller, died
of his injuries, after suffering for about
ten hours. An inquest was held. After
hearing the testimony, a verdict was ren-
dered that young Weisensale came to his
death by a gunshot wound, caused by
the handling of a shotgun by Harry
Miller, without any inention or fore-
gucht of discharging the gun, and
BY ai intention of voluntarily tak-
was afte ds arrested,
3 County
Atkinson, !
1 . . oe
Eo corn rising 23 cents above
Danie! |
Ringer, State Line, $6; Loth Mader, |
Erie, $6; Henry Peoples, Allegheny, $8; i
COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
General Trade Conditions.
R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of}
| Trade says: “Little relief has been af- i
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forded the leading manufacturing indus-
try in the matter of transporting facili-
ties. In fact the situation on the whole
is less satisfactory since inability to se-
cure coke has brought about the banking
of some furnaces. This in turn tends to
harden the market for pig iron, though
no actual alteration in prices has oc-
cured, except at Philadelphia, where 25
cents more a ton is readily paid.
“As this industry is considered the
: hast business barometer, present condi-
tions and future prospects are certainly
most encouraging. .
“low temperature in grain growing
States brought a higher level of quars:
the
ure ruling at the corresponding date
last year, and 26 cents over 1809.
“Wheat is moving out freely at both
coasts, shipments from the United States
for the week amounting to 5,651,472
bushels, against 3,210,164 bushels in the
same week of 1900, and 3,927,203 in 1899.
Vigorous milling and foreign demands
caused a fair advance in price to about
last year’s figures, despite the difference
in output.
“Failures for the week numbered 243
in the United States, against 201 last
year, and 33 in Canada, against 18 last
year.” -
LATEST QUOTATIONS.
Flour—Best Patent, $4.45; High
Grade Extra, $3.95; Minnesota Bakers,
$2.90a3.10.
Wheat—New York No. 2 83%c;
Philadelphia No. 2 red 76a76%c; Balti-
more No. 2, 75%c.
Corn—New York No. 2, 66%c; Phil-
adelphia No. 2, 6434a65%4c; Baltimore
No. 2, 62%c.
Oats—New York No. 2, 45c; Phila-
delphia No. 2, 45%a46%c; Baltimore
No. 2, 45a45V4c.
Hay—No.. 1 Timothy, $16.00a16.50;
No. 2 Timothy, $15.00a15.50; No. 3
Timothy, $12.50a14.00.
Fruits and Vegetables — Apples —
Maryland and Virginia, fancy, per brl,
$2.00a2.25; do Maryland and Pennsylva-
nia, packed, per brl, $2.00a2.75. Cran-
berries—Cape Cod, per brl, $5.00a3.50.
Pears—Eastern Shore, Maryland, Keif-
ers, per basket, 15a30c; do New York
Keifers, per brl, $2.50a2.75. Quinces—
New York, per brl, $3.50a4.00. Yams—
Rappahannock, per brl, $r1.00ar.25.
Beets—Native, per 100 bunches, $1.00a
1.50. Carrots—Native, per bunch, Ia
1c. Cabbages—New York, per ton
$9.00a10.00. Celery—New York, per
dozen 20a350c.; do native, per bunch 2%a
3%c. Cauliffiewer—Long Island, per
brl, or crate, $1.50a2.00. Eggplants—
Florida, per "crate $3.00a4.00. Lima
Beans—Native, per bushel 75ag0c. Let-
tuce—Native, per box 15a30c. Onions—
Yellow, per bushel $1.c0a1.10; do white
per bushel $1.25a1.30. Peppers—Native,
per bushel box 25a30c. Pumpkins, each
4asc. Parsnips—Native, per box, 25a
30oc. Turnips—Native, per box 10a
12Y%c.- Tomatoes — Eastern Shore,
Maryland, per basket 30a3sc.
Potatoes—Maryland and Pennsylva-
nia, prime, per bushel 60a65c; do do do
medium, per bushel 4o0asoc; do New
York prime, 60a65c; do do seconds, 45a
soc. Sweets—Eastern Shore Virginia,
yellows, per brl $1.25a1.50; do do do,
culls, per brl, 75c.a$1; do Rappahannock,
per brl $1.2521.50; do native, per brl,
$1.40a1.60.
Provisions and Hog Products.—Bulk

rib gs, 10%4c.; shoulders, 934c.; bacon
cle ida
Cannons and Thunderstorms,
The Weather Bureau has issued an-
other broadside against the practice
which has grown up in a number of Eu-
ropean countries of bombarding the
heavens to avert storms and carry them
in another direction. Some of the argu-
ments advanced will apply accurately to
the Weather Bureau itself. It claims to
score a success whenever it shoots at a
thunderstorm cloud that does not pro-
duce hail, although the chances are
greatly in favor of there being no hail
in the cloud. Whenever the Weather
Bureau shoots at a storm and drives it
away it scores a success, but when it
does not drive it away it keeps discreet-
ly quiet. That is a habit common to
those who experiment with the ele-
ments.
Worth - Knowing About.
No need of cutting off a woman’s breast or
a man’s cheek or nose in a vain attempt to
cure cancer. No need to apply burning plas-
tera to the flesh and torturing theses already
weal, from suffering. Botanic Blood Balm
(B. B. B.) gives a rafe, speedy and certain
cure. The most horrible forms of cancer oi
the face, breast,womb, mouth, stomach, large
tumors, ugly cancers, eating, festering sores,
persistent pimples,blood poison,catarrh, rheu-
matism, terrible itching, scabby skin diseases,
ote., are all gaccessfully treated and cured by
Botanic Blooa Balm (B. B. B.). Druggist,
$1. Sample of medicine gent free, also many
testimonials, by describing your trouble an‘
writing Blood Balm Co., 12 Mitchell Stre=!
Atlanta. Ga.
Could Blow His Own Inference.
Cholly—And did Miss Chipper say
anything about me? :
Miss Cuttings—She said you were
just as bright as ever.—From Puck.
Dyeing is as simple as washing when you
use PurNaM Faperess Dyers. Sold by all
druggists.
In a hurricane blowing at eighty miles
an hour the pressure on each square foot
of surface is three and a half pounds.
STATE oF OHIo, Cry oF TOLEDO, |
Lucas County. |
FraNk J. CHENEY makes oath that he is ths
senior partner of the firm of F. J. CueNEY &
Co. doing business inthe City of Toledo,County
and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay
the sum of oNE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each
and every cass of caTarmru that cannot be
cured by the use of Harr’s CatArnu CURE,
FraNK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
(~~ — presence, this 6th day of December,
1 SEAL f A.D. 1836. A.W. GLEASON.
Spin Notary Public.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and
acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. Send for testimonials, free.
¥. J. Cueney & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, T5c.
Hall’s Family Pills are the best.
88.
The people with the biggest ideas sel-
dom have anv money to carry them out.
Pest For the Bowels,
No matter what ails you, headache to a
cancer, youn will never get well until your
bowels are put right. CAscARETS help nature,
curo you without a grips or pain, produc
easy naiural movements, cost you just 1)
cents to start getting your health back, Cas-
cArETs Candy Cathartie, the genuine, put up
in metal boxes, every tablet has C.C.C.
wwiwpud on it, Beware of imitations.
Even the professional swindler works
his way in the world.
H. H. GreEN’'s Sons, of Atlanta, Ga., are
the only successful Dropsy Specialists in the
world. See their liberal offer in advertisement
in another column of this paper.
The girl who marries to please her
family assumes an awful responsibility.
FITS permanenily cured. No fits or nervous-
ness after first dey’s use of Dr. Kline’s Grea’
Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise fre:
Dr. RR. H, KraNg, Litd., 931 Arch St., Phila. Ia.
A bent pin on a chair is no joke if you
can’t see the point.
inslow’s Soothing Syrup
Ls
— RT
Mrs. Kate Berg, Secretary Ladies’ Aux-
iliary of Knights of Pythias, No. 58, Com-_
mercial Hotel, Minneapolis, Minn., After
Five Years Suffering Was Cured by Lydia
E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.
“ DEAR Mrs. PinkHAM : — Whatever virtue there is in medicine
seems to be concentrated in Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable
Compound, I suffered for five years with profuse and painful
menstruation until I lostfleshandstrength, and life hadno charms forme.
Only three bottles of your Vegetable Compound cured me, I
became regular, without any pains, and hardly know when I am sick.
Some of my friends who have used your €ompound for uterine
and ovarian troubles all have the same good word to say for it, and
bless the day they first found it.”—MRrs. KATE BERG.
$5000 FORFEIT IF THE ABOVE LETTER IS NOT GENUINE,
When women are troubled with irregular, suppressed or painful
menstruation, weakness, leucorrheea, displacement or ulceration of the
womb, that bearing-down feeling, inflammation of the cvaries, backache,
bloating (or flatulence), general debility, indigestion, and nervous pros-
tration, or are beset with such symptoms as dizziness, faintness, lassitude,
excitability, irritability, nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholy, “all-
gone” and “want-to-be-left-alone” feelings, blues, and hopelessness,
they should remember there is one tried and true remedy. Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound at once removes such troubles.
Refuse to buy any other medicine, for you need the best.
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to health. Address Lynn, Mass.

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his Li the W. L. Douglas
§ _W. IL. Douglas 82.00 ¥
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Bl Equaled At Any Price.
i For More Than a Cuarter cf ao
Century the reputation of VV. IL.
i Douglas $3.00 and $3.00 shocs for
style, comfort and wear has ex-
celled all other makes sold at theso
rices. This excellent reputation
28 been won by merit alone, W. L.
Douglas shoes Lave togive better sate
fl isfaction than other $3.09 and $3.50
shoes because his reputation for the best $3.00
and $3.50 shoes must be maintained,
‘W. L. Douglas $3.00 and $3.50 shoes
are made of tho same Ligh-grade leath-
ers used in $5.00 and $6.00 shoes and
BM are just as good in every way.
$3.00 and $3.50 8. oes than he can
get clsewhere, « L. Douglas
makes and sells more $8.00 and
$3.50 shoes than any other two J
manufacturers in the world. »
ST COLOR EYELETS USED,
on bottom. Shoes sent any.
_ where on receipt of price
and 25 cents additional for cars
riage. Take measurements of
foot asshown | state stylede-
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usually worn; plain 5
or cap foe; heavy, &
medium or light soles.
\meriean cities selling direct from
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