Wilkes-Barre Times from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania • 6

MONDAY ErENTNM. JA.NTAKT i 1 SCHOOL AITD CHURCH. PATRIOTIC SOXIKCLATURl. A DAKGIROUS Monday, Jan. .28.

Wintad-A Husband Unit strong aad ar hav lam back. t. JU.NKlf fl KIDNEY TABLETS ioo tt pain at sac aad ear penr-SMBUs. Sold by Henry Tack Co, aad VT. D.

While Co. ast eek is t.ting htr daughter, Faaoit Wood. Trr4 Borer has moved from the Armstrong block ta lb u-w Kneeer block ou Hatter street. Frank 0s-torne, of Dorraarvtoa. will move la the house vacated by Mr.

Boyer. Bora to Mr. and Jars. Jtmes CroM, a baby dauchler. I twnyer of Dallas, called, an friends here to-day.

Jennie Flynn ha returned to Kingston after appending a week. In Duryea. Mr. and Mrs. John Williams were the guest of relative in Ashley CRIMINAL COURT.

SEVERAL CASES DISPOSED CF BEFORE JUDGE HALSEY TO DAY. Sarah Jones I Patty Thief Seat Jai for Six Maatrjs Mas si Trial for Stealln( Himi Other Court Notes. After the jury" ''s chosen in the White murder case before Judge Liynch up stairs, the balance of to-day's list 01 I anuary: Last Week Great Dissolution Our" great Dissolution Sale which was supposed to continue until April 1st will come to an end Thursday next, the last day of Finberg having arranged with Mr. ShafeY for the lat-ers retirement on ebruary 1st instead ol April ist, as we originally intended. Fh6 "Remaining ew Days of AViU ht.

days for record breaking prices profits entirely lost tracker in all cases first cost of some in many cases. AYe are bound to clear out all determination. If it's an Overcoat, Suit, Trousers, Shirts, Underwear, Or Hat That you want, be it for Han, Boy or Child. Take advantage of nexjt few days' selling in our store. It's dollars to' cents you'll say you never s-aw such values before.

Ciias. Finberg CO i Larg ITwaa la la alia SLataa with fataa" ta Their "a Aws.il ago aa America story writer gav an exceeding! vivid il-lustratioa of th lets for our united country which is felt every her through th republic. He was writing a story of patriot) character, and th events described were supposed to tak place ia aa American village. It occurred to th writer to giv lh village in the story aa appropriate name, and th first one which occurred to aim was "Union." Th little village of Union that would sound sice and natural and patriotic," he thought, but, being a practical anthor and not wishing to hT th location of his story pinned dowa to any particular spot, be turned to his postal snd shippers' guide to assure himself that the cam was purely fictitious and imaginary. He was astounded to discover that ia the United States there are 36 villages named "Union." Then "Unionr Tille" and "Uniontown" occurred to him.

He found that there were El of the former and 14 of the latter. Continuing his researches, he discovered that there were listed: Union Center, Union Church, Union Union Corners, Union Grove, Union Hill, Union Miils. 10; Unionburg. Unionport, 4, and other combinations of Union, 50. So he gave it up and decided to call his fictitious village "Columbia," and later in the guide, he found that there were 29 of these.

GIRLS FOR MESSENGER BOYS. Laadaa Telea-raph Companies Have Bar Forced Adot aa Innovation. 1 "If you please, sir, here's the messenger boy," ssid my maid, with a mile, the other afternoon, as sh ushered into my room a neatly dressed and not ill-looking young girl," says a writer in the London King. "At first I thought there must be some mistake, but her ladyship soon disabused me of that notion, and with good deal of self-possession, but no trace of forwardness, informed me that she was messenger boy's duty. She took my telegram, and th money therefor, with the customary "tuppence for the message, please," and I have no doubt acquitted herself of the not very onerous task of bearing it to the post office as neatly as the human boy would have done.

But the text time I passed the office I made inquiries, and was told that it was only in a few of the West end offices that the experiment of using young' girls instead of boys was being tried, and that even in these districts they were only used when the duty was a fitting- one for a girl to undertake. The fact is, the clerk in charge assured me, the company finds it impossible to get a sufficient supply of boys. They have lately been enforced to employ men at sixpence an hour at some of the city offices, and when the government royalty is taken into account this does not leave -much of a profit for the company. 1 hear the cable companies are alao at their wits' end to find messenger boys." THOUSANDS OF MILE3. t'aeeaseteaslr Traveled by tbe Aver at Mas Darlas His lafatlaae.

The many thousands of mile which a man unconsciously travels in his lifetime, taking into consideration the paces his footsteps measure as he walks about each day, are enough to 'make him sit down to rest for the remainder of his life, says the London Mail. But now a German scientist hss come forward with some still mora startling facts concerning' the journeys which our eyelid undertakes every time it winks, and it is not possible for us to see, he says, unless we wink. Unconsciously we wink once a second, so that for the time we are awake during day we voluntarily wink from to 60,000 times. Th distance that the eyelid travels in it great speed is measured from a single involuntary wink. This, the scientist says, is a quarter of an inch both ways, the eyelid moving equally up and down; so that, taking the movement of both eyelids into consideration, they cover some 30,000 inches in a dsy.

The eyelids of a man who has lived for 50 years will have unconsciously traveled a third of the way around the earth, or about 7,200 miles, a calculation sufficient in itself to cause the victim of insomnia to fall Into a dreamless sleep as he reads it. Hew aa Eaglaeer Fcala. A veteran railroad engineer saya: may sound strange to you, but I'm a heap more nervous when I'm traveling as a passenger than wben at tbe throttle. 1 don't know what's going on In the cab, and I want to. Every time 1 hear a whistle my Impulse I to go ou.t there and run the engine myself.

In fact, tbe only time 1 ever am anxious I when I'm In a passenger coach. 1 suppcae I feel about the same way a man does who katj driven a lively horse for year and once in awhile lets some other fellow hold th A Cblaaa Caseelf. The Chines think they occupy th middle of the esrth, and that all other anion ar meraly dwelling cn the edyen. Their most respectful term to dtslgnstc foreigner Is "th oceao Di Coreral aabara. The province of tfliebec requires tbe barber, first of all.

to hlmaelf a healthy subject, free from transmissible affections. Then he most pass aa examination in disinfection. Subscribe for the TIMES. sill It Let Ca the lirraaaalaf Air a ruitl wttk Ctaiti Balls. "I saw an article in one th technical joferaaU recently," said a Orleans engineer relates the Times-Democrat, "describing' a so-called "centrifugal cannon, which jome genius ia Manchester, England, was uppoMd to aare invented.

Tie mechanism waa said to consist of big wheel, which was revolved at tremendous rate of speed while projectiles, fed into grooves on its surface, were horled through a barrel, on the same principle that a boy throws a tn from a sling-. I could take a piece of paper and eeaylnc you in two minutes that the thing I a mechanical impossibility, but th I story interested me because it recalled a very similar device which I saw years ago at LouUvlUe, K.v. was the invention of a German machinist named Geisemann, and I went to look at it at the solicitation of friend, who imagined he had struck a big- thing. 1 found Geisemann at a little shop in the suburbs of the city, and he proved to be an extremely intelligent fellow who, un- fortunately, lacked technical ednca- tlon. Hi 'grin' was set up in the tngine room of the place, snd I couldn't help smiling when I saw it.

It consisted of a flywheel about tire feet in diameter, with an attachment for holding- half a dozen email can-1 non balls against the rim and releasing them at fixed intervals. The idea was to connect the With steam engine and, when it attained a certain velocity, to Jet loose the halls just aa they passed a point in the revolution. Geisemann had fig-tired that they would fly off at right angle and hit a target at the other end of the shed, and he invited me to be present at the test he was going to give the following week. please my friend I went around and I shall never forget the ludicrous contretemps that wound up the experiment. "About 20 of us were grouped near the wheel when the inventor slipped on the engine belt and began to speed it up.

I suppose it waa making a couple of hundred revolutions a minute when he touched the spring connected with the release Mechanism and a big, black cannon ball instantly soared off at a tangent and went crashing through the skylight. The next missile struck a huge pile of casting, bounced off and hit the boiler with a smash like 40 bass drums ail being beaten at once. Exactly where the others landed 1 cau't say, for by that time I wa heating si rapid retreat; but it seemed to me that It was raining cannon balls for at least five minutes. Several of the visitor were bowled over like and everything In the engine room was more or less damaged except the target. That escaped unscathed.

Geisemann him-, self had jcrawled into an ash' pit at the first and when he was dragged out he was a pitiable-looking object. He was weeping bitterly, but! stuck to it that he had simply ms'de an error in, hfk 'calcplation of curves' nd that the gun was all, right. n'A "I never saw it again, and supposed it was consigned to the scrap heap. If I ever attend another centrifugal gun exhibition I shall insist on a conning tower four feet thick as a coign of vantage." EXPLOSIONS HEARD AFAK. Great Detonations la Rag-isad Tbat Have Dees Asdlble Waay Miles Away.

That explosions can be heard and can prod-uce an effect at a great distance is well known, but precise statistics on this point have" only lately been gathered. Taking into consideration the fact that much depends on the formation of the country nnd on the condition of the weather prevailing at the time, it muy be admitted that a cannon can be heard at distance of 25 kilometers, and that an explosion of dynamite can be heard at a distance of 30 kilometers, says the New York Herald. The explosion of a powder factory In Anvers some years ago caused a veritable earthquake, which was felt at a distance of mors than 30 kilometers. The more reeent explosion at SL. Helen's, between Liverpool and Manchester, was even more notable In this respect.

The explosion took place in a factory of chlorate of potassium, an explosive which' 80 ton were destroyed, The explosion was hesrd at Alderlry Edge, 39 kilometers from St. Helen's, snd at Murple, 43 kilometers from that In many houses the windows were violently shaken, and near the scene of the catastrophe the ground wan moved as by an earthquake. From theae and other facts scientists now conclude tbat under favorable conditions great explosions may be felt at a distance of 50 kilometers, and they maintain that accurate knowledge on this point is most dtsirsble, since It will help to minimise the dsogcT that might otherwise result from prearranged explosions of dynimlte or similar sub-stancts. Gevaraaivat Rrts, One Interesting fact about government rejKirts Is that they art generally published on Monday morning, and the reason for this la that the newspapers of thst dsy are not so crowded snd thus more spar is secured. James 0.

Illalne, who was an editor before he became a state iaian, as the IJrat to spprecf ate the opportunity of the Monday morning new 'paper, and ahtab had sn Important announcement to make or a rrport to submit It ass always sent out the last of th rvk, so as to secure tht bt poasib; trestmeat on Monday morning. His sample has t-eeome a precedent in Washington of-IciaMoni. Salurtlsr Evening Pott. Subscribe tor TlUta, Ttere are 197 ieacoees 1b AsBera. niing- ia their work the Cerauaa, Esglith scd Swedish Us-guare.

For th first time is its historr wem-f have bees adscitted to the Calve raitj of Rochester, New Tork. and have th eight to compete for degree opes for-iieriT to men. Kef. Charles X. fiheldoa said 1 address in Boston that of 33 place of amatement ia New Yerk city oaiy fiv were such that Christian people mirht properly go to them, while 16 were ua-at for sByone to pltronize.

A minister should not be set dowa as stirrer up of class feeling- because he Hndes to the peculiar sins of the rich or of the poor. Both classes have their temptations and besetting sins, which it is prcper for1 the, preacher of tightness to expose and rebuke. The Baptist of Helena. hT jest celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of that do-Domination in- the state. The ceremonies were held in the First Baptist church of Helena, where seven of the original charter members still retain membership.

Many stories are told of the charity of the late Bit Arthur Sullivan. A secretary of a Sunday school in a poot Westminster district once ventured to apply to the composer by mail for a contribution to the fund for the school's annual day in the country. There was no special claim on the composer, but he sent half a guinea, and thereafter never forgot to repeat the gift year by year. A movement has been started among the former pupils at Miss Porter's school for girls at Farmington, for the erection of a chapel as a memorial to the late Miss Sarah Porter, who tor so many years was at the head of the school. The chapel will be connected with the Congregational church in Farmington, over which, as pastor, Wiss Porter's father presided for many years.

The memorial, together with the necessary improvements to he made in the church, will cost about $50,000. GETTING A WIFE ON TICK. Former Telegraph Operator's Stoiy His tVacer Coortahls ia Cklcase. "1 found my wife in an odd way," said an ex-telegraph operator, who is now a prominent officer of a western railroad, according to the New York Sun. "It was my third year in the railroad business, hut I had not forgotten the tick language, and I had a room in a hotel in Chicago which had a party wall with a boarding house adjoining.

In this boarding house lived a mighty pretty girl who was attending' a commercial college in the next block, where there waa also a course of. telegraphy taught, and "I guessed by seeing the books and papers she carried that she was taking that course. You see, I was watching1 her rather closely, for I was interested from the first time i ever aw her on the street. "She was a stranger in town, and, of course, there wasn't any chance of my being introduced to her, and aa for flirting, she showed no more signs of it than a sister of charity would, though I gave her every opportunity. 1 found out by a careful atudy of windows that her room in the board ing; house was next to mine in the hotel, and that only made me feel worse so near and yet.

so far, you understand. I knew she would not be in the school much more than three months, and as half that time had gone by and I still had made no progress, I began to grow desperate, for I couldn't bear the thought of losing her. You know a romance like that makes a deal more impression on fellow than the real thing. "One Sunday afternoon I was in my room and she was in hers, and I could hear her driving a nail in the wall and a great thought came to me suddenly. The next minute 1 had caught up one of my shoes and was pounding its heel on my wall, hut I wasn't driving nails.

Not much. I was making a telegraph call. It wasn't anything in particular, only an 'attention' call, and after repeating it till I was about to give up in despair, it was answered from the other side. Then I telegraphed: 'How do you do 7 and that was answered, a little bit slow, perhaps, but answered all right, and the conversation continued. "She was not the most skilled operator I had ever taken, but certainly the most interesting one, and we talked through the wall till supper time.

Tbat evening I began again, but she was not at home, and when I got in at midnight I wisely forebore ending 'good-night' to her. Next morning I hailed her with 'good morn and got an answer, and then 1 asked her if I couldn't meet her after breakfast and walk to school with Jier, but she would not have it. You awe, she was shy without a brick wall between us. I was three or four days pleading with my shoe heel on that wall before she agreed to meet me, and by that time 1 had told her every- 1 thing, and she just couldn't refuse to give me some kind of a show. After my first wslk to school with her I was utterly gone, and though she stayed on and was graduated in telegraphy, all never had a chance to practice what she learned, for before she got job I had made her promise to marry me and give up telegraphy." Kaedea.

Daughter No, mamma. Harold bss not proposed as jet; that is, not la many words. Mother Mercy on me, Jane! You must not wait for word. Proposals re mostly made up of aighs, gurgles, stammers, coughs, hems, haws sad looks, you know. Y.

World, Subscribe for the Timet, Mediocrt Medtu Vtrit. The vers in our current magaaloes sustain the statement so generally maoe that the age of poetry tn th re of Imaginative i interpretation oi lite and nature Is past. Some of It constats of cynical or eml -bunorou comment in rhyme on men and women and society and, thougn witty and forcible, is. in affect, en ackno-w led ramen chat tfte question which the great poets of the past have at least stated is novel form ar to to avoided as perplexing, If BOt tnanlnhl v. snt.

Muoh of it is description ot natural objects, scenery, aspect of nature and the like, correct tn form, but not auffused wKh (eUnc which alone -prevents descrtptiv poetry from being tame and prosaic. The whole seems devoid of energy, as If written to order nd after a model. There Is nothing iw vara rocniOTia or even cut out and paste in his crapboc. Tbe fatal Isck poetic energy, both of thought and expression, is everywhere apparent, evinced not only by the fact that the quatrains or sonnets to which writers confine themselves, though neat, antithetical and polished, are not striking-. They lack the power to make ns think, in most cases they lack the power to hold our sttentlon.

-They seem to tie written from habit, not from the outburst of a slow-gathered They are usually glancad at and skipped 4y readers. As a rule they are good evidence in the affirmative of the questipa: "Has the age of poetical expression in the Knjrllsh language passed?" All the verse in. modern periodicals has, however, one quality; it- is correct. On reading- flfty-three poems or 'bits of verse" in the magazines of the month we find no straining of "poetic license;" only two instances of -imperfect rhymes and only three or four Instances of redundant syllable'. meter formula is carefully observed, mleglaced accents are rare aa atrong, vlororous lines axe.

All Is "anlandlcUv regular, idly dull." The gayetyand the seriousnes are alike "machine made," and the lines -in which they are embodied are sandpapered and varnished to perfection. The poet does not hum a tune carelessly like Burns or fervidly like 3hUy; he plays hla scales on a piano In perfect tune. May not this perfection be tine of the reasons for the deplorable lneffectivenes ot modern verse? Of recent years nearly every town is provided with an electric generating plant, and frequently the wires are strung along country roads from town to town. This fact, says Electrtcty, has led a man named Mc-Nalr to attempt the use of electricity on the farm. Ha has) devised a curious pen some fifteen feet square, built ot wh-e and mounted on broad, flat wheals.

This pen Is designed to run In any pasture, even though it be tidily. Wires connect It was a small motor stationed at one side of the pasture, this in turn belnejr connected with the electric wires from which power Is derived. A turn of tbe button and the pen slowly creeps across the field. That' Is the essence of the Invention, and simple enough It seems. A machine of this type is being experiments with- at th agricultural experiment station of at Lansing.

Two lamb and part of th time an old ew have been pastured In the pen during the summsr. The field Is planted with lucerne growing thick and heavy. The pen is so arranged that It crawls the fuJi length of the- pasture in one month, traveling aboiJt two feet an hour; at th end iff this time It Is switched around and travels back again. As It moves, the sheefi eat every bit of the fodder, eagerly cropping next the forward side of th pen as it run over new ground. A bit of canvas duck is hung over the corner of the pen so that the sheep may well sheltered, and, curious st it may seem, they have become so accustomed to the moving of the' pen that when, they He down to sleep they snugl-e up close to the forward end of the pen so that they may II a kmg as possible without being- disturbed by the rear end of the pen as It creeps toward them.

'When th pert has passed, of course, the lucrtne that has been cropped) -toy the sheep Immediately grows up again, and by th time the pen has -made its monthly circuit the pasture is again In good condition. Th advantage ef this electrical pen II In th fact that the sheep are kept from running over, half eating and tramping down a large amount of pasture, and it keeps the sheep quiet, SO that they lay on fi rapidly. Old Fashioned Cold Cores ar going out of dat. Th busy man of to-day cannot afford to 11 abed a whole day and undergo th martyrdom of the sweating proceas. Kra use's Cold Cur are capsule of convenient ls, and can bs taken without danger whu performing your usual dutlea.

They cur in 14 hours. Pric 25c. Sold by W. D. Whit at Market Square; Durbln's Pharmacy, J.

Hslffht, Luserne. COMIHG EVERTS. Jan. 30-Third annual hall of Division 7. Ladles' Auxiliary.

A. O. at tb Armory. Plymouth. Feb.

It Fourth annual ball of th: East End Wheelmen at Concordia halt. Luffs orchestra will furnish th muslsiu February 18. Twelfth annual masque ball or th Centennial Club st tb fieglment Armory Monday evening, Feb. Is. Grand prise drill between Kagle Hose Co.

and A. O. K. of M. C.

Street psrade headed by tth Regiment band at 7: JO p. m. Feb. JO-a Wyoming Hos Company Fair at Music Hall. Wyoming, Fa, Rheumttlim Cured In 24 Hour.

1 RlaolrmAre of Halite A mack. more, PI tn burg, says: "A short time since I produced a hot! of MYSTIC CURE. It got out of th house In twenty-four hours. I tok to 1 uvu win. iiiiriiii.m ii.mw Bauntiiv ago.

snd the MTsTIC CURB Is th only medlcloe tbat did ro say good I bad flv of th bast physlolans La th city, but I rclvd very lltl relief from them. I know th MTSTIC CURE to what it Is represented and take pleasure In recommending It to other poor suffers" Sold by W. D. Whit st Publlo Hquart, dm gist, WIN kas-Barr. 1 THE HABERDASaER NO.

I WEST UARECT STREET. A rent for Delmcl Linen Mean an. Stonemsn' Olov Fltt'og Underwear. Ktw Kfckwea (trie viry weak. STREET, FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL To day's Stock Market Publishers' Press Despatch to Timea NEW YORK, Jan.

28 The stock market did not have wild an opening a looked for. The Irregularity and seeming hesitation in London may have contributed to check too much extravagance In the Initial dealing. The market was strong and interest waa centered largely in- St. Paul, which opened at 166 to 15S against on Saturday and after frequent fluctuations th stock sold a save 15g. The grangers were sympathetically strong.

The Iron and Steel stock advanced In the early trading, but lost the gain and more. Uovernnient bonds were unchanged. New York Stocks Markets are given tlow as reported by Henry Bodmer. South Franklin street. Opea.Htgh.Low.Clo.

Am. Su. Re 13S 1341, Am. Tob 11 UoV. 1U 114a At.

To. B. 46 46 6 46 At Top A Fe Pd Si 85fc 4 S6 Am. Steel 42 384 41 B. 0 8814.

SSi 88 Si Canada 574 67 67 4 67 Chesa A Ohio 3 39 39 S9 b. k. isr ira 7s Chi. B. i 145, 14S4 144 C.

C. C. St 7 7V 76 76' M. St. 158 152 164 R.

i. ft 122 1208 131 121 Contl. Tohacco 45 45 44 44 Del. 153 163 151 163 Federal Sfteel 44 44 41 48 Fed. Sttet.

70 70 70 70 Kan. 64ft. 66 63; 54 Louis. Nash 8 8 87, 87 Manhattan Ele. 118 116 116 Met.

Traction ....163 13 16.1 16i Mo. PaCtfic 86 86 85 86 N. T. Cent 14ii 141 141 Nor. west i Nor.

Pae. S4 85 82 83 Nor. Pac. Pfd 87 87 8 86 Ontario West. 82 31 51 Pac Mall i 4H 43 P.

Gas Co. of Chi. 99 100 98 9 Phil. Read. I 32, 31 SS P.

71 71 71 71 South. Pac '44 46 44 46 South. Pfd. 71 7lt4 71 "71 C. 1 57 57 66 67 U.

Leath. i i U. S. Pfd, 74 75 74 75Mi Union Pac 83 84 MTi 83 Union Pac, Pfdl 83 83 83 Wabash. 28 38 27 ZT West.

Lnion sa eas 'Penna 145 146 ifi 146 Cotton Market. March 9 31 2 9 42 9 32 9 31 35 9 26 23 Chicago Grain and Provisions. WHETAT-bpenlng 81 Hig'nest Lowest CORN Opening Highest Lowest Closing 11 80 80 44 44 44 44 To-Dsy's Produce Markets. Publishers' Press Despatch to Times. NEW YORK, Jan.

28. Potatoes ac-tlce, unchanged. Flour cerpts sales 3,600 packages. WheatReceipts 49.500; sales 735,000. No.

2 red weak; Feb. 80; May 81; July 81. Rye Dull; western 68. Barley Unchanged. Corn Receipts 'No.

2 49Ms- Oats Receipts state 3135; western 3035. Beef Unchanged. Pork Mesa S13.50$14.50. Lard Quiet; steam 87.70. Butter Steady; receipts 6.565; state dialry 143E0; creamery and western 161522; Clgin 22.

Cheese Virm; receipts state large and small 912. Eggs Steady; receipts 5.400 packages; state 20.: western 18rfi)20. SugarSteady; fair reflnln centrifugals 96 test 4: crushed powdered granulated S6.60. Petroleum Active; refined $7.40 (7.45. CofTee Steady; 5 lower.

Tallow Firm; city country 4. Hay Vive hanged. Hops Firm. Lead 84.37. Rest Quiet and unchanged.

THE HALTING OF DISBELIEF. (S. El Klaer In CMcago Tlme-Hera)d.) And shall I wisely doubt Omnipotence, Accepting all that Science would proclaim? I may -behold those stellar worlds immense. The angry mountain fllngin-g forth Ita flame. Ami feel thct they from chao might have come I may look on.

th turning blades of grass. The frowning rocks. Immutable ana dumb, Believing Nature 'brought them all to I may consider the mad Hon, the blind mole, The monsters of Che the budding rosi The clouds tost come and go, th wave that roll Azalnwt the crumbling cliffs, the rtpose Thai marks the Infant's face- upon th breast Of her who softly1 croons th lullaby, Bc-llevlrg them all atom, at th- best, Trwt Evolution baa rmcle-j. I May feel th soft careew of the sun Ar.d hear th brook go singing to the Httll doubtful of an Everlasting On Vl who Lut 4Jodi could have crvated MK7 First Convict IHd the new srrlval explain how be looted the Htc-viuh National HocoriJ Convict Oh, yes' It Is plain that the ait of eliminating a bank' surplus has made great ntrldw stn wrr In th business. Puck.

Hu It funny dat a man's brains am In hi head, but hi inM am tn T.ta Buck? P-lli yn rruOc dat out? w--Why. yo' want to knock a man s-tiselass o' hav to tut him in Cm neck. Judga of criminal cases aere taken' before J-ude Haisey for disposition. Sarah one, a middle-aged woman, who -was convicted of many petty thieving, pleaded guilty to stealing porua plasters from a drug store on North Main street, and trying to dispose of thera at another drug store for opium. She waa sentenced- by Juge lHalsey to pay a fine of J10, coats, and be sent to the county jail for alx months.

This Is the woman Mayor Nichols sent about Public, fquare some years ago with a can! on her back hav ing the words "I am a shoe thief." Chief Kline said the woman waa ar rested twenty-five times in the past four years. William Rltter, of the Heights, was placed on trial this afternoon charged with stealing stveral hama from Uutx's meat market on Northampton street two months ago. Police Sergeant Jones is the prosecutor. The coimmon-wealth is represented by Assistant District Attorneys Farnham and Waict-hams, and Attorney P. A.

O'Boyle is for the defense. COMMON PLEAS MINCTES. Anna M. Schooley vs. Reuben Sthool-ey.

Decree in divorce awarded. Hartlai.d vs. Oliver Powder Co. Motion or a new trial denied. Harvey Bros.

vs. Susquehanna Ooal Co. Motion for a new trial denietl. Harishe vs. St John's Greek Cath olic scclty.

Judgment entered for defendant. Dovle vs. Holleubach. In equity. Bill dismissed at the cost of the plaintiff.

Decree will be prepared solicitors lor Searles vs. Riioada. Defendant allowed thirty days to file affidavit of defense. SUIT IN EJECTMENT, H. B.

Plumb, through his attorney, I. P. Hand, has filed a suit in ejectment against John Devlne for a certain lot of giount! in Hanover township, the right and title to which the plaintiff claims. TREASURER BOND. The bond of Joseuh Sa'bol.

treasurer of Miners' local No. 458, of Maltby, was tiled to-day In 600. Anciro liardesb is rurety on the bondi LIQUOR LICENSES TRANSFER RED. License of D. B.

Andrews in WiUtes- Barre, to E. U. Stevens. License of John W. Brenner, Lake township, to William A Relst.

License of Wm. Walter' in Wilkes- Barre, to Jonh C. White. License of VV. A.

Relet in Wilk.es-, Barre, to Uodffe ft. tap well. Y. W. C.

Notes. On Tuesday JatC 29, at Y. W. C. there will be a "business talk" by Miss Mary Treeoott, attorney-at-law.

Bubject The Rights, cPrivilege and Duties of a Woman in Business. This talk will be of interest to all young women and especially beneficial to our young business women. All women and girls are cordially Invited to attend at Y. W. C.

69 N. Franklin street, on Tuesday, Jan. 29, KINGSTON. Miss Frances Edwards gave a tea to a few of her friends Saturday afternoon at her home on Page street. Those present were: Miss Bertha Morgan and Miss Helen Fancourt, of Dorranceton-, and Misses Laura Meyers, Li la Keller and Ma'oel Strouse, Ot this place.

Walter Stevens, of Marshwood, visited friends in town yesterday. Mrs, Byron Stookey is visiting relatives In Berwick. Murray Turpin Is ill. Mr. and Mrs.

Geo. Neiwltt. of Dor-rancelon, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jos.

Newitt yesterday. Miss Ethel Gunton, of Wilkes-Barre, was a caller in town on Saturday. Miss Nina Shook, who has been suffering 'from a badly poisoned foot, has recovered. The worth League Reading Circle will meet at the home of iMtss Pearl Warden this evening. A full attendance is desired.

The following nominations were matle at the Democratic caucus In William Card's store Saturday evening: Washington tackhouse for school director; B. O. Coon, for Inspector, and Oliver Turner, for constable. J. F.

Martin left last evening for Buffalo to spend a week with relatives. This morning the Kingston and PIttston cars which left Wllkes-Barre at o'clock had a rear-end collision In front of A. H. Coon's residence. The Kingston car stopped to let off a passenger, when the PIttston car collided with it, breaking all the windows and giving the passengers a severe shaking up.

Several of the passengers were slightly cut by flying glass. The rear end of the Kingston car was damaged slightly. Mr. and Mrs. J.

W. Fox have returned, after spending Sunday with relatives Ir. Vomlng. Mrs. Carrie Hopple spent Sunday with relatives In Wllkes-Barre.

funeral of Ebenexw Edwards, of Alienlown, a former resident of this place, will take place Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock from his late home on Til(hinan street. Allentown. Following la the result of the caucus held In the Third ward on SutuMav: Councilman, W. J. Lels: school di-lector, Jonathan R.

Davis; inapei'tor, David Rosser: asressor. W. J. Morris, Judue of election, Wlllard Good-win. A mum social will be hHd at the home ot Dr.

and Mrs, I L. Rogers on Friday evening for the bene at of th?" L. T. L. sx iety.

A mothers' prayer meeting will held at the home of Mrs. 1.. D. Mcitt thl evening. Wt are offering Carrahan's extra fine tomatoes at 10c per can, can for He, and everything else In the canned good line at price that will please.

Our coffee at 20c. cannot be beatan. VVe have a fine line of dried frulta at the right price. tl TN rM OATtNBT. A meeting of the T.

I will be hld this evening at th home of Mls Ida Smiley. Meetings will i held In the Pretby-terian church Tuesday. Wr Inesday and Thursday evenings tit this week. Mrs. Francis Wood, of ifcihletrturf.

of Our the Sale small lots and you profit by our WITH LOCAL BUSINESS MEN. 'J. '9. CJoons Co. 'a cut sale has entered' upon its closing week so that buyers unpuld make their purchases as early as possible.

M. H. Post is selling high gratfe har-nes at low grade prices. Just read tils ad. and then go and examine his goods.

They are exactly as he states, every time. Chas. Finberg Co. announce that their dissolution sale will come to an end with the last day of this month. Mr.

Schafer Feb. 1st instead of April 1st, as was originally intended. Mt. Finberg particularly requests that all accounts due the- firm toe paid 'by thai time that any bills outstanding against the firm be presented positively no later than Thursday next, in order to insure their payment before the change in the firm takes place. The Boston Store is nothing unless up to the times.

To-day they announce three special sales 'Blankets, Underwear and Women's Suits: Jackets and go at phenomenally low prices and a glance at their ad will convince the most skeptical. The Blanket sale Is especially attractive and an In these goods is always profitable, r.iJi., laJa'sa- The Isaac Long Store News to-day should prove of exceptional interest to the feminine portion of this community for It contains tempting information touching ribbons, table linen remnants and curtains. This firm's announcements are always Home for Bachelors. May Irwin announces that she Is go Ing to encourage and foster bachelorhood by building a bachelor apartment houie with a lot of new wrinkles for the ease and comfort of the tenants. To do this has been one of her pet ever since she began to invest her surplus revenue In New York real wtwc several years ago.

She doejn't think that the bachelors of this city are properly cared for. Their trousers get frsyed In spite of their Irt-omMi, she says, and regardless of the fact that they live in apartments with an alleged valet service thrown in with the hot and cold water and steam heat. There is to be a woman house-keeper, who will have chaige of the laundry. menJIng, troussr-prtss-Ittg and shne polishing departments. he will study the needs and whims i.f all the tenants and then boa the valets, so that they will gratify the whims and supply the needa.

She will Inapeit all the shirts before they are tnt back front the laundry and mend-iftg-room to the suites of their wear-ra. snd nr.t a button shall be missing. Mrs. Irwin says that this car of the hutliHki In a scheme orlgtnnal with her, and that It will do more than anything else to mske her bachelor apartments a eui cess. The lent will be high and the house will ii- exclusive, any the press agent.

Miss Irwin is rw working on som secret plans for an automatic whli li she ha Invented. This unique spartinant building Is to be at and li West Forty, fourth siren. Funeral on Wednesday. The funeral of Korn lll take place at 2 p. m.

Wednesday Instead of to-morrow afternoon aa etated In another column. Interment wl'l 4e made In the City remtery. lerad was a member of llofrnucf Lc'ge 425, O. O. F.

Sale WHITE MURDER -TRIAL. (Continued from First Page.) The defense wiU be that the shoot ing war done in self defense'. j. i BREVITIES. At North Mountain.

A number Of VY ilkes-Karreans spent yesterday at LaJte Ganoga. at the invltatiij) of W. it. Hiekttts. The party nunvbera about twenty incn.

Hla Foot Amputated. John Luke, of T'lHins, employed as a miner In the Pine Rldire colliery, had one of his feet so tad'iy mashed on Friday that amputation was necessary. Soli Born. Born, to Mr. and Mrs.

Burr C. iMiller. New York, a Bon. Mrs. Miller vi as formerly Miss Helen Keynoters, of this 'city, and is a daughter of Mr.

and G. Murray Rey-rnius. i At St. "Stephen's, Rev. Dr.

Jones, rector of St. Stephen's Episcopal devoted Tils sermon last evening to- a consideration of the life of Quen Victoria and ialii a beautiful tribute to her Christian character. Social and" Reception. The officers of A. M.

E. Zlon church. East Northampton street, will hold an official sociable reunion and tender a reception to the congregation and friends of the church on Valentine Day, Feb. J4. Died in the West.

Mm. John TV. I-soher, widow ot the late Rev. John W. Lescher.

who forty years ago was stor of the Reformed, now the tier-man Lutheran chvrrch, of this city died recently at Uslesburg, agi-a 76 years. banquet. The annual banquet of the Bull'Ws' Exchange will take place at the Wyoming Valley Hotel this evening at 9:30 for all aftlllattng tradesmen and material men. There will slso be a number of delegates present from bcianton. i Boatd of Trae.

The regular month ly meeting of the Hoard irT Trade wllU l.e held this evening, at 8 o'clock. It i jruMxd to take some action requesting the I'uslutnVe ierrtment to in-rmw the number of mall carriers, so th.it ll mall matter can be delivered more promptly. Rveryone Interested should- be jiresent. liUeolution. Charles Finberg H8oiuUon sale will come to an end with the iaat day of this month.

Mr. Kihafttr retiring on Feb. 1 insteaj At-rll I. as was originally intended. Mr.

FlnWcrr requests that all acvounts due the Jirm raid by that time and that any bills aaalnsl the firm -lie presented rot later than Thursday next. PERSONALS. Philip R. and Robt. R.

Harvey -(t i.n Saturday fur Inisn, Txs. V. Wad.li-il lft ti-day fur Finn City. where he is Interested In sine mine. 0 0 It in that Pr E.

Dlefen-d'-i '-r. a fr.iiner rnl'Wnt of this city. Is i. i.k- lU at I. Is limine in Milweuki-r, Mr Mrs.

Mlrhstl Rrennan, of sod Mr. nnd Mis J' hn Urennan nr. I Th'wnas firrman. tit Clevlsnil, the funral of I'atri in this tl'J, Xvday..