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All bids in and around, going once, going twice, SOLCf the familiar chant of the auctioneer rings out. Every imaginable article bas at one time or another been sold under the gavel of the auctioneer. Even in Babylonian villages the custom prevailed of disposing of maidens in marriage by delivering them to the highest bidders in an annual assembly held for that purpose. Among the Romans military booty and war captives were sold at auction. In England the method of conducting auctions has varied. In some places it has been usual to set up an inch oflighted candle and the person making the last bid before the wick fell became the purchaser. Another form was called 'candlestick bidding* where sev
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