Punxsutawney Spirit, 1889-02-06

              i \*W BVOOKTO*LBt PA Block, eppMlt* the ymtdia T-LAW, HAVE GONE THROUGH THEIR ENTIRE STOCK OF ATTORNEY, Pa. rxf.Af-UW Wukingtox, D. C. iy IB tba MT«I»1 MWtolB GORDON, JKVILXJC.PA. Pet. 1. IM». TEY-AT-LAW, PICKING OUT ODDS AND ENDS IN JMTB-AT-LAW, rto.ooo.ln Night Draft*. maRtmr, Ft naiteyatnet. HOES, >X DENTIST, BUSOMOK DMXTIBT, mafUVAWMT, FA) iMtdeaM, In tk* West Bad. FVMN* AmnT, *A. Building, ovar Johiuc-* 14-tZ D.D. 8. PUMXSDTAWNET, PA., WEDNESDAY. FEBHUABY 0, 188©, Ufa Greatest Channel Sals if M! IT WIMWAT, TKSTIMMY Of CSMMSSKH I raomimoN STATES. , , -\r MO &5. HOW IT WORKS. FROM TNI THE SALOONS CLOSED UP. a lAunivccm clamed both IH MAIKE An KAHIAS. NORTH & MORRIS V-AT&AW, IMMuanr. *1 •torrot MMIMMA i tb« Coartaef i4«Mit «tu- tY-AT-LAW, mux a, r a, bmllattag. Mala StrMt. Will nmItc prompt IMI-lr .. CARMALT, rORNXT-AT-LA W, Buoimui, PA Jcaki. Lipl bmln— o »r«- PuHiWAWWi PA. (treat, two <tm aortk of r-AT-LAW, ONE PRICE CLOTHIERS, CLOTHING, HATS, CAPS, KY-AT-LAW, Bbooetillk, Pa. A. C. White, l»-» iHtmui, Pa. ofltoe, Matao* lralldt*g, of- 'EYS-AT-LAW, AND GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS, Bkooxville, Fa. In Suits, Pants, Hats and Underwear, "Has not the closing of the saloons promoted private intemperance?" "No sir;on the oontrary it has promoted private temperance. The people who keep liquor in homes are not the class who drink to excess. On the other hand it protects the very men who need protection, the workingmen. Before the prohibition amendment was adopted I was a bigli license advocate; I was opposed to prohibition. The workings of the system, however, hsv« convinced me that it is the [ roper met li <1 of dealing with 1'ijuui Take the case of our tvorkingmen. Ou the way to their daily labor they would drop into a saloon and have a drink, and on tlio way home they wonld stop and have another; perhaps they would take a friend or two in to drink with them. It amounted from 30 to 50 oents per day for each man. The closing of the saloons has pnt an end to this. The workiugmeu appreciate the benefit they have deprived from it, and they wonld be the first to vote against the repeal of the law. The two great objects achieved by prohibition in Kansas are, first the protection afforded to men who need It; and second, the removal of temptation from yoang man and boys. "I have a son 21 years of age, and before the saloons were abolished that boy could not walk down that street without temptation on every side. The doors with soreens in front of them; the shaded windows all tempted his enriosity to enter. That is removed now; the saloons are closed, and my anxiety as a father,the anxiety of thousands ef fathers lxas been removed. I could cite other instances," remarked Judge Peters in oonolnaion, "to show what the Prohibition amendment has done for the welfare of Kansas, bnt I really don't think it nsoessary." George N. McCain. ! aighte in aaloona and ta varna, drteUag and treating, have pean nsmpillid tetergoe tha praotio*, and an j oat tkitnth mont) in pookat. Prohibition baa pmwtad tamperaaaa in the big boat degtea in on* State and tha aorala of the paople aa • whole bare boon araoh inpnni* Hon. Samnel H. Paten, ex-Jodge of tha Ninth Judical district, who ia in Congreae now repreaenttng tha Seventh diatriot,had thU to any: "If a propoaition to rapeai prohibition in Kanaaa were anbmitted today it wonld bo rejected by 150,000 majority. l/Thia anaweta the qneation whether or not it ia a anooeaa, It baa] radnoad oar Criminal Coort calendars throughout tba State until they amount to praotioally nothing. I have seen more drunken men on ane square on Pennsylvania avenno in Washington in two honrs than I have aeon in my town of 11,000 inhabitants in Kansas in two yeara." AND BVBOBON, PCVmTAWKZT, PA It o! tk« Port Oftoc. These Goods will be Sold Regardless of Cost in order to make room for our Mammoth Spring Stock. MAS*, AM) SUBOXON, Pmanimr, Pa. a mttIsm totheoitUea* TittaUT' A Xjaleflm Epldtmlc. PnnanAwmr, Pa! Oflrn Ua MrrleMto tk«l ay Hid the ■nrronnding LUilVXIi AND 8UB6B0N, FwamwuiT, pa. to the p«opl« of rum- AND BUBQEON, TN8LOW, AND BVSOEON, CLATTILU, PA. ildenoa one iqinre k»ek of i, 15-7-iy. 8 G. EKNST, AND SUB01 ON, PuxmiAwiraT, Pa. xaSSM~iaS£ Mkea. Memfiw of Board Mabiox, Ky., February I.—Terrible but true reports come from Webster county of a strange and fatal disease. Doctors have been unable to do the afflicted any good, and bare never agreed among themselves as to what the disease is. It first made ita appearance in the neighborhood of Yates sawmill, situated between two creeks, into whiob, for a number of years, slabs and other refuse have beeu cast, and allowed to remain and decay in large quantities, thus poisoning the atmosphere for a consider VS'n distance around. From this point the itisoaMi has spread to the adjoining neighborhoods, until up to date 23 persons, mostly children, have died. One family has loht Miven out of nine. Only one person, a"il he an adult, has recovered or thought to be recovering, and he is said to be blind. The rest have all died, death usually occurring from six to 12 hours after the attaot, and in many casos before a physician conld be procured. PhysioianB first pronounced it cerebrospinal meningitis, but later on it was the 0| uion that it U ted fever, those dying rapidly turning ulfcer death. Three physicians, it is said, had fled the neighborhood, not being able to be of any service, and not wishing to jeopardise their lives without hope of doing good. We deem it wise to sell all the odds and ends in our entire stock rather than carry any over. This is the way we keep from having old stock—we make them go at some pi Ice. This is a sale that you can't affort to miss as there will be plenty of elegant goods sold at prices that will astonish everybody. In men's pants—we have one counter with men's pants—you can take your choice. In Men's Suits, where There is but one or two left of a style, they will be marked at wholesale prices. Boys' and Children's Clothing have to vndergo the same treatment Anything that is odd must go. We would say again to our friends and patrons don't let the chance to secure an elegant suit, a fine overcoat, or dress pants at positively less than manufacturers' prices We have a full line of ladies' gossimers or langtrys Made to fit over bustles. The finest ever drought to this town. We also have a fine line of trunks, valises, cotton, alpaca and silk umbrellas for ladies or gents at bottom prices, underwear at cost, flannel shirts at cost, boys flannel waists cheviot waists from 25c to x. 2 5, boys'short pants 25 cents. The iuaurance firm of Jm>. F. and G, E. Brown, of Clarion and Bookyille, had a hir';o portion of the insurance in Punxsnlawney t ine time of oar great fire of 1886 an I it i* not flattery to Bay that their adjustments were prompt and satisfactory. Every low was settled and paid by sight drafts, over S: ),000 being paid by their companies within 60 day after the fire. That fire did not dia> courage them and they have written most of tlio uew buildings and stocks. Their busihps iias increased so much that they have • ■ >ened an office in Punxs tawney, in front r om of second story of John Zeitler block, aid placed Walter S. ltrown, one of the brothers, in charge. Tln ir line comprises the largest and best companies doing business in the Unit', d States 16-29 NORTH * MORRIS, HAH STREET, COMER ROOM HOTEL PARTALL, The Original & Popular One Price Clothiers Of TESfMACM, Twamvmt, PA. nraoLBmuB, M. n Brisk Block, BeynoMatMtb withamt piste*. ffffcVMCf. )E2TTIST. —Wild geese are flying about K a "tern Connecticut. A big flock pa«sed over East Killingiy a few days ago, and later flocks were teen at points on the ooaat. What bearing the flight sf wild geeae in January have on the weather ia unknown ! as no such thing, it is stated, «n ever recorded before in Cuuneotilu;.. Ha i*|Mir*d it i hotal, aad it mm anBad far a driik. Tba |wptl«te ihook Ma kaad.aod Ml Ua Am ra bom to is bad. Mr. Cartia laaiatad, aad attar »«■«• dm nodi and win lea waa aaodaatart by tba hotal Man dm atolia Iato tba eallm; tbanoa to an underground paaaaga, and by dariona waja iato a dimly-lighted underground iaaa, where attar bolting all tba doora, ha prodaead a bottla aad glaia. Mr. Cartia did not drink. Wban aabad why, ba aald ba oonld not afford to drink at aaob a prioa. If man bad to undergo ao mnob dlaoomfort to obtain a drink it waa mora than tba drink waa worth. "When I ••y," oontinned Mr. Dingley, "that prohibition is a success, I say that the manufacture and open sale of the liquor is completely wiped oat, and the influence of the saloon and dram shop upon the oommnnlty is abolished. Wo had in onr State a class of good men, moralist*, who insisted that whisky was* necessary evil, and instead of abolishing it, its sale should be restricted by high license. They failed to see at the time the educational power of the law; that by abolishing the traffic it was made nnpopnlar. As a result of prohibition the pnblio sentiment of Maine is vigorously against the liquor traffic. "Pennsylvania should bo reasonably well prepared for prohibition. My idea has been in States where it does not prevail that it should be gradually worked np to first, by local option in communities, tlirr perhaps thronghont the Commonwealth, and, finally, prohibition. No law u ixiu this subjeotof the liquor evil was ever t.iucessftll unless enacted upon a prohibition l>asis. No high license law is effective unless the prohibition principle prevails largely in it. What is your high license law f Unless it prohibits selling to minors and habitual drunkard* f prohibiting the sale on Sunday f prohibiting the sale after midnightf Why, it is all prohibition.!" "The effect of prohibition upon our charitable and criminal institutions is very marked. Our prison population in proportion to the ratio of onr whole population is perhaps the smallest in the oountry," said Mr. Diagley In oonolusion. Kansas is the one other State pre eminent for prohibition in this country. It has been ih operation for a number of years; the saloons being abolished seven years ago. In interviews with nearly one-half of the Kansas delegation in Congress, they expressed themselved unqualifiedly as to the sncoess of the plan in their State. Hon. Edward H. Funston, ex-President of the Kansas State Senate, and who has represented the Second Congressional District in the House of Representatives for the past six years, said: "Prohibition in Kansas has been successfully tried for years. I think that this is owing to the faot that the law is liberal. While it interferes with the manufacture and publio sale ef intoxicating liquors, it does not interfere with a man's private rights and privileges. You oan keep as muoh liquor in yonr house for your own and yonr family's use as you want; but the open soloon is gone, and the rallying places for men addicted to drink have been wiped out of existence." "Do not the drug-stores reap the benefit of prohibition in your State f" was asked. "No, sir, they do not. Yon would be astonished at the very small amount of liquor sold annually In the drug stores, rhe law is very stringent in this respect. To obtain liquor at a drug store a man must sign and present a statement upon his honor that the liquor desired is to be used for medical purposes. There are very few men who care to risk their honor for a dr nk. There are few comp'aints regarding the workings of prohibition law now heard. The people of all parties and all olasses submit willingly. A German iu my district oame to me not long since, and you know the Germans as a olass are most vigorasly opposed to prohibition, and told me that he was able to save money now there were no saloons and he wm not compelled to treat his friends. That the money he formerly spent for drinks was now going te buy a home for himself. That shows how prohibition workg in my distriot." Hon. James D. Ryan, Congressman from the Fourth dlatriot, Kansas, said: "It is a pretty difficult thing, you mast admit, to gather 50,000 people together, many of them comrades In the war, whose meeting would certainly be conductive to convivality nnder certain circumstances, and yet to not see in that number a single drnnken man. I have witnessed that very thing not in Kansas since we have had prohlbi tion. Suoh a thing would have been impossible before. '/Was there not considerable loss entailed by the liquor dealers and manfacturers In Kansas by the passage of the prohibition amendmentf" "Mo, there was not, because it was not a Whisky manufacturing Slate. The men engaged In the business simply disposed of their goods and left the State or remained and went into other busiuess. The greateat benefit derived from prohibition in Kansaa accrues to the working man. Men Who f innerly spent money that rightfully belonged to their familiea are now build, iug homes. Men who need to spend their Nelson Dtngley, Jr., ex Gov. of Maine, and now Congressman from the Second district, became interested and emphatic in discussing the snbjeot, he said : "There are no law* in existence but that are violated. The laws of Ood are no exoeption The prohibition law in Maine is enforced just aa successfully aa the laws against gambling,larceny,murder and other crimes in other States. Because there are secret thefts, it ia no argument, therefore, that the laws regarding larceny and robbery are a failure. There are violations of the liquor law in Maine ; bat they are almoat exclusively oonflned to large cities. In the country and in the larger towns the law ia successfully enforced. "I anticipate that if the prohibition movement in Pennsylvania prevails, the greateat diffiovlty in the enforcement of the law will be euoomntered in large cities like Philadelphia, Pittaburg and Reading. If a !»■"* ia determined to have liquor and ia willing to undergo great inconvenience and diaoomloct to obtain it, he can generally g«' i*.n0 i"*4" where. Some years ago Mr. <leorge W. Curtis, the editor of garper'i, visited Maine. He had been an aati-prohibl tioaist and in favor »f high II oente. His first atep was to teat the law. "My oity, Bangor, has been to a oertain extent unfortunate. The' radioal prohibitionists proceeded to make the enforcement of the law exceedingly obnoxious. They exaggerated the amount of liquor illegally sold, and as a result the Democrats made a oampaign upon that basis, representing prohibition to be a failure, and exaggerating the cost to the community of enforoeing the law; they gained a victory upon It and swept the country. But the saloon in politics in Maine is practically nil. The oppenents of prohibition have a oertain strength, but it is limited and so far as prohibition itself is ooncerned it is a success." Hon. Charles A. Boutelle, one of the most prominent figures of the House of Representatives, member of Congress from the Fourth district of Maine, had this to say to-day about prohibition in bis State : ■'Prohibition in Maine is a snccess. By that I mean that it is a success in so far that It has closed the saloons and put an end to dram drinking. You hear a great deal about the manner in which the prohibition laws are eva<led in Maine : but this oomes from people v bo visit our State and base their idea of i's snccess upon what they see in the larg cities. There is, I oonfeas, more or less lienor surreptitiously sold in the large cities of Maine,but in the rural communities and small villages and towns it has been completely wiped oat. A. saloonkeeper in a small village in Maine would not be a success now under any system, because public sentiment is against the liqnor traffic. Republican and Democrat alike are opposed to it. Knowing that Maine is a prohibition state, visitors upon entering its borders begin to look sharply for gin-mills. If a man hunts diligently in the large oities he will find it bnt this is not an evidence that prohibition is a failure. There is not a brewery in the whole State of Maine; there is not a distillery within the borders of the State. There are men, however, who smuggle in high wines, doctor them and dispose of them in illicit trafflo. One of the marked eflfeots of prohibition, as we see it, is in the habits of our people. Thirty or forty years ago the ordinary grooer's bill was something to be wondered at. It was a oase of more sack than flour, for the most frequent Item upon the bill was New England rum. It is not so now. In faot, you will find very few families who drink wine at the table,simply, as I said, because public sentiment is against it, though there is nothing to prohibit a man from keeping liquors of any kind in his house for his own comsnmption. [Special to Commercial Gssette. t r, D. C., Jan. 30.—It will be interesting doubtless to the people of Pennsylvania who will be oalled upon shortly to decide the question of prohibition \o know what the law-makers and representative men now in Congress from the prohibition States have to say of its workings. In the State of Maine prohibition has been continuously in foroe since 1851, with the exception of two years; namely from 1856 to 1858. During this period high license prevailed ; but at the end of that time the people of the Pino Tree State by an overwhelming majority decided to go back to the prohibition plan because they discovered, so the historians say, that higti license wasn't a glittering success. I QTTBMTMACa, T«m TvwmKtr, pa. •thtr IimImm. jwwptty at rVXXSUTAWMMr, 9*. u<«T " m k > 1 Iiiuf, ! * ** > ) •J *** J A I j J'* gfjsfe:* ** ' . •* •il ; ' i. . ; - ti« ■ ; < >9* , , , - ■ V" Ww """ " jflMr M* • v Aw JHr HMM A v Wvov';* : v*JR1# w 111 ' ' ■ / ■ •'• w