Punxsutawney Spirit, 1889-10-30

              NO 22 *■ WITH §• ATTORNEY-AT-LA W, BMOITXUa, Pa JJJDWARD A. CARMALT, *" legal btulneo will reoelv* prompt Md careful attention. lf-n-lr A TTORNE Y-A T-LA W, iiuuii PA, Offioe No. MS, Todd bonding. Main Street. PirKUCTAvmr, PA. Mm on Gilpin street, two doon north ot Mtaldi' furniture (tore. ATTORNEY-AT-LA W, 0# M. BREWER, JENKH * GLARE, ATT0ENEY-A1-LA W, DOWN IN VIRGIN NY. sell you PA. NORTH & MORRIS, MAIN STREET, CORNER RSCM HOTEL PMAIL, Jt UMXSVTA WJVEr. M BUSINESS BOOMIN 9tutx*ist«tt!t*9 Spirit. PUBLISHED EVEBY WEDITSBDAT. PUNX8UTAWNEY, PA., WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 30, 1889. Tonga and Drowned It Servants Beat It with Cluba and SCARED AT A WATCH. 8TORIES OF PLAGIARISM. An Incident That Happened In 1690—Some Dainty and Wonderful Time-Teller* of the Last Two Centuries—A Remarkable Chronometer. J TAYLOB BELL, Bnf i. weond story of Jahn Zeltler'ibriek jbtk. rustic* !■ the Conrt*of adjaccntoonn- J. TBUITT, ATTOMTMT-AT-LAW, Finuwitm, PA North & Morris PCNXSUTAWNffiY, PA, Office next door to W. U. telegraph office. Wf W. WIN SLOW, J ICS NEYATLAW, TttI ONE met ClOTttlt*8. Never before in the history of our business have wo bad sucb a grand trade as we are enjoying this Fall. We can't find words to express what we mean—it is one continued rush. The people can no longer be humbugged by catch-penny advertiseing about "closing out their entire stock at cost." Don't you know that the merchant who advertises that way simply lies. He CAN'T sell goods at cost. Don't be deceived by fish stories like that. Buy your clothing from the merchants who tell the truth, and do just as they say. 0. CAMPBELL, A TTORNE YS-A T-LA W, BuoimiJ, PA. OOoa In If ation'i office, Mataon building, opposite the Court House. Paola, Mi am a Co., KAk. ATTORNEY-AT-LA W, JOHN W. BELL, Qt 0. BEN8C0TER, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, BaooiTiLLi, Pa Office in Mataon Block, opposite the pnblie DnUdlnga. IT-LAW, ORIGIN OF WORDS. The Etymology of Expraaalon* That An in Every Body's Mouth. J Etymology, though an exact and painstaking science, is absorbing and, contrary to general theories, very much alive. Hosm of what may bo called its popular deter, minations the School Journal has recently published: There was an old practicet in the yean agone, that a woman should never be  ried until she had herself spun a set o£ body, tablo and bed linen. It is not difficult to see how easily the term became applio* able to all unmarried women, and finally became a law term and became fixed as spinster. The word "teetotal" had its origin througfc ft stuttering temperance orator* who urged bis hearers that nothing less than "to-t». total" abstinence would satisfy t mperanca reformers. The first vessel of schooacr is said to have been bum in Gloucester about the year 1713. When she weut off tbo stocks into the water a bystander cried out: "Oh, how she scoons I" The builder instautly replied: "A schooner let her be," and from that time vessels thus rigged have gone by that name. The word scoon is popularly used in soma parts of New England to denote the act oC making stones skip along the surface of the water.  It is said by the author of the "Queen's English" that the people of Camwood Forest, Leicestershire, when they desire te hail a person at u distance call out not "halloo 1" but "halloup!" This ho imagines is a survival of times when one cried te another: "A leup! a loup!" or, as we would now say: "Wolf 1 wolf I" "H'irrah" is - rived from the Slavonic h'.ira, "to Par;. tiso,'' which signifies that all soldiers who fell lighting valiantly went straight to Heaven. "Prithee" is obviously a corruption of "I pray thee," while 4 marry" was originally a method of swearing by the Virgin Mary. The aristocracy of Spain was hold tooonsist of those who traced their lineage back to the time before tho Moorish conquest. These people were whiter than those who had been sieved with Moorish blood; the veins upou tr.oir white hands wero blue, while the blood if tho masses, oont jminatcd by luu U oi'ijh iuiuMoa, shewed black upon their l ands and faces. So the white Spaniard- of tho old race camo to declare that the ir blood was "blue," while that of tho comuioa people was black. The phraso passed to France, where it had no such significance, and was, in fact, quitq an arbitrary term, and so to England and America^ people, and is used still. General Jackson, when judge, indorsed "O. R." on many papers, meaning "order recorded." Major "Jack Downing" (Seba Smith) saw papers thus indorsed, but tool| tho initials to bo "O. K.," which ho de> Glared in fun was meant by Generul Jackson for "Oil Korrect." This took with the g A. OBAIQ We don't sell goods at cost, but we will Practielnf attorney In the several oonrtain Wa»hInj"ton mi *l*ewker*. Prosecute* claims bcfonaDtheGovernmentDepartments. Alae Ik* yvrcbtM cad Ml* of real estate. 14-18 ryiniL BAMKT, A TTOBNE T-A T-LA W HOT Pst. S.-W., Washington, D. C. j)B. W. F. BEYER, PHYSICIAN AND 8VSGK0N, PtTXTiCTAWTClT, Pi Ottoe two doors east of the Pott Offloe. Qothiog1, Oats, Caps, Boots and Shoes, Olloe In Opera Honae Block. Oct. 1, iwu. JlAAC O, * C. Z. eOBDOK, A TTORNE YS-A T-LA W, 16-31 Beookvillk, Pa. As cheap as any other house in Western Pennsylvania. J)R. 8. C. ALLISON, PHYSICIAN AND SUBOEON, PUXXIVTAWKZY, PA. Offer* hi* services to the people of Pnnxsutawney and vicinity.  J)R. BYRON WIN8LOW, PHYSICIAN AND SUBOEON, Clatvillb, Pa. mm fMWfw and residence one square back of J.uTGillesplesstore. 18-T-ly. PUHUUTAWHBY, PA. Ha* permanently located in thl* place, and offer* us professional services to the citizens of • M* vlolnlty. He may be found at all times at hi* ©ice, np (tain in the Bosenbercer bnlldintc. German langnaoe spoken. Member of Board of Pension Examiners. J)R. CHARLES G. ERNST, PHYSICIAN AND SUBOEON, •J)R. J. A. WALTER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, PCNXSWTAWNIT, PA. Consultations In English and German. Diammi of the eye, ear and throat, a specialty. £)R. 8. J. HUGHES, H URGEON DENTIST, PUrfXflUYAWNSY, PA. Office south and of Flndloy street. PuxxsvTAwmnr, Pa. In his rcsidcnee.l a the West End. QR. W. J. CHANDLER, SURGEON DENTIST, M. r. PHILLIPP1, DENTIST. DENTAL ROOMS, FtrXXIUTAWXIT, PA. »In Johnson Building, oyer Johnson A > store. 14-Sr I B MOKKISON, D. D. 8. Hats and Caps. All tho latest ttyles in Stiff and Crush hats, Yeoman, Knox and Miller Shapes. Fur and Scotch Caps for boys! Trunks, Trunk Satchels, Valises, Umbrellas, Rubber Coats. We will give you a larger stock to select from—a finer, better made, and better fitting Suit or Overcoat than any other house in Jefferson county, and guarantee prices lower for same quality. Men's suits in Cutaways, Sack and Prince Alberts from $5 to $25 Men's Overcoats in Chinchilla, Fur, Beaver, Mountainack, Kersey, Melton, and in fact every conceivable style for from 2 to . Men's boots and shoes in great variety. Kip and Calf Boots for men and boys ; nobby shoes of every style and price. Rubber boots for men and boys, Felt Boots, Lumbermen's Gums. All these goods are warranted. Wo also handle tho celebrated Condc Rubber Goods. Best in the world. Overshoes and Slippers for men. FURNISHING GOODS.—The finest lino of Men's Underwoar ever brought to Punxsutawney, all wool, scarlet, Switz Conde, natural wool, camel's hair, and everything in underwear, hosiery, mittens, gloves, etc. Flannel shirts, all grades and prices. We would call especial attention to our Boys' and Children's Department. The nobbiest styles in in boys' suits in Cutaway and Sack, in Cheviots, Corkscrew, Widewale and Cassimer. Coats for boys and children in endless variety. Some of the Qui,hit Cuitomi ObBsrrnl lit tlie Old Dominion. "I found a peculiar custom up at Shop. herdstown, W. Va., where I spent my vacationn said Fred Ernst to a Washingtoa Postman, "which was a novelty. The people have what they call 'soups.' A 'soup* is a sort of outdoor picnic. Each person 1bvited brings a dressed chicken. The host provides the vegetables. The chicken* and vegetables are put into huge kettles holding ten to twenty gallons and cooked over opea fires for several hours until tho combination is reduced almost to a jelly. Topper and other seasonings aro introduced. Tho young folks stir tho soup with longhandled iron spoons, walking around tho kettle as they stir. When a girl's spooa clinks against tho spoon of a man ha is bound to catch and kiss her. As you caa imagine, there aro a good many lively sorimmarres around the kettle. When tha soup is do no it is ladled out iuto plates and eaten, and it is delicious. "The custom Is an old one, and I was un able to find its origin. A company of Stonewall Ja'-k. on's command was recruited around Shepherds town, and it still keeps up the organization. It has a reunion every year and celebrates the occasion with a grand 'soup.' A 'soup'of that company to bo properly gotten up should be luadoof 1 stolen chicken.1', but the veterans havo hod to givo up .■ m.-'O tlu war, and now make a comprumNa with necessity by go-' ing around in s-piaiia and robbing each other's hen-roosts by u prearranged understandin.?"Colonel W. A. Mi rran U tho directing spirit in aa vbrral fair v.'hicft is held annually bi iinyjis • .vo near yl«ipherdstown. A f.'ati::-il c. :io fair ir. a speech 1 v (,' i /-,,1'iia ■ :t . Thi ar Gent ral b - .1 ■ if; aiur. "'SolV, , ('•• . ral,' said Colonel Morgan, 'there r»ro >«» many Union men" around hero as ( so don't go blazing in. a. .br.'I. tho North and offending theso people.' "'But I have my pooch all wrUV'f out.,' exclaimed(b mval lie .or. " 'Can't li ; it. Jaiit talk .' > ure, if you please.' "So tho li'TO of 1.1..' 8He li'iul ■ 'tid Ubottle bin iius ".ill ppeecb iiJu't help lefi.e.' a little of "There v»ur a truv. . , intcgrftpher up there," ct.niinu.'d Nr. K. oat, "who came over to tn.Uo a picture f Colonel Horgank guests. Wo arranged .rsolvosoa the front steps. lior.oiM lb »sm look bis position oq tho porch. A couple of colored boys came out and stood m each s>do of ' be General. '"Oct on. of this:' ho shotted; 'I den', want any o.irkies in a picture with mo!' "The boj'i shot ofi iuto tho liouso an sneaked around into t ho parlor, where the stood in tho windows. When tho pieturt were finished there w..s General Rosser i natural as Iffe wi 1 a grinning coloreu bo. in each window ut hi 4 bach." The. most ingenious, porfi r.:id complex watch ever manufactured was scut out from tlio works of Patek, Pinllippo & Co., of Geneva, Switzerland, in July, 1S77, uud is now in possession of Baron Nicholas. It is what is known as the full-sized "hunter." On ono side there is a di&l ot tUo regulation kind, exhibiting the hour, miuuto and second hands; ulso an indepeudent chronograph hand which marks the ljfths of seconds. Tho same dial lias repeating mechanism which strikes the hours, quarters and minutes. Tiie opposito dial has hands pointing to tho months, weeks and days. Another largo central hand on this dial, if set at tho begiuninj.' of each year, corrootly points to a.l iiioon p iases und also acts as a porpetual calendar. It is so constructed as to admit of its keeping two different times, say staaiiard on one side and sun time oa the other. i •ctn.non In Mirli iff*. rh« Habit of Cl«lmlof Other Pcoplt'a Utorary Work. The sotting tip of a claim to the author* ship of "Little Lord Fauntleroy" by a lady whoso literary work has never attracted public attention to herself must awakeu interest in the phenomenon of a malady not yet classified by the doctors, but familiar to all editors, critics and publishers. xuzsz&T'tte being a wizard, .ay. the St. it, persistency, In the ease with which it is M^Tt ;"VPmi0D ac<Juired- obstinacy with which it ri fidered all but confirmed when, in 1630, he gists treatment, and in its effects nnon thn afln hlI?8elf 7"? ? 8ll^r WI}tchff *h# moral character of its victims. Th£ char- KJiktion size and style. Chancing to stop aoteristio symptom 9t the ailment isanir ''I8,*! °,VC,r ?lght \Di 14 resistibledispositJonto olata to have^vritlomewhat cold he laid the watch near his ten other people's literary works w7 th« Xf. 7 th8 •? 11 has novcr boen definitely determined ha wnrv. vy ,weather Wj>uld n0t 'f®Ct Aether the disease is infectious or not, but io works. Next morning ho arose rather there is a strong suggestion that it is so in ibruptly and left tho house without remov- the fact that oven the most robust moral nghis treasure front its cozy nest in the health seems to afford no securo Immunity T « . .v trom lu attacks. In fixing up the room the servant dis- Lot us consider a few typical cases Tho avered the "infernal chattering thing," late Dr. Holland was of Tho md immediately concluded it must be tho "SaxeHolm" stories Thev rid doctor., "familiar spirit," conclusion, by "po7son or person. »l7«o™ yarriV^tbef°r6S,hefleW tohlm' 110 was consulted from time to IV, '7f!OT'u0roT; 0iher servanta were time concerning thorn; ho received them in ? manuscript, suggested occasional changes, nnir« w * i it v Clubs Bnd many Of which were made, and ah the editor ongs were freely used, but the case was 0f the magazine in which they were pubitrongand the thing stiU chattered defiant, Hshed he drew cheoks in payment for tlfem 7- ot tho K'rl8. mor® courageous than He confidently believed, therefore, that he th« y *gree A A,. ,W0.Uu knew who wrote the stories as certainly as ni/lV?*3 and carry the thing to tie he knew who wrote las own poems. And noat and drown it, a proceeding fraught yet there were threo entirely reputable per- V Ust dedd,eduP°!n-, Th0 Bons, ail accounted truthful, each of whom ? ™9I)ectablo di,t®°c® solemnly assured Dr. Holland that he or »ith hoes, clubs and shovels, with which she, in fact, wrote the stories, each havin'hey proposed to pounce on the thing .houW a different tale to tell of tho way in w V t attempt to attack the heroic girl. When the manuscripts were stolen. ' vastformPdrnrfe™hrM x°w ratCh h° Mr" W1Ili"'Q Cullen Bryant one, the ,f servant, ll u fh d,one\ono present writer that a person wU ./as not i , 11 thf way. to where torn until years after tho first publication .he thing had been drowned. It was found of "Thanatopsis" vehemently claimed the S ftSfuro tan w°n H Vlk ?l tb° moat- authorship of that poem, and went away in,^a ,rl° or drown the thing to dignantwhen Mr. Bryant declined to sur- La« m »o i>°nTLaCeC i 8°iy*Qts tbat it render his own pretensions in thatparticuurasm reality the old wizard's spirit, and lar.  ihey could not be persuaded to touch It. fho number of persons who wrote "Beau- The story is related to show what rarities tiful Snow" was p\> V,-U )?riodeofTf haV°tbCe?> eVeX\ at lhftt lat° ard Grant W]&* «t twenty-four, and eVery 30.rlod°f th0 seventeenth century. body remembefs Low many different vol In 1<459 ono of tho admirers of George III. sons produced "All Oiirt Air>nr»^,„ iaused to bo mi Ij for that monarch a watch Potomac'' and "Rock Mo to Sleep '' irhjchwasamai el in its way. It had a The cunbslQes of plagiarism are endless hemoTthan l Af h pointed to the days of and sometimes startling coincidence, arise n& year. Instead of mak- in connection with them. The pr..ent »ftche. of to dav it olTth- Wl itC1'' wlien edlUu« •» periodical nate s or to day it., ok the whole 865 days many years ago, had offered him an article 3 f d,lal-plate was °?'y which bo had himself written and published -wo inches in diameter, thcreforo tho fig- anonymously in a duiiy newspauer two been very minute, other- years earUer. The artiefo was Zr ? not havo been a temporary use and there was nothing in it-ranged around the bordnr. The annual it to cause uuy reader to remember It after llal-calendar was but one of a number of tho Immediate occasion had passed away. If tbo plagiarist had offered his litofafy ' diamond performed diurnal rov- swag to any other editor his theft would not " £a, ? Kroat orb bavo been suspected. His ill-luck led him i„,, • til i ij'L431 ' it Btrucl{ tho to submit his manuscript to tho only person i.i 1 half-hours and tho quarters, in the country wlio could have known its mnnn- lus*do <ijal-plato revolved in a origin and realautliorship. y -er clearly exhibiting the variations of A rural clergyman in New York had the "'lu88??011,8' w T, , „ . „ courago upon ono occasion to offer a literal Tho English Houso of Commons, follow- transcript of Dickens' "Christmas Carol" ing a suggestion of Sir Isaac Newton, ap- to a New York editor for sale, and whon pointed a committee Juno 11, 1714, with tho editor objected that tho work was alpower to offer £'20,000 to any ono who would roady widely known as Dickens', the clergylnvont an accurate time-koeper for use at man solemnly protested that ho could not sea in determining longitude. After many imagine how tho author of "Pickwick" years of labor and study tho invention was could havo got at his manuscript, which had announced as perfected. However, the in- been locked up for years in his parsonngo ventor, ono John Harrison, did not rocelvo desk. Tho editor was unablo to aid him Lho reward for his labor until September with any plausible conjecture. 14,17tU. Some years ago a student in the Univor- Keylcss watches havo been known for sity of California made a collection of the the last ono hundred years, but not until bost college magazine poems ho could find, within the past twonty-iive havo they come and among tho pieces was ono of unusual Into general use. quality, whoso author had been much ad- It would take columns to enumerate all mired throughout the collego world tor his lho dainty and wonderful little timo-pieccs remarkable production. A newspaper critic that have been mado during the last two prosently discovered that Alfred Teunyson hundred years. 'Ihey havo been made no had shamelessly stolen tho poem and publarger than pea, and set in .rings for physl- lished it as his own mauy years beforo its slans to facilitate the counting cil the pulse, actual author hud ceased to wear bibs at They havo beon fixed in bracelets, brooches, dinner. jye-glasses, tops of umbrella handles, aud iu tho year 18T3 or 1S74 a woman commit, sven on lho heads of lead pencils, whore they (,cd suicide in Milwaukee who had attractei jocupythosanio position as tho rubber on a good deal of attention there as George ®verase Faber. Eliot. She had oxplained to those who in In 1888 ft watchmaker of Dresden exhibit- terosted themselves in her literary careei 3d a watch made entirely of paper. Tho that her latest story, "John Andross," thoi paper was chemloally prepared, und tho running as a serial, was written under tin maker claimed that it would bo as service- pseudonym of Kebecca Harding Davis. Y. »ble as if mado of tho material ordinarily tho editor of tlio periodical in which tin U'ed. story was published had boen all tho while Tho same year, at a fair held at Worces- paying a Philadelphia lady for tho install tershire, Eng., Croivlher Bros. & Co. ex- ments, under tho impression ihat slio wa hibited ono made entirely of iron. Mrs. Hobecca Harding Davis, aud that tin An ingenious prisoner at Kariaus, Bo- story was really her work und not George hemia, recently constructed a watcu eight Eliot's at all. centimeters iu diameter with no other too's or material except two noedles, a spool of thread, a newspaper and some ryo straw. The wheels, ;iosts and cogs are all made oC tho ryo straw, which, it Is well-known, is quito ooarso and tough. It runs six hours without winding and IfeCps good iimo, It it now in possession of tho Prefootof Kariaus who considers it tho greatest marvel of tin nineteenth century. The Original & Popular One Price Clothiers in the Gordon Brick Block, Bernolilsa. Artificial teeth without plates. 9testfce> $f tfc ffttet. JUSTICE or THE PEACE, YocM'Towxamr. Pa tctlons and other bulnwa promptlj^t- B. MORRIS, The lirni ol Jno. F. and G. E Browu, of Clarion uud Brookville. had s larija purtioa of the Insurance in Puuxsttte'.voii at tin limrot'nor vrest fire of ISSi and it is not (latter, to th ir adjust irifiitN \vfr« prompt i.nd 'fitistaetory Even I v s,'it <1 iii(i 'iiid !»y sight, drafts,nvei > '."'in ')*•"( thr room wlilii, '"I .(hvh ar;.< f tt.*> li e Ti ;>t fir- did not d'^ • lilrlil I'm V llflVf- Wri rtl> mOHt < t'l*- ilril MU li. 1: 1'.. 1 -'wi ! '■ 'ir ixi. I !«.-• I ' l',I •• 1 I) ■ t • f.'l ' >W . hi' "l'1'iwd C jf.i'l ■ ">! > • ■ >■■■ ■ . In- , 1 J»"d pi K'fcJ Wrt. -1 • . •Mlili.IT.-,. »■ >1. •: V . ■ I'tlrV - .1 I- . > !ti«j Inrtrntt j'ld he . f'lnipaihT.-.(  ,u th. 'Jiiit » Stay J#2!»£ 1 Wouldn't l<«t XV «i I oh Ki'B Her.  A friend of the Si. L- uia R< ublie's rniH. about town has n daughter enj'V'« unique listinution of 1 w, i«j rofuafrt to no leoS a perjiot..ii;< tli .u theirinwo. Wains. It was at NU"», : rui tho < • .; wl* is just old enovgh to iiive u , uio har own—she A iboi.t s.e\ r» ua< .mlo' y*r» playing w»* Fciye . 're*-. The Prinoo en- up > w h»3 pretty c. rJ, i'«<1 • sk k d, 1 don't iris- . i '> ■ thr r.tjy. ivdip" t'y, tr ' • i' • pa»euit* •n* toJd i't* i 'it i uu• • a ki-«S Ui" Hi; J'jri, Cti is- L'"!' anijhb * : i Ur M0 awd 1 m ruin iC J r. A YOUNG GIRL-TRAMP. Two Years In Making Her Way from Cull* fornhi to New Jersay# A New Brunswick (N. J.) apeclal to tho 'Times says: Mary Iteper, a girl of twelve years, arrived hero tho other day, very tired, very hungry, rather dirty and somewhat incl'ned to cry when questioned. The child says sho camo from California and has for two years been traveling on freight and coal trains. She was barefoot, woro a thin gingham dress, and was black with dirt and coal-dust. A lady found her crying on the street, and after being fed and given a coat and a pair of shoes and stockings, sho was sent to the police station. Later the overseer of tho poor took her in charge. Mary said that her parents died four or five years ago, when sho was not more than seven or eight years old. ller father's name was John Iteper, and his death occurred shortly beforo that of her mother, who had consumption. The only relation, an aunt, took the orphan, but before long tho aunt died, aud for two years tho little one was cared for by neighbors in return for what work she could doforthem. When sho was ten years old she ran away and began her journey East, stealing rides on freight trains. Brakemen helped her, she said,: nd gave her food uud siio bogged food elsowhero. At many places she stopped for several weeks at a tlmo und got work. 8ha said thoro woro lots of things she could do; sho could sweep, scrub, make beds ai-d cook. She described her reoipa for making biscuits, and declared she could economize by using sour milk. ■ mall i.Ti',1 tiiio, Vv i i HU-aijjht, b'ack hair, dark brown eyes and u coEppl.ixion ' .;:t, na urally dark, haj been bromiatt by . isnra. Saturday sho boarded a coal train at North aud rodo to Eiizaboth, and sho had ridden part of tho way und walked t ■ rest, from that ei'tf to I-'.Av T5rut:s widk. S3)* fJunxotitnumct) Spirit vol. xvn. - /-Tv •• - "% \\) '