Punxsutawney Spirit, 1896-02-05

              H. J. bOBB. pOtitfOO KEY. HARTMAN'S SERMON. EMBROIDERIES. THE WAY WE MAKE Ol!K RECORDS. Willi God. Every Man Keeps His Own Aceomits PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 189 VOL. XXIII. J. B. B. THIS IS siioe weeK REGISTERED Remnants of Dress Goo Waist lengths, skirt lengths, and some wh< dress lengths. The prices are way down. Ladies' Goats. Only three left. Co mo and get them tor ha'f regular price. Shoes. Bij; bargains in broken lines. All eizes, all widths. Call and we can [ilease you. E. CUNINNGHAM & SON, We study your wants, and you can always find the best line of serviceable overshoes at JOHN E3. BAIFTS. i.i LADIES' and CHILDREN'S SHOES. A Jbig lot of sizes that will be sold at less than half price. Few Styles for Ladies. Opening our spring stock of ladies shoes—new lasts and tips. lubber Shoes. STEEL- ©HOD BARGAIN 3 the greatest shoe for boys and girls. We always sell them to irents who are tired of buying TRASHY shoes—they cost more money than "sheep skin" shoes it wear like iron. "Steel Shod" is a very good name for them—$1.50. $1.75 and $2.00 a pair, len we have a nice shoe for boys at $1.00 and $1 25 a pair. OUR PRICES E HAVE CUT! I ing ordeal of God's smiling face. All things arc coming (o the light. TM» is God's stimulus 10 a better life. All the world needs to drive wil evil from the globo is more light. No man can ! be happy in this life or in eternity with anything in his heart that ne6da to bo concealed. C)ur |oy consists is ability io hear the light. C«od can and will abuudautly pardon all of our sin--, hut it is best for us to understand e.trly, that the memory of sin can never be blotted out. Hut to the wander* r let me  the future is before you.'~ You are merely born into existence. Whatever your past life has been, commit your heart to God, culture the spiritual life, and when you have grown for millions of years under heavenly conditions, the memory of sin here will scarcely be recalled. ON ALaIA OVERCOATS Hiikesbarre, Pa., Jan. 27.—The roolilents ot Parsons, Plains, Mill Creek, Moosic ami near-by towtu, within a radius of -0 miles of this city, wcrv startled by a low rumb iug noise that shook I he earth at (5:30 o'clock tonight. At first it was thought that another explosion hail taken place at tho works of the Moosic Powder Con*- pany. Upon inquiry at lliat place, howover, it was Icarne t that no such explosion had occurred. Telephone and telegraph messages have been sent to all the surrounding towns, out no explanation of the occurrence could be given at any of those places. It is tlM general belief that it was an  quake. A great deal of alarm WM felt tor some tiino after the shock, bat up to midnight there had been no repetition of it. Price reduced to Formerly sold at HALL MEN'S SIZES, We have one lot of $12.00. 6.00, On Thursday morning, while getting ready to go to visit her daughter in Brockwayvilie, Mrs. John Hill of Stanton fell dead. She had been in her usual health and her death was a sad shock to her family and neighbors. She was the mother of eight children, all of whom are living, but only the youngest son and daughter were at home. One son is in Boston, one daughter in Altoona, one in Pittsburg, one in Indiana, one near Beaver, and the other in Brockwayvilie. Telegrams were sent to all the family and they were present at the funeral. Mrs. T. M. Borland was called away by the death of her brother Henry Ateu iti Ashtabula, Ohio, and has not yet returned, but when she docs will resume this work. One of Thomas IJoybuck'a horses fell dead while hitched in the wagon and on the road to the mine to draw a load of coal. An autopsy revealed a bursted artery as the cause of death. The twenty-five hundred dollar percheron horse is earning an honest living in Belshazzir by hauling lime for his now owner, lfo is one of the finest looking draft horses in this county. Tho new unabridged dictionary purchased by the toucher and pupils of the Beeeii Hollow school has arrived and is being usod in that school. The new I'resbytedan church in Ccolspring will be dedicated on the 16th of February. Gertie Smith and Everett McGarey won the Demorest silver medals in the contests hold at Bellview. Blancho Brcakey and Wavde Breakoy won second honors. The oighteen contestants rocited their selections in a medley at the closo of the entertainment. W. L. McCracken, Esq., Prof. I-i. Bloso and Prof. A. McGiffin were the judges at the last contest. Fourteen girls and three boys havo been awarded Demorest silver medals in this county. London Jan. .'II.—Cecil .1. lihodes, cx-t'rcmier ot tho Capo Colony, has arrived at tho island of Madeira. It transpires that the reports that be will plead ignorance of tho oprratiooe ol Dr. Jamseon in tho Transvaal are unfounded. Mr. Khodes, on tho contrary, lim telographod a statement ol the event* leading to Dr. Jameson's raid to his London solicitors, to boused as evidence iu Jameson's ilefenoe wl en the lattor's trial comes off. A dispatch to the Central News front Johannesburg, under the date a# Jan. 28, says that everything there ia unsettled and that there are no sign* of resumption of business. It i« rumored that the Goverum§Bfc~tes£Mtcmplating another coup  additional arrests of prominent menv in Johannesburg. Con. Joubert, Commander-in Chief of the Transvaal forces, rode through the streeto of Johannesburg on the morning o£ Jan. 28, preceded by a mounted soldier bearing the flag of the South African Kopublic. <Jyp lilK T. ELMO STORE P L ■*. ■ Dissolution Notice. The partnership heretofore existing between O. A. Weiss and A. T. Erhard, trading under the Arm name of Q. A. Weiss & Erhard, is this 16th day of January, A. D. 1806. dissolved by mqtual consent, A. T. Erhard retiring. All accounts due the Arm are to be paid to Q. A. Weiss who is also to pay all claims against the said firm. O. A Weiss, A. T Ekhabd. Punxsutawney, Pa., Jan. 22, '06. 1 38w6 MEN'S AND BOY8' FURNI8HER. Notice to the Public. 'ANHD A man Of *V»SY BICTFION M ow to Mil ataple foodj to daalan; no tinf I experleaee unn»em«ryi Met uU Una. ) ■ month. Baton and upturn or larga ■JUaloa made. Addreaa with two-oant atamp, •tod partiealara, CUfton Soap and Maonlafl- I Oompani, OfaetoMtl, Ohio. imi Ve will bo at the National Hotel, Punxauvney, on Friday and Saturday of each week d will pay the h If heat market price in eaab beef hides, veal calves, either alive or bog aaed. M. LUB1H A CO. Sax BaU. Sealed Proposals. Sealed proposals will be received by the undersigned, for furnishing the borough with one hundred, (100), or more good stone posts, not leas than three (8) feet long, to square not less than six (8) inches and not over S&ht (8) inches. To be delivered as council may flirect. Bids to be per stone, andper 100 stone. All bids to be it Oounrilmyr^ngjrlght fr Mrs. Croasmun, of Perrysville, was visiting her daughter, Mrs. Daniel Seller, on Thursday and Friday. Rev. Groves, of Ringgold, is hold* ing a series of successful revival meetings at the Methodist Episcopal church of this place. yg The larger scholars of our schools took a trip to the beautiful town of Belleview on Tuesday evening. The object in going was to witness the Oemorest contest. Sherman Cook, of Perrysville, made our schools a pleasant visit on Wednesday, January 29. Kisses C. Bracken and A. Gearhart, of Pansy, visited our town for three days last week. SPRANKLK HIUA We are kept busy entertaining candidates.[Atlanta Constitution.] It was a pitiable wreck of a younglife that was consigned to the penitentiary the other day by Judgo Lumpkin when a live-years' sentence was imposed upon Uyp South. Perhaps no name is more familial in police circles than that of this unfortunate victim, who from his birth has been the football of indltferenoe, of crime, and of a wrongly constructed penal system. Almost born into crime, he hM never had tho chance to know what it was to be anything else than a* Ishmaeiite. For him there was no agency through which to be introduced to a better life; no words but curses; no hope for the fotnre; no guidance for the present. It was through no responsibility of his own that Gyp South'* youth was cast la criminal places, and in that condition for which ha wu not rehbcThim th j1*W toBt lu «trength to —The Home Savings and Loan association of Minneapolis has been restrained from disposing of any assets. A receiver is uked for by some of the shareholders. The plaintiffs olaim the association has assets of only ♦603,000, while the liabilities an 1900,.; The books wore opened; and the dead wire ndued out of those tninjjs which won- written in he hooks, according to their works. Rev. '20:1'-!. There arc three things dead, im,liad in this passage, aud mauy other* •iuiilar to it, found in scrip)ure. I'hore is to be a judgment, there are iccounts being kept, and that- every iimi is to be rewarded according to lis efforts. Certainly no honest nun vould object to such a proceeding, tud dishonest men stand very much '< need of such a record. But we arc Kit consulted as to whether the proceding is agreeable with us or not. I'll.) arrangement is made tor us tc n .keout a glorious record for ourelves. The fact <>f an account and lie distribution of rewards is backed ip by all scripture, and commended >y all rational men. The whole world ays, "It is right for men to reap the estimate results of their labors," am ill equally condemn the injustice ol ceding, clothing, and furnishing al iho comforts of existence, to an abli I) xlied, thriftless population. The doctrine of rewards is the stini nlusof all rational existence. It ii i lie life of all effort. Wo may diffo: widely as to the quality of the re ward, what would be a reward to oni man might bo a punishment to an other, but we all have the idea of ro numeration in mind, in connectioi with every benevolent deed. Thi student may get hia chief doligh from the clash of his own mind witl other minds, and consequently bi spurred on to greater endeavors, or hi may have t' e higher pleasure of hi discovering truth, to bo applied ti other liyos tor their profit. The bun c fact or may scatter his charilic among the poor, for the sake of nuk ing others happy—getting happinetin return as his reward. God has ai abundance and variety ot prizes ti give, and He would give them to u at once, but we would not bo able t. enjoy them until we have put lorth i hiifficicnt effort to win them. Salva lion is as free as the waters tha gurgle from our hills, but we can't np propiiatc it in exhilarating quantilie until we have opened all the facultie of our being by an all energizing ef tort. The man who expects to hi rich, scholarly or Uhrist-ake, settinj 011 the stool of do nothing, will cer taiuiy come out poor, ignorant ant ilevili.sh in the end. Salvation is fret to the man who will take it. It ii free In the sense that the way ii Dpeu to all to secure it, but not fret in the sense that it can be appropri itid without au effort. The inonicm salvation begins, au untiring effort bo;ius, and the harder wo work the more rapidly and cirtainly we art laved. Some make it so outrageouslj :heap, that it is hard to convince moo hat it is worth the having. For s nan to become suddenly the heir of t arge estate without any effort of hie mil, insuring his ease and comfort lorever, would render him prodigal, -ebellious and corrupt. It would doitroy his power of enjoyment. Bui et sonic kind helper give him a starl n boyhood, instruct him in ways ol ippropriation, fill him with the inipiration of achievement, and then when his fortuno is won, a still grander thing will have been accomplished, the making of a grand man. Jod cares nothing for our achievonents, only as we aro made capable >f achieving grander things in the fu-11 re The highest happiness is acjuired through the development ol >ur individuality. It is not the puriose of God to turn the world into an ilins-houae, and glorify himself in the iropagation of ondless generations of raupers. IIo loves thepaupor, but lie ,vould clotha him, cloanso him, edu■ate him, and make him an independent, self-reliant, productive citizen, f'he boy is clothed, fed aud fondled in lis father's mansion, will not receive in education, will not work, and is iestined to be a public burden and a amity disgrace. We must work out mr salvation. We must strive for the leavenly prizes it we ever have any. f we do not work out our salvation, re will not have much to work out. Che working out, creates moral vacuim to be divinely filled. To him that lath shall be given, and he shall have nore abundantly, and to him that lath not shall be taken away, even hat which he hath. But what is the method by which hone heavenly books are kept? By rhat system are we going to know pith such exactness, how much is aid by to our credit in the celestial reasury ? Is there literally a recordng angel, or any member of angelic iccountants writing down the deeds if men? We think not. Such i nethod would not only require the services of a large part of the heavenly inhabitants, but they would have to have improved methods of stenography to keep up with the sinners ol this generation. Besides, there arc some who would deny the accounts, even of the angels, on the very vergt of the judgment. Every man is divinely constituted to run his own ac counts with God. Every soul con' tains an anto-biography. Every man is consciously or unconsciously keeping a record of his own life. Not merely a record of the princlpa events, but a complete account, in ml' nute detail, of everything that hai passed In his mind from infancy u the grave. To the good man thia it i {rent source of joy, to the wicked i ource of bitter regret. Memor- « «u '• m Now Yor] the strand^ think we have forgotten, and forever lost much that is precious to us. We have not lost a dingle impression. If we could thus lose the impressions made upon us, It would not be worth our while to make any effort for good, neither would the results of a misspent life be of any disadvantage lo us. Wo would be constantly living iu the present, without auyihing to fear or hope from the pa-t. This would disarm even eff'.n lor rigliteouBnncs, ami utifV tier all the restraints upon evil. Hut <tisi> a>l, cur memory is our ti'e«sui-*, into which we put au account of all the iraucactions of life, tn he unfolded for our joy or our shame in the presence of an illuminated universe. There is a wide difference between leasing an impression and being tillable to recall it. The mind keeps everything in detail, but there are multiplied thousands of impressions made on tho brain during tho course of a life time, all of which cannot be recalled at once, however faithfully memory may serve us. Hut every thought that we have had, the memory of every deed that have done, together with tho motives that prompted us to action, every vile story we ever heard, every waruiug, every rejection of truth, every failure to do duty, e very squandered advantage, and every injury wo have done to our fellow men, is photographed on the soul so indelably, that it can never bo erased by the storms of time, neither will it fade In endless night or eternal day. You say I have forgotten the greater part of my life. If you have forgotten all the good you have done, and aro incapable of having these ministries recalled to memory, what will you have to cheer you in heaven ? And if wo can recall the good, aro we not to retain the ovil as well ? Go into a newspaper office and ask tho editor concerning au a> tide that he wrote ) ears ago. Probably he will say, "I never wn to Mich an article." "Oh yes," you say, and begin to refresh his memory. Ho goes to his stock of papets kept on file for years. He asks what year and v> hat month, and possibly the day oi the month the article was u ritteu. Ho turns over and linds it. There is the article, every line, ever) svlable, every comma, as distinct an ii whm the (lay it came from iho j.iiss. Then the circumstances of ihe writing is all fresh in the editor's mind. He could almost repeat it from memory. Let Itvo octogenari- Bus meet, wiio have boon separated for years. They begin to rolicarse their past lives. One recalls some trivial incident of interest, to their boj hood. Tho other says, "My memory is failing mo. I must confess that I am getting old. I do not re member." But wlion the old man's memory is relreshed with the recital of attendant circumstances, he remembers all as vividly as if it were but yesterday. With each other's help the old men live their lives over again. Every soul keeps on file every sylable of life's intricate transactions, and all that is needed to make it all legible, is to awaken a train of associated ideas. The archaelogist is digging from the ruins of buried cities, bricks and stones full of inscriptions written thousands of vears ago. Some of these writings aro so fine as to require a magnifying glass to read them, but when the moss and tho sand have been brushed away, every lino is just as distinct as on the day of writing. If the photographer can take a picture that can be preserved tor ages, and if tho phonograph, a simple steel cylinder, can gather up all the intonations ot tho human voice, as expressed in an address, or all tho delicate tones produced by a band of musicians, treasure them away for ages, and then reproduce them, just as they were rendered, arc wo to think it strange that God Almighty lias so created us as to enable us to pronouueo 011 our own conduct, and also to retain in our own souls all that we have done to be our joy forever? It Is certainly one ot the most beneficent laws over conceidcdby the Infinite mind. The wisdom of such work is only outdone by its goodness! The deiinquincies of life aro recorded with equal accuracy. Wo are constantly being reminded that indifference is a sin, that the results of a negative career |will meet us in the future and cover our faces with shame. It is not enough to say that we have not committed this or that sin. It is not so much the committing of active sin, as it is rendering ourselves capable of sinning by our apathy and sloth, that is damning men.' If I amnot progressive in good, my neutrality will soon be converted into positive evil. If I am not developing all the functions Jof |my being, there are God-given talents that are withering in disuse, the happiness of the sonl being limited, and the wellbeing of the world being injured as the result. We are to feel the result of this in our own souls. We feel the result of it here. Let the aspiring youth get into cultured association, and be at once feels his deficiency. Let him enter contests tor the prizes of life, with those who are trained for usefulness, and he will be made to feel with deep humilation, when it is too late, that the honors are all to be taken bv the better equipped aspirants. If this be true in this life how much more will it be true in the life to come ? We are fully conscious under present conditions, that the highest happiness is the outgrowth of the most thorough culture. The more intense the spiritual illumination. the more we will feel the remits of neglect, and the greater will appear the vacancies of uneducated spirit*. LJfcbookof 11* U to be a« open rolume, and the contents to be >ut i«y all. TtiiH account is not boin;; topi for Hie information of the Lord, t is being thus kept that we may soe or ourselves what we have done. \nd not only that wo may see, but hat the whole world may understand what kind of lives we have lived, i-iet us bear in mind that there are no lecrets. If there are any secrets, they ire so, not that God would limit our •esearches, but that we are not ;tl>lo :o penetrate into them. God is not a partner in anv secret keeping. There s nothing in his great loving heart that he would not have us know. I'he fact is that Inlinite Wisdom has ivcr been exerted to mako himself known to the world. He would liavc us kiioy/ biui. The better wo know him the more wo love him. Our coldness, darkness and sin are all Iho result of so limited ati acquaintance with God. He opens wide the Bible and sa\ a to all men, "Search the scriptures." JIo spreads the skillful works of his hands out before us, ind invites our investigation. Na:ure, the Bible and human life are all >pen books. Truth is the heritage of he human mind, and there is 110 barrier to our entering into our estate. The deep things of God are being Drought to light. Things ouco mys- Icrious aro now made plain. Modern results of study would in earlier limes have considered miraculous. What wonderful advances are being made into the unknown, and what has for ages been counted the unknowable. What marvels have been discovered among the stars, and what rich learning lias been dug up from the earth's interior! What wonlers tho blood, the neryes, and tho hones of tho human frame have been found to possess! The hidden processes of human life are coming to light in the fulfillment of scripture. Christ said "there is nothing hid that shall not be revealed, nor covered that shall not bo made known." What is done in the darkness shall be proclaimed from tho housetops. We are daily reading tho fulfillment of these scriptures. Thoughts aro secret. The secret thoughts of the murderer aro revolved in tho stillness of the midnight, liis plot is laid, his victim slain, and lie is overtaken by the detective. The reporter emblazons his crime in the head lines of tho groat dailies, and tho world reads the thoughts that have for years been secretly developing into a bloody calamity. Tho searching lights of modern appliances are rapidly fulfilling tho prophesies. It is constantly becoming more difficult for crime to go undetected, unpublished and unpunished. The unfolding of the physical world works an equal evolution in the moral world. The pictures of criminals are now taken in tho act, and presented in the courts. The Jilot of the criminal can be preserved n the phonograph. The microscope tells us the difference between the blood of a murdered man, and the blood of animals. The stenographer writes down any utterance before the jury. The student of heredity and physiognomy can read the language of crime in the countenance. The outer life is known to bo, in every minutia, an expression of the inner spirit The time has come when tho world is beginning to realize the truthfulness of Christ's words, "By their fruits yo shall know them." The time has come whon a man can no longer be recognized as a lover of God, and be an oppressor of men. The whole world pronounces him the incarnation of falsehood. The time is almost here when good women will know a good husband at sight. The time is not far away when mon will know where to loan their surplus gains without any collateral. The time is coming when the "counsels of the heart will be made manifest,:" and the character of men will be as transparent as the noonday, Exposure is the greatest punishment to sensitive souls, and the most obdurate will be sufficiently susceptible to cry (or the rocks and the moun tains to oonoeai them from the bla& fhtturststatimtg 0phrit. This week we open our big stock oB ies. All the latest styles, narrow,! wide. Prices are lower this year tn fore, and the styles are the prettiest and see the new novelties. WIN SLOW BLOCK, PUNXS'Y. STANTON liKTTKR. The Kurth Shook. FBOK15TO 25 PEt CENT. .IHni'W «laim*Hoit'M IMuiih. special Bargain sale OF Men's Single Pants.