Punxsutawney Spirit, 1896-02-26

              1 PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA., WEDNESDA 196. FEBRUARY 26, 18! NO. TRY A PAIR OF THESE CORSETS AM) RE NYIME1) OF THEIR SUPERIORITY. Hl'IUNKLE MlliliS. We are going to reduce All our winter goods. Illi/./artl in Now York. NOW $1.50. Slurried. H. J. bOEB. REV. HARTMAN'S SERMON. M.VX REMUIOCS UNDER EVERY STAR. JOHN B. BftIR, Glove THOMSON'S - Fitting Gorsets, The Oldesl, Most ReM'e e:ii Best Go1 sets m lie W :Jfl. He is a Natural Worshipper the World Over. vol. xxm. Tile Glove-Fitting Corset is so simple ill (lesion and construction t hat it requires but :i word of description. The secret of it all lies in substitution for port's, transverse s.'nms in graceful curves which adapt themselves t<> all figures, thus securing the most perfect and comfortable lit. It is made in four or more pieces and being cut 011 correct geometrical principles, with transverse seams running round the body instead of up and down, evade all strain, thus avoiding the objections urged against every other corset. The lit is perfect, for it is automatic or self adjusting, yielding so ea, sily to every movement that the ,i.m f. !• 1 mm., \,|.v!1' wearer is unconcious of any feel-<il"VK"'n"IINI style R. II Medium and Lung Waist. ■ r f.m.1. .. ' \\ lute, l>raband Kiwt Black White and Hmh. 5,1™,? f .'•ur>.l"r-Kxtm l,m«. Me.ll.im and $1.25 per pair. si t „uaranteed to gne satisfac-short w ti , $1.00 per pair. tion. ' ' Silks and Ribbons Are all right lor this year and we have stacks of them JJJlain and Persian effects. See the new stock and prices. Skirts. A lot of nice Wool Skirts that will be sold at 50 cents each to close out. all FANCY anb BLACK DRESSGOODS! All 1896 goods latest weaves tnd stylish Mohair figured goods. We defy competition and ask: you to compart? ours with city samples *nd prices. Then we have trimmings that harmonize with our Dress Goods, "bought to match," tliMt will save you lots of worry. FOR SALE BV E. CU1HNNGHAM & SON, WINSLOW BLOCK, PUNXS'V JOHN B. BAIR. We have sold more shoes in the last 6 weeks than ever be fore in the same length of time. It is just another proof that good goods win in the end. Respectfully, Seems to be what people are looking for tha last few days, and we are in good shape for them. Nice, heavy long sleeve Vests at 25 cents each. U nderwe ar Shoes. HERE IS HOW ItoiiKled by llobborn. in Harpoot province. I yive herewitli It he stunmai i< 8 as lo lows : "Killed, 30,(101; burned to death, 1,135; preachers and killed, 51: died from -'arvatliMi, 2,4(11; died unprotected in the fields, 4,,'140; died from fear, (>,<>00; wounded, S,000; houses burued, 28,542; forcible conversion". 15,0(1(1; woimvt and (jirls abducted, 5,51(5; forcible marriaitep, 1,- 551: chnrclu's burned, 227; destitute and starving, 97,450. "The account does not adti the number ot Kriglish and American cannon with the cobwebs left over their mouths. Other letters say that further massacres are feared In llartxtoL. The Turks say that they killed to© few !«*t time, ai d wi'J kill ri'ore in the Hex I nifUsflf*" The Turkish government arm d that our missionar. rrc i g four or five cents a day > ( destitute In aorne instances, having taken this money awav by force of taxes, and from this cause, tho letter adds, many are still starving and dying. All our 18 and 20 dollar overcoats $18.00. All our 15 and 16.50 " 12.50 All our 12 and 13 " 9.50 All our 10 dollar overcoats 7.50 \ All Odd Fairs Men's Shoes at Half Price i Shamokin, I'a., Feb. 23.—Paul Osmau was captured by footpads Saturday night. The three desperadoes wanted him to give up $100. Ostuan <-aid lie had no money. They held him over a steam pipe until he was burned to tho bone from the knees to tho head. Mis skin l auieotrin strips. O-inan was found unconscious an hour later on a wood pile. The robbers, who were masked and unknown, got nothing. Tho authorities have not yet secured evidence leading to the identification of the fiends who tortured <Ismail. lie is still alive, but may die at any time. D&uiel Eisenhart and Daniel Soilor, two popular Republicans, were in Brookvillo on Wednesday. Our shooting gallery is in full blast the last few weeks. Dan ltaybuck seems to bo the best marksman. Mr. Bennis Stahlraan, who has been In the employment of the Telephone Company, of Roynoldsville, is home visiting his parents. The school held a very enjoyable entertainment last Friday afternoon in memory of Washington's birthday. Some very excellent speeches were rendered. Several citizens were present, which shows they are interested in their children. Mr. Geist, tho lower grade teacher, tuado some very appropriate remarks to tho parents. Mr. I'ctr.ir conducted tho exorcises. Mr. D. Rowan made some short, spicy remarks about school work. Senator Mitchell was seen 011 our streets last week on his way home from Brookvillo. Vera Kuitz has been carrying the mail during this absence of Mr. Kcck. Quite a number of our young people attended the dedicatory cervices at Cool Spring. Miss Sadie Swabb is quite ill with pneumonia Ei). Ilaybuck, of Sykesville, was homo vitdiiu# his parents over Sunday.All single pairs men's pants, former prices $2.50, $3 and $3.50 now I.oroy, Y.,Feb. 21.—Tho mow blockade continues and the drifts are higher ami more solid than yesterday. Tho only trains through Leroy wilioo Wednesday night have been on tho ltiiilalo. I toe "heater and Pittsburg Railway. The Erie and Central bave abandoned their traiiq, which 4reH""" stalled just west of l\ere> Some of tho coaches are completely buried in the snow. Aftor loufcuing twentyfour hours in tho coaches, the passengers wero brought to the village last night and are being cared for. Many trains on the Lehigh Valley are stuck. ST. EL-MO STORE MEN'S AND BOYS' FURNISHER. Ho Got the Ride. Pushing the Canal* Now York, Feb. 21.—At tho annual meeting of the Nicaragua Canal Company the following directors wore elected: Warner Miller, John P. Bantin, John VV. Maekay, Stuyvosant Fish, J. J. Emory, Smith M. Weed, J. F. Miller, 11. E. I lowland, F. C. O'Brien, A. M Iloyt, II. G. Burleigh, H. D. Pierce, M. C. D. Bordon and A. II. Hepburn. Mr. Wood was elected president. It was the first annual meeting since the reorganization. The intention is to push the project as soon as the company find ont the attitude of congress toward it. Warner Miller will go to Washington, appear before the house committee and outline the views of the board as to the cost of the canal and how it should be controlled.They are firm In the belief that its cost will be much less than reported by the government engineers, as they say that if the United States does not help to build it they expect to be able to secure sufficient capital in Europe. The work will be pushed as soon as they receive some definite assurance tu regard to the purpose of congress. Men Alter Many Year*. Rochester, Pa., Keb. 21.—Harry Hoggs, ;of Bridgewater, Pa., went to Pittsburg yesterday to meet his sister, whom he had not seen since 5 years of age, eighteen years ago. Harry and his sister are orphans, and the only surviving members of their family. They both became inmates of tho United Presbyterian Orphans' home at Pittsburg when 4 and 1 year old, respectively. Harry was received into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ilobert Hoggs, of Bridgewater, when 8 years old, where he has since resided.them. Africa would bo much better i ll Willi both American whisky and American missionaries to remain at home, if both must, go together. The principle of rcecuo is not the principle upon which to do missionary work. When over the church stops its boomerang in1'tIn'dh, and ceases its cry of "lire,:' and lives out its profession, its forvor wil sun leap i he fens and warm ti e 11 ikitl zones of spiritual lethargy. You are trying to practico something you don't believe. 1 )o you believe thai all the millions who liavo not been evangelized are going to an eternal hell? If you believed that down in your heart, whero religion dot's irs betd work, you would sell your famifc, your your stock, your jewelry, and jou would get on tho first train i > go and tel 1 them about Christ. 'I on < 1 u not bellevo one word of it. If you do, your indifference is positive proof that you are in a worse condition than the man you would save. It is hard indeed to work with a woak faith which can but result in insincerity and spiritual apathy. (Jive the heathen the best ihere is in a Christian civilization and they will solve their own problems.If you are taking the gospel to our brother simply because we believe he is damned, and refuse to do the same to make him happy and useful iu ihis lite, relieving him from pres cut distress, our religion is decidedlv of a doubtful character. The sinner would pull his fellow out of the tiie as readily as the christian, but he would not live before him in'such a manner as to bless his present condition. Sanctified ignorance is far better than unsauetified intelligence. The man who devoutly worships his idols, is as truly a worshipper ot .lehovah as the man who bows before the altar iu tho most elegant cathedral. Such a worship expresses his best love and his deepest desire to know and obey God. Sincere adoration and service wil! bring salvation under all stars. Insincerity will result in damnation however gilded the ritualism. It ig not the amount of light we have, but tho use we make of it. Wo are duo no honor for being born in Christendom. We have had little to do in shaping tho saving influences about us. l/orainc says that the completeness of a landscape picture depends largely on the position of the draftsman. The same is true of a man's view ofGod. The quality, at least tho externals, of religion are largely the result of man's location. Thousands are being saved from all religious faiths, and all over tho world mankind are crystalizing their homage in beautiful temples, schools | and beneficent institutions. These are all tho materialized results of the sun of righteousness, whose healing beams have been gradually warming the nations into life. They are as truly tho result of Christ's all-pervading lite as tho best institutions of our own lands. Tho coloring of religious manifeatations is taken from the character and condition of tho people that refiect it. But the life of Christ is the same the world over. Notice to Navigators. Dissolution Notice. Od Iron Wanted. "X XTASTMD—A KAN IN 1VBBY 8SOTION VV it ohm to sail staple foods to dulmt no paddling; experience nnnecesiaryt bast aids lino. 971.00 a month. Salaiy and upntM or large eonwiaskin made. Address with two-eent stamp, tor ■ salad parllenlars, Clifton Soap and Manttfactaring Compans, Cincinnati, Ohio. 4Bw5l The partnership heretofore existing between O. A. Weiss and A. T. Erhard, trading under the firm name of G. A. Weiss & Erhard, Is this 10th day of January. A. D. 1896. dissolved by mutual consent, A. T. Erhard retiring. All accounts due the Arm are to be paid to G. A. Weiss who is also to pay all claims against the said Arm. G. A. WKISS, A. T. Ebhabd. Punxsutawney, Pa., Jan. 22, '90. 33w6 Counted by Ton Thousands. In consequence of experiments with the Iloentgen rays enabling the reading of the contents of enclosed letters, a lSerlin chemist Is making experiments with a substance for the manufacture of envelopes which would be impervious to the rays. I will pay a good price in cash for ail kinds of Scrap Iron and Metal, also Old Rubber, Brass, Copper, Lead and Zinc. Persons having any snch can call at my residenoe near the lower Iron bridge, or addreu M. CO HIT, Pnnxsntawney, Pa. 33w4* Allegheny Valley Railway Company. Until further notice, the navigation of Mahoning Greekwill be completly obstructed by trestl e work and piling at tne mouth of creek, on the site of our bridge recently destroyed by fire. The trestle work will remain until new bridge is erected, which will be about April 1st, 1896. DAVID MoCARGO, Pittsburg, Jan. 01, 1890. Gen. Supt. Ballefontaine, O., Feb. 51.—A small boy climbed into engine No. 425 that had been left standing at the coal shutes in the Big Four yards here last evelng. Th? lad pulle'd the throttle and the monster started on a wild run up the track. He was almost frightened to death, clinging onto the inside of the engine until ft left the track, crashing into the bank and burying itself in the mud. Fortunately nothing was on the rails to hinder the engine in its mad career, and when the boy was sufficiently recovered he atole away and the name of the mischievous little mortal was not found out. the race, we find him a devout worshipper, and not only so, but in bis first crude efforts at self development, the religious problem is the first mengago his mind. There is no other idea to common among all men, as the religious idea. Some tribes have philosophies ai d some have none. There are kingdoms, republics ami monarchies— different forms of «uv ortiuiui.ls among diflerent naiim*. Different pursuits engage the aim tion of man in different parts >>< the world, but man js religious the wei around. However iguo. ant, how.'ivr barbarous however crude his cm it, man is a worshipper under all skies. The religion of the soul is a laco moulding power. What ever ti e form of our religion it has more to do in the moulding ot our destiny than any other influence that has ever taken hold of our lives. Some men say, "we are not believers, we are not religious." All men are religious, Intensely so. We may not have studied thoology, we may care but little for the church, but all men have fundamental beliefs and convictions concerning Ood and the soul. We have had no more to say about our belief in (iod, and our conceptions relating to the spiritual life, than wo have had to say concerning our birth or nationality. The religious nature was born in all men. Not only so, but we hold these convictions dear to our hearts. However much clouded our moral sky may become, wo have faiths and hopes that wo would not exchange for tho round globe. In the founding of every colony on earth the religious problem has been the most vi tal. The bloodiest wars of all civilizations have been religious wars. The status of all countries is determined by their religions. All nations have their religious myths, traditions, superstitions and literatures. The earliest literature of all peoples has been religious literature. The oldest parchments found in tho musty archives of the past, tell the religious story nl tho race. No other question has engaged so much of the though! of so many wise men Tho seers ami sages of all lands and kindreds have had much 10 say about religion, The) have either entered the area in its defense, or fur its condemnation In either caEe the religious impulse if equally manifest. Not only iu early times has religion had so large a placi in human thought, but this has beer true in all ages and it is true to-day With all the perplexed questions thu fngago this generation, religion stil occupies thu foremost thought of tin i race. There arc in we books writtci on this subject than any other 6u\i ject, and then what ever title tin book may have, whether it he phiios ophy, science, fiction, political econ omy, or civil government, religioi occupies a greater or less amount r, space in the book. The iutertwiniuf of religious thought into all of tin world's literature is positive proof o the thorough diffusion of religiou life among all the institutions of men We are unconscious of the moulding influence that reiigion has effected ii the shaping of the surroundings inti which wo w> re born. never beard of him ? By no means. The saving power of Christ is just as efficacious in China as it is in Amer- Somc will say this is true iu Christendom, since the Christian era. It has always boon true, and true every where. God's grace appeared to all men before the days of the Biblical patriarchs and prophets as effectively and savingly as it did to them. Gait spoke and manifested himself to the devout spirits of India as truly as ho did to Adain and Kve in the garden of Eden. The best men in all lands have been as truly partakers of this graco as were Moses, Elijah and John the Baptist. We must remember that God's grace is not confined to books, that it saved millions of people before the book era of the world. Books have not made grace, but grace lias produced books. The Bible never saved a single soul. It has only revealed God's saving grace. Christ's incarnation never saved a single soul. It onlv made a brighter revelation of God's saving grace—the identical grace that saved millions before he came. The preaching of the gospel saves nobody. It is instrumental in calling attention to the saving power of Christ. Are we to suppose because we have a history of God's revelations to Jewish priests and prophets, and have no history of other revelations, that Judea and Christendom have monopolized the saving power of the Almighty ? By no means. Are we to suppose because God sent his sou into the world nineteen centuries ago, and we have heard of it and been saved, that Christ's saving power is localized, and that he has not saved millions who ica. Christ did not die for Judea alone. He died for the whole world. And his saving power is not limited by the amount we know of him. If this were true, the salvation of Christendom would be rendered decidedly precarious. You missionary pecple ask, "what then is the use of missionary effort if men can be saved without the Bible? What principle is our evangelistic enterprises to be urged on, if tho heathen can be saved ?" It is to be urged on the principle of brotherly love. The spirit of christian communication is the best result of grace in the heart. Whatever good there is in your own life communicate it to your fellow. If you have felt your religion to be the saving power of God, communicate it to others. All the Bibles on earth will not save the heathen unless we take the Bible production of Christianity along with The grace 0f God that briugcth ion hath <> all men. Tit. 2:11. Man in spiritual the worlil around. Cliirt fart is evidenced by iliv tnce of G od's graco 10 all men. This ext is literal iu the strictest sense. Vot only thn grace of (rod, but the iaviug grace ot God has appeared to ■very human being that ever lived ou his planet. All men were created in he image of God, aud still retain the character wiih which they ivero created. Upon man's universal 'eliuiousncss hinges the hope of his -alvation. Were no not religious, or tad he been religious and l>st the ;iower of spiritual perception, he would not be a creature of salvation. He would be a« little affected by spiritual influences as a stone would be My electric fluids. Ilad he not been spiritually impressable, had he not been capable of perceiving and appropriating spiritual things, God would uot, have provided spiritual means foi his development. He would have bten treat* d and provided for as the rest ot tiiv animal kingdom. But thif is not true. Man has a divine nature aud is capable of being God-like, lit is capable of becoming, aud is becoming more like his God as time passes bi There is a Godword move the work1 over. Mau is responding, and hat always responded to the revolationi of God's grace. The grace of God re veaied to all men is the mighties power iu this creation, and could no be ineffective. Man responds to God'i grace as promptly and persistently a ail bodies ou tiie earth s surface re spond to the power of gravity. Hi answers to the call of grace are varied to be sure, but he has amwerei promptly, at all times and under a! conditions. lteligion is not a new cre*'i..n. I was not born at Sinai or Bjthlehem It was born in the creation, has bcci the same ever since, and will re in nil the same to the end of time. It is a wide as space, as high as the heaven aud as enduring as the throne of lln Eternal. The incarnation of Ohrisl the inspiration of the Bible, and al the other revelations that God ha made 10 men, have added nothing ti the religious power of the world They were uot so intended. They an simply brighter and more insplrinj manifes'aiions of the latent powr al ready existing. Conversion is not Ihi imparting ot a new religion to tin soul. It is the making known, or tin revealing to man of the divino possi bilities within him. Conversion i (he result of an effective revelation It is uot the importatiou of externa force into the life. It 2s (he quicken ing of existing energies. The powe gained in conversion to master tin world aud self, is but the viializin) of the inherent powers of the soul bj the constant suulight of the heaven Steam, one of the mightiest mechan ical servants of the race, is simply thi result of a revelation. lis generatioi was the result of bringing two elc ments, that had existed from the ere ation, together under proper eondi tions. It was simply the haruessiuf of a power that had'existed from tin foundation of the tforld. Convorsioi is nothing more than men's responsi to God's grace. The brighter tin manifestations o( that grace the mor< rapid the transformation of humai life. The grace of God has appearei to all men, and the revelations of thn grace havo succeeded each other ai rapidly as man has been able to com preheud and appropriate thom. Al the religious literature of the world i the fruitage of divino graco growi out ot the humau soul. Bibles am priests and temples have not pro duced religion, but religion has pro duced Bibles, priests and temples There was a time when none of thesi existed, but there never was a timi when the graco of God did not exist Christian civilization, with all. of iti literatures, governments and institu lions, is but the outgrowth of man'i inherent religious nature. Iteligior does not reside in these. It is not do pendent on these either for ita exist ence or propogation. The great in stitutions of the world are based or and dependent on man's religioui character. This is the soil fron which they have grown,and this is thi foundation on which they rest.' Wen ail the revelations and fhstitutiom which are the product of soul growth swept from the face of the earth, thej would all be reproduced. They havi all been lived before they took mate rial form. Revelations do not exist and are not impregnable simply be cause of their divine nature. Thej exist and are more divine, becausi they are the best materialized product of the divine human soul. This Is th< only possible method of revealing th< saving power of the grace of God, ii what It produces in the Uvea of iti subjects. It reflects far greater glorj on the God of grace, as well as to re veal far greater possibilities in hu man life, that all the marvellous rev elationa of the world, are the product of divine love, grown out of the hu man soul, than could have been ac cowplished by Immediate revelation from heaven. The grace of God is universally prevalent. Like the atmosphere that surrounds the globe, it is equally beneficent in all lands. Religion, the term we apply to the manifestations of this grace, is the strongest Impulse of the human heart. This is true, because man has first to do with his God. From the earliest history of Jbhn I )oian killed May Corboy and committed suicide in a San Francisoo disorderly house on Saturday. It was evident that they had agreed to die together. Engineer Matthew Dodd, of th» Seaboard Air Line, was shot and kilkd by a nojrro tramp near RaMrh, N. 0., on Satur<lay. New Ilaven, Conn., Feb. 21.—Ilev. Newman Smythe, of Center church, furnishes important news with reference to the Armenian massacres, as follows: '•Letters have been shown mc from persons engaged in relief work among the Armenians, which givo the following carefully prepared statistics concerning the recent massacres by the Turks under the tolerance of Christian powers, In the year of our Lord 1895-0. These statistics are given in detail for the several villages L EXTRA LONQ I .7 T Sg « 5 5 '• m