Punxsutawney Spirit, 1897-11-10

              SR^ PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1897. VOL. XXV. J. B. B. -A.I*© You Looking For: John B. Bair John B, Bair EBEftHttRT. Great Events EBERttflrRT. For u birr lino at low prices, wo have them, From $1.&5 to $8 each CHILDREN'S REEFERS Black Skirts, Either for dress skirts or under skirts. Wo have every style. INFANTS WEAR, Either Caps, Capos, Dresses, Veils, Hose or Underwear. UNDERWEAR That will keep you comfortable and not rob your pursc. It is here. ALL WOOL Grey Blankets, Red Blankets, At $2.45 per pair. Fleeced Hose. A good heavy black hose that will wear, and only cost you '25c for 2 pairs. Headquarters For Rubbers. Here it is. Best Fine Shoes for Ladies, At $1.50 per pair. Ladies' Flexible Welt Shoes, Vici kid, and extra fine goods for $3 per pr. Child's Dongola Shoes sizes 5 to S, For SO cents per pr. Any Kind of Pegging*. We are your folks. "American Girl" SHOES, At #2. SO per pair. See Our Window KID GLOVES. Boys' and Girls Hose, extra heavy, all sizes, at TOe a pair. Ladies B(?ucle Jacket, Made with Kersey strap seems, for $5.00. Ladies' Beaver Cape, Made with top c ape, and all braided and beaded, #1. Ladies' Empire Capes, Fine Beaver and .let trimmed for $5.00. See Our Window. KID GLOVES. See our Window. KIT) GLOVES. U Cant-Rip-Em SCHOOL SHOES For Hoys. SILKS ! A "bang up" line. We can pleas you in this Dept. Child's, MisseS and Ladies coats, jackets and capes. were just recieved, at price;- from 11.25 for children to for ladies. ()ne-nalf of them will he sold when you read this, but as many more newer ones will arrive in the meantime. 100 Never cease to occur, and tlm past week baa not been an exception. Many a heart was saddened by causualities tliat are beyond our controll ; Many a home gladdened by the arrival of expected or unexpected guests. The birth of Grover Cleveland, Jr. has been bulletined in every city of importance, and congratulations are recieved in great numbers by the happy parents, with best wishes for the perpetuation of a great name. The tiling that concerns us most just now is where to get the most, of the best, for the least money, and that is solved by coming to us, for your immediate as well as anticipated wants. Hiar New Lino. VEILINGS. Big New Line. VEILINGS. See Our Window. KID GLOVES. Umbrellas for School, 50 and 98 cents. COLLARETTES, 12.50 to *25.00 each. JACKETS. New Lot Of Stylish Garments. 25 and 2i>e. yd. DRESS GOODS. See our Lino ut UMBRELLAS. Nice Ones, Tliat Will Wear. 1000 Pairs of Hoots, Shoes and Rubbers, that are intended for the wet and cold that is sure to come, and you must bo prepared for it. Our prices are very low, and for a few dollars you can provide shoes for the whole family. Think of it a pair for the baby, '£5c ; a pair for the boy, OOc ; a pair for the girl, *1 .OO ; for mother, ; a pair for pap, and because they are the largest, will cost $1.25 to but you can get the whole lot for less than a V. At $2.00 each. Flannel SHIRT WAISTS Mackintoshes. Double Detachable Cape. AH prices. Dress Goods. FINE AS SILK, and cheap. FUR BOAS. With Many Tails, $3.00 to #7.50 Each. Trimmings. All the new Effects u< Braids. BELTS and CHATELAINE BAGS. FUR TRIMMINGS. All Styles. JOHN B, BAIR. We close at 8 p. m. W e sell for cash. We can, and do sell cheap. Lincoln at (iettysbur£. / illld Macon, Lard and Fish, Corn Meal, Buckwheat Flour. -iWe can use large quantities of fresh Butter, Potatoes, Onions, I leans, etc., for which we always pay you as good price as any reliable merchant.I'l'NXSl TAWNKY, PA J. B. EBERHART, A Dangerous Man. Advertised Iiettere. We are better Prepared to give you good values than ever before. Pall Overcoats Are in Demand in u s yM M VI 1 Newest 7SI Suits of Underwear for Men, Hoys', Ladies and Children. W ho ever before heard of getting a boy two full suits of tleeced lined underwear, that will last two winters. for $1.00, only 'i~t cents a piece. We have them, and they delight all, and especially the weary mother, who has been wondering what she should get w ithin her means to keep the whole family warm. A Great Variety Groceries and Provisions. Of Flannels, Yarns, Gloves, Mittens. Sucks and Suspenders to break the chill on a frosty morning. All wool flannels, 25 cents per yd. Beautiful patterns. Ham Goods, Quality, Choicest 1 'rices, Prompt Delivery. , f f$pjr1 • I i§te- I Cgfj&if-1 MADE FT • SELECT,... ; HARD SPRING Wi : - Ijowest $12, $15 and $18. Fine qualities of Beavers and Chinchillas for A good Black Beaver Coat for $5.00. Better ones for $7.50, $8 and $10. Several traveling meL were swapping yarns in a Chestnut-st cafe on Saturday in competition for drinks. This story won for its narrator a round of drinks from each of the other raconteurs: "When I was up in the lumber district of Pennsylvania this summer," said he, "I met a lumberman who said he had come from Maine to get his watch. 'Where is your watch?' 1 asked. 'In soak' said lie. 'Now' he continued, 'you think I mean that it's in pawn, but it isn't. It's really in soak up the river here apiece. I'm going up to get it; do you want to go along?' I went with him, and on the way lie told me how he came to leave his watch in the river. Last winter while working on a log jam, he dropped his watch, which was of the screw-bevel, dnst-proof and water-proof t} pe, into the water. The river was only six feet deep there and he could see the watch very plainly as it lay on the bottom, face up. There was a freeze coming on, however, and he hadn't time to stop and get it then. vShortly after he was called away to Maine, but he took the precaution before going to mark the spot where tlie watch lay. Well, we found the place all right, and peering down into the water we saw the watch shining among some pebbles. We had it up in ajifTy, aud, strange to say, it was still running. In fact it haden't lost five minutes in all those months. You see the current of the river was running in and out there all the time, and the action of the current on the stem of the watch kept the timepiece wound up." This is a Watch Story (!'hi hi. Record | New Covert Cloth Fall Overcoats. 41 'Here, gentlemen,' he said, 'I want to read this to you to see if it will do. And, ' sitting down, he read it to us and then said: i 'Now for your criticism. Will it do? i What: do you say ?' j "Several spoke in favor of it, and one | or two commended it in strong terms, j 'Well,' says the President, 'haven't you j any criticisms ? What da you say, Sew| ard ?• "Mr. Seward made one or two suggestions bearing on some slight verbal changes, which I believe Mr. Lincoln incorporated." 'Now, if you will allow me, gentlemen,' continued the President, 'I will copy this off.* And he again withdrew and made a copy of this address. "Ah," continued the governor, "if I had had wit enough about me to have begged of him that yellow envelope, what a trophy it would have been! IIow much it would have been worth to some of the ladies' fairs which a little later began to be held to raise money for the hospitals and the soldiers. But 1 did not think of it then." Speaking of the dedication of the national cemetery at Gettysburg and Mr. Lincoln's famous address delivered on that occasion. November 19, 1N63, Governor Curtin began by saying that there had been much discussion as to how aud I when that address was written, and he j continued, says the Independent: "I can tell you all about that. Of course I I was there, and the President aud his I cabinet had arrived and were at the j hotel. Soon after his arrival, as we were I sitting around the parlor, Mr. Lincoln I looked thoughtful for a moment or two i and then said: 'I believe, gentlemen, the j committee are expecting me to say somei thing here to-day. I f you will excuse me, I I will go into this room heap and prepare lit.' After a time he returned, holding in ; his hand a large, yellow govt rnment en- j I velope, on which he had written his ad- j ' dress. 1'RICKS LOW. HT T AL'U Mens' and Boys' • U. JLAJJExD, FURNISHER, * PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. FIRST-CLASS IN STYLK, WORKMANSHIP AND BKALTY. For the Boys we have Reefers, and Stormers. Cape Coats IfiMtory of Ivory. That pinch, cramp and torture the feet . . Shoes Against Bitter [KtigiiioeriiiK Magazine.] What is it that enables an operative today to produce so much more in a less num ber of hours than he could thirty or forty years ago? It is simply invention, as embodied in the improved machines, tools, processes and appliances that American inventors are constantly furnishing to American manufactures. Near Baltimore there was recently i erected one of the largest plants in the world for the manufacture of Bessemer i steel in all its forms; and, as recently stated by its superintendent, by means of the inventions and improved appliances they have adDpted, they are enabled to produce a ton of steel with but one-third of the manual labor required at their other estaplishment, built twenty or twenty-five years before. In 1876 steel rails cost $165 per ton. In 1884 they had dropped to , in 1893 they were $21 to $24 per ton, and in 1897 eveu less. See how that has expedited the the building of railroads, which now cover the country like a network, and without which modern enterprise could not be carried on And the same is true of steel in all its forms. So that to-day we build steel bridges, steel vessels, steel cannon, steel frames for our buildings and for farm implements, ami use steel nails. Inventions and improvements have so reduced the cost of steel rails that already, | during the year 1897, the United States have sold 100,000 tons to Kurope. What Invention Has Hone. Means' Pharmacy. Dr g or Druggists' Sundry Line, is the place if you want honest values for your money. Wo want your trade and expect to got it and hold it by treating you right. JUST AT THIS SEASON We have no special novelties to offer you, but wo don't want you to forget that our storo at all seasons, and for everything in the Hypnotism may be interesting pastime, but there is one young man in Roxborough who swears thai it is the invention of the "Evil One." This voting man has always displayed an interest in things pertaining to the mysterious, and has become quite expert in magic, mind-reading, palmistry and the like. Some time ago he attended the performance given by a hypnotist, and at once his entire aim in life was to possess the power displayed by the professor. He remember®! having seen advertised a book that claimed to teach the art thoroughly, and after looking through a stack of old story papers, found the address of the publishers. The book was sent for, and arrived safely, and the youth spent the afternoon perusing it. That night he called on his sweetheart, and to the family assembled told of the wonders of the book, and the different methods it explained. To illustrate them he made the various passes over his sweetheart's face, and was horrified to find that she became unconscious. Search his memory as he would he could not remember the rule for bringing subjects out of a trance, and as a last resource hustled off for home to consult his book. By the time he returned the family was nearly frantic, and although he succeeded in restoring the girl, her father told him to steer clear of the house in the future; that he was a dangerous man. Now it's all up between kiui and the girl. [Miila Record. | It Will Pay You MEANS' DfcNT AL PARLORS to set the best workmanship possible when you are having repairs made to your teeth. If you go to R. E. BROWNELL, LINDSEY, PA. l'or convenience of out of town customers we have a display of part of our footwear in the windows of K. of P. building, opposite public square, Punxsutawney. If you see anything there that suits you, take the car and give us a cell. Wli PAY STREET CAR KARli l-ROM ANI) To PUNXSUTAWNEY.Cork solos, to keep feet dry, at ifcl.OO, worth $3.r>0. NEW LINE Ladies Shoes, MENS' CALF SHOES At ¥3.00 anil !?'£.."»0 to the Ladies' finest Kid Shoes, there is a wide range of prices. Some shoes never feel comfortable, and are cast aside long before they are worn out. Don't want that kind more than once ! No! Well we have a stock of shoes that have been fashiened to give the feet ease, delight the eye and gladden the heart. From the The earliest recorded History—we might say prehistoric, the hieroglyphical —that has come down to us has been in carvings on ivory and bone. Long before metallurgy was known among the prehistoric races, carvings on reindeer horn and mammoth tusk evidence the anticiuity of the art. Fragments of horn and ivory, engraved with excellent pictures of animals, have been fonnd in caves and beds and of rivers and lakes. There are specimens in the British Museum, also iu the of the Egyptian skill in ivory carving, attributed to the ages of Moses. In the latter collection are chairs or seats of the sixteenth century B. C. inlaid with ivoiy, and other pieces of the eleventh century B. C. We have already referred to the Nineveh ivories. Carving of the "precious substance" was extensively carried on at Constantinople during the middle ages. Combs, caskets, homes, boxes, etc., of carved ivory and bone, often set in precious stones, of the old Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods, are frequently found in tombs. Crucifixes and images of the Virgin and saints made in that age are often graceful and beautiful. The Chinese ana Japanese are rival artists now in their peculiar minutiip and detail. ( Popular Sciencc Monthly.] j r m m a M Wmt 1 '!• m»_ In the Johnston Block, you will find it oosta no more for the beet work than for nny other kind. Johnston Block, PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. ■ 0 , —Do notmiaaeeinc the Aduu aUtera at the opera home to-night. Following is a list of letters remaining unclaimed in the Pnnxsutawney, Pa., post-office for the week ending November A, 1817: Samuel T. Johnston, John Bldnar, Hiss l.iuie 8troupe, Mrs. Pater Wax. Chas. A. Jinks, p. k. A letter received by liis family tells of the miraculous escape from death of Mr. Swift Hunter, formerly of Versailles, Ky., at Anaconda, Mont. Young Hunter is employed at the mines of his uncle, Mr. J. B. Haggin. While he was sampling ore from a track a trap-door under him gave way and he was dropped down a shaft 20 feet below, and, the car being automatically tilted by the movement of the trap, dumped fifteen tons of ore on top of the unfortunate young man. The bystanders accepted his death as a matter of course, but when dug out Mr. Hunter, strange to say, was found to be uniniured beyond a number of severe bruiies. _ Tons of Ore on Hint. (LoiiiKvillo Ooiiricr-Jotiriml. | mb?r v. c IM mm s\ sis i f r NO. 23