Punxsutawney Spirit, 1897-12-01

              NO. 26 PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1897. John B. Bair VOL. XXV. J. B. B. John B. Bair EBERHp/VRT. .. National.. THANKSGIVING, EBERH-flfRT. This is the first holiday Close competition, good of the season and should business methods and the be observed by all. Our (approach of a season of store will be closed all day'national prosperity make to give our clerks a chance jus vigilant to the demands to get needed rest, recrea- of a steadily increasing tion and feast. trade. Nov. 25. Nov. 25. To keep abreast with the times wo have just opened for your inspection some of tlio largest invoices of the season. Wo thought our early purchase would close the season, but they arc exhausted now. You get still later styles and equally as good values. Our trade needs the goods, the manufacturer noeds the money, and that is why we buy them right, and you get the benfit of uniform legitimate low prices in every department. Fresh Crackers and Cukes Prices Always Uijrht. New Plush Capes. They are sure to Please. Price $7 to $ 14. Children's coats for schosl or fashionable wear, in heavy goods, worth $3, our price $2.50 Underwear for Ladies' Gents and Children, as low as - 25c Fleeced lined Shirting, Australian flannels, Shaker and Canton flannel as low as 5c, very best grades only 10c Table Linens, Towling and towels. We can give you extra values just now. Kxamine our new ones at - {.25c id al>out To much cannot be sai our Mens' "Blue Ilill" Shoes at - - $2.00 Ladies' "New Kra" Shoes at - #1.25 Ladies' "Jewel" Shoes at £2.00 Ladies Keonomy Shoes at J3.00 Ladies White Rose 41 fo.00 All Wool Gilbert Cloth just received, worth 35c, our pr. 27 l4c A Ladies cape or coat, of equal quality last season cost $4.50. now - 13-75. Ladies' Shawls, double or single, to suit your wants, price now ... $2.50. A full line of Dark Outing flannels, early season price 10 cents. This lot we offer by the yard at Sets, full price. 10 tcf 20 yards, - 7 cts. Ladie's and Children's Hose, Fleeced lined worth 15c, now 10 All Wool Infants, - 10c All Wool extra heavy for boys, elegant goods, this lot Don't forget that we keep, Floor and Table Oil Cloth, Carpets, Rugs and Druggets. These goods are sold very low when actual value is considered. 25c. How Worry Affects the Brain. Courtesy to Woiuen anil (iirln. Have you tried La Forma? Opening Holiday Goods THIS week. LA Forma is made 01 h ai rcloth and canvas only and can be easily inserted in any waist. Speak to your dressmaker about La Forma and tell her it can be had here. Price. 75 cents. La Forma is the greatest dress improvement of the age. It gives fancy and tailormade waists a fit and outline that are simply impossiblewithout its Choice Narrow Bacon l O cts. J. B. EBERHART, ITNXSL'TAWNEY, I'A. No Better Ham ever hail bristles than ours at lOc. Plum Pudding and Mince Pie are not perfect unless you use our choice new Dry Fruits and Citron -V - ■ ( WD# |: m V. MADE r,v • '■ : SELF;: ";,ls HARD SPR5NG WKi > SRrsurajofi We .ire still in the market, for fresh Butler and Kggs. Best Leaf Lard, 3 ll>. 25c. and Peaches. Raisins, Prunes Best washed Currents, California Seeded I,et her tease and tantalize, but remember the best way to cure her is to treat her so like a lady who could never descend to such methods that she will soon be forced to stop, in order to live up to the character you have given her. Mothers come first, therefore, over all the world, and sisters next. Treat them as carefully as you do anything else in your life, and with even more care, and then we can ciscuss the rest of womankind.— Harper's Round Table. Many a boy fails to rise from his chair when his mother enters the room, while he would get up at once if a stranger entered; and one would suppose that his mother, who is more to him than all the rest of womankind put together, should, to say the least, have from him the same marks of courtesy as strangers. In fact, you can tell a boy's character pretty accurately by the way iu which he treats his mother; for as a mother has probably done and will do more for her son than any other woman—with perhaps one exception—will ever do so he ought, in return, to treat her as his most valuable possession. His courtesy, his chivalrous and knightly beariug toward her, are never thrown away. She sees it all, and thinks more of it than does anyone else, and he need never fear that his thoughtfulness is thrown away. Perhaps, occasionally, such conduct may, to a certain extent, go uunoticed by some other women, but by his mother, never. In the same way one's conduct to one's sister is a test of good breeding. Sisters are not mothers, by any means; but still they demand courtesy from their brothers. Perhaps a sister can be pretty hard to get on with at times, but nevertheless she is a woman, and she can do certain things without any fear of retaliation, because the nobility or the man in the boy is bound to respect the woman in his sister. [Pharmaceutical Product.] Modern science has brought to light nothing more curiously interesting than the fact that worry will kill. More remarkable still, it has been able to determine, from recent discoveries, just how worry does kill. It is believed by many scientists who have followed most carefully the growth of the science of brain diseases that scores of the deaths set down to other causes are due to worry, and that alone. The theory is a simple one—so simple that any one can readily understand it. Briefly put, it amounts to this: Worry injures beyond repair certain cells of the brain; and the brain being the nutritive center of the body, the other organs become gradually injured, and when some diseases of these organs, or a combination of them, arises, death iiu ally euuses. Thus does worry kill. Insidiously, like many other diseases, it creeps upon the brain in the form of a single, constant, never-lost idea; and, as the dropping of water over a period of years will wear a groove in a stone, so does worry gradually, imperceptibly, but no less surely, destroy the brain cells that lead all the rest—that are, so to speak, the commanding officers of mental power, health, and motion. Worry, to make the theory still stronger, is an irritant at certain points, which produces little harm if it comes at intervals or irregularly. Occasional worrying of the system the brain can cope with, but the iteration and reiteration of one idea of a disquieting sort the cells of the brain are not proof against. It is as if the skull were laid bare and the surface of the brain struck lightly with a hammer every few seconds, with mechanical precision, with never a sign of a let up or the failure of a stroke. Just in this way does the annoying idea, the maddening thought that will not be done away with, strike or fall upon certain nerve cells, never ceasing, and week by week diminishing the vitality of these delicate organisms, so minute that they can only be seen under the microscope. Anecdote or l'ioii I'loii. Dress Overcoats, Storm Overcoats, Children's Reefers, Children's Suits. HT T A LI Li Mens' and Boys' . J. LUiilD, FURNISHER, * PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. HEAVY WOOLEN UNDERWEAR ! Working Shirts, Flannel Shirts, Gloves, Mittens suitable for Cold Weather. We are selling the Nicest Upto-date Furnishing Goods! You can get all the Nobby and Correct Things. New Colored Bosom ShirtB ! Earl & Wilson Collars ! Fancy Cotton and Woolen Hose ! A Man isn't well dressed without the right Collar and Necktie ! Finishing- Touches! 0OURT PROCLAMATION. "*tL Holiday Goods Means' Pharmacy Thirteenth Diiy of December. 1897, WHEREAS, the Honorable, John W. Heed, President Judge, of the Court of Common Pleas of the Fifty-fourth Judicial District, consisting of the County of Jofferson, having issued his precept, bearing date the 8th day of November, 1*97, to mo directed, for holding a Court of Common Pleas, Orphans' Court and Courts of Oyer and Terminer and Quarter Sessions of the Peace and General Jail Delivery, at Urookville, for the County of Jefferson, and to cotnmenoe on the Second Monday of December next, being the SHOES Buying :»:«*vavaP®^SG. Is very apt to be a heavy ex- For A Family The death of the Duchess of Teck reminds us of her narrow escape from being the wife of the delightufl Plon-Plon. Although Napoleon III had practical proof that the Coburgs would, if possible, prevent his alliance with a member of the English royal family, he returned to the i charge a few years later and hinted at a marriage between Jerome's son and Princess Mary of Cambridge. It was Palmerston to whom the emperor broached the subject, on the occasion of one of the latter's frequent visits to the Tuileries. Free trade was in the air then. "A marriage between your majesty's cousin and Princess Mary !" exclaimed Palinerston; "I am afraid that is out of the question. The prince is somewhat too much of a free trader, and though England may be pleased to see most duties abolished, I doubt if she will want to abolish conjugal duties." The emperor smiled and dropped the subject. The woman who subsequently became Plon-Plon's conjugal victim was the daughter of Victor Emmanuel.—London Saturday Review. Parents Are to Blame. Of the season. Wait and watch for them. His entire stock was closed out last season, and nothing but the very latest novelties will be offered you this year. It's worth saving something on every pair, and it's worth something to have every pair wear a few weeks longer than you expect. Now wo can make the expense of shoeing the family a good deal lighter then it has been, and every pair wo sell you are bound to give you satisfaction. If they don't do it, you know where we keep store, and can come back with them. A lt Will Pay Yo u to get the best workmanship possible when you are having repairs made to your teeth. If you go to MEANS'DENTAL PARLORS BRQWNELL, Lindsey, Pa. R. Our box Calf, Cork Sole, Shoes for Ladies', at $3.00 per pair, is having a large sale at both our stores. Don't you want to try a pair? Ji E. PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. at Ten O'clock in the forenoon of that day, and to continue one week, or longer if necessary to dispose of the pending business therein. Notice 1s therefore hereby given to all the Constables within the said County of Jefferson, that they be then aud there in their proper persons at ten o'clock in the forenoon of said day, to severally make return as required by law, and to do those things which to their oflloe in that behalf belongs. ■D. O. BURNS, Sheriff. Also to the Coroner and Justices of the Peace, tlint they make return of their rolls, records, inquisitions, examinations, recognizances, and other remembrances, in the manner and within the times prescribed by law, and to do all those things which in their offices in that behalf respectfully belong; and those who are bound to recognisances to prosecute against the prisoners that are or shall be In the jail of Jefferson County, be then and there to prosecute against them as shall be just. Given under my hand at Brookvllle the Oth day of November, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, and in the one hundred and twenty-first year of the independence of the United States. In the Johnston Block, you Will find it costs no more for the best work than for any other kind. Block, PUNXSUTAWNKY, Opp. Public Square. I Philadelphia Prean.J It should always be remembered that no boy can become addicted to excessive cigarette smoking vitliout parental indifference or parental blindness of the most fatuous kind. It might be possible for a boy to conceal other vicious habits, but to smoke cigarettes by the hundreds requires so complete an absorbtion in a habit which makes itself manifest to sight and smell that no one parent can plead ignorance as to what his son was doing day after day. When such a case becomes public propsrty the responsibility should be put where it belongs, on the parent or the caretaker. It ought to be Impossible for any boy to acquire the habit of excessive cigarette smoking, and could be made impossible did the elders do their duty. fHuston "J«urnal."| Republican Wages. Not only from New Kngland, but from the busy manufacturing regions of the Middle West, reports of increased wages are beginning to come in, to the rage and confusion of the foes of sound money and protectionism. A despatch from Youngstowd, O., announces that "the Bessemer Limestone Company, Carbon Limestone Company and other large limestone operators in Mahoning Valley last night posted notices of an advance in wages of 20 per cent., taking effect December I. The advance will affect 3000 men and is due to all the blast furnaces beingin operation." This action, by which a veritable army of wage-workers is benefited, is taken for the explicit reason, as stated, that prosperity has come to one of the chief of the protected industries in a section where powerful efforts have been put forth by the calamity howlers, from Bryan down, to coilvert the people to free coinage. Nor is this all. The news is flashed along the wires from Iron Mountain, Mich., that "the Chapin Mining Company, the l'owabic Company, the Antoine Ore Company, the Aragon Ore Company and the Pennsylvania Iron Mining Company have announced a to per cent, increase in wages, to take effect January 1. The increase affects more than 2000 men, There is a shortage of men at all the mines, which will be worked steadily throughout the winter." Here are more than 5000 men who simultaneously feel the fullfillment of the pledges of "prosperity's advance agent." How can the demagogic press of the demagogic politicians, in the face of stunning facta like then hope to incite the worifingmen to smash the American tariff or uproot the American financial system ? *Tf- W "a'V \ t. ; *• r8*