Punxsutawney Spirit, 1898-01-05

              n ®lj* Jtanxsittatimig Spirit •" -4 PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5,1898. VOL. XXV. NO. 31 I M I t IH MMt Ladies' Black Juckets, Ladies' Cloth Capes, Cbildrens' Jackets, Fur Collars and Muffs. John B. Bair J. B. B. January 1st Until February. 1898. 7th ANNUAL RED LETTER John B. Bair Went the prices in Eberhart's DOWN DOWN DOWN Cloak dbd'l 1-2 01tiLad,eo5- Price. ! Jackets. CLEARANCE SALE. DON'T YOU KNOW ? That we always liave a "JANUARY CLEARANCE SALE"? You do! Well then, beginning on Saturday, January 1st, 1898, we will offer some great bargains. We are determined to clean out a lot of goods before "Stock taking time," (February 1st). We are making this an unprecedented sale as regards qualities and prices, for we own our goods at old prices, and we cannot replace them for much less than we are offering them for, to you, to-day, but we don't want to handle so much stock at inventory, You know it is quite a task to measure and count at least $50,000 worth of goods, so you can profit by some of the bargains in our store. Look for "Red Letter Tags." Yet there will be plenty of bargains without Tags, Last day of sale, Jauuary 31. 1-3 on Price. Un- Cam- Compare Prices of our Shoes with what you have been buying. We can save you Money—Will you be in to see us- Cotton Blankets, extra good, at 50c Pair. ) f HCZZ) "EZd TT|3 single bed size, 25c Pair, j «J V—/ JLJLi XN ■ * ■ m * r** - Blue Prints 4c. a yd. Lonsdale Muslin 6c. a yd. Factory Flannels 20c. yd. A good Unbleached Muslin 4jc. a yd, brie Lining Muslin 3ic a yd. Genuine Alabama Shirtings 5£c. a yd. Bleached Cotton Crash 3$ a yd. T7n/«/io mTTable Linen, White Quilts, Dress Goods, JU/Xird V UllWb ,N { derwear, Shoes and Shawls. We have a few other lots that we will dose at very low prices. Lot 7011. Only 2 of these choice garments left, size 1-40 1-42. Were special value at #9.50, price to close #<5.50. Lot 805, is a beautiful Black Bouclay, half lined with Mack silk, trimmed with Kersey braid, sizes 1-32, 2-I!4 and 1-I56, regular prico #9.50, price to close £<». 75. Lot 712, all gone. Lot 301, has 3 Plush Coats, sizes 2-:i4 1-30, regular price $18.00, present price $H.5<>. Ladies1 Coat and Cape department, until it is only a question of, what siKe do you wear ? We have the prices so low that all t an see at a glance that the prices are much below what tho originally cost, but last year's record will bo maintained, not one coat carricd to next season. Every Inch of It Fits. ItinaesM the tircat. plexoQirdle (4< This new A */ / /J r!lc S€ keeps A vthe I • waist line \V'' / | beautiful y SlHuiB" rPat *"*• ;'\ HENDERSON Corset. and Toilet .and Laundry line of Tea, Coffee (roods. Spices. Soaps, PUNXS UTAWNEY, PA. REEFERS. We have eight Children's Reefers. All at half prices  PERFECT NONSENSE heal a short time ago, and papers were read on the conditions and prospects of the race. These are now published in pamphlet form, and make a very melancholy bit of literature. It is declared that ninety per cent of educated Maoris go back from their schools to mere savagery. The race, these representative Maoris declare, is lower both in morals and in vitality than it has ever yet been, and threatens to perish. Yet physically and intellectually the Maori is—or was— the finest colored race in the southern hemisphere. Grocery Department. Our prices is as low as you find anywhere. • • •- Now for "CLEAN UP" SALE. a • • • The Scorcher Scorched. Full Canned OVERCOATS. One lot of\eighteen (18) mostly 33, 34 and 35. They all go for half price. All the finest overcoats, sold for $18, $20 and $2 , and "sold in the cities" for $25, We have placed all broken lots and odd sizes together for Cleaning up Sale. Frank Taxton of Glenville, while returning on his bicycle from this village on Saturday, met with a peculiar accident. Through some unnaccountable manner two boxes of parlor matches, which he carried in his coat pocket, became ignited while he was rapidly coasting down the Gobbletnan hill. He did not see that the flames were leaping up his side. Owing to the impetus of the wheel he could not stop, and there was a good-sized blaze in progress when he reached the bottom. A few rods further on was Sackett's pond. Taxton swerved the wheel to the right, passed through the gateway, and splashed into the pond—fire wheel, and all. The water dul its work well. Barring a scorcher! side and arm and a ruined suit of clothes he is none the worse for his adventure. (White Plains Argu*] Mr. Hanting'!* Anti-Fat Now reduced to $15.00. J. B. EBERHART, OUll MOTTO:—Samo pnco saino day to everyone. Clearance Sale of Fine Footwear ! SHOES. .. Twenty pairs Fine Cordovan Shoes. The best goods we carry, worth $5.00 for $3.00. We have twelve pairs of Patent Leather, narrow toes. Former price $5.00 now $2.50. When the late Princess Mary of Teck first became stout, says an English journal, she sent for the celebrated Banting. She was surprised to see that he was still extremely bulky, and after a few civil preparatory remarks, she said: "But your system has not made you verv thin, Mr. Banting." "Allow me, madam'" said Banting—and, proceeding to unbutton his coat, he disclosed a large wire structure over which the garment fitted. Inside was the real Banting, incased in another coat. "This, madam," said he, pointing with pardonable satisfaction to his cage, "was my size before I commenced dieting." lie then nimbly disembarrassed himself of his framework, and stood before the royal lady exhibiting hi8 elegant figure ! Apparently the interview led to nothing but amusement, for the good Duchess of Teck remained very stout to the end of her days. fold. The Egypt of his day won a thousand industrial advantages from his energy and foresight. He built great treasure cities, developed the canal system, improved agriculture, advanced his nation's welfare, extended her borders, and loomed a colossal power through nearly three generations of mankind. His name was whispered next to the gods of the land. He appeared no less than a manifestation of deity to the masses. That he had many faults is certain, in that he was a man; but there can be no shadow of doubt that the soul of one of the giants of earth inhabited the small frame of Rameses the Great, and thirteen hundred years and more before the beginning of the Chiistian era his was certainly the greatest name on earth. To-day his ashes lie in a glass case, and for a few piasters an eye may behold them. In the hall of the royal mummies at the Gizeh Museum do "the dead lift up their voices and tell the tale of their whole life," to quote the words of Renan. Here lie the bodies unearthed at Thebes in 18S1 by Mariette Bey, and the collection includes a king and queen of the 17th dynasty, five kings and four queens of the iSth dynasty and three successive monarchs of the 19th, these last being Rameses the Great, his father Seti I, and his grandfather. The 20th dynasty has no representative, but belonging to the 21st are two kings, four queens, princes, a princess, aud sundry priests. sixty-seven years, passing as an old man of about eighty from the scene of his remarkable life. His works were mani- thou wast still in the egg," declares the famous inscription on the walls of the Medinet Habon temple. "Thou didst act with wisdom, did speak even in childhood for the land's weal." At an age when our young men are just passing to the universities, into the services, or through some other portal leading to life's battle, the second Rameses had made his power felt throughout ancient Egypt and the civilized world. He filled the throne for Of course nothing is easier than to talk cheap platitudes before the spectacle of a monarch's corpse, and not a few writers have made capital of a sort of contrasting the history of Rameses II. with those mummied bones of him now lying in the Gizeh Museum. I'or my part, says Mr. Klden Phillpotts, in Hlack and White, these human remains of famous Pharaohs caused me some indignation thus seen exposed behind panes of glass. Why, because a great one happens to have perished some few thousands of years, should we desecrate his dust in this fashion, and treat it as a peep show? And great beyond question was Kamases II—a man of genius, the first ruler of his time, one who at ten years of age sat in the state councils of his father at Thebes, who reigned at twelve years old, who at seventeen led conquering armies against the warlike Lybians. "Thou wast a ruler of the land when [Scientific American] The Extinction of tlii> Maoris R. E. BROWNELL, Lindsey,JjPa. 03099093999930939333933990399900030 And a srrenf many other bargains which space will not permit us to montion, hut call and see our prices and qualities, and compuro same with the so-callod "Closing Out" prices of others. You will note a few prices below : Ladies' Purple and Green Shoes, formerly $3.50 and $4 now £15. Ladies'heavy sole in Green and Ox blood, $3.50 now $2.50. Ladios' cork sole, (box calf), liliick, formerly ,'t.OO now 3.50. A few Ladies shoes, - " 3.00 now 1.98. Mens'Purple shoos, - - " 5.00 now '.i.lii. Mens' llussot Enamel Shoes, - " 3.50 now '-i.SS. Mens' Box Calf shoes, '• 3.50 now IJ.OO. Mons' •' " - - " 3.00 now 2.50. Mons' " " - u 2.50 now 3.15. Mens' Enamel " - " 3.00 now 2.50. We havo closed our eyes to the cost of shoes, and made such very low prices, that it is a grand opportunity to socuro High Grade Footwear at Low Grade Footwear prices. Mens' and Boys' FURNISHER, PUNX8UTAWNEY, PA. H. J. LOEB, Aril, goods as represented. Your money baGk if you are not satisfied. PUNXSUTAWNEY, Oi»p. Public Square. The Maoris of New Zealand seem to be (loomed to extinction in spite of the fact that all the conditions surrounding them appear to be favorable to their survival. The quarrel between the races is ended, and large tracts of land are reserved for them. Their young men are educated, ninty per cent of them being able to read and write. Their chiefs in many cases derive large incomes for rent of land, and are represented in the legislature. A Seat Maori college stands at Te Auti, awke's Bay, and not a few of the cleverer Maori youths have passed through the classes of the New Zeland university. And yet, says the Australian Review of Reviews, "the Maoris, under that mysterious law which makes a colored race vanish before the breath of the all-conquering white, are passing away." con fere nee of educated Maoris was | New York Evening Post.J Some ol*the Claims Made by Manager MacCartncy. "You can say for me," said manager Mac- Cartney in communing with tho'Si'iurr, "that I am going to have a show noxt Friday night that will bo tlio closost approach to porfect nonsonso ever soon hero. And mako a note of the 'perfect.' I don't mean 'utter nonsense,' though of course in fareo comedy some of tbat must bo admitted; but I 'mean thoroughly enjoyable nonsenso—some that is new, original purely and truly funny, and accompauied by music rendered by the very best orchestra of seven pieces that ever played in this city. The show? It's "Below Zero," by Rentfrow's Musical Comedy Company, famous for nineteen years in all cities. And I know whereof I speak in saying tho performance is first-class, from thel'personal assurance of soveral acquaintances who have soon it, and from the expression of the .Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburg and Oil City papers, and from the New York Clipper andjthe Dramatic News. I have the real thing in farce corned j this time. I caught "Below Zero" for a one-night stand between"Rochestor and Pittsburg, and was glad enough to get it. I shall not be able to offer anything hotter this season, and I want all the fan-lovers in Punzsu| tawney to torn oat Prices will bo 50c, S5a, | and 85c. Seats are selling now. iv'-i * r- • fasjii I MADE FROM j| SELECTED || S^RING WHfA'" m W ■ * »