Punxsutawney Spirit, 1898-03-23

              PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23,1898. NO. 42 J. B. B. nm Spring Capes, Suits and. Dress Skirts. JOHN B. BAXR. Our spring stock comrises all the new things "Spring Capes." pring Capes. s XT I T S SUITS Skirts Dress S IT I T S Popular Prices. Plain and figured Mohair, Brocaded Skirts, fancy c hecks All the new styles, from $2 to $5.00. Has there been introduced in late years, for street wear, any garments for women that combines such happy effects? You who go into ecstacies over a new hat and are liberal with such adjectives as "beautiful," "bewitching," "elegant" can get together a Btock of ready-make words that your admiration for our new Capes, Suits and Dress Skirts for Spring wear will be fullly qualified. Wo especially wish to your attention to jne number. Velcapc. Lace trimmed, ik lined, and of the best tailoring at $4.00. Fine Line of Silk Capes 50 to $10 each, Some Bright Sayings. *4.00. You cannot aflorc to mies seeing tlieet goods before buying SILK SKIKX $rt OQ SiQ.BO. DEMOREST Sewing Machine JOHN B. BAIR. See them quick. All the new thing? in Suite. Big StoGK. Little PriGes. And Velvet Capes from $2. SO to each. All Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. TELEPHONE No. 41. TELEPHONE No. 41. liemarks of a Cynic. J. B. EBERHART, PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. The Month. Dress Goods Dep't., where we offer 40 black Brocades at 25c., and other goods in proportion. is why we are crowded early and late in our lEToe 2? Insert's at Prices High Water EBERHART. —"— EBERNMT. Low is the cause of great excitement just now, but We are receiving New Spring Goods. Rnmeinber we make a specialty of Men's Shoes. Can fill your wants better on that account "Off With the Old" On With the New. ---SHOES--- Mirrors reflect without speaking, and women often speak without reflecting. After a man has had occasion to employ a first-class lawyer it is useless to tell him that talk is cheap. No girl ever gets so deeply in love that she forgets to see that her hat is on straight. A cynical lady says most men are like colds—easily caught, but hard to get rid of. Warships should never be built with money taken from the sinking fund. The man who doesn't advertise gets more dust on his goods than in his cashdrawer.lOhicaRo News.] Age and a little brother tell on a girl. When a woman starts out to reform she always begins on some man. The time to work and the time to play are synonymous with the organ-grinder. Justice is probably represented as a woman because it is something a man is always after. Some barefaced lies are old enough to wear a full beard. K | Clothing, Shirts, Hats 1 XC2* VY Furnishing Goods. HT X A LI D Mens* and Boys' • J. JjUJuD, furnisher, " PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. An yi-year old lad, while studying his history lesson last week, learned that Saturday would be President McKinley's birthday, and thought it would be a nice thing to send the Chief Magistrate a birthday card. The one he secured and mailed contained the following good advice: "In whatever station you are, God has called you to fill the place, and you should do your duty." Saturday's mail brought the boy a White House letter addressed to Mr.—. It was from Secretary Porter, who said he had been directed bjr the President to acknowledge the receipt of the birthday token and to convey the President's thanks for the remembrance. The youth whs delighted with the attention, but was disappointed that the President should think he was a man, and was anxious to rectify the mistake. The President was to leave for Philadelphia at 10 o'clock Monday morning, but notwithstanding the pressure of official and private matters the youth wis admitted to the President's room where he presented himself about 9 o'clock that day. As long as he lives he will never forget the audience. The President thanked him for his thoughtfulness, and presented him with the rose which he wore in his buttonhole. It was a happy boy who returned home and told of his success. I Washington Star.] The President Makes a Boy Happy. We are prepared to give you special values, and the most complete stock in town to select from. See our goods, get our prices and you will buy. Remember 20c per yd. gets an ingrain carpet; 10 cts get a good felt Blind on spring roller. means new Curtains and Carpets. House Gleaning Ladies' We can please the most careful and stylish dressers, pricas $3 to $10. Capes. We start the line at $1.25- For that price we can furnish a good Dress Shoe, and full line of First Class working Shoes. Better ones for $1.50. For $2.00 We have a special line of Medium Dress Shoes, in all toes. The celebrated "Horse Shoe." Every pair warranted. Tap sole, suitable for every day wear. For $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50 We have, by far, the best stock ever shown in Punxsutawney. This being the "Popular Priced Dress Shoe" wo have taken most care in its selection. They come in Russetts, Patent Leather, Box Calf, Calf Skin and Vici Kid. /VII toes and Widths. PilGes and Qualities Guaranteed. For $5.00. We handle all the Best Makes in the country. Carry the Celebrated lines of LILLY BRACKETTS CO. and BANISTER & CO. JOHNSON BLOCK, If women were judges, lawyers would have a hard time keeping out hearsay testimony.The only sadder sight than that of a fat man on a hot day is a slim woman on a windy day. Some women wear their minds out changing them so often. Men judge women by their morals. Women judge women by their clothes. No woman ever received a telegram without being freightened. Did you ever notice that the homliest girl in the room is the best dancer? Believe not the shoe clerk. It is his btisiuess to tell you that your feet are small. You can no more tell what a modern jury will do than if it was composed of women. [Up-to-D»te.l Winking women won't work. Any girl who blondines her hair can be kissed. Beautiful! How Spain Taken Water. Reformed by • New Pavement. Thus at the end of the century war clouds surround us all, for there are many great questions to he settled. And yet may it not be that in these vast preparations we shall find safety, and that the nations will hesitate long before resorting to their death-dealing machines ? The United States is not alone in its efforts to create and assemble a formidable navy. All of the great nations of the world are rapidly preparing for possible hostilities. All Europe is an armed camp. Germany is expending #95,000,000 in the building of battleships and cruisers. Kngland is to make additions toiler already powerful fleet, and her naval budget carries $127,000,000. Russia lias set apart $70,01x1,000 for new ships, and it is suspected that a great shipbuilding yard is to be laid out at Port Arthur, possibly under the direction of Mr. Charles H. Cramp, who is now speeding eastward across the Atlantic, l'rance is making plans for building vessels at an expense of about #50,1100,000, while Japan is hurrying to completion a very great addition to a navy which is already an imposing one. War ('reparations Everywhere. I Philadelphia Knqulrer. | the most stylish, perfect fitting and durable Ladies shoos made. We have thorn at £3.50, $!t.OO, #1 and Ask to see thorn. It is a Renowned Fact that E. P. Rood iiCo. make That is a mild expression when speaking of our Ladies' fine shoes. We have all the new things in tans and black, either kid or fancy vesting tops —so popular at present. [St. Louis Globe-Domocrat. | "Spain is a proud nation, "say the timid people who oppose war preparations . by the United States, "and she is merely waiting for a pretext to attack us." Let us see how this pretense stands in the light of facts. The McKinley Administration told Spain that Weyler was a barbarian and requested her to remove him. She removed him. The Adminstration told her to recall De Lome and apologize for him. She issued the recall and the apology. The Adminstration insisted., contrary to Spain's express desire for a joint investigation of the Maine disaster, on an independent investigation by the United States. She acquiesced. The Administratration denied Spain's request for the recall of General Lee. She withdrew her request. For a proud and blood-thirsty nation Spain has done a good deal of surrendering to the United States recently. to get the best workmanship possible when you are having repairs made to your teeth. If you go to MEANS' D&NTAL PARLORS It Will Pay You Hilly Smith lives far beyond King's ligliway. He has lived in that section inee the time it was composed of cornields and cow pastures. l"or thirty years le has been a habitual drunkard. Rill Smith quit drinking intoxicating liquors recently. At first nobody noticed his reform, finally, everybody became surprised when they stopped to think that Bill Smith bad been sober for many weeks, and was attending strictly to business just as if he had never toyed with a bottle in all his life. "What's the matter with old Bill Smith? Has he reformed ? He has been sober for a month now," said one citizen to another the other day. "Don't you know what's the matter ? Bill Smith had to quit drinking," replied the second citizen. "Did the doctors tell him he had to quit?" asked the first citizen. "No. Thirty years ago, and up to this year, Bill Smith could get drunk and roll in the soft mud anywhere west of King's highway; but recently granitoid sidewalks were put down in his locality, and Smith In the Johnston Block. wcnt hom«; d™nk,fi*e .ni^ta. in suc- J""""*"" ' cession, and each night he had a new vou will find it coBts no more for the best work than for bump the size of a hen's egg on bis head. nnv nfhnr kinH Bill Smith simply had to quit drinking, any otner Kina. else he wouid bntted out his brains Johnston Block. PUNXSUTAWNEY. PA. on these granitoid sidewalks." [St. Tjoiiis Globe-Democrat.] PlWXSUTAWWEY, 0pp. Public Square. —All of the loading daily newspaper*, magazines, periodicals and popular novels at M inish's new* depot. If you give him your business. He can save you money All the year round, Makes a specialty of Physicians prescriptions, and guarantees absolutely pure materials and accuarcy in compounding. Means' Pharmacy Arc now beginning to arrive, and they aro more than we claim thoy aro. E. Lindsey, Pa. BROWNELL, R. Mens' Shoos at $3.00, *2.50, fri.OO and #3.50. Are away up in stylo and quality, hut away down in price. Will you sec them ? I I : _j Our Mens' Shoes  The rush for Klondike hss already begun and one authority estimates that 200,000 people will go to the gold fields this season. There is now no doubt but that the fabulons wealth of the country has not been over estimated and the wildest speculations as to Its resources are surpassed by the ffcets. The Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg Railway has already ticketed one large party and other parties are oganiaing at various points on its line. The B., R. A P. will fhrnish tickets via any of the leading routes at low rates, and will no doubt secure a large share of the business. For particulars call on nearest agent of the company or address E. C. Lapey, Oen'l Pass. Agent, Rochester, N. T. "The Klondike Krue." A boy was compelled by his teacher to write an essay on "the mouth" for some infraction of the school discipline, and this is what he said: "Your mouth is the front door to your face; it Is the aparture to the cold storage of your anatomy. Some mouths look like peaches and cream; some look like a hole in a brick wall to admit a new door or window. The mouth is a hotbed for toothache and a bung-hole for oratory. The mouth is the crimson aisle to our liver; it is patriotism's fountain, and the tool chest for pie. Without a mouth the politician would be a wanderer on the face of the earth and go down in an unhonored grave. It is the grocer's friend, the orator's pride and the dentist's hope. It puts some men on the rostrum and some in jail. It is tin temptation's lunch counter when attached to a maiden, and tobaccos friend when attached to a man. Without it married life would be a summer dream and a dude would lose half his attraction." ;vj pi K BHW $8 J. B. B. VOL. XXV. w