Punxsutawney Spirit, 1898-08-10

              r* iOL. XXVI. m PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10,1898. NO. 10 WAR IS OVER. JOHN B. BAIR'S— The big storeM | If you see it in \ Bair's add it's so. Come to the BIG STORE This Week and See What You Get. To clean up all Short Lengths and ends of pieces, in fine Suitings, and all Organdies and Wash Goods. Dressy kind-s to be sold this week, and prices to do it. Waist, Skirt and Suit lengths, and the prices that these goods can be had for this week are less than they were ever before sold. REMN SALES. Shoe Dep't. IYnxsuhawnky, Pa., Ausr II, IS'.i.s. COME TO TH At the BIG STORE this week, and get :i Waist, Skirt or Dions at prices never bebefore heard of. REMNANT SALE Moire Sashes, 3£ yds iong, regular price 12.00, all colors. Price to closd - - $1.48. White Gros Grain Sash, 31 yds long i) in. wide, regular #4.00 goods. Price, - ft.5)8. Satin Sash Ribbon, all colors, 5 in. wide, regular price 85c. Price to close Ladies' Fancy Hose, regular 35c and 50c kind. Price to close, 21 cts. Look at This. Just a few more left. at 5 and 8c. that were 12, l.l, 18 and 'iii Cents, ALL ORQANDIES .">c yd. Window Shades 25 cts. Price to cluse All 10 cent LAWNS. All 8c ORGAN DIE& Price to close Children's Parasols. Price to close 35c. ,I ust a few more left. Perfection :in 1 $l > n Month 1TNXSUTAWNKY, FA. HKRK THKY ARK. IA FEW |V!0PE (( $5.00 Russia or Vici Kid Shoes, 4.00 3.50 3.00 2.50 3.00. 2.75. 2.50. 2.00. - $3.75. OF THOSE Supipief faP Shoes Will you be with the rr.-i who are securing these bargains ? We would be pleased to see you. R. E. BROWNELL, Lindsey, Pa. 5c yd. JOHN 1. MIR. White Curtain Poles 20 Cents Each. _.'i pr. Tan, Venting Top, Laco Shoes, bought to soil at £2.50. Price to clean up $! M. I Ss pr. Tan Lace Shoos, bought to soil at 1*2.50. Pricc.tp clean up $1.78. 1 •r»0 pr. Tan and Black Oxfords, 1 >ought to sell at #1.00 ami #1.25. Price to clean up ()8c % i6 pr. Tun and Black Oxfords, bought to s'll nt $2.50. Price to clean up <|J |  And many other Bargains in Shoo Dep't that it will pay you to come to the Big Store and fee. <58 cts. e/xppEf Sl'CCItl. I\ battings. 12c Muttings at 9c a yard. 25c Mattings at 19c a yard. 30c Mattings at tS3c a yard. 33c Mattings at ii7e a yard. .'S.'ic Mattings at 29c a yard. These prices are for a few days only. DEP'T- Shirt Waists 23c. each. | H3IC© Store Th« Oroat Holison Kiss J. B. EBERHART, I am yours truly, Our Prttrons and Friends ; That the war is over (here is little doubt. Nothing remains but the adjustment of minor details. Already our troops are moving north. Many of our brave Pennsylvania boys will not get the much coveted boat ride, nor a chance to try their aim on a live Spaniard for target practice. There is great reason to rejoice that the victory has boon ?o decisive, and the loss of life small, as compared io what the most hopeful had predicted. It'sfuM history will bo read, commented and i riticisod ; it's heroes eulogized for ages to come. What effect this will havo on us in this section remains to be seen. One thing is certain, it will tend to make all linos of trade more active, and values more certain than for some vara m~t, This.will cause the prudent to buy more liberally, and those who possess good lines of staple merchandise, to be less inclined to wholesale slaughter, for no one will sell for I s- t>> day than he can buy to morrow. There always have i ><•••:] Faki dealers, who cry loud that they have a corner in which to squeeze out honorable competition. The folly of this claim has always exposed itself. That we have been fair to our competitors in all our statements of pricos and quality will be attested by all. Wo never sa\ "go and see if you can do better, and come back and we will make it less," nor are we among the class referred to recently by some one who said : "Will not natno price. Come see for yourself. It has been told me some merchants watch my quotationand try to sell at same." Anything we sell we name a prie that holds good for the goods referred to. As our new Fall (> ■ ■ Is arrive, from time to time, wo shall take pleasure in naming prices in this space, or by mail at your request, and .p: • it will ahvavs bo the best that th • m ifleet his. We also trv to keep the price for your produco to a mark that you may b tale to furnish the beat, and this get th > mo.it for your time and investment. Our aim will be as it his been in th" past, to make this the "People's Popular Store." whore the ni >tto is - Si n Price Same Day to Everybody." Wo do not claim perfection, but our aim is to please For your liberal pair mag" of the past wo thank you, and as we ask for a conlinuatiec of same. JOHNSON HLOCK. I i HveniiiH: Star. J One of the heroes now in Cuba doing i Ills till ire of t <• suffering for fp'*» I mi's I sake in given to in the (lowing bowl; not a mild indulgence, either, hat ! h rip-roaring, whoop-snorting indulgence that is simply terrific in its mildest aspect. One day before he had floated over to the shores of the Oern of the Antilles the Colonel of his regiment called him into his tent for the purpose of talking to him like a father, as he had known him for years. "Ndw, ]ook here, John," said the Colouel kindly, "what do you mean by this sort of thing?" "1 mean to quit, Colonel," he responded.We want them to move. We have applied the right inducements. WE HAVE TOO MANY MENS' RUSSIA LEATHER SHOES. . . THEM MO VE! Making~~~  We don't want our friends to move quite so fast as Uncle Sam is making the Spanish move. Store [New York World.J It seems that the young woman who j kissed and was kissed i>v Lieut, llobson : has a brother. This brother has telegraphed her a "severe reprimand" and has said that he is greatly shocked that i his sister should ' allow her patriotism to | carry her away." The. young man is evideutly out of 1 harmony with the spirit of his country, j where some seventy million people of j both sexes and all ages are allowing their I patriotism to carry them away, are striving by every means in their power to express appreciation of the brave men who in winning glory and honor for themselves have made the name of their couutrv shine with a lustre that is dazzling the whole world. Further, this young man is of so small and narrow a mind that he cannot grasp 'what every one else Hps grasped- that the kiss his sister gave Hobson was symbolic and vicarious and in no sense personal, just as was the acknowledgment of the gift by the hero of the Merrimac. The Long Beach Hotel kiss is immortal. It has resounded through the country. It has echoed in every American heart. It expressed the sentiments of a nation. The young man, who is judging it by the canons of convention and by the precepts of ordinary propriety, is making himself rediculous. He owes his generous and patriotic sister an bumble a'-fi - °«y. _ ( >tflT6- just "Von have said that a million time*. You ought to be ashamed of yourself. You are a man of mars ordinary intelligence, you have nice people home, you are of d good family, you are quick to learn ti e duties of a soldier, you are clean, you look well, you keep your accoutrements in fine condition, you are obedLut, you are always willing to take your i'ha re of the hardships, you never eotnpMn, and, in fact, you are a model sold if \ Vitli one exception." Colonel?" asked John, \Jeerily, it must be confessed. pel druuk." / Colonel?" igh, isn't it ?" I tail himself by the Colonel's <ven me in to gVt mont.^i, tee*!," lie said—all volun- \ \ v'vy of talking to their supeir* »t* all these good things that I am, why not let the drinking the balance ? You don't expert II the cardinal virtues for $13 a ilo you ?" i Value of Accwrtey. Unions View of th« (!usf. left which are going at prices -well, the price is about one-third less than their real value. Mens' and Boys' FURNISHER, PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. J. LOEB, H. We have about a dozen pairs of Narrow Toe Russia Shoes, worth from #4 to 00, for $1.50. Come and look them over. Every pair a Bargain values ami ifci.ou, now go for $!.(»•), widths li D. 'I'hey are of extra value, and liiir bargrms. Ladies' ALSO A FEW PAIRS Fine Oxfords, That Munila Breaking. | Vow York Indetiemtent.1 There is another reason why we cannot that Spain's sovereignty over the Philippines shall be reasserted—simple humanity. It was this that moved us to t ike up the cause of Cuba; it is this that forbids our desertion of the cause of the Asiatic group. Spunisit cruelties and barbarities-of the most revolting character have marked the Government of those islands. Professor Worcester's calm recital in our columns of things lie heard and saw are as moving as Senator Proctor's account of Spanish atrocities iu Cuba, which drove our nation to war. If we cannot accept any Spanish guaranty of good Government for Cuba, how can we accept it for the Philippines ? The President cannot, must not agree to abandon the oppressed people across the . Pacific. If he should make any such ' agreement, the nation would cry out' against it and the Senate would reject it. I Street car flire paid from and to Punxsutawncy. "It doesn't matter what he happens to be doing, he's always ready to suspend operation for breakfast."—Chicago News. "So you call your dog Dewey, do you ? It seems to me that he is a very homely looking cur to be honored with such a name." "Hut Dewey is an especialy appropriate name for this dog." "How so ?" JK MODERN DRUG STORK. Means' Pharmacy — carries one of the largest and choicest selections of pure Drug* and Medicines in Jefierson county. He makes a specialty of compounding Physician's Perscriptions, — and gives you the purest drugs manufactured f jr the most reasonable prices at which they can be sold. It is An English Opinion of A in erica's Duty. I From the London Spectator.) III our opinion, the Government at Washington will not lie doing their duty to the people of the Union unless they insist upon two principles : First, that Spanish rule shall cease absolutely and forever in Cuba, in the Fhilipines, and In l'orto Rico ; and, secondly, that America, and America alone, shall decide what is to be the ultimate fate of the former possessions of Spain. Unless these principles are insisted on absolutely, America may find that the war, instead of having been a blessing to the Inhabitants of the Spanish colonies, has turned ont a curse, and instead of a movement in the direction of humanity and civilization, an actual step backward. rOliicaxo Tribune.] A man of businesslike aspect invaded a downtown shoe shop yesterday morning and said : "I see you claim to do invisible patching. Cau you put an invisible patch on this hhoe ?" "Yes, sir" replied the proprietor. "Sure? I don't \sant it done unless you can, t>ecause this is one of my swell shotts and I don't want it to show." "If I don't put an invisible patch on it, I won't charge you anything for the job." "All right,go ahead." The shoemaker took the shoe, and in about 15 minutes brought it back to him neatly repaired. "H'm !" enjaculated the customer. "I think the bargain was that if you didn't put an invisible patch on it you wouldn't charge anything, wasn't it?" "That's right." "This is the patch, isn't It ?" "Yes." "Well, it's perfectly visible. What you meant was, I presume, that you could make the evidences of its being a patch invisible, but yon ought to have said so. A bargain's a bargain this be a lesson to you. Good morn " "Holdon. lean fix that all right," said the shoemaker. lie took the shoe again, ran a sharp knife under one edge of the patch, applied a pair of sharp nippers, dexterously ripped it off, threw it behind a woik bench and handed the shoe back again. "There," he said, "is your shoe, and the patch, as you'll notice, isn't visible now. I*et this be a lesson to you. Good xnor Oh, he's gone!''—Chicago Tribune. , w m r ■ J r