Punxsutawney Spirit, 1900-11-28

              n % NO. 26 BBOOKVIIiLB HOBATIO. BINOGOLD ITJBMB. REMOVAL SALE! OH WHAT A CHANCE! EBERHART. IT'S REMARKABLE EBERHART. County Capital. Interesting; Items from the Jefferson Under the Sun. Evidence That There is Nothing New THE BEOINKINOOF THINKS. PUNXSUTAWNEY. PA.,-WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1900 VOL XXVIII. \ THE BETTER CLOTHING at WEBER'S HOW TRADE KEEPS UN! in spite of the extremely wet we.ither and almost impassable streets and country roads Shoes. Agents for Snag Proof Boots Shoes. Men's shoes for dress. Men's shoes for work, and Shoes. Snag Proof are the best. Shoes. We show better values in Men's Underwear than is found elsewhere. Men's heavy fleeced lined underwear at 90c. and $1,00 a suit. All Wool Underwear at $2.00 a suit; actual value, $2.50, Linen Mesh Underwear. Oneita Union Suits. MONARCH SHIRTS are the best; a complete assortment in fancy stripes and white. UNDERWEAR and SHIRTS. MEN'S SUITS Men's Suits in stripes and checks, the popular Black Thibit and fancy Worsteds at $10.00, $12.00, $15.00 and $18.00. Boys' stylish dress suits, some with vests. Little Boys' Vestee Suits. MEN'S OVERCOATS. $8,00, $10.00, SI2.00, $15,00, $18,00 and $20.00. The Prince Charles and Chesterfield, all in the new Oxford and Cambridge Grays; some with cuffs. Black and Blue. Kerseys, Tan and Gray Coverts at Clothing Is Better in Quality, Better in Workmanship, Better in Fit, and therefore Better in Wear. It gives entire satisfaction. No such excellent clothing for the same money can be found anywhere. OU TINGS, fleeced lined and fancy prints, are in evidence with a great variety of styles, priced at 5c. to 15c. LADIES' TAILOR-MADE SUITS are selling better than any former season. Priced at $7.50 to $15.00. PANNE VELVETS, VALOUR, TAFFETA and FANCY SILKS are new for Shirt Waists or Trimmming -elegant 75c. goods for 60c. This is a real bargain. When you consider that people will go to where they can tind a Fresh, New Stock in every department, with Style and Prices that are sure to please. Our Dress Goods Department always has had the Best Values and Newest Patterns in all kinds of seasonable Black and Fancy Fabrics, and now we are sure you can tind values with us that cannot be duplicated elsewhere. NOT SO REMARKABLE AFTER ALL, 011 Monday evening and every evening daring this week excepting Saturday, the merchant# of Iirookvi lie have agreed to clone their places of business to give those wishing to do so an opportunity to attend the meetings that are heing held iu the M. B. church by Rev. T. C. McKolvey, the evangelist. Lirge crowds are present at the meetings. The one on Tuesday afternoon for ladies l>oing particularly well attended. Ou account or tho lncewant ruin on Sunday tho croeks rained very rapidly on Sunday night threatening to overflow the fair grounds. Grant Shunter, tho horae dealer, had a large number of homo* on tho ground and was compelled to move them early on Monday morning to higher and oarer ground. The Hood looked ns if it waft going to reach a very high stage, but at daylight the weather began to grow colder and the streams to fall until all danger wan piuit. Judge John Mills thin week sold his Eldred township farm to Martin Harwith, of Union township. Judge Mills bought the farm 18 months ago for $2,200 and has sold at a slight advance hardly paying for labor and improvements. Tho roof of the Sandt building leaked so badly on Saturday and Sunday night* that the members of tbe Guyasutha Olub were compelled to move their pool and billiard tables to other partn of tho hall where It was dry. Mrs. It. I. Fleming who ha* been ill for several weeks had a slight relapse on Sunday but is again Improving and if no new complications set in it is hoped that she will soon be able to bo around again. Levi Heidrick who has been confined to his home for a number of weeks is improving very slowly. Mrs. F. K. Brown, of Mayburg, is visiting Brookville relatives. Golden Rule Goats complete, and we can suit you, no matter what priced garment you want. Anything we show from $1.25 to $7.50 is a bargain, and no mistake. Golden Rule on every ticket. have always led in Price, Style and Quality. No one has ever matched them. Our line is CHILDREN'S AND MISSES CAPES AND JACKETS. The jaunty, new style, and the great ease with which we tit each customer makes it a pleasure to show our present stock. These goods are trade winners and money savers. Priced at $2.50 to $15.00. Mrs. John D. Davis had her left arm broken at the wrist yesterday. A little neighbor girl hurt herself In some manner, and Mrs. Davis ran to her assistance, when she slipped and fell on the sidewalk with the rosult stated. Dr. Stunkard reducod the fracture. Hugh Williams moved his family to Coal Glen last week. Roger Hudson moved his family to Punxsutawney last week. John Powoll, of Vintondale, is visiting his pirents here. Local and Personal News from a Nice Mining Village. SUIT CASES. TRAVELING BA6S- NEW NECKWEAR. HATS and CAPS. J. A. WEBER, "Sw CHECKERED FRONT. Furs, Furs! Lofsofthem, priced alSI.25 to $20. OUR FIRST FLOOR CARPET ROOM Is where are kept the beautiful Art Squares, Hall Rugs and Druggets that you hear so much about. It is the (Quality, Style and Price that makes these goods popular. SHOES. SHOES. This is the kind of weather that tests who has the best for the least money. Try ours, livery pair has your full money's worth. We sell the best shoes for the least money. No doubt of that. On or about Dec. 1st, will remove from Winslow Block to former location in Eberhart Block. Monday Uhas Slowart rcceivod two hundred turkeys, also two hundred chickens, dressed and shipped them to dlfforent places, where they will do duty for Thanksgiving Day dinnor. Christ Shick, of Allen's Mills, visited friends and relatives hero a few days lost week. The wind fctorm of last weok smashed n lot of troes, and was hard on old roofs. Misses Lottie, Edith and Ethel Stewart visited friends at Sprauklo Mills on Saturday.The people of Ringgold need a new church more than anything else. William M. Raymer, of Worthvllle, was u visitor in town last week. Mrs. W. D. Reltz, of Liiidney, is visiting friends at this plase. Chas. and Miss May Campbell visited Pimxsutawney Saturday. Frank Wlso mado a business trip to Punxsutawney Saturday. Raymond Campbell has moved back from Perrysville. The protracted meeting is yet in progress at this place. Charlos Stewert made a business'trip to DuBois on Friday. The roads are very bad on account of f-o much rain lately. Samuel Shilling is at work on the parsonage building. Butchering is the toplo.for discussion in the stores now. C. B. Smith has moved into his new house. sweeper. New than the use of a NOTHING MAKES Housekeeping Easier Bissei Be sure to visit our First Floor Carpet Room for Carpets of all kinds, Curtains, Poi tiers, Window Blinds, Linoleum, Oil Cloth, iStc. Stories and jokes repoiit themselves in cycles, so that there is scarcely a funny Mile told to-day tho counterpart of which cannot be traced somewhere in the writings of antiquity. Every one, for instance, has hoard of the quiet man who lived between a blacksmith and a cooper, and who, distracted by the unceasing din, offered each a sum of money to change his dwelling place. Tho ofl'or was accepted and tho two came to Mm later on to tell him that they had fulfilled their part of the contract and to claim the money. After it was handed over it occured to tho payee to ask the blacksmith whereabouts his new place of abode wiis situated. "Oh," was the reply, "I have taken the house the cooper has vacated." "And the cooper'?" ask the quiet man, after he had partially recovered from his chagrin. "He has taken over my old place." This story dates back at least as early as the time of Menes, the founder of Memphis, who flourished about 5001 B. O. : only in that version the blacksmith and tho cooper are represented by a coppersmith and a maker of brazen image for the temple of Osiris. Thus the world wagB!—London Express,The invention of gunpowder is u sally ascribed to one Michael Schwartz a German monk, about 1320. As a matter of fact both the Chinese and the Hindus possessed it centuries before. The telescope, so tor from being, as it is generally averred, the outcome of the tamous experiment of Galileo, was known at least 300 years . before his time, while the microscope certainly dates from the early part of the ninth century, although greatly improved in the sixteenth by Jansen and others Rubber stamps were used by the Moors a thousand years before Christ, and about the time Rome was founded the same ingenious raoe invented the self-registering turnstile, such as is used to-day to register the admissions to places of public entertainment. Devotees of golf are fond of refering to it as "the ancient and royal game." It Is probably more royal, and certainly far more ancient, than most of them have any idea of. At all events, a pictured tablet was recently unearthed at Carchemish, the old capital of the Hittites, whereon are depicted men and women engaged in a pastime which, if not exactly golf as played at present, is something extraordinarily like it. The Hambledon cricket legend, which makes England's national game take its rise in the little Surrey village scarcely more than 100 years ago, litis long since been exploded. The game was played by the Vikings, and is certainly indentical also with the "club ball" of the the 11th century. Chess has been traced back <5,000 years. Quoits was played in the dawn of the world's history by the soldiers of Isis. It htjs been generally supposed that the system of using raised letters for the education of the blind was a Kuropean invention. No such a thing. Books printed in this species of type have been i n use in Persia from time immemorial. Similarly, tho art of printing and the principle of the mariner's compass were known to the Chinese ages before they were accepted by the more slowly developing civilisation of the west. Ages ago the Hindu "medicine man" knew all about deeease germs and microbes, although he was jeered at by western scientists because lie called them "little worms." And after all, when we moderns "discover" what we had known all along, we could llnd no bettor name for the new organisms than bacilli, which being interpreted, is "little sticks." Even such seemingly indubitable innovations as wireless telegraphy and the biograpb, for instance, have been shown to have had their counterparts in the dawn of the world's history. Cannons are known to have been used 1,000 years before Crecy. A 500- year old magazine rifle has recently been unearthed at Nuremberg. Nor is it only comparatively important inventions like the foregoing that can be traced back to the earth's infancy. In the archaic vase rooms at the British museum any reader of those lines can gaze upon the babies' feeding bottles of sun baked clay which were antique when Joseph went into 5vEone collar stud was recently found in a Sakkarahian saroopliagus resembling almost exactly In apporauce those sold by hawkers in tho Strand at three a penny. Yet the man who made it had been dust and ashes for thousands of years at the time the patriarch Abraham fed his (locks on Hebron. The researches of modern archaeologists have proved to the hilt the truth of the old saying that there is nothing new under the san. All Go at Half Price. Ninety Boys' Long Pants Suits, 14 to 19, Eighty Pairs Mens' Single Pants, Forty Pairs Boys' Long Pants. Sixty-eight_Mens' Suits, W8 Have on Hand  Tills Is Your Chance. ALL WOOL BLANKETS, $2.50 A PAIR  I he quality is good, and you will be pleased if you examine our stock, no matter what grade you want. We have them from 75c. to $8.50 a pair. Look at our blankets. We have them in fO-4, 11 -4 and 12-4.  1 Have just received a New Stock of Mens' and Boys' Overcoats, Underwear, Rubber Goods, Hosiery, Gloves and Shoes. FLOIJR makes the most good bread. GROCERIES and FLOUR. Everything in this department is fresh and pure. XXXX BEST E. ST. JOHN, 28U V.-P.& G. M. L. 8. ALLEN. Gen. Paas. Apt. Informations call on or address W. C. Shoemaker, General Eastern Passengor Agent, 120<i Broadway, New York ; C. L. Longsdorf,Now England passenger Agent, HOB Washington street, Boston Mass.; W. M. McConuell, Genoral Agont, 1431 New York avenuo, Washington,;D. C., or the Gon'l Passenger Agont at Portsmouth, Va. The "Florida and West India Short Line," is positively the Shortest Route to Savannah, JackonsvlUe, Tampa and all Florida Points, Double daily service and Pullman drawing rooms and buffet sleeping cars from New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and Richmond. Round trip winter tourist excursion tickets are now on sale at all principal points to Jacksonsvllle, Tampa and all Florida points. Tourists arrive and dopart at Pennsylvania Railroad stations. For further The Seaboard Air Lino Railway. Few Congressmen Win Distinction. The average length of a career iu Congress 1s four years. At the beginning of every Congress about one-third of the members ol Hie House are new to the business. It is a rare thing for a member to mako any sort of a niarlr in legislation before ho has been in the House at least two full terms, and those who have forced themselves above the surface before the close of a single term can almost be counted on the lingers of one hand. The ordinary Congressman comes and goes and leaves no trace behind him, except on the salary vouchers. The man who stays in the House for more than two terms has a fair chance of wielding a little influence. He gets his name into the Congressional Record once In a while ; he is recognized by the Speaker occasionally ; and If he is unusually lucky the newspapers take him np and sometimes give him a headline all to himself.—Ainsiee's Magazine. —The Low Art Company will frame your pictures neatly, so they will look 'artistic, and at small ooat. H. J. Winslow LOEB. Block. A press dispatch from Newcastle, under date of November 34, says: "Thegeneral officers of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg railroad were horo to-day on an inspection trip and as a result of their visit the air line road from this city toButler is to be built. This will give an almost direct outlet west from the great coal fields of the northern and central portions df the State. A few weeks ago the company paldf2£00 for seven acres near Cascade park, where a passenger station and large yard* are to be erected. That New Trunk Line. OUR MOTTO—Same price same day to everybody, EBERHART, Punxsutawney, Pa. J. B. a " t