Punxsutawney Spirit, 1899-02-15

              m m p x-M f NO. 37 PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 15, 1899. VOL. XXYI. Effect* nf Cfcllil Labiir R. & G. CORSETS. A better Corset for tl.OO than any other Corset at fl.25 or 11.50. Positively cannot stretch or loose shape. In those departments we arc in the front rank, with full now stock. Don't wait till they are pickod over. your orders early. Groceries and Flour. HORATIO. $1.15. PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. We still have some of the Choicest Goods- Means' Pharmacy — carries one of the largest and choicest selections of pure Droga and Medicines in Jefferson county. He makes a specialty of compounding Physician's Perscriptions, and gives yon the purest drugs manufactured for the most reasonable prices at which they can be sold. It is M MODVRK DRUO BTOSK. THE POOR HOUSE QUESTION. Many Here EVEPY DAY. More doming —flrND— A Bell Township Farranr View* It from a Moral Standpoint. OUR met store Has two more weeks in Feb. for it's Great Winter Bargains. Its Dollars to Cents now  HOSIERY. For one week we will give the ladies of Punxs'y an opportunity to supply themselves with Hosiery at just about 1-3 and 1-2 the real value. Special Sale W of Boys and flens Hats. C our Goods and Prices. j ,>3 Muslin Underwear, Store Growing Lvger. We have put in two new lines. The newest and best goods, both in style and quality, that have been produced for this season's early buyers. DRY GOODS. Our line will be full and complete in a few days ot the cheapest to tue best of Crepons, Mohair, Tailor Suitings, Poplins, Epingeline, Henriettas, Ragatine, Etc. In parting with money be sure and get full value. C our line, and get U'r moneys worth. ()ne lot of Misses Wool Hose, sizo from 5 to 8i, all wool, that sold for 20c pair, we will sell at 10c pair. Another lot, same size, that were 25c, at - 18c pair. One lot Boys and Misses extra heavy Cottton Hose, that we had sold at 20c, good as you can buy elsewhere at 25c, go at - - - 124c pair. Another lot that sold at 124c, sale price - 8c pair. A lot of ladies fancy Cotton Hose that sold at 25c pr, 124c pr. Another lot of fast black that sell everywhere at 10c, our price ... - 1c pair Another lot that sell at 15c, now go for - lOc pair. This is a very good number. WINDOW SHADES. LADIES SKIRTS. This is one of our linen, as well as best goods for lowest prices. Hold U'r cash till U C the Racket. Stationary, Racket Store. ' L Hap Cotton, 7 cents a roll. " Mackintoshes for wet and cold. Any and everything is found here. Ladies Wrappers for coli weather. Carpet Chain, all colors. 1'loor Oil Cloth and Linoleum. McCall Patterns 10 and 15 cents. Remembor nothing is said about our line of Shoes. LACE CURTAINS How do we get them, and how can we sell a 2% yd. Curtain for - - 33c pr. KID GLOVES. A lot at - 50 cents. Finer ji.ooGloves at - 90 cents. A cracker jack of a Bargain. 2300 yds. Embroideries. Thu ;a without doubt the largest and most carefully se looted lino you have ovor soen in this city. Prices to suit all, lc to SOc per yd. Wo also havo a big line of laces and inserting. Gloth. Shoes, Carpets and Oil 2000 yds. Wash Goods, including white Goods, Nainsooks, Dimitios, India Linons, Organdies, Victorio Lawns, Dottod Swiss, P. K's., Ginghams. Zenhors. Chatnhras, Toil Du-Nor, Prints and Porcalos. These goods are all beauties, and at prices that will convince you that with ub jou can save money. have nearly all been bought at a saving of 10 to 33.4 per cent. You get style and ipiality for 25c per yd., worth 40c to (inc. 1600 yds. New Novelties. These Goods 1300 yds. BlaGK Goods. (.Jet your Black Dress now while our stock is full of now styles and weaves. Wo have always saved our trade money in this department. We can now give you what you want at - 15c to 11.50 yard. 50 Styles Silk for Waists, Skirts and Full Suits, in Black or Colors. Bost values we ever had, ■5 J 1 50c to $1,25. Chase & Sanborn's Jeag afMJ Coffees. King's Best Flour. Sugar Price Right. Shredded Wheat Biscuits, 2 p'k'gs for 25c. NEW IDEA PATTERNS. PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. JOHN H. FINK Wholesale apd Retail. But when they get married' That's our Business To C that they get Bargain prices on goods to commence housekeeping. When a Gentleman is engaged. That'a his Business, When a Lady is engaged,' "" "- That'* her Business ; China flrnnex. A local physician who made a special study of mill life said to the News correspondent that the atmosphere of the factories had a good deal to answer for. The temperature in the mills was often Vept at ninety-fire degrees for day* at a time. The dnst which fills the air is very fine and almost indlscernable, except as one sees it in a snnbeam This (last causes a choking sensation, and promotes broncihitis. There has been talk about the operators gearing "respirators" to filter out the dust from the air before the latter is inhaled. But this is impracticable. Another cause of sickness is the effluvium that la generated in rooms which are aeldom ventilated, and in which the air is breathed over and over again. Tea-drinking is also held responsible for a good deal of harm among the children. Tea la a tempetate beverage, and therefore the people never consider it injurious. The children are allowed to drink in unlimited quantities and at all times of the day. They usually take it to excess. This evil, however, is chargeah'e not to the mill owners but to parents of the "half-timers." A special correspondent of the London Daily News has made a careful comparison between the children of ihe mill country and of other parts of England, also between the children of a community who are employed in factories aud those who are not. He declares that the difference between the typical Lincashire folk of the rural districts and of the mill towns in respect to height, form and complexion and vigor is astonishing. The former are well built, broad-chested, muscular, of lofty stature and elastic step, while the residents of the factory towns are 9tunted, P«le, aud degenerate in size and vigor. Obvious a9 this disparity is among adults, the difference is already apparent among the children. This fact suggest* that a Targe part of the unwholesome state of things obaerved ii attributable to the employment of the youngsters at too tender an age. Even though they are permitted to work only half as long as the older operatives, the conditions of their lives of not conducive to health and growth. In Heyvrood, for instance, the News correspondent looked at 2,500 "halftimers" and then at 2,000 children that go to school all day, and consequently do not work in the mills at all. Here it was fonnd that scarcely any of the half-timer* had a healthy appearance. Measurements showed that their average weight was about 11 per cent below the average of other children at the age of twelve, 16 per cent at thirteen, 19 per cent at fourteen and 2(1% per cent at fifteen. The difference in height was about two inches in favor of the average schoolboy at the age of eleven and three iuchea at thirteen.Phippiu Architecture. P. P. LONC. Do you need a Set of Dishes, Toilet Sot, Lamp, Any and Everything. Koin & C tho Racket's lino of goods. i Off. I off. DISCOUNT Great 20 per SALE. cent. GOODS DELIVERED PROMPTLY ANYWHERE. This colobratod Spring Wheat Patent is gaining in pupil larity ovorv day. If you get poor bread from other brands, try this, and be convinced that it is the t>eHt you ever baked. Golden Sheaf Flour - Staple and Fancy Goods. -« You know we handle nothing but the best brands of Ho also tolls us how we aro to treat thorn. Think on what Ho says about it and with a seuso of right and humanity to mau, ami lot eonscienco bo your guide. I think, wore we to consult tho wishes of those who are dopondent, they would say give ns a home whore wo can help ouraolvos, for bo it known that the hirdost task to one's mind is tho task of doing nothing, and tends greatly to premature death and decay. With these few desultory remarks I leave this, to my mind, very important i|n«stion, to an enlightened and reflecting public. Ecbai, Votkr. In the hone there would be a community of feeling and fellowship that could not exist outside of It No distinction, do caste, bat a common sympathy, from which they would all derive mora or leas comfort, tt should be remembered in this connection that there is "No place like home, be it ever so homely." And then the satisfaction to be found In the bet that they aro contributing to their own support takes away much of the sting and stigma of bolng a pauper. For there is nothing so revolting, so humiliating, to one who is proud in spirit, as to be callod a pauper, and lot mo S4y horo that thero are nono such from choico. They aro poor becanso that was thoir destiny. Ho that spake as novor man spake, declared it. and 1 might adil, ordered it. Many of them are driven almost to the very verge of suicide In the contemplation of their anhappy lot. Now then, In the home, they would all fare alike. The overseer, or manager, would be a man of impartiality, devoted simply to the well-being of Its inmates. Tho idea of its mismanagement is bat a specious and fantastic delusion, and any argument in favor of it must necessarily be of the kind by which yon could prove a horse cheatnut to be a chestnut horse. We have a thousand men in Jefferson county to whom we eould trust its management in perfeot safety. It must be remembered that our environment has much to do with our comfort and happlneas. Mb. Soitob:— la aooordance with your kind reqasst that the voters of the oouuty ex - press themselves on tho poor house question, to ba decided at tiie coming election, I most emphatically say that I am heartily in favor of the measure. If wo make it a matter of conscience, as *c should do, and not so much a matter of dollar* and cants, then I think our duty is plain. I am convinced, however, that it can bo satisfactorily demonstrated that it would work to the advantage of the taxpayer in the ond. But I wish to emphasise the moral or humane side of the question, which has been so far as my observation goes, entirely neglected. There are at least two clasaea of poor. One class is poor because they cannot help it; the other claaa'for the reason that they do not want to help it, ana to all outward appearance are perfectly satis led with their condition. It is with the former class that we have to do. And our .'great concern In the prsaent esse is, «r should be, how aan we better their coadition. We have no warrant for saying that they are all well taken eare of under the present regime. They are, as It were, knocked about—many of them—from pillar to poet, sold out to the lowest bidder, frequently falling into the hands of tboeewho are incompetent and indifferent.J. B. EBERHART, OUR MOTTO:—Same Price Same Day to Everyone. For the next two weeks we will give a Discount of 20 per cent, on every overcoat in our stocn. SEVERAL LINES OF WINTER SHOES AT CLOSING OUT I will spar any heavyweight In Jefferson ooanty tan rounds for $110, or any lightweight in tha Stata for any pane they want to give. Or I will take on HoOinty, of Berwindale, on aay tarma he may ehooae. Nick Gobma.n. City Hotel, Panxsutawney, Pa. A Challenge. Quite i number of people wen attracted to Llndwr on 8«nday evening by the fl re whl»- tlee to we the bfauo, which might hare ended diiwteroaily, had the men not worked «o frith/oily in what to known aethe "backet brigade." Thii town cut now bout of t loc»l photographer In Mr. B. E. Phillip*, who can pat theflnbh on with the nut one. Ho •eemi to here acquired the art qnito —lly. It is with great dlfflculty the mlnee cu work it preeent, owing to the extreme cold weather which make* the railroad oar* Tory herd to handle. So. 5 mine wh Idle Monday end Tnoed ej. Tfaia town wu well represented at the "Breesy Time" show on Saturday evening. They report It "out of sight." Oar town 1* very well represented with Williami'i. We have eleven families of Williama'i and four of them are William William.Many of our pooplehave boon taking advantage of the sleighing regard leai of the extreme cold weather. Harry Evans, of Anita, spent Sanday with his sister and family, Mrs. David Howells. James Beunet, Jr., of Hont/.dale, Pa., is visiting his paronts and many friends here. Irvln North Is dangerously ill. Miss Maggie Judge has oharge of the school In his absence.John McQee moved his family to Walston last week where he hss secured work. Many of our boys are wearing the effects of the cold weather on their ears. William William*, of Coal Glen, moved his family here last weok. Local and Personal News Prom * Nloo Mining Vllligo. CUtkiag fetlMMiiee. IT WILL PAY YOU. WILL YOU CALL AND SEE THEM? R. E. BROWNELL, ,JW«S2SiU. Lindsey, Pa. —New loag plaih oapss worth $10.00 hooght to nU at $8. no Murray ft Jordan. —Now waah good* thia weak. John B. Brit. One of the alghta that haa always intereated touriata who stopped over at the delightfully nnmodernized city of Guanajuato la the catacombs beneath the cemetery. Vaultsln the thick wall of the pantheon are aold for a term of years, and if at the end of the period the lease i* not renewed, the bones of the departed are thrown into the common heap in the underground corridors. The dry, rare air of Guanajuato has, daring the last ioo years, mummified the remains of many, and instead of conaigning these to the general pile, they have been stood up agalnat the walla of the passages. Many people visit the place out of curiosity, and the authorities recently decided that these mummiea were an immoral sight. They have accordingly,had white gown* maat for them and the watchera now keep their attent vigil modeetly attired. —Modern Mexico. JOHNSON BLOCK, According to Prof. Dean C. Worcester, the houses rest on four or more heavy timbers which arefirmly set in thegrouud. The fl jor is raised some five or ten feet from the ground. The frame is of bamboo tied together witli rattan and nails nre not used. The sides and roof are usually of palm, and the former may be made by splitting green bamboo, binding the halves flat and then sewing them together. If palms are scarce, the roof may be thatched with long grass. The floor is usually made of Damboo strips with the convex side up. They are tied firmly in place in such a way that wide cracks are left between them. The houses are entered by ladders; in some cases there is only one room, and the cooking is over an open fire built on a heap of earth in one corner, and as the opening for the exit of the smoke is inadequate, the room is sometimes rendered almost uninhabitable. In the better classes of dwellings the house is divided into several rooms, and there is a place partitioned off for cooking. There are windows which are provided with swinging shades. Prof. Worcester atatea that native dwellings which are properly arranged have much to recommend them. The ventilation is perfect and the air is kept mnch cooler than in a tightly closed building. The construction is so light that if thev are thrown down by an earthquake or blown down by a typhoon no one is injured, ns the material is too light to do any damage. The richer natives sometimes build houses of boards with galvani/ed iron roofs and limestone foundations, but they are very much more expensive and are pronounced decidedly less comfortable than the more humble dwellings we have described. —Scientific American. The Greatest Skip. On January 2iit there wu launched at Belfaat the new twin-screw steamer Oceanic, which ha* been built for the White Star line. The event marks an era in the history of shipbuilding as a feat of engineering, for the Oceanic is the largest vessel ever built. The length of the Great Eastern waa 680 feet, that of the Oceanic is 704 feet. Their respective displacements are 11,844 to"* 18,000 tons, and weight of hull 8,000 tons and 13,500 tons, when on a voyage the Oceanic will weigh 28,500 tons compared to the Gnat Eastern's 25,000. To compare their engines would be almost absurd, the older vessel with her steam pressure of 25 pounds to the square inch against the Oceanic's 192 pounds. In shape, too, the Oceanic is the antithesis of the Great Eastern. She does not look at aH slumsy, but presents a graceful appearance. The Oceanic haa been built to suit admiralty requlrmenta as an armed cruiser, and she can steam 23,400 miles at 12 knots without recoaling. The Great Eastern's best time, Southampton to New York, waa eleven days—Buffalo Express. This means a $20 Overcoat for $16.00. This means a 15 Overcoat for 12.00. This means a 10 Overcoat for 8.00. This means a 5 Overcoat for 4.00. A ©V6]"C08tS 8pd P6cf6f8 same Disc'nt YOU PAY ONE-FIFTH LE88 THAN YOU EXPECTED. 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