T I i I Smart & Silberberg January Clearing Sale! Mid-Winter's Greatest Bargain Event. Our $150,000.00 Stock to be Re duced to the Lowest Ebb Before Stock Taking. Every department, every section of this al ways busy store furnishes hosts of unusnal offer ings for your choosing. To that end we have sorted and sifted, and cut and clipped, until val ues have increased and prices shrunken out of all j roper proportions. , Thousands of shrewd buy- . ers will take advantage of the underpricings. See that you get your share. t Sale Began Monday, January 14th Terms of Sale Strictly are Cash N. B. Owing to the fact that the partner ship existing between A. R. Smart and Abe Sil berberg will be transformed into a stock com pany on February 1, it will be necessary to rule ' that all sales must be on a cash basis. ' r ' , ' . SMART & SILBERBERG, OIL CITY, PA. Oil City Trust Company, Oil City, Pa. STATEMENT, DECEMBER 31, 1906. (Semi-Annual Audit.) RESOURCES. Loam and discounts $1,224,103.25 Keal estate, furniture and fixtures 00,180.49 Stocks and bouda...f 46,470 00 Demand loans 692,593.31 Overdraft 4,202.60 Due from baoka ..... 244,427.29 Cash on band 90,913.24 1,078,608.44 12,392,892.18 Trust funds not included above f 156,885.77 1, H. R, MERR1TT, Treasurer of the wear mat tuu aoove statement is true to me Subscribed and sworn to before me this vVe, the undersigned, appointed by the Board of Directors at their meeting this date, report that we have examined the accounts, time and call loans, vouchers, ouuuieu iuo casu on naou, ana uau tue ioregomg report to ue correct. D. T. BORLAND. J. P. KERN. W. H. WISE. Men's $3.50 Our line of $3.50 Men's Shoes meets every requirement of a moderate priced bhoe. You can choose from several smart shapely styles having all the appearance of a $5.00 Shoe. The stock is velour Call, Tatent Colt and Gun Metal Calf. The shapes are the same as the highest priced Shoes. We've all sizes and widths. 3.50 is a very popular price TTT 1 . 1 . 1 i i . we were Douna to nave tne Dest This way for 3.50 Shoes. Sycamore, Seneoa and Centre RAILWAY. TIIMHE TABLE To Take Effect July 1st, 1905. NORTH Eastern Time SOUTH 8 1 Stations - 2 4 p.m a.m Leave Arrive p.m. ip.m 7 00 Nebraska 6 30 7 20 Ross Run 6 05 7 25 Lamentation 6 00 7 30 Newtown Mills i5 55 1 00 7 45 Kellettville 12 00 5 45 1 10 7 65 Buck Mills 11 60 5 85 1 25 8 00 Mayburg 11 40 5 25 1 46 8 10 , Porkey 11 205 15 1 M'8 15 , Minister 11 15 5 10 155 8 20 Wellers 11 05'5 05 2 10 H 30 ' Hastings 10 65 4 65 2 25 H 40 Blue Jay 10 45 4 45 2)f,0 Henry's Mill 10 30 4 35 8 Of.fl 06 Barnes 10 10 4 20 3 1i 9 20 Sheffield 10 00 4 15 p, 10 a.m Arrive Leave a. tn.lp.m T. D. COLLINS, President. LIABILITIES. Capital fmooo.00 Surplus and profits 390,014.30 Renerye for interest, etc v 6.42S.62 Deposits $1,696,449.26 12,392,892.18 above named Company, do solemnly neat oi my Knowledge ana oellet. H. R. MERRITT, Treasurer, 31st day of December, 1906. F. W. HAYS. Notary Public. Shoes. for Men's Shoes these davs. i . . . ana we ve got tnem. Streets, OIL CITY, PA A.C.UREY, LIVERY Feed & Sale STABLE. Fine Turnouts at All Times at Reasonable Bates. Hear of Hotel Weaver TIOUESTA. PA. A Sailor on Sen ricor. "I'll tnke u anllor along with me the next time I buy n nmrliio painting," said a millionaire. "I bought two ma rlnos Inst month, nnd yesterday my old friend Captain Salthorse had a look nt tiieui. "Salthorse snld: "'In this first picture we've got a trading schooner in charge of a tug towing nway from n rock bound coast through a fearful Jumble of soa. The schooner's maintop mast Is gone, nnd nil sails nre lowered except her stay pall, which Is kept hoisted, though she is towing head on to the gnle. Why that hoisted staysail?. All hnnds, I ruppose. are drunk. " 'In the second picture,' continued Captiiin Salthorse, 'the principal bont, an eighteen footer. Is racing, yet has no (lug flying. That's as Incorrect as it would be for you to go to a dinner party minus a shirt. The crew of this boat nre getting in the spinnaker, nnd. If they lower away, both spinnaker nnd boom will be lu the water, for they have neglected to let the boom go for wnrd. l'.ut I know what the trouble Is with them.. They, too, are drunk." St. Louis Globe-Democrat. HI YUits to (lie Enrl. There Is a well known English bishop who writes a very bad hand. This bad hand caused a sad error to happen same years ago. A young clergyman hud written to the bishop to inquire about a vacant curacy, nnd the reply that the y ruing man got Informed hint that the salary was small nnd the work dllUeult. l'.ut there was one mitigating clrcun)stnnct. The incumbent, nmong his other duties, would visit the earl every morning nnd spend two hours there. The curate would have rejected the post but for the dally visit to the earl. That attracted hlin. There would, no doubt, he told himself, be many fashionable dinners to which he would lmturnlly be Invited. He would mnke ninny friends among the rich nnd powerful. These friends would be able to help him In Ills career. The earl, perhaps, had daughters. One of them who knows? stranger things had happened. And so the curate nccepted the ditlicult and poorly paid curacy to discover on his first visit to the town that he had misread the bishop's letter and that his dally two hours' visit was not to the carl, but to the jail. The Field of Peace. It was the belief of the ancient Egyptiuus, according to a recent writ er, that everything. Material- and im material, had Its imiuortul double. Out of this grew the Idea of a life lu the future stale of perfect happiness in the "fields of peace." For a long time the. common people regarded these "fields of peace" not as a celestial place, but as situated lu the fertile and well watered regions of the Nile delta In the northwest of Egypt, where the blessed ever breathed the .cool north wind. Here they lived nn Ideal form of their life upon earth. They plowed their fields and grew the grain which supplied them with the "bread which grew not stale nnd beer that never became sour." Here was situ ated the dupllcnte of their earthly towns or villages. rortnuacHe Dallflcht. At 1'ortuEuese bullfluhts not only are lha points of the bulls' horns sawed off. hiit the stumns that remain are carefully padded. The horse9 also are ridden with consummate skill, ana ev ery precaution Is taken to prevent the bull tonchlns them. Banderillas are used bv the men on foot and on horse back and are planted In the neck of the bull, which irritates the bull, Dut cannot be described as torture. Just as much skill is shown as lu a Spanish bullfight, and there may be just as beautiful a display of costumes, but there is no killing either of the bull or of the horses. A Woman's Revenue. it la iwrfectlv Incomprehensible how man can go on wearing the clothes he does how he can balance on his head a huge black Jam pot with a ledge to It, incase his limbs lu long, tight sacks of dingy hue and wear round his man ly thront something resembling a shin ing metal baud. Every new fashion for man that comes out appears to me uglier than the last-Spinster In M. A. P. A Lottr Death. Asnnia Is a volcano in Japan. A vounc man of that country grew de spondent tho other day and threw him self Into the crater, leaving tills letter: "Suffering a feeling of despnlr Impels me to throw myself Into the crater of vehement Asa ma, thus winning a splendid death nnd ascending . the mountain's smoke to a lofty life above the sky." I'nalnkrd Lime. ' Unslaked lime Is useful in prevent ing rust because of Its extraordinary capacity for nbsorlilng moisture. Some careful workmen who take pains that their tools shall always be In the best condition make a practice of keeping a piece of lime In their tool boxes to absorb any moisture which might oth erwise cause rust. . A Safety Match. 'Tnnn. what is a safety match?" Mr Henpecked (looking carefully about to see If his wife Is within hearing ais tnncei A Kiit'etv match, son. Is when a bnldhended man marries an armless woman. Poor Fellow. Mrs. Browne He certnlnly does live high. It seems to me his whole thougnt Is nt his victuals. Mrs. MalanroD That's the truth. He's jest what you might call a reg lar ipecac. It Is with feelings as with water the shallow murmur, but the deeps are dumb. Rnlelgh. My little girl, five yeara old, was doc tored for several months for bladder trouble, but without success. She was very bad and caused us much anxiety. Finally we put aside the doctor's medi cines and triad Thompson's Burosma or Kidney and Liver Cure. Five bottles made a complete cure and she is now a sound healthy girl. N. F. Leslie, Oil City, Fa. Dunn & Fulton. A GUARANTEED CI' UK FOR PILES. Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles. DrogiristK are authorized to refund monev If Pazo Ointment fails to cure In 0 to 14 days. 50c. npplemaata to the Decalogaat ' Our social organization has devel oped to a stage where the old right eousness Is not enough. We need an annual supplement to the Decalogue. The growth of credit Institutions, the spread of fiduciary relations, the en meshing of Industry In law, the Inter lacing of government and busluesg, the multiplication of loards and Inspect ors, beneficent as they all are. they in vite to sin. What gateways they open to greed! What fresh parnsltes they let in on us! How Idle lu our new situation to Intone the old lltunles! The reality of this close knit life Is not to be seen and touched; it must be thought. The sins It opens the door to are to be discerned by knitting the brows rather than by opening the eyes. It takes Imagination to see that bogus medical diploma, lying advertisement and fake testimonial are death dealing Instruments. It takes Imagination to see that savings bank wrecker, lonn shark nnd Investment swindler lu tak ing livelihoods take lives. It tnkes Imagination to see that the business of debauching voters, fixing juries, se ducing lawniuters end corrupting pub lic servnnts Is like Btiwlng through the props of a crowded grand stand. H A. Ross in Atlantic. Living In t'ornl Houaca. The church built of coral is one of the curiosities of tho Isle of Mahe, one of the Seychelles Islands, In the Indian ocean. The Seychelles Islnnds, which nre supposed by many to be the site of the Eden of the Old Testament, form nn archipelago of 114 Islands nnd are situated about J. 400 miles east of Adeu and 1,000 miles of Zanzibar. They rise steeply out of the soa, culmi nating lu the Isle of Mahe, which is about 8.0(H) feet nlove the level of tho ocean and Is nearly the center of the group. All these Islands nre of coral growth. The houses are built of a species of massive coral hewed Into square blocks, which glisten like white marble ami show themselves to tba utmost advantage In the various tinted green of the thick tropical palms, whoso Immense fernlike leaves give pleasant and much needed shade. These palms grow as high as 100 feet or more, overtopping both tho houses and the coral built church. They line the sea shore and cover the mountains, form ing lu many places extensive forests. ' The Boring ol (ilaaa. Strong glass plates are bored through by means of rotating brass tubes of the necessnry diameter, which are filled with water during boring. To the water there Is added finely pul verized emery. It is snld that thinner glass can be perforated with holes in nn easier manner by pressing a disk of wet clay upon the glass and making a hole through the clay of the widths desired, so that at that spot the glass is laid bare. Then molteu lend Is poured Into the hole, and lead and glass drop down at once. This method is based upon the quick local heat ing of the glass, whereby It obtnlns a circular crack, the outline of which cor responds to the outline of the hole made lu the clay. The cutting of glass tubes, cylinders, etc., In factories Is based upon the same principle. Moderation In lOxerolae. It Is better to be lnzy than dead, and It Is probably Just as comfortable. For obvious reasons the prescription to take moderate exercise Is misleading and unsatisfactory. Most of us are consti tutionally Incapable of exercising mod erately. We begin violently and end quickly. And what Is moderate exer else? One philosopher who tried It for twenty years arrived at this conclu sion: "Keep n pair of Indian clubs In your bedroom. Look at them frequent ly. Exercise by their suggestion This has the merit of moderation. It Is the same as to walking. Smell the morning, look down the long way that separates you from your business. Then tnke a car. Detroit Free Fress. Anticipating Him. "Katharine," said Hob as he brought his club chums down to the depot platform, "these are all my friends." "Glad to meet you, gentlemeu," re plied the bride sweetly; "nnd I am so sorry that you are going to be sick." "Sick?"' echoed the crowd In aston ishment. "Why should you think we are going to be sick?" "Oh, because soon after the honey moon a married man nlways finds a great ninny sick friends to sit up with." Columbus Pispntch. ot of Much Account. The lord chief Justice of England used to sing in the choir of n parish church. A woman once asked the verger to point out Sir Richard Webster ns he then was. The verger replied, "Well mn'am, Hint's the vlcnr and them's the curates nnd I'm the verger, but as for the choir, as long as they does their dooty we don't inquire Into their hante- fedents!" Sttinltl. "I wish I was half as beautiful as Miss Brown," remarked the fair Edith tn Mr. flrppn. "Well, you are, you know," replied Green, thoughtlessly. Then he wondered why she suddenly rose ana lert mm. Delicate Operation, "Yaas," suddenly declared Cholly Braneless, "I'm going to work. I've made up my mind." "You hnve?" exclaimed Miss Fep pery. "My! What a delicate opera- t!on!"-Cnthollc Standard and Times. nrliiKrlng It Home. Her Father What are you nnd young Shortlelgh going to live on In case you marry? Ills Daughter Well, if you must know, papa, look In the mirror. He censures God who quarrels with the Imperfections of men. Burke. San-Cura Ointment will positively oure pimples, bolls, cuts, burns, bruises, It is antiseptic and soothing, gradually drawing out all poisonous and foreign matter, leaving a sound, heuthy skin San-Cura Ointment is a great aid in pre venting scars. 25 and 50a. Dunn it Fulton. ManZan Pile Remedy put up in con venient, collapsible tubes with nozzle at tachment so that the remedy may be ap plied at the very seat of the trouble, thus relieving almost Instantly bleeding, itch ing, or protruding piles. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Sold, by J. H. Morgan. Tnr Trpea of Ttlogrnplilcnl Vritkn ... It Is an Interesting fact In the history of literary genres that two of the groat examples of biographical writing occur almost Bide by side. Less than a decade separates the completion of Johnson's Lives of the roots" from the publica tion of h'.s own life by Boswell. Yet with the latter hn.ik a new type of biography came Info being. Johnson, in the liialn. had, like most of his pred ecessors, fallowed a simple narrative and expository method, prefixing a plain story of the pact's life to a sys tematic account of his character and a critical estimate of his works. He gathered his facts and Impressions to gether and spoke for the author and for himself. Roswell, on the other hand, making use of n more dramatic meth od, succeeded In his attempt to let tho author reveal himself, nnd, Instead of an exposition of character, painted a picture of personality to which his own comments were subordinate. What we see ns o type of mliul and character In Johnson's work we sec as a living man In Boswell. William T. Brewster In Forum. Wise tilrl. Now, there was a certain girl, and she had three wooers. Tho first wooer said she was the whole world to him, but she frowned upon his suit. The second wooer said she was tho sun, moon nnd stars to him, but she bade him be on his way. . "To me." said the third, "you nre a young woman of agreeable milliners, with eyes that might bo a little bluer, with a nose that Is a wee bit puggy and with a few freckles nnd nn nunoy- Ing habit of blurting out your thoughts." She married tho third wooer. Being pressed for an explanation of her con duct, she said: "My goodness! I think I was sensi ble. I married the only one that had ourage enough to tell me of my faults before marriage, Instead of waiting to ihrow them up to me afterward." Life. Slnnhlnp; of Snlncla. Too many people who are well bred In nearly every other respect are guilty of the solecism to call It by the mild est name of cutting up their salad on the plate. Of course salad has some times to be reduced to lower dimen sions, so to speak, but It need not be done by the wholesnle or quite lu tho businesslike fashion practiced by some. Grasping n knife In one hand and a fork in the other, they slash away nt tho Inoffensive green stuff with a vigor nnd a noise of a miniature mowing machine, until the bruised leaves are converted Into shreds of their former selves. There Is common sense In the convention that prohibits such a course. Nearly all green salads are broken Into pieces of convenient size before sendmg to the table. Even when these' are too large tne leaf should be quietly divided with a fork. Fainouii Royx, A boy used to crush the flowers to get their color and painted the white side of his father's cottage In Tyrol with all sorts of pictures, which the mountaineer gazed nt as wonderful. He was the grent artist Titian. An old painter watched a little fellow who nmused himself making drawings of his pot nnd brushes, easel and stool, and said, "That boy will beat mo some day." So he did, for he was Michael Angelo. A German boy was reading a blood and thunder novel. Bight In the midst of It he said to himself: "Now this will never do. I get too much excited over It. I can't study so well after it. So here goes!" And he (lung the book out into the river. He was Fichte, the grent German philosopher. Monkey Hnve Xi Flen. It is curious that monkeys should bo thought to be Infested with what nat uralists call the I'ulex lrritans and whiit ordinary people know as the flea. As every zoologist is aware, monkeys hnve neither Hens nor any other para site whatsoever, In which of course they differ vastly from man. As a matter of fact, when monkeys begin to pick each other about In the friend ly wny we have all observed they merely detach bits of hardened seba ceous matter which has been excreted by the glands, nnd the flen Idea is en tirely fabulous. Her Sun Spot. Sir Robert Ball on one occasion, aft er delivering a lecture on "Sun Spots and Solar Chemistry," met n young lndy who expressed her regret that sho had missed hearing hi in on the pre vious evening. "Well, you see," he snld, "I don't know thnt it would have hiterested you particularly, as It was all nbout sun spots." "Why," she re plied, "it would have Interested me extremely, for I have been a martyr to freckles nil my life." . Two Epitaph. - An epitaph from a cemetery In Bridg ton, Me.: She was words nre too feeble to tell what. Think whnt a wife should be; She was all that. This from Bar Harbor, Me.: I reach my arms out fondly, But they clasp tho open nlr. There Is nothing of my darling But the shoes ho used to wear. The (inod and Iicaatlful. To see the good nnd the beautiful nnd to have no strength to live It Is only to be Moses on the mountain of Nebo, with the land at your feet and no pow er to enter. It would be better not to. see It. Olive Sohrelner. t'heerf ol. Hook Jones Is the most melancholy fellow I know. Book I should think so, Indeed. lie proposed to a girl once by asking her how she would like to be his widow. Promptly obt.inwl. or FEE RETURNED. tO ViaRS' EXPERIENCE. UurCHARGES ARC THE LOWEST. Bund model, photo or sktik li (or expert eart'h and true report on pateiittthiUty. INFRINGEMENT suita conducted before all courta. I'atenti obtained thrown na. ADVER TISEO and SOLD, free. TRADE-MARKS, PEN. IONS and COPVRIOHT quickly obtained. Opposite U. 8. Patent Office! WASHINGTON, D. C. 1 aaaaawarelll Earl; announcement is made for the benefit of all at a distance who may wish to attend, That Wo Will Conduct Our 15th Semi-Annual Clearance Sale for one week, comineuciug Friday, January 18th, and Closing Saturday, January 2Gth. ALL CLOAK KOOM Pit KIN WILL BE CUT 1-1, l-3r AND 1-2. Indeed many articles of "Ready-to-Wear" will bave prices' cut more ibao balf. All Furs will be sold at ono third off. A page io this paper would not euffice to tell you of all the many bargains to be offerer! at this our greatest clearance sale. Arrange to come with tbe intention of making purchases to last a year. It will pay you. WILLIAM B. JAMES, OIL CITY, PA. FOREST COUNTY TIONE8TA, CAPITAL STOCK, SURPLUS, Time Deposits Solicited. Will A. Watnb Cook, President. A. B. DI RB0T0R8 A. Wayne Cook, G. W. Roblnaon, Wm. Smearbaugh, N.P.Wheeler, T. F. Kltchev. J.T.Dale, A. B. Kellv. Collections remitted for on day of payment at low rate. We promise our ouatom era all the benefits consistent with conservative banking. Interest paid on time deposits. Your patronage respectfully solicited. plSSSLSaMa mMESEMBR SSSXSSM STOVES! The Stove problem is always a bothersome one, but we can help you out to a nicety io anything in a - Heating or Cooking Stove or Range For either gas, coal or wood. Our stock is large and varied and our prices are usually lower than others ask. In Hardware' We have them all downed. Stock never allowed to run out. Edged Tools, Saws, Axes, Lumbermen's Supplies, Cut lery, Tin and Granite Ware, and Kitchen Furniture of all sons. Globes for tbe Wiltom Gas Light. Full line of Horse Blankets. The Hunting Season Is now on and we are prepared with a full line of ammunition. We can save you big money on any style of Shot Gun or Rifle. Call and see. J. C. Scowden, Anti-Rust Tinware. We have just received a large assortment of anti-rust tinware, also a large variety of granite and other kitchen ware. Every piece of anti-rust fully guaranteed. A Guaranteed Axe, And nearly everything in edged tools. Our stock of hardware is increasing and if you are in need of any hardware we would be pleased to bave you look over our stock. We have ice saws and tongs, and everything you will need to put up your ice. Stoves. Our stock is complete We have gas, cnal, wood and oil heaters; wood, coal, and gas cooks and ranges. Call and see our stock of chandeliers, globes and lights. We bave the latest. Everything in gas and steam fittings frou 11 to 3 inches. i Remember we bave everything in Neverslips. Tionesta CHICHESTER'S PJLLS vpur! rctranlel as llcsl, laiest, Always Ro ll i Ml e. Hold by Itruf irlMt-Vrrywb-r. ClUchMtvr Chemical Ut.. i'hlln., V. Chamberlain's Cough .Remedy Cures Colds, Croup and Whoopilig Cough. j-c L.adlM Aa jour '.aai.i lor i fi K'jU :iH..hl-li-'. IMamoad IlratidVVX LSj?5v ''"'a K'' ""' t,,ld "'"al'I'xV tOjj hn.CT, M.lc.1 lt! Hlu. kn.un.V V4-1 Take other. Buy or yniir v in AT lfUBll- Askf.,r'lll- llVx.TElt'S I t Jf lliaHII.IP HKAlll II I.I.H. fit. Iff. ' NATIONAL BANK, PENNSYLVANIA. S50.000. $61,200. pay Four. Per Cent, per Annum Kbllt. Cashier. Wat. SmBaRBaCOH, Vice Prealdent - Tionesta, Pa. Hardware. JORENZO FULTON, Manufacturer of and Dealer In HARNESS, COLLARS, BRIDLES, And all kinds of HORSE FURNISHING GOODS. TIONESTA. PA. , Telephone1 No. 20. .
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