o The Basement TOY DEPARTMENT Is Now Ready. As long ago as last February we began searching the markets of both this country and Germany for that which would be the most pleas ing for Christmas gilts. Day after day our buyers spent going over the different lines of dolls and toys of all sorts and kinds. The merits of this make and that were carefully considered. Prices and values were weighed, so that when the lists were made ( up and the labors of the buyers finished our syn dicate of stores was assured of a line of toys such as only the largest houses usually show, and bought at prices most satisfactory in every way. This line is now ready for your inspection. For several weeks past a force under the manage ment of Mr. John Gault has been at work open ing cases, marking articles and finally arranging the stock. The result is in every way a revela tion. This great, big basement of ours is, indeed, transformed into a Toyland. It is a veritable "magic land" for the children, and we mistake if the "grown-ups" do not also find it of interest. Consider this an invitation to come and Come often and bring the children with you. The Smart & OIL CITY. PA. Your Savings This company will pay four per cent, on either savings book or certificate. Interest allowed from day of receipt. Assets, $2,500,000.00 Oil City Trust Company. President, JOSEPH SEEP. Vice President, GEORGE LEWIS. ROBUST DOUGH ROLLERS. Work In Pie Factory In on tin Scale f AtlilrticK. To properly describe the processes of baking pumpkin pies would require one skilled in the technicalities of the art. This Is the way it looks to a mere man: First, the coarse yellow rind is remov ed, and then the pumpkin Is cut open and the seeds taken out. after which the two halves are thoroughly wushed. Then a husky lad takes n sort of cleav er and cuts the pumpkin into large pieces, which ure fed into a ' steam chopping machine and reduced to small fragments. These are placed in a huge copper boiler capable of holding per haps twenty-live gallons. After the boiling has been completed a pasty mixture of eggs, milk, sugar, cinnamon and other spices and condiments Is added and well stirred In, nnd then the yellow mass Is ready to be filled Into the skeleton pies. The crust is pre pared in another department, where the dough Is mixed, rolled and placed iu the pans ready to receive the fill ing. If any one thinks that piemaking Is an easy and effeminate employment he should visit a pie bakery and in spect the muscles developed on the arms of expert pie crust misers nnd rollers. They would lo creditable to a trained athlete and would put many a mill worker and blacksmith to the blush. Finally the pies are placed on racks and shoved into huge ovens that resemble nothing else so much ns the kilns used for burning brick. These kilns are constructed in any size de sired, with a capacity of anywhere from fifty up to several hundred nt a time, while they can be refilled every half hour or less. Purine Monthly. Stnrtllnf. "I never could understand." said tin man wlio delves Into unusual subjects, why It is always a tropical or semi tropical ruler who has an abundance of wives. We never hear of a ruler In a cold country having wives?" Well. I should hope not." replied his Mend. Imagine a wives going downtown to select their winter furs, 'j'lie .iV would bankrupt a nation." C!:i' ,:pi Pally News. see. Silberbera Co. Treasurer, R. MERRITT. H. PECULIAR EYES. The Oro-nuN of 'Slirht of the Spider ' unil the Snail. The next time you catch a spider try to find the eight shiny little eyes at the anterior end, some above and some put under the edge of what we may linn lne to lie its forehead. To examine these parts to the best advantage hold the snider in tweewrs. or It may be better to use a spider killed by being dropped lnt;) a bottle of diluted alcohol, These eight eyes vary iu arrangement and in relative size iu various species of spiders In some they may be ar ranged in two rows, In other la three some may be very small and others large nnd prominent, and so oil but there they are, rather poor eyes, near sighted, looking tn several directions at once, and the spider, which can never shut any of them. Is sure to see every tiling that approaches unless it asleep, In which case the sight Is dead, Tor some purposes It may be enliven lout to have eyes that roll up and dis appear at the approach of danger. And these are exactly what the snnll has, situated at the end of two liig and sensitive palpi, or feelers. When all Is quiet their owner extends these organs, nnd you can see nt their tips small round knobs upon which the eyes are placed. But if you touch one of the palpi or even jar the snail a little the eyes begin to back Into these feelers as the tip of u glove finger may be turned In, and they no louger see any danger that may' be lurking at hand. In .New 1. lit lit. Fair Visitor So you have really de cided not lo sell your house? Fair Hostess Yes. You see, we placed the matter In the hands of a real estate agent. After reading his lovely adver tisement of our property neither John nor myself could think of parting with such a wonderful and perfect borne. Her Way. "What's the reason you never put things In their places?" asked the Irate nnd methodical husband. "Why, be cause," replied his easy jjolng wife, want them where I can find them." My body's old, but tbats not my fault. T nm not to blame for an old body, but I would be to blame for an old soul. Peland. PITTSBURG WOMEN DUPES. Jumped at Stranger's Offer to Intro duce Them at Edward's Court. Pittsburg, Nov. 26. Reginald Spauldlng. an Englishman, is under arrest at the central police station here on a charge of trying to swindle Pittsburg society women by offering to Introduce them into London society. It Is charged that he mailed the fol lowing letter to more than 200 Pitta burg women: "Dear Madam 1 beg to Inform you that I am making a tour of the coun try, arranging with those who are de sirous of being Introduced Into Lon don society or at court. I am also thoroughly versed with all matters of finance In England and on the conti nent. I shall doem it a favor if you will be good enough to advise tne If you are Interested In any of the above mentioned matters. If so, I shall be iileased to call and convey any par ticulars you may desire. I make no charge in any way, my remuneration to be determined by the demands made upon my Influence. "Very truly yours, "Reginald Spaulding." When Spauldings rooms were searched by the police they say they found almost 200 answers to the let ters all holding out encouragement of seme sort. The wife of a prominent teol manufacturer, It Is said, wrote that her heart was set upon being pre sented at court and having her daugh ter marry a titled foreigner. If the rlter of the letter could arrange It. she would pay bini $10,000 on the day of the marriage." A letter from a Pittsburg millionaire declared that if Spauldlng did not cease filling the heads of the women In lils family with nonsfnse he would thrash him. This man caJled the at tention of the police to the matter. Several letters were found address ed to Spaulding at the Iroquois hotel. Buffalo, and the police have sent in- nlrles there. Spaulding had a large amount of money when arrested and onered to put up $5,000 cash bail, but this was refused. USED WRONG POWDER. Boyt Overcharge Guns With "Smoke less;" Explosion Results. Marlon, O.. Nov. 26. Earl nnd Will- lam Smith, Marion youths, went hunt- ng near MarysviHe and loaded their own shells, making the mistake of us ing a black powder gauge for fixing the charge for smokeless or prismatic powder. Earl Smith was ths first to Are. After a deafening lepert his compan ion found him standing with the stock piece In his hands and blond starting from his ears snd nose. Both barrels of the gun had been blown to pieces and the rib on the upper side of the barrels rolled in a spiral four inches in diameter. The accident was laid to the gun be ing defective and to show the ammu nition was not a! fauii William Smith loaded his gun and fird. The experi ence was repeated exrept that he was not so seriously shocked. TRIAL MARRIAGES. A queer Old Cnnloni That Existed For Aden In Scotland. "Hiindfasting" was n custom that ex isted for ages in Scotland. The con tractlng parties .met at the annual fairs In their several districts. There young men chose the maids who best pleased them. They Joined hands and by that net became man and wife until the corresponding day of the following year. If the love nnd fortunes of the pairs had prospered during the year, on the anniversary of their meeting they were legally married by the priest: If all had not been well, then they parted. The practice is supposed to have arisen from the scarcity of clergy. If the pair decided to part at the end of the twelvemonth, the bride was at lib erty to marry another man, her ap prenticeship to matrimony not curry Ing with it any reproach to her. Such marriages were by custom made legnl, Any issue resulting from the union would in the case of a second marriage be taken by the father and rank as heir after the children of the marriage which lasted for life. Many weddings were unmade at the end of the year, but it was dangerous if the initiative were taken by the man who had wedded the kinswoman of a chief. When a Mncdonald of Sleat availed himself of his right to send back the sister of a .Marleod of iMingaven, the latter resented It as nn Indignity, "lie had no bonfire to cele brate his wedding, but he shall have one to solemnize his divorce," Marleod swore. He kept his word, and a terrl ble vendetta between the clans re sulted. ODDITIES IN GRAVES. A Woninii Who, Born, l.lvhm nnd Dr lnir CroNK, YVnM Dnrleil CriiNN, There Is a curious old gravestone in rrestbury churchyard which records the fact that one woman at least In England died a bachelor. Her name was Sarah Pick ford, and the stone gravely Informs the reader she was there Interred "August ye 17. Anno Iioui. l"o:!, and died a Barhelour in the 4sth yea re of her iige." A stone In Westminster abbey re cords tlie Interment there of George Graham, who was the only workman that received the honor of being burled iu Westminster abbey, lie wns a sci entific instrument maker, who iu 1700 Invented the deadbent escapement in clocks. His funeral was attended by the Boyal society Iu a body. In l'.ast Ham churchyard there Is a tombstone placed rrossways. The wo man interred is said to have been born cross, lived cross, married a Mr.' Cross and died cross. Her dying request was to be burled cross, and this wns car ried out. As to more ancient graves, that of Koah is reported to be Iu the small town of Nakhllehcvan, near the foot of Mount Ararat, and is sixty feet In length. Another tradition says that the grave Is merely a niche In the wall of an abandoned fortress. London Chronicle. A POINTER FOR TOURISTS. Pat Your Prarrr Hook on Top of the ThlKK In Y'our Trunk. "If you ever go to Bermuda I can tell you how to make time tit the custom house," said n returning Washington! an. "I reached Bermuda early In the morning. I made up my luggage rath er hastily before leaving the ship. "Just us I was ready to close my suit case I noticed that I had left my prayer book on the lounge. I pitched It in rather unceremoniously, strapped down the rase and hurried ashore. "You don't have lo wait to deelare as you do when coming Into the port of New York. As I stepped Into the office of the Johnny Bull olllclal I i'istrupped my case and opened It up. The olllclal talked nt me ns if I had been a tele phone. 'Hello:' lie said the first thing. 'What's this?" he asked, picking up my prayer book. 'Prayer lstok, eh? All right. Shut up your case.' "'Want to look at anything else?' I asked. '. " "No. You're all right, my friend. Any man who will put his prayer book on top of his traps Isn't likely to beat the government. I'll take t'--' "" your declaration.' "I threw" him half n dozen cigars. That's where I made my mistake. " '(Jot any more like these in that case?" asked the olllclal. "I said I hadn't, but do you kiiow he wouldn't believe me, and I had to open up the case again, and he went through it us If he thought I was n smuggler." Washington Tost. A PRODUCT OF MILK. tialnlltli In So Stronir Yon Could lliilld n limine With It. You could build u house of milk if you liked, and It would be as strong and lasting ns though made of Aber deen granite, says M. tilen Fling in Technical World Magazine. Moreover, all the fittings could be made of the same substance, and they would out live the finest ordinary material that was ever constructed. Billiard tallies, combs, fancy boxes and many other things ure made from galallth, which is made from milk. There is really no limit to the arti cles which can be made from galalith. It takes dyes readily, nud Inferior grades are colored. The best remain white, however, for white galalith brings the highest price because of Its similarity to ivory. The first grade of galalith Is made up Into knife handles. and It brings almost as high a figure as would so much ivory. Galalith is the best substitute for Ivory ever discovered, for It is smooth to the touch, retains its soft, creamy tinting for years, is not marred by soap and water and, unlike celluloid, is proof agiiinst fire. It does not chip or crack like bone nnd can be cut Into the most delicate shapes, being tough and not easily broken. Cove Dweller. Grottoes and caverns are used, more or less, as shelters by primitive peo ples, and thus Inhabited raves are of course most frequent In Africa. A con siderable number of natives make tlieir homes in raves along the southern shore of the strait of Gibraltar, and in some of those raves jire found the pol ished stones and arrowheads of the stone age. Troglodyte villages are fre quent in the Tebessa territory of Alge ria, one of which at D.ieurf, 'Xti feet above the gorge of the Wadl Hallail, is reached by steps cut in the rock. The inhabitants of the Tunisian Island of Galite are cave dwellers, their habita tions being grottoes which they have dus out of the limestone or nncient burial caverns that they have enlarged. The subterranean villages of Matmatn and of Medenlne, hewn out of the rock, are In southern Tunisa. Haclne nt HI Work. ltaclne, the French writer, composed his work while walking rapidly about, shouting out the lines In n loud voice. One day while he was thus composing part of his play of "Mlthiidates" iu the Tuilerles gardens in Purls he was sur rounded by a group of workmen who took 111 in to be a maniac. On his re turn home from these walks he would write down scene after scene In prose, nnd when they were finished he would exclaim, "My tragedy Is done:" con sidering the transposition of the lines into verse only a trivial thing. A Kemnrknlile luircli. A small watering place iu Austria named Eichwald can boast of possess ing a remarkable chinch. It was first built by an Italian architect at Venice at the expense of Prince Carlos Clary Aldrlniren. who is a great admirer of Italian architecture. When it was fin Ished the church was taken to pieces and packed in thousands of numbered cases for transportation to hicliwaltt At that place it was eventually rebuilt and then made over to its Inhabitants as a gift from the prince. AlmoMt nn Inxiilt. Bess Yes, the engagement's off. lie told her she ought to give up novels and read something more substantial- something that would Improve her Ben Well? Bess Gracious: Hon't you see? The Idea of a man tntimnt ing to his fiancee that she could ' Im proved in any way! Exchange. Bat lie Ronllr.cn It ovr. Mrs. Benham Many n true word Is spoken iu jest. Mr. Benhiim That's so. I little dreamed when 1 said, "With all my worldly goods I thee endow," that you would take every cent I had, Twinkles. When a man is drilling with the stream lie is likely to think that the stream has ceased to flow. New Ha veil I.t'iidiM. l.l.MiKUINti till. II. Wlthntnod Other Treatment Hut t(iilikly Cured by Chamberlain'! Cough Remedy, "Last winter I caught a very severe cold wbicn lingered for weeks." says J Urquhsrt, of Zephyr, Ontario. "My cough was very dry anil harsh. The local dealer recommended Chamberlain's Couch Remedy and Guaranteed It. so gave it a trial. One small bottle of It cured tne. T believe Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to be the best I have ever nsnd." This remedy is for sale by Dunn & Fulton. Rings Dyspepsia Tablets do the work. Stomach trouble, dyspepsia, indlttestion, bloating, etc., yield quickly. Two days treatment free. Ask your drugaist for a free trial. Hold by J. R. Morgan. THE PASSION PLAY. Its Orluln, Aeeordlns to the Tradi tion of Olicrninmeriinu. According to local tradition, the ori gin of the Oberammergail Tasslon play was ns follows: When in the year 1033 a deadly plague threatened to de populate the districts of Pnrtenklrehen, Escheloke and Kohlgrub, which are separated from Aminerthal, or the val ley of the Aniiner, by a rampart of mountains, the Aminerthnlers succeed ed for a time in protecting themselves against the dread contagion, but one day a native who bail been working all summer nt Escheloke evaded the quar antine ami entered the Ammertluil by a secret path In order to celebrate an a n n mil church festival with his fam ily. Two days afterward he was a corpse, and iu less than three weeks the plague had carried off eighty-four of the Ammcrtfuilcrs. Despairing of ail human succor, the terrified survivors addressed them selves to (iod and registered a solemn vow that If he heard their prayer and removed the scourge they would rep resent, every ten years, "for thankful remenibruure nud edifying contempla tion, and by the help of the Almighty, the sufferings of Jesus, the Saviour of the world," Not a single person died of the plague after the vow was made, though many were affected by It. The first representation of the Passion play iu fulfillment of the vow of these simple villagers took place at Oberamniergau In the following year, and It has been repeated every ten years without u single omission. FEMININE INFLUENCE. Nowhere In It llore l-'cll nnd Lena lecoKiilr.i'd i'liiui In Krnnce. There Is still in every Frenchman a great ileal of the oriental way of look ing at woman. Aud the French wife knows It, but she goes on helping her "lnaii," be she duchess or niiiUnette. She will forgive again and again; she will let him squander her dot and will learn how t do with lewer frocks (the delight of every Frenchwoman! In au ever pitiful attempt to patch up the fortune and happiness be has wrecked. If she happen to be a shopman's wife he needs no bookkeeper or manager; she will be there from morning till night, the slave of the liilger, careful of ev ery centime, while he, too, often will leave the heavier part of the business In her capable hands aud turn his at tention to a doniluo party ut the near est cafe. If she be II peasant's wife no one on the farm will slave harder than she. There Is scarcely any labor which she will not undertake. In every sphere woman Is too often the mail of the house. Nowhere is feminine Influence more active, more felt and less recognized than in France, and nowhere mining the civilized na tions Is man more dependent on wom an, more attached to her and less re spectful. London Mail. , Speed of Snniitln. 'Judge Ilavid Torrence of Derby, Conu.." said a New Haven man, "ut tered many an epigram from the bench. In a case conrernlng a noise nuisance scientist was once testifying before him about the speed of sound. Sound.' said the man. 'travels nt the rate of 400 yards a second.' '"All sound?' nsked Judge Torrence. "'All.' replied the scientist. "The Judge smiled. "I'm sure you're wrong,' he said. 'I hnve uoticed a great difference be tween the speed of certain kinds of sound. Thus, slander travels at the rate of quite l.omi yards a second; (lat tery, oiHi yards, while truth makes on ly a few feet a second, and. slow as Its progress Is, truth often fails to reach the goal, no matter how short the dis tance.' "Indianapolis Star. The I'erNlniiM. Socially 1 found the Persian people a great improvement on the other ori entals of the farther east whom I had met. They are of a happy disposition and bright imagination, doubtless pro dueed by the dry. clear air of their high talde lands, which relieves from dulluess aud depression. They enjoy n joke and luugli heartily, and they are able to see that most things have their amusing side. I was struck with much aite'iiig all classes which showed that their milliners and ways had been favorably touched and turned by a softening civilization of nncient date. General Gordon's "A Varied Life." The Wonintl of 1'oinc. It is the creed of the up to date wo man never to give herself away. A cup of coffee may be spilled over her delicate silk gown; slie simply noiiis the breadths together and goes on with her flow of feminine talk. "Enfant ter rlble" makes agonizing remarks, a rival give-t some cruel stab; all Is met with the same absolute immobility of countenance. London Lady. The II ehenrmil. Bobby-Sister will be down in a few minutes, Mr. Softly. She's upstairs re hearsing. Mr. Softly (who lias conic nrepnredi W-wbat is s-she rehearsing. B-bobbv? Bobby I don't know, but she's standing In front of the mirror nnd blushing aud saving. "Oh. Mr. Softly-er this is so sudden." linker: n Difference. "George told me today he loved mo more than his very life." "Nonsense. All the young men say that." "That may be true. But they all don't say It to me." He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it re spect. Cicero. IlilioiiNiicKK nnd Coimliiintion. For years I was troubled with bilious ness and constipation, which made lite miserable for me. My appetlto failed me, I IobI my usual force snd vitality. Pep sin preparations and cathartics only made matters worse, I do not know where should have been today had I not tried Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tab lets. The tablets relieve the ill feeling at once, strengthen the digestive functions helping the system to do its work natur ally. Mrs. Rosa Potts, Birmingham Ala. These tablets are for sale by Dunn & Fulton. tH . Now for the Balance of Those Misses' and Children's Coats Advertised Saturday. At the moment this advertisement was written the cloak room was crowded and coats were considerably tossed about so that we were unable to get a detailed list ol what is . still here. Ii half of them are gone you can rest assured that of thnso still left there are 30 of the greatest coat values you were ever asked to this store loses. These briefly are the facts concerning the greatest Misses' and Children's Cat Sale we ever conducted. Saturday morning ooata of au actual value of $351 75 were marked to prices that ag gregated exactly $18H50. That averages very little over half price. The ('cats are grouped into six lots: 24 Costs ranging from $3.50 to $5, for 82. 14 ranging from (4 50 to 84.75, for 83. 7 rang ing Irom 85 to $(1 75, for $3 50. Three 87 50 ooats f r 84 4 rang ing 1'rooi 88 50 to 815, for $5. 7 ranging from 810 to $15, for 86. ?. WILLIAM B. JAMES. irv ' . -jr - i i now durablo. iv.r ' Paroid rc:illy is ; if you only knew how easily it can bo put on nnd how Ions it lasts: if you only knew what n ood (ill-round niorov by uinj it for Weather iroof, wear proof, any one, can lay it. Let jrcnuino l aronl hooting will Send for and book on "Building Economy." It will save you money. Don't take a cheap imitation. Get tho genuine tao roof that lasts. A complete rooting kit in every roll H'l-t ,w i ivnriii TioncMta, la. FOREST COUNTY TIONESTA, CAPITAL STOCK, SURPLUS, Time Deposits Solicited. Will A. Watnb Cook, A. B. Kkllt. Cashier. directors Q. W. Robinson, President. A. Wayne Cook, N. P. Wheoier, T. F. Ritohev. Collections remitted for on day of pnyinent at low rates. We promise our custom ors all the benollts consistent with conservative banking. Interest paid on time deposits. Tour patronage respectfully solicited. aw ns :r.5!Sl' t tt-JIt" n s corded our resident patrons. 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