gfog Smarts A Superb Display of Tailor Made Suits Coats and Gowns. We can safely state that no other house be tween Buffalo and Pittsburg has sold as many suits as this store has this season. Why No where else can you see the style of garments that are shown here. Every garment in our house is new and exclusive exclusive with us alone. This store has been noted and a reputation established for carrying only exclusive garments. Hence the volume of business. You may go to every store in the city, then come here and you will see the truth ol this brings fresh arrivals My What a Toy The little folks that have been coming here in hundreds must have thought that they were stepping directly into Fairyland. They were hardly prepared for such a toy store for it was all so big and beautiful and grand. Don't their eyes open wide as they espy the wondrous things, the beautifully dressed dolls, the realistic railways, the almost life like animals and the hundreds of other novel things. It's a great scene one even the "grown ups" seem to enjoy. Let the young sters come every day. Bring the ones that are too little to come alone. Just think, but a few short weeks for them to enjoy it in. The Smart & OIL CITY. PA. Tour 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. Trying the Wrong Man. An uuui:u;;l verdict was rendered by the jury in n ease tried In a Calif oruia town a S'K'd many years ago. The question was as to the ownership ol several head of cattle which the de fendant was accused of having stolen from the plaint in. Ah the ease pro ceeded and different witnesses gave their svidence. it became apparent to all listeners that the defendant was (in innocent man. When It came time for the Jurj to retire to consider their verdict, they did so, but returned to the courtroom in a few moments. The foreman looked the Judge straight In the eye and said with n drawl and twang which betrayed Ids New Eng land origin: "Jpilgc. we find the plaintiff guilty." "The court is not trying the plain tiff, but the defendant," said his honor hastily, and the matter being explain ed, the foreman was at length Induced to express the Jury's opinion that the defendant was not guilty. "Ilowsomever," added the foreman solemnly, "'pears to me we're con sidering the wrong man, your honor!" Holy Land a World Center. It used to he n fancy that the Holy Land was the center of the world. Id a sense not then meant it was indeed central. It occupied a strategic posi tion. Three continents converge here all the continents known as the an-clown-Asia. Africa and Europe. Con tiguous to Palestine ou the south lies Egypt and on the north Syria. Or, tak ing a wider view, on one side of It were India. Persia. Assyria aud Baby. lonl.i, whll tin? other side of It were Egypt. !t re aud Rome. A Italic among glanls the land of .lesus was In deed little among the geographical triltcs; but, like a bain-, it was mon arch of the household of lands. From Its central wintage tiny Pales tine t;iuv through the march of centu ries the pnx'cstlou of these mighty em piresAssyrian, Babylonian, Xledo Persian, Greek aud Rotunu, being it elf during much of the time a center of influence and determining force that have bellied form the character and history of the civilized world. Ex change. A Clmh of Prayers. Mag;;le. with her fair face and blond hail, and Musi, with dusky skia and 1 assertion. iVery aay Wonderful Store. Silberberq Co. Treasurer, H. R. MERRITT. KinK.v wool, mid piayeti togeuier m mud pies and had swung on the same gate ever since they could remember, for Nina's mammy was Maggie's nurse, says the Housekeeper. They were now seven years old. Maggie loved Nina In spite of her color, yet she hnd a feeling that her friend deserved to be white, so she added to her prayer each night: "Please, od, make Nina white." As the weeks went by and Nina re mained unchanged Maggie felt that her petition needed re-en foreement, so she confided In Nina, begging her to pray for the greatly desired bleaching. But Nina in surprise looked at Maggie with wide open eyes and exclaimed: "Me? No, slr-ee. IV de Eawd, Maggie. I doan wanter to be no white child, an' Ps Jes' prayin' with all my might fer you to come black!" The Intelligent Bird. Two negroes In Washington were overheard discussing the Intelligence of birds In general. "Birds is shore sensible," observed one darky to the other. "Yo' kin learn them anything. 1 uster work for a lady that had one In a clock, an' when It was time to tell de time It uster come out an' say cuckoo jest as many times ns de time was!" . "Yo' doan' say so?" asked the other negro Incredulously. "Shure tiling!" responded the lirst darky. "But de uios' wonderful part was dat It was only a wooden bird too:"IIarper's Weekly. The Builders. "The Egypllaiis were the builders," said u contractor enviously, "No won der their monuments will endure for ever. Labor was nothing to them. As you would spend a cent on a newspa per so would nn Egyp.lan king put 10,000 men to work upon a temple. Labor, you see, cost nothing. A strik ing example of the Egyptian prodigal ity of labor lies In tills fat: No less than 2,mhi men were employed for three years In carrying a single stow, a stone of unexampled size, from V't phantlueto Sals." Little Willie Say, pa, what nre the dogs of war? PnAlmost any two struuge dogs hen they nioot, luy son. BOSTON'S LACK OF HUMOR. A KbbIUIi View of the Landmarks of the Hab." I have said that Boston loves relics. The relics which It loves best are the relics of England's discomfiture. The stately portraits of Copley are of small account compared to the memorials of what was nothing else than a civil war. Fuueull hall, the Covent Garden of Boston, presented to the city by Pe ter Faneull some thirty years before the birth of "liberty," Is now but an emblem of revolt. The Old South meet ing place Is endeared to the citizens of Boston ns "the sanctuary of freedom." A vast monument, erected a mere quar ter of a century ago, commemorates the "Boston massacre." And wherever yoxi turn you are reminded of an episode which might easily be forgotten. To nn Englishman these historical land marks are Inoffensive. The dispute which they recall aroused far less emo tion on our side of the ocean than on the other, nud long ago we saw the events of the Revolution In a fair per spective. In truth, this Insistence ou the past is not wholly creditable to Boston's sense of humor. The passion ate paeans which Otis and his friends sang to liberty were irrelevant. Lib erty was never for a moment In dan ger. If lllierty, Indeed, be a thing of fact and not of watchwords. The lead ers of the Revolution wrote and spoke as though It was their duty to throw off the yoke of the foreigner a yoke as heavy as that which Catholic Spain cast upon Protestant Holland. But there was no yoke to be thrown off, because no yoke was ever Imposed, and Bostou might have celebrated greater events in her history thnu that which an American statesman has wisely call ed "the glittering and souuding gener alities of natural right." Charles Whit ley In Blackwood's Magazine. IMITATIVE WOMAN. A Cynical lOnalltli View of Feminine Human Nature. Decidedly women are an imitative class. From her earliest age the small girl apes the doings of her elders and, had she her own way. would be a mini ature epitome of fashion. Such enter tainments as site Is permitted to wit ness in her mother's drawing room she imitates, with dolls and nurses for com pany, in the nursery. In her school days she Invariably "forms" herself on some special friend whom she elects as a model of femlulne perfection. And at a certain stage of their lives girls arc as much alike as peas in a pod. As they mature and develop they may perhaps show some signs of Individual ity, but In all the main issues of life they continue to be more imitative than original. Fashions, housekeeping and enter taining nre all more or less conducted on the same lines, and the only true sign of friendship that Is shown to the young married woman Is to beg her to order ber life and her home on her friend's principles. Any departure from those principles or any symptom of in dividual taste or strength of mind will sound the first challenge of unpopulari ty for the budding matron. Her moth er aud her mother's friends will alike desire Imitation of their methods ns the "sincerest form of flattery," aud every decline from the original system will be pronounced wrong or injudi cious. Rita In London Mail. Too Hapiil Urowth. The minister's six-year-old son Is of a very critical, literal turn of mind, and his father's sermons sometimes puzzle him sorely. lie regards his fa ther as the embodiment of truth nnd wisdom, but be has dlftlculty in har monizing the dominie's pulpit utter ances with the world as it really Is. His parents encourage him to express his opinions and clear up his doubts as much as possible. So one Sunday at dinner, after a long period of thought, they were not surprised when he said gravely, "Papa, you said one thing In your sermon today that I dou't think is so at all." "Well, what's that, my boy?" asked the clergyman. "Why, pnpa, you said 'The boy of to day is the man of tomorrow.' That's too soon." Incredulous. "Cousin Henry's seasickness that time he crossed the water must have touched his head a bit." "Why so?" "Well, here he wrote in his di'ry: 'June 14. Most everybody seasick, in cludiu' myself. Saw two spoutln' wales.' " "Don't see anything very loony about that." "Why, Abner Dobbs! Do you nienn to tell me that you believe that any of them passengers had ever swallered a wbttIe?"-L!fe. British Military Inventors. The war olfiee has long been prover bial for its discouragement of Invent ors In general, but they seem to reserve n special brand of ill treatment for nn Inventor who is unlucky enough to wear n soldier's coat. General Shrap ncll, the luveutor of the formidable projectile which bears his inline to this day, died a poor man after spending thousands of pounds ou his invention. London Regiment. To the Point. Little Fred Uncle John, did you ever hear the story aliout the good little boy who had a nice uncle? Uncle John No. Tell it to me. Little Fred Well, the nice uncle gave the good little boy a quarter. That's all. Exchange. Nothing is impossible to the man whs can will. Mlrabeuu. Too Personal. "I have come to sell the editor n Joke," announced the young man with long hair and big black tie. "n'm!" grunted the otllco boy, as lie aimed his broom at, the cat. "Is it one of those jokes nhout automobiles breaking down?" "It Is. I have sold the editpr six jokes on this order in the last week." "Well, you won't sell blm any more. He ltougbt an automobile himself yes terday nnd It broke down on the trlul spin and he bad to walk six mile through the mud." Chicago Pally Kent's. A Hideous Dream. I hnd a horrible dream a few nights ago. I dreamed that I was the sub editor of a religious weekly. There Is nothing dreadful in that, of course. The horrible part comes later. My editor, just off for a holiday editors p'nerally nre, you know Instructed me to write to several people of eminence and ask them to tell me their favorite prayer. (1 record this little story In all reveremv, you understand.) Well, many of the eminent peoplo replied, Including n lady novelist of great fame. The lady wrote: Dear Sir In reply to your esteomed fa- vor. I have much plensure In Informing you thnt my fnvorlte prayer Is, "Glvs us this tiny our dully bread. I placed It at the head of the . col mini, put the piqier to bed and went there myself, feeling pleased. Next morning when I opened my copy of he religious weekly I found that three letters had lieen dropped fsoiu the lady uovelist's favorite prayer, which, to my consternation, now read as follows: "Give us this day our dally ad." I woke up screaming. Keble Howard In Sketch. Classed as an Antique Also. A charming hostess of one of the "big houses." ns they are called by those who are welcomed Into them, has the added beauty of prematurely white hair, says the Washington Star. That which seem to her oonterjiX rarles an added charm may appear to the crudely young a mark of decline, at least so it appears In one Instance of which the hostess herself tells with enjoyment. The lady Is a connoisseur of antiques. At one of her tens a debutante rich with the glow of youth, but sadly con strained with her sense of her own novelty, was handed a cup of tea. The cup was beautifully blue and wonder fully old. The hostess, desiring to lighten the strain on her youthful guest by a pleasingly diverting re mark, said. "That little cup Is 150 years old." "Oh." ennie the debutante's high strained tones, "how careful you must be to have kept It so long!" Trades That Kill. One of the most dangerous of trades, according to the Pilgrim, "Is the cover ing of toy animals with skin, chamois leather being used, for Instance, for the elephants, calfskin for the horse and. goatskin for the camels. This covering must of course lit without a wrinkle to look natural, so the wood en model Is first dipped Into glue, then sprinkled with chalk dust; then the skin Is put on. The chalk Is so fine that It tills the air and Is drawn Into the throat nnd lungs. A year of tills sort of work often results In death. Another very injurious toy Is the rub ber balloon. The fumes and solvents used In reducing sheet rubber to the uecessory thinness while retaining its strength and the dyeing of the bril liant yellows, greens and purple are most of them poisonous. A Swelled Head. A typical Englishwoman., when name one spoke the other day of a certain man having a "swelled head," looked dazed. "Really! You don't mean It!" cried the Englishwoman. "I'm very sorry." A day or ho later the English woman, happening to meet the wife of the man in question, observed that she was so sorry to hear that Mr. Blank wns ill. "Rut he Isn't!" cried the wife. 'Tit wns never better In his life." "Is that so?" snld the Englishwo man. "Why, what could Mrs. Dash have meant the other day when she said he was suffering from swelled head?" His Narrow Escape. A Jolly old steamlxiat captain with lore girth than height was asked If he hnd ever had any very narrow es capes. "Yes," he replied, his eyes twinkling, "once I fell off my boat at the mouth of Bear creek, and, although I'm a expert swimmer, I guess I'd lie there now If It hadn't lieen for my crew. You see, the water wns just deep enough so's to be over my head when I tried to wade out, and just shallow enough" he gave his body an ex planatory put "so that whenever I tried to swim out I dragged bottoa." Everyliody's. Horrible Example. "My dear," snld Mrs. Strongmlnd, "I wnnt you to accompany me to the town hnll tomorrow evening." "What for?" queried the meek and lowly other half of the combine. "I om to lecture on the 'Dark Side of Married Life,'" explained Mrs. S., "and I want you to sit on the platform nnd pose ns one of the Illustrations." Chicago News. A Financial Pessimist. Gaye Yes, he is what you might trrm a financial pessimist. Myers That's a financial pessimist? Gaye A mntt who is afraid to look pleasant for fear his friends will want t bor row something. Accidental. Alice How did you come to meet your second husband, Grace? Grace It was purely accidental. He ran over my first ono with a motor car and afterward attended the funeral. A Crash. "John, what was that awful noise In the bathroom just now?" "Don't won, my dear," replied John sleepily. "It was merely a crash towel falling." Milwaukee Sentinel. Opinion. Oplnfon is a light, vain, crude nnd imperfect thing settled In the imagina tion, but never arriving at the under standing, there to obtain the tlnctnre f rsnsoa. Ba Jonson. A Home Made llapity by Cliambrrlaia's Cough Kettieily. About two months ago our baby girl had measles which settled on her lungs and at last resulted in a severe attack of bronchitis. We bad two doctors but no relief was obtained. Everybody thought she would die. I went to eight different stores to find a certain remedy which had been recommended to me and failed to get It, when one of the storekeepers In sisted that I try Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. I did so and our baby Is alive and well today. Geo. W. Spence, Holly Springs, N. C. For sale by Duon 4 fulton. The "Danger of Soap. When a man goes to somo therms, springs to "boil out" all the old Satat that Is iu blm he quickly learns one ol the more Important lessons of life and civilization that Is, he acquires a su premc contempt for soap. Wheu lit takes his first tub, at ".lit to 102 degrees, twenty minutes In the water to soak, the attendant gives blm a terrible scrubbing, using a sharp soap and ( loota. After that first bath no inort soap Is used. The man continues tc soak, dally In water of the same tem perature for twenty minutes and ! rubbed with the loofa, but no sonp. "Soap." the expert attendant will tell you, "clogs up the pores of tho skin. Our object Is to keep 'em open. We cure all diseases by giving the pores n chance to breathe and excrete.'' Your hands chap? Wherefore? Be cause when you last washed them you ,'icgloctod to rinse tliein thoroughly. You left the pores clogged with soap. Y'our complexion Is muddy. Where fore? You forgot to wash the soap off your cheeks. Hereafter rinse, rinse, rinse. Keep on rinsing. Con tinually rinse. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Grotesque Spanish Honor. There Is n story about the Duke of Wellington that Illustrates the fautas tic Idea of honor held by many Span iards, contrasted with the practical common sense of Englishmen. Wheu the duke was co-operating with the Spanish army In the peninsula against Napoleon he was desirous on one oc casion during a general engagement that the general commanding the Spanish contingent should execute a certain movement ' ou the field. He t oiiimuiilcntcd the wish to the Span laid iH-rsoually and was somewhat taken aback to lie told that the honor of the king of Spain and his army would coiiih-I him to refuse the re quest unless Wellington, as a foreign ollicer graciously permitted to exist and tight on Spiinii-h soil, should pre Kent the petition on his knees. The old duke often used to tell the story after ward, and he would say, "Now, 1 was extremely anxious to have the move ment executed, and I didn't care a 'twopenny damn' about getting on my knees, so down 1 Jumped!" A Dog and His Name. "There was u dog case which ex cited much attention In Berlin some years ago," said a former resident of that city. "A citizen complained to the aufhoiitles against a neighbor who, he said, to annoy him, gave his name to a mongrel cur. 'He calls my name,' he said, 'and when I turn around he laughs and says he wns calling bis dog.' "'What's your munc V asked the magistrate. " 'My uaine is Schulz.' " 'And do you call the dog Schultz?' he asked the other man. " 'Yes. your honor, but 1 spell It with a T-Schuliz." . "'Call blm without the T,' com mauded the magistrate, trying to look serious. The man did so, the dog came to him and an order to change the name or Ik fined followed." The Water Bottle's Shape. Three us fill purposes and probably many more than three are served by making the familiar water bottle of such a distinctive pattern. In the first place the narrowness of the neck pre vents the entry of much dust thai would inevitably settle on the water were the entire surface exposed; In the next place the same narrowness pre vents excessive and rapid evaporation of the water, and In the third place the shape of the neck makes it u capital handle, thus doing away with the ne cessity for a separate handle fastened to the body of the bottle, a course that would render It much less convenient and more liable to Ite broken. Pear son's. The Gcquel to the Joke. Many years ago a visitor- to Edin burgh was being shown over the high court of Justiciary. lie made some re mark concerning the dock and its du ties, and in reply the olliclal Jokingly said the visitor might one day lie sen tenced to be hanged In that very room. The sightseer was the notorious Dr. Pritchard. Two years had barely passed when in the dock he had so closely Inspected he was doomed to death for poisoning his wife and moth-er-ln-lnw. A Superior Brand. Mrs. Jenkins My little boy's got the measles. Mrs. Tom kj ns So has mine; he got It from (he grocer's children. Mrs. Jenkins (disdainfully) Oh, my little boy got it. from the clergyman's children. London Tit-Bits. The Vislblo Signs. "The Golts have been doing some mountain climbing In Switzerland." "There! .Guessed It the minute I set eyes ou them the other day." -How could you tell?" "They had such a in-aked look aliout t hem." Bait imore A inerlca n. The Art of Talking Back. "I hardly know how to answer you," said she when the widower proposed. "I would not let that worry me," said he unotliingly. "That Is some thing it woman learns perfectly soon after marriage." Cincinnati Enquirer. Tho Support. Teacher Who was It supported the world upon his shoulders? Tommy Atlas, sir. Teacher Who supported Atlas? Tommy The book don't say, but I 'spect his wife did. That Is the best government which desires to make people happy and knows how to make them happy. Maeiiulay. Boes Laxative Cough Syrup for coughs, colds, croup and whooping cough grows In favor daily. Mothers should keep it on band for children. It is prompt relief to croup. It is gently laxa tive, driving the poison and phlegm from the system. It gives immediate relief. Guaranteed. Sold by J. R. Morgan. The man who really knows how to run things Isn't around taking orders from somebody else, TbeM, Wile Co. clothing continues In the lead of all other makes. Hopkins ells 'am. It Preparation for Christmas. This morning wa inaugurate an energetic, aggressive' Christmas merchandizing campaign. Many months ago, in fact away last February, we started laying plans lor tbis Christmas, 1907, business. At that time we placed "Import Orders" for one of the largest aud ruoBt complete assortment of Toys a d Dolls ever brought to this city. The Toy Department is open now and every one iuferested is cordially invited to come aud see the display, childreu particularly. Store decorations, under way now for several d'.ys, we hope to have completed some time today. These we propose making more elab orate than ever before. Every where all over the store a thought aud suggestion of Christmas. Tho display of Christmas merchandise will go on now from day to day until completed, and it's being prepared on a scale never attempted before by this house, and we don't im agine any one will be disappointed. Regular staple items of practi cal Christmas merchandise have been provided iu widest variety aud assortment. From day to day we'll go into more extended detail regarding the character of merchandise we hope to interest you. This morning wo say, most cordially, come and see, I WILLIAM B. JAMES, f H- H H-t-H-H-HH . .K f raroia really id ; if you only knew bow cosily it can bo put on nnd bow long wimt.n good all-round money by using it for every building on tho place. Weather proof, wear proof, contains no tar, elate color, nny one can lay it. Let ua provo to you wbat tho genuiuo l'aroid Hoofing will do. Send for Free Sample and book on "Ruiliiing Economy." It will lavs you money. Don t take a cneap tuo root timt lasts. A complete rooting kit in every roll. .1,1. L A Tionesjta, Pa. I . 0 FOREST COUNTY TIONESTA, CAPITAL STOCK, SURPLUS, Tim Deposits Solicited. Will pay Four l'er Cent, per Annum A. Watnb Cook, President. A. B. DIRK0T0R3 A. Wayne Cook, Q. W. Robinson, Wm. Hmearbaugh, N. P. Wheeler, T. F. Rltohev. J. T. Dale. A. B. Kellv. Collections remitted for on day of payment at low rates. We promise our custom era all the benefits consistent with conservative banking. Interest piid on time deposits. Tour patronage respectfully solicited. FREE TILL CHRISTMAS A Hondsoms Unbreakable Rubber Comb Free The comb retails at 50c. and will be given away to anybody who purchases one ol Dr. Scott's ELECTRIC HAIRBRUSHES My brush l guaranteed to cure fallm hair, dandruff and all scalp disorders. It relieve nervous head acne and neuralgia. Made ol aeleoted bristles No wire to Injure Ibe balr or scalp. Beware of Imitations. Mr brush is packed in neat box, with compass to teat power. Appropriate Christmas (lift sent by injured mail, postpaid, for SI. 00 with our so-day guarantee. Send for book on specialties, mailed free. Don't forget to iccepl tiiia offer. Establiiktd tiiKi 187S Or. Geo. A. Scott, 870 Broadway, New York Pa. sIugvstMqbcx OFTICIA1T. Office ) 4 7H National Bank Building, OIL CITY, PA. Kyea examined free. Ezoltisivnlv optical. Promptly obtained, or FEC RETURNED. tO YIAM' IXriRIINCI. OurCHARCIS ARK THK LOWEST. Send model, photo or sketch for expert wnrrh and free report on patentability. 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It is the surest quick way of starting on the road to wealth: There is no better investment. Send ONE DOLLAR (or more if you like) nnd re ceive your Bank Book by return mail. THE Franklin Trust Company FRANKLIN, PA. . If wu aaaJasli
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