Beautiful and Floor There's a Vast Difference in Carpets. There is no class of merchandise sold in Oil City with which so much actual fraud is connected as with carpets. If you want to protect yourself against the unscrupulous who advertise "Body Brussels" carpets at "one-fourth and one third off," and sell you a third grade Tapestry, for Body Brus sels advertised, then Buy Your Carpets and Rugs of a Thoroughly Reliable House. The Smart & Silberberg store has always sold carpets and rugs on a strictly legitimate basis, giving honest values for every penny spent here for floor coverings, having but one price to all, and never misrepresenting quality under any cir cumstances. Considering these facts, you cannot buy carpets and rugs with equal satisfaction and economy in any other store in town. Half Wool Ingrains,.. 25c Extra Super C. C. Ingrains, 37c Best All Wool Extra Supers, 50c Tapestry Brussels as low as 50c Body Brussels as low as .1.00 Velvet Brussels as low as 75c Axminsters as low as 75c The Smart & OIL CITY, PA. Oil City Trust Company, Oil City, Pa. Certificates of Deposit Draw In terest at p rrYl Interest does not cease at r OUl 1 CI Lv3lU. the end of six months, but continues for any number of months you may hold your certificate. President. JOSEPH SEEP. ViOB PXwident, GEORGE LEWIS. Hardly Negotiable. Stories linve lieen told of buttons, tackM mid various extraneous snl stances found In contribution boxes, lint It Is seldom that n church member strikes a Mow so severe as was that delivered ly Anion BinlU of I'ottervllle on one occasion. It was at tin? close of n missionary sermon that Mr. l?iuld, whose wont It ns to contribute 10 wills to each of the charities to the support of which the church subscribed, was seen to take n blue slip from his pocket nnd look at it keenly and a fleet Innately. When after n slight but evident liesl. tat ion he dropped the slip, carefully folded. Into the box lieacon Lane, who was pasint; it, could hardly refrain from an exclamation of joy. "The Lord will bless you, Brotuct Itudd," he said, when the sermon was over, htirryinii down the nlsle to over take the prosperous grocer. "I hope bo," returned Mr. Itudd dry ly, "lint I'm afraid you cal'late oh that being a check that I dropped iu the box. It wii'n't. "J'was a receipted bill for kerosene the church owed me last year, anil it bad been overlooked. Of course It's jest the same as money, though, when you come to that." Youth's Companion. What His Music Bill Meant. An architect who had planned and miperintetiiled the building of a west side residence had turned over the completed house to Its owner. The architect had l.i en In nowise hamper ed in the expenditure of money, yet his customer, being a good business man, gave his personal attention to the de tails of the cost. - "What docs this mean?" he nsked on a final Inspection of the bills. "Three hundred dollars to n iiartet of trained musicians. How can anybody have given a concert already in my house when uo one is living there';" "They were testing the acoustics of the rooms," the architect explained. "Kvery room Iu your house lias been submitted to that test. There will be plenty of music there later on, and I certainly wouldn't want to finish the bouse without lielng sure that the sounding properties were satisfactory. In these days every private house or hotel that amounts to anything is put through the acoustic test lefore It leaves the architect's bauds." Js'ew l'ul i-lin. New Rugs Coverings. Silberberq Co. Treasurer, H. R. MERRITT. Blind Men's Dreams, Cue of the most intelligent Inmates of a blind asylum, who came into the world blind, says that he never dreams of the things he lias read about and never dreams of any thing or person that lie has not In some way come In personal contact with. He dreams of music, of the videos of persons he knows, of such incidents as might happen at the home or In some place In which lie has actually been, but never of Incidents In other places or In other lauds. Kven although he lias read descriptions of localities, of nat ural iH'iiutles. of the appearance of a street or a city, uo idea of what they look like comes to him In the fancies of his sleep. There Is n class of blind people who become blind when quite young. Such blind people never dream of any scene or object except those which have remained Iu the memory from what they actually saw before they liecaine blind. I'earson's Weekly Fish In Inclosed Waters. Most people not without education and a general knowledge of natural history are mystified by the presence of fish iu Inclosed waters. Tor mauy years there was open mouthed wonder over the perch, bream and crayfish found In the newly cut dams neiir the Macqnarle river, in New South Wales. In some eases the water had scarcely settled after the ruin had filled the dam than the fish were observed, and the Australian farmers started a the ory of spontaneous production. This obtained and gained wide credence un til a Sydney professor chanced to pick up a wilil duck and found Its breast feathers and webbed feet well dotted with fertile and almost hatched fish ova, on which the "spontaneous pro duction" tl ry was promptly with drawn St. Louis (ilolie-I)eiuocrflt. Wrong Tip. "I have come all the way out here," said the tenderfoot, "to see your beau tiful sunset." "Somebody's been stringin' you, stranger," replied Arizona Al. "It ain't mine." Chicago Hecord llerald. Hard Climbing, Weary Walker I e world's all wrong. Tired Tatters-Wot's eatln' youse now? Weary Walker-Ef I'd a hud de niakln' tiv It I'd mad! all de roads niunla' downh l.-riiii Ths Cnpplt and His Father. Not even the wide flapping trousers of his sailor suit could wholly hide the slender form wasting away from lack of use. Smoldering brown eyes Illu minated the little face, made wizen by hours of pain, as he smiled up at the tail nian at his side, who, broad of shoulder and strong of face, smiled back encouragingly. A troop of small lxys noisily Invad ed the car at the next station. Keck less In their good spirits, one of their number was roughly pushed against a crutch, causing It to fall to the lloor. The man's eyes blazed more with an guish than with anger as he exclaim ed harshly, "He careful!" The sturdy urchins, awed at what had occurred, subsided in scats oppO' site. The man looked over their heads into space. The child looked first at the lioys, then with questioning eyes back at the man. "Fawther," he whispered as he light ly touched his sltwo, "would you love me Is'tter If I was like those boys?" The man gave a startled glance across the aisle at "those boys," Inso lent in their perfect health and boy hood vigor, then tightly grasping the hand nearest to him said: "No, sou. I love you Is'tter than all the world Just as you are." Xew York Times. Risky Speculation. In the days "lefo' de with" a handy negro named Jack was saving money earned at odd times with which to buy his freedom. II is master encouraged him and kept his money for him. In time Jack had saved $!MM) and needed only another hundred to make him free. Ills master told him that It wouldn't be long now until he could get another hundred. Jack went out with another slave to celebrate some local festival. Ketiirning along the railroad track they were frightened by in approaching train. Iloth got off the track, but Jack's cninpiiilon fell nnd, striking his head against a rock, was killed. Jack hurried as rapidly as ho could to his master's house. It was a late hour, but the master must hear him. lie said, "(.Inline malt money right now." The astonished master remonstrated, saying. "Itut. Jack, yon need only another hundred dollars to get free." "I knows It. Mars' II.Miry, I knows It. but niggers Is too onsartin. Hill Jes' killed hisself by bust In' his head agin a rock, tin' I alu gw Ine hives' mall money In nothlu' as onsartin as niggers." Washington Herald. Grieg as a Schoolboy. Grieg, the noted composer, was not a pattern schoolboy. In n description of his days at school he wrote: "Knowing that by arriving late I would not be allowed to enter the class until the end of the first lesson, I used, on wet morn ings, to stand under a dripping roof until I was soaked to the skin. The master then sent me home to change my clothes, but the distance being long this was equivalent to giving nie a dis pensation. Yon may guess that I played this prank pretty often, but when at last I carried it so far as to come one day wet through, though it had hardly rained at nil. they became suspicious and kept a lookout. One fine day I was caught and made an in timate noqiiaintain'0 with the birch." St. James' Gazette. A Peculiar Cold. Sims Keeves had lieen announced to sing at a small public dinner at which IMckens presided, and, as happened not Infrequently, Sims' Keevcs had something the matter with his throat and was unable to attend. Pickens announced this, and the announcement was received with a general laugh of Incredulity. This made Dickens very angry, and he rose manfully to the de fense of the delinquent. "My friend, Sims Iteeves." he said quietly, "re grets Ids inability to fhltill ids engage ment owing." he added, with caustic severity, "to an unfortunately nuius Ing und highly facetious cold." ilnhn'i Explanation. "John," said Mrs. Noodles savagely ni John raine Into the room unsteadily and hung his collar on the chandelair, "What time Is it?" "Jus" 1 o'clock, my dear," replied John, making n desperate effort to act natural. "What do you mean by telling me such n falsehood? I heard the clock strike 'A not ten minutes before vou came In." "Yes hlc my dear, but you don't uu'stand that clock. It's a repeater. Milwaukee Sentinel. Large Doings. On Long Island u hundred aud more years ago there was fox hunting for three days during the season, and the biography of Catherine Schuyler con tains the following apt Hues from the pen of h witty woman whose name re mains unknown: A fox Is killed by twenty men. That fox iiiTlinpH luiil killed u hen. A gallant uot no doubt is here. All Wicked foxes OIlKllt to feur When twenty dogs and twenty men Can kill n fox llmt killed a hen. Ideal Justice. "Sammy," said a Gcrinautowii moth er recently to her youngest born, "when you divided those seven pieces of can dy with your brother did you give him four?" "Xo, ma'am," replied Sammy, "I knew they wouldn't come out even, so I ate one before I Itogan to divide." Harper's Weekly. The Poor Villains. "Don't your heart ache fer the pore hero au' heroine, Hiram?" "Oh, I duiino, Marthy. They alius come out light an' sassy in the end Sometimes I can't help feeliu' sorter sorry fer the villain an' the villalness." Louisville Courier-Journal. Playing and Listening- Muggins You mustn't mind my daughter's mistakes. You know she plays entirely by ear. Uuggius Uu fortunately that is nlso the way I listen. I'hiludelphln Ilecord. His Inferiors. "Xo," (.aid Kadley, "I never associate with my inferiors. Do you?" ' "Uea'ly, I can't say," replied Miss Cutting. "I don't think I ever met any of your Inferiors!" To forgive a fault In another is more 'b'ubUme than to ba faultless oneself George Band. Coy Pote I;: ::.': :. "The one thing v.c hae more trou ble with than anything else," said the manager of one of the large hotels hi upper HroadWiiA. "is the fact that wo men Insist on rniug'illng their pet dogs to their roo i.s We have no objections to dogs as il.igs. It the animal Is not too large or ton fierce our guests innjj take them to their rooms during the day and may even feed them there. But we draw the line at having dogs In the bedrooms at night. Any woman with a pet dog can 'have the lieast cared for by the porter at night, and we have specially constructed kennels for all kinds of dogs, and we give them the liest of care. Hut owners of pets seem to think that no one save themselves understands Fldo or Gyp. The women seem to think that If dog gie has not the comforting assurance of the owner's nearness then doggie will not sleep well. So women try to smuggle their pets to their rooms un dor their cloaks or by back ways or even brilie one of the porters to take it to their room, believing that we will uot hear anything about It. "As a matter of fact, the first tiling the porter does after getting his tip is to tip me, and a couple of horn's later the woman is called upon by a clerk, who tells her dogs cannot stay In the bedrooms nil night. New York IVess. His Neighbor's Cat. A Cleveland lawyer tells of a man living In a suburb of that city whoso sloop had lieen dlsturlied nightly by the howling on his own back fence of his neighbor's cat. At last, Iu despair, he consulted his lawyer. "There sits the cat every night on our fence." explained the unhappy man, "and he yowls and yowls and yowls. Now, I don't want to have any trouble with this neighbor, but the tiling has gone far enough, and I want you to suggest a remedy." The lawyer looked solemn and said not a word. "I am well within my rights If 1 shoot the cat, am I not?" asked the sufferer. "I would hardly say that," replied the legal light. "The cat does uot be long to you, as 1 understand it." "Xo." "And the fence does?" "Yes." "Then." concluded the lawyer, "I think It safe to say that you have a perfect right to tear down the feue." Llpplncott's. Weeds Worth Millions. Xew Zealand flax Is one of a nunt bcr of wild weeds that yield their gatherers great wealth. The flax, the strongest known, grows wild In marshes. When it Is cultivated It dwindles and Its fillers become brittle and valueless. Indian hemp grows wild, and out of It hasheesh, or keef. Is made. Keef looks like flakes of chopped straw. It is smoked Iu a pipe; it is eaten on liver; it Is drunk In water; It produces mi Intense, a delirious happincsu, and among orieutals It takes the place of lioer and whisky. The most valuable weed of all the wild growths is the seaweed. The nitrate beds of South America, which yield something like .ii."i.(KKl,000 a year, are nothing but IkmIs of seaweed de composed. Columbus Dispatch. One Kind of Fame. Authorities who have in charge some of England's ancient treasures try to discourage the habit of carving initials on these relics. A tine of $13 was re cently Imposed on a man who had chipped his name In letters six Inches high on one of the stones In the "Druids' CliVle" near Keswick. Close to the giant stone globe at Swanage a special slab is provided for the harm less reception of the names of all who are addicted to this self advertise ment. On popular Alpine summits It is customary for names to be left on cards iu emptied wine bottles. Chica go Xews. Good Old Times Texas, The frequent tiring of guns in the north part of town is evidence of the would-be wild and woolly fellows be ing in existence, in spite of the civil ized state reached by the average peo ple of the country. At least three nights of this week unknown parties have galloped through the streets of North Orange tiring their guns at random. Occasionally officers are sue. cessful in hunting down these cattle guilty of handling a gun In the above lii'inucr. and when once apprehended the right puiilshiniiiit Is generally ad ministered. Orange Tribune. A Story of Beau Nash. Hen n Xasli was not entirely a butter fly, as Is proved by the following anec dote: His father was a partner In a glass business at Swansea. This was little known, and the Duchess of Marl borough once twitted him with the ob scurity of his birth. "Madam," replied Xash, "I seldom mention my father In company, not because I have any rea son to be ashamed of him, but because ho has some reason to be ashamed of me." Gravity. The most distant planet iu our solar system, Neptune, Is 12,75tMXH),(KX) miles from the sun, and yet the arm of tho sun reaches out and controls the re mote planet without the least difficulty. In. a word, gravity is universal, every atom iu the universe exerting its Influ ence upon every other atom. New YorU American. One Was Assumed. A fool tricked out In motley smiled on his lord and said to him, "Sir, what is the difference between my foolish ness and thine?" "Say on," quoth the lord. "Well, of mine," quoth the fool, "1 make a profession." The Orphan. "Please, sir, will you give a penny to n poor orphan?" "Certainly, my boy! Has your father been dead long?" "No, sir. lie's (lie orphan. This money's for him." To Talk About. "She hasu't any friends to speak of." "No? Then what are they for?" Puck. Au Indoli.'Ut uiiiu. draws Ills breath, t'lt dues not lire. Cicero. Hanging as a Sport. We would uot deny tho gravity of death. It Is a quite serious matter evcu to those of us who, while con scions of, or at least admitting no really sinful performances hi the past, would nevertheless. If pressed, con fess to certain minor Indiscretions which we would be only too willing to Join with the Lord in forgetting. Nev ertheless, If form or ceremony or gen eral Interest be considered the crite rion, dying Is one of the most popular things one can do. Nobody goes to see a man born, but the entire commu nity turns out to see him burled. In deed it is well known that many peo ple, perhaps a majority, derive actual enjoyment from beholding with their own eyes life dicker out of a persou's body. The almost universal satisfac tion found from time Immemorial In witnessing a hanging we can under stand. The event Is more spectacular and less expensive than a circus, pos sesses grisly human Interest to a dis tinctive degree, Is presumably grimly Just and. in any case, is unpreventii ble. If the hanging Is to take place anyway, why shouldn't we see It ? That Is the reasoning, and it seems good enough If one cares for that variety of sport. George Harvey lu North American Kevlew. The White Line. The late David Christie Murray on one occasion told the story of the champion printer's error of his expe rience to tills effect: "I wrote at lliu close of the story of 'Grace Forbeacli": 'Are there no trou bles now?' the lover asks. 'Not one, dear Frank, not one.' And then, in brackets, thus I I set the words While line. This was a technical In struction to the printer and meant that one line of space should lie left clear. The genius who had the copy lu band put the lover's speech In type correctly nnd then, setting It out us If It were a lino of verse, he gave me: "Not one. dear Frnnk. not one white line!" "It was a custom In the printing of fice to suspend a leather modal by a leather boot lace round the neck of the man who had achieved the prize betlso of the year. It was somewhere about midsummer at this time, but it was instantly unanimously resolved that nothing better than this would or could be done by anybody, and the medal was presented at once." West minster Gazette. The Quicker Way. "There goes a man," observed a steamship agent as be directed nttou tiou to a surly looking individual who had Just engaged passage for Knrope, "whose efforts are devoted to con structing short cuts lu business meth ods and lu eliminating all time con suming men and their propositions from his busy existence. He is n mau of very few words. "Some years ago tills gentleman crossed the ocean and had n very un pleasant trip. One morning a sympa thetic passenger offered him a lemon, expressing a sincere wish that it would give relief. "The pale traveler seized the lemou, hurled It viciously Into the occau and growled : "'This Is a quicker way than the other.' " A Curious Tree. Ill the village of Clynnog, Wales, there is au old cottage, formerly a country tavern, upon the roof of which there Is n full grown sycamore tree. About fifty years ago n seedling from a neighboring churchyard, where other sycamores are growing, found n rest ing place iu the corner of the wall above a slab of stone over the entrance to the building. The young tree thriv ed for a time on the small quantity of soil collected In the corner of the walls and finally forced lis roots downward through the walls into the earth lie low. Prom the outside no truce of tho roots can be seen. Cutting Big Diamonds, l'.ig diamonds lose u great deal In the cutting. The Kohlnoor was re duced by an unskillful stonecutter from 7!"."s carats to siso carats, a sec ond cutting brought It down to ISO 1-10 carats and a third to 1UG 1-10 carats, or less than a seventh of its original size. The original weight of the Pitt or Kegent diamond was 410 carats, but lu the hands of the cutler two-thirds disappeared, while the Star of the South, which was picked up lu a riv er by a negress, lost a little over half its weight by cutting. German Sportsmen. Half a miPion sportsmen in Germany kill annually. 4i,oiio head of red and fallow deer, a 10,000 roebuck, 4.000,000 hares, 4.onu.noo partridges and 400,000 wild duck, in all soino 2-",000,000 kilo grams of wild game of a value of 2.", 000.000 marks, or $.",000,000, forming nearly 1 per cent of the total meat sup ply of Germany. C. G. Schillings' "Iu Darkest Africa." Breaking Her In. Geraldlne I want you to understand before I marry you that I believe in the equality of the sexes. Gerald All right. I was Intending to give the min ister two guineas, so you'd better hand over one. Illustrated liiis. ' No Room. Scribbler My new novel is entitled "What I Told My Wife." Ituyter Why don't you call it, "What I Didn't Tell My Wife?" Scribbler-Publishers limited me to one volume. Ex change. Inflated. Artist (Indicating n exquisite ma rine view)-Tliis picture is valued nt $rit,(Hii). Stockbroker Well, well! There's a lot of water In it, isn't there? Spokane Sporlsinan-Kovlow. Promptly obtHlni-d, or FEE RETURNED. THf LOWEST. Bt-ud luuUt'l, iibotu or nkt-u-h for euwrt Mwirh mid free report on patentability. INFRINOIMINT ult comlut'twi bufore all court, l'au-nti obtained Oimtitrh m ADVCR TISID and SOLD, fre. TRADE-MARKS, PEN SIONS and OOPVRIOHTS quickly obtained. Opposite U. 8. Patent Office, WASHINGTON, D. V. mBm Write for Samples of Embroidered Organdie Swiss, 15c yd. Swiss with embroidered dot, and large floral designs in color. Daintiest, prettiest material you ever saw for summer gowns. State your color preference. f WILLIAM B. JAMES. PTTttt Official Notice OF Primary Election. List of olllees for which candidates are fo be nominated, nnd the number of party ofheers to be eleeltd, on Saturday, April lllh, 1!K8. Notice Is hereby given to the qualified electors of Forest County, In the State of Pennsylvania, that an elect Ion will tin held under the provisions nf the Act of February 17th, litotl, the "Uniform Pri maries Act," lu every election district of said County, ou Nntiirdiiy, April lllh, I WIN, between the hours of 2:00 p, in. and 8:00 p. m., for the nomination of candidates lor the followinitStateand Count v oilicea, to be voted for at the Ueueral Klection, November 3d, l!H)8: One Representative In Congress. One Representative in the Uoneral Ai-seiuhly. One Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, One person for Prothonotary, Iteg later, Recorder and Clerk of Courts. (me person for Sheriff. Three persons for County Commis sioner. Three persons for County Auditor. Two persons for Jury Cmnmissiouor. One person for County Survoyor. Also for the purpose of electing - the hereinafter named party olllcers, as well as the respective number of Delegates to the National and State Conventions of the following political parties; KKl'Uni.tCAN PARTY. Two persona for Delegate to the Repub lican National Convention. Two persons for Alternate Delegate to the Republican National Convention. One person for Delegate to the Repub lican State Convention. One person from each election district for member of the County Committee. DKMOt'KATIC PARTV. Two persona f r Delegate to the Demo cratic National Convention. Two persons lor Alternate Delegate to the Democratic, National Convention. One peraon for Delegate to the Demo cratic Slate Convention. One perBon for Chairman of the County Committee, Kighteen perilous for County Commit teemen of Foresi County, rROHIIUTION PARTY. Onn person for Delegate to the Prohibi tion National Convention. One pel son lor Delegate to the Prohibi tion State Convention. Petitions RuggfHting the names of per sons to be placed ou the ofllcial ballots for the above election must be tiled on or before March 21st, 10118. Blank petitions are now ready for distribution and will be furnished any elector upon application. I.KONARl) AONKW, Animikw Wolf, Pill UP F.MKRT, County Commissioners, Attest: J. T. Dale, Clerk. February 10, 1008. Ailiiiiiiistrator'M Notice. Letters of Administration on the estate of Mary A. Oloss, late of Tlonesta Bor ough, Forest County, Pa., deceased, hav ing been granted to the undersigned, all persons indebted to said state are hereby notified to make payment without delay, and those having claims or demands will present them, duly authenticated, for settlement. W. P. Fkkrincieh, Administrator, 0t2-12 Star Route, Oil Clly, Pa. I'lxcriitor'B Xollcc. Letters Testamentary on the estate of John Urecht, late of Hickory Township, Forest County, Pa., deceased, having been granted to the undersigned, all per sons indebted to said estate are hereby notified to make payment without delay, aud those having claims or demands will present them, duly authenticated, for settlement. U. W, Warden, Executor, Endeavor, Pa, A. C. Brown, Attorney. 6t2-5 Fred. Grettenborger GENERAL BLACKSMITH & MACHINIST. AU work pertaining to Machinery, En gines, Oil Well Tools, Gas or Water Fit tings and General lilacksmi thing prompt ly done at Low Rates. Repairing Mill Machinery given special attention, and satisfaction guaranteed. Shop in rear of and just west of the Shaw House, Tidioute, Pa. Your patronage solicited. FRED. GRETTENBERGER PRACTICAL BOILER MAKER. UeialrM Hollers, Stills, Tun km, Agitator. ISiiyr and Nells Second - hand Hollers, Etc. Wire or letter nrderB promptly at tended to, Eod ofSuspension Bridge, Third ward, OIL CITY, PA. Electrio Oil. 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