Spring Fashions
Call for Silks.
Accordingly we call attention to a special display of the
new and most popular fabrics, including .Mirage, Salome, Faille
Messaline and Cheney Bros. Shower Proof Foulards.
These are new weaves this season and are particularly
fashionable. Each color is represented in the assortment and
in Mirage Silks alone there are 27 different shades.
The Foulards are specially adapted to the long sweeping
lines of the new fashions, and will be much in demand.
Tailored Suits for Spring
Are here and ready to put on. Saturday a woman inquired
"How is it that you have suits in these new fabrics when they
tell me elsewhere that the fabrics are too scarce to get prompt
deliveries?" It's true enough that the best fabrics are scarce.
We helped to make them so. Careful attention to the earliest
fashion reports enabled us to go into the market in time to se
cure the pick of the newest and best materials. Here they are
for your inspection.
Prices Range from $12 to $75.
The New La.ce Curtains are
Here,
And a goodly line too; from the modest priced Nottinghams to
the expensive Prints, Renaissance, Arabians, Sec.
Probably the best line of Curtains and Portieres you have
ever been able to see in Oil City now awaits your inspection,
and not the least among the attractions of the line is the satis
factory prices.
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OIL CITY, PA.
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LUCILE'S DIARY
I happened to go over to Frances
Marsden's yesterday morning and I
fo-u '. her quite upset because a dress
maker slit had engaged had disap
pointed her.
"She was to have made me a silk
blouse," sho said dolefully, "and
now that she hasn't come I don't
knov what In the world to do. for
I am going East quite unexpectedly
with Fred to-morrow and I wanted
the blouse to wear."
"Won't Mr. Marsden wait a day?"
1 asked. "Maybe your dressmaker
will cinie to-morrow."
"O i, no; h's business engagements
wouldnt permit him to delay the
trip," Frances answered with an air
of Importance.
"Well, the only thing to do Is tor
us to make the blouse ourselves," I
said
"We make It! Why, how could
we?"
"Very easily " I answered. "I'll
cut It and direct the work, for I
knov a good deal about sewing." I
hi.d watched Cousin Fannie make so
many waists for me that 1 thought.
I understood the process quite thor
otighiy. "Wo must have a pattern
and nen I1 will be smooth sailing.'
"But I haven't a pattern In the
house. You know I never do any
dressmaking."
"Vou go out and get one r.t the
nnrest ship and I'll work on the
trimming while you're gone," I said.
"We'll have those dpar little Marie
Antoinette, raffles on It."
"Aren't they rather old? They
have been worn all summer."
"Yes, but they have become more
nd more popular." I felt sure I
t.uld make those tiny frills without
any trouble and I wanted to try my
han a them.
I spoke with decision, fo Frances
went out In search of a pattern.
It seemed wise to have plenty of
ruffll.g If we were to put It around
the collar and cuffs and down the
front of the blouse, so I cut yards
an1 yards of It, ready for Frances to
hem, for I Intended her to do the
machine work. ' am not strong
enough for that kind of exercise.
"We'll make the sleeves first." said
l, 83 I laid '.ho pattern on the silk
and legan to cue It, "for It Is always
nice to have them dote and out of
th "vay, as they are really the most
particular part."
I asted the sleeves carefully and
up them to Frances to stitch and
then I trimmed them with some of
the ruffling she had made.
"Dou'i thev look nice?" I asked.
a- I laid them on the table side by
side. "Don't you think we are get
ting on famously?"
"Yes, they are ve-y pretty, but
they look so funny, I.ucile. Oh,
dear, now I know wha' the matter Is.
Th- re not a pair."
"Not a pair?"
"No, dont you see they're both for
the .ante arm."
"Oh, well," I said, "that's easily
jedled. I'll Just turn one."
"You cant do that, for there's
risht and a wrong side to the silk."
""hen I'll have to cut another; but
I dm't mind the work." I was re
ceived to lie cheerful. So I again
aid the pattern on the silk. "Now
e have a pair," I said, triumphantly,
f I peve Frances the new sleeve to
sew.
"Have you cut the back and front
etV" she asked.
"Why, no," I answered, laughing.
"I've been go excited about the
sleeves that I almost forgot the rest
of the blouse."
smoothed out the bewildering tls-
SU3 paper and started to lay It on the
siU, though I hadn't the least Idea
how the pieces would go together
w'.e. I got them out. I Intended to
trust to Inspiration. But that was
not necessary, for I soon discovered
that there was noc enough material.
"Why, Luclle, how could that
happen?" asked Frances, aghast,
when I pointed out the difficulty to
her.
"I suppose you didn't buy enough
sllk,"I said.
"I bought six yards, which la more
than I usually get."
"Well, we'll Just have to run down
town and get some more," I said.
"We can't get any more," groaned
Frances. "It was a remnant and I
thought I was lucky to find such a
handsome piece of silk to match my
suit. And r.ow all ' have la three
sleeves and a dozen yards of ruffling.''
She laughed hysterically. Some
people have so little self-control; It
Is really pitiful.
"It Is very unfortunate that you
should have selected something that
Isn't alike on both sides," I said. "If
you had been more thoughtful about
that we Bhould have hrd no trouble.
"I snail have to dash downtown
a-1 buy a ready-made blouse," she
declared. "It'B after three o'clock
now and theie's no time to lose. She
nurrlediy put on hor wraps.
"Would you ike to have mo go
with you to help you choose one," I
askeu.
"No than you, Luclle. I don't
feel as If I needed any more help
to-day," she replied quite Icily.
I went home quite worn out. 1
shoaK4 not have niim'.ed my fatigue,
however, If Frances had shown any
gratitude; but she did not even thank
me for my long day's work. Chi
cago News.
Largest Bridge Across Nl.
After three years of work the larg
est bridge across the Nile has jtiKt
been completed from Cairo to the
Island of Itodah The bridge la
1.740 feet Ions and 65 feet wide.
itK.miiKAiuj:.
About nix weeks ago a swelling came
in my groin 2J4 inches from my navel
about the size ofahalf lemon very painful
and aaid to be caused by blood poison. I
doctored about six week, and was get
ting worse, when Mr. Brown told me
about San-Cura OintineApT I appliod it
tts a poultice, changing morning and
niirht. romnvimr all pain at once. In two
days it broke, discharging pus. I I hen
changed it once a day until it was per
fectly healed. I recommend San-Cura
Ointment as the beat poultice I ever used.
It removes pain and all pus, keeping a
sore moist and soft.
Ac hurt Porter,
Ko'ute 2, ritfasantvllfe', 1'a.
UPTON'S CHARITY.
He Took First One Hint Then An
other. Sir Thomas Llpton has committed
many generous acts during his !:f3
about which ho cau never be Indeed
to talk.
He is fond, however, of telling of
an Incident which happened In nl3
early days, concerning an nstue
mother who forced him to raise her
son's wages because Sir Thomas h?.d
presented him with a brand-new S'Jit
of clothes.
Sir Thomas started business with
one assistant, a boy of fourteen, who
was willing mid honest. One day tr.o
hid was overheard complaining tint
his clothes 'were o shabby he was
tu.nble to go to chapel.
Mr. Hnton, as he then was, was
mr.Mng every sacrifice to enlarge his
little ihop, but he took a small
amount from his carefully hoarded
savlui'n and bought the boy a suit of
l;l e cloth.
The next day the boy didn't come
to work, and Mr. Upton, meeting his
n:rther in the street, asked hor the
rcr.sjn.
'Why, Mr. Upton," she said, curt
sying, "Jimmie loks so respectable,
flunks to yon, sir, that I thought i
v. :. 1:! send him round the town today
to tee if he coulun t act a better o.
Mr Thomas meekly took the hint
nnd offered an Increased sa'ary, which
w s a-copted on behalf of Jimmie by
bis mother." Detroit News-Tribune
Always For Each Other.
Kenesaw Mountains I.andis, federal
judge at Chicago, who fined the Stan
dard Oil Company $29,240,001) Is a
w.v.zh talked about man in the United
St.:t?a. A picturesque character, many
stories are told of him nnd of his al
iron equally picturesque brothers. It
Is p:cb:ible that no family of boys
were ever more devotedly attached to
one another than these l.anuisps. Any
one of them has been ready at any
time to make any sort of sacrl.lce
fo;- any other of them. Tiley hold
their interests mutual, and ali of tliem
they number five have prospered.
When Fred I t ml is decided that he
wanted t,i come to congress his broth
er Charles, who already held a ssat,
had the brightest sort of prospect of
securing the nomination fo;' governor
of Indiana. His fiitntls knew, a:id so
d!d he. no doubt, that Fred's entrance
info polities would leid to the cry
of "too mQ 1 andls," nnd injurlorwly
! fiect Charles's tr'b;-"natorial chances
but the congrersman v;'.s fnr his
brother. Fieo. nevertheless. He was
willing even to It sa his own seat in
cong'ess in order to Fee Fred get to
the front. Fred got there, hut served
only two terms, owing to n political
upheaval in his dUttict. and is once
more in private life. If Kenesaw
Mt iirtain I pfiriis should develop as
a pc.litical numtty be put forward,
for instance, for governor of Illinois
or for vice president, as has been sug
gested you niev depend upon it that
the ..tiirr l.anrtU boys, every mother's
eon of them, will be for Kenesaw
Mouiitiin to the last ditch. That Is
tne way they are built.
A Qmint Custom.
The annual historic "red hose"
games have just been held on the vil
lage green at Carnwath. According
to the conditions in the charters
granting the lands of l.ee and Carn
wath to the I.ockhart family, this
race must be run annually at a stateu
period. Th;; winner becomes tne heir
in succession to the estates should the
I.ockhart family die out witnout Issue
within the ensuing year, his name be
ing pr.ndaltned at the Cross of Edin
burghLondon Globe.
Britshers Eat More Sunsr.
The annual per capita (ons'.uiiptton
of sugar in the I nitecl Kin-jooin nas
gradually Increased f.i.ni 2!)'& pounds
in 18r,7 to nearly 100 pound at the
present time. Cat the Uiitisli refining
industry lias steadily declined rela
tively. Fifty years ago practically all
of the sugar used in the kin(!o:ii
was refined tlieie, while now the prop
ortion is only 4.1 per cent.
Many Elss'.rj-Tschr.lc;! Prtents.
About 5,100 eleciro-tecnnUal pat
enls were taken out In va-iors coun
tries in l'.H.'C. The United Zi.W is
credited with 2.nr,n, United Kingdom
and colonies with 750, (iiinnny 700,
France 400, Austria 2nd. Italy ISO,
Hungary 130, and Switw.Und with
120.
Bicycle Trade C.-H In F.-q's-H
Though the nrin'sh automobile
trade is prosperous hvyoml precedent
this year the bicycle trade has been
unusually depressed, chiefly because
of the wet summer ami partly because
the new Australian tariff amounts to
a prohibition or exports to thai colony.
Th? Fale Orinr-e.
In Kamchatka tlieie grows a mush
room called t lie falsa oiwr.gp, f om
which is made a llqror tin:t p o.lm ea
delirium and convulsions. Neve.'the
UrSH, It is a favorite beverage.
Defective Vision Makc-i C"e-i Drln!
Bad sight is given as the reason for
men going wrong. Defective vision
has been proved to lie tne cause of
lack of self-conlvol, alcoholism and
drug taking.
W'hen there is too imir'i outside
speculation, the matrimonial bond
decreases in interest.
Pa says It is not how much money
or how much knowledge a man pos
sessesbut what Is character, that
counts.
More Trouble.
"What's I lie truulilciiowV" demanded
the Janitor. "More heat?"
"No," said the lenaiil of the latest
sUysiTiiper, "bill I want these lioiuls
pushed n way from my windows."
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Not Like the Play.
"Life ain't like the plays."
"How now?"
"When I go calling no housemaid
j'.'cr fells me the family history while
milking passes at Iho furniture with n
f'Mtlier dns'lor." St. I.ouls Hepubllo.
Nominating a President.
Until the constitutional amendment
of 1804 the president and the vice pres
ident were voted for on the same bal
lot, the man with the second highest
cumber of votes becoming vice presi
dent. The presidential electors hnvo.
not always been chosen by popular
vote.
Before 1S00 it wus the general cus
tom for the state legislatures to cboosu
the elm-tors, and It was not until 1828
that presidential electors were chosen
In nearly all the stale-s by popular vole.
As late as 1S70 the Colorado legislature
chose the three presidential electors to
represent that state. There Is nothing
In the constitution to prevent any state
legislature naming Its own electors
without appeal to the people provided
such a method of election Is prescribed
by the state laws.
From 1S0O to ISL'i presidential can
didates were chosen by the members)
of congress In caucus. In 1821 tho
electoral college failed to make a choice
from the candidates so submitted, and
the matter went to the house of repre
sentatives. Four years later Tennes
see's legislature nominated Andrew
Jackson without any reference to the
congressional caucus. Ills opponent,
John Qulncy Adams, was nominated In
the old way, but that was the end of
presidential nominations by congres
sional caucus.
Gathered Him In.'
"You look very much excited, dear,"
he said when she entered the parlor
where he was waiting for hor.
"Well, I should think I ought to look
excited," she answered. "I've Just had
the most awful argument with inn."
And she began to weep hysterically.
"Why, what Is the mailer, my dar
ling?" he Inquired as he slid an arm
around her waist and endeavored to
soothe her. "What was the argument?"
"Oh, how c-au I tell you? She said
you wore only trifling with me and
that you would never proiio.se, uud I
told her she did you a great Injustice,
for I believed that you would propose
tonight. She said you wouldn't, ami I
said you would, nnd we had It hot and
heavy. Dear (ieorge, you will not let
ma triumph over me, will you?"
"W-why, certainly not," answered
George.
"I knew It, my darling," the dear girl
exclaimed; "t-ome, let us go to mn and
tell her how much mistaken she was."
And they did, and ma didn't seem to
be very much broken down over the
affair, after all.
A Little Paint Badly Applied.
The Journal des IicbMs in nn article
on "Napoleon on tho Stage" tells why
the play "IHomine do lestlu" was
taken from the stage when Its triumph
was at the zenith. One evening, ac
cording to the story, the emperor, ac
companied by his friend Duroc, went
In disguise to the Porte St. Martin
theater, where tho piece was being per
formed, llugene Chevalier appearing
as the man of destiny. They bought
a box, but hud hardly entered it when
the emperor broke forth In violent exe
crations against tho "fool managers."
It seemed that the decorators had left
In the box pots of oil and paint, nnd
into those the emperor had stepped.
"Wild with rage," says the writer, "he
rushed from the house and, to make
matters worse, was recognized In tho
lobby. No paper mentioned tho inci
dent, but by order of the emperor the
play was never produced ngtiln, and
Chevalier never appeared again as the
man of destiny nnd nil on account of
a little paint badly appliod."
Passenger as Bouncers. .
A passenger In n full railway car
riage In England has a perfect legal
right to push away any one elso who
tries to get Into it. This decision was
given at Marylcbone police court when
a man complained that he was pushed
out of a carriage at Bishop's road sta
tion by another passenger, who said
the car was full. "It Is the duty of
conductors," said the court, "to nee
that tho trains are not overcrowded.
They are perfectly entitled to use
reasonable force to prevent any one
from boarding cars when they are full.
If they fall to avail themselves of this
right the passengers are entitled to
act for themselves."
HimoJey. Cloth. !
A million women in America have read, in tlie March issue of
the Ladies' Homo Journal, of this beautiful cotton fabric Woveu
to imitate the rough hand loom silks, it rivals Bilk in the soft, rich
elegance of texture and lustrous finish. Unlike many of the silks
the "nub" effect constitute" a permanent indestructible weave and
will not near up rough This material is woveu of a highly mer
cerized yarn which gives to the finished fabric an exceedingly silky
appearance. This store controls the sule of Himalaya Cloth for this
city. Colors, also black and white, 2!Jc yard.
The New Tailored Suits.
Those who give the suit question early consideration profit
greatly in the matter oi assortment There's an advautage ol selec
tion impossible to enjoy later. Indeed there in an actual advantage
in the matter of price. The suit makers at the beginning of the
eeaeou aliow, always, a number of uits priced special. That's done
to give their line prominence in the evr-b of the liuver. We price
these suits same way. There's 25 or oO of tbetn $12 50 to $1 8.
WILLIAM B. JAMES.
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The Secret of Success.
The motto of success was given In
this tale, told at a banquet:
A Swede among the miners in the
west was noted for always striking pay
dirt. Ills fellows thought that there
must lie some secret fo the unusual
success of the Swede and questioned
him as to how ho always succeeded In
finding the spot where the gold cropped
out.
'Veil, Ay don't know of Ay can toll
anytang 'bout dut," answered Ole. "Ay
only know dnt Ay yust keep on dig.
pin'." Milwaukee Free Press.
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II Pennsylvania Railroad
h:aeBrw-i lriiifrukv ivnTiiuwjkv
TO
Washington, D. C.
TUESDAY, Ml ltd I 2, 1909
ROUND $11.00. TR.IP
FROM riOM.ST.l
PROPORTIONATE RATES FROM OTHER POINTS
Tickets will be good going on regular trains nn date named and to return
within eleven days, including date of exnursion.
RETURNING, tickets will be good to stop-otr at BALTIMORE or PHIL
ADELPHIA, atrording an opportunity to visit ATLANTIC CITY.
SIMILAR EXCURSION APRIL 7
For tickets and additional information apply to Tickot Agents.
J. R. WOOD.
Passenger Trafllo Manager.
flEO. W. BO YD,
General Passenger Agent.
Which Foot Wrlki Fst:r?
You may fliluk this a very silly ques
tion to ask. but It Isn't, ll it a simple,
demonstrable fact, whie'i you can
prove to your own satisfaction in a
very few minutes. If you will la'io 11
pavement that Is clear, so that there
will be no Interference, and walk brisk
ly In the center, you will liud Unit be
fore you have gone II fly yards you
have veered very much fo one side
You must not make any effort, (
course, to keep In the center, but if you
will thluk of something and endeavor
to walk naturally you cannot keep 11
direct line. The explanation of llii.s lies
in the propensity of one foot to walk
faster than the oilier, or one leg lakes n
longer stride than the other, causing
one to walk to 0110 side. You can try
an experiment In this way by placing
two sticks about eight feet apart, then
stand off about sixty feet, blindfold
yourself nnd endeavor to walk between
tliem. You will find It almost Impossible.
Will bum lamp
out dry without
moving the wick
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Sea Roses.
The sea rose is a leathery looking
creature which attaches Itself to n
stone at the bottom of the sea In Its
Infancy nnd ultimately attains n size
about three Inches In length and an
Inch and a half In breadth. When
quiet and feeding under water Its top
opens and blossoms Into the semblance
of a large pink rose, with petals full
nn Inch long, a really handsome ob
ject. As soon as It Is disturbed, how
ever. It shuts Itself resolutely Into Us
leather pod.
Without soot, smcke or odor.
"Family Favorite"
LAMP OIL
Tjimp h-oublea (renenDr moan poor oil
"FAMILY FAVORITE" doea away wiih them
all; burns with a Bteady. whita light with
flat or round. Urge or small burn or.
Served to you out of the original barrel
direct from our refineries.
Your dealer recommends it. Aakhim.
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Independent Refiners
PITTSBURG, . PA.
Also makers of Waverly Special Auto Oil and
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"Your son tells me that ho Is going to
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tossel. "He can remember every fool
am that was ever whistled." AVush
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