MARCH By the force of our offerings to be made one of the Busiest Months Take this announcement as ceptional values if you visit this disappointed. If it were possible for us to take Misses, Juniors and omens Reatdy Mocde Garments Are designed and put together, you would be as enthusiastic about them as we are. The next best thing is lor you to care fully examine the garments needlework and the finishing are priced garments as in the Inchest all made by experts working with and sanitary conditions. We buy manufacturers whose goods pass trained inspectors. For that reason, we can sell the goods, and you can buy them, with absolute "We invite attention to our Suits, 10 to 50. You'll get much better satisfaction Dress Goods Now. 1 here are more desirable exclusive patterns from which to maker will give you more careful gins. And you get the benefit from your garments. Here are new goods that invite attention at their best. A new satin finished self-striped English Tailored Suiting with a big lustre. Shown in all ashes of roses, reseda, wisteria, navy, taupe, mulberry and black. $1.75 and !?2 per yard. The Smart & Silberberq Co. OIL CITY, PA. Money Spent is Money Saved is Save your energy need by putting Four Per Cent Savings Account With the Oil City Trust Company J Oil City, Pa. Teachers A Senior at Work ntt i wcm:wm 1ST To Attend the Spring Term Opening April 6 At the State Normal School Counei leading to State Certificates and Life Diploma Review, Business and Music Courses Address the Principal for Catalogue James E. Ament, LL. D. Indiana, Pa. Why Not Be an Egotist? There Is unu h mistaken sentiment as to the Kin of egotism. The fact is ego tism Is not n sin. On the other hum, it is somewhat of u virtue ami nn In dispensable clement In nil real prog less. Some phases of egotism are un pleasant to the beholder and unfor tunate for the possessor, but If nil of self love. or. rather, the love of other people's admiration and pood will, were to be extinguished there would be little to hold society together nnd less to (rive Impel us to the profit enterprises which spring from Individual thought a ml culminate in personal profit. Les lie's Weekly. A Human Bungalow, rillison didn't Impress you favora bly, then?" ".o; lie's Just n bungalow." "A what?" "A bungalow. He hnsn't any foun dation." Newark News. The Resemblance. "I wn always Interested In airships ni.d flying machines, so I bought a the ater."" "Why did you do that?" ' "A'tiientrr' n'ns wings and flies." of Whole Year. a hint that you can secure ex store daily. You will not be you to the factories where our themselves. The tailoring:, the as nearly perfect in the low priced costumes, luey are the best materials under clean only from reputable, reliable through the hands of carelul, confidence in their reliability. extensive showing of Spring in every way it you buy ynur labrics, more colors and many make selections. Your dress attention before the rush be ot longer service this season some excellent values in brand while the color assortments are the new shades, including sage, Energy Wasted Energy Stored against the day of your money in a Big Bank, Wanted In Indiana Model School fit juffsu The Popular Coral, The dealer held up two strings of coral. They were of equal size, but one was dark and dull In hue, the other beautifully pink and translucent. ''The dark one." he said. "Is worth ."ft cents; the pink one Is worth $,"i00. That is what makes coral so popular. It suits all pocketbooks. All over the world It pocs. These rtrlnps of rough, uneut beads are for the dead of India. Tln'.v are put round the necks of the bodies about to be burned In the ghats. Theeo large and blood red beads go to .frii ii. They are much liked by the native';, whose dark skins they perfectly sun. II,. re are a lot of coral hands Willi linpc rs rxlcndcd in a V the gesture that wards off the evil eye. The coral hands ore f..r Italy, where the belief In their elllcacy Is wide spread." liuffaln Kxpress. Wrong. A man recently entered a restaurant and ordered a steak. When the waiter nerved him with It the customer said. "I'm afraid you'll have to take It ba k. for I lind I've come out without niy"- "I'ursc," of course interrupted the waiter. , "No." replied the ujau, "my f:il! 'd'h!" Empty Pleasures Ity Alva M. Patcrsoii. Emmy sat In the third pew of the church. Anyone behind could Just see a large straw hat nnd two tiny ulgtiilti peep over; also that "the lit tle girl belonging to them" was very restless. In fact, the sermon did not Interest her It was much better fun to look at the new styles In lndies'8 hats. Almost everybody had a new one. "Let's see which one I like best." Her gli.nce shifted from one to the other, and thn finally reste.l on Miss Phelps. "If ever I grow big," she told herself, "I'm going to have one like that It's a beauty! Just see those " Then was a loud slap on the pul pit, and a terrible climax of "einp'y pleasures" thunlered through the church, causing Kmmy to start in her seat and lift her guilty eyes from the hat to the minister. lie looked right at her. She dropped her eyes and whispered nervously to herself ould he mean ine? How did he know I was looking at Miss Phelps hat 'stead of listening to him?" "We will now receive the benedic tion. ' said the minister.. Kmmy bent her ead but she did not hear the lessing. One question was "'doml imt In her mind. "Could he have emit me?" But It wasn't empty. 'lly. It was lots of fun to look at II 'he new hats bo It wasn't empty, filly. This she repeated over and ver. When papa stopped to shake "an. Is with the mlulster, she darted iirou-h the crowd and waited for ui at the door. Mamma," she asked on the way nine. ' what does 'errpty pleasures' ne. n?" 'My dear, you're too young to un- lerstanu yet.'' Kmmy looked perplexed. No soon er had she entered the house than he scampered to the library, pulled ut a dictionary and mumbled: H -e-e, let me see em e-m-p etnptv 'containing nothing va cant' that's best. Now p. P-p-p-pI a p-l-e pleasures means 'en. loyment, full of gladness.' Well, fiiat means 'full.' Now, let's see Vacant fulls, vacant fulls! Oh, dear! How jan there he vacant fulls? Va- i. t gladness. No! That won't do either. Gladness can't be vacant cause It's full." Her white brow I uckered up. "I'll try again let s ve nothing enjoyments,, no! That won't do either; not even the diction ary will tell me. "Mamma," she coaxed that even- In", "won t you tell me what 'empty treasures' mean?" When you're a little older, my dear," said motner; but Emmy was not satisfied. She was almost ten; she knew some things. I'll ask teacher to-morrow." The all-wise Miss Graham would certain ly kno;v. liood morning, Emmy," said Miss Graham. "You're early this morn ing. Do you want anything dear?" ''Could you please tell me what 'empty pleasures' mean, Miss Gra ham?" Why, my Jear child, what makes you ..sVi such a qeestion? It means pleasure that Is empty." Bu pleasure Isn't empty, i.Ilss Grahan.." No, child, so 'tisn't. Let's see, it my dear child, I don't believo I can give you a definition." The week passed pleasantly; only a.e or twice qui t-mmy minis oi Sunday : experience. Saturday came. The whole day was hers. She would hav hours o; fun up at High Rock. Emmy tripped' down the gravel path and p the white road until she came to high rock with moss-grown rides. Digging her toes In the crev ices, she climbed to a little plateau. Here she rested a moment. "Guess I'i. f.o way up to-day. It Isn't much farther and I cat pick flowers up there and watch the river below. At last she reached the top, but wnr were those people? Was It the rr'nhter? "Oh, 'empty pleasures!' He'll see me and scold 'cause I look ed at Miss Phelps' hat." Emmy stood still. The minister's bac. was toward her. Miss Phelps jtood besida him. She had her new hat on, too. "I'd like to ask him about .empty pleasures,' but just see how they stand there holding each others hands and saying nothing. I shouldn't think that was much fun Jus then the m'nlster picked up r. daisy end handed it 4o Miss Phelps. She smiled, then 1- oked down the river beneath. This is a beautiful spot," said tr-9 minister. "Yes," said Miss Phelps. "Empty pleasures." thought Rm- my. "Surely, this must be empty pleasures.' Here they Htand looking at each other smiling once In a white, hardly ever speaking, yet they seem to enjoy It They are truly having pleasure; they are full of gl'c'i.ess. Still they stand there. empty like.'' "Evelyn," mid the minister, turn ing H-lf-way round. "Oh, he'll see me," thought Emmy. She climbed down tbv rock, heedless of th wet moss, till she reached the white road; then she Bcampered away home victorious, to toll mamma the news. "I've found It! I've found it!" alio cried. "Found what, child''" "Empty pi asurea," and Emmy told mamma the itory. "Perhaps it was empty, my daugh ter, for you. And Emmy wondend wny she felt a sort of "empty picas lire" ache round her heart wl" mamma Dressed bcr hand. ItlOl AltKAItl.i:. About six weeks ago a swelling came In my groin iyt inches from my navel about the size of a half lemon very palnfu' and said to be caused by blood poison. I doctored about six weeks, and wa get ting worse, whon Mr. Brown told me about San-Cura Ointment. I appliod It m a poultice, changing morning and niitlit. removing ah pain at once. In two days it broke, discharging- pus. I then changed It once a dy until it fas per fectly healed. I recommend San-Cnra Ointment as the lust poultice I ever used. It removes pain and all pus, keeping a sore uioint and soft. A fiiiiKy Pouter, Route 2, I'ltoWauftlllw,- Pr. VANDALISM IN LOUVRE. Because of the Destruction of Paint ings They Are to Be Incased. Another act of vandalism at the I.ouvre has been committed. Just before the museum cl.j.sed for the day a girl took from her pocket a pair of scissors and deliberately lacerated la pros' fine picture of the Slstlne chnp el, piercing tie eyes of the pope aud three cardinals. A guardian, who was u witness of the act, arrested the girl, who stated that she disfigured the picture that bm- might he taken Into custody. This Is the third outrage of the nd committed iu the I.ouvre within month, nnd It is felt that it the . .eelivs collections there are to he ...qmitely saieguardcd radical re- i.-i.us must be Introduced In the sur veillance ot the galleries and their contents. As a result, it has been decided that certain pieces of sculpture notably tne famous Venus of Mi'.o are to bo the object of special protection. Glass is to le placed in front of several chefs d'oeiivre of painting, and, In ad dition to an Increase In the number of guardians, fifty plain clothes police men are to lie added to the staff. Modern Society. Socialism in Hungary. In Hungary a noticeable factor, writes our Budapest correspondent, is the mormons influence- tnat Ger many, Italy and Eng and wield. Ev ery work of value dealing with the diverse forms of Socialism li;s been translated and scattered broadcast In nil disaffected and discontented areas. Fines and Imprisonment increase, hut the literature of social democracy la flooding village, hamlet and town with new Ideas and providing new forces. Certainly one ot the best equipped printing establishments I have ever seen outside England Is that of the Socialists in Budapest. It Is an enormous place. It represents money and It makes nvoney, and mon ey means organization, nnd from tnls flows power. Pall Mall Gazette. Littl Man, Big Had. John 0. Archebold, the other John D. of the Standard Oil Company, nnd the active working principal, is about five feet three Inches In height, hut his head Is big enough lor a seven- footer. It Is a remarkable head, phy sically speaking, and when Archbold was on the witness stand the news paper cartoonists accentuated his phrenological bumps. Once he leaped from the chair and snntcaed a pencil from a cartoonist's fingers. Like the other John D. this one has a pet college, the Syracuse University, to which he has contributed more than a million dollars. "Hous of th Baskervilles." Conau Doyle's "Hound of the Bas kervilles," a "fearsome animal," la said to have its origin in the legends of packs of spectral hounds, which are popular In various parts of Eng land and Wales. In the North of England these apparitions are known ns "Gabriel's hounds;" in Devon, the "Wisk," "West,' or "Heath hounds;' In Wales, "Cron Annwn," or "Cwn Wybir," and in Cornwall, the "devil's dandy dogs."' They are supposed to he evil spirits hunting the souls of the dead. Royal Joke Not Appreciated. Leopold of Belgium has been play ing his royal joke about his unroyal pranks for many a year, laying ev ery story of his unseemingly behavior to hla "double" In Paris. M. Kouret of the Hachette publishing noiiBe. But Fouret, who is eminently respectable, is getting tired of the joke, and pro poses to bring suit for libel against the King. Leopold's reputation is of Do sort of consequence at this date, but M. Fuuret's is valuable. Chair of Animal Psychology. For the study of animal psychology a new chair has been founded in con nection with the Natural Hlfc'.ory Museum at the Jardiii des Plante-s, Taris. It will he under tne direction of M. Pierre Hachet-Sotiplet, who will seek to establish nn intellectual gra dation of the animals that are dom esticated as well as the wllu. Their passions, their hatreds, their joys, their sorrows, will all be studied thoroughly, A Central Cooking Hall. Garden City, Letch worth, Herts, England, is to have a central cook ing hall for cooks and domestics, all the tenants to share the expense, the object being to save wives tne worry and expense of preparing meals, and to give servants greater freedom and new dignity. Increase in Automobile Exhibitors. At the Paris automobile exhibition In 1898 there were 340 exhibitors and SSUO.OOO worth of machines were shown. This year the exhibitors number 1,400 and the exhibited prop erty is of the value of $8,000,000. Egg-Distributing Stations. Ireland maintains nearly 400 egg distributing stations for Ihe purpose M bettering the poultry of the coun try. First Tlnplate in Canada. Consul John ... Hamilton of Corn, wall reports that on October 25, the first tlnplate made in Canada wa pro duced at a steel works at Morrlsburg. Vany people slam servant, few saium 'em. His Luck. "I have been engaged to al ast n d.cn girls," said n young man, "And always been unlucky in love, eh?" Inquired a lady. "Oil, no rather lucky!" was (he an swer. "I've never married tiny of them:" An Order Not Obeyed. All exasperated Irish sergeant, drill ing a squad of recruits, called to tlieni nt last : "Halt! .lust come over here, all of ye and look at yourselves. It's a line lliiu ..c're keepin'. isn't II V I The Wrong Horse. Bridget had been In America only a few months, but she believed in the principle of pretending to know what she ought to know, she had been-engaged as laundry girl In a small family of well to do people. When asked if hho understood all the details of her work she unhesitatingly replied, "Sure I do, ma'am." Her mistress was pot quite satisfied, however, and while she was busy with her first washing looked In upon her. Bridget seemed to be doing all right, .".ml she left without offering sugges tions. Next morning the Ironing was In or der, and Bridget was hard nt It when bcr mistress looked In to say, "As you get the clot lies Ironed, Just throw them wver the horse," "All right, ma'am," the busy laundry girl replied without stopping to raise her eyes from her work In hand. The laundry room was located Iu an outhouse adjoining the barn, and occn slonally the neighing of the family horse and the merry voice of Bridget resounded throughout the house. Iteturnlug to the laundry house a couple of hours Inter, the lady could scarcely believe her eyes nor restrain her mirth when she beheld the fam ily horse, standing pntlenjly beside Bridget, loaded down with newly Ironed sheds, pillowcases, tablecloths and lace trimmed waists nnd skirts. Willi nn nnxlous' look on her honest face Bridget observed. "I'm glad you've come, ma'am, for I'll have to have another horse." Working Too Hard. The owner of the farm had been en joying himself at the county fair, whllo his hardworking wlfo stayed nt homo to see that the farm suffered no loss In bis absence. "Well, Sarah," said the owner upon his return. "I'm about nil tired out. Is the cows iu the barn?"' "Yes; long since," replied his wife, barely 1. Miking up from tho task then Iu hand. "Is the bosses unharnessed an fed?" "Yes." "Chickens locked up?' "Yes." "Wood chopped for mornlii'?" "Yes." "Wagon heel mended an' ready t' start in th' mornhi'?" "Yes." "Well, then." concluded the exhaust ed owner, with a sipli of relief, "let me have my supper. I'm goln' to' turn In. Fannin's beglnnin' t' tell on me." New York Herald Benjamin Franklin says: "Money makes money and the money that money makes, makes more money." Money deposited in this strong ba ank earns 4 interest,compounded semi-annually. The interest draws inter est, making a savings ac count earn even slightly better than just four percent, Jin account can be opened with one dollar. Capital and Surplus $680,000.00 Total Assets, over $3,000,000.00 She franklin 3rust (fompantj PRANK L. 1 N. PA. PINEULES 30 DAYS' TREATMENT FOR $1.00 Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. FOR ALL KIDNEY BLADDER TROUBLE, RHEUMATISM AND LUMBAGO i i.i. m a dose at bed time usu wrf ally relieves the most severe case before morning. BACK-ACHE PINEULE MEDICINE CO. CHICAGO, U. 5. A. Frnninllr oIxhimiiI. or FEE RETURNED. 10 YEARS' IXrlKltNCI. OurCHAHCEl ARE THE LOWEST. Hond iuimIi'I. pllutu or vkeli-l) for Dlrt iwh mid freo roiort on puli-iilaliilltjr. INFRINGEMENT KUlU cumluiitui before .11 omirt., 1'itlt'iit. obtained tlmmtrh u., ADV1R TI.ID anil .OLD, f ro. TRADE-MARKS, PEN. SIONS Uld COPYRIGHTS UUR'kly obtained. Opposite U. 8. Patent OlTloe, WASHINGTON, D. O. tlAllllAAAAAAlllAlliill 1 1 1 1 I I I V f I I I I I I I W r . T I Spring Season 1909 Suits. The "ready-lo dou" garments of our Suit Department can be truthfully said to be the cleanest, crixrirgt and nearest correct show ing of any season since we started to handle Ladies' and Miuaes' Tailored Garments There's h decided "clans' to them. Every Suit in Our Stock is New This Season. Pardon our again calling your attention to it, but we feel you. should know positively that every suit iu this stern's big Block has been received by us since the firat of February, 1!K)9. Not a single old suit in the store. Every suit ha been ordered and m de for us within the past six weeks. Think, if you pleise, what ibis really means to you does it not tell yoa, even more clearly thao we can, if you buy your suit from us it can't help hut be cut in I he very latest style and dictates of lashion for spring 11)09? All of our suits have that indefinable man-tailored cut and appearance so mucb desired all of them bear this positive ar mark of carelul buying and sensi ble selection, from tho 810 50 ones up to the highest price. WILLIAM B. JAMES, I Pennsylvania Railroad j Sl'JtlXJ VACATION lAc I KSIO TO Washington, 0. C. Tl IXIHY, H i lit 1 1 23, 1909 ROUND $11.00 TRIP iiton rioi:sri PKOPORTIONATE KATES FKOM OTHER POINTS Tickets will be K"od KouiK on regular trains on date named and to return within eleven daya, including date of exrursion. RETURNIXO, tickets will beood to atop-otf at BALTIMORE or PHIL ADELPHIA, allm-dlng an oppnrtuuity to vUit ATLANTIC CITY. SIMILAR EXCURSION APRIL 7 For tickets and additional iuformatloii apply to Ticket Agents. J. R. WOOD, Passenger Tralllo Manager. "ft lip . DOUBLE-DISC RECORDS A different selection on each side They fit any machine That tells the whole story except that at 65 cents for the Columbia Double-Disc you get a better record, on each side, than you ever bought be fore at $ 1 .20 for the same two selec tions. Get a catalog! BOVARD'S PHARMACY TIONESTA, PA. WAVER LY never failguaranteed best for all Auto purposes. Three brands: 76 MOTOR STOVE Made from Pennsylvania Crude Oil. Cost no more than the ordinary kind. Your dealer knows nsV him. Waverly Oil WorKs Co., lrV Pittsburg, Pa. - -: I I TTTTTT V . OIL CITY, PA. f rTTTTTTTTTTTTT TTTTtTTTTTTTTTTTTTTttTTTTT OEO. V. IJOYD, General Passenger Agent. 65c. BIA high SPEED GASOLINES
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