A Word To Christmas Shoppers. May we not urge upon you the wisdom of early selection and early purchasing? It is during the morning hours that one may shop with the greatest comfort and to the best advantage. Why wait then until the crowded busy afternoon deliberation and when salespeople sionl Price Reductions in Toytown. Little early, you'll think, for cut prices on toys, but we've good reasons too many of some things, too little room, even in this creat bis place, to display then there are some toys which we carried over from last season cause they are not this year s toys we seek lor a quick riddance For instance: Doll Carriages About one dozen left from last Christmas They are all of the better grades, now are Halt Price. Dressed Dolls About 25 handsomely dressed dolls. All One-Quarter Off. Teddy Bears All sizes, from smallest to large, almost life size, white and natural. All One-Half Price. Stuffed Animals Dogs, Cats, Sheep, Cows, &c. All One Half Price. Mechanical Toys Some that were 50c, now 25c. 50 Pieces Cut GIqlss, $1.90. Some of these were $2.50, some $3, and some even as high as $3.50. Bowls, Nappies, Compotes, Sugar and Creams, Cruets, Water Bottles, &c. Choice of all, $1.90. The Smart & OIL CITY. PA. Oil City Trust Company, Oil City, Pa. CHRISTMAS. Can you think of a more substantial, suitable Christmas present for anyone, at cost to suit yourself, than one of our FOUR PER CENT. Savings Account books with an initial deposit? FOREST COUNTY TIONESTA, PENNSYLVANIA. CAPITAL STOCK, SURPLUS, Time Deposits Solicited. Will A. Watnk Cook, President. A. B. DIBBOTOBS A. Wayne Cook, G. W. Robinson, Wm. Smearbaugb, N.P.Wheeler, T. F. Rltchey. J.T.Dale. A. B. Kelly. Collections remitted for on day of payment at low rates. We promise our custom ers all the benefits consistent with conservative banking. Interest paid on time deposits. Tour patronage respectfully solicited. corded our resident patrons. Many people from a distance prefer transacting their financial matters through us. The strength, safety and facilities of this institu tion should appeal to you. We offer our services in any matter pertaining to finance. The Franklin Trust Co. FRANKLIN, PA. when there is a little time for are working at highest ten just as good as new, but be- priced from $2 to $6. All Silberberq Co. NATIONAL BANK, 150.000. $95,000. pay Four Per Cent, per Annum Kelly. Cashier. Wm.Shbabbacoh, Vice President Banking by Mail No matter where you live our system of Bank ing by Mail gives you every advantage ac I 4. JUL.. JL. CONTRACT WITH ENGINEERS Lehigh Valley Makes Agreement Foi Wages and Conditions For 1910. New York, Dec. 21. After confer ences with a committee representing, tho engineers, the Lehigh Valley Rail road company has made an agreement covering the wages and conditions ol work of this class of employes for one year beginning Jan. 1, 1!)10. The company'8 previous contract with its engineers expired just before the panic of 1907. New demands were presented then, but the company pointed out that the unsettled busi ness conditions at that time made It imK)ssible to grant them. Conse quently it was agreed to let the mat ter rest until conditions would show some improvement. The contract Just Blgncd grants the men a working day of ten hours. Heretofore the working day on the Lehigh Valley has been twelve hours, whereas the ten-hour rule has pre vailed upon the other railroads in the same territory. The reduction in hours Is the principal adjustment made in tho present agreement. The questions in relation to the classifica tion of the heavier engines and other minor quectlonx were also satisfactor ily adjusted. The conferences were characterized by perfect good feeling and the com pany and its engineers are on the most friendly terms. WOMAN ROBBED AND TORTURED Forced to Tell Where Money Was Alter Husband Was Tied. Media, Pa., Dec. 1. A horrible crime was committed at Darlington, Delaware county, about 5 o'clock last evening when two stalwart negroes attacked and outraged Mrs. Annie Lltzenberg, about 60 years of age, choked her and forced her to tell where the money in the house was kept, and robbed the house of $202, after having tied her husband, Edward S. Lltzenberg, in the barn. They then made their escape and a search is be ing made throughout the country for them. If they fall Into other hands than the police summary vengeance may be meted out. After assaulting Mrs. LItbenberg the negroes tied their victim hand and foot and struck and choked her, ask ing her where the money in the house was kept. She refused to tell them where the money was hidden, but be ing tortured finally admitted that it was put away in a trunk on the second floor. The negroes left her helpless on the floor and went to the trunk to secure the money. Sudden Death of Former Senator. Chicago, Dec. 21. Former United States Senator William A. Harris of Kansas, who two years ago was Dem ocratic candidate for governor of Kansas, died suddenly in this city of heart disease. MARKET REPORT New York Provision Market New York, Dec. 20. WHEAT No. 2 red, new, J1.28 f. o. b. afloat; futures closed higher, Dec. $1.25, May $1.20. CORN No. 2 white, in elevator, new, 70i4c; futures unchanged, Dec. 71c, May 75c. OATS Natural white, 26 to lbB, new, 47.550'iic; clipped white, 34 to 42 lbs., 4S52c. PORK Mess, $25.00 25.50; family, $2.00(fi 27.00. HAY Prime, $1.05. BUTTER Creamery, specials, 37c; extra, 36t; process, 26i28V4c; western factory, 2325c. CHEESE State full cream, spe cials, 17 18c. EGGS State and Pennsylvania, 45(?i50c. POTATOES Maine, per bag, $1.50 .75; Btate, per bag, $1.50 1.75. Buffalo Provision Market. Buffalo, Dec. 20. WHEAT No. 1 northern, carloads, $1.21; No. 2 red, $1.29c. CORN No. 2 yellow, 66c f. 0. b. afloat; No. 3 yellow, 65 c. OATS No. 2 white, 48c f. 0. b. afloat; No. 3 white, 47c. FLOUR Fancy blended patent, per bbl., $6.507.25; winter family, patent, $6.25 6.75. BUTTER Creamery western, prints, 36c; state creamery, 34c; dairy, cholre to fancy, 3132c. CHEESE Choice to fancy, full cream, 17c; fair to good, 1516c. EGGS State, selected white, 40 42c. POTATOES White, fancy, per bu., 60c; choice, 45 4 8c. East Buffalo Livestock Market CATTLEPrime export steers, $6.75 7.25; good to choice butcher steers), $6.006.50; choice cows, $4.505.25; choice heifers, $5.506.00; common to fair heifers, $4.005.25; common to fair bullB, $3.003.65; choice veals, $10.2510.M); fair to goodi. $9.75(fi 10.00. SHEEP AND LAMBS Choice Bpring lambs, $8.608.75; yearlings, $6.7?(fi)7.25; mixed sheep, $4.755.75. HOGS Light Yorkers, $8.45 8.50; medium and heavy hogs, $8.558.60; pigs, $8.358.41. Buffalo Hay Market Timothy, No. 1 on track, $16.00 16.50; No. 2 timothy, $15.00; straw, wheat and oats, $9.50. Goldon For Him. Hunker I see by tho papers that Ardupp bus Just .celebrated his gulden wedding! Why, he was only married yesterday. Hunks Yes; but bo mar ried an heiress. Be sure that the wisest persona are the least severe. Montugue. Heavily Laden. "This play In lis intensity," said the go-out-betweeu-the-uct.s young mail, "fairly1 takes my breath away." "I only wish It would!" gloomily re marked the lady In the next seat. Baltimore American. Costly Jar of tho 8ubway. The tuppenny tube, London's sab- way, once set Are to a house in a man' ner so extraordinary as to merit atten tion. Iu a mansion beneath which runs the subterranean railway one of the bedroom fireplaces was fitted witb a blower a sheet of iron Inside the grate which can be raised or lowered to regulate the draft. The blower rest ed on a series of iron notches. One afternoon a servant kindled a fire in the grate and wheu it was well alight raised tho blower, so that the coal would burn but slowly, and so left II while she went downstairs. Presently, deep in the clay beneath the founda tions of tbe house, a train rushed alon?. The vibrations from its passing were sufficient to Jar the blower from the notches ou which the servant bad left It. It dropped down. The draft In creased; tbe Are raged madly. Th flames were enough to set the chimney ou tire, burning soot set the water tank on the roof alight, and there resulted u considerable; conflagration. Pittsburg Post A Girl and a Snake. It Is a matter of fact that men have greater fear of serpents than have wo men. During a visit to friends In the country 1 was crossing a stretch of meadow iu the company of my hostess' daughter, a sprightly girl of seventeen, when u black snake crossed the path ten feet iu front of us. I caught my companion by tbe sleeve, but she wreuched herself loose, gathered her skirts about her knees, gave a running jump and landed squarely upon the back of the reptile. Ills snakeshlp thrashed tho grass and the girl's ankles with equal futility. As soon as she could disengage one foot she planted It upon the serpent's head. Iu the ab sence of club or stones I was com lulled to stand and witness a scene that to uie was terrifylug, but to tbe girl furnished supreme enjoyment Years afterward when I rend Hag gard's description of Jess' fight with the kangaroo I understood tbe kind of entertainment that my young compan ion had provided for me. Brooklyn Eagle. There's a Hare In tho Moon. Equally famous with tbe man in the inoou and the woman in the .moon is the hure in the moon, says Garrett P. Servlss in his "Astronomy With the Naked Eye." The original is a Bud dhist legend. The god Snkkrin, dis guised as a Brahman, pretended to be starving and went to the animals fot help. The monkey got him a bunch of mangoes; tbe coot picked up a fisher man's neglected string for him; the fox stole him a pot of milk. At Inst the god approached the hare. "I have nothing but grass," said tbe hare, "and you can't eat that." "But your flesh ii good," suggested the pretended Brah man. The bare assented. "Then," snld the Brahman, "I'll kindle a Are at the foot of this rock, and you Jump off into It. That'll save me the trouble of kill ing you." The bare assented again, but ns he leaped from the rock the god caught him In his arms and theu drew his figure In the moon ns a perpetual reminder of the excellence of self sac rifice. Cerebral Embolism. Cerebral embolism, or the occlusion or plugging of an artery iu the brain, causes sudden death. Growths or veg etations form on the valves of tbe heart. While attached they are harm less, but tbe Instant one, large or small, becomes loosened and enters the rapid arterial current a very perilous condi tion obtains. The embolus, or plug, enters a vessel that becomes narrower and narrower and at last it Is arrested and occludes or plugs the artery, there by cutting off the blood supply. The force of the blood current buck of the embolus keeps it at the seat of arrest In brain cases the middle cerebral ar tery, at the base of the brain. Is af fected. Once lodged, unconsciousness follows and soon death. Some of the symptoms resemble those of a true cerebral bemoirliaga or apoplexy. New York Herald. A Quaint English Ceremony. On the lust day of each October the city solicitor of London, with au as sistant, attends upon the royal remem brancer, when by proclamation "the tenants and occupiers of a piece of waste ground called the moors, Iu the county of Salop," are commanded to "come forth and do your service upon pain and peril that shall fall thereon." The solicitor chops in halves two fag ots, one with a hatchet and tbe other with a billhook. Afterward comes the summons to tho tenants, etc, of "a certain tenement with a forge" In the Strand and the payment of six horse shoes, with sixty-one shoe naUs, by the solicitor. This forge has long ceased to be, and tbe same shoes, and nails are used year after year, the shoes be ing at least two centuries old- Spell This. Some of you who think you are well up In spelling Just try to spell the words in this little sentence: "It is agreeable to witness the un paralleled ecstasy of two harassed ped dlers endeavoring to gauge tho sym metry of two peeled pears." Read it over to your friends and see bow many of them can spell every word correctly. The sentence contains somo of the real puzzlers of the spell ing book. The Turk and Raki. "Turks often get drunk. They cheat their religion, the dogs, to do so," said a converted Constantlnopolttan. "Mohammed forbade wlue to his followers, but raki Is made of mastic gum. It was unknown in Moham med's time, or of course he'd have for bidden it, too, for you cun get fright fully drunk on It. I know; oh, I know! It's n white drink, with n sweetish taste, n good deal like gin. "A Turkish dinner is mostly a vege tarian affair, If you can call raki a vegetable. It consists of such things ns laort, a curdled milk spiced and scented nnd bnkalava cakes cooked In honey, sprayed with rosewater and coated with saffron flavored whipped cream. "With each course you drink rnkl If, getting drunk, you get miserable the thing to do is to crush your glass In your band so ns to give yourself two or three cuts. Unhappy Turks, you must know, express their wretch edness by cutting their bands. Look at these scars." .Minneapolis Journal. Notice. The Stockholders of the Forest County National Bank orTlonesta, Pa., w?l meet on Tuesday, January H. 1010, at 3 o'olook p. m., at tbe office of the bank, for tlio pui pose of tbe election of directors for the ensuing year. 12 8 4t A. B. Kkli.y, Cashier. B &l B seasonable suggestion It's a common practice among resident customers to present their friends on Christmas with an order on this store for certain specified goods as Gloves, Hand kerchiefs, Books, Jewelry, Hosiery, Leather Goods, Pictures, Furs, China, Cut Glass, Art Pot tery or some article of wearing jtpparcl. Others specify only amount, tllowing unlimited choice. This method of Christmas giv ing is just as adaptable for per sons a thousand miles from Pitts burgh, as those in the city. Present your friend with Ex press or P. O. Money Order, made out to Hoggs & Uuhl, and tell them what to get or not, as you please. Try how convenient it is especially these last moments, when suitable gifts are not easily located. Same shipping privileges as usual : Transportation charges pre paid on orders of $")00 anywhere within five hundred miles on orders of $10-00, or over, any where in the United States. BOGGS & BUKL NORTH emR. PITTSBURGH, PA. JAMES HASLET, GENERAL MERCHANTS, Furniture Dealers, AND UNDERTAKERS. TIONESTA, PENN Pa. &ugvstMqqc& OFTIOIAN. Office ) 7M National Bank Building, OIL, UITY, VK. Rye examined free. Exclusively optic!. if 111 vum lamy 4 w a. j -lL rn- ouiarcjwiinour moving me wick Without soot, smoke or odor, "Family Favorite" LAF.IP OIL Lamp trouble ReiMrally mean poor oil "FAMILY FAVORITE" does away with them all; burns with a steady, whita light with flat or round, large or small burner. Served to you out of the original barrel direct from our rofinerea. Your dealer recommends It. Ask him. WAVERLY OIL WORKS CO. , Independent Refiners f PITTSBURG. PA. Also mskert of Waverln Special Auto Oil tnd Wsicrls tiitonnes. ZV r nsrfirt t Tho great thing in big game rifles is sureness to work under all conditionc 7arji rifles are built with this idea foremost. The mechanism is simple, strong, per fectly adjusted, quick and easy In operation. The 77!arin solid top and side ejector keep a protecing wall of metal between your head and the cartridge, prevent powder and gaaes blowing buck, throw the ahella mwj from you and allow instant, accurate, effective repeat ehota. The Spec Smokolnst Sreef barrels are hard and strong, apeclally made for high power cartridges and to resist the wear of jacketed bullets. They are rifled deep on th Btllard system for greatest accuracy and killing power. Made In Models Wand '95, calibres .25 to .45, and fully described and lllustrnted (with all other JRarin re. pesters) In our 136 page catalog. Free for 3 stamps postage. 7e772arui firearms Co., 42 Willow Street, NEW HAVEN, CONN. IT 1 Send your friends IVPPEPV with the drug or ivtfiv;j drink habit to the f Keeley Institute. 30 years I IIVA of successful cures. Writs for particulars Only Keelev Institute in Western Penna. 4246 Fifth Are , Pittsburgh, Pa. CHICHESTER S PILLS W TIIK lMAAIO.NI IIRANU. A lnAMONf. IE U A K Ik 111 la fJsr. yean known as Best, Safest, Always Reliable- SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE Electrio Oil. Guarantefid for Rheumatism, Sprains, Sore Feet, PaiiiB, io. At all cjealera HII 6ame rj r t-auirii Aflit yonr irruKfilAt lor A t'hl-riien-ter OitaraoniTTtrandAW I'lll. in li4 ind (Joltl nietBllicV tmxcf., sealed with ftlue Kil-bon. f Take bo other. 11 uy of your -.... Act fnmflt -"iriVu nE a JeJ Store Open Evenings Until Christmas. That buying can be done nowhere to greater advan tage than "James'." Nowhere will these last days of Christinas shopping be made more pleasant or more profitable. Thanks to the fact that most liberal provision was made in the way ot assortments, they remain practically unbroken at the beginning of this last week betore Christmas. With the aid of Telegraph and Express Companies, assisted ably by our New York office, complete assort ments oi Christmas merchandise will be maintained till the day before Christmas. WILLIAM B. JAMES, OARLON'S Christmas Slippers, If you have not yet decided what to give him or her lor a gift, Consider Slippers, And remember that we have the largest and most complete stock in the county. AVe are slipper specislists. Prices, 75c to $2.50. CARLON 11G Centre St., What Thousands of Women Can Tell You Thousands of women can give you hundreds of reasons for serving Beardsley's Shredded Codfish. They know its convenience. They know its econ omy. They know the delicious meals it makes. They know how it delights their families. Every time they serve it, they add to their fame as good cooks. And they know the pleasing variety it means in their meals. They serve it a new way every week. And each time they bring out a new taste. BEARDS LEYS TRADE See The Advantages All these women who serve Beards ley's Shretliled Codfish enjoy count less advantages over the women who don't They are never worric alxiut what to have for a new and tempting meal. They serve Shredded Codfish Halls. Or they have it Creamed. Or with Macaroni. Or they make a Shredded Codfish Omelet or Souffle, Or Chops Croquettes Kedgeree. ' Or they prepare it in other ways, And they don't go to any bother or trouble. Any way that they serve it, they have it ready for the table in less time than it takes to make coffee. For this delicious fish food is ready THE PACKAGE WITH THE RED BAND Lined with wax-paper. No prenorva tWe whatever. Rare tho purest ami finest sea-salt. Also packed in tin und glass. Some of Our Other Acme Sliced Bacon; Acme Sliced Ir M , ' Js SON'S V i 1 3 NEW VPBkI Vy 1 1 null'- OIL CITY, PA. & CO.'S, Oil City, Pa. to cook the instant they open the package. What They Save And see what these women save by serving Ilenrdsley 's Shredded Codfish. One package makes a full meal for five Yet the cost r.s only ten cents. Anything else half so good for breakfast or lunch would cost three or four times as much. Just To Please Your Family We have told you what thousands of women know. You will thank us for telling you, when you try Beardsley's Shredded Codfish. You will find that all we have told you is true. And your folks will thank you if you serve this fine food tomorrow. 1'hey will be more than delighted with this new kind of meal. But please see that you get Beards ley's the package with the red band. I'or Beardsley's is the only Shredded Codfish. Our wonderful Shredding process is patented. Beardsley's is the kind all people like. Ask Grocer for Free Book Ask your grocer for our book of tempting new recipes. Or write us we will send you the book and with it a generous sample of Beardsley's Shredded Codfish, J. W. Beardsley's Sons 474-473 Greenwich St., New York Pure Food Products: Dried Beef t Acme Peanut Butter. t
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