In Rug & Drapery Department. (Second Allow us to thank the trade crowding this department and making our clearance sale such au overwhelming success. So much unexpected that we were forced to bring to the front greater bargains than we had an ticipated bringing out. As we have one more week turning things topsy-turvy in our and have bund several Rugs that highest standard of excellence, short of perfection. Not many now cut to prices that are big concessions lor small arawoacKs. Notice 9-12 Rugs. $27.50 Five Frame Body Brussels for $21.50 35.00 Royal Wilton Rugs (worsted) for 25.00 32.50 Wilton Axminster Rugs for 20.00 32.50 Anglo-Turkish Rugs for 20.00 12.50 Tapestry Brussels Rugs for 7.50 Also found in our work room about 15 sets of those Valuable Mitre Ends of Borders Having four pieces to match in each set. Cut to fit and ready to sew. The real value of these squares made up are $2.50 each, but we will sell these sets ready to sew at 25c a set of four. Then we have 50 pieces two and three to match as mitre ends. To close out at 5c each. Also remarkable values in Lace Curtains will continue all this week. The Smart & OIL CITY. PA. Oil City Trust Company, OU City, Pa. 3.55 Per Cent. The statement of the National Monetary Commission shows there are over 25,000,000 depositors in the banks of the United States. The average interest on savings is 3.55 per cent. We pay you 4 per cent. Assets $3,313,000. Out of Out of Debt is a millstone around the neck a drag to progress and success Start right by spending a little less than your income, then deposit the balance in this bank where your savings will earn annual interest. One dollar opens an account Capital and Surplus $ 680,000.00 Total Assets $3,000,000.00 f rauldm Srust1 (fompautj ,FRAN K L Goldsmith's Actor. Lord Nugent whs one evening very eloquent to Goldsmith In praise of M. (u bud actor). "Hut, my lord," said Goldsmith, "you must allow he treads the stage very 111 he waddles." "Waddles r mild Lord Nugent "Yes, he waddles like a goose. Why, you know we call him Goose M. Well, and then, you know, when he endeav ors to express strong passion he bel lows." "Bellows?" said Lord Nugent. "To be sure he does liellows like a bull. Why, we call him Hull M. Well Then," continued Goldsmith, pursuing his triumph, "his voice breaks, and he croaks." "Croaks?" said Lord Nugent. "Why, the fellow croaks like a frog. We call him Frog M." "But M. Is a good actor." "Why, yes," said Goldsmith, "bar ring the goose and the bull and the frog and n few other things I could mention, and, not wishing to speak 111 of my neighbors, I will allow M. Is a good actor." "Memoirs of the Earl ot Nugent." Our Floor) of this city and vicinity for in January we will continue Rug Department especially do not measure up to our or in some other respect laii such, but what few there are we Silberberq Co. D e b t Danger V I N, P A.. A Duke at Church. There was a certain old duke who used to sit up in the left hand gallery with his duchess, believing himself to be incog. One Sunday u too ouiclous steward, on seeing the old nobleman take a back seat, hurried up to him and said. "Will not your grace have a better seat?" "Come along, Maria!" said the old duke. "We're discovered!" And he Immediately walked out with the duch ess and nevei- showed bis face Inside the church again. London Tatler. Gava It Back. Mrs. A. (mallclouslyi You were such a charming debutante, my dear, fif teen years ago. Mrs. B. Was 17 1 only remember you made such a love ly chaperon for me when I came out Boston Transcript. Ha Wondered. Indignant Customer I want to re turn this jewel box. It's not Ivory, as represented. Dealer (musingly) Now, I wonder If It can be possible) that elephant had false teeth. Cleve land Leader. CRIMINAL 7,0.riuJtS Dr. White Says Number li 48 Timet Greater In United States Than In Canada. Ithaca, N. Y., Jan. 25. That the number ot criminal homicides in tht United States each year Is practically 48 times greater than In Canada and eight times greater than in Belgium, which has tho greatest number ol any European country; that In the United States the average criminal serves but seven years of a life sent ence and that at the present lime only about one man in every 74 is punish ed, were statements in an address de livered by Dr. Andrew D. White, for mer president of Cornell university and ex-ambassador to Garmany and Russia. He said lu part: "The number of felonious homicides per year per mil lion population for various countries Is as follows: Canada 3. Germany 4 to 5, England and Wales 10 to 11, Franoe 14 to 15, Belgium 16, United States 129. "These figures are based on an average taken for eight years. "It seems Impossible that on one side of au Imaginary line homicide j could be so much more prevalent than on the other as in the case of Canada and the United States But the rea son Is that on one side law prevails and not chicanery, .and that on one side has taken place a break up In the administration of criminal law." Dr. White had little sympathy for what he called the pseudo-scientific theory that crime Is a disease. "The truth of the matter Is that crime Is crime and disease Is disease." He was emphatic In his opinion that life Imprisonment would not answer In this country as capital punishment. TARIFF NEGOTIATIONS Existing Arrangement With Germany May Be Continued Another Year. Berlin, Jan. 25. The movement In America looking for the boycott of meat is regarded here as coming at the correct psychological moment of the tariff negotiations between the United States and Germany on the meat questions. The newspapers, al though they refrain from commenting on the situation In the United States, print long cable dispatches about the movement and are following the sit uation closely. Its Importance both in stiffening the back ot the German government and in lessening the dis position of the American government to support the meat trust interests, even at the risk of a tariff war, is gen erally recognized. A note from ' Washington reached the foreign office on Saturday and was today laid before a meeting of the so called economic councils. This body consists ot a collection ot experts, leading industrial merchants and bankers and acts as an advisory com mittee to the foreign office. It is impossible to obtain definite Information as to the contents of the American note, but the correspondent of the Sun is informed that the belief is strongly held in banking circles that the existing provlsorlum will be extended for one year. MARKET REPORT New York Provision M?rket New York, Jan. 24. WHEAT No. 2 red, new, $1.33 t. o. b. afloat; futures closed lower, May $1.173i, July $1.08. CORN No. 2 white, in elevator, new, 764c; futures closed o lower, May 77c, July 76c. OATS Natural white, 26 to 32 lbs., new, 52V655c; clipped white, 34 to 42 lbs., 4U53c. PORK Mess, $23.50; family. $26.00 626.50. HAY Prime, $1.151.20. BUTTER Creamery, specials, 31c; extra, 30c; process, 2729c; western factory, 24 25c. CHEESE State full cream, spe cials, 1718o. EGGS State and Pennsylvania, 4046c. POTATOES Maine, per bag, $1.60 1.80; state, per bbl., $1.501.75. Buffalo Provision Market Buffalo, Jan. 24. WHEAT No. 1 northern, carload!, $1.19; No. 2 red, $1.23. CORN No. 2 yellow, 69o f. a b. afloat; No. 3 yellow, 68V4c. OATS No. 2 white, 52c f. o. b. afloat; No. 3 white, 51ic. FLOUR Fancy blended patent per bbl., $6.507.25; winter family, patent $6.006.75. BUTTER Creamery western, prints, 36c; state creamery, 34o; dairy, choice to fancy, 3031c. CHEESE Choice to fancy, full cream, 17c; fair to good, 1616c. EGGS State selected, white, 38o. POTATOE8 White, fancy, per bu., 48c; choice, 42ft45c, East Buffalo Livestock Market CATTLE Prime export steers, $6.25 6.75; good to choice butcher steers, $5.75(&6.00; choice cows, $5.005.25; choice heifers, $5.505.65; common to fair heifers, $4.005.25; common to fair bulls, $3.003.65; choice veals, $10 7nU.OO; fair to good, $10.00 10.50. SHEEP AND LAMBS Choice upring lambs, $8.40(38.50; yearlings, $7.5007.75; mixed sheep, $5.256.00 HOGS Light Yorkers, $8.85; roe- dlum and heavy hogs, $8.758.80; pigs, $8.30. Buffalo Hay Market. Timothy. No. 1 on track, $18.50; No. 2 timothy, $17.00; straw, wheat and oats. 110.00. How Customs Varv. She In soiiio parts of Australia when a man marries each of the bride's rela fives strikes him with a stick by way of welcome Into the family. lie Yes, and lu many parts of America when a inn n marries each of the bride's rela tives strikes him with a loan by way of welcoming him into the family. New York Times. The Glad Hand. "What do you mean by the glad hind?" "Anything," answered Mr. Bloochlps, "that will beat threo of a kind." Washington Star. A BLOW IN JAMAICA Things That Happen When a Big Storm Breaks Loose There. A WEST INDIAN HURRICANE. It Will Leap Out of a Clear Sky and Level Almost Everything In Its Path Then Comes a Torrential Downpour That Ends In a Flood. "Have you ever been through a West Indian hurricane?" said a man who has lived in the tropics on and off for a number of years. "Do you want to know what the experience Is like? "A hurricane will leap out of a clear sky, swoop down on a city, blow ev erything in its path fiat nnd pass on. Then follows the tall of the hurricane, a steady breeze blowing In the same direction, but at a much lower velocl ty. This Is likely to continue for many hours, sometimes for many days, and Is always accompanied by a tor rential downpour of rain. "I was in Kingston, Jamaica, at the time of the hurricane of 1003. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon I was in my office on the top floor of a rickety wooden building. As suddenly as a clap of thunder the room went dark. "1 had a pretty good Idea of what was about to happen and, going to the window, looked out across the roofs. A black cloud had whirled up out of the southwest, obscuring the sun, but the mountains back of the city were still goldeu with light "In less than a quarter of au hour the wind reached us. The first struc ture that went was a wooden watch tower about 200 feet high that had been used In the old days to locate ships approaching the harbor. It bad weathered nil previous hurricanes, but this time it went down like a house of cards. Spars of lumber from that tower were carried as far as twenty blocks before they came to the ground. "Then the spire of the church went, the roofs of n good many residences were torn off, and some fine palm trees lu the public gardens snapped off about halfway from the ground. Buildings in Kingston, however, are calculated to stand a pretty severe blow. They are built only a few stories high, and the roofs present a broad and compara tively flat surface to the wind. Consid ering the velocity at which that hurri cane was traveling, the damage was not great. Even my crazy office build lug withstood it. But the tall of the thing followed, with a heavier rain than I have ever seen before or since. To say that it came down in bucket fuls would be mild. It was as If the clerk of the weather bad taken the plug out of some huge vat suspended above our beads and allowed the wa ter to plump straight down on us. "In three hours the macadam on the streets bad been washed into the har bor. The street outside my window was a rushing river as much as four feet deep in places. I saw a cart try to cross it, but with the water above the axle of the wheel and the horse's legs being washed away from under it it was an impossible task, and the driver turned back. Big casks and packing cases were dancing on the sur face like corks.' "As you can imagine, I did not get home to supper that evening. It was 8 o'clock before the rain stopped and the water in the streets bad drained Into the harbor. Even then traffic bad not begun to reorganize Itself. "The trolley car tracks had been washed out, and no cars were run ning. Cobs, however, were doing a roaring business, and eventually 1 got a cabman to drive me borne tor three times his customary charge. "The damage to property in King ston mounted up to hundreds of thou sands of dollars, but the real destruc tion was wrought in the country dis tricts. Floods wiped out many a negro village and sent the flimsy houses floating down the rivers. The railroads were tied up for neorly a week. Every banana tree lu the path of the hurri cane was uprooted. Oh, yes, a West Indian hurricane can do n lot of dam age when It gets busy. "Loss of life, did you say? Of course there was. Nearly 200 people were killed throughout the island on that oc casion, but we grow accustomed to that in the Wesi Indies. We expect a hurricane every once in awhile, and we know that It will take its toll of human life when it comes. It you bad been telling the story you would prob ably have mentioned that first of all, but sudden death Is so common below the tropic of Cancer that we get cal lous, I suppose." New York Sun. Quieting Him Down. A farmer sued a cattle dealer for duiuages In the local county court. "When I bought the bull," said the complainant, "ho told me t was gen tle and perfectly harmlessa chihj could play with it, in fact Half an hour after I got the animal home he disabled a couple of my farm bands and then turned on me." 'Tertians the animal was excited by his strange surroundings," suggested bis honor. "Is he iulet enough now 7" "Well, yes; but you see" "Ah," remarked the defendant, "then my description was correct, oftcr all. I said if he did get excited at first he would quiet down," "Yes," responded the plaintiff grim ly, "but you didn't tell me I should have to shoot the beggar to quiet him down. That's what I had to do!" London Scraps, Located at Last. Drummer (settling bill in Eagle House, Ilayfleld) Pardon my curiosi ty, sir, but what do you stuff your beds w)th in this hotel? Landlord (proudly) Best straw to be had in this bull county, b'gosh' Drummer Ahl That Is very Interesting. I know now Where the straw camo from that broke the camel's back! Puck. A Manly Woman. "Why do you say she Is a manly woman?" asked Jinks. "She always gets off a car proper ly," said Mlnks.-Biiffalo Express. Tomorrow Is not elastic enough In tvblcb to press the neglected duties Of today. SCARED THE OLD SAVAGE. Ruse That Saved Dr. Felkin From King Mtesa of Uganda. When the well known African trav eler lr. I'.obert Kelkln was staying with the bloodthirsty King Mtesa of Uganda many years ago tho king, out of gr.it Undo for his visitor's medical treatment, wished to cut oft his head. On Dr. Felkin representing that tho treatment was not Mulshed and that if interrupted It would cause Mtesa's death the hitler granted him a re prieve inn II ho was quite recovered. Thou, however, nothing availed, and the execution was determined upon, Kniln Pasha, w'm was u friend of Ir. 1'Vlkln. had Instructed him most accurately about tho stale of affairs In Uganda and the court of King Mtesa and had revealed to him an Important state secret namely, where Mtesa's powder store was hidden. Dr. Felkin rcniemliei-ed this at the right moment and us a Lis) resort threatened that if Mtesa killed hlin he would bringdown a flash of llKhliilng upon his powder store. Mtesa replied Incredulously. "Tell me where It Is," whereupon Dr. Felkin whispered in Ills ear. "It Is coneealitl under your harem." Mtesa turned pule and allowed Fel kin and his companions (o live. The "lightning maker's" authority increas ed when next day a Hash of lightning happened to strike near t ho harem. Fooled the Town. University students have long enjoy ed n reputation as practical Jokers, but there has beeu nothing quite so suc cessful as the famous sultan of an ribar hoax of some years ago nt Cam bridge. One day the ninyor of the town received the following wire from one Henry Lucas, Hotel Cecil, London: "The sultan of Zanzibar will arrive nt Cambridge at 4:27 for u short visit. Could you arrange to show him build ings of Interest ond send carriage?" The mayor rose to the occasion, and In due course four dark complexloned gentlemen with turbans and volumi nous trousers arrived at Cambridge. The mayor and corporation entertain ed them right royally, but to their chagrin they discovered n few hours later that the Interesting orientals were simply a quartet of undergrad uates who had played an immense practical Joke upon the town. Loudon Spectator. OFTIOIA1T. Office ) A 1 National'Bank Building, OIL CITY, PA. Ryes examined free. Kioliiiilva.lv optical. 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Never fails. Buy it now. It may save life. Wm . M i. shim a . 1! m f .j. t Game im " 7tepeatinfWk Wfles If I'rufftrlftl for Al m on d II ro n d I. old turtalliAXy XL.? Semi-Annial Clearance SaJe. This Is the 21st Semi-An-iyuqJ SaJo This Store Hats Conducted. Prioes at no previous sale have been lower, while we believe the character of the merchandise, taken as a whole, is superior. Cards throughout the store, both up and down stairs, will help you to lo cate the merchandise. WILLIAM B. JAKES. Ti mi mi hum in 1 1 CARLON'S Yes, sir, you can have stylish, comfortable, good looking shoes and pay only $4 if you come here for them. We shoe a lot ot men with our Four Dollar Shoes And no one can distinguish them from shoes costing a dollar or two more. Don't yet it into your head, sir, that you can't get satislactory Four Dollar Shoes until you try ours. OARLON 11G Centre St., FOREST COUNTY TIONESTA, CAPITAL STOCK, SURPLUS, IHme Deposits Solicited. Will pay Four I'er Cent, per Annum A. Wathi Cook, President. A. B. DIRKOTORS A. Wayne Cook, Q. W. Roblnaon, Win. Smearbaugb, N. P. Wheeler, T. F. Rltchev. J. T. Dale, A. B. Kellv. Collections remitted for on day of pnyment at low rates. We promise our custom era all the benefits consistent with conservative banking. Interest pid on time deposits. Tour patronage respectfully solicited. Doctors Say "Eat Less Meat" Most people eat too much meat. Any doctor will tell you that It is wrong to have meat every day. Then, meat i3 expensive. And it soon grows monotonous. Ifor there are Only a few ways to cook jt. So, for the sake of health and economy for the sake of variety you should frequently serve something else. And there's nothing your folks will like better, instead of meat, than Beardsley's Shredded Codfish. For this is one of the choicest foods in existence. Indescribably delight ful in flavor. It is the shredded meat of the finest fish all the world's waters produce. BEARDS LEYS TRADE " MARK Costa One-Fourth There's a lull meal for five hungry peo ple in every package ol Beardsley's Shredded Codfish. Vet the cost is only 10 cents. Enough meat (or five costs fully lour or five times as much. And this is richer in food value more strengthening nnd nourishing. It contains 22 per cent protein. Sirloin steak only 17 per cent Ham only 14. Easier To Cook Beardsley's Shredded Codfish is less bother to cook than meat m PACKAGE WITH THE RED BAND tlard With wax-paprr. No prrarrvittHa whatever. the pur.i sod But.t art!!. AUa aaka4 a tig aad a-laM. of 1 I p tale yCr OIL CITY, PA. jinn iiiiii mi iiiniini S $4 SHOES & COS, Oil City, Pa. NATIONAL BANK, PENNSYLVANIA. 150.000. $100,000. Kkllt. Cashier. Wm.Smkarbauqh, Vice President 1 - It is ready to cook the instant you open the package, And yott can have it ready to serve cooked to the Queen's ta.te in less time than it tukes to muke coficc. Pleasing Variety Beardsley's Shredded Codfish means pleasing variety in meals. There are dozens of tempting new ways to serve it. You can have it at least once a week the whole winter through and never serve it twice alike. Just to give your folks a change, serve Beardsley's Shredded Codfish tomorrow i-"fish-day." See if they don't say they would rather have it than meat for breakfast or lunch. There is other codfish in packages. Bu none half as good as this. For Beardsley's IS the only Shredded Codfish. Our wonderful Shredding Process is patented. So please see that you get Beardsley's- the package with the red band, Free Pook of Recipes Ask your grocer for pur book pf tempt ing new recipes. Or write us we will send you the book and with it a generous sample pf Beardsley's Shredded Codfish, J. W. Beardsley's Sons 474-478 Creenwich St., New York
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