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
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,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.
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Danger
V
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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.
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Office ) A 1 National'Bank Building,
OIL CITY, PA.
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Keeley
Send your friends
with the drug or
drink habit to the
Cure
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of successful cores.
Write for particulars
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FAMILY FAVORITI
ILLUaiSHATIHG
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makes the light that rests the eyes.
Nearest approach to natural sun
light known.
Most economical too burns to
the very last drop without readjust
ing wick. Does not char, smoke or
"smell." Clear, water-white, free
from sediment. Not to be compared
with ordinary tank wagon oil.
Ask your dealer to serve you out of
the original barrel. Then you hae
the pureit, best lamp oil made.
WAVERLY OIL WORKS CO.,
independent Hetlners
PITTSBURG, - PA.
Also makers of Waver!; Special Auto OU
and Waverly (an
The great thing in
big game rifles is sureness
to wprk under all conditioner fflarin
rifles ire built with this idea foremost.
The machanism la elmple, strong, per
fectly adjusted, quick an4 taey In ppaton.
The Warin solid top and aid elector
keep a) protccing: wall of metnl between
yottr head and th cartridge, prevent
powder and gaacs blowing back, throw the
ahelle w3 tnm yM and allow Instant,
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The Spw'e Smeseeas Sleet barrela
ere hard and strong, specially made for
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wear of Jacketed bullets. They are rifled
deep on the Ballard eyatem for greatest
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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.
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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