1 N S. & H. Green Trading Stamps with all cash purchases. Why This Toy Store Is In a Class of Its Own. ;tV. ifa nlmnst inpxhaustible resources, J.I11S Ulg AUY kJiuic, ...v.. v.... - is the wonder of those hereabouts. We are not surprised lor . . P 1 . very lew know us sources 01 suppiy. Early in February each; year our buyer meets with the buyers ol the other stores m tut? syndicate mm The largest importing houses -in New ork City realizing : .,im f imai'noaa invnlvpd anxiouslv vie for our Hie allllllCMBC YUlUUIt ua uuo.k.v y orders, so as you may see" the result is we are enabled to procure a great many price aQvanias;es over me uiumaij is mainly why we can sell all toys at prices so much lower than our competitors. - Why Not Enjoy 5. Dustless Home? You can just as well as not. It surely is within your We rent out Santo Vacuum Cleaners, either electric or hand power, by the day, tuid if desired we furnish an operator. Without the operator our rates are 2 for ele ctric or 7oc lor the hand power. , Thone your order in and we will reserve for you any day or days you may desire. Former prices, $3 and 3.50. Fvir SaJe Extraordinary. a e;nmo,t nf .Tf nnn finest Furs lor Christmas selling. Tbi'a snip- enmmises the newest and finest lurs. Jvery garment manufactured for this season's wear. Every garment made of the choicest skins and finished in the best possible manner. Every garment is absolutely to be depended upon; All the newest models in Muffs, both pillow and barrel oo Afnfl fmm ft im to 35. Fur Sets from $3 up to $100. ' Fur Coats from 50 upto 150. A complete line of Children's Fur Sets from $1 up. The Smart & Silberberq Co. OIL CITY, PA. Oil City Trust Company, Oil City, Pa. Capital, Surplus and Fronts, 841,000.00 This represents the actual cash invested by our stockholders. Four Per Cent, on Time Deposits. Your business solicited. GET YOUR NEW OVERCOAT Madetomeasure Get a perfect fit and make your own selection of Style and Fabric. Have all your clothes made by J. L. Taylor & Co., of New York and Chicago and get wise to what fine tailoring really means. Their prices are by Ions odds the lowest and the quality they produce is ond comparison. Note also that JfoVn you select from the Taylor line r-Tjr-t nothing but pure Wool innvt.. NOW ON DISPLAY AT loo 1. mo - Jo U 1 Nearly Every Day, in the Week "We have customers from Tionesta. We do not want to encourage any one to buy goods outside of their home city. We are consistent to the point that we say Buy It in Tionesta if Your Merchant Has It. We want the trade of those who cannot get what they want in Tionesta. We want the trade ot the person who desires something different. We want the trade of the person who appreciates the ultimate ot fashion in their clothing. If you can get what you want in Tionesta, buy it in Tionesta. If you can't get it there Come Here, Come to Us. We always have what you want, when you want it. Men's, Boys' and Children's fife Clothing. Oil City, Fa. Come in and see our . beautiful display of Holiday Goods. A Christmas Special, f A Ladies' Hemstitched Initial Handkerchief, 05o box. Kofi fioit-h barred SwUs six io a neat box. Suggestions by Our Sables force. These are suggestions furnished the adTertifling man by the peo pie who are in a position to know what is being told for gift making: Oxford Cloth in white and colored for card table lop. Mono gramed Vests. (We take orders lor the work ) Damask Towels for soiled handkerchief bags. Denira for laundry bags. Silk Hose, with monogram or half hose. Kmbroiiiered Flanuel for childreu's skirts. Hemstitched Sheet or I'illow Case, with monogram. lilan ket H)be Patterns, with girdle, cords aud frogs to match. Taney Embroidered Handkerchiefs for bureau scarfs. Stork Sheeting for wash cloth bags, traveling bags and anrnn. 72 inch Plain Satin Damask for lunch cloth or scarf, (iilt Safety Pins for woik bag. Fancy Pelting and Belt Buckles. Fancj Hibuou Elastic. Plain Kato Silk and Fancy Silk Crepe for scarfs. Heavy Plaid Cloaking for house or smoking jacket. Cretonnes for fancy bags. Plain and Figured Crepes. Barred Lawns for aprons. WILLIAM B. JAMES, - OIL CITY, PA. CAUGHT THE MOOD. The Incident That Helped Verdi With His " Miserere.'' Men of genius are confessedly crea tures of mood. Grief and ndverslty linve often been n ronl help to them rnther than a hindrance. Poc, It Is said, produced "The Haveu" while sit- itlns nt the bedside of his sleeping but dying wife. Many similar Instances mltfht be cited, but an anecdote of Verdi, told by Carlo Ceccarelll, will sullice. On one occasion w hen Verdi was en gaged on his well known opera, II Trovatore," he stopped short at the passage of the "Miserere," being nt a loss to combine notes of sufficient sad ness and pathos to express the grief of the prisoner, Mnnrico. Sitting at his piano In the deep still ness of the winter ulght, his Imagina tion wandered back to the stormy days of his youth, endeavoring to extract from the past a plaint, a groan, like those which escaped from his breast when he saw himself forsaken by the world. AH in vain! One day nt Milan he was unexpect edly called to the bedside of a dying friend, one of the few who bad re mained faithful to him In adversity pud prosperity. Verdi nt the sight of his dying friend felt n lump rise in his throat. He wnnted to weep, but so In tense was his grief that not a tear flowed to the relief of his anguish. In an adjoining room stood n piano. Verdi, under one of those suddeu Im pulses to which men of genius are sometimes subject, sat dowu at the in strument nnd there and then Impro vised the sublime "Miserere" of the 'Trovatore." The musician had given utterance to his grief. COLOSSUS OF RHODES. QUEER JEWELRY. One of the Ancient Seven Wonder of tho World. The ancients succeeded In making that alloy ol' copper whleh Is known f.i bronze. Among the seven wonders of the world was the famous statue, wholly made of bronze, historically known as the Colossus of Rhodes. It represented Phoebus, the natlonnl dei ty of the Ithodians. It was begun by Chares, a pupil of I.yslppus, the sculp tor, nnd was completed by Laches 2i3 It. C. The popular belief is that It stood astride the harbor of Rhodes, that It was 103 feet high and that ships could easily sail between Its legs. Pliny said that few men could clasp its thumb. It was cast on metal plntes. afterward Joined together, and this process occupied twelve years. In tho Interior was a spiral staircase reach ing into its head, and in a great mirror suspended to Its neck were reflected the coast of Syria nnd the ships suiting to Egypt. After it had stood for sixty-four years this colossus was overthrown by an enrtlniuake, nnd its reinnlns lay on the shore for 023 ycars-that is, until A. D. 072 w hen they were sold by the Saracens to n denier. The original cost was 300 talents about $(1,000,000 and It Is not too much to say that n similar image might be constructed dow In one-fourth of the time and nt one-third of the original cost. Rhodes, by the way. liiust have had colossus oil the brain, for Pliny relates that the port was adorned with 1.000 colossal statues of the suu. HOW LONG IS A DAY 7 Eat Telegraph Wire Necklaces and Insula tors as Earrings. Tho aesthetic nnd decorative uses to which barbarians will turn objects which to civilized races ure things of the humblest utility are uinuslngly 11 lustrnted by this "fashion note" from West Africa taken from an Italian newspaper: For some time .the officials of the German colony in Southwest Africa noticed Mint the telegraph wires and other accessories of tho electrical plant disappeared as by magic Immediately after they had been put up. The most diligent lii()uliies remained fruitless. From other parts of the Gerumu pos sessions canio reports of strange pre dilections for articles of German coin morce, us, for example, rubber heels, garters, buckles, and so forth, things which the natives of those countries do not generally use. The governor of the colony gave an entertainment one year In honor of the emperor's birthday and Invited tho chiefs of the different tribes to It. What wns his surprise when ho saw these native gentlemen appear with his stolen telegraph wires twisted round their illustrious necks. The higher the dignity the more rings of the wire were round the neck. Inquiries were soon started in the outlying villages, and It came to light that the while china Insulators or tne telegraph poles had become earrings. A young lady of the highest distinc tion In native society woro a rubber heel hanging from her nose, and a young man who was a wen miuwu dandy wore dangling from his ears a pair of beautiful pink silk garters. 8ome of the World's Inhabitants 315 Meals During One. If we should meet a man and bo should casually remark that he ate 315 meats yesterday we would doubt less be somewhat astonished nt his np petite. Likewise we would feel sorry for the man 'who said that, having foolishly eaten three eggs with bacon for breakfast, lie had no appetite for Ids Christmas dinner. But maybe the first man was from Spltzbergen, where they have a day three and a half months In length, whereas the poor chap who missed the Christmas fenst lived in Finland, nt Torenn, where Christmas day Is something less than three hours long. On the whole. It would be rather wise If one should undertake to do certain work, to receive so much per day tti payment, to understand Just where the work Is to be done, else one mlcht have to labor eighteen and a half hours at Stockholm, If It happen ed to be the longest day of the year, or all the time from May 21 to July 22 If at Wardbury, in Norway. In St Petersburg the longest day Is nineteen hours and the shortest five hours. At Torenn. Finland, there Is a twenty-two hour day. At London and Bremen the longest day Is sixteen and a half hours, while nt Hamburg nnd Dnutzlg there nre seventeen hours In the long est day. In Washington the longest day Is about fifteen hours. Exchange. HIS CONUNDRUM. LONDON THEATERS. The Ordeal of Getting Past the Aged Ticke. Taker. The first difference I always find be tween going to the play in Loudou aud In New York Is that in New York the man who has paid for a sent Is made to feel that he Is a patron of tho house, while In Loudon he Is greeted by the s'taff of the theater not exactly as an Intruder, but as a uecessary evil. They appreciate that nn nudlenco ts a neces sary evil, but sooner than have one they would almost prefer to close the house. In London for that Importantly stra tegic outpost of ticket taker an old man of eighty Is always employed. You think this Is accident, but It Is not. Old age naturally suggests falling i eyesight, and when lie keeps you wait ing in the foyer while he exnmines your ticket and assures himself that It Is not a laundry bill or a motor bus re ceipt you attribute the delay to his old eyes. But In detaining you he hns n motive. Standing nt his elbow, scowl ing darkly, there always Is anotner man. apparently a plain clothes out from Scotland Yard, uncomfortably disguised In evening dross. And while the nged ticket taker pretends to scru tinize your ticket the lookout mnn scans you. You cannot escape his eye. He never sleeps. No Anielhnn, no matter how reckless, can hope to pass that mau with a concealed bomb or a revolver or wearing n white tie with a dinner coat. Collier's. Propounded In Prose, It Wat Answered In Rhyme. In the olden tlmo before the war, the days so famous for generous bos' pltnllty In the south, a brilliant party was assembled at dinner In a beau tiful countrv homestead. Across the table wit flashed back and forth, nnd the guests begnn to vie with one nn- other In proposing conundrums. Mr. Alexander II. Stephens offered one which puzzled the whole company, "What Is It that we eat at breakfast and drink nt dinner?" For some time no answer came, and the blight eyes of the southern orator began to sparkle with triumph, when Colonol Johnson, taking up the "Com monplace Book" of the hostess, which lay conveniently by, wrote Impromptu upon tho flyleaf tho following answer: What is eaten for breakfast and drunken for dlnnorT la It coffee or eKRS or butter or meats? Burs double the stomach or obdurate sin nor Who eats what he drinks and drink what he eats, But let us consider. 'TIs surely not but tor Nor coffee nor meats, whether broiled or roast. Nor boiled Bg nor poached nor fried In a batter. It must, then, be bread. Ah, yes-when 'tis toast! Atlanta Constitution, A Soldier's Beginnings. We were visiting nt Sandringuam. Sir Evelyn Wood, who Is very deaf, crept ui as near as he could to the musicians, and in one of the pauses he said to me, "Are you fond of music?" I answered, "Yes." "Do you play anything?" I said, "No." "Well," no went on, "I am so fond of It tnat, would you believe it. 1 begnn to prac tice scales nt twenty-four. But one day my sister came up nnd put her hand on my shoulder ana sniu, -jiy uem boy, you had better give that up,' and so I did." lie also told me that ho began life ns a sailor, then went to the bar and finally entered the army. The only profession he had not tried was the church, and his enemies say he would have tried that, mily he did not know what church to ehoose. "Life of Sir William Broadbnnt." Blum, Tionesta, Pa. Straightforward. He You mustn't believe every lieg gar who conies to your door. She But this was no common beggar. lie was a sea captain who had lost every thing In a shipwreck. He How do you know he was? Shi! He told n straightforward story about how his ship went to pieces .on the const of Switzerland. Flies at Sea. The finding of flies and butterflies a long way out at sea is perhaps to most readers n fact not very well known. A recent traveler In the trop ics relates that when . thirty miles out from land a plague of flies over took tho vessel on which ho was steam ing. The cabin wns so full of them that the beams were blackened, Com tnon black houscfilea they were for the most part, with, however, n good sprinkling of large green (lies. Whore they could linve como from wns a mys tery, but they were n terrible nulsanco, nnd, although those on board swept off hundreds In n net, their numbers were not sensibly diminished. Another sin gular circumstance was thnt, although no land was In sight, large dragon flies repeatedly flew across the ship, aud a largo dark butterfly was observ ed to flit across In the direction of the nearest land, quite thirty miles nway. without stopping to rest on the vessel nt oil. London Globe. Both Rather Flippant. There Is a curious parallelism be tween two stories told respectively of the late Mr. Spurgeon nnd of Dean Swift. Mr. Spurgeon on hearing of the dev astation wrought by nn earthquake in Ksscx merely remarked, "I am glad to iiear that my county is moving at Inst The deau of St. Patrick's, Dublin, wns watching nitb a friend the roof of a building on which several meu were nt work fixing slates. Suddenly one of the men vanished. Thereupon the denn turned to his companion and said, "I like to see a man go quickly through his work." Glassware and Hardware. Ou occasions of Impending danger iieonle sometimes do what seems, to them most absurd nl other moments When the steamship America, which in riled one of lite .iegler exploring ex peditloiis to Franz Josef Land in l'.XXJ, was being crushed by Ice the follow. hm winter II became necessary to abandon the ship in haste. Order were given to unionu upon me n everything that would be of use In the lomr winter vet before the men. The work must be done with dispatch. IV Idle the crew was passing the hags over the side of the siip the conn, who was of an excitable niihU'P. sud delily appeared at the ral with a large hug, Willi h he heaved over WUD nil Ul strength. It struck the cp below with a resounding crash, nnislng one of the sailor's to exclaim: "Hollo, took, what was that?" "Oil. that Is all right." he answered "It w-iih lamp chimneys and flatlrons, But It was hardly all right, for du Ing I he winter they were obliged to cut the bottoms out of pickle bottles nnd use them In place of chimneys that had been broken. JL fX We are Making Big Preparations for the Coming Holidays. We have purchased more liberally than ever beforo and there will be . real io store fjr all who do their shopping here. Our lines of Ties include Four in Hands, String Tics, Bat Ties. In i fact, any kind imaginable, and we have a Great Assortment on Display. Ladies' and Gentlemen's Umbrellas, with gold, pearl or plain stick andles. House Coats and Hath Kibes of unucual merit. Traveling Bags and Trunks of all descriptions. Men's and Bjys' Kid Gloves silk lined, fur liued or unlioed just as you choose. I here is nothing in Men 8 or nays wearing apparel irom meir neaa io their feet that we haven't git. and show in large varieties. We invite your early inspection even if you d m't wish to buy n w. Max Jacobs, One Price !?tore, Clothier and Shoer, 233 Seneca Street, - Oil City, Pa. mm Second only to sun light The clearest, steadiest and best arti ficial licht known. Uet Family Favorite Oil gsM r : your dealer's out of the orlinl famblMMX fMMH H d 1 1 III I I I J B I I ' I I I IS IndMMSMl "' Bill I I I I I I 8 H AImikno( BUI I IS I a Iut.OU.nd h.rrcl direct from our refineries. F.mily Favorite will not smoke, soot or flicker; will not char wick or "froii" chimney. Cost, no more than Interior tnk-w.on oils. WAVZRLY OIL WORKS CO, piTTsauao, pa. W.verly 8mI1 Waverly Ouoluue 5 Si & 7m - B & B I7m v. et ch rist mas jewelry Thousands of choice DC beautiful things. Choice Jewelry at moil erato prices in aximuH merit. Solid Gold and' reliahlt Gold Filled and Plated Jew dry side by side. Likewise Sterling Platec Silver, fach the best of itt class. Beautiful articles of per Eonal a d o r n m e n t Pins Necklaces, Bracelets, Pend ants, Hair Ornaments Chains, and other correc stylish things. Watches, Fobs, Watch Chain? lecture Frames and other uscfu items not exactly Jewelry, bti. sold under that general classifica tion. Silverware Knives, Forks Spoons, etc. larger pieces, indi vidual pieces to elaborate Tea Service, Jewelry and everything of Jew elry nature assortments on a plane with exclusive Jewelry establishments but B & B price BOGGS & BUHL NORTH SIDE, PITTSBURGH, PA. Pa' sluGusr M oac& OFTICIAU. Office ) A 7W National Hank Building, Oil. CITY, PA. Even examined free. Kxfihmlvftlv optical. The Falling Branch. In the grounds of Dnlliousle castle, Scotland, Is said to bo a famous ex ample of the sympathy of tho vegeta ble world with linninii death. It was anciently helli'Ved In the neighborhood that a branch always fell from this onU when a member of the family died. Apparently the fall of the original tree early in the eighteenth century did not break the sympathy, for a new one sprang from the old roct, and It Is upon record that as lately as 1S74 nn old forester, seeing n branch fall from this on n still day. cried, "The laird's deed non!" News of the eleventh Earl tif Dalhousie's dentil soon followed. KEELEYCUR The cure thet has been continuously successful for mora than 11 ycurs is worth tuvestiKliiir- Hor the druii or drink habit. Write for jmrtliiulurn. Only Keeley Institute in Western Peuna. 4240 Fifth Ave., ritthlmmli, l'n. CHICHESTER S PILLS Wr- TIIK DIAMOND MIlAMt. A LtiuU'al Amu jonr lfrupgUt f"f a ( lil-cbpft.trr'a Diamond Tlrnd rilli in Ki-d Qnt Isold mrtalliAv tealol with Hluo Hilton. Take no olhrr. Itnjr of your " DruaTffUt. Ask f"f lli riN H-Trn 9 STEMS i. 1 1 "VISIBLE LOADING" REPEATING RIFLE No. 70 -List Price, fS.OO " Visible Indlnir" is n blir nd vantage. You re the cartridge go In the chamber, loutnoio when tho gun Is loaded. Gets all the game in sight M Practice now nnd rlcnn out all the farm pests this spring. Points for the IKRMithaaltr I, and Hunter II von w.m el-., ii i- . .I..h .n itirii.licHifin. Hunt- Ot' Iny or '1 mislitH!tltiK, write 1 ' .......I .llln.. ... Il Ellllim I ' Intt-tt'iU you moM. Ily return malt r .n. in. r Irltrr .riving Votl till. Vnlu able Information. licsl.lpstTic I'iir fitfveiu (inn ll.h.k 9o llliKlratlom ami iftq lL-r alKHit Kitlc.SIiolk'iin. risloli 1 1 i ami Klllc Tileto.a. )l mt (. iu. Cf jj- y OTA'V vroir rtcnlrr ami Insist on .kJMvi bTliVI-NS. It vomannoi ooiain mm ill iliiptllret t.f iprFfcsjpf itfiid. iipua receipt uf iuLij prkf. J. STEVENS ARMS ft TOOL COMPANY r. 0. Bos tots ChkspM Falla. Maaa. iYomptly oIiiaIiiimI, or SCC SO YEARS' tXPERIENCS. RETURNED. OUTGHARCtt ARE THE LOWEST. Bund mutlel, phoUi or akutch (or ATi,.ri wnrt-li tun! free miiort on notuntatiiUtyi INFRINGEMENT suits ouniluntud before all oourta. I'atMita obtnlned Ihnniirh na, ADVER TISED and SOLD, fron. TRADE-MARKS, TEN. ION nd 0OPVRIOHT quickly oliUtnod. Opposite U. 8. Potent OfTloD, WASHINGTON, D. O. ra-Ut. Ask(nri'll.'irKH.TFRI IMAMONO lIHANIa I'll.l.H, for J yean known ns Ilesl, S'lest. Always krlial'Hy SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE ail li aia aassaas Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Cures Colds, Croup and Whooping Cough. j
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