;rir. effie Smarts Silkikfk Centre Street at Elm, Oil Citj, Pa. On the Eve of the Holidays Just a matter ol two or three days now. Probably you have completed all your preparations. If however, you find yourself at the last minute unable to decide what to give some relative or friend, we cordially invite you to take a trip to Oil City and let us help you. We're splendidly ready to take care of your needs. Every department is on its mettle. The salesforce has been practically doubled, and is competent to serve you courteously and well in the midst of the merriest rush. Last minute shopping is trying at its best we want you to give us the chance to make that shopping as easy and pleas ant for you as possible. A Noteworthy Display qf Orien tal Rjugs Is beim? held on our second floor, under the direction ot Mr. Rashidj of Rashid Bros., of New known in this locality, after nine at Warren, Titusville, and Chautauqua Lake. The present collection is beyond a doubt the most compre hensive ever shown in this vicinity. It includes some of the finest products ever put forth by Eastern looms, in practically any size and at any price. To look at a display so superb will be a rare treat. Prices will be found most attractive in every case. Plenty of Time for ol Good Daly's Shopping. Railroad schedule seems to have been arranged with the idea of giving you a comfortable trip to the Smart & Silberberg stores. Arriving in Oil City a little before noon, you have over four hours to make your purchases and see the sights in this wonderful Christmas store, before the train gets you homp in plenty of time tor the evening meal. 1871 40 Years 1911 Capital and Surplus, $880,000.00. Deposits, $3,324,000.00. Assets, $4,212,000.00. Oil City Trust Company Oil City, Pa. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Take Car of Your Teeth. Great care should be given to the selection of powders or pastes used for cleansing the teeth. In view of the fact that a woman's beauty may be mar red If not -mads by her teeth, it Is wise to' pay attention to whatever Is applied to them. There are many cleaslng agents In which cuttlefish bono, ground, la a part Used once a week this would be harmless, but there Is sufficient roughness In the ma terial to wear the enamel If the former Is applied every day. Be It understood that once the enam el, which is a thin shell covering the tooth structure and not the tooth Itself, is Injured, cracked or worn, trouble Is bound to en sue. The tooth beneath the enamel Is spongy, absorbing all liquids and crumbling to pain and destruction. First Calculating Machine. The . first calculating machine was Invented and constructed by Blaise Pascal, a Frenchman, la 1042, In which year he was but nineteen years of ace. It was uinde by him with the aid of one workman and was present ed to the chancellor of France. Dur ing the revolution it was found In a Junk shop at Bordeaux and at present Is the property of M. Bougouln of that city. All of the four simple math ematical operations can be made with It. . . On the Spur of the Moment. "Walter, these eggs are as hard as a stone. 1 told you not to boll them more than three minutes and a half." "Yes, sir; that's Just the time they were in to a second, but the aw wa ter was hard, sir." Chicago Tribune. ' Doing and Thinking, Mamma Bessie, why don't you wash the dishes? It Is easier to do a thing than to sit and think about It. Bessl Well, mamma, you wash the dishes, and I'll sit and tbluk ubout it- York, who is particularly well years of business connections The Puzzle of the Press. - There used to be an aged elevator man who operated one of the lifts in the house wing of the capitol Most of bis passengers were either repre sentatives or newspaper correspond ents. The old ninn got to know all of the correspondents very well and always had u cheerful greeting for tbem. It was often noticed, too, that he seemed to be greatly interested in their conversotlon. One afternoon, as three of them step ped out of the elevator, Sereno Payne of New York stepped iu. As the car went down the old elevator man turn ed and said: "Mr. Puyue, 1 . can't understand about those newspaper men. They puzzle me." "What's the trouble with them?" asked Mr. 1'nyne. - "Well, Mr. Payne, every day they ride in this car one feller will turn to another uud say, 'What do you know today?' And the other fellow will answer, 'Not a thing. What do you know?" Then the first feller will answer, 'Nothing.' And yet, Mr. Payne, the papers are Just full of news every day. It beats me where they get It." "It beats me too." said Mr. Payne. Brooklyn Eagle. Old Time Strawberries. Strawberries have Improved very much In flavor since the fifteenth cen tury. Until then the only strawber ries eaten were wild strawberries of a kind which would never find a mar ket nowadays. By 1480. however, they were beginning to be cultivated, for Flolinshed records under that date n particularly fine crop grown by the bishop of Ely in the grounds of his palace, now covered by Ilatton garden. He quotes the Duke of Gloucester as saying to the bishop: "My lord, you have very good strawberries in your garden In Iiolborn. 1 require you to let us have a mess of them." This speech was copied almost verbatim by Shakespeare in "Richard III." Still, even the bishop's fruit would not ap peal much to modern connoisseurs, for the garden strawberries at that period were only transplanted wlldlings, thp plants being sold at about fourpeuce a bushel, London Standard. Tha IM TheyJ I I FrdnETsI tarrthpphj from .tHcchwhyard waU. KSsJhe childicn?walccniBht lellbheAChristrnas bellsAandrght: byth .vcetlv. chimes cir beds aremd A. 3. Nodi AW.n-n 7 Carols each Christens What are the wraith's Jojtftnist it i That gather anear the iWhere the winter1 frost They arc soulless elves, whqjjfain would pj&rV y, Vithin, and laugh at our Christmas clwrt ? "v JUng fleetly, chimes! Swiswift.myrhymcsJ) , They. arc madeofjb.ei mockiog mist 1 fir. .T 7" 'Cease, cease, each Christmas belli' 'A Under the holly VVhere the happy children throng and shout, AVhat shadow seems to nitft the mother, then, Y-.Ki.ii iHushfaihng chimes! vgues rr P. STRENGTHENED BY NEW SCHOOL CODE Keystone State's Advanced Po sition in Popular Education. LIBERALITY OF LEGISLATURE Removal of Limitations In Former System and Higher Standards In Scholarship. In popular education no other state has taken a more advanced position than Pennsylvania. The superiority o! the Keystone State's public school system Is attracting the attention ol leading educators throughout the country. Recently a New England critic in a magazine article called at tention to the fact that Pennsylvania's poorest paid country school teachers receive larger salaries than thousands of teachers in New England; that the scholarship standards and professional training in the normal schools of this state have reached an exceptionally high standard of excellence; that nor mal school principals in Pennsylvania receive 60 per cent higher salaries than those, for instance, in Massa chusetts; that this state appropriates more money for her common schools than all of the New England states combined and, what is of the highest importance, politics has played no part In the administration of the state's schools for many years. The public school system of Penn sylvania was further strengthened by legislation at the recent session ol tho legislature, which enacted a new school code law and appropriated $15,000,000 for the support or the pub lie schools during the next two years This appropriation brings the total ap propriatlon during the past twent) years In which the Republican partj has been supreme in the state to the magnificent sum of $121,000,000. Dur lng all the years that preceded the total appropriation for that purpose amounted to less than $40,000,000. Development of Public School System The enactment of the new code law marks un epoch in tho development ol tttiv- Edmund Clarence edman Soft, e snow.. bell window-pane allifay has lain?' A bough, flit about? . who died "V ri,.:.m,Lf;j) Cease, cease, my thymes ! si popular eaucatiou m Pennsylvania. lr it the essential elements of the pub lie school system as established dur ing three quarters of a century are preserved, while many of the defects and limitations of that syBtem are re moved. It strengthens the department of public instruction by giving the state superintendent an increased force of assistants and an Intelligent body of advisers In the state board ol education. It seeks to prepare the way for the gradual accumulation of a state school fund, the revenues from which can be used to assist the weaker districts and to make school facilities more nearly equal all ovet the state. It provides medical lnspec tion at state expense for rural dis tricts and for all communities which have a population less than 5000 Many a child can be placed on an equal footing with other children II its eyes, ears, nose, teeth and throat are examined by a skillful physician and if existing defects are brought to the attention of the parents and cor rected by careful treatment. The pub lic has come to believe In the conser vation of our national resources. No asset has greater possibilities than the children who are now at school and who will shape the future destinies of the republic. Equal Opportunities For Pupils, The care of the child's health is ol supreme importance. Poorly construct ed school houses are a menace to the health of both teacher and pupil. The code provides for suggestions and ciltlclsms by an experienced architect whenever school houses are to be erected. In heating, lighting, venti lation and general comfort, the latest school houses excel the average home, and under the new plans for building school houses, the child's health may be expected to Improve from the day it enters the public schools. The new code also reduces the size of the school boards and confers upon tho school directors larger powers for effective education; It permits the voters to say whether the directors in office have given the children satis factory school privileges. If they have not furnished adeqliate school facili ties, new mon can be elected In their places. In so far as the directors have been faithful to their trust, the people can continue them in office. Provision Is made for the introduction of new forms of agricultural and Industrial education. The law seeks to place within reach of every child the ad vantages of a standard high school course, thus opening the doors of en trance to tho occupations which pay 1 gfe il There Are More Friend ships Broken Thaoi Ma.de I Ity Giving Unsatisfactory Prevents. T A n If you are as cartful about giving as we were in choosiug Ai our 8lo0(c you'H have Dothing to regret. Uesides nearly all meo know that any article bearing our oame stands for quality. They will alao understand that you wanted to give quality. It makea uo dilTtreuee what you give be it a 25o Tie or a ' 825.00 artlole, there is that undeniable quality manifest in every article. This is a quality store and nearly all men know it. Oil City, Ta. best and wnich now aspire to be rank ed as learned vocations. Under the new code the public schools, more than ever before, will mean equal op portunities for all the children of the commonwealth. Retirement Fund For Teachers. In the code care has been taken of the teachers already in service. This Is In Imitation of the laws governing the practice of dentistry and medi cine. The state has always avoided In terference with the sources of a liveli hood upon which those In the profes sions were dependent, but the higher standards of entrance have been made o apply to those who are preparing fa enter upon a professional career. tn the one hand the code does not Interfere with tne certificates of teach ers in the service, but on the other, it supplies a stimulus to beginners, who should push their studies until they can pass the examination for a life certificate. The constitution prevents pensions except to sailors and soldiers In the service of the state or the na tion. Hence it has been Impossible to provide pensions for teachers out of Btate funds. Laws permtting the local authorities to provide retirement funds for teachers have been enacted, and the wisdom of this legislation as exemplified In many sections of the commonwealth has added further laurels to ttie record of the Republi can party. The legislature also provided for the organization of a bureau of profes sional education for the purpose of se curing reciprocity with other states In medical, dental and pharmaceutical licenses. Pennsylvania has always been foremost In her colleges of medi cine, dentistry and pharmacy, and the new legislation will serve to perpetu ate the supremacy of schools In pro fessional education. Distribution of School Funds. The liberality of the legislature In aiding the Institutions of higher learn ing is unrivalled In the history of the state. It has substituted for the three medical examining boards a single and separate board of examiners which will pass upon the qualifications of all med ical students, thereby placing all the schools of medicine upon the same basis and requiring them all to attain the same standard of qualifications. The new method of distributing the school appropriation Is an improve ment on all former methods. After deducting from the gross amount items like the amount required under Ihe minimum salary act and for free tuition in the state normal schools for the training of teachers, the remaind er is divided Into two equal parts. One-half Is distributed upon the basis of the number of teachers employed, and the other half Is distributed upon the basis of the children between six and sixteen years of age. This will prevent any Injustice from the pad ding of the roll of taxables by the enumeration of temporary sojourners in the crowded centers of population. The enactment of the new school code and the creation of the bureaus of medical and professional education are distinct steps of progress for which the Republican party can claim credit. Jumping Cocoons. Many visitors to the southwestern states and Mexico have amused them selves by watching the queer motions of "Jumping beans." the seed vessels of a plant, each of which contain the pupa of an insect whose spasmodic movements cause the bean to hop and roll about More remarkable are the "jumping cocoons" found in South Africa. The cocoon is formed by the mother in sect and is very hard. The pupa when ready to emerge must cut its way out. The front of its head has a sharp, chlsel-Uke edge, and by driving this against the inside of the shell It grad ually makes a hole. The violent mo tions of the pupa within cause the co coon to leap so that one has been seen to sprlug out of a small glass tumbler. St. Louis Republic. Flow of Solid Metals. Metals How Into each other Just as gases and liquids mix, though more slowly. If a cube of lead Is placed on one of gold, the surfaces of contact being kept smooth and clean, and left for a mouth a small quantity of gold will bo found to have penetrated the lead. ' . Not Playing the Game. Mrs. Fitz Suburbia The next door person must be a very suspicious character. Hubby Why so? Mrs. F. S. She employs a maid who Is deaf and dumb, the mean cat! New York Journal. Klre and sword are but slow engines of destruction In comparison with the babbler. Steele. Chooso your Tie if it's to be a Tie from among Beautiful Ties beautifully boxed. Store open evenings this week. The Kinter Co. Dry Goods, Millinery, Cloaks and Suits. (Formerly the Win. B. James Store.) Free Transportation Will be allowed all Tionesta patrons on purchases amounting to $20.00. Fare one way on $10.00 purchases. No flicker, no odor, Favorite is the ideal costs little more than yet it Is triple-refined from the best oil made. Get dealer he has it in original barrels direct from the refineries and enjoy the full, white flame. WAVERLY OIL WORKS CO, In ih pan ami RtflMrs Plttebura, Alio mikeri of and Waverly pprr ton p tttlli 7rn good black coney furs muff and neck pieces, $5.00 Black Coney is one of tho most satisfactory of the less expensive Furs, and you'll find this set the absolutely best Fur value you've seen this year. Large Shaped Collar and Large Pillow Muff b o t h Collar and Muff black Satin lined good, -warm Furs that make a splendid appear ance, $3.00. This should prove a time ly suggestion for the last minute. Christmas shoppers or for women who receive money as a Christmas pres ent. . New 1912 model White Linene Tailored "Waists front with embroidered pan el and tucks, side button, laundered collar and cuffs, $1.00. BOCrGS & BUHL, Advertisement No. 87. Konni siuk, riTTHrn;ii, pa. Promptly obtained, or FCC RETURNED. 10 VtR' IXPCRIINCt. Our CHARCIS ARK THI LOWEST. Bund model, nhoto or ikotch fur eipurt Hentrh and froo report on patentability. INFRINGEMENT aulta conducted before all courtR. 1'aU'ntg obtained fhrnturh u. ADVER. TISEDaod SOLD, fmt. TRADE-MARK, PEN. IONS and COPYRIGHTS quickly obtained. Opposite U. S. Patent Oftloe, WASHINGTON, D. O. krtise I'AWSR IT PAYS TO ADVKRTISE IN THIS T.A.P. our 5,000 Oil City, Ta. The Kinter Co., f Oil City, Pa. no soot. Family oil for home use. It inferior tank-wagon oils and Pennsylvania Crude Oil Family Favorite Oil from Pa. Waverly Special Auto Oil Gasoline. Book- all about oil. and Manufacturing Opticians. We examine your eyes and grind the glasses on the treminHS. Results -'Definite. The latest methods known to science re employed. Mo Drops. Artificial eyes lu stock. Lenses duplicated on short order. Dr. Morck In charge, Morck Optical Co., OIL CITY, PA. First National Bank Building. The STEVENS JVo. 335 Double Barrel Uammerless Shotgun is itrongest whero othtT pins nrc veakmt. The bar rels nml liiirs hro drop-forced in one pierc of hijrh pressure steel, choku bored for nitro powder with matted rib. Pii k up this ciin and fcrl the balance of it examine tho workiiur parts closely mill sec the line care anil llnish of detail you will gay il'g a winner. It lists nt only $20.00 nnd will be expressed pn panl direct from the factory in chsc ptu cavnot m-nire ' sc itnu ciivnot Hrriire V. I if through a dracr. Ji fieivl f if nrw Art Catalog P I Well " ir. r.U.linlUMlX ri: r it CHICHESTER S PILLS I III. Ik I . d and ;,a acli) ii!.. V . ",.hrr,i u"r of jour V SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE I Chamberlain's Couch Remedy 1 Cure. Cold,, Croup JfiS' your jr s. 1 1 var4-Mi v v.y- I ryfJ -VJ- STEVENS ARMS A:3it lM i iCe? T00L Qm?m lr- ZM All ; Pi T; 'IT.!
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