Sfie Smarts Centre Street at Elm, Oil City, T. When to Do the Spring Shopping Is a queition of vital interest now to every woman. Do you realize the unusual advantages to be gained by a visit to this store! There's not a style idea that's attracting attention in the big fashion centres, but is well represented here. There's not an article in the store, be it garment, fabric or notion, but is of as high quality as can be obtained anywhere for the price. . And if moderate prices are of interest to you, there's just one more reason for shopping at Smart's. Women's Suits in Spring Styles. Yes! for Spring! New arrivals about which we hasten to tU you belore they are picked up their smartness will not let them linger long. We note among the various materials, the handsome Whip cords the fashionable Homespuns the wide-wale Serges and French Serges the distinctive mixed suitings. Exquisite touches of trimming on these suits give them an air ot individ uality quite at variance with the modest prices. $10, $12, $15, $20, $25, $35. Spring Coats Tht Women Admire. Naturally there's a strong demand for coats, when one piece dresses are so in vogue. But at such moderate prices, coats as handsome as these would be eagerly sought for no mat ter what the vogue. $10, $15, $20 and $25. The greatest nation of Individual efficiency is France, and Its efficiency Is due entirely to its sav ings. The people render themselves free from the bread and butter prob lem and are free to indi vidually perfect their efficiency. We Pay 4 Per Ct. on Your Savings Oil City Trust Company Oil City, Pa. SURE TO BREAK THIRD TIME Man Knew What Hia Spectacle Would Do, 80 He Got Ahead of Fate. A. Jeweler in Brooklyn recently showed the humorous phase of super stition as It troubles some people. "A man came Into my store with a pair ot spectacles he had dropped on the floor and broken," he said. "I have an optician with roe. A price was giv en lor the repairs and the work was done. When the glasses were deliv ered the customer said he'd been pret ty lucky with them; this was the first time In three years they had been bro ken. But the next day he came around again. He had dropped them and they had broken within ten hours aft pr they had been fixed. "1 want you to make a good Job of It," he told me, 'so they won't break gain.' "He said he would callf or tKem". Vhen he did and when they were giv en to him he asked if I had a glass paperweight or something the least bit heavy. My medium-sized hammer was tandy and I asked blm if that would do, wondering what he wanted them for. He took the hammer from me and laid the spectacles on the floor. Then he took the hammer and hit the offending lens a hard blow. There,' he said, as be straightened up, with the pieces in his hand. 'I've fixed that. Vow will you kindly repair them lain?' "Naturally, I wanted to know why !he had done this. " 'Superstition,' he replied. 'I've al ready broken them twice and there was sure to be a third time. I've brought that third time about so I wouldn't have to lose more time than necessary. Now, if you will have tbera fixed I guess they'll never break again!" Orthodox. "If St James' Bible was good enough for St. Paul, it Is good enough for me." This was the emphatic pro test of a New England deacon against the reading of tbe Revised Instead of, Jtbe Kins June ver6lon.-Ootu3'QC- Siikdm THE REASON. Little Wallace Pa, why does pop corn popT His Pa Because, my son, like men, It doesn't know any better. For Baby's Eye. Mothers, please do not send your babies out without any shade for the eyes. Even though it Is not summer time, they should not be allowed to lie with the sun shining in their eyes. All sorts of troubles result from this, eye inflammations of many kinds, often defective vision and nervous condi tions, which remain for life. If you would try lying with tbe sun shining in your eyes for an hour or so you would soon realize how disagreeable It is for a baby In a gocart or car rlage to be subjected to it. HARRISON WINS IN CHICAGO. Mayor's Friend with Hearst' Aid Carry Primaries. Chicago. The Hearst-HarriBon com bination carried the Democratic- Alder manic primaries. Apparently all the candidates pledged to support Mayor Harrison' policy, ave two, have been nominated. Roger C. Sullivan lost his home ward. "It is the greatest victory for a ! greater Chicago and progressive and I clean politics that Chicago ever uv," till Mrer Harrfso. BOYS AND TIPPETS. Once All Boya Wore Them, Now Very Few; a Man Wants to Know Why "Vhv." said Mr. Oldsbv. "why. I'd I ke to know, don't boys wear tippets ny ir.ore? When I was a boy every oy wore a knitted wollen tippet, oti'e of these were white, some of hem were red, some of them were of "ixed colors. Some were finished 'th rrlnge of the same material on e ends, more of them hnd on each nd a tassel made of the wool; the !nge used to get ragged with wear i;d rough handling or one or both f the tassels on a tasselled tippet :.s sure soon to get torn off. "Many of these tippets that the -ys wore were knitted at home by ct mothers; many of them were Sht In stores; every dry goods e kept tippets, you could always . . a line of them hanging up In the e; and hi those days every boy e one. They would take a turn - two of their tippet around their '(k and then make one loose tie In . rot a knot, and let the ends hang iwn from front or back. See a lot i boys In winter going to or from chool of sliding down hill or kating and you'd see around the :ecks of these boys as many tippets. "But where are the tippets now, nd why did the boys stop wearing ihem? Bovs are not any hardier now than thev used to be. are they? Or did they come to think that tippets ooked girlish, slssifled?" New lor A Country With Only One Bank. Thore are no Dubllc banking in stitutions In the Dominican Republic, ind but one private bank with .igencles In the more Important towns hlph buvs and sells drafts, makes nans, and Is the repository of the Governnient.funds. Buying and sell- in drafts Is an Important source or revenue to this bank Bnd also to mnnv nrlvate Individuals. Money Is easily placed at almost any time at 1 4 per cent a month, and some times at 2 and 2 4 per cent, with first class real estate or personal security, lone time loans of large amounts are placed at 12 per cent per annum. MiinlrlDalltles. borrowing money for improvements and other purposes, pay 1 per cent, a montn. mere are vprv few deuositors In the local bank. Most of the well to do people, both among the merchants ana rami prs. never think of depositing their money but have small private safes or secrete their hoardings In some otner manner. Moody's Magazine. Six Carloads of Chickens. Thlrtv thousand chickens passed through Western cities recently from Nebraska to San Francisco. Tne fowls were sidetracked at various points and were viewed by many peo ple. The shipment was made by J. G. Gaeschlin, who owns a number of poultry houses In different parts of Nebraska. It consisted of six car loads, every car carrying approxi mately five thousand fowls. Each car had a keeper, who gave the birds con stant attention and saw that they were properly fed and watered. The 'rip Is usually made in eight days, but in this Instance It took fifteen days on account of snow. Chicago Examiner. How Bird Keep Warm. The hich temperature of birds en ables them to resist cold more effec tively than they could otherwise do. Whprpaa blood heat for man la 98.4 degrees Fahrenheit It is 107 degrees In the domestic fowl and more in some other birds. Nevertheless they feel the cold cruelly, as you may see my frosty night If you visit an Ivy creeper clad wall with a lantern; the sparrows nestle together In a closely packed mass, and If there be a chimmey you may be sure the birds will have chosen Its exterior as their roosting place for the sake of such warmth as it may give Detroit Free Press. The Vanishing Pigtail. A large number of Shanghai of ficials, merchants and others cut off their Queues, and every day the new fashion Is coming more Into popular favor. Time was, and that within the last two years, when any reference to this buuJc :t among representative people in this country was taboo, while to-day it Is a subject compre hensive of discussion, and similarly to the vicious practices of opium smok ing and foot binding, the wearing of a "pigtail" Is rapidly becoming bad form. Shanghai National Review. The Pocahontas Delegation. Clarence W. Watson, the new Sena tor from West Virginia, was a dele gate some time ago to a Congression al convention down In his district Pocahontas county was represented In the convention by only one dele gate. The chairman asked for a roll call on a matter that many did not understand. Whereupon the lone Pocahontas delegate arose and said In all seriousness to the assembled multitude: "Walt! The Pocahontas delegation desires to hold a consulta tion." Washington Herald. Modern Hewers of Wood. We hear our fathers speak of how the broadaxe used to be In use and what great things they could do with it, but we do not have to go back to their times to see some first class work. George and Clyde Brown, two strong young men of the Stephensport community, shouldered their axes early one morning, went to the woods, and when night came they had made -sixty-one crossties. No culls and only one second was found when they were spotted. Hardingsburg Leader. . 35 DROWNED BY A 8T0RM. Were In Barge on Lake Tamehua, Mexico Several American. San Antonl , Texas. Thirty-five men, several Americans among them, were drowned in Lake Tamehua, Ta mnuilpHS, Mexico, near the Tamplco, in a storm. The men were employes of the Pearson sydlcate, engaged In de veloping the oil fields, and were cross ing the forty klllometer lake in barges, which sink undir tbe constant Ira pact of the heavy "avei. GOOD THINGS TO EAT. Novel Combination of Fresh Mush room With Sausage. "Have you ever tried broiled nurr.cs with mushrooms?" asks correspondent of tho "Epicure." ' As a matter of fact the sausage re rot broiled at all, but the smallest bve.tkfast sausages are laid in a l'ng hot frying pan and cooked v n on one side, then turned and out to drain on paper when ak'.ently cooked. ":ne fresh mushrooms that have crn reeled are then set cooking In he sausages on slices of toast which ave been buttered. For a change u!d a few slices of bacon to the dish f sausages before cooking the mush- 001118. 'A certan egg dish that was In dented in a Latin Quarter studio In Paris Is delicious. Butter some little s.-mhen dishes such as are used for hlrred eggi and break one or two eggs Into each. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, grate on a liberal quantity of dry Cruyere cheese, and some bits of butter, pour over cream to cover and bake In a hot oven until the eggs are set. "For another .dish: Put a sweet Mexican pepper or Pimento morrones the tinned variety In the bottom of a custard cup or earthen egg cup, break in a fresh egg, add salt, pepper and butter, and bake until the egg Is sufficiently cooked. Serve with fingers of crisp buttered toast." For a Special Use. Mrs. Champ Clark, wife of the Speaker of the House, tells a story of her ancient colored cook, who took liking to every article in her mis tress's wardrobe. It was "Please give me this" and "Pleace glv me that," until Mrs. Chirk took a trip to St Louis and laid in a generous supply of hosiery and underwear and outer garments for the old mammy. The gifts were received with gratitude, but presently the old cook was at her old tricks, asking for stockings, aprons and wrappers. "What did you do with all those things I brought you from St. Louis?" demanded Mrs. Clark. "Why, mlssie." answered the woman, "I couldn't use them things. Not for nothing. I am saving them all to be burled in." Washington Herald. Pasteur' Revenge. In that one of the hundred best books Vallery-Radot'8 "Life of Pas teur" we read the story of his misery, it Is nothing to say that the war near ly broke his heart. But It broke neither his faith nor the straight line of his work. Only a sort of rage poss essed him to redeem and console France by working for her. "Hence forth," he said, ''every one of my books shall have written on It these words. Revenge, revenge, revenge." And this was his revenge, to set the name of France In the honors list of science higher than ever: to give the rest of his life to her service, and to wear himself out for her sake. Spectator. Sings Hymns to Her Chickens. A woman living near here never snys "Chicky, chlcky. chick" when she wishes to feed her chickens. When she goes to the hennery with feed she sings a church hymn, such as "Rock of Ages" or "Holy Bible, book divine; precious treasure, thou art mine!" and the "biddies" make a bee line rush toward her from all parts of the yard. The chickens recognize her voice, and will not rush to any other person with tlie same speed, even If the same hymns are sung. Clay City correspondence Indianapolis News. A Portrait of Charle Anthon. His outward personality was unique and Impressive. He was a trifle under the average height, erect a3 an Indian and Inclining to portliness. His head was suberb and his features strong and finely cut. He was punctl ously neat In his dress, the style of which was never varied. A short sack coat hung straight from his ample shoulders, merging in front Into a black satin vest and a very small gold pin, the whole surmounted by a. black satin stock and a high standing collar with rounded corners. Broke 62,458 Bottles. On the morning of April 18, 1906, the cellar of Paul Masson, a wine merchant of Ban Jose, Cal., contained a stock of 125.000 bottles, all neatl arranged. Then came the earthquake and when the proprietor was able to enter his cellar again he found that 62,458 bottles, by actual count, were broken and the remainder thrown about In the wildest confusion. It Is curious, with such a large number of bottles, that the quake should have come within a few dozen of demolish ing an exact half of the stock. Wide World Magazine. Time Saving. A new variation of the now long familiar "while you wait" sign Is found In an uptown avenue where a barber shop and a tailoring shop stand side by side. In front of the building hangs a sign on which are displayed the name of the tailoring concern and th0 pame of the barber shop and this announcement: "Suit cleaned and pressed while you are getting shaved." New York Sun. There is a possibility that the fogginess of the London atmosphere Is decreasing. The statement is made that twenty-one years ago there was a record of fifty-one foggy days during the winter months while recently the average Is about eleven. i nui Yiw Mav Start Plant. vhootinnH Pn. At a meeting of the council here recently the valua tion of the Wheatland rolling mill, which was recently purchased by Max Solomon of Pittsburgh, was reduced from 1137.000 to J00 000. As the re mit of this the borough will lose 1759 I year In taxes. However, It Is be lieved that It will result in the plant being started shortly. Charges made by Roosevelt follow trs of "steam roller" methods regard ed, by, Taft camp as evidence that Monet knows he is beaten. The Wilful Murder of Public Confidence. There are many dealers in merchandise who care as little for your future business as a well-fed black bass cares lor a thunder shower, and disregard all thought except the possession of your dollar. These are the fellows who canvass your homes with a pack or engage a hotel room and set out the bait. "iTou bito and got "bitton. We want to impress indelibly on your mind this unalterable fact: Our Buoinoaa Is 3Tour Business. This store enj ys a wonderful business because you. be lieved in us and our policy. We want your good will. We shnll never sacrifice our public service principle at the altar of doa't COXO. Hut rather shall we endeavor to more firmly cement your confidence in us by striving to at all times give the best values obtainable in this country at any specified price, P. S. We have a flattering clothing proposition to offer every man this spring. Oil City, Ta. WANTED HIM TO KEEP DRY The Bridegroom (happily) Let me see! I declare, this is really my hon eymoon. The Bride (anxiously) Yes, George, but I notice you go In the buffet car too often. Please don't let It be youi wet moon. Impossible Road. Chauncey M. Dcpew frequently dep recates the comparisons that are drawn between American and Euro pean railways. "These comparisons are unfair to us," he once said at a banquet In New York. "When I'm told how very sare tbe European railway is I think of the Nola Chucky line. "Tbe president of the Nola Chucky line once waited on me to request an exchange of courtesies. I interrogated him, and he said proudly: "'On our line, sir, not only has a collision never occurred, but on our line a collision would be impossible.' '"Impossible?' said I. 'Oh, come, I kpow that the latest automatic safety devices are excellent things, but im possible Is a large word-' 'If literally true with us, sir,' he replied. 'How can it be?' said I. "'Why,' said he, 'we own only one train,'" Taxing Bachelor. One of the smallest of the German principalities is undertaking a very big experiment in financial legislation. The diet of the elder of the two prin cipalities ot Reuss, which lie in cen tral Germany, to the southeast of the Thurlnglan states, carried recently a resolution in favor of increasing the state income tax by 5 per cent, of the tax on incomes between 150 and 300, and by 10 per cent, of the tax 00 incomes exceeding 300 a year in the case of unmarried persons of eith er sex who have reached their thir tieth year. The diet consists of twelve members, and the resolution was car ried by seven votes against five. The puper-taxatlon of bachelors has often been proposed in other German states, and was Jocularly referred to a a pos sible form of Imperial taxation by the Emperor William, Inventor pf Ice Cream, "I am looking for some means of verifying a statement that Is printed at the bottom ot the bill of fare In ft colored people's restaurant that I vis it once a month," a gas collector said. "In a red-letter footnote the proprie tor calls attention to the excellence of his own home-made ice cream; then he adds that all members of the race ought to eat ice cream because it was Invented by a colored man named Jackson. So sure does he seem of his facts that he relates circumstances attending the evolution of ice cream from plain custard. The narrative sounds convincing, but colored people are so ready to vaunt the real and reputed achievements of the race that the Ice cream legend may require verification." A to Giving the Bride Away. One pastor objects to the bride' father giving her away; she should be perfectly free, he argues, like the groom who gives himself away, "Is the bride," he continues, "a bag of potatoes, that she should be given away?" No, sir, she is not; nobody' giving bags of potatoes away these days. As between potatoes and daugh ters a father would hesitate but little before deciding to give away tbe daughter. Detroit News. Indication of Interest. "The school mistress Is Interested in you, dad." "How's that?" "Why, today, after she'd told me six times to nit down and behave myself, ehe said Ghc venderr 3 That kind 'if a fa'b r I had." T'ji!- a 8 Sir The Women of Tionestec and vicinity are respectfully advised that The New Tailored Suits, The New Silk Dresses, The New Wool Dresses, And The New Coats, for the Spring Season "1912" have arrived. Also the New Foulard Silks. We cordially invite your early inspection. The Kinter Co. Oil City, Pa. - 1 -L -L -1. L -M. J- -L - rTTTTTTTTTf Lubrication f m i t---irw-' ii rsiix a v m w a m 1 h rm r Til. Ideal oil for either air-cooled or water-cooled machines. Dis tilled from PeniuyWania Crude Oil. A thin, pale oil whUh feedi freely and will not congeal. Abftolutelr rree rrom Carbon. If your dealer or garage haa no Waverly Special, write us ana we U ee that you are supplied. WAVERLY OIL WORKS COMPANY, PITTSBURG, PA. INDEPENDENT REFINERS Mahtrt of "Wavrly" Catolinn EASTERN SEASHORE TRIP 15-DAY EXCURSION Atlantic City Cape May Wlldwood. Ocean til)', Nea Ile 4'fly. Friday, t prll ff, 1012. $11.00 from Tionesta Ticket irnori going- on regular trHlrm April 6, and koimI returning until April 1!) (Stop-over nt Philadelphia returning on depimii of ticket. Full psrtirulnrH of Ticket AgeniH, or B P. Praser, D. P. A., 307 Miu St., Biiflnlo. Pennsylvania It. It. and Manufacturing Opticians. - We examine your eves and grind tbe glanxeson tbe creiniHax. Results -Deflnit 9. Tbe latest methodx known to ftrience are employed. o Drops. Artill.-ial even in mock. Lenses duplicated ou Bbort order. Dr. Morck In charge. Morck Optical Co., OIL CITY, PA. First National Bank Building. r-romptly oblalnwl, or fEC RETURNED. tO VEARS KXPSNIKNCK. Uur CHARGES ARC THE LOWEST. Ht'liu mutlul, photo or Hketcli fur eiiwrt M-an-li ami true ruixirt on patentability. INFRINGEMENT sulu eutiducU'd before all enurtn. I'at.-nt. obtained through nit, ADVER TISED and SOLD, frw. TRADE-MARKS, PEN SIONS and COPYRIGHTS uuk-ltlr ubuUued. Opposite U. 8. Patent Office, WASHINGTON, D. C. .ti i ainiali iiiiiShi iihii hi I I I'l 'Oil City, Ta. TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT1 Without Carbon IF YOU SUBSCRIBE AT ONCE YOU CAN STILL GET THE 52 WEEKLY ISSUES OF THE YOUTH'S COMPANION for the coming year for only $1.75. Thousands of our subscribers whose subscriptions run over the first of January into the early weeks of tho new year have written us to ask If we will imt accept subscriptions at the old rate of J1.75 for a little while beyond the time announced for the advance in price to J2.00, A Last Chance In fairness to these old friends and to pew subscribers who were unable to remit liefore the close of 1911 we have extended the time for tukiujf sul scriptions at $1.75 to March 30 The new rate of 2.00 will lie put into effect promptly on April 1. No sub scription at $1.75 will be accepted utter that date. Subscribe now to-day so as not to lose anv of the good things in the Volume for 1912. THE YOUTH'S COMPANION 144 Berkeley Street, Boiton, Maai. K.w Subscription. Received at tbii Offics. Chamberlain's Cough Ratned c-'