3fie hmaxt i Centre Street at If It's Bought at Right In respect to Fashion-there's no room in the least bit passe. Right In respect to Quality as every woman who see the excuse for the existence of cheap, is the best that can be obtained for the price. Right In respect to Price buying in the large quantities that we do, we are able to make better prices than any other establishment for scores of miles around. Save on Your Sewing Machine. We sell the Free Sewing Machine at a price below that asked by the best known makes. Yet so superior is the Free to all other machines, that we'd have a perfect right to ask twice as much. It has done away with all the bad points of other makes, and it has a score of improvements all its own in other words, there isn't another sewing machine at any price that can hold a candle to The Free Sewing Machine. It's the lightest running, fastest running, most convenient, most beautiful, and most efficient machine made, and it's sold at a remarkably low price. An initial payment of $5.00 and subsequent payments of $1.00 a week for a limited time are the easy terms. And we'll pay the freight Better do yourself and pocketbook the soon it's worth looking at. Oil City's Bank Deposits Aggregate $7,982,000.00. Of this total the Oil City Trust Company has $4,041,000.00. We solicit your deposit. THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE NORMAL SCHOOL Will Begin Its 38th Year September 10th, 1912 J Completion of the Normal Course legally qualifies one to teach for life in Pennsylvania. There are strong departments for Domestic Science, for Business and for Music ?For those preparing to teach, $62 pays for Fall erm; $54 for Winter Term ; $50 for Spring Term. J For several years, this school has had more apply ing for entrance than it could accommodate; therefore rooms should always be engaged in advance. Q The Institution publishes can be obtained free by addressing the Principal DR. JAMES E. AMENT INDIANA. PENNA. Sensitive. "You've lost him for good this time," aid the master barber to one of hte iBRlstants as a customer went out and ilammed the door behind him. "Yea, but I forgot." "That's no excuse. If you can't at tend to business, you must go." "What's the trouble?" inquired a lURtomer. "He didn't brush the gentleman's lead." "But his bead was a bald aa an gg!" "Certainly, and that is why he ihould have brushed It. Bald-headed lien are very sensitive; you must use Ihe brush the same as if they had plenty of hair. To do so gives them in idea that you don't take particular lotlce of their baldness." "And won't that customer return?" "Never. He'll try some other bar er's next time, and will even advise lis friends to avoid this." jiltetfag & Elm, Oil City, Pa. Smart's It's Right. this up-to-date store for any style that's trades here, knows. We never could shoddy goods. Everything at this store charges. justice of coming to see the Free very a fine Catalogue, which Rainy Day Hint. To mend an umbrella that tears loose from the rib at the point, when you are on the street and needle and thread are not available, close the umbrella and bringing the cloth in po sition, Insert a small hairpin In the hole of the rib, and wind securely around cloth. This "first aid to the Injured" is so efficient you will be tempted to leave It permanently. National Magazine. Attractive to Men. No woman has been heard to rave over the beauties of millinery, but men must have found something alluring In the shapes and colors, especially those samples that are displayed In One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street shops, for one milliner on that thoroughfare has considered it expedient to decor ate her window with this sign: "Men are requested net to loimge .against these windows." New York Times. 1 rm A HOUSE BOAT COLONY. Vessels Out in Oregon Have the Con venience of a City Flat. Houseboatlng on the Willamette River Is the j-roper way for the peo ile of Poitlnnd. Ore., to spend their uimniers, accord. ng to a writer In Suburban Life." He snys that there 8 an entl s colony of houseboats Just hove the city. Probably there Is no Imllnr 'o.scboat village anywhere. "They possess almost nil the con venience., of a city flat, the houses are 'ghted with electricity, city water U ilped to the door, and In tome cases "he houses are supplied with It," he ays. "Telephrnes are installed in nost of the houses, and an electric treet car runs within easy reach, but JiiRt far enough away to give tne olony the desired seclusion. "To make It still more citllied it Is proposed to Install gas from .he city ystem during the present year. The mest boat In the colony cost $1,500. nd 's 35 by 60 feet. The average louseboat, however, Is worth abou ne-half this sum." A Clockmaker'a Discovery. A grai dfrtther's clock which for nany ;enrs has stood In the vestry it St. Paul's Cathedral recently broke iown and was sent to a clockmaker to 'e repaired. Vhe clockmaker detected a fraint gleam of yellow below the bhek pa!nt on the case, and commenc ing to remove the covering he brought to light a specimen of exquisite Irlald marquetry work. The clock Is evidently one which Is referred to In the Cathedral ac counts for the year October, 1697, to September, 1698, as follows: "For Pendulum Clock fo- the South-East Vestrey that goes 8 days in Wall nut Tree Case, $14:00:00." At this time Langley Bradley, the maker of the celebrated St. Paul's clock, was the Cathedral clockmaker, and there s little doubt that this clock was his work. Westminster Gazette. In the Good Old Days. The loboter was not always the aristocrat of the supper table and the iuosl co3tly of delicacies. A man who used to live in Maine, but now lives in Ohio has this reminiscence: "One day here in Cleveland I took friend out to luncheon, and sud denly the old appetite for lobster came back to both of us. as we were both born on the Maine coast. We had two full portions and the bill was $2.20. And yet as a boy I've seen my father atajiding on the wharf bargaining with a fisherman for his lobster catch of the day, and often for $2 I've seen the lobster fisherman turn over to my father the entire catch, and the whole boatload, 250 or 300 b'g black lobsters, perhaps, would be dumped on the landing and taken back on our old farm as feed for the pigs." Cleveland Leader. Wister In Land of "Tle Virginian." Owen Wister, whose "Virginian" made this town famous, was the guest of the town, stopping here for a few hours before starttns for the Jackson Hole country on u hunt. While here Wister witnessed tho dedication of the Virginian Hotel, which stands on the site of the old Elk saloon, in which some of the scenes of bis novel were enacted. Wister will travel from ! ere to the Jackson Hole country over the trail to the Sunk Creek ranch, whicn figures so prominently In "The Virginian." He is seeking atmosphere for another Wyoming story. Medicine Bow correspondence Denver Republi can. His Star of Mercy Had Set. Little Arthur was very proud of his membership In the "band of mercy." He wore the badge, a small star, as If It were a policeman's insignia, and could often be heard re proving thj other boyu for the!; cruel treatment of dogs and cats. But one day a l-.dy of the neigh borhood was astonished to find him In the very act of tormenting the cat most cruelly. She protested, "Why, Arthur, what are you doing? I tLought you belonged to the 'hand of mercy.' " "I did." he said, "but I lost my star." Fish In Kansas Irrigating Canals. In addition to the heavy rains the Arkansas River Is furnishing the local Irrigating canals with a big supply of water, and an Immense lot of eatable fish are pouring into Lake McKinney. Fully a thousand pounds of fine, i'at carp, weighing from three to five pounds, were secured one day. The lshernien simply take a pitchfork and throw them out of the canal as they drift into the lake. Lakin correspon Jence Topeka Capital. Europe's Oldest House. Count Matuschka-Crleffenklau con voked a conference of archaeologists in his house at Winkel-on-the-Rhine. The conference unanimously express ed the opinion that the Count's Is ;he oldest house still occupied In Europe. It was formerly the dwelling ,)f the Bishop .of Mayence, Rabnus Maurus, who died there In 830. fit-Bits. Power of Fluorescein. A few grains of fluorescein, a sub stance derived from coal tar, will pro duce a distinct fluorescence, shining with a yellowish green light when strongly Illuminated, in a hundred tons of water. To produce this re sult the fluorescein must be divided into countless billions of Darticles. Value In Giving. In giving, a man receives more than he gives, and the more Is In nroDor- tlou to the worth of the thing glvea Ueorge MacDonald. Natural Longing. You cannot expect the working classes to see luxury, wealth and ease without longing for a share. Honor to the Average Person. It Is the average sort of person who fakirs tiie most useful places in life. FRENCH BEST LANGUAGE. Parts and London Correspondents Transmit Messages In Record Time. Long distance telephoning has be come a little science on Its own ac count, and has called Into ex istence a class of operators who are valuable by reason of the clearness and sharpness with which they can pronounce words while speaking rapidly. It has also developed the fact that the French language Is better adapted to the purposes of the telephone than 'he English. The ordinary business of the long-distance telephone be tween Paris and London Is frequently "arrled on In the French language. It is stated that the considerable iroportlon of hissing syllables In English renders It a less easy and 'cenrate means of communication. pftain English words are especially ' "Aleut of transmission by telephone. 'he word "soldier" Is cited as one of 'lose. Proper names frequently occur, In :e midst of an otherwise perfectly 'llile and Intelligible conversation ' ich the ear cannot catch. These 'list be spelled out, Involving delay Kxpert 'phone operators In the :c.-s service between Paris and Lon on hnve succeeded In transmitting esfnges In the French language at ie rate of 190 words a minute. This i at a much swifter rate than ordln ry speech. Scientific American. Dickens's Cramped Quarters. "Bleak House" at Broadstalrs, vhlch has failed to find a purchaser, 's of Interest to the Dickens lover be- au.e the greater part of "David "opperfleld" was written there. But 't is not the Bleak House of the novel, vhlch Is definitely located In Hert "ordshlre. The novelist and his family 'PPear to have been somewhat tightly packed In their Broadstalrs home. When Lord Carlisle contemplated naylng a visit to "Our watering place"' n 1851 Dickens wrote promising him 'he North Foreland Lighthouse for a i.ight light In his bedroom and ' con t'nues: "As we think of putting mignonette boxes outside the win dows for the younger children to sleep in by and by I am afraid we should give your servant the cramp If we hardily undertook to lodge him." During the last few years the house has been transformed out of all recognition. London Chronicle. Not Fuel for an Automobile. When a young South Side couple tried to start their automobile for a trip through Mill Creek Park, they were greatly piuzled when the ma chine refused to make any signs of action. "What's the matter with the thing," cried the husband, "I Just filled it with gasolene last night. "Thr-t's odd," replied tht wife, "I noticed the ran untouched in the cellar a few minutes ago." "In the cellar" retorted the hus band; "why, I got this In the kitchen.'' "No wonder the machine will not run. hysterically laughed the young woman, "you have filled the car with maple syrup." Youngstown Telegram. Where the Parson Scored. A certain sceptic was contending before a minister that the work of the Creator was manifestly imperfect, "Have you not yourself," he asked, "noted defects In the human organism for Instance, and thought of better contrivances ?" To his delight there was the frank reply, "Why, yes, I really think I have." "Why," drawled the parson, "you see, when I want to shut out anything disagreeable from my sight I can draw down my eyelids and It's all done, but unfortunately I haven't any flaps to my ears." Free conversation ceased at about that point, Chr'stlan Guardian. A Gladstone Reoelpt, At a coi ntiy housj one morring the guests were dlcusslng at breakfast the right way of packing a sponge bag, when the sponge has been used and Is consequently waterlogged. Mr. Gladstone, who had apparently been solely absorbed by his morning's correspondence, suddenly closed the iscussion by info-mlng the party that they were all wrong. "The only proper method Is to wrap it up in your bath towel, and stamp upon it. Then put it In your sponge bag, You will find It perfectly dry. Travel and Exploration. Volcano Region to Be Reservation. An executive order Is being pre pared In the office of the Governor- General declaring the region about Taal volcano to be a public reserva tion and prohibiting residence thereon, The exact terms of the order have not been given out, but It Is believed that it will be modelled on the re gulations applied to Taal during Spanish days, when no one was allowed to settle on the volcanic Island or on the west shore of the lake Manila Times. The Way of the Transgressor. When Mls3 Cheney, one of the popular teachers In the Swarthmoro schools, had to deal with a boy who played "hookey" she failed to Impress him with the evil of his ways. 'Don't you know what becomes of little boys who stay awav from school to play baseball?" asked Miss Cheney. "Yessum." replied the lad nromntlv 'Some of 'em gits to be eood slayers ul pitch In the big leagues." Milton's Summing Up. Wise men have said many books are wearisome; who reads Incessantly and to his reading brings not a snlrlt and Judgment equal or sunerlor. un certain and unsettled still remains- deep versed In books, and shallow In himself. Milton. The One Essential Point The permanent Interest of everv man Is, never to be In a false position, but to have the wele-hf- nf nntiii. back him In all he does. Emerson, Did You Ever Go Fishing for Bass and Catch Mostly "Alligators?" It's the same in buying clothes-you are liable if not careful to get a disagreeable "catch." But not if you do your "fishing" at a store that don't keep the "bad ones." Such a Store as Ours. Every time you buy a suit here, we don't care what price you pay, you will get "game" materials that will fight against the worst service you can put them to, and you'll get more than you pay for. Let the other fellow sell "plunder." We have no room for it. Our Special Suits at 912.50, $15.00, $18.00 and $20.00 are wonderfully good. T. A. P. Oil City, fa. June, 1911. June, 1912. A $10,000.00 However, will feel most forcibly the effect of the most drastric price reductions this big store ever resorted to. Tailored Suits. Coats. Silk Dresses. Silk Petticoats. Tailored Skirts li-in Coats, Silk Waists, &c. In the Millinery Department. Half price instead of beiner the lowest nncfi Will hf tVif Hicrhpfit. tinn plinrcrpfl fnr Trlmmefl Hats, Children's Hats and .Millinery Merchandise of every character. Silk surid Dress At prices so small a fraction of regular price that manv months in advance. Details of Uriel mention therefore of but a few departments can be If you're coming to Oil City no matter what vou wish to Cloaks and Suits. DON'T MISS THIS SALE. "Shop here at our expense." Sale Starts Friday, June 21st. Ends Saturday, June 29th. NOT L0STI Mrs. Subbubs 1 know you lost hose letters I gave you to mail last week. SuhbubB 1 expected you'd say that. and to prove you're wrong I have chem right here In my pocket. See? Completely Spoiled. "What's the trouble with that prima donna?" asked the manager. "She ased to be very pleasant and consider- te." "Yes," replied the stage man ager, "but she has gotten so she be- leves all the press agent writes about ler." Louvre's Honorable Descent. The Purls Louvre, now the world's finest art gallery, was originally a royal residence in the reign of Dago Bert, about the year 628 of our era. Semi-Annua.1 Clearance Sale Two sales combined in one. The Greatest Trade Event of the Year. Every Department contributes to this Sale. Stock of "Ready-to-Wear," this sale requires a bill larger More Used to Horses. Here Is a story that J. O. Chenc teth tells on William Grafeman, the ee eream manufacturer: Grafeman had been having engine rouble with his motor car, and after lach trip to the repair shop the eamo trouble recurred, only worse. Finally, In desperation, Grafeman Jailed on his friend, Emll Gartner, K'ho owns a machine of the same kind, ind asked him to look the car over ind see If he could find out what was wrong. Gartner carefully Inspected .he engine and listened to Its ea-chug, :a-chug. Then, turning to Grafeman, )e announced that there was nothing srong with the engine except that ne of its cylinders was "missing." "What!" exclaimed Grafeman, ln :redulous. "I'm positive all four of Ihem were there when I left the gar ige." St. Louis Fost-Dlspatch. Rules for Right Living. To be honeat In the dlrectest way and virtuous by epitome, be Arm unto such principles of goodness as carry lu themselves volumes of Instruction and may abridge thy labor. So may We have all In a few, and the law and the prophets In a rule, the sacred writ in stenography, and the scriptures In It nuUhell. Sir Thomas Browne, Very Cynical, Eht "Some of the poets sing feelingly of the days gone by." "Some of the poets were single once." The Psychological Moment. "Do sailors rig up a Jury mast In any parUcilar time?" "Yes: In a trylug time." T. A. P. Oil City, Ta. Goods. will anticipate their wants for than the llepublican. made in this limited space. buv in Dress Goods. Millinerv. TV jdmrnzzS? EVEN IN THE DEEP. Mr. Suuflsli 1 hoar that Mr. Black Bass couldn't get on the police force. Mr. ICcl f 'o. (hey drew I lie colur line on liii' Busy Embroiderers. As early as 1773 oiver 6,000 women were engaged in stitching the fine env broideries which made St. Gall fa mous even In those early days. The number had increased by the begin ning of 1S00 to 30,000, the Industry having extended to Baden, Wurtem burg, Bavaria, western Austria and all the country about Lake Constance Their Vision Dimmed. How many learned men are work ing at the forge of science laborious ardent, tireless Cyclops, but one! eyed! Joubert
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