2 GERMAN GREEKS. Centre Street at Holiday Merchandise Awaits Inspection. It peeps at you from every nook and corner of the store. Holiday decorations are in place. Everything, in lact, has a Christmas air. And now for the busiest selling the store has ever known. Stocks are at their best right now. Largest assortment and best selections. You profit by choosing your gift-things before they're mussed up a bit. Have You Seen the Dolls? Down in the big basement room which Santa Claus has chosen for headquarters, will be found a wonderful collection of doll babies. There are Character Dolls that close their eyes, and can't be told lrom real babies handsome Wax Dolls serviceable Kid-bodied Dolls funny unbreakable "Tiny Tots" in shorty dolls for every taste and purse, though especially pleasing as sortments are here for mothers who must count the pennies. We have a pardonable pride this Christmas, both in the range and quality of our stocks, and in the appearance of our store. We want you to enjoy them both. Make Your Christmas Shopping Trip at Our Expense. We'll be glad to pay for your one-way ticket if you pur chase to the amount of $10; we'll stand the amount of your fare both ways on purchases of 20, or over. We invite you to a day of pleasant, satisfactory shopping at. The Store Where Christmas Stocks Are Broadest and Best. $60,625.58 Amount paid in our Christmas Savings Club at the close of business, Novem ber 30. Checks for the above, with additional payments and interest, will be mailed the 8,238 members December 17. New club opens December 26. Oil City Trust Company Oil City, Pa. The in mo farmer ESTABLISHED 1848 - PUBLISHED WEEKLY America's Greatest Farm Paper Has discarded all premiums and other questionable methods and offers this greatest of all agricultural papers at the. following greatly reduced rates: One Year (52 issues) 50c Three Years (156 issues) $1.25 Five Years (260 issues) 2.00 Balance of 1912 Included trtm on all new subscriptions "J WE would like to tell you the whole itory of our re.gont fur miking Ihii unprecedentrd rrdurlion in muHPriptiim ratr,but we haven't the npuie lien no we will content ourselves with snyinic that we hsve taken this step in order to meet the competition of other farm papers that have been using all sort of unbusinesslike tactics in their subscription promo tion work. They have been sending hordes of paid representatives up and down the country offering ridiculous premium inducements with subscriptions to their papers. This practice has utterly demoralised conditions and merit has been lost sight of in the mud scramble for more circulation. The Ohio Farmer was forced to adopt some of these methods hut we have de cided to abandon all surh plans and in the future depend entirely on the mer it of our paper and ita adaptability to the needs of its readers. By getting hack to sane methods of conducting our subscription department we will rut down expenses materially and the money we save bv eliminating the salaries and expenses of traveling solicitors and cost of premiums we are go ing to give to our subscribers in the shape of lower subscription ratee and a bigger, better paper. Dont Forget This. Every paper that gives you a premium with a subscription, makes you pay for It in the long run and that you usually pay for something as a premium that you don't need. We think It is hardly necessary to say thnt the hieh standard of excellence that has always charaeteriied THE OHIO FAKMKIi will be maintained, in lact contract, have already been awarded for several improvements along ad vanced lines which will add materially to the publishing expense. Do not attempt to get along without this great paper anv lnnirer. vmi need it fT.'"?iA?5'!?,yoV.r f"rm oiM-mt'on; Hit out the blank below todov NOW and 1.1. o.ilJj ,(MKR nP to mnke your labor lighter and your prolits larger. 8AMI'I.E COI'IKS SKXT FKEE. THEr-.H.IJFAMER F'LL eat this blan-ktadap. It Wilt Cleveland. Ohio proV to btyoar but invtstmtnt. Gentlemen: Please find enclosed $ for which send me The Ohio XA.VE rofiT OFFICE. R. F. A -Yo KTATK. Elm, Oil City, Pa. Farmer for - years Descendants of Follower, of Bavarian Prince Called to Greek Throne. A visitor to Athens who ' goes to the neighboring village of Heracles !s surprised to see children with blue eves and light hair playing In the streets. In fact they art little folk who resemble but remotely the de scendants of Pericles. The?e children on the Greek soil ire descendants of the suite and fol lowers of King Otho I. When the Prince of Bavaria was called to the hrone of Greece In 1832 he was ac ompanied by soldiers, officials, pro cfslonal men, workmen and shop '(prrers. The Bavarian King and Queen en ouraged the settlement of their orntrymen In Greece. Q'.ieen Amelia reated a model farm In Pyrgos AmB las. but the land uncultivated has low returned to a state of nature. The King founded a village upon vhich he bestowed the ancient title f Meraclea, and In view of the brl ;::ndage he Rurrounded It with walls nd gates. At the four corners he Tected small forts. It had new town 'loupes for sixty families specially re served for Bavarian artisans, but only 'orty were ever occupied. After the troubles of 1843 "thirteen families quitted the township, and the German population has since then continued to decrease, but those who have remained do not seem to have contracted Greek marriages. Munch ner Nachrlchten. T ; Seventh Son In Belgium. In the early days of the reign of the late King Leopold of Belgium a seventh son was born to a Brussels woman, and when the King heard of it and was told that the boy was the seventh successive one and that no jirl had come to the family he asked o be the baby's godfather. Ever since then every seventh son born n Brussels has had the same honor, ind the mothers have received gifts .) keeping with their station In life. ing Albert. In carrying out the old usage a short time ago had some diffi culty because the seventh son was twins. He could not stand for both boys, because that would give the family two Alberts. The remedy was found by Queen Elizabeth, who sug gested that her little son, the Duke of Brabant, be the godfather of the eighth boy, who consequently re ceived the name Leopold. London Globe. Mrs. Judklns a Deer Hunter. Mrs. Walter Judklns of Portland Is a woman to whom the lure of the Maine woods is strong. She returned from her twenty-third season In the autumn forest, with a record of twenty-eight deer to her credit Mrs. Jud klns shot her first deer wnen a girl of 13 while In the woods In search of partridge In her home town of Gl lead. Mrs. Judklns during her twenty-three years of hunting experience has tried many varieties of hunting costumes and has finally settled upon what she deems the most practical. She wears In the woods a stout gray sweater, a pair of very full bloomers, the stout huntsman's stockings and shoes similar in shape to a moccasin and waterproof, with top of skin and vamp and soles of heavy rubber. Kennebunk Journal. Wifely Solicitude. Appealing to the police to find her husband, who went to work and had not returned home at 8 o'clock, but requesting that the officers neither ar rest htm nor "talk cross" to him, a woman left a note in the hands of Patrolman Hickerson at Sixth and Edmond streets containing informa tion concerning the missing husband. The note in addition to giving a de scription of the missing man read hat the wife "was worried nearly sick because It wag the first time hat he had done this." "I don't want vou to arrest him," continued the note. "Tell the police to please not alk cross to him." St .Joseph Gaz ette. A Western Kansas Dust Storm. For twenty-four hours a dust storm irevalled In western Kansas counties, die wind had been blowing sixty liles an hour and the air was filled villi dust and sand as never before, according to reports of reliable men he Russian thistles of last year's ,'rowth were pushed over the prairies jy the thousands, piling up against ences and houses and filling railroad -uts. Fears were entertained for the iafety of the wheat crop which had ilrcady been slightly damaged by the lry weather. Sallna correspondence fopeka Capital. T. T. Coffee Drinks Milk. T. T. Coffee of Coffeyvllle, Kan., eglstered at the Savoy Hotel. "Which art of your name do you like best is a drink?" Mr. Coffee was asked. Neither," he replied. "I drink milk exclusively. Milk Is the great bev ;rnge. It Is a greater builder than neat or eggs. I drink a quart of milk ach day. I believe every one should !o the same." "Mr. Coffee Is a dairyman," the clerk explained later -Kansas City Star. Protection for Cranberries. The Weather Bureau at Washing ton has decided to establish four sta tlons In the cranberry belt. It Is an nounced that one will be located hi Halifax near one of the biggest cran berry bogs in the State. The bureau will arrange the station so thnt In case of cold weather the growers In the Cape Cod district can be notified by telephone service to flood thel; bogs. Halifax correspondence Bosto.i Transcript Regular Habit. It Is a good plan to have a regit! m time for reading. One accomplishes so much more in this way, and be sides establishes a kind of Intellec tual habit that Is a good thing In It self. In an hour, or even half an hour given regularly each day to read ing, a great deal may be accomplish ed. Do not confine yourself to serious books. Alternate light with heavy reading, and do not attempt heavy reading when you are tired. Do not read merely to be amused. Treat your books as friend. Do not follow blindly the teachings of any book. KICKER'S WRATH DISARMED By the Answer of the Man on the Floor Above with Musical Daughters. "Once," said the flat dweller with musical daughters, "our neighbors liv ing In the flat under us complained; the man of the house down there came up to see me about It " 'How do you suppose we can live down there.' he said, 'with your daughters forever pounding on the piano In minor, medium and major keys, but mostly In the major, and rorever singing at all hours of the day and night songs that seem to be a:nly In a high pltchT Your daugh era are most estimable young ladles, o;!i, I know, for I have seen them; mt ! wish you would come down Into v Mat some time and listen, listen. that continuous pounding and sing es If It didn't drive you plumb out f yo-.r senses I miss my guess." " My dear sir, I said to him, 'I ap-re;-l-.te your situation, and I thank on for the candid but at the same Ime kindly courtesy with which you 'lave stated your grievance, but con ider. " 'You.' I said to him, 'have between ie music and yourself a floor and a elllng. which must deaden the sound toirewhat, but I have to sit here and ear It right In the same apartment ith it!' "He understood; he knew that nine was the greater cross, and he 'ooked at me sympathetically and .vent away quite mollified." New Vcrk Sun. O'd Firearma In Historic House. Much excitement prevailed when he historic old residence owned by K. Burd was destroyed by fire. Vlth'n the walls of the structure vere hidden a small arsenal tif fire nis, rifles and pistols, all loaded, ind when the heat of the building ertrhed them a regular Fourth of July ioxbr.rdnient began. The house was me of the old landmarks of the own. having been built before the Civil War. D. Okett, a Southern sol !er. had recently written to the own t of the property that the Confed ?rates had stored gurs and ammuni tion In the walls of the old struc "re during the war. but Mr. Burd was unable to get at the relics owing o the fact that the building had been remodelled and strong walls had been built around the old ones, me mucn prized relics, consisting of ante be! lum firearms of the crudest make, were hidden In the walls of the old strr.rtiire In order to get them at the end of the struggle. Enterprise cor respondence New Orleans Times-Dem ocrat. A Woman's Letter. Worren. It Is generally admitted, vrlte better letters than men. M. Mircel Prevost has discovered the reason for this superiority. "The ob vious meaning Is never the one we should read Into a woman's letter. There Is always a veiled meaning. Woman makes use of a letter Just as she employs a glance or a smile, In a way that Is carefully thought out and with an eye to effect And, after all. does a woman's hat serve to cov er her head? Does a woman's para sol keep o.7 the sun? Why, then, should a woman's letter serve to con vey her real thoughts to the person addressed. Just like the letters of some honest grocer, who writes: '1 send you five pounds of coffee,' be cause he really does send you five pounds of coffee." London Chronicle. The Progressive Crow Indians. Contractors have gone to the Crow agency. Just across the line In Mon tana, to establish an electric light plant. The Crow Indians are among the most progressive red men In the United States. Many own their farms, adjacent to the agency, line horses and wagons, up to date farming ma chinery, send their children to school, and several are engaged In mercan tile pursuits at the agency. The In dians are abreast of the times. Real izing the advantages of electricity for light, power and heat, and being finandally able, they are having this plan-. Installed. Sheridan correspon ence Denver Republlcau. NTchlgan's Big Bean Crop. When Michigan's bean crop of 1910 hall have been converted Into the baked article and otherwise almost 520,000,oro will have been spent for the product of this State by the peo ple of the world who indulge in this food Reports show that Michigan ;rew 6.1 ."iO.OOO bushels last year aasily outranking any other State In this specialty. The retail price of benns everywhere, excepting for the selected, hand picked variety, all of which Is added to carry you a little higher. Is 10 cents a quart Detroit Free Press. Hook Instead of Landing Net. To Lawrence Dale of East Strouds burg has been granted a patent on a fishhook. The hot.k Is to take the place of landing net used for catch ing game lish. A spring release? these hooks and they sink into the fish with lightning rapidity up to the base. All that Is necessary Is to touch the fish and It Is secure There Is no getting away, and It is sufficient ly strong to hold fish weighing many pounds. Philadelphia Record. Telephones in Church. Moriah Church of I'tlca has In stallnd a telephone system for the benefit of members of the church who may be afflicted with deafness. Six telephones have been placed In vari ous parts of the auditorium, the trans mitter being located on the pulpit di rectly In front of the speaker. Tele hone Review. Cleaning Glass Vases. Flower vases which have become cloudy and discolored should be cleaned with a mixture of vinegar and salt, poured In and well shuken about. A long piece of Btlff wire, upon the end of which Is a little pad of soft rag, should be poked Into all the corners and crevices, and the vase then rinsed in warm water and dried with a good polishing cloth. Fly marks upon the gilt frames of pic tures should' be rubbed with half a lemon and then polished with a chamois leather. Suits to Order, $12.60 to $36.00. $$ Dollars $$ Are Like the Devil's Guests, They T Get Away as Soon as They Can, A. and They Never Come Back ip Make every dollar you spend for the Holidays earn its value in quality. You cannot buy a "foolish" or wasted money present at this store. Besides the gift that bears our label will convince the person who gets it that you were anxious to give quality along with the sentiment Hundreds of beautiful gifts ready for your choosing. Every one a distinct novelty. Every one a perfect present. Come in and look around. The visit will do us both good. "A Good Store to Trade At." Oil Citj, IV 4munoworry4 This strong bank, with assets of more than Seventeen Million Dollars, managed by successful and conscientious business men, assumes all the care of your sav ings and the risks of investment. It pays you 4 interest, and guarantees tne safety of your principal. WRITE FOR BOOKLET F. L. PITTSBURGH BANK FOR SAVINGS 4t An. ind Smlthfitia St, Pittsburfh, Pa. Prescription lens grinders Tor the eyes plus Collegia ately trained and Inter nationally endorsed Itehind the CSuus. NO DROPS. RESULTS DEFINITE. Artificial Kyesln Ntock. . Both 'Phones. -Oil City, Pa. inSTL TBnlletin. CONVENIENT TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES. The Pennsylvania Railroad, by main lines, branches, subsidiary lines, and con nections, covers the Eastern country so completely ' that the people of almost every community may avail themselves of its facilities. The lines reach the cities, the big towns and the little towns, so that whether the impulse to travel be for business, pleasure, or social purposes, it may be satisfactorily carried out, as far as transportation facilities are concerned, by taking a Pennsylvania Railroad train at the nearest point. Through cars are operated over the lines between all important centres of popula tion, and an excellent dining car service is available at the usual hours for meals on the through trains. The all-steel equipment of the trains adds greatly to the security and comfort of passengers. The spirit of the holiday season stimulates the wish to travel, and the facilities of the Pennsylvania Railroad and its connections appeal with equal force to the home coming young lolks and the migrating people of maturer years. The comprehensive train service, apart from the local trains well known in each community, covers a wide extent of territory. BETWEEN THE EAST AND THE WEST. There are splendid limited trains between New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Ilarrisburg, Altoona, Pittsburgh, and points in the West, notably Chi cago and St. Louis. Included among these are the "BROADWAY LIMITED," the the 20-hour train between New York and Chicago; the "24-HOUR ST. LOUIS," to St. Louis and Chicago; "THE PENNSYLVANIA LIMITED," to Chicago, St. Louis, Cleveland, and Cincinnati; and the "CHICAGO LIMITED," to Chicago, Cincinnati, and Cleveland. These are all-Pullman trains and provide the highest grade of service. In addition there are a number of express trains to Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Louisville, Indianapolis, Columbus, Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, and other important centres of the Middle West, which provide both Pullman and all-steel coach service. Among these are the "Chicago Special," "Chicago Express," "St. Louis Express," "Western Express," and the "Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Chicago Express." TO THE SOUTH. Those contemplating a trip South, to the rpsorts of the Carohnas, Georgia, Flor ida, and the Gulf Coast, will find a number of fine trains between the important ter minal cities of the Pennsylvania Railroad; and cars to the more cities of th South, running through from and to New York via Washington, Baltimore, and Philadelphia. On January 6, 1913, the through Limited Trains between New York and Florida will be placed in service. COMMERCIAL CENTERS LINKED. An examination of the time tables of the Pennsylvania Railroad will show that practicully all important commercial centres on its lines and connections are linked by through trains, through cars, or convenient connections, affording accommodating service. Anyone who wishes to go anywhere should consult the nearest Ticket Agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, lie can give all the information a traveler requires. What to Buy ? This store is assisting many to answer that question every day. With unlimited assortments, a largely increased and capable salesforce, displays arranged in a manner to facilitate Christmas shopping, we can help you solve this question profitably. Indeed a walk through the store any day now will be found most helpful. And again we urge all who can to shop in the morning if they would avoid the confusion and discomfort incident to the afternoon crowds. Advance Showing New 1913 Foulard Silks. It is with great pleasure we announce the arrival of the new 1913 Foulards. There is a growing tendency of recent years to present something of a useful, practical nature. With this in mind our spring order of Foulards shipped usually about February 1 were ordered forward December 1. What more royal or acceptable gift? Thfie are in exclusive dress lengths and we'll put them in fancy boxes for gilts. Special display at the first center aisle booth today. Remember all new silks, advance styles and colorings for the spring season 1913. Shirts to Order, $2.00 to $12.00. T. A. P. Oil City, Ta. I 19 i
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