THE EVOLUTION OF KHAKI.
Centre Street at
Let the Parcel Post Help You Assem
ble the Spring Toilette.
II you can't come in person, write us. Experienced shop
pers will fill your order and send it via Parcel Post,
Free of Charge.
Provided the purchase amounts to a dollar or more.
While we are always glad to furnish samples, remember it
makes lar greater speed and greater satisfaction to you, if you
state your color preferences and material desired.
It's Just as Quick Just as Satisfactory, and
Just as Inexpensive to Shop by .Mail as
Though Ton Came in Person, if
You Write to The Smart
& Silberberg Co.
Displays of Spring Silks Are Now
Exceptionally Broad.
Each day as it passes finds delightful additions to the as
sortments in silk department, with silks that differ more widely
in design and coloring than any of any season for years past.
You will find of especial interest:
Bulgaran Prints. Persian Prints. Striped Silk.
Silk Eponge. Striped Chiffon Taffeta.
Brocaded Crepe. Brocaded Charmeuse. Brocaded Satin.
Floral Pattern Foulards. Dresden Figured Crepes.
Hemp and Milan Models Are Favored
for Early Spring Wear.
We are ready to bid you welcome to a very elaborate dis
play of advance spring shapes in these popular weaves. By
placing our own special import orders, we obtained these
concessions, in which we're inviting you to share. By select
ing the Spring Hat now, you can choose from groups that are
freshest and broadest and save about one-third the price you'd
pay later on.
But whether you buy or not, we'll be glad to make you
acquainted with these harbingers of spring in millinery section
today.
The Keep At It Habit..
Just as the continual dropping of water
will wear away the hardest stone, so will the
steady, systematic saving of a portion of your
income assure you a competence in your
later years.
4 Per Cent, on your savings.
Oil City Trust Company
Oil City, Pa.
Biff
if '&?&J,
National Vacuum Cleaners.
Many thrifty housewives are showing that they appreciate the FOREST RE
PUBLICAN'S liberal offer. They are responding at even greater rate than we
had anticipated.
There can be only one reson for the popularity of the National Vacuum Cleaner
and that is its superior efficiency. It is positively the most powerful cleaner built
for operation by one person.
Special Offer.
The REPUBLICAN has only a few of these wonderful labor-saving machines
remaining, which are offered on the following terms:
The REPUBLICAN for one year and one National Vacuum Cleaner, com
plete, (4-00.
the same advantages will be given to all our regular subscribers if arrearages
are paid.
Ageott charge you $6.00 to $7.00 for the machine alone.
The Cleaner for Everybody.
The Jtatiwud it really everybody's cleaner.
Here you have a vacuum cleaner that weighs 6 pounds instead of 60. With it
you niey citaa your carpU and rugs without lugging a 60 pound machine from room
lo rtrtmi upbUurs and down. You can carry the National anywhere without fatigue.
The NttUoutU ove ail that any vacuum cleaner ran do.
The flexible nuzzle adjusts ititlf to any height of person. It can be operated
with thr right or left hand.
lori't delay in ttioiig advantage of this splendid offering. Act today. Write,
pliuiie or cull.
THE FOREST REPUBLICAN,
Tionesta, Pa.
Elm, Oil City, Pa.
OUR GROWING APPETITE.
Not That We Eat More, but That
There Are More of Us Eating.
In 18!)3 the American- hen laid
gM in sufficient number during the
calendar year to amount to seventeen
do;.en fur each Inhabitant of the
Tutted States. Omitting all thought
of adding a single egg to the Indivi
dual share of eggs, but merely to
maintain the 1900 proportion of eggs
o ropulatlon the hens of the United
..;i.es in 191 1 must be laying annually
"l.t' .'0,000 dozen more eggs than they
i.d in 1S!"9.
The per capita product of milk in
he year 1S99 was 95.6 gallons per
.tnnum. To maintain thin per capita
tor the benefit of our Increment of
population, says the "Atlantic," the
ullk supply in the year 1911 must ex
ceed that of 1899 by 1.242.800.000 gal-
..na.
To maintain butter, of which the
er cupl.a amount produced In 1899
.is fourteen pounds, at the Fame per
arita in 1911 the aggregate prod .ic
on must exceed the former figure
y 1S2.000.0C0 pounds.
).' i.otatoeg. that other staple of
lii n'rn consumption, the per capita
proL::rt nt the last census was about
rent biithels: hence in 1911 to main
tain the potato supply for our new
ro:i en but not to increase It for the
rest of the community to the extent
f even one potato each (one potato
"'ere means approximately 180.000
i.ishels), there must be raised 52,000,
000 bushels more of this homely
but useful vegetable than were re
ported in 1899.
What this produce means la best
noted by observing that to supply It
would consume the entire potato
crop as reported at the last census
of the States of California, Colorado,
Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Mary
land and North Carolina.
Guard for Children's Eyesight.
"Force the children to take back
seats at the moving picture show,"
Is the advice of an English atiihority,
who says that no child should be
allowed to alt nearer than thirty feet
away from the curtain.
"Children as a rule like to crowd
down to the front of the show and the
parent sees no cause for objection.
But parents are making the 111 effects
of the flickering shadow p'. :tures
Ignorant of the fact that the nearer
the child is to the front the worse the
effect upon th immature eye As
many parents accompany their child
ren to these shows let them force the
children to take back seats, thirty or
forty feet back If possible. It would
be even a better Idea If the m inage
ment of these shows would prescribe
a line beyond which the child would
not be allowed to sit For a nation
of defective eyes may be expected If
some thing Isn't done along th.s line
of reform. Chicago Tribune.
Sweet In the Beehive Hats.
Two young smartly dressed
Parisian ladies wearing large beehive
hats on arrival at Bellegarde In the
Geneva-Paris express declared noth
ing and ostentatiously opened their
baggage at the dounane.
An official, however, noticed that
they seemed to experience much diffi
culty In balancing their large hats on
their head' and the ladies were re
quested to pass Into a private room,
where their headgear was examined.
The roofs of the beehives contained
not honey but saccharine packed in
airtight boxes fitted Ingeniously into
the hats. On the ladles paying a heavy
fine they were allowed to continue the
Journey minus the saccharine but re
taining their hats, which might have
been confiscated also. London
Chronicle.
The Song of the Shirt.
This has been a particularly peril
ous season for the man w-lth a pas
sion for shirts. By some diabolical
agreement all the haberdashers at
one and the same time filled their
windows with luscious lavenders and
faint green stripes and soft silk shirts
with confortable French cuffs, and
Diarking out $2 or $3, as the case
might be. wrote $l,S0;of $2.G0 below.
The song of ihe-shlrt yds loud in the
"and, Its luntlng melody not to be
resisted latere any lure for a wo
man In all the fluffy mystery of a
January "white Bale" comparable to
he seduction for a man of a lavender
shirt marked down from $2 to $1.50?
I doubt If. Heaven help the woman
if there Isl Atlantic.
The Versatile Velasquez.
"There's many a true word spoken
by accident." F. II. Smith, the artist,
says :
"I dropped In at a picture sale.
The autloneer displayed a daub and
said:
"Now, ladies and gentlemen, what
am I offered for this superb Velas
quez, probably the best Velasquez that
ever came from the master's hand."
"There were no bids whatever, so
the auctioneer took up another
picture.
" 'Very well, ladles and gentlemen,
he went on. 'I now offer you a Titian
by the same artist.' " London
Opinion.
Belgians Cannot Read.
In some parts of Belgium 60 per
cent of the population can nor read
or write. Eduction is not compulsory
and the government, which Is Clerical,
opposes the bill which the Liberals
and Socialists are endeavoring lo se
cure for compulsory eduction. The
question Is now before parliament.
The government. Insists that tho child
belongs to his parents entirely, anil
that It can not be forced to give him
any education without Infringing their
rights to freedom o action.
Drew the Line at Cats.
To the list of divorces for seemingly
trivial causes such as "cruelty In not
taking me out riding," "cruelty In re
quiring me to sew on buttons," etc.,
has now been added a divorce granted
to a man who charged his wife with
"cruelty In keeping cats In the house,"
thereby preventing him from occupy
ing his favorite chair. On the Judge's
Inquiring, "Why didn't you put th
cats out of the house?" the man an
swered, "My wife Is a member of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals, and I wm afraid she
would have me arrpsted."
Discovery of the Proper Dye Reault of
an Accident.
A lucky accident led to the In
vention of khaki, that olive colored
cloth that Is worn by soldiers.
For Tears the British troops In
India wore a cotton cloth of a greenish
brown, but It always faded when
washed with soap. While discussing
this defect with some British officers
n business man from Knglund care
lessly observed that the manufacturer
first to discover the means whereby
a cotton drill could be made tlia,
would not fade would certainly make
his fortune. One of the officers, a
young man, took the hint. When he
got home he employed a skilful dyer,
and the two began a systematic
search for un olive dye that when
used on cotton cloth would not yield
to soap or soda. They spent years
n experiments along thH line but
.o no avail. The thing seemed hope
ef s.
One day, however, they found
among numerous Kraps of dyed cloth
one that retained Its color under the
o.u severe tests. The puzzling part
if It nil was that this scrap had been
er.ved from a piece of cloth that had
cc'i subjected to the fame processes,
or a long time, the experimenters
:ed to solve this riddle. The one bit
f khakis mentioned was the only
eoe that kept its color against all
tacks.
Finally by the merest chance they
hit upon the secret. Tiie dye In which
this scrap had been dipred had re
gained for a time in a iroini d'sh of a
peculiar kind. This metal, in com
bination with the cIumiiLmIr of the
ye. had furnished the ery thing
ceded. They n ude the experimert
ith other pieces; the eye held, and
their fortunes were made. Scientific
American.
At "Jim Hands" Puts l. '
"There's some folks ain't got
enough money sense to buy a nickel
cigar and come away with the right
hange."
"Inspiration Is the big Jangcr in
being literary."
"I'd like to feel Just on-e for a
moment that I was evetythlmr to
somebody."
"Children Is a terrible Investment"
"Health is Just having no time to
be sick."
"He looks like one of them rich
men who don't smoke clgaret'ts or
Bay 'my good man' to a laborer, and
hasn't never got a divorce."
"Many a crooked lawyer will make
in honest Judge."
"The oldest man in the world dies
young."
"Women gets the worst of It in
this world."
"There's a whole lot of excitement
In what folks call drudgery after all."
"God never put Instinct! into
human beings to have 'em ha.nitred
by 'social standing'."
"It's funny how restless you feel
when you ain't at work." N. V. Sun.
Rid Town of Night Howlers.
Jasper Pike and Harry Stevenson
of Camden made $200 recently by
practically ridding Camden of night
howling tats, but they landed In Jail
through their ingenuity and each
had to pay a $5 fine. The young men
rigged up a cat trap and baited It with
a piece of shad.
As the felines essayed lo reach the
fish the floor of the trap would give
way and they were precipitated into
a hogshead of water. The young men
caught sixty-one cats in one night,
but one of the cats was a pet and its
mistress caused the arrest of the
young men. But Camden sleeps at
night now. Falrport Herald.
A Veteran Telegrap'ier.
President dowry, the retiring head
of the Western I'nion Telegraph Com
pany, on Thanksgiving Pay sent mes
sages to many of the company's older
managers expressing rcurei at the sev
ering of official reht'oTis with long
time associates. Among them was one
to Chatham's veteran manager, Ziba
Nlckerson, probably the oldest active
operator In the country, who sent
the following reply: "My compliments
to our retiring president. I have
served fifty-five years as manager at
the elbow town of Care cod and am
till In the harness at the age of 87."
Boston Globe.
Candidate Paid for everything
"One day," said n Parisian, "I
arrived with my wife at an in; In
the lower Pyrenees. I wps Curing an
electoral campaign. The place pleased
me. Two days passed. At the mo
ment of departure I asked for ir.y Re
count. The Innkeeper responded
'You owe nothing. The Count de V.,
who Is the candidate, I: a, I paid eery
thing In this district for iififeu days.'
So I rdmalned at that inn fifteen days
without paying a sou."-1. Cri de
Paris.
Planks 50 Feet Long.
Employes on the Lehigh Canal un
loaded a carload of white pine plank
In the Central railroad yard at Wclss
port. each plank having the great
length of fifty feet and every pir.nk
without a knot. These are the kind
of planks out of which canalboats are
built at the Weissuort yard. They
came all the way from Seattle, Wash.,
and It Is Bald that the freight on the
car is $400.
Br'er Coon Lay Low.
Where are all the coon hides? The
commission merchants are asking this
question, as the supply has taken a
big slump during the last two or three
years. There Is undoubtedly a big
shortage and Mr. Coon is disappear
lag. Need Original Thinkers.
We want today men and women to
think for themselves; working men
have been too apt to accept the
thoughts of others. Exchange.
A Converse Proposition.
Lady Warwick, at a dinner nt Rhr
ry's in New York, said, apropos of art:
"Art Is the pursuit of beaaty."
She smiled and added:
"And from what they tell me of th
goings-on In yonr Great White. Way
hei, th pursuit of beauty Is also tin
art with somj peopl."
Suits to Order, $12.60 to $35.00.
You
In anything we have to sell.
T We have among other
A complete assortment of
A.
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Come in and let us
Other Suits $18.00,
Are our handsome, well
For Boys at $2.60, $3.60,
Oil Citj, Pa.
A New Deal.
"If you remember, Wombat was
married Just a year ago."
"I remember."
"We ought to remember the anni
versary In some way. Yes. Just a year
jgo the wedding cards were out "
"Forget It. The wodcMre "rds r.vr
aehig shuffled fn 1,1
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bedding
11-4 Tlaid all Wool Country
Blankets I'.laik and White, Red
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White. I'ink and White! BK't
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11-4 heavy Country woven
Blankets slightly mixt with cot
ton to prevent shrinking (irey
and White, Blue and White, Pink
and White, Tan and White 4
inch blocks. $4 00 pair.
(5 by 7 down FiM Comforts
figured mercerized sateen cover
ing, variety of colorings and pat
terns, $4.00 each.
Cottot Fild Comforts figured sllho1
line coverings, top and back 72 by 81
incheR, J1.2V
Cotton Fl'd Comforts 72 by 84
Inehts, figured cambric coverings, top
and back, $1.50.
White Crcchet Red Spreads hemd
full double bed flze Marseilles pat
tern, $1.00.
domestic floods
Cluimbray Ginghams mill Bhott
pieces Cadet, Unlit Wue, fink, Tan,
Grey opportunity for waists, dresses,
rompers, 5c yard.
12Hc Percales neat stripes and
figures on White wide range of
tlyles specially suited for men's
shirts, boys' waists, women's and
children's dressen. etc.. 8c yard.
Blenched Canton Flannel extra
wide and heavy, 8c yard.
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special offerings and trade winners for spring a remarkably big and
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Of Course You Can Be Fitted.
show you how good it can be done.
$20.00, $26.00, $30.00 and $36.00.
Extraordinary
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$4.00 and $6.00. For Girls and Women at $6.00, $6.60 and $9.00.
"A Good Store to Trade At."
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Silk and Cotton Novelties
Displayed, today, on the center aisle tables are three of the handsomest
Silk and Cotton Novelties this 1913 spring season has brought us thus far.
Fabrics that reflect great credit on the art and l-genuity of the American
manufacturer. For to state it mildly we have never seen anything from
the famous English mills of Bradford that would surpass these in perfection
of weave or finish.
Silk Striped Voile 25c
A firm, strong wiry mesh voile with a neat pin stripe of satin.
All the favored colors of the spring season.
Floral Silk Voile 45c
A decided novelty. White ground with large two and three-toned floral
design and running through the pieces at intervlas of about 1 1-2 inches a
I half inch Persian stripe.
Silk Striped
Not heavy as the name might indicate and yet a "P. K." in effect at T
least.
Solid colors with a self-color novelty silk stripe at intervals of one inch.
CASH COUNTED
Willie Say, paw, what's the differ
ence between a restaurant and a
cafe?
Paw In a cafe they charge you
for bread and In a restaurant they
throw it in.
Forced to Sacrifice Beard.
The Wisconsin farmer whom Judge
Holhand condemned, in lieu of a fine
which he could not pay, to have his
flowing; beard cut off, may find consola
tion In the fact that a similar order
deprived a man In New York of long;
and carefully cultivated whiskers a
few days ago. The man Is employed
In a manufacturing concern where his
duties bring him In contact with rapid
moving machinery. The proprietor's
little son, In a visit to the factory,
stood near the machine which the
bearded man was operating and ask
ed: "Don't the hair ever get mixed
up with the silk?" The operator sim
ply smiled, but the father, realizing a
danger, gave the man then and there
the option of shave or discharge. He
chose the former.
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Shirts to Order, $2.00 to $12.00.
Like a
of tact and discernment.
T.
A.
P.
Oil City, Pa.
"P. K." 50c
46e
SHE KEPT TAB
Father What time did that young
man leave?
Daughter Just when you got home
from the club, mother returned from
her card party, and Susan came back
from her night out.
TWAIN AND THE OFFICE BOY
How the Late Humorist Rebuked by
His Wit an Officious
Youth.
Mark Twain did not cherish a fond
ness for the average office boy. He
had an Idea that the genius was In
sufferable, and invariably when the
humorist sallied forth Into some busi
ness office there was immediate
armed hostility between him and the
boy.
One day Mark went to see a friend
p.t his office, and the office boy on
guard. In Icy tones, said:
"Whom do you wish to see?"
Mark mentioned his friend's name.
"What do you want to see him
about?" came next from the boy.
Mark Twain' -Immediately froze up
and then with a genial smile he said:
"Tell him, please, I want to ask his
hand in holy matrimony."
Discoverer of Coal.
The discovery of coal Is said t6
have been made by a Belgian black
smith nanfed Hullos, who lived in the
village of Plenevaux, near Liege, In
1049.
Superiority.
In the opinion of the average wo
man pedigree Is as much superior to
brains as angel cake Is superior to a
flapjack. S. E. Riser.
Far:Reachlng Influence.
"It Is not possible to know how far
the Influence of any amiable, honest
hearted, duty-doing man flows out In
to the world." Great Expectations.