Size Smati SilkdetQ & Centre Street at Elm, Oil City, Pa. IT'S EASY TO SHOP SATISFAC TORILY HERE. Broadest Stocks, Highest Values, Lowest Prices, Courteous Attention, and Your Trip Costs Nothing. Think of shopping at a metropolitan store, at no greater expense than if you went around the corner to buy a paper of pins. I hat is precisely what our standing invitation to you means, madam. If you purchase 10 worth here, we'll pay lor your one-way ticket; purchases of $20 or over entitle you to a rebate covering your lare both ways. And remember, that while there may be larger stocks, no metropolitan store can show stocks better selected, styles newer, values greater, or price . lower, than those you'll find at the Smart & Silberberg Co. GIFT THINGS FOR THE BRIDES OF JUNE. Numerous Sections of the Store Are Ready to Provide Acceptable Gifts for the Wedding. If there's one time more than another when this store's reputation for select merchandise appears as a special inducement, it is when one has a bride to "remember," when superlative quality and taste are at a premium, and you are anxious to have the gitt choice well selected, even if it be an inexpensive one, We wish to bring to your special notice, the exceptionally well chosen stocks of the following "wedding gift" departments. Table Linen, Cut Glass, Fancy Doilies. Linen Sets, Bed Spreads, Towels, Sheets, Etc. CHILDREN'S HATS ARE NOW HALF PRICE. "White Lace Hats Alone Excepted, All Children's Hats Are Just Half the Original Prices. Mothers whose province it is to provide for the little folks well, yet economically, will hail this announcement with delight. Think of having practically unlimited choice among the finest collection of children's hats in Oil City, and paying just half the prices marked. And Children's Day is not far distant. All Gage Sailors, formerly priced up to $8.40, price. 200 shapes, good colors and styles, reduced to 50c. A Lesson in Saving. Our Christmas Savings Clubs have taughi many of our home people how EASY it is to SAVE in a systematic way. It is but a step from the clubs to the Savings Bank Book and the regular checking account. The savings habit is a good one to acquire and will mean much to you in the luture. We Pay Four Per Cent. Interest Oil City Trust Company Oil City, Pa. Civilizing the Indian. The following Is from "The Soul of the Indian," a book by Dr. Charles Alexander Eastman, himself an Indian: "Long before I ever beard of Christ or saw a white man I had learned from on untutored woman the essence of morality. With the help of dear na ture herself she taught me things sim ply but of mighty Import. 1 knew God. I perceived what goodness Is. I saw and loved what Is really beautiful. Civ ilization has not taught me anything better. As n child I understood how to give. I have forgotten that grace since 1 became civilized. I lived the natural life, whereas I now live the artlllcial. Any pretty pebble was valuable to me then, every growing thing an object of reverence. Now I worship with tho white man before o painted landscape whose value Is painted In dollars. Thus the Indian is reconstructed, as the nat ural rocks are ground to powder and made hito artificial blocks wlilcli way be built into the walls of modem society." He Took the Cue. lie was a man who gave little and got much. Today, for Instance, he had got a clothes brush, u basiu of water, e towel and a shine, and be had given nothing at all. Tr-r-r-ring! went his bedroom bell. The hotel ntteudant smiled sourly. This was the fourth time he bad been summoned, and he did not hurry. "I thought you were never coming," exclaimed the visitor when tho at tendant appeared at last. "Are you nicknamed 'Slowcoach?' " "No. sir." answered tho attendant. "They call me 'lillllard cue.'" "Billiard cue.'" repeated the visitor, frowning. Then an inspiration dawn ed. "Ah! Because you're such n stick, I suppose?" be asked. "Wrong again, sir.'" returned the at tendant "It's because 1 work better with a good tin." London Answer. Could Help Her. Fussy Lady Patient I was suffering bo much, doctor, that 1 wanted to die. Doctor You did right to call me In. dear lady. London Opinion. Olfi Time Trade Signs, on nearly all street corner even In -he largest metropolis of Europe may be found relics of the middle ages and of the earliest times. Take, for In stance, the wooden image of a shoe, which every cobbler hangs out above bis door. It goes back for its origin to the Uome of the pre-Christian era. In the ruins of the lava buried cities of Ilerciilaiieum and 1'ompeii many shop signs of stone and terra cotta have been discovered, the forerunners of those that for centuries adorned the highways not only of Europe, but of the new world. Among them was the emblem of the shoemaker's trade, a Cupid carrying a dainty pair of wo men's shoes, lint the Unmans did not stop there. They used the image of a goat to indicate the dairies, that of a mule driving a mill to point out the bakers' shops and n bush of evergreen to direct the thirsty traveler to a tav ern. This particular sign gave rise to the English proverb, "Good wine needs no bush." . What kind of paper resembles a neeze? Tissue. Bigness of Big Ben. Rig Ren, which marks the hours for parliament at the top of the clock tow er at Westminster. Is bigger than It ap pears from below. Looking at the dial of Big Ben from the northern footway of Great George street or from the Thames embankment, it appears as if Its diameter might he equal to the space that a man of medium size could cover with outstretched arms. As a matter of fact, however, tho diameter of the dial Is twenty-three feet. Eroiu the ground the minute marks on tho dial look like ordinary minute marks and as If they were close together. Iteally they are a foot apart. The nu merals are two feet long. The niinuto baud, with Its counter balance tho heavy piece of metal that projects be yond the center of the dial is fifteen feet In length. This hand Is so massive that during a snowstorm the clock Is sometimes retarded by tho weight of the flakes that alight on It. London Mall. A Mdtter of Color. "Why do ymi refer to your youngest son as the Mark sheep?'" "Because Me paints the town red." Toledo Blade. SENATE ADOPTS PRIMARIES BILL Measure With Amendments Op posed by Flinn Passes FIGHT SHIFTS TO THE HOUSE Another Battle It Promised Over the Workmen's Compensation Measure, Which Was Amended in the Senate. The state senate 'passed finally the statewide piimary and Flinn party en. roll men t ibllls. The contest now shifts the house. William Flinn announces that h will carry the fight to the house and attempt to prevent the passage of the legislation In Us present form. Flinn was defeated at every 'point In the senate. "The action of the senate," said Flinn, "Is disappointing. I had ex pected that senators would keep their pledges. The three points in the pri mairy bill which are not satisfactory are those eliminating nomination pa pers, the preventing of fusion and the refusal to adopt the non-assistance clause." With the exception of three points mentioned by Flinn the senate did not make material changes In the primary bill as it passed the house. In the senate C. A. Snyder, Schuyl kill, reported from the Judiciary spe cial committee the woman and child labor hills as amended. The principal amendments would fix the number of hours per week for women at fifty- four, instead of fifty, as in the house bill, and for children at fifty-four, in stead of forty-eight, as In the house measure. The bill will be on first reading on Monday. The Flinn house bill, to provide for the registration and enrollment of voters according to their respective party preference, passed the senate, 26 to 16. The state senate passed finally the workmen's compensation bill in Its amended form. Within an hour the house had unanimously refused to con cur in the senate amendments. This will mean that a committee of con ference will be appointed and these six men will have the task of working out a bill which will be satisfactory to both houses. There is a general feel ing that this can he done. The friends of the legislation do not feel the fight has been lost. The senate passed finally the pro posed amendment to the constitution recommended by the framers of the compensation bill. The other com panion measure to require employers to make accident reports to the bureau of ' industrial statistics passed, also. The .bill to regulate the policies of in surance against liability arising from the proposed compensation law and to provide for the incorporation of em ployers' mutual liability Insurance as sociations were placed on the post poned calendar in the senate. . They will be voted on later. The senate passed finally the house bill to tax anthracite coal 2V4 per cent on the value of each ton at the mlne.i, or approximately 5 cents a ton. It Is estimated that, if the bill becomes a law, the revenue derived will be about $;,000,00O, of which half will go to the nine anthracite counties in which the tax is levied and the other half will go Into the genera) fund of the state. The house passed finally the Clark measure for the government of cities of the third class. The bill will be sent to the senate for concurrence !n minor amendments. The Judiciary general committee of the house decided to recommend ai pointment of a committee to investi gate charges made against Judge Fl. E. Umbel of Fayette county and also to recommend that, if a committee is named, it should take cognizance of references to Judge John Q. Van Swearingen of Fayette county. The committee, If named, will determine whether the charges warrant a pre sentment for impeachment. The majority and minority reports of . the committee Investigating the charges against Judge Charles N. Brumm were made a special order of business for next Tuesday. Representative Samuel B. Scott of Philadelphia tried to lop $500,000 off the appropriation of $1,000,000 for the University of Pittsburg. In making this motion he announced that It was part of a plan to reduce the appropria tions for this Institution, the Univer sity of Pennsylvania, State college and Temple university and endeavor to prevent anything being given to D;i quesne university and Grove City col lege. Scott is not objecting to the Institu tions getting the money, but contends that the state must fix some policy to be followed in making appropriations or every Institution of 'higher learning In the commonwealth will be demand ing money. His idea Is to give the four schools receiving state aid two years ago about the same sums they then received and then have the state agree on some definite policy to he followed in the future. There was considerable debate on the Scott proposition, but no action was taken, as a roll call would have disclosed the abseuce of a quorum. Brands as Ridiculous En gagement Reports 'V Woman Burned to Death. Mrs. .1. H. Broil was burned to death at MoorofiVJ, V. Va., while cleaning picture frames with coal oil. Time to Go. "Pa, Is a vessel a boat?" "E yes you may call if that." "Well, what kind of a boat is a blood vessel?" "It's a lifeboat. Now run away to bed." Boston Transcript Not Fast. "I understand," says the father, Mint you have been going with a very fhst set" "Fast nothing!" retorts the son. "Why, not one of them bas a four cylinder cur!" Judge. QUEEN AMEI.IE. Queen Marie Amelie of Portugal stamps as absurd the widely published report that she is to wed Count Vas salaes, one of the iroyalist leaders ot Portugal. She Is the daughter of the late t'ompte de Paris and a sister of the Dukes of Orleans and Montpensler King Manuel is her only son. KILLS THREE; WOUNDS ONE Canton (O.) Man Starts to Settle Domestic Trouble With Gun. Enraged, he said, because his wife bad left him, Robert Roach, aged twenty-seven, started in to destroy her family at Canton, O., with a gun. He Bhot and kl'.led his mother-in- law, sister-in-law and sixteen-month- old baby and when a policeman trid to arrest him seriously wounded him. Roach then tried to end his life with gas alter barricading himself in an upstairs room. Roach was In the Massillon asylum two years ago and he is believed to have become sud denly demented. Michael Murphy Dies. Michael Murphy, the world's famous athletic trainer of the University of Pennsylvania, ended a long and gal lant flelvt with death when he passed away at his home in Philadelphia. A complication of throat and lung troubles brought death for "Mike," be loved of thousands of students and a man to whom is largely owing Penn sylvania's present prominence in track sports. PITTSBURG MARKETS. Better Prints, 31 Hi tubs, 30. Eggs Selected, 22. Poultry Hens, live, 16 17. Cattle Choice, $8.40(38.60; prime, $S.20u8.40; good, 8.10!fi 8.;sr; tidy butchers, $7.7.HS 8; fair, $7.2.17.60; common, $68; goodtochoKe heifers. $6(8 8; common to fat bulls, $67.50; common to fat cows, $47.50; fresh cows and springers, $60((i75. Sheep and Lambs Prime wethers, $3. 35 5.50; good mixed, $4.90(5; 3.23; fair mixed, $4.2.",i34.73; culls and common, $2.503.50; lambs, $47.23; spring lambs, $3.308.30; veal calves, $10.30 (311; heavy and thin calves, $8(5 9.50. Hogs Prime 'heavy, $8.85; heavy mixed, $8.83 8.90; mediums and heavy Yorkers, $8.90(5 8.93; light Yorkers and pigs, $8.95(39; roughs, $7.507.73; stags, $6.757. A Joke That Failed. The clerk of a supply store In MUthern Colorado did not know In dian nature very well when he Invited a Ute chief to a boxing bout After explaining the use of the gloves, which the chief seemed to reudily under stand, they went Into a vacant room in the rear of the store to spar. The gloves were adjusted, and the clerk invited the chief to hit him. This, of course, he failed to do, as Indians nev er strike with their hands in conflict All at once the clerk struck out and. catching the chief under the ear, land ed him on the floor. This was enough. The Indian sprang to bis feet, pulled off the gloves. Jerked out a knife, nn? the clerk hud to run for his life. For tunately he managed to keep out of reach until some friends caught the infuriated Indian and held him until be cooled off. Then the clerk explain ed the Joke, but with very poor suc cess. The chief consented to forego vengeance for the Insult, but he was never friends with the clerk again. St Louis Globe-Democrat Ornamented With Scan. The natives of some of the Islands of the Pacific are always glad to see the doctor on his periodical visits. At Kaiser Wllhelm's harbor the German government has stationed Dr. Helse gnng as medical otllccr. lie Is a busy mnn. Natives by the dozen come to him, not to be treated for illness, but to get the benefit of his professional opinion on how to scar themselves ar tistically. The natives are very fond of scars, and nearly nil of them are covered with specimens which have resulted from self Inflicted wounds which were kept open by frequent scratching or by the Introduction of foreign substances like sand, bamboo, shells and so forth. The excrescence which results from the average vacci nation Is scratched off at the proper time, and the resulting large scar is very dear to the native. A young Islander whose face and body are n mass of cuts, bruises and scars is con sidered the catch of the seasou by the dusky belles. An Innocent Query. At n dinner party in England the host introduced to the favorable notice of the company, amid murmurs of ad miration, n splendid trutiled pheasant "Isn't it n beauty?" he said. "Dr. So-and-so gave it to me; killed It him self." "Ah! What was he treating It for?" asked one of the guests. Suits to Order, $12.60 to $36.00. Shirts to Order, $2.00 to $12.00. New Additions to Our Great Big FoLmily. We announce with all the pride in our make up the arrival of T. SIXTY-FIVE A Brand new English and Norfolk model Suits for service at once. No two suits are alike. Every suit and every model is as fresh as the morning dew. Really it is a corking good chance for a man to get a right smart midsummer outfit that will please him and serve him like faithful friend. P. $20.00, $22.50, $25.00 Among other new arrivals we find present: New Straw Hats, New Flannel Trousers, New Fancy Hat Bands, New Silk and Linen Shirts, New Underwear, New Hosiery, New Pajamas, New Wash and Silk Ties, New Soft Collars, New and Nobby Wash Suits, New Linen and Duck Trousers, New Boys' Underwear and Waists, Khaki Trousers, Play Suits and Kiddies' Overalls. "A Good Store to Trade At" T. A. P. Oil City, Pa. Oil City, Ta. 3 Sale Cards all over the store direct attention to Booster ? Week Specials in every Department. Booster Week Prices on Tailored Suits. $15.00 Suits, $ 8.75 $16.50 Suits, $ 9.75 $18.50 Suits, $10.75 $20.00 Suits, $11.75 $22.50 Suits, $12.75 $25.00 Suits, $15.75 $27.50 Suits, $16.75 $28.50 Suits, $17.75 $32.50 Suits, $18.75 $35.00 Suits, $19.75 Booster Week Prices on Coats. $10.00 $12.00 $12.50 $14.50 $15.00 $16.50 $18.50 $20.00 $22.50 $25.00 $27.50 $32.50 $35.00 Coats, $ 6.50 Coats, $ 7.50 Coats, $ 7.50 Coats, . $ 8.50 Coats, $ 8.50 Coats, $ 9.50 Coats, $11.50 Coats, $12.50 Coats, $13.50 Coats, $14.50 Coats, $16.50 Coats, $18.50 Coats, $19.50 tlAlimiAAAlAlAl J ........ rllllllllllMllll TTTTTTTTTT TTT1 When Lobsters Were Common. The lobster was not always the aris tocrat of the supper table and the most costly of delicacies. A man who used to live In Maine, but now lives in Ohio, has this reminiscence, uccordlmj to a writer in the Cleveland Leader: "One day here In Cleveland I took a friend out to luncheon, and suddenly the old appetite for lobster came back to both of us, as we were both born on the Maine const. We had two full portions, and the bill was $2. And y:t as a boy I've seen my father standing on the wharf, bargaining with a fish erman for bis 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 big, black lobsters, perhaps would be dumped on the landing and taken back on our old farm as feed for the pigs. What He Wat Showing. A young man sitting in a subway car with legs crossed and one foot showing a highly polished shoe and silk sock extended so far Into the aisle as to make it almost luiKssible for people to pass without coming in con tact with the obtruding member was brought to n seuse of his disregard for others by three young women who sat opposite. One said, "I wonder If be Is showing his foot or bis shoe?" The second said loud enough to be heard above the car clatter and of the amusement of others, "1 think te wants to show his clocked socks watch it" "No," said the third, "he's only showing his bad manners." The foot came down and was lost In the crowd which got off at the next sta tion. New York Tribune. Laughter. Laughter, while It lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remiss ness and dissolution In all the powers of the soul, and thus far it may be looked upon as a weakness In the com position of human nature. But If we consider the frequent reliefs we re ceive from It and how often It breaks the gloom which Is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits with tran sient unexpected gleams of Joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life. Addl-sou. The Comeback. Skinflint 1 have no money, but I will give you a little Advice. Beggar Well, If yer ain't got no money yer advice can't be very valuable. Chris tian Advocate. They Couldn't Help It. During the Amerieim Invasion of Torto Hlco. In the course of the war with Spain. General Tusker II. Bliss with his troops, was stationed near o village held by an overwhelming- force of Spaniards. Orders were to keep his "eye peeled" nnd. If he heard nny thing suspicious, to fall back nboi eight miles. Instead of this his men turned In one day and captured the village, chasing the Spanlnrds out. The next day the commander of the American forces mine nlong to find Bliss sitting in front of the borne of the chief man of the village. The eon mnnder asked hlui why be bad attack ed the Spanish force, when he knew that he was outnumbered. "Couldn't help It," ald General Bliss. "You see, my men have been hungry for some days, and the wind blew toward them from the village, and some squaw wa frying onions over there. And so" Argonaut Jefferson at an Inventor. Not many people know that Thomas Jefferson was a great inventor. Ills In vent ions were all of articles of every- day use. He devised a three legged folding enmp stool that Is the basis of all camp stools of that kind today. The stool he bad made for bis own use was his constant companion on oc cnslons of outings. The revolving chair was bis invention. lie designed a light wagon. A copying press was devised by him and came Into general use. He also Invented an instrument for measuring the distance he walked. A plow and a hemp cultivator showed that his thoughts were often on agri cultural matters. His plow received a gold medal In France in 1790. Jeffer son never benefited financially by bis Inventions, but believed they should be for the use of everyone without cost He Didn't Know. One June day In 1SC2 near Freder ickshall, Va.. General Stonewall Jack son saw one of General Hood's Texnns climbing a fence to get into a cherry tree. "Where nre you going?" shouted Jackson. "I don't know." replied the soldier.' "To what command do yon belong?" "I don't know," the Texan replied. "Well, what state nre you from?" "I don't know." Jackson gave tho man up, but he asked a com rade what It all meant. "Well," was tho reply, "Old Stonewall and General Hood gave orders yesterday that we were not to know anything until after the next fight." The soldier was left to bis cherries. Whistler's Eccentricities Whistler's remarkable genius Is no doubt responsible for bis many eccen tricities, lie quarreled indiscriminate ly with friend and foe. and for him the public were a set of Ignoramuses whe bad no right to any opinion what ever. Especially well known Is his quar rel with John Rushln. who In his "Ars Clnvlgera" had heaped scorn on one of Whistler's "Nocturnes" in the following langunge, "1 have seen and heard much of cockney fmpudence be fore now, but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask 200 guineas for flinging a pot of paint In the public's face." The artist promptly sued for damages, and in the celebrated trial which fol lowed he was awarded one farthing, which coin he triumphantly wore as a watch charm ever afterward. In his art work, as In his own per sonal appearance. Whistler was fastid ious. Ills palettes were beautifully wiped, his brushes faultlessly kept, and as for his general behavior it was foreign, one may even say exotic. Why Thackeray Wat Moved to Tean. A lady, an Intimate friend and a frequent visitor at the Thackeray home, called late one afternoon. Slid was shown into the study, nnd on en tering perceived the novelist himself seated at his desk, his head bowed upon bis arms Tearing she was in truding In the presence of some great and unknown grief, she paused, hesi tating. Then, thinking she might be of some help or at least express her sympathy, she stepped forward. Jut then Thackeray looked up. His shoul ders were shaking, the tears stream ing from his eyes. "Utile Nell is dead," he said broken ly. "Little Nell?" his visitor Interrogat ed. "Yes. Little Nell," was the answer. "She Is dead. I've Just been rending It" Before him on his desk lay an open copy of "Old Curiosity Shop." Ladies' Home Journal. Hidden Danger. Owner now did you come to punc ture the tire? . ChnulTeur-Ilan over a milk bottle. Owner Didn't you see It In lime? ChnulTeur-No: Ike kid had It under his coat Town Topics. A Dream of a Hat. She I dreamed Inst night you bought me a new hat. lie-Well, that's the tirst dream of a hat you ever had that Uidu t cost uie mouey. Club Fellow.
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