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The Distinctive Garment Store i
Shirts made to order $2.00 and
-upward.
Suits made to order $16.00 and
upward.
A Genuine Sensation!
Centre Street at Elm, Oil City, Pa.
Buy All Your White Goods-fNeedshis
- Week In The
Great January White Sale
If you really want to save on your season's supply ot white
goods and white wear, come to this store before - our White
Sale Saturday night. It is your greatest chance of the year.
Come and see for yourselves if it is not true when we
claim that never did we house a bigger,-better,-' more compre
hensive stock ot white goods at the very lowest prices you can
fancy.
All Suits and Dresses Are Off .
We cannot bring home this fact too strongly to every
woman with appareling needs to nil now.
Not a few scattered groups oi "slow movers," 'but this en
tire splendid stook of new tailored suits and gowns, at a reduc
tion that enables you to save exactly one-quarter the marked
price.
Winter is just commencing in earnest There'll be months
of wear ahead of any of these suits many can be worn until
along in the spring,
Never before have we offered you so unusual an opportu
nity lor saving, so early in the season. Will you profit by it
Our Entire Stock of Furs Redued .
A fall and winter whose extraordinary mildness has been
country wide, is responsible for a collapse in the fur business,
6uch as has seldom bebre been seen.
And this is just the time that this quality store steps in
between you and poor "bargains," Bear in mind, that the
furs here are exclusively first grade, and of the latest "catch."
No furs here of which the pelts have .. stiffened by too long or
improper storage, lost their natural preserving oils, their lustre,
or that are in styles that are passe.
And when it comes to price, you can do- better here than
elsewhere.
JANUARY
is a natural time for ' changing your investments - and forming
new banking connections. We invite your - business. Capital
and Surplus
$1,000,000.00
Oil City Trust Company
Oil City, Pa.
Thrown to the Wolves.
A story a ruther's desierute net in
throwing his t'lilld to the wolves Is re
luted by the Astrakhan correspondent
of the Vledemosti. A peasant mimed
tiriisiicijolT. utrotnpii tiled by his wife
nnd four-year-old child, it in stated,
wns traveling liy sleigh to Volchunl.
Town rd dusk, when only n few miles
from the town, lie suddenly mine on
park of wolves. (irusneiJoiT'ii wife
in her terror ki guested tint I he should
appease the beasts by flinging then)
the child. This the man at first re
fused to do, continuing to belabor his
horses. At length, seeing I lint the
wolves were guttling on the sleigh. Ue
Hung the child into the load. His
sneritlce was in vaiu. for the wolves,
discarding the living bundle. Hew to
Hie attack with renewed fury nnd at
length dragged the peasant from the
sleigh. When the horses arrived In
the town the woman was found lying
unconscious in the sleigh. The child,
which had not suffered the slightest
injury, was found sleeping on the rotid.
Printing Unpopular In Persia.
Type printing is unpopular in Per
sia. The stniigutuesM of the lines -offends
the Persian's artistic sense, nnd
he feels that in printed books the char
acter or the letters Is lost. Persia 18
today entirely dependent upon lithog
raphy for its own production of books.
Naturally these are very rare. At the
beginning of the nineteenth century a
press with movable types was set up in
Tabriz, and n certain number of books
were printed. The effort met with no
encouragement, however, and had
shortly to be abandoned. The snine
taste which makes a Persian esteem
so highly the great calligrnphists
makes him deplore the absence of
character In a type printed book.
What most delights him is well writ
ten manuscript, nnd be takes the same
delight in the copyist's work that we
take in uu old master. Failing this, ha
contents himself with a lithograph,
which is usually u facsimile ot tile
writing of some fairly good scribe.
A Reetful Fall.
"I had fl fall lust uight which ren
dered me unconscious for six hours."
"KeitHy1 Where did you fall?"
"1 fell asleep "
When Photography Was New.
When photography lirst begun they
used wet plates and a witting required
eight or nine minutes. A man once
went to be taken, and the photogra
pher put in his wet plate, demanded
perfect Immobility and took off the
cap
' fiirln the long exposure the pho
tographer left the room n moment. Ou
his return everything seemed to be go
ing nil right But when the exposure
ended and he rushed to bis closet to
develop the wet plnte there was noth
ing on it but a blur.
'Very much disgusted, he showed this
blur to the sitter.
"You must have moved," be said.
' The sitter looked' at the spoiled plate
and laughed In amazement
Well. I declare." he said; "who'd
have thniight that just running over to
the window for n minute to see a
drunken man would have done all
that? I sat right down again." Min
neapolis Journal.
- Baldness.
Men get bnld more frequently tbnn
women, according to Dr. Guelpn ot
Paris, because they wear hnrd, heavy
hats, they cut their hair too short and
they eat more than women. Dr. Guel
pa says the scnlp is like soil and the
hair like the vegtatlon that grows upon
It. When the scnlp is neglected the
hair does not grow nnd Its roots die,
just as grass dies when the soil Is
poor. A heavy, bard hat constricts
the blood vessels that nourish the
scalp Clipping the hair short leaves
Its tender roots nt the mercy of cold,
bent and dust. The oil thnt exudes
from around the roots of the hnlrs and
keeps them nourished Is congulnted by
the cold and chokes up the matrix In
which the hair is formed. New York
World.
'" Cautious Courtship.
A Scottish farmer's sou had the mis
fortune to fall lu love with two young
ladies at once. The one wns -a tall,
strapping girl, while the other was
small and slim. The puzzled lover at
last asked his father's advice. "Well,"
said his father, "there's sue muckle
machinery used in farmiu' nowadays
that a big. active wife Is no' o' muckle
use. so I advise ye to tak' the little ane.
She'll ent less, ouyway!"
Our January Mark-Down
Sale of
Women's; Misses' and Children's
Garments.
Hundreds of Garments All Different Styles
All Newest Models.
A wonderful opportunity to secure the finest
garments at the price of the cloth alone.
Winter Coats.
Your choice of $15.00, $20.00, $25.00 and
$30.00 coats
$12.75 and $18.50.
Coats for street, coats for evening dress, for
travel, motor, storm coats for every purpose or
occasion in every color, every popular fabric,
every style that is new and correct,- coats for big
women, coats for small women.
Winter Suits.
Your choice of $20.00, $25.00, $30.00, $35.00
and $45.00 suits
$12.75, $18.50, $25.00.
Never such remarkable reductions; never so
many pretty styles; never such exquisite fabrics;
every suit represents the newest and cleverest
conception. In this assortment are plain or semi
tailored styles, smart cutaways, new semi-blouse
effects and model suits.
f The Distinctive Garment Store
Henry J. McCarty,
t 111 CENTRE ST., OIL CITY, PA.
Rough o.i jw. .r.-,:;. ;i.
Decause his wife sent him as a
Christmas present n comb and brush,
Jeremiah Schleste! 41TS, Midway (Pa.)
merchant, sued for divorce on the
grounds of (rucl and barbarous treat
ment. Schlcstenbcr's head is bald
and hairless as a Mexican d &, yet his
wife, with an odd so-t of hu:nor, ac
cording to the aggrieved man, sent
him a corr.b and a stiff lnired brusl
by parcel pst, falling to insert the
name of the donor.
Mothers' Pension Fayment M-ede.
The first payment of menry in Penr
sylvanla under the appropriation fot
mothers' pensions lias been made t
the Allegheny county board and tlif
test of the law will probably follov
it. The money raid is $500 for gen
eral administrative ru-" rises end It is
understood that injunction proceed,
ir-ps will be started so thnt the
opirlon of the supreme ccurt may be.
obtained.
Oy.t.r Liquid.
Only one oyster opener In fifty seems
to know thnt the best thing by far
iilsiiit tin oyster Is tbeflquld In Its
shell. Wntch the other forty-nine and
you will see them wantonly wasting
this precious, fragrant llipild, nnd In
mnny cases they will serve the oyster
on the flat shell, so thnt you get no
lulce at nil. Always nsk for them on
the shell, nnd don't be afraid after yon
have transferred the morsel to your
mouth to drink the liquid from the
shell. It may not look elegant, but
elegance be hanged! Henry T. Fink's
Food and Flavor."
' Child Saves Burning Woman.
Lavina Klugh, rrd ten, saved her
grandmother, Mrs. W'.liam Mr-Kelvey,
aped seventy-one, from burning to
death In the Klurh home at Kittan
nlng, Pa. ' Mrs. McKeivey was stand
ing with her back to a coal fire when
her skirts caught fire. She was en
veloped In flames. The child ran to
a bedroom, got a blanket and threw
It over the aged woman, smothering
the flames.
Son Is Shot by Father.
George Cook, aged twenty, son of
H. J. Cook of Kane, Pa., is in a serious
condition as a result of a bullet wound
alleged to have been inflicted by his
father. Returning home the young
man says he found his father abusing
Mrs. Cook and that when he interfered
the father shot him. The older man
then knocked his wife down, the son
says, and escaped. He is sought by
police.
Express Business For-Town Cut Off.
Residents or Sharpsville, near
Sharorv Pa., are puzzled over the
action of the Adams Express company,
which notified its agent, E. A. Allen,
that after Jan. 1 no express will be
delivered to consignees In that town.
No reason was given for the action.
It Is believed 'y business men that
the parcel post system Is responsible.
Reunion Balance $37,000.
The report of the Gettysburg
Fiftieth Anniversary commission was
transmitted to Governor Tener by Col
onel Lewis E. Beitler, secretary. The
legislature appropriated $450,000 for
Pennsylvania's share of the expense
of the big Reunion last July. The com
mission reports an unexpended bal
ance of about $37,000.
Horse Thieves About.
Mercer county (Pa.) farmers in the
vicinity of Venango are aroused over
the activity of horse thieves In that
section. Some time ago the thieves
became so bold that a farmers' vigi
lance association was organized and
war was declared on the practice with
the result that the thievery subsided
for a time.
Worse Still.
Mother (to wriggling son ncross her
kneel I'll tench you to tie saucepans
to dogs' tails.
"Rut. mother. It Isn't our dog."
"No. I know It isn't our dog. Rut
it's my saucepan, you young rascal."
London Mall.
His Definition.
A boy who wits nsked to describe a
kitten said. "A kitten is remarkable for
rushing like mad tit nothing whatever
and stopping before It gets there."
Life I altogether, too short to dwell
on failures. " Push on to a- new success.
Alpine Egg Dane.
A curious eastern custom has been
observed for many centuries In the
western Alps. One hundred eggs are
distributed over a level space covered
with sand nnd the young men uud
women perform n dance around tbem.
If a couple tire fortunate enough to fin
ish t be. dance -without ' breaking an
egg it Is taken as n token of the com
pntihility ot their temitentmeuts and
they are lietrolbed.
Causes of Cancer.
"Constant Irritation." says a cancer
hospital physician. "Is one of the prin
cipal causes f cancer, nnd If a per
son hns a wart or lump on bis skin
which Is constantly scratched, it Is
likely to be converted Into a cancer
If there is a tear which Is not attend
ed to and causes Irritation. It may give
rise to a cancerous growth. . The sharp
edge of a tooth or an Injury to the In
ternal organs may also give rise to
cancerous tissues."
The doctor emphasized the remark
able vitality of cancer tissue and Its
power of growth. He said be bnd In
bis laboratory a monso on which are
growing cancer cells thnt were alive In
another mouse thirteen years ago. St
Louis Globe-Democrat.
The English Yeoman.
"Yeoman" Is a good old English
word, the meaning of which should
be carefully cherished. Any country
laborer or farmer Is not a yeoman. A
yeoman Is a roan who cultivates bis
own freehold, who farms his own
land. He Is no mnn's servant and may
bold bis bend ns hlgb as the squire.
There nre still yeomen of nncieat
blood in Kngland who would sniff at
the offer of n title. One of the finest
men I ever knew was a Dorset yeo
man, and bis ancestors had farmed
the same land for three centuries.
London Glolie.
The Boy and th. B...
Ree Master 'to pupil who bas Just
brushed off bee which stung blml Ah.
you shouldn't do that! The bee will
die now. You should have helped her
to extract her sting, which is spirally
barbed, by gently turning her round
and round. Pupil-All very well for
you. but how do I know which way
she unscrews'- I.ondou Punch.
' Muaio Without Sound.
The fundamental evil In music is the
Necessity of reproduction of Its artistic
creations by performance. Were It as
vnsv to learn to read music as words
the sonatas ot Beethoven would have
the popularity of the ileitis of Schiller
F. tllller.
Inclined, but Declined.
Miss A. -I thought Mr Homelelgb
was matrimonially Inclined. Misa R.-
ile WHS. I l it hen heell declined Bo'
often, poor num. that lie's got over It-
Hoston InniKcript.
Paradoxical.
Willie (ready for schooli-Momma,
they nre hoisting up n safe down the
street. Mother Well, lie careful not
to walk on the safe side. Boston
Tm nscrtpt.
T.
A.
P.
The Big
"Don't Shoot" 'Sale"
On All Our Suits and Overcoats Commenced
Friday, January 2d.
The Reductions are Big. The Bargains are Big. The Stocks
are' Big. The Savings are Big. , The Assortments are Big.
It's The Biggest Event Ever Offered
Hereabouts.
A backward season has developed wonderful opportunities for
you.
T.
A.
p.
Oil City, Pa.
Oil City, fa.
- Uncrowned Queens.
. There have bveu seven uncrowned
queens of Kiiglund. The tii-st was
Margaret of Kruuce, the second wife
of Edward I. Money was scarce In
the government coffers nt the time,
nnd Edward could not afford the ex
pense of a eoninutlon. The four later
wives of Henry VIII.. Anne Itoleyn's
successors-June Seymour, Anne of
Cleves. Catherine Howard mid Cnth
erlne I'urr-were never publicly crown
ed as (iieen consorts. Perhaps It was
been use Henry thought It would cause
ridicule to have coronations occur as
frequently ns his marriages. Henriet
ta Maria, the wife of Charles I.. Iielng
a strict Catholic, refused to take part
in state function which would com
pel her to-partake ut the Sacrament,
according to the rites of the Church of
England. Sophia Dorothctt. the wife
of George 1. and mother of George II..
was never recognized nspieen of Kng
land and therefore cannot be classed
ns one of Krltaln's uncrowned queens
Caroline of Brunswick, the wife of
George IV., was not iermltted to be
present In Westminster hull nt bis
coronation.-Ioudon Mail.
. Artificial Ears.
' Artillclal ears are so skillfully made
thnt they may with difficulty be dis
tinguished from natural ones. It Is said.
When the person who has lost nn ear
applies to the manufacturer fur n sub
stitute there Is made a mold of the re
maining ear. If there be left any part,
of the other a mold of that part also
must be taken to assist in the fitting
of the artificial. Manufacturers assert
thnt no two ears are alike and that It
takes a skillful workman to prepare an
ear from the mold or molds. When
finished, i says Hnriier's Weekly, the
new ear Is pasted on the stump or sim
ply net In the position of the lost ear.
It Is really only the first artificial ear
thnt is exjienslve. the chief cost ht
tabling to the making of the mold
Vulcanized rubber, which can be bent
and twisted, has been found to consti
tute the best material for the making
of artificial ears.
Th Two Fin Things of Life.
-Recnuse It Is nn elementnry thing to
do It requires courage to buy or build
a bouse. Buy? Build? The universal
hend becomes a pendulum nf warning.
There are Just two fine things open
to most of us between the cradle and
the grave. One Is to marry and the oth
er Is to acquire a borne, nnd the mod
ern answer to both proposals Is the
same. "Don't" so greatly do men
fear life, so exorbitantly do they pur
pose to enjoy It. Philip Gilbert Ham
erton. In "The Intellectual Life." toint
ed out that the Invention of railways
bnd resulted In a return to one of the
most marked phases of barbarism, a
nomadic life. Since he wrote we bnve
Invented the motorcar and the flat,
and fixity of residence, which Is a dis
tinctive murk of civilization, bas be
come its derision at despair. London
T. P'a Weekly.' '
.. A Coaxer For Recruit.
Nowadays the autburittea do not ad
vertise so alluringly for recruits ns
they did In the past. A notice Issued
In ISO by British authorities rails on
men to Join the light dragoons. In
which regiment, they are Informed,
"yon will be mounted on the finest
horses In the world, with superb cloth
ing ' and the richest accouterments;
your pay nnd privileges are equnl to
2 gulnens a week; your society Is court
ed; yon are admired by the fair, which,
combined with the chance of getting
swished to a buxom widow or brushing
with n rich heiress, renders the situa
tion truly enviable nnd desirable.
Young men out of employment or oth
erwise uncomfortable, there Is a tldo
In the nfTnlrs of men which, tnken nt
the flood, lends to fortune. Nick iti"
Soma Talkers. i -
A mnn once visited Nlngnra Falls,
taking with him his wife and . his
wife's sister. Immediately on arriving
and securing, hotel quarters the party
set out to see the -wonderful sight,
wlfey and wlfey's sister talking ns
they walked nlong on a million Inter
esting subjects.
'Say. .lohn." snld wlfey. turning to
the old mnn nfter they hnd gone quite
a distance, "aren't we getting near the
fallsr - '
"Yes." was the prompt reply of John.
.'If you will stop tnlklng n minute you
will henr the thunder of the wnter
quite plaluly." Philadelphia Telegraph
. " Reason and Instinct.
Inquiring Son-I'apn. what Is rea
son? r oiia fa rent iteiison. my uoy.
Is thnt which enables n man to deter
mine whnt is right. Inquiring Son
And what Is Instinct? Fond Parent
Instinct Is thnt which tells a woman
she Is right whether she Is or uot-
LondoQ Tit-Bits.
MMHIMtMIMIIMMtt
" 1 TrTsrs
January Clearance Sale
Started Friday, Jan. 2d,
i Continues Throughout the Month, J
Etch day a different department and but one day to each department.
With this exception when Tailored Suits, Coats and Dresses have once
been placed on sale sale price will be continued 'till cabinets have been
entirely emptied.
This is to be a thorough, systematic clearance of shelves, racks, draw
ers and boxes throughout the entire store. And to do it thoroughly, sys
tematically and forcibly, we will take one department at a time. Some of
the less important departments will be grouped together.
In the Second Floor Garment Section a $10,000 stock, every garment of
which must be sold by February 1. This calls for the most drastic price
reduction ever resorted to in this department. By reference to the calendar
it will be noted that the first sale in that department occurs January 8.
The calendar we have arranged shows the following events for the
next week:
Thursday, January 8 Ladies' Tailored Suits, Furs, Silk Petticoats.
Friday, January 9 Rain Coats, Dresses, Sweaters, Children's Coats.
Saturday, January 10 Ladies' Coats, Tailored Skirts, Silk Waists,
Lace and Chiffon Waists.
Monday, January 13 Dress .Goods, Buttons, Knit Hoods, Aviation
Caps.
Tuesday, January 13 Bed Comforts, Flannelettes, Robe Blankets,
Silk Hand Bags.
Wednesday, January 14 Silks, Dress Trimmings, Fancy Jewelry.
12-Gaugo
Hammerless
Pump"
Guns
.m hamrnerlrsa 19-eAiim.
. hamrnerlrsa 19-eAiim.
Kilaneecl gun, without any objectionable humps or lmnj.; no holes on top for gas to Mow out
through or water to get in; .cant freeie up with ram.-aiiow, or sK.t; it's ,04 .tcel breecll
f.iv" it u .i.IV.7 ,il U L- jT """'uM,)r ynunv ricai gun wuhout Menacing strength or
Miety; it utheaafMt brMch.lo.dinf iholiunmr built.
... . " Un,"H" SoW 2tl )lrech (.inside an well as out) Solid Top-Sid.
E)Klion-Mud Baml (which cosu $.uo extra on other guns) Preta Button Cartrida.
Keleaa. (to remove loaded cartridges quickly from magaiinc without workinn through action)
DjubW Extractor! Take-Down Feature Trigger and Hammer Safety. Handles rapidly;
guaranteed in shooting ability; price standard Grade "A" (un.S22.60.
Srnd S rtamps noasre for hi catatn de'crihing No. 77, a 777s,; ,-.. Si,
t A. n, C, I. T and Trap Special and all other ie UOrtift rirearmSlO.,
2flarn repeating rifles and shotguns. Do it now I 42 Willow Street, Now Haven, Conn.
If vmf Virvr.f a rifle, pi'tol or shotgun, you fhould have a copy of the Ideal Hand
ai jruia auuui Book i0 pages of useful information for shooters. It tells all about
powders, bullets, primers and reloading tools for all standard rifle, pistol and shotgun
ammunition: how to measure powders accurately; hows you how to cut your ammunition
expense in half and do more ard better shooting. This bonk is free to any shooter who will
end three stamps postage to The Marlin Firearms Co., ii Willow St., New Haven. Conn.
On Wnat Happinesa Depends.
A little Illinium will xliow you how
vastly your own li:iiiincss iIc)'IhIs on
the way other icopk' liciir tlicuiselveH
toward you The looks it id tones at
your breukfiist tuble, the conduct of
your fellow worker or employers, the
faithful or unreliable men you deal
with, whnt people sity to you on the
street, the way your eook and house
maid do their work, the letters you K't.
the friends or foes yon meet- these
tbluKs mnke up very much of the
pleasure or misery of your day. Turn
the Iden around and remember thnt
Just o much npe you adding to the
pleasure or misery, if-other people's
days. And this Is the hnlf of the mut
ter which you run 'control. Whether
any pnrtlctilar tiny shall bring to you
more of happiness or of Riid'crltiH Is
largely beyomi your power to deter
mine. Whether elicb tiny of your life
shall give happiness or sulTerlng rests
with yourself.-George S. Merrlatu.
Orr, PA. J
rresrripllou leu grinder!
lor the eyes llu Collegl
nfely trained and Inter
nationally endowed
After the Storm. "
"Haughter nnd Her beau must have
fiiid a terrible tpinrrel."
"Why so. inn';"
"Five pounds of cninly, n bunch ot
roses and two innlliiee tickets have
Just arrived."- Louisville Courier-Journal.
'Behind the Cjuns.
NO DROPS. ' RESULTS DEFINITE.
Artificial Ityes in Ntock.
Both 'Phones.
Her Rival,
Jpss-They went to the Inke district
on their tvedillui: trip, uml lOtiiei wns
wretched. Hess Wlml wns ttie trou
ble? Jess Ccurue tell in love with the
scenery.-t'leveliinil Lender.
About tne Last.
RIobliM- lieu the tune comes there
are (liluut.v lew men vvlm v:iu In d'.e
Klobbs 'Yes: I guess It's nlioiil tn'e inst
thing a iiiiiii wants to do - I'liliudel
phiit Iterord.
Hither I will tlud n way or I will
make ouo - Sir I'liiiip Sidney.
Hill
Promptly ohtiiined, or Fg RETURNED.
tO ViaRS'tXPIRIINOI. UUrCHARCIS ARt
THK LOWEST. Send in.xli l, photo or ukuteti tor
expert sesn-h and free report on patentability.
INFRINGEMENT suits conducted before all
court. Talents ohUUued through us, aDVER.
TISEO anil SOLD, free. TRADE-MARKS, PIN.
SIONS and OOPVRIQMTS quickly obtained.
Oproslte U. 8. Patent Offlo.,
M ASHINQTON, D. O.
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