THF F SMART & SILBERBERG CO., OIL CITY. r i Easter Is Coming. The Store Is Full Of Pretty Things, And the recent "Opening Days" have demonstrated this store's ability to clothe you fashionably at a minimum ol expense. For it is the things that are practical that predominate in fashion displays here, so that the attainment ot style in dress is a matter of selection rather than expense. And the woman who must perforce count the pennies can assemble a Spring wardrobe that is stylish and out of the ordi naiy, at a cost no greater than she would otherwise pay for garments and fabrics of the ordinary type. Spring Millinery. Already we believe the display on millinery for this season far exceeds any the store has had and this is a store noted alike for the style and the low prices of its millinery. Not only is the variety unusually broad, but there are so many things not to be seen in any other Oil City display. 2Tor tko Xiittl Folk no less than lor older peo ple the showings are more than ever attractive. Here are the daintiest, most fascinating: little pattern hats that ever glad dened a little girl's heart. Ribbon is used everywhere; with soft filmy lace and spring flowers; very sweet and new are some hats of Dresden flowered material, finished with a band and tailored bow of black velvet ribbon. Your own eyes will tell you best what a variety of delight ful style notes are sounded in our Millinery Rooms today, New Tailored Suits at $25.00. Realizing that the average woman prefers to pay about 25.00 for the new suit, we have concentrated our attention upon garments to sell at that price. That is why you can find today, in this great Garment Section, 25 different styles.avnany of them copied direct from 35.00 models, in suits for women and misses. Serges, novelty crepes, and basket weaves; in greens, rose, tango, Hague, mignonette, navy, brown, and black; also black-and-white shepherd checks. These have the fashionable short coats with their vaiied lines; some with bright bits of silk or embroidery or soft frills and folds of lace, others with innumer able tailored features all under the classification "simply tailored" 25.00. Other suits for Women and Misses at $10.00 to 50.00. That Rainy Day May never come, but the odds are against your escape from it. Hu . man experience should teach you to prepare for it. Systematic Sav ings is the way to begin. Four Per Cent. Interest. Oil City Trust Company Oil City, Pa. Chinese Porcelain. The Chinese hnve u national art In the production of wivelaln. Not until the time of I'allssy and Wedgwood ran Knrope be said to have entered Into rivalry with the host works of China, lint an enormous difference separates the work of China and Europe. Chi nese work in porcelain represents Ideals, symbolic usages and perhaps allegories, which have their counter part In the medieval stained class to be seen In many of the oldest cathe drals. While these are religious and attempt to embody In colors on a flat ground regardless of light and shade, but In symbolic colors. Incidents In the lives of real personage or symbolic conventions associated with religious ceremonies or Ideas. Chinese decora tive art appeals to n sense of beauty In a manner that would hare beeu appre ciated by the ancient Greeks. Terminology of the Lie. Mr. Lloyd-George, with Celtic direct ness, calls it "a lie." The Saxon prefer a periphrasis. Mr. Churchill's "termi nological Inexactitude" has become a classic, though Mr. Barry Pain did rather well with "mendacious diathe sis." The parliamentary evasion is the most polite, for when "the honorable member opposite has been gravely mis informed" the compliment implied is frequently too subtle to carry across the floor of the house. The "Autocrat" defined the lie when he said. "The devil i:is many tools, but a lie Is the handle which lits them nil." Mark Twain's definition is equally neat. "A lie," he paid, "is an abomination unto the Lord, but a very present help In time of trouble." London Spectator. The Crown That fell. Superstitious folks find their belief In omens strengthened by un incident which occurred at the wedding of the Empress Eugenie of France many years ago. After the ceremony the em peror and his bride entered the coach, that was surmounted by un imperial crown and gilded and adorned with paintings. This couch had been built for the wedding of Napoleon I. and Marie Louise a number of decades be. fore. Just as the coach began to move forward the crown fell from the roof of the coach to the ground. The eight dorses were at once halted, the crown was picked up, and lu some fashion or other set In place again. Napoleon thrust his head out of the window to learn what had caused the halt, and when informed of the accident by Count Floury said that It reminded him of an anecdote which lie would :ell him some other time. "But," re marks Fleury in his memoirs, "I knew it already. A virtually identical acci dent occurred to the coach at the mar riage of Marie Louise." Gladstone's Taste in Sermons Gladstone, who never omitted at tending service twice every Sunday, bad his own idea of what a sermon should be like and the effect it should have upon its hearers. Sir Algernon West records that one morning, com ing from the Chapel Itoyal, the G. O. M. "exclaimed ngrinst n very beautiful sermon of. Mr. While's, of the Savoy, 'because,' he said, 'lie has excited my brain by his quotations and given nie anything but the rest which Is what I want and expect to llnd In church.' " Ancient Gam of Football, Football Is probably the oldest of England's national games. At Derby a game of football was played as early lis the third century in commemora Hon of victory over the Itoman legion it Chester. - The first football used In the annual game still played each Faster Is said to have been the head jf a Danish Invader. In the Isle of I'urlieck. too. Hie free quarryiiien from time Immemorial have perpetuated their claim to a grant of land by kick lug n football across It. In the four teenth century the game was so popu lur as to call forth an edict forbidding It. on the ground that It Interfered with the practice of more mnrtlal exercises, In later Hmes Shakespeare referred wntemptuously to the game, but per haps few would he able to turn up readily the passage in "King Lear" de scribing "a base footbull player." Lon Son Standard. Too True, "Our washerwoman says It's funny ibout colors In dress goods." "What's funny about them?" "That folks call 'em fast when they won't run." Baltimore American. i The Distinctive Garment Store f This Week More Than Ever Before Will the spring showing in this store emphasize the difference between a store that specializes on clothes and one which divides its energies among many things. The New Suits. ' i Most ol them have short coats, short sleeves and short skirts, and even the stout thort woman can wear them for there aire ways tapering even a short coat or a tunic so as to draw one "out." Coats are of the eton, bolero and coatee type, tome are some what "copish," a renaissance of the cope seems to be in sight, sleeves may be three-quarter or seven-eighth length, some are full length, short skirts are the natural sequence of the bustle and bouffant panier. The New Dresses. The "Inside Out" pocket silhouette is the new note in hip drapery. When well managed it is very becoming even to the mature figure. The New Coats. All Good Roads Meet in Our Women's $25.00 Coats. The Distinctive Garment Store Henry J. McCarty, 111 CENTRE ST., OIL CITY, PA.' Zn mi 1 1 Globular Lightning. According to I'rofessor W. M. Thorn ton of Armstrong college, globular lghtnlng descends slowly from n cloud, generally after a violent clap of bunder, in the form of a brilliant bluish ball. It bounds from the earth hen it touches and then moves oft n few yards horizontally. These balls readily follow au electric conductor gas pipe, for Instance and burst hen they touch water or sometimes In the open air. The bnll then disap pears instantaneously with a violent txploslou, which may do damage ana which produces a strong smell of ozone. Thornton believes with reason that globular lightning is made up princi pally of a mass of ozone. This hy pothesis explains why the color of the ball Is usually Mulsh, why the luml uous mass descends slowly through the nlr, ozone being of a density about 1.7 Hmes that of air. and Anally why the Instantaneous disappearance of the hall Is accompanied by an explosion, for the transformation of ozone into oxygen liberates a great quantity of energy. How Sunday Reached the Frontier. High principle and humor have evet made an Irresistible combination. Ear ly merchants on the American fron tier conspicuously failed In the observ ance of Sunday: therefore, when a young New Jersey trader, who had set tled at Louisville, Ky., closed his store on the first Sunday after it was open ed there was much ado in the town. Other establishments kept open hud he not noticed It? he was asked. Yes, he knew it. Why did tie close? He was the first to do so; he must know that also. "Why," said a facetious merchant, Sunday hasn't yet crossed the moun tains." "Yes, It has," declared the newcom er, pleasantly. "I brought it with, me! ' That simple and ready reply proved more effective than any amount of ar gument, and although bo was the first to observe the day iu town, ho soon had many followers in Sunday closing. He Curbed Cecil Rhodes, Rhodes' masterfulness and sense of iniRrtam-e met with little opposition, as a rule, but a little German clerk in the Transvaal government otlice-s at .lohunucsbiirg before the war once taught him n lesson. "Please attend to me at once'." thundered the colossus. "I can't wait." "When your turn comes, mister." replied the clerk. "Con found you, man, don't you know who I am?" nsked Rhodes. "Oh, yes, I know you. but don't worry about me," was the clerk's uiirullled reply. "If you were in Capo Town I'd have you discharged at once!" roared the great man. "Yes," said the clerk, very cool ly, "I've heard they discharge people in Cape Town for doing their duty. But this isn't Cnpe Town this is a repub lic." Manchester Guardian. Ruse of an Autograph Fiend. Autograph bunting sometimes proves: a profitable pursuit. A French bohe mian of the second empire, Ludovic I'icard. made a steady income out of it for some years. His most successful coup was accomplished with a letter in which lie posed as "one of the unap preciated who. Is meditating suicide and seeks for counsel and aid in this hour of sore distress." This effusion drew a number of celebrities, includ ing Beranger and Heine. Lacordaire sent ten closely written pages, which were promptly converted Into cash. Dickens also fell a victim and took the trouble to answer In French. Eventual ly Heard was shown up iu the press by Jules Snndeaii and had to seek an other occupation. London Chronicle. A Threat or a Promise? John, a rather backward rustic, sat nt one end of the sofa and his sweet heart at the other. Itoth minds were too full to carry on conversation, but at last the lady spoke: "John, what are you thinking about?" John, awakened from his dreams, an swered with a drawl, "Oh, jest the mi n io as you are," and was surprised to get the retort: "if you do I'll slap you!" Ladies' Home Journal. Shirts made to order $4.00 and upward. Suits made to order $lf.00 and , upward. T. A. P. There Is a. Disease Going. Around and It's "Catching." It's the best thing that ever happened those who get it. It's the disease of "Curiosity," and here are the symptoms: One man sees another man better dressed than HE is and he knows that HE makes as much money as the well dressed fellow. When "Curoisity" effects him he finds that the well dressed fellow buys T. A. P. clothes and he don't. The speeay recovery of all patients effected with "Curiosity" therefore is to allow riosiry" tQ bring them here and examine our beautiful spring models. we ruuy warrant mat no man win De a "tunosity" who wears T. A. P. The Correct uotnes tor a uenueman. T.; A. P. Chalk Blue Serges, Fancy Cheviots, Scotch Tweeds, Banjos Stripes, Neat Plaids, Fancy Checks. IV: Stripes, Oxford Grays. Priced From $18.00 to $30.00. .: "Gentlemen, it's your bat." Oil City, Pa. Oil City, Pa. SITUATION CHANGED LITTLE Business Conditions Quiet, With In' dicatlons of Progress. Dun's Review of Trade says thlt week: ' "This Is the between seasons period in various branches of trade and sig nificant changes in the business sltua tlon are lacking. Broadly considered, conditions are quiet, although Indica tions of progress are not wholly ab sent. There is no uniform trend to ward Improvement. "Expectations that the approach of spring would be accompanied by a re vival in iron and steel have not been realized and enlarged buying will goon be necessary to prevent curtailment of operations. "In view of the fact that the pros perity of the country depends largely upon crops. It Is gratifying that the outlook for winter wheat leaves little to be desired. Exports of breadstulTs last month were worth less than In the same period a year ago, but this dls crepancy was more thnn offset by the Increase in cotton." "COLONEL" JONES "Mother" Is Commissioned as Officer In Coxey's Army. "Mother" Jones, leader of tin miners, recently released from the military prison in the Colorado strike tone, where she was sent as a dis turber of the peace, has been com missioned by "General" J. S. Coxey. The commission carries the title of "colonel" and the aged woman is ex pected to march with Coxey's army from Massillon, O., to Washington when the "general" goes to the capital to make his demand?. Coxey sent the. following telegram to Mother Jones: "Wife and I con gratulate' you on your release. Im prisonment an outrage. I have com missioned you colonel. Enlist a regi ment and Join us at Washington May 21." NO POWER, SAYS COMMITTEE Judge Dayton's Conduct Will Not Be Probed by Congress. The Judiciary committee of the na tional house of representatives decid ed that It had no power to Investigate the Judicial conduct of Federal Judge A. G. Dayton of West Virginia on tint strength of petitions from miners ami others who complained of the Judge's attitude In connection with strike troubles. The petitions had been referred to Chairman Clayton by Attorney General McReynolds. A member of the com mittee said that the regular procedure would be for a West Virginia repre sentative to rise in the house and ask the impeachment. Widows In Korea. Willows In Korea never remarry, no matter how young they may be. Even though they had been married only a month they must not take it second husband. Warning! Nobody allowed on this earth except regularly certified smokers of STAG. The best outdoor tobacco The best Indoor tobacco because It holds all its good- because of its fresh and deli ness in the open air. cious fragrance. - Convenient Packages: The Handy Hif-Sii S-Cent Til), the Full-Sue 10-Cent Tin, the Found and Half. Pound Tin Humidors and the Pound Glatt Humidor. i 1 1 certified smokers of STAG. " U I i 1 H , 5-Cnt Tin, the Full-Sue 10-Cent Tin, the Pound and Half. S n it "ma I . S9 I Spring Opening Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March 26, 27 and 28. We have been obliged to postpone this important spring fashion pageant until then through unavoidable delays in changes under way in the Second Floor Garment Section. However the arrival of new display cases and suit cabinets and the. assurance of carpenters and paper hangers that they will be out of our way Tuesday enable us to set the date of Spring Opening for Thursday, Friday and Saturday. i. The Game of Golf. On the notice board of n Liverpool golf club, says the Liverpool Post, ap pear the following verses typewritten ou the club liotepaper: Swat the bull and walk n mile. Swnt the bnll. It's worth your while. Walk a mile and swnt tlio ball. Walk some more. Nor Is that alt. Swat the ball and walk what ttienT Swat the ball and wnljo again. V: After thnt you walk ami what?" Once nualn the bnll you swat. Swnt the bnll anil walk still more. Koep on swnttlnK us ht'fore. When as fur us this you've Rot Swat nnil walk, then walk and swnt. Oolf. of course, has been defined ns good walk spoiled, and n low come dian once described the game thusly: "You hit a ball us far as you can. and If you find it the same day you have won." lLTAYIriB gg- Made -To -Measure Clothes of the ; Highest Quality may be purchased here at the most modest prices in town, See our marvels of beauty at $15, $18 and $20 " . and our wonderful importa tions at $25, $30 and $35 Fit and finish guaranteed. D. H. Blum, TIONESTA, PA. 3it (jcftgiiffe usualjf Don BrUlen. Gi finb meb Slugen kurd) unredjtta ilnpaffcn fcoiiQlafcrit oU burd) fonft ct wai ruinitt luorbenv $at bag Sluge mangclljafte . 9tefraction, fo tnujj bad SWb offer Gkgenftaibtnacinem goeul auf bcr Hctjhaut burd) aufjergeroofynlidjl Ilnitigtcit bed tnusculus ciliarius ge brat, cbet ba33)ilb unvoDtommen feU unb bad Slefultat berbunldtc ebci mit 6d)lnad;e unb djmerj urn 2lu gen unb Sttrn. $ici feerurfad)t on geftionen, lotlrfie ftd) burd) fdjtoree Shu genlicbcr. 9l&t!)e, uitn obtr Srenntn, em diefuty,' alt fei Sctymutj tm Suge, unb fyiiufigen corner, berbunben mij GmpfniblicMcit gegen &td)t jeigen. Jf fd)lodier ba8 Sluge, bejlo fufyl&arci obtge Stjmptome. SHugen mpgenybtjftpl ftctrf unb glcidjlDobl febjdjtcadj fein un) umgefc&rt. Urn burd) ebraud) emerSrilfe bi iKangel auful;c&en, hurb bit !&atigleij ber 3)JuoIeln geanbert, unb toenn bei d)aben boritber ober burd) ju tarfy cber ju d)Wadt GJIdfer nict aufgeobci ift, fo finb bte Urfadjen bet Gongeftioj efyer bcrmefyrt ftalt berminbert. eftefj gemifdjte Siefraction, mujj irgenb ti jjjanbcUglaS ben djaben bermebren. Svber Sriad)idf;ttge foUtt fid) org: faltig toiffenfd)afilid) unterfud)en unl Skiden anipaffenlaffen, ttyt ttfte in e braud) ntmmt. 3n befonbertt fiffltn toerben Iafer auf Seftellung gefd;Uffen, injebemJaUt (,aranttrt. For Further Particulars Call On DOCTOR MORCK the Who Will be Pleased to Explain Above in Either Language. Fred. Grettenberger GENERAL BLACKSMITH & MACHINIST. All work pertaining to Machinery, En gines, Oil Well Tools, Gas or Water Fit tings and General Blaokaralthiug prompt ly done at Low Rates. Repairing Mill Machinery given special attention, and satisfaction guaranteed. Shop In rear of and lust west of the Shaw House, Tidioute, Pa. Tour patronage solicited. FRED. GRETTENBERQR
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