TRADE AT HOME Why Farmer Should Give His Support to the Local Merchant. PRESERVES HIS OWN MARKET Depreciation of Village Property Must Inevitably Mean Deprecia tion of Agricultural Property and Encouragement of Monopoly. (Copyright, 1906, by Alfred C. Clark.) The most serious problem tnat con fronts the rural towns and villages •of this country is the competition of fered local enterprises by the cata logue houses of the large cities. It Is a problem for which a solution must be found if the prosperity and sta bility of the nation is to stand. And the solution of th's great prob •lem lies in the ham"i of the people of the towns and villages and the farms, -especially the farms. The people of the rural communities have everything to lose and nothing to gain by sending their money to the catalogue houses, by passing by their local merchants and sending <their dollars to the concerns who have absolutely no interest in their com munities. These catalogue houses do not pay taxes in your town; the local mer chant does. They do not build side walks in your town; the local mer chant does. They do not contribute •to the building of roads over which ••the crops of the farms are hauled to ouarket; the local merchant does. / Ji_3_3_ 1 §§ll t\ fl 9Fi J-6 R v ''. 1 ii-^ I DRy cooos. floors -« SHOES Iff? 112? fl "TT" VrTtf-a fu RSI ir f' •. X^lX-^L: [wftSl s^~^ s ~^~~^ = '(\ii) fsfivfev I n fo ''' r-l . i CUPS ft ; SSs5 1? w iT^-1 P^wi' 1' v &ipii Give your town a chance by patronizing your local merchants and you way confidently expect its growth in business and population and a raise iti Teal estate valuation. Send your money to the catalogue houses and you may took for the reverse. The picture tells the story of the possibilities. They do not help to builil school liousea for your children; the local (merchant does. They do not assist in •the support of your churches; the local merchant does. Out there are some things the cata- Sogue houses do for you and the first and greatest of these is to assist materially in bankrupting your com munity. The dollars they take away mover come back to you. They will never help to make a city of your vil lage. They will never increase the value of your real-estate holdings by making local improvements. Let us look at the subject from the standpoint of the farmer, for it is the farmer who is the greatest patron of stlie catalogue houses. The town or village one, two or three miles from his home is his mar ket for the butter and eggs and other produce of his farm. The half dozen or more merchants of the town, each anxious to obtain his full share of the business of the community, maintain a. competition thr.t affords to the farmer at all times top prices for the jproducts of his farm. It is these half dozen merchants that make farm profits possible; the profits are in no way due to the catalogue houses of tin) cities. But the farmer persists in sending 'his dollars to the city. He wants a buggy, or a set of harness, or a pair -of stockings, or any of the necessities or luxuries of life, and to get them he takes out his mail order catalogue and looks at the finely printed cuts, roads tho well written description, and, pass ing the local merchant by, the mer chant. who lias purchased his produce at. the best market prices, the mer chant who has helped to build the community, lie sends his dollars to the catalogue house in the city and lakes what they choose to send him. What is the result? One after another Ihe doors of the local stores are closed, and where at one time there were half a dozen mer chants, each bidding for his share of patronage by offering fair prices for that which the farmer had to sell, ■there is now but one merchant who has a monopoly, not enly of tho sell ing, but of the buying as well, and he pays what he pleases for the farmer's Voduce. The farmer can continue to send his money to the catalogue house in the city for his supplies, but ho cannot uend his produce to the same place. In disposing of that he is absolutely dependent upon his local merchant, and by his patronage of the catalogue houses he has killed competition, and must now take whatever is offered for what he has to sell. Mr. Parmer, are you helping to kill the goose that is laying your golden Are you sending your dollars to the catalogue houses and by so doing kill ing the local industries of your town? Are you putting your merchants out of business, and creating a monopoly that will pay you what it pleases l'or the products of your farm? If you are doing these things it is time for you to stop and consider the future. You will have to look but a little way ahead to see the result, and it will not be an attractive picture that greets you. Tho prosperous com munity of which you are now a part will fade like the summer flowers be fore the winter winds, and almost as quickly. it is the fact that there is a market within close proximity to your farm that makes your acres valuable. The men who maintain this local market for you are the men who cause the railroad trains to stop at your town. Take them away and soon the town will be wiped off the map. Ths churches will close for lack of support. The schools will cease to be a pride, and your sons and daughters will lack the opportunity that is theirs by right of birth, and your acres, that are now valuable because they lie in close proximity to a market, will show a depreciation that will astonish you. Your interests are identical with those of the merchants of your town. By sending your dollars to the city you may cause the merchants to close? their establishments, but when they are forced to this they can pack their stock of goods and go elsewhere, but you cannot pack up your farm and move it; your acres must lie in the bed you have builded for them whether it be fair or foul, and it is "up to you,' - Mr. Farmer, to spend your money at home, and in this way you can solvs the greatest problem that now con fronts this country. Will you do it? YANKEE IN DIAMOND FIELDS. Commissions to Study a Country Which Produces Such Men. Mr. Alfred Mosely is an Englishman who admires American ways so much that he sends commissions here to study us. Air. Mosely does not admire us without a reason. It is not. a very specific reason. Its name is Mr. Gard ner P. Williams, and it is by way of being an American mining engineer. Mr. Williams directs the diamond out put of the world. Mr. Mosely made his fortune in South Africa. He watched Cecil Rhodes' dream of empire develop and knew the men who made it real. The one who took his imagination was Gardner Williams. Here was a man who had left Michigan at the age of 15 togo with a pioneering father to California in the flush days of the early mining camps, had had a taste of California mining, had gone when still a young man to explore in South Africa and had become a general manager of the great monopoly of the diamond mines. A fighter of financial battles and a manager of men, a writer, a scientist and one of the world's greatest en gineers, he so stamped his personali ty on the people among whom he lived that he was feted and cheered by all South Africa when ho retired last spring and came back to tho I nited States to build a home for his leisure years in the land of his birth. —World's Work. Keep Your Money at Home. Don send money to mail order house to deposit. Your home bank Is the only safe place to keep it and will pay you as good interest, as can be had, and then you run no risk as in such cases as the "Cash Buyer's Union" failure. The home bank will grant you favors and mail order houses never do. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1907 MANY KILLED By an Explosion of Gas Under a Furnace. IN A BIG STEEL MILL The Jones & Laughlin Plant at Pitts burg Is the Scene of a Most Appalling Disaster. Pittsburg, Pa. —One of the worst explosions in the history of the Jones & Laughlin steel works oc curred last night at the Eliza furnace, when a large quantity of gas which had accumulated at the base of the furnace became ignited and exploded. 1 Tons of molten metal were showered around the furnace for a radius of 40 feet. Out of a force of 35 men em- ; ployed at the furnace when the explo sion occurred three, John Cramer, An- j drew Featherka and Gustave Kessler, were taken to the morgue, their bodies horribly mutilated by the fire. Seven men are in hospitals and 24 others have not been accounted for. While the mill men are inclined to be lieve that all the missing men were not cremated in the molten metal, nothing definite is known as to their present whereabouts. Only one man, George Knox, has turned up since tht explosion and he says everything hap pened so quick that he doubts whelher the men escaped. Chief Peter Snyder, of the Fourth fire district., was seriously injured while directing the firemen to extin guish the fire which followed the ex plosion. While responding to the nlarm a hose cart was struck by a street car, injuring two firemen and killing a horse. The windows of the street enr were shattered and a panic followed among the passengers. Two women were injured by being trampled on.l The scenes about the entrance to the mill were pathetic when the fami lies of the workmen learned of the disaster. Women, men and children gathered about the gate and made frantic efforts to gain admission. Sev- I eral of the women rushed upon the nt- j fleers and fought them, crying to he allowed to enter the mill and see their j loved ones. Young children ran up j and down the streets crying that tin.ii' j father was dead. Later it became necessary to call additional police to forcibly escort the women and chii- 1 dren to their home 3. FIXED THE BLAME. Train Crews and Dispatchers Are Held Responsible for the Wreck at Terra Cotta, D. C. Washington, D. C.—The coroner's Inquest over the Terra Cotta wreck of j December 30 last, night held for the action of the grand jury Harry H. Hil-! debrand, engineer 01 "dead" train No. j 2120; Frank F. Hoft'mier, conductor of that train; P. F. Dent, train dispatcher at Baltimore; William D. McCauley, division operator of the Daltimore & : Ohio railroad; 11. L. Vermillion, engi-j neer of local train 66, into which 212 C 1 crashed; George W. Nagle, conductor j of train 66; J. W. Kelly, trainmaster of the Baltimore & Ohio, and William I M. Dutrow, the telegraph operator at; Silver Spring. All the men held except Dent, Mc-! Cauley and Kelly were in the building i where the inquest was held and were j arrested. The verdict of the jury was that the j deaths were caused "by impact, due 1 to the act of Operator William Dut- j row in displaying an improper signal J to the crew of train 2120," and directs j that Dutrow be held for the action of j the grand jury. The jury also held i the others already mentioned as re-1 sponsible in a lesser degree for the deaths. The jury arraigned the block i system on the Baltimore & Ohio as j not affording satisfactory protection j to the iivc3 and property of its patrons, arraigned the system of wages paid the operators and signal j men on the road and recommended ! that all block signal stations be kept i open 24 hours a day and no additional ( duties given the operators aside from i working the signals and attending to their telegraphic duties. Pavloff Is Assassinated. St. Petersburg, Russia.—Lieut. Gen. I Vladimir Pavloff, the military pro-! curator, generally known since the j days of the late parliament as "Hang-! man Pavloff," from the epithet con-1 stantly applied to him by the radical | deputies, was shot and killed Wednes- ! day while walking in the garden of I the military court building. The as- ! sasain, who was disguised as a work- j man, was captured after a long chase j through the streets. Congress. Washington.—On the 9th the senate devoted most of Ihe session to debate of the bill limiting the hours of labor of railroad employes. The house con tinued consideration of the army ap propriation bill. A Wife Murdsrer Is Lynched. Waterloo, la. —A. crowd of mora than 1,000 men Wednesday night bat tered through the wails of the county jail at Charles City, la., with railroad irons, tore hinges Jroiu the doors and took James Cullen out and lynched him for wife murder. A Strike for Hinhsr Wages. Now York. One hundred nnri | fifty freight handlers employed by I the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at its ; freight yards at St. George, SUten Island, went on strike last uight for 1 an increase in n-agoa. VERDICT IS GUILTY. TRIAL OF SUBSIDIARY COMPAN IES OF TOBACCO TRUST ENDS. THEY ARE CONVICTED OF FORM ING AN ILLEGAL COMBINE AND MONOPOLY. Now York.—A jury in the United States circuit court returned a verdict in the so-called "tobacco trust" trial which had been on hearing be fore Judge Hough for the past three weeks. The Jury acquitted Carl Jung bluth and Howard E. Young on all counts charging conspiracy in re straint. of trade and combining to con trol the licorice paste industry, but finds the Mac Andrews & Forbes Co. and the J. S. Young Co. guilty on two counts, one of forming an illegal com bination and the other of being a mo nopoly. The corporations named, which were joint defendants with .Jungbluth and Young, were acquitted of the charge of conspiracy. Counsel for the defendant companies at once moved for an arrest of judgment and Judge Hough will hear arguments 011 the motion next Monday. The cases were prosecuted for the government by Special Assistant At torney General Henry W. Taft. The evidence was largely documentary, the government having Hi the presen tation of its evidence introduced over 275 exhibits, consisting of private let ters passing between the various de fendants relative to the licorice paste business. These letters the govern ment forced the defense to give up. A line of not more than $5,000 or less than SI,OOO can be imposed for each violation of which the corpora tions have been found guilty. WERE MELTED IN LIQUID STEEL. No Trace of 15 Victims of Explosion in Steel Plant Is Found. Pittsburg, Fa. —Partial investigation to ascertain the number of fa talities that occurred at the Eliza fur nace of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Co. Wednesday night, when an ac cumulation of gas exploded, bursting the base of the furnace and shower ing tons of molten metal over about 40 men, was completed last night and shows that the bodies of 12 men, hor ribly mutilated, have been recovered. From 15 to 20 men are missing, it be ing generally believed their bodies were consumed by the hot metal, and ten men are in hospitals terribly burned, four of them expected to die. It is doubtful whether the number of men killed will ever be known. From present indications over 15 men were caught, like rats in a trap by the fiery metal, which flowed over their bodies to a depth of six feet. No trace of them, it is said, will ever bo found. Of the dead bodies now in the morgue, several are minus arms, legs and head. The condition of the injured is pitiful. A number of the men have their eyes burned out and others were so badly injured that amputations of arms and limbs were necessary. A gruesome story is told by Deputy Coroner Laidley, who says that one foreigner, apparently a youth, became crazed by his injuries and before he could be prevented leaped into a pot of molten metal and was incinerated. SMITH WILL SUCCEED ALGER. Congressman from Grand Rapids, Mich., Secures Republican Caucus Nomination for Senator. Lansing, Mich. Congressman William Alden Smith, of Grand Rapids, was last night nominated to succeed United States Senator R. A. Alger. As there are only a half dozen democrats in the legislature this nomi nation by the republican caucus is equivalent to an election. When the caucus adjourned Wed nesday night after the fifth ballot, Congressman Smith was the leading candidate, having 43 votes, but 64 were necessary for a choice. Last night before the first ballot was con cluded it was evident that the Grand Rapids congressman had won. Mr. Smith received 98 votes. Congressman Townsend had 26, a loss of one since Wednesday night. Arthur Hill, of Saginaw, whom Gov. Warner had charged with using im proper campaign methods, had one vote, Charles Smith of Hubbell, had two and William C. McMillan, of De troit, son of the late Senator James McMillan, who had 24 votes Wednes day night, withdrew. Congressman Smith's nomination was made unani mous amid great cheering. Two Men are Found Dead. New York.—Two men were found dead in bed in a lodging house at 222 East One Hundred and Tenth street last night. One of the men was a printer, Sam McManus, aged 25, but the identity of the second man is unknown. A bottle that had contain ed whisky or wood alcohol was found on a table in the room. Congress. Washington.—The senate on the 10th passed the bill limiting to 16 the number of hours in which train em ployes may bo consecutively employ ed. The house passed the army appro priation bill. Gives $200,000 to a Hospital. Pittsburg, I'a. —Mrs. James Oliver, widow of James Oliver, of the Oliver Iron and Steel Co., who died about a year ago. last night announced that she had given $200,000 to the South Side hospital for the erection of j an addition in memory of her late hus band. Miners Resume Work. Goldfleld, Nev.—Work was resumed j Thursday in the mines of ths i Goldfleld region, the 2,000 striking j miners voting to accept the operators' I (schedule of wessa aad fceura. . ! | Balcom & Lloyd. | I " | I WE have the best stocked general store in the couDty B and if you are looking for re- r m liable goods at reasonable prices, we are ready to serve |j you with the best to be found. =| p Our reputation for trust- ffl 8 worthy goods and fair dealing is too well known to sell any but high grade goods. |j P Our stock of Queensware and j| ffl] Chinaware is selected with Hj fy great care and we have soma* p of the most handsome dishes jj g ever shown in this seotion, B both in imported and domestic makes. We invite you to visit us and look our goods over. 3 m P 3 I ® 11 | Balcom & Lloyd, j i»»wwwwwin»«i *www«rww«rwiFwvwiriM |J LOOK ELSEWHERE BUT DON'T FORGET J! fe« THESE PRICES AND FACTS AT |* M I 1 LaBAJTS | | m _JJ 1 L 14 M M M We carry in stock i " - i M the largest line of Car- ~ ' |g fei pets, Linoleums and S/ ' IwSSr*|BDllTlTlTlTnS < HA kA Mattings of all kinds ~7* ffpSSlte!® hi || f ver brought to this J®EIiJ || J2 town. Also a big hue -faS**" BESES£S£.S| *" Mof samples. |lMjji!il;l $« A very large line of :FOR THE rs~-~=a »« n S3 HPcom)ORTABI£ is Art Squares and of fine books in a choice library Rugs of all sizes and select the Ideal pattern of Globe- If* M kind, from the cheap- Wernicke "Elastic" Bookcase. $# M est to the best. I Furnished with bevel French I | j plate or leaded glass doors. M Dining Chairs, I ,on « AL,: °* N Rockers and GEO. J. LaBAR, High Chairs. Solo Agent for Cameron County. I ||2 A large and elegant I———— ——————J El line of Tufted and ?? H Drop-head Couches. Beauties and at bargain prices. Eg li N|3o Bedroom Suite, COC f4O Sideboard, quar- CQH I&2 solid oak at tcred cak |||| f2B Bedroom Suitfl t rt* O j Sideboard, quur- oc M pit solid oak at 4)2! tered oak jr{| jf* s2."> Bed room Suits, (112 *)n |22 Sideboard, quar- tf|C II Bolid oak ut 4)ZU I tered oak, 4)10 i A larijo line of Dressers from Chiffoniers of all kinds and Ms 3 s3 up. all prices. H S3 —T — : : : ft| The finest line of Sewing Machines on the market, fcg Jjj the "DOMESTIC" and "ELDRILGE.' All drop- Eg heads and warranted. A fine line of Dishes, common grade and China, in j sets and by the piece. M As I keep a full line of everything that goes to $€ make up a good Furniture store, it is useless to euum jjtjjj erate them all. gtjf H S 1 ease call and see for yourself that I am telling hrf you the truth, and if you don't buy, there is no harm ** done, as it is no trouble to show goods. || GEO. J .LaBAR. » ft rr ||t| |||t |(| - n <> . M| - M j 3
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