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.
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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. . !
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