KNOWWHATYOUBUY You Can See Quality and Quantity in the Local Stores. PAYS TO TRADE AT HOME The Purchaser Must Take Mail-Order House Goods on Faith—Keep the Money of the Commu nity at Home. When the consumer buys merchan dise he is interested in three things— quality, quantity and price. When he goes into the store of his local mer chant he sees the goods that he is to pay for displayed before him; he can determine whether the quality is first •class, and whether the quantity is all that is claimed. These two points settled, he should have a fair idea as to whether the price asked is a fair •one or not. But how is it when he attempts to buy of the big mail order houses of the •cities? The only guide he has to the quality and quantity they are offering Is what the catalogue says, and the •catalogue is prepared with the one ob ject in view of selling the goods. WTien the consumer buys of his local merchant and finds the goods he has purchased were not as represent "A farmer purchased two sacks of "binding twine of a large Chicago cata logue house, and upon its arrival this morning a ball was unrolled and meas ured with a ball of Plymouth twine •old by local dealers, when it was found that the Chicago article was just 2506 feet short of that sold at home. "There being ten balls in a sack, it will bo seen that the farmer lost 6,120 feet, or over a mile of twine on two sacks (by not buying at heme. Then, too, the mail order house product was of an inferior quality, being full of knots, and one farmer standing near during ♦lie measuring process remarked that It would never work on a binder. Now •we wish to ask you, does it pay to ■trade at home? if there is anyone who is skeptical of this story, just call and we will show you."—Parma, >lich., News. Bankrupt stock, merchandise that reliable jobbers would not handle be cause of its poor quality, the refuse of the factories made over into cheap merchandise. These are the things [the patrons of the mail order houses iare buying. Here is an extract from an article that appeared in the Sioux rFalls, S. D. Leader: "The mail order house selling vehi cles by the catalogue route, is more than a pirate, it is a turkey-buzzard. It takes the freaks and failures that have died for v/ant of real merit, and tries to stifle legitimate business by ;selliug the embalmed remains at a re duced price. "The whole nefarious mail order sys teva, in so far as it relates to vehicles, almost the exceptional order that is is conducted on the theory that it is possible to take an inferior job and foist it on a credulous people by means of a reduced price and the honest reputation established by the meritorious original which it shame lessly caricatures. These methods, have been crowned with success sole ly by reason of the fact that mail or der houses put more skill, energy and ( money into advertising than do the manufacturers to whom the American people are directly indebted for the best vehicles on the face of the earth. "The mail order business is the quack doctor of commerce. It prom ises much and guarantees nothing. The directions are always on the in side, and you have to buy a non-re turnable package before you can find out what they are." A. G. Enderton, of Walter, Okla., writing to the Shawnee, Okla., Union Signal, says: "• • * The mail order houses are the worst offenders of the pure food law that we have to deal with. They are the people who use short weight tin cans and every year the American public is cheated out of thousands of dollars by this alone. " • • • I S ee where some mall order houses ofTer paint at about what good oil is worth. Now, does anyone think that a mail order house can buy good paint stuff cheaper than anyone else? "Now suppose you find out what crude petroleum, like what is pumped out of oil wells cost. Very cheap, is it not? That is the oil that is used and what about the paiut stuff? How about Spanish whitening, with just enough white lead to stick it • * j The question of prompt delivery Is another question which mail order house patrons should consider. It is filled promptly. The reason for this delay is that they do not carry the goods in stock, and must purchase them after your order is received. In Chicago, for example, no mail order house will sell to any person living within the city limits, and the reason for this is that these concerns pur chase a large amount of the merchan dise they are selling from the retail stores of the city, the proprietors of which refuse to sell them the goods except upon the condition that they are not to sell to the people of the city. Here is the wail of a mail order vic tim taken from the columns of the Crookston, Minn., Journal, which ex plains this point: "Sir: I want to register my kick right here on catalogue houses and their misleading methods. I am frank to acknowledge that I have been duped to perfection. The only differ ence between me and the other vic tims being that I am a little deeper in and that I am willing to acknowl edge the corn. "To begin with, last fall I with her who is now my wife, decided to pur chase some stuff to furnish our new home. Accordingly we ordered all our furnishings of a—catalogue house two weeks prior to our marriage, which we thought would be plenty of time to got the goods around. But by the infernal planets let me tell you right here that all the correspondence diplomacy, appealing and pleading has succeeded in landing only a kitchen table and later a mirror from Pitts burg. "Our honeymoon has been a very dramatic experience; cooking on aii old gas plate, eating on a dry goods box, sleeping on the floor and borrow ing a few necessary utensils of friends and neighbors. No more catalogue goods for us. We hope to get enough more goods by April 1 to celebrate all fool's day in a fitting manner." "A VICTIM." Mr. Consumer, it is to your advan tage in many ways to buy Ik- nest goods at honest prices of your honest local merchant. See what you are buying. Get what you are paying for. Keep the money of the community in which you live at home, rnd build up your town instead of tea: Ing it down for the benefit of the mail order houses of the big citie3. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1907. CHILD LABOR President Roosevelt Says if Authorities OF THE STATES Do Not Do Their Duty in Matters of So Vital Interest the Nation al Government Will. New York.—A letter from Presi dent Roosevelt to Mrs. Maud Nathan, president of the Consumers' league, was read at the annual meet ing ef the league in this city Thurs day. In his letter the president wrote that if state authorities did sot do their dutjr in natters of so vital im portance as child labor there was no choice but for the national govern ment to interfere. The letter follows: "Permit me through you to express my earnest hope for the success of the Consumers' league. You are doing work that should appeal peculiarly to every good citizen, for those you be friend are greatly in need of friends, and are not powerful enough to stand up for themselves. I am particularly interested in your efforts to improve the conditions under which working girls do their work in the great shops, and I have, of course, an especial in terest in your effort to combat the evils of child labor. "There is much outcry, chiefly, I think, from the beneficiaries of abuses, against interference by the na tional government with the work which should be done by the state. I always would rather have the local authorities themselves attend to any evil and, therefore, I would rather have the state authorities work out such reforms, when possible; but if the state authorities do not do as they should in matters of such vital impor tance to the whole nation as this of child labor, then there will be no choice but for the national govern ment to interfere. I am striving to se cure either action or else a full and thorough investigation of the matter by the authority of congress at the present time." In her report Mrs. Nathan, presi dent of the league, speaking of the sweatshop evil in this city, said that there were many children employed in such establishments getting 10 and 12 cents for 14 and 16 hours' work a day. "It seems to me to emphasize," she said, "that necessity of the league's efforts to crush out the sweatshop sys tem of work." SIXTEEN BODIES RECOVERED. Remains of Victims of Explosion Taken from Mine —A Perilous Undertaking. Charleston, W. Va. —Sixteen more bodies were recovered from the Stuart mine Thursday night. The new cage constructed to take the place of the one destroyed by the explosion was placed in operation, but owing to the damage done to the shaft it was impossible to get it nearer than 18 feet of the bottom. The bodies re covered were brought that distance on a ladder and placed on the cage. The bodies were brought up In a bucket by Edward Pickney, inspector of the mine, and John Absolam, dis trict inspector, who were the first to go down. Owing tc*. the laborious na ture of the work it was discontinued until the cage can be repaired. Seldom in the history of such occur rences has a more perilous trip been made than that attempted by Pickney and Absolam. The timbers in the shaft had been loosened by the explo sion and blocked the way. Great icicles had been formed and dropped upon the men continually while hid den springs deluged them with icy water. The shaft was full of deadly fumes and Pickney finally succumbed after working for a time at the bot tom. The men remained in the shaft for three hours and found it a veritable charnel house. Mutilated bodies were so numerous that the two rescuers found it impossible to move about without stepping on them. They counted 26 bodies. Congress. Washington.—An address on the ex pansion of executive prerogatives by Senator Raynor and Senator Hey burn's discussion of the administra tion of the public lands, constituted the proceedings in the senate on the 31st ult. The river and harbor appro priation bill occupied practically all the time of the house. Speeches were made by several members. Grover Gets a $25,000 Office. New York. Grover Cleveland, ex-president of the United States, was elected chairman of the Association of Life Insurance Presi dents at a meeting of the executive committee of that organization in this city Thursday. The Job carries a salary of $25,000. Telephone Girls Strike. Toronto, Ont.—Because the Bell Telephone Co. insisted on in creasing the working hours of the telephone girls from five to eight hours a day about 400 girls went on strike Thursday. The company of fered more remuneration, but the girls claimed they could not stand the physical strain. Ex-Premier See Dead. Sydney, N. S. W.—Sir John See, ex-premier and colonial secre tary of New South Wales, is dead. He W&b mUIU ill cal llHvi .li lov2, A NARROW ESCAPE ANGRY MOB WAS READY TO LYNCH A PITTSBURG NEGfIO. TIMELY ARRIVAL OF POLICEMEN AND FIREMEN AVERTED A DISGRACEFUL TRAGEDY. Pittsburg, Pa. —C. A. Jackson, a negro, bleeding from many wounds on the head, is locked up In the Central police station following an exciting and almost successful attempt to lynch him last night by several hun dred persons on Fifth avenue, be tween Wood and Market streets, light in the heart of the business district. The trouble originated in front of the Associated Press office. A news boy asked the negro to buy a paper. Jackson shoved him roughly into the street. The boy threw a stone and struck Jackson on the head. The ne gro jumped to the street and began choking the boy. The street was thronged with men, the incident 00- ourring about 7 o'clock when many were waiting for street cars togo to their homes. In a moineAt several men caught the negro and began beat ing Mm. Some one cried "lynch the nigger" and hundreds of men and boys rushed upon Jackson. Canes, stones and closed fists were the chief weapons used by the mob. Backed up against a building Jack sen, trembling with fear, shielded his face with his arms while the crowd beat him and tore his clothes. About .this time several other negroes en deavored to protect Jackson. Imme diately there were cries of "lynch thorn." The Infuriated mob, crying all the while "kill all the negroes," caught several other negroes and proceeded to bump their heads against the stone buildings. Jackson, bleeding and his clothes almost torn off, was temporarily for gotten and he ran down Fifth avenue. Just below Fifth street Jackson ran Into the arms of several policemen. The officers ran Jackson into an alley and attempted to hold back the crowd with their night Btlcks. They were fast losing ground, however, when a large force of city firemen came to their aid. The police and firemen guarded the entrance to the alley un til a patrol wagon loaded with officers responded to a riot call. Within a C|w minutes the crowd scattered. fIVE CONTRACTS ARE VOID. Decision Rendered in the Suits of the City of Philadelphia vs. D. J. McNichol & Co. Philadelphia, Pa. —Judge Beitler Wednesday handed down a decision in the suits of the city against the firm of D. J. McNichol & Co. to re cover $5,000,000 which it was alleged had been fraudulently received by the firm 011 contracts for the construction of the city's filtration plant. The members of the firm at the time the original contracts were awarded were Mrs. McNichol, wife of State Senator James P. McNichol; Israel W. Dur ham, the republican leader; John M. Meek and J. McNichol. Sixteen con tracts amounting to about $10,000,000 were involved in the suits. Judge Beitler declares null and void five contracts aggregating $2,745,462 which were awarded at the time Sena tor McNichol was a member of coun cils, which bodies ratified the con tracts. He decides that they were ob tained illegally, sustaining the con tention of the city that Mrs. McNichol and D. J. McNichol were never more than figureheads in the firm. The court decides that the five contracts were wrongfully obtained and instructs the contractors to make an accounting to the city of the actual cost of material and work done on these contracts and to refund to the city any profit. Five other contracts for a total of $1,200,000 were sustained and six were not ruled on, having been al ready nullified by the city. LOST IN CHESAPEAKE BAY. A Fruitless Search for Five Baltimore Fishermen Who are Missing. Baltimore, Md.—With the return Wednesday of the tug Baltimore from a two days' fruitless search for some clue to the five men who have been missing for the last ten days all hope for them has been abandoned. The disappearance of the men came as a climax to a day of pleasure spent together at a fishing resort which they owned jointly. In the evening the men embarked in a small boat and started to row to the terminus of the Bay Shore car line. £ strong north west wind was blowing, and an hour later they were seen far out in the bay, struggling against the wind and sea. That was the last seen of men or boat. Congress. Washington.—On the 30th the sen ate passed a bill appropriating $2,0 r V 000 to be used in confining the Colo rado river to its banks, and another placing the management of the Pana ma railway under the isthmian canal commission. Senators Carter and Heyburn made speeches criticising the secretary of the interior for his action in regard to land patents. The house passed the agricultural appro priation bill and took up the river and harbor bill. Indian Reservation to be Opened. Norfolk, Neb. —The Daily News says that Indian Inspector Mc- Laughlin, of Washington, has procur ed an agreement with the Rosebud Sioux Indians for the throwing open by the federal government of nearly a million acres of land in Tripp county, 3. D. Five Miners are Killed. Marlon, 111. By an explosion of jKwuer !n the JoUiisoa City and Big Muddy coal mine at Johnson Citv Wednesday, five man were killed and 11 hurt. Too Suggestive. Sandy Pikes —What did the kind lady say when you told her all dem historical stories? Gritty George—She said I was a was a "wise old saw." Sandy Pikes —Great hobos! Yer better run. Next thing she'll be ex pecting you to show up at de wood pile.—Chicago Daily News. DIDN'T LIKE DARK COLORS. Johns —I heard you tell that man to never darken your door again. Try ing to marry your daughter? Thoms—No; he's a jialnter and he painted my front door ebony instead of oak. —Troy Budget. Father Explains. Johnny—Papa, what does automo bile mean? Papa—lt comes from the Greek "auto"—self —and the Latin "mobile" movement. It means a machine that goes by itself. Johnny—Doesn't any one have any thing to do with it? Papa (who tries to drive a horse and buggy)—No one with any self-re spect.—Home Magazine. Rough on Bill. "What has become of Bad Bill?" asked the new arrival in the Frozen Heart hotel. "Bad Bill?" echoed the landlord. "Oh, he 'bit the dust" yesterday." "What? Bad Bill dead?" "Oh, no. Bill took a ride in a ten derfoot's gasoline carriage and swal lowed a peck of dust in a twenty-mile spin."--Chicago Daily News. All His Trouble in Vain. The scientist had invaded the jun gle and conquered the monkey lan guage. "And now that you have acquired our lingo," said the head monkey, "have you any information of value to convey to us?" Of course, the scientist, nonplused, had to sneak back to civilization. Moments of History. Ulysses looked upon the sirens with considerable amusement, at the same time ordering the man at the prow not to hurry. "There was a time," he observed flippantly, "when your antics would have amused me. But —musical com edy is not what it used to be." —Life. Mr. Henpeck Warned. Mr. Henpeck—l shall have togo to town to-day, my dear, and I shall want some money, for there's train fare, lunch, 'bus fares, and I've got to — Mrs. II. —Well, then, take this shil ling, and mind, if you come home the worse for drink I'll not let you In. A Society Mother. Rector —And have you any children? Society Woman —Yes; three little darlings. Rector —Are they boys or girls? Society Woman —Dear me! Do you know, for the moment I can't remem ber? —N. Y. Times. Not Guilty. "Pop!" "Yes, my son." "Do poets have to be born?" "Yes, my boy." "Ain't the stork responsible for them, too?" —Yonkers Statesman. His View Point. "I see that the duke of Atholl, in England, has 22 titles." "What of it?" 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