MAIL-ORDER WAYS A EAD ADVERTISEMENT FOR CATALOGUE HOUSES. AT SCHOOL OF EXPERIENCE Sooner or Later It Teaches Every Mail Order Patron the Error of Sending His Money from Horns. The methods of the mail-order houses are their worst advertisement. Sooner or later there will come a time in the experience of every purchaser of their goods when he will wish "he hadn't done it," when he will wish he had spent his money with his home merchants. This is not only because he will see the ruin wrought in his •own community by the nefarious prac tice of sending the money of the com munity to the city, but also because of the practices of the mail order con •cerns. The story in the catalogue sounds well. It sounds like you would get the identical thing you wanted and at a much lower price than you had im agined it could be bought for, and you •order it. The purchase arrives and when opened you feel that some mi - tako has been made, that the concern has sent you the wrong good,s; it is not what you ordered. Ah. but it is! The difference is be tween the way it actually looks and the way it sounds in the catalogue. You explain that the goods you re ceived is not what you ordered and ask for an accounting, and are told ■that it is you that is in error, that you got just what you ordered, and tthen if you are wise you buy ol the The one sure method of curbing the mail-order giant is to bind him with +the thongs of home patronage. Are you helping in this work? Are you spending your money at home and helping your town to grow, or are you sending it to the city to swell the fortunes of the mail-order man? "home merchant next time, and know ■what you get when you pass over the money for it. He may not be able to sell you what you thought you were buying from the mail-order house at the catalogue price, but he can sell you, if he has it, the same goods you get from the mail-order houses at an equal or less price than they ask for it, and what is more, he can sell you wiiat you really want at as reasonable a price as you can get it for else where. The following letter, written by a Michigan farmer, explains in a clear and unmistakable way the danger of buying of mail-order concerns. It was addressed to one of the largest of this class of institution in this country: Baldwin, Mich., Jan. 12, 1907. •Gentlemen: 1 have your favor of recent date, and also your catalogues and accom panying circulars offering premiums for distribution of the same among my friends. I have no doubt, that, as you say, I will thereby confer a great fa vor upon you, but 1 am compelled to take issue with you on the statement that i will also confer a favor upon my friends. In my dealings with you, extending over some time past, I have received no favors from you—l paid for all 1 got, and the length o? time I traded with you, instead of establishing friendly relations and gaining me ad ditional favor as it would in a home store, gave you the opinion that, un like a new customer, to whom you give your very best, so they will come again. 1 was a steady comer and any old thing would do for me. Our last deal opened my eyes and convinced me of your policy. Your catalogues offer some apparently great bargains. But let us draw up our *hairs and see if there are not a few things very essential to the rural citi zen that are not mentioned within its voluminous bulk. For instance, there is no reference to paying cash or exchanging goods for wheat, oats, corn, beans, butter, eggs and hay. How much will you pay for cattle, sheep ami hogs, 112. o. b., at Baldwin? How much will you pay to support the Lake county schools and educate our children? How much for improv ing our roads and bridges? For sup porting the poor? For the general public expense? On what page do you offer to con tribute money to the support of our churches? What iine of credit will you extend to me when my money is low because < 112 sickness, or poor crops? What do you provide in the way of entertain ment ior the public and in the way of providing those things that make a town desirable and thus keep up the value c'Z my property? As a matter of fact, do you do any thing to help locai'v or do you merely take the money on* of a community, returning noting whatever, beyond the value of tho goods bought? Think ing it oyer carefully, 1 believe it is better to rail upon our local dealer and look over his stock where wo can see the goods before buying. There are then no errors in change or re funds to bn haggled over across a 300- mile stretch. Yes, it is better to trade at home. Our home merchant's guarantee upon an article means something, as he wants our good will. Keeping the money at home benefits home indus tries and thus, indirectly, us. We can not expect to sell our products to the local merchant and do our trading in Chicago. It is all one-sided and some time we would have no local merchant to do our buying. Catalogue houses, I have found from bitter experiences, are tricky. If those who are dealing with them will watch their purchases, they will find it so sooner or later. Our last deal, had it occurred here at home, would have been straightened out in five minutes and without feeling, but with you it takes me all winter to get my money back when the goods are not satisfac tory, and even then 1 get only a credit card which is lost through studied carelessness upon the part of someone in your concern so that I have noth ing to show for my claim. Every man should trade at homo if conditions admit of purchasing a good article at reasonable prices. If not, then he had better trade at the next town or city that his money may go to build up the country around him. He sends it to Chicago that it may go into profits of some big mail-order house until there is enough sucker money to build and endow some great charitable institution as a monument to the greatness of the mail-order man and the gullibleness of the easy pub lic. I have already asked that you adjust the matter of our last deal. I want my money returned without further dickering and unless 1 Rot it I shall certainly get its equivalent in adver tising you and your methods anions the people of Lake county. Awaiting your reply, I am, Yours truly, CAUL SCHULTZ. Wolf Lake, Michigan. P. O. Baldwin, Mich. Can you, Mr. Purchaser, not profit by the experience of others and turn your money into home channels by trading with home merchants where you will get a dollar's worth for a dol lar, or must you follow the mail-order man's lead to trouble for yourself and destruction for your community? l»o not wait for that evil day when you have learned wisdom in ! served by astronomers throughout the | world, it bus been named Metcalf's I comet. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1907. THE HOODS. Rivers at Pittsburg are Rapidly Receding. TRAFFIC RESUMES. Damage lo Properly in Pittsburg District Is Very Large- Wheel ing Entirely Cut Off. Pittsburg, Pa. —With the rapid receding of waters in iiu* Alo nongahela, Allegheny and Ohio rivers which is taking place here, conditions are last assuming normal proportions and the greatest flood in the history of the city is at an end. At nightfall Friday the approaches to the bridges were elear of water and several hours later street car service in the Hood districts was resumed. Thousands of suburbanites who have been stranded in this city since early Thursday were able to reach their homes, while the down town section, which has been crowded with sightseers since the sudden rise of water, is almost de serted. The only apparent indication of the flood in the down town section are many pipes across th<* sidewalks through which water is being pumped from submerged basements. At i) o'clock last nißht the rivers had fallen almost tight feet.. At thßt hour the stage was lift feet and drop ping a half foot an hour. Immediately following the subsid ing of the water the task of comput ing and repairing the damage was be gun. A majority of the employes of the large manufacturing establish ments who were temporarily thrown out of employment are endeavoring to put the plants in working order and it is said that by Sunday all these es tablishments will resume operations. Ten square miles were inundated. The loss in dollars will probably never he known, but the actual loss will probably not exceed $1,000,000.. The probabilities are that the Be lasco, Gayety, Alvin and Bijou the atres will be open lo the public this evening. A large force of men are repairing the electric plants damaged by the water in the basements of the playhouses. Reports from all parts of western Pennsylvania are that the flood has subsided and efforts are being made to clear up the wreckage. Railroad service which was demor alized by the high water is rapidly resuming. Wheeling, W. Va. —The crest of the flood passed this city at 9 p. m. The water reached a stage of almost 50 feet and then began to re cede at the rate of one inch an hour. The city and surrounding towns on both sides of the river are completely cut off from the world by rail and steamer. Every foot of Wheeling Isl and is submerged and 7,000 residents have been driven to upper floors. It is estimated that 5,000 homes are flooded, affecting 25,000 people. The property loss will reach $500,000. One fatality is reported, that of a Wheel ing Island resident, who is missing and was last seen Thursday night in a skiff. Boatmen are charging extortionate prices for rescuing marooned resi dents. All newspapers have tempo rarily suspended publication because the plants have been submerged. During Friday a score or more of houses passed down the river, includ ing two-story dwellings and a school house, the latter with the stars and stripes bravely floating from its little flagstaff. An Exclusion Edict !s Issued. Washington, D. C.—President Roose velt has issued an order direct ing that Japanese or Korean laborers who have received passports togo to Mexico, Canada or Hawaii and to come therefrom be refused permission to enter the continental territory of the United States. This is practically the linal chapter, except so far its the Question may be taken up in treaty negotiations with Japan, in the issue growing out of the action of the San Francisco authorities in prohibit ing Japanese school children uttendins the schools set aside for the whites. Stock Market Recovers from Panic. .\evv York.—An unusual scene was enacted 011 Friday on the floor of the stock exchange just after the market had closed strong and buoy ant, in sharp contrast to the de moralization of Thursday. Brokers gathered around the trading posts anl cheered loudly in demonstration of their relief at the change in specula tive sentiment. Congratulations were exchanged all around the room on tho fact that the members of the ex change bad successfully passed through the severe decline in prices of the past two weeks. Jap Children Enter Frisco School. San Francisco, Cal.—Nine Japan ese girls who had applied for ad mission to the Redding primary school were admitted Thursday after an ex amination as to their knowledge of the English language. Killed His Sweetheart and Himself. New Orleans, La.—Accosting Miss Dudez Dobson, his 17-year-old sweetheart, on the main street of Pointe la Hache, La., Whitney Moliere, a young planter, asked her to marry him. Upon being refused Moliere shot and killed the girl and himself. Street Railroaders' Strike Ends. Louisville, Ky.—The 800 striking union employes of the Louis ville Railway Co., last night accepted terms agreed on by their executive committee and the company. A MID WINTER VERDICT. "Bright Sunshine All Winter," Is What a Western Canada Lady Says. Maidstone, Sask., Canada, Feb. 4, lUO7. C. J. Broughton, Esq., Canadian Government Agent, Chicago, 111. Dear Sir: Being so well pleased with Canada we wish my father and brother to come here. Will you please send them reading matter on Canada. We have been here nearly a year and are delighted with this country. Wo have lived in Illinois, lowa, and Michigan and we find Canada away ahead of any of them. We have had bright sunshine all winter so far, only two nice, easy snow storms. If it was not all right you know I would not want my father and brother to come here, but we think it is grand. Yours truly, (Signed) MRS. ED. TROUPE. High Prices Paid for Pets. A spinster with money to burn m cently paid $5,000 for a bulldog. A man in Massachusetts has just bought a cow for SB,OOO. Walter Garvey has a hog for which he refused a cash offer of $4,000. James Keene refused $200,000 for Sysonby, a race horse. There are several roosters of fashion able blood priced as high as SBOO each. You can buy a fine lion for S3OO and a tiger for S7OO. By and by we shall have a craze for breeding fishes, and a fine male salmon, edu cated to pond life, might be worth SI,OOO. The SB,OOO cow has one calf a year, worth $4,000. The female sal mon may become the mother of 300,- 000 little fellows in the same time, ■worth in the aggregate, possibly, as much as the calf. —N. Y. Press. CASE OF ECZEMA IN SOUTH. Suffered Three Years —Hands and Eya Most Affected—Now Well and Is Grateful to Cuticura. "My wife was taken badly with ec zema for three years, and she em ployed a doctor with no effect at all until she employed Cuticura Soap and Ointment,. One of her hands and her left eye were badly affected, and when she would stop using Cu ticura Soap and Ointment tho eczema came back, but very slightly; but it did her a sight of good. Then we complied with tho instructions in us ing the entire set of Cuticura Reme edies and my wife is entirely recov ered. She thanks Cuticura very much and will recommend it highly in our locality and in every nook and cor ner of our parish. God bless you for the sake of suffering humanity. I. M. Robert, Hydropolis, La., Jan. 5 and Sept. 1, 190 G." Korean Women Advance. The Korean Ladies' club held a meeting a short time ago at which it was suggested that, changes should be attempted in the dress of the Korean women, that the matter of education should be held in abeyance for a time, but that special efforts should be made along the line of life insur ance, so as to protect the interests of women in case of the death of the husband. —Korean Daily News. Affection consists not in use of carefully prepared utterances. if CATARRH n4 w ™ e fIIROAT, 112 LUN J&«o» KIDNEYS BLADDER 112 organs W. A. Mitchell, dealer in general merchandise, Martin, Ga., writes: "My wife lost in weight from 130 to 68 pounds. We saw she could not live long. She was a skeleton, so we consulted an old physician. He told her to try Peruna. "She gradually commenced im proving and getting a little strength. She now weighs 106 pounds. She is gaining every day, and does her own housework and cooking." I Balcom & Lloyd. I | WE have the best stocked (if general store in the county 8 and if you are looking for re | liable goods at reasonable J§ Its prices, we are ready to serve y yon with the best to be found. 0 Our reputation for trust lj] worthy goods and fair dealing is too well known to sell any g but high grade goods. 1 nj Our stock of Queensware and jf ffl Chinaware is selected with Sj ij great care and we have soma fg ffl of the most handsome dishes H ever shown in this section, J SIK both in imported and domestio makes. We invite you to visit us and look our goods over. I p! u 1 i 8 I | Balcom Lloyd, j I *• mm mum rwrw ****** <***!* ***lll Mk ******** J! LOOK ELSEWHERE BUT DON'T FORGET || THESE PRICES AND FACTS AT |J N H II || LaBAJTS || 1 M 'I ft* M ft! 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