HOME TRADE FABLE
HOW THE TRANSFORMATION OF
A TOWN WAS EFFECTED.
A STORY WITH A MORAL
One Public Spirited Citizen Who
Realized the Big Possibilities arid
Cultivated the Field to Ad
vantage.
Once upon a time there was a Man,
who in his youth was reared upon a
larm located near a Small Town of
■'Great Promise. Two weeks in each
year when he was not sawing wood,
feeding the stock or picking potatoes,
he was allowed to attend the little red
schoolhouse in the town. By hard la
bor during the day, and persistently
reading a few old books which were
heirlooms in his family, and each week
absorbing the intelligence contained
in the Weekly Mirror, he, by the time
he could mark down his age at 18
years, had accumulated sufficient
knowledge to run away from home.
He wandered to a large city and there
liis great muscular power assisted to
gain for himself a position as Chief
Scrubber in a large store. He had not
acquired the cigarette habit, and his
faithfulness to his scrubbing brush,
and his unwillingness to know all
about his employer's business, soon at
tracted the attention of the Old Man,
and at the end of a year he was pro
moted to Head Rustler in the shipping
department at the larga salary of eight
dollars a week.
His disregard for scooting when the
■closing tlnje came, and hi 3 total lack
■of swelled head so pleased the Old
Man that from time to time the ambi
tious youth was advanced until at the
•end of six years he /as drawing the
biggest salary paid by the house, and
The ad it ore so'oo r co.• ■ r i:.-.. i
just as the advertising of the catalogue houses is now drawing it away from
the home store. The people are interested in the store news of this town.
Will you not give it to them?
soon he was taken In as a member of
the firm. Age and hard knocks and
brushes with the business world de
veloped in him marked business acu
men. He forged to the front as a
."financier and a public-spirited citizen.
As yeara, passed he prospered. Early
and late~iie was ever looking after his
vast business interests. There were
times that he longed to be again in
the small home town. Often in his
youth he dreamed of some day being
chairman of the village board. Only
. once since parting from the old home
had he returned, and then to find the
town just the same only a little more
delapidated, and in the weed-over
grown kirkyard the neglected graves
-of his good parents.
Strenuous business life and assid
ious attention to the accumulation of
capital without vacation, caused him
to suffer from what the doctors pro
nounced neurasthenia, and advised
total rest from mental effort. The man
had labored too diligently in amass
ing money. Residence in a quiet place
ivas recommended and retirement from
all commercial worries. The Great
Merchant sold his vast interests to a
combine, and after careful thought,
concluded that he would seek rest and
a renewal of health in the town where
he at one time attended the little red
schoolhouse, and where in childish im
agination he would bo powerful and
famous by becoming chairman of the
village board. Accordingly he retired
from the city, purchased the old homs
stead where he was reared and picked
potatoes, and also built a residence
and became a Great Factor in the
town. Time had made few changes in
the landscape. Buildings and streets
were the same, only showing the rav
ages of decay. The old stores were in
possession of the descendants of the
owners who conducted them when ho
was a boy. They were not doing the
business that they should. One great
innovation was the town had a rail
road. All about was suggestive of
peace. It was an ideal place for a
man who desired to pass his declining
days in contemplation of the here
after. There, life was much like unto
death. There was fresh air in abund
ance. AH of nature lavishly spent its
beauty over the country and the town,
and even the weeds on the streets
were allowed to spring up, bloom and
reach maturity without interruption
by tho scythe or the d?cle.
Within a year the Retired Business
Man had regained mu rh of his old
t'.me spirit and health. Habits of ac
tivity and love of business impelled
iim to onre again 3e>;k work that
would keep his mind occupied. £!•
loved Iha old town. He .saw that it
needed new life. He figured out that
there were 600 farmers in the neigh
borhood. ICacli fartßT surely spea*
SSO a month somewhere for supplies.
This meant a total of $30,000 a month;
$360,000 a year. Then the few hun
dred people in the town would add
other thousands to the volume of busi
ness. Why not build a great store and
supply the wants of the people? He
would spend some money and build
up tho town. He bought half a block
on which three of the stores stood.
He erected a large brick building, and
soon he had installed in it groat stocks
of goods. Other merchants in the
town shook their heads. The Public-
Spirited Man was certainly crazy.
Farmers when they caine to town
looked up the big building with won
der. The Weekly Mirror had to send
away for type to set up the page ad
vertisement for the new store, and to
get a new press for the printing of cir
culars and posters.
One month after the opening of the
store the graveyard quietness of the
town had passed away. Streets were
lined with the teams and the wagons
of the farmers. A new elevator for
grain had been started. The railroad
placed a new switch in the yard to ac
commodate the increased business.
The son of the old town blacksmith
reopened the old shop closed for years
because of no trade. New life was
rapidly being injected into the place.
There was an election. A lot of
newcomers selected the Public Spir
ited Citizen for chairman of the town
board. He was elected. In six months
the streets were paved, an electric
lighting plant was in operation, along
with a water works. The Great Store
keeper had a way of doing things, and
ho did them. News of the activity of
the town reached near-by villages, and
the people came to see the Big Store
and to buy goods. A cold storage
plant in connection with a new com
mission house operated by friends of
the Storepeeker, caused Farmers to
bring in tons of butter and hundreds
of thousands of eggs, and chickens
and other produce. The transforma
tion was quick from a Dead Town to
a Lively Small City. A high school
was established, new churches built,
and some of the pious people were
shocked to see an opera house erect
ed. The Pan-Handle & Skedunk rail
road, which for years had been run
ning 20 miles from the town so
changed its route as to have it on the
main line, so the place had two rail
roads. Enterprising men who wanted
to locate in a Live Town turned their
eyes toward the place. Soon there
was smoke from a half dozen big fac-,
tories, and in five years after the Pub
lic-spirited Citizen had started his
store his old home town has increased
its population 1,000 per cent, it was
no longer printed in little type on the
maps, but in capital letters.
MORAL.—Do not underestimate the
possibilities of your community, or
fail to develop them. No city was'
ever made great by its people buying
goods elsewhere.
D. M. CAIIR.
Civilization in Abyssinia.
A sawmill is already at work at
Adis Ababa, Abyssinia, and Greek ar»
tisans are engaged in quarrying and
stone hewing. Machinery in connec
tion with house building generally is
likely to be in demand as soon as the
means of transport are simplified. The
government is already building in Eu
ropean style and stone houses may be
seen, some even of three stories in
height in the capital.
World's Submarine Cables.
The total length of submarine
cables in the world is about 450,000
kiloms —279,622 miles, of which 60 per
cent, are British, ten per cent. Ameri
can, a little more than nine per cent.
French, and about seven per cent.
German. A great advance in this do
main lias been made during the last
faw years by Germany, whose efforts
tend,to constitute an independent sys
tem. —Memorial Diplomatique.
Dreams Go by Contraries.
"What do you suppose is every Lon
doner's day dream?"
"1 don't know, unless it is to be
come a knight mayor."—Baltimore
American.
A Fov.l Question.
"Pop?"
"Yes, my son."
"Do Mother Carey's chickens coti.e
out c>l Iho ship's hatches?"
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1907.
A BIGSTRIKE
Of Sailors Paralyzes the
Commerce of France.
117,000 Mm OUT.
The Tieup Is Practically Complete—
Strike Is Result of Dissatisfac
tion Over a Pension Law.
Paris, France. —A general strike of
sailors aoid others belonging to the
French naval reserve began at almost
all the ports of France at daylight
Friday and threatens the complete
paralysis of French commerce. The
navigation companies are making en
ergetic representations to the govern
ment. claiming that the movement is
not directed against them and saying
that unless it is settled immediately
it will cause untold injury to French
commerce.
The naval reserves comprise nearly
the entire maritime population en
gaged in seafaring life and number
about 117,000 men, of whom 25,000 are
serving in the navy. In addition to
practically all the sailors of the mer
cantile marine, most of the longshore
men belong to the naval reserves.
The strike was declared by the Na
tional Seamen's union because the
government's new bill increasing pen
sions from $40.80 to $72.50 in the case
of seamen and from $156 to S2OO in the
case of captains is regarded by the
members of the union as inadequate.
ROOSEVELT AT LANSING.
The President Delivers Three Speeches
in the Capital City of Michigan.
Lansing. Mich. —After a strenu
ous six hours in the state capi
tal, during which he made three ad
dresses and held a reception at the
state capitol. President Roosevelt left
at 4:20 o'clock Friday afternoon for
Washington on the Lake Shore road.
At the agricultural college in the af
ternoon President Roosevelt spoke to
about 25,000 people from a stand
erected on a little knoll a't the head of
the campus.
The president concluded his second
address in the state capitol about
11:15 o'clock and was driven with his
party to the college, where J. L. Sny
der, president of the institution, enter
tained them at luncheon. The great
crowd before the speaking stand was
held in check by a regiment of the
national guard.
At the conclusion of the president's
address the graduating class filed
across the platform and the president
presented them their diplomas. Hon
orary degrees were conferred upon a
number of distinguished visitors.
A MEDAL OF HONOR.
It Is Awarded to a Brave Girl by Order
of President Roosevelt.
Washington, D. C. —A medal of
honor has been awarded to Miss Mary
Guinan, of Middletown, X. Y., by Pres
ident Roosevelt for distinguished dar
ing in risking her own life to save that
of John C. Runyon, an aged man who
on December 19, 1906, was in immi
nent danger of being run down by an
Erie railroad train.
Mr. Runyon, who is 74 years old, at
tempted to cross the tracks in front of
an oncoming train, not observing that
another train was approaching rapidly
on an adjoining track from the oppo
site direction. He reached the spot
between the two tracks before he re
alized his danger and then became be
wildered by his apparent inability to
avoid being run down.
Miss Guinan, who was standing at
the crossing, realizing that his confu
sion might cost his life, sprang to hiH
aid. She seized and held him firmly
between the two trains as they rushed
by. As soon as the trains had passed,
she led the old man to the sidewalk.
REVIEW Of TRADE.
Seasonable Merchandise Goes Into
Distribution slowly.
New York.—P.. G. Dun & Co.'s
Weekly Review of Trade says:
Seasonable merchandise goes into
distribution slowly, which causes ac
cumulation of spring and summer dry
goods and millinery in the hands of
dealers and retards collections, while
making operations for fall and winter
much more conservative. At some
points the last week of May brought
pronounced improvement in commer
cial activity, but the holiday retarded
recovery and progress is slow. Manu
facturing piants are producing at fuil
capacity in most industries, orders
covering output far into the future,
and more New England cotton mill
employes have received advanced
wages, making the change affect about
85,000-hands.
Current transactions in the iron and
steel industry are of comparatively
little significance owing to the enos»
mous tonnage of business under con
tract.
Seven Men Drowned.
Boise, Idaho. While attempting
to make a landing above the
rapids in the Payette river, 12 miles
from Garden Valley, seven loggers
were drowned Thursday night. Their
boats were carried over the rapids and
swamped.
Iron Workers' Striks Ended.
S'.in Francisco, Cal.—The iron work
ers' strike was settled Friday night.
Twenty thousand men are involved.
The men return to work on the same
conditions that prevailed before the
strike.
LAWTON STATUE
AT INDIANAPOLIS IS UNVEILED IN
THE PRESENCE OF A GREAT
ASSEMBLAGE.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT DELIV
ERS AN ADDRESS AT A MEMO
RIAL DAY CEREMONY.
Indianapolis, hid. —President Roose
velt on Thursday delivered the
principal address here at the unveiling
of a monument to Gen. Henry VV. Law
ton. He discussed railway problems
and incidentally paid a warm tribute
to Oliver P. Morton, the war governor
of Indiana.
The president arrived at 10:48 a. m.
from Canton, accompanied by Vice
President Fairbanks, and was driven
to the Fairbanks hopie, where lunch
eon was served, after which he was
escorted to the courthouse square by
United States troops, 13 companies of
the Indiana national guard, G. A. R.
and other organizations. The parade
route of two miles was lined with
cheering crowds.
The streets surrounding the monu
ment were packed with people for
many squares. On the platform were
Mrs. Lawton and her three daughters.
The program of exercises included
an invocation by Rev. D. R. Lucas, an
address by Gov. Hanly, music by the
Seventh Regiment band, the reading
of a poem dedicated to Gen. Lawton
by James Whitcomb Riley, the intro
duction of the president by Gov Hanly
and President Roosevelt's speech.
.lames Whitcomb Riley read his
poem, "The Home Voyage," written in
honor of Gen. Lawton's memory when
the body was being brought home
from the Philippines and the curtain
covering the monument was with
drawn by Miss Frances Lawton,
daughter of the dead general.
The Lawton monument is the result
of the work of a commission formed in
1900, soon after the general's death in
the Philippines. The sum of $6,000
was raised by popular subscription.
The monument stands on the court
house grounds. The bronze figure is
nine feet high, standing on a stone
pedestal six feet in height.
Following the ceremonies Vice
President Fairbanks addressed the
crowd briefly.
A HOLIDAY ACCIDENT.
Seven People Killed and Seven Injur
ed in a a Collision of Trolley Cars.
Elyria, 0., June 1. —Seven persons
went to death in a rear-end crash be
tween two Cleveland, Southwestern &
Columbus traction cars Thursday
evening. Seven others are seriously
injured. The niotornian on the rear
car is in jail here, charged with man
slaughter. .
The dead and Injured were caught
on the rear platform of the forward
car. The buffer of the second car
plowed through the vestibule when
the first car stopped, and jammed
passengers and wreckage into a mass
that took 15 minutes to disentangle.
Scarcely one of the injured showed
a mark above the knees and in almost
every instance the victims lost one or
both feet. The dead:
Henry M. Hillings, 60, retired har
nessmaker, Elyria.
VV. C. Allen, t>B, Lake Shore claim
agent, Elyria.
Donald Sala, son of Rev. J. F. Sala,
Elyria.
Edward O'Donnell, 62, Elyria.
Charles 15. Porter, 24, clerk, Elyria.
Homer Allen, 17, Elyria.
Eunice W. Wurst, 14, Elyria.
The injured:
Marguerite Butler, 15, Elyria, one
foot amputated, other heel crushed.
Mabel Dean, 15, South Amherst,
school girl, both feet amputated.
Arthur Hoadley, both feet ampu
tated.
Jack Leslie, Carlisle township, left
foot amputated and right foot injured. |
Mrs. J. P. Sala, Elyria, one limb
crushed and severe internal injuries;
will die.
VV. S. Avery, conductor of the first
car, both, feet amputated.
George W. Chamberiain, 30, Madi
son, 0., compound fracture of both
legs and may lose right foot.
A TROLLEY ROAD COMBINE.
The Schoepf Syndicate Will Control
700 Miles of Electric Railway
in Ohio.
Columbus, O. Ever since the
incorporation, about two weeks
ago, by the Schoepf interurban trac
tion syndicate, of the Ohio Electric
Railway Co., with a preliminary capi
tal of SIOO,OOO, there has been consid
erable speculation in financial circles
as to the exact plans of the syndicate.
As stated at the time of the incor
poration of the new company, it will
consist of a consolidation of the three
separate interurban railway properties
of the Schoepf syndicate in Ohio.
These are the Cincinnati Northern
Traction Co., better known as the Cin
cinnati, Dayton & Toledo, the Indiana,
Columbus & Eastern and the Lima &
Toledo traction companies. These
three companies have about 700 miles
of electric interurban and urban roads
in operation.
The preliminary capital of the Ohio
Electric Railway Co. is to be increas
ed from SIOO,OOO to $16,000,000. This
will be divided into $8,000,000 5 per
cent, preferred and $8,000,000 com
mon. There will bo no bonds.
A Bull Is Sold for $11,500.
Allentown, Pa. —What is said to
be the highest price ever paid
for a bull at a Jersey cattle sale in I
America was received Thursday •at ;
the sale of T. S. Cooper's imported j
stock at. Coopersburg. The bull, im
ported Stockwell, was sold for $11,500.'
to A. H. Lewis, of Fredericksburg, Va. j
Cornell's Oarsmen Defeated Harvard, j
Ithaca, N. • Y.—Cornell's varsity j
eight-oared crew defeated Har- j
vard by three-quarters of a length last !
evening in a thrilling two-mile race on \
Lake Cayuga.
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