HELPS THE TRUSTS ERROR TOO FREQUENTLY MADE BY THE FARMER. BUYS THROUGH MAIL ORDER fcnd in Doing So Contributes To ward Capital Concentration in the Big Financial Centers, to His Great Injury. Lord bless the American farmer. "He is one of the nabobs of creation and he hardly knows it. In a single year his work adds to the wealth of the nation more by a hundredfold than all the mines of the country. He gives to the world twice the value in crops and produce than the output all the factories and mills of the nation pro duce. He supplies the lubricant to keep the wheels of progress in mo tion, and if he only knew it could buy and sell a few hundred Rockefellers, and still have enough left to purchase a few kingdoms as large as Spain. Yet it must be admitted that this great American farmer needs some enlight enment as to common economics. While he is the king of wealth produc ers. and a lot of it sticks to his fingers, he is also a philanthropist and doesn't know it. He works hard to produce his wealth and then patronizes the machinery that lands a goodly portion of it in the coffers of the Captains of Finance who dictate things in Wall street and elsewhere; in fact he as sists the trust magnates to the money required to build up combinations that the good philanthropic farmer is com pelled to support. He does it and he knows not that he doeth so. Every time the good tiller of the soil sends away to the big mail order house for his supplies, he does his mile toward capital concentration in the great financial centers, and his little mite safk? a resting place among the money held in reserve to feed the wants of the trusts. It is about time western farmers take a tumble to cold facts, and come ton realization that their interests are best subserved by keeping their earnings as close to their homes as possible. Trade at Home. Patronage of the big mail order houses is founded largely on short sightedness. In one way it is akin to patronage of the get-rich-quick schemes. The buyer believes he is getting something for his money that is really not given, and fails to realize either where his money goes or what he gets for it. No one would think of telephoning to a furniture store and asking the ■dealer to send up a dozen dining room chairs, without having previously ex amined the chairs, or of ordering a dress or pair of shoes, or a stove in this way. Yet that, is practically what the patron of the mail order house docs. He orders by mail without having seen the goods or having any idea of their appearance or character. He is taking a long chance. Two things on which he has to base his •conception of the articles ordered is a description in the catalogue and the cut given there. In other words, the attractiveness of the offer made de pends on the promises of the firm and the engraver's art. It is possible to make a very creditable cut from a flimsy and worthless model. It is possible to describe an atrocity in a way that makes it appear most desir able. Iricidentallly it seems to be al 'wavs possible to find some one who will accept the promise and cut at their face value, without properly dis counting them, and on the credibility of these people the mail order busi ness thrives. A little investigation and comparison will convince the average person that his money will go further and yield greater returns if invested right here in Beverly, despite the fictitious values offered by the ■outside houses. But the articles sold by the mail order houses must be compared as they really are, and not as they are reputed to be in the cata logues.—Beverly (Mass.) Times. Patronizing Home People. An exchange says that war has been •declared on the great catalogue houses of Chicago and other cities by the 500 retail merchants of the west. In one of the most striking eco nomic movements this country has ever known the small dealers are fighting, they say, for their lives. The mammoth institutions, employing •thousands of workers, doing their business entirely through the medium of their bulky catalogues, spending no money in the communities whence they derive annually millions of dol lars of patronage, are forcing in creasing numbers of home merchants to the wall and so their opponents claim, are "making commercial graveyards of once prosperous towns." People living in country towns ought to get wise and trade at home. —Phil- adelphia Episcopal Recorder. Advertise What You Have to Sell. After all that has been said or can be said about the big mail order houses, the simple fact remains that they get the business by thorough and persistent advertising, showing cuts of goods and giving prices. If home merchants would take the same meth ods, much of the trade now going to the mail order houses in cities would come to tliem. A man we know re cently made up a list of tools and hardware from one of the mail order catalogues and took it to a home dealer to get prices. 110 was surprised to find that lie couid get the same articles at home for less money and save the express charges, and also • see the goods he was buying.—Clear field (Pa.J Spirit. USE MORE PRINTERS' INK. Good Advice to th? Small Merchant Who Would Succeed. The mail order question is one that is of perennial importance to nearly every one of the small-'- cities and vil lages in the land, although the danger that these institutions were bound to annihilate the smaller stores does not seem as imminent now as it did a few years ago. For instance, since the passage of the pure food law by congress many, if not all of the mail order people, have discontinued the selling of groceries. It was plain in this case that there was a consider able amount of adulteration in the goods sokl or the mail order houses would not have taken this step. There are aspects of the mail order question which may well give hope to the local dealer. The facts in the case are that the catalogue houses are not enjoying an unmitigated cinch, for they are handicapped in many ways in which the country merchant is not. For example, the entire coun try press almost without exception is closed to mail order advertising. Here is a distinct advantage for the home merchant, although sometimes he is somewhat slow in taking advantage of it. If he is fossilized and walking around to pay funeral expenses in a business way, figuratively speaking, he will spring that ancient chestnut that "it doesn't pay" to advertise. But let the newspaper man take an ad from a mail order house and place it in the remotest corner of his paper, and this same business man will be apt to object very strongly. The mail order houses have ad vanced their business by advertising, and have been badly handicapped by having virtually ofily (lie magazines and the catalogues to tell their story. If the merchants of to-day expect to cope with the mail order houses and hold a fair share of the trade that they ought to get, it means that they will have to use printers' ink and ad vertising space. Furthermore, they will have to advertise intelligently and in accordance with twentieth cen tury standards. Don't spring the ancient gag about having been in business so many years. The people don't care a rap how long you have been in business. They are interested mainly in two things: First, what goods have you got? Second, what do they cost? I'nless your advertising deals with these questions, it will be as sounding brass or tinkling cymbal. The mail order houses have butlt up trade by doing just these things, and their glowing descriptions and prices have done the business. —San Antonio (Tex.) Light. Individual Vs. Corporation. A well-known eastern financier, for some time the president of a large trust company, recently resigned, giv ing as his reason that a man, accord ing to his belief, can do better work for himself, and that no man can really earn a salary equal to what he can make in business for himself. In these days when all kinds of business are being converged into corporations, the number of trades in which a man may engage in business for himself have become so few that for a great bulk of men, even those having the mental equipment which in other years would have been sufficient to make them their own masters, there is now no other opening than that of service for some corporation. For the bulk of the people, outside of those in agricultural pursuits, it is service for the corporation or no work at all. This truth is becoming more evident day by day. Even the farmers are feeling the grasp of corporate methods. It is true that millions must have the products of his lands and his hands, but the corporations are the mediums he must work through, and from him they exact their tithings. It is to the interest of the farmer as well as the laborer in every walk and sphere, to prevent as far as possible further encroachment of organized capital, and this can be done by as far as possible keeping the dollars that you earn in circulation in the community where earned, and thus prevent the further concentration of money and of business in the great cities. Putin a Good Word. Lord Arlington was arrested the other day in England for speeding his auto. Said the arresting policeman in court the next.day: "His lordship was most civil; in fact, it was a pleasure to meet him, and that is more than can be said of some motor ists." Still, his lordship had to pay a fine of sls and costs. Raised in Rank. Sir Chentung Liang-cheng, until re cently Chinese minister at Washing ton, has been received by the em press in audience for three successive days. He lias been raised from the second to the first rank and appointed a director of the Southern railroad, with headquarters at Shanghai. He will also act as traffic superintendent. Large Number of Nets Used. According to Consul-General Soren Listoe, of Rotterdam, about 100,000 nets are in use during the herring s< -on by the soo fishing smacks of the Netherlands. A net lasts about three seasons, but owing to losses from storms and other causes, be 'W< ti -10,000 and 50,000 new nets are purchased annually. Dotjs in Paris. In Paris dogs are treated ns well as human beings are. They wear auto mobile togs when they go motoring, they have a hospital, and they even have a good-sized cemetery, with mon uments and headsttmes and inscrip tions and mortuary wreaths. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1907 SEVEN LB LOSE IN A HEEL FIRE GAS EXPLOSION CAUSED DEADLY GLAZE AT KANSAS CITY. TWO MEN FATALLY INJURED. Bodies of the Victims Were Found Piled Together in a Hallway on the Second Floor—Property Loss was Small. Kansas City, Mo. Seven men are dead and two fatally injured an the result of a fire in a two-story brick rooming house at 1102 Union avenue, caused by an explosion of gas Thursday. The rooming house was patronized by transient white railroad laborers and the proprietor, Edward O'Connell, kept no register of the names of his guests or the number of persons in the place. O'Connell said that his house would accommodate 200 men, but he did not believe there were more than 50 in the rooms when the explosion occurred. The men who lost their lives were identified as follows: Patrick Tucker, trackman for the Missouri Pacific. Adolph Summerbeck, aged SG, wait er in restaurant. Michael Parian, aged 52. boiler maker; came here from Buffalo, N. Y., four years ago. Thomas Lane, laborer. John Shea, aged 47, track foreman for the Burlington road. Jack Sheehan. "Frenchy," porter in restaurant, no other name known. The explosion is supposed to have been caused by a guest lighting a match in a room where the gas had been tuaied on. When the firemen arrived the flames were burning so fiercely and the heat was so intense that they found the work of fire light ing very difficult. When the flames were sufficiently subdued to permit the firemen enter ing the building they were driven back by smoke. When they finallv gained entrance to the building they found the bodies of the victims piled together in a hallway on the second floor. It was evident that the men wore overcome while seeking an exit. The lower floor of the building was a saloon and barber shop. The loss on the building was SIO,OOO. A thrilling rescue or an old man was accomplished by Firemen R. F. Jackson and W. L. White. The man was clinging to a window ledge on the second floor. The firemen climbed out on the cornice of an adjoining build ing and, being unable to reach the man, they spliced their belts and threw one end to him. He caught it and while the firemen braced them selves with great peril to themselves the old man swung down and was low ered to the ground safely. George Gavin was taken out of the building fatally burned. Another man, name unobtained, was fatally injured by jumping from a second story win dow. TWO ATTEMPTS AT SUICIDE. They are Made by Mrs. Dora McDon ald, of Chicago. Under Indictment for Murder. Chicago, 111, Mrs. Dora Mc- Donald, widow of Michael McDonald, and who is under indictment for the alleged murder of Webster S. Guerin, developed symptoms of violent insan ity Thursday, twice attempting to commit suicide at the home of her mother, Mrs. Martha Feldman. It was stated last night that Mrs. McDonald will probably be sent to an insane asy lum instead of being brought into court to answer the charge of murder. Thursday morning Mrs. McDonald's brother, Emil Feldman, traced fumes of escaping gas to Mrs. McDonald's room and found his sister unconsci ous. She was restored with difficulty and then attempted to leap from the window. Her cries attracted an im mense crowd and a riot call was sent to a nearby police station. The crowd was dispersed and Mrs. McDonald was taken to the home of her sister in an other section of the city, where she is being closely watched. Man Killed by an Automobile. Baltimore, Md. During a race between two automobiles Thursday James F. Grinuell, colored, was struck and instantly killed by one of the ma chines at the corner of Baltimore and Fremont streets. The cars were driven respectively by Frank Brown, jr., son of ex-Gov. Brown, of this state, and James Elliott, of Washing ton. Neither stopped after the acci dent., but continued on their course at terrific speed. The police arrested Brown and his chauffeur. Brown said it was Elliott's automobile that struck Grinnell. lie and his chauffeur were arraigned before Justice Loden and released on their own recognizances for a hearing next Monday. Killed His Wife and Suicided. New York Cily. John Whitley, one of the leading dealers in stoves and ranges in Brooklyn and vice pres ident of the Reliance Ball-bearing Door Hanger Co., killed his wife with two pistol shots early Thursday as she lay sleeping in her room on the ninth floor of the Hotel Belleclaire in Manhattan. Whitley then leaped from the window into the street, be ing killed Instantly by the full. Robbers Raided a Railroad Depot. Gold field, Nev. Nine robbers early on Thursdav visited the depot of the Tonapah, Goldfleld & Bullfrog railroad, overpowered two watchmen and an ope rator, threw them into box cars and then blew open the safe. it. is said that they scoured several thou sand dollars. Jury to Try Powers Is Secured. Georgetown, Ky. a jury to try Caleb Powers, charged with the murder of William Goebel, was com pleted Thursday. There are eight democrats and four republicans on the jury. ARE MAKING IKE BlfiT FLY, PROGRESS OF WORK ON THE PANAMA CANAL IS RAPID. Figures for October, 1907, Show Largs Increase in Amount of Dirt and Rock Removed. Washington, I). C.—Data relative to the work now going on in connec tion with the construction of the Pan ama canal, later in date than that contained in a report of the isthmian eaiiiil commission published Wednes day is just made public in the shape of a detailed report of operations for the month of October received at the canal offices in this city. From this it appears that construction is pro gressing even more rapidly than was forecasted in the annual report of the commission. 011 the Culebra section, which rep resents the greatest excavation on the line, the total amount of earth and rock removed last month was 634,499 cubic yards. This was about 2Vfe times more than was removed during the same month of the previous year, and the average output per steam shovel was about 53 per cent., greater, notwithstanding that the rainfall was nearly three times as great as in Oc tober, 1906. Work on the other sections seems to have progressed in like proportion, not only in the matter of excavation by steam shovels, but in dredging and blasting. 111 the latter case no less than 125,419 lineal feet of holes hav ing been drilled in the rock for blast ing purposes in the Culebra division alone. The largest force of employes ever worked on the isthmus since the in ception of the canal project under the French, was at work at the close of October, when the commission was employing 25,915 men and the Pan ama railroad 6,139 —a total of 32,054. Fewer Europeans were brought in than at any time since operations were commenced. Public schools were opened on the isthmus October 1 with an enrollment of 351 pupils. The health conditions continue to improve. "Discourage vigorously any appli cants for work coming to the isthmus without appointment. All positions filled and 110 increase contemplated. Unemployed men without funds sources of embarrassment." The above dispatch from Chief Engineer Goethals, of the Panama canal com mission, was received Wednesday. Applications for work on the isthmus are coming in at the commission's offices at the rate of 300 a day, an increase of 33 per cent, in the last month. A FORTUNATE RESCUE. Crew of a Schooner Were Saved Just as Their Craft was Sinking. New York City.—How they were wrecked in a storm at sea and drifted helplessly 011 the angry Atlan tic with the pumps going night and day to keep their battered craft afloat until they were rescued, is the story told by ('apt. Burke, of the British schooner Dictator, of St. Johns, N. F„ and his little crew of five, who were taken off the sinking schooner by the British tank steamer Aras, which came into port last night from Pen art h. The Dictator sank as the last member of her crew was being hauled over the side of the Aras. Capt. Burke and his men were exhausted when rescued, but had recovered when they reached here. The Dictator, a schooner of 82 tons, with a cargo of codfish, sailed from St. Johns, N. F., November 13, for Oporto. Squally weather was encoun tered for three days and when the Dictator ran into a hurricane a heavy sea broke over her, opening her seams. The Dictator began to fill and Capt. Burke sent all hands to the pumps. For two days and two nights the leaking schooner was tossed about. Capt. Burke had about given up hope when, on the night of No vember 19, he sighted the lights of the Aras. Distress rockets were sent up and Capt. Ryder, of the Aras, bore down upon the schooner. Capt. Burke and his crew finally reached the Aras in the dory, which had been patched with canvas to keep it afloat. Wealthy Woman Killed Herself. New Castle, Pa. Mrs. Jennie Williamson, 27 years old, shot her self through the heart at her home here Wednesday while mentally de ranged. She had been separated from her husband for six months, but a reconciliation was effected just a few hours before the suicide. Mrs. Will iamson was a niece of the late Peter Kimberly, who died some time ago leaving her and her mother a fortune of $500,000. Weston Lowered the Record. Chicago, 111. Twenty-seven hours and 25 minutes were clipped by Edward P. Weston from the record for pedestrianism between Portland, Me., and Chicago established by him 40 years ago when on Wednesday he ended his record trip on foot between the two cities. Weston's actual time exclusive of Sundays 011 the present trip was 24 days, 19 hours and 15 min utes. He Helped Capture Jeff Davis. Dansville, Mich. —Charles E. Pad dock, a veteran of the civil war, died at his' home here Wednesday. He was one of those who helped capture Jeff Davis, president of the Confeder acy, for which he received his share of the reward. An Appalling Record of Fatalities. Milwaukee, Wis. The record of fatalities In the woods of north ern Wisconsin and upper Michigan during the open game and deer sea son of 1907, which clos.s Saturday night, is far greater than during any season for many years. A total of 31 nimrods lost their lives. Three Men Killed by a Train. Pittsburg, Pa. William j. Mc- Clure, his son John and a negro named Reed, all of East Liverpool, 0., were killed Wednesday by being run down by a train while walking on the railroad tracks at Industry, Pa. I WE have the best stocked general store In the county and if you are looking for re liable goods at reasonable prices, we are ready to serve you with the best to be found. Our reputation for trust worthy goods and fair dealing is too well known to sell any but high grade goods. g Our stock of Q,ueensware and Ohinaware is selected with Pj great care and we have some g of the most handsome dishes 8 ever shown in this seotion, |g both in imported and domestio makes. We invite you to visit us and look our goods over. jj 1 I 11 | Balcom & Lloyd. I fSf 'lff *B ** * If**** ** mimrwiriininnni»M w»w* in j?.J LOOK ELSEWHERE BUT DON'T FORGET %i THESE PRICES AND FACTS AT 11 LaBAR'S || ij N -JJ -_ ft? 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