COMMERCIAL CLUBS
CAN EE MADE IMPORTANT FAC
TORS IN TOWN BUILDING.
BEST FIELD FOR THEIR WORK
Their Efforts Should Ee Put Forth to
Keep the Dollars in the Home
Town—Protecting Busi
ness Interests.
During 11i<> past few years there has
been mure than ordinary activity in
the organization of so-called commer
cial clubs, business men's leagues and
similar associations in the agricultural
sections of the country. Some had
mushroom growth, and like some flow
ers, bloomed and blossomed, withered
and decayed in an hour. Others strug
gled along indifferently and succeeded
in spending much of the people's
money without assisting the town to
greatness, while a very few succeeded
in doing things that were of benefit
to the community.
There is little use in trying to make
a suit of clothes for a man out of a
pattern of cloth that has only suffi
cient goods for a child’s suit. There
is little use in trying to build un a
great town in a locality where there is
not the material to sustain it, and
where there are only resources for the
support of a hamlet. Towns of im
portance exist only where there are
certain natural advantages, resources
that can ho utilized in manufacturing,
territory sufliciently large to command
extensive trade, or some other favor
able condition. In the west manufac
turing must by the economy of things
he confined to such lines as can be
advantageously produced. In manufac
turing there are many factors. There
must be considered the cost of fuel, 1
the raw material, the labor and highly ,
important are the transportation facil- ;
ities.
One of the noticeable things about 1
commercial c tibs is the optimistic ;
tendencies of their members. Business
men of a strictly agricultural town will
form an association. Perhaps the j
leaders are interested in the real es- |
tate business. They want the town to
boom. Some of them may have a few
acres of land worthless unless for a
“factory" site. Meetings are held,
plans are made for the bringing in of
some manufacturing plant that per
luips may give employment to half a
dozen or a dozen hands. Correspond
ence is started with a view of getting 1
some outsider interested. The right ]
man. apparently, makes his appear
ance. lie wants a bonus of a few
thousand dollars. Ilis proposition is
seriously considered. The subscription
paper is passed around, the amount
secured, and the real estate man sells
his "factory” site at a good price. The
factory is started. It runs about a
year and there is a vacant factory
building for rent, or for sale. How
many towns in the southwest have had
'this experience?
Even had the enterprise been a suc
cess, it remains that there is a field
more productive of good for the town
that the “club" overlooked. Say that a
factory be started in a small town. It
may give employment to a dozen men.
The pay roll amounts to $30 a day. The
output of the concern may reach a
total of from $25,000 to $35,000 a year. 1
“Every little helns." and all other
tilings in harmony this adds to the
importance of the place. But let us
do a iittle “estimating.” Suppose that
there Is about the town a territory of
150 square ti des. Suppose that each
square mile represents four families
farmers’ families. This would make
<>00 families who should do their trad
ing in the town. The reports of the
bureau of statistics ol the United
i? fates department of labor and com
merce. assures us that the average ex
penditure of i he farmer each year for
all the supplies he requires in the way I
of agricultural machinery, carriages,
wagons, clothing, and food, is $027.
Careful estimates of the amount of the
farmers’ trade that goes to the mail
order house and is in other ways di
verted from his home town, shows that
it is more than 25 per cent, of all he
spends. Thus we find that from the
territory of the town there is annually
diverted in trade the nice sum of more
than $7d,000. This amount goes from
the town, ceases to be a factor in its
upbuilding, it means that every day
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The Village Blacksmith
Ts the man who lias the he mis of the
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Fruit trees, vines and shrubbery
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Newark, . . Arkansas
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You Owe It
to your own
com ui unity
to buv > our
(food* from your home merchant aud mand bv
n«r business men. You can always find the
.'unovjr cement* of representative business men
in these columns men who will stand back of
every statement and price they make.
the town loses about $132 in trade.
Now would it not be much better if
the commercial club took up the mat
ter of devising means of protecting the
business interests of the enterprises in
the mercantile lines already estab
lished, than to bring in a new enter
prise of uncertain success? Is not the
trade of the farmers and the people of
the town equally as beneficial as the
wages paid to the few men that the
factory might employ? Does not $79,
000 in trade more than equal the out
put and the general accruing to the
wealth of the town by the' factory?
It is evident that there is a wide
field for commercial club effort in the
keeping in the town the dollars that
are earned and devising means of pro
tecting trade.
Courage in Daily L.:fe.
Bravery helps to make a nation
sate. A nation of cowards, however
prosperous, cannot be a great nation.
Men and women who dare fling them
selves against great odds for the sake
of their convictions; who do not
shrink from crying out against any
evil that may menace the purity of
the government; who will, if need be.
sever all political, social and financial
ties for love of country—these are the
heroes to which a nation resorts in
her hour of need.
Searchlights at Niagara.
Effective use has been made from
time to time of searchlights at Ni
agara foi illuminating the gorge, etc.
Citizens of Niagara Falls now propose
to make a regular installation for the
purpose, and an illuminating expert
is giving his attention to the sub
ject. At night Niagara is not seen
except under moonlight, and it is be
lieved that some very beautiful effects
can he obtained by throwing artificial
daylight on the scene, with color
transitions. »
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The effect of malaria lasts a long time.
You catch cold easily or become run
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DR. OSLER OBJECTS TO SOUP.
According to Him Most Harmful Ar
ticle of Diet.
Dr. William Osier, to whom is ac
credited the oft repeated and oft de
nied assertion that people should be j
chloroformed after becoming HO years
old. is bitterly opposed to the drink
ing of soup, according to the state- ,
nients of a New York merchant.
“My wife was a wreck from nerv- ;
otts dyspepsia,” said the merchant.
“Several prominent physicians in New
York had treated her without success,
and finally I was advised to take her
to Baltimore to see Dr. Osier. He
inquired carefully about her habits,
and particularly her diet. We de- j
scribed it without going into details,
but this did no* satisfy the great phy
| sician.
“ ‘Tell me what you had for dinner,
describing the nature of the courses,
their number, and so on,’ he in
sisted.
“‘Well, we usually start with some
good, nourishing soup,’ 1 began.
“ ‘Stop right there,’ interruptetd Dr.
Osier. ‘Soup must go. There is a pop
ular fallacy that soup is nourishing.
That is a mistake. It is one of the
most harmful things one can eat.
It is worse than lobster. Of course
there are times when a simple beef
or mutton broth is not to be con
demned, but as a rule soup is positive
ly dangerous. It dilutes the gastric
juices and it ferments too rapidly to
permit it to be easily digested. It
is the greatest cause of dyspepsia and
nervous disorders. Vegetable soup
should be thrown into the garbage
pail, where it belongs, instead of be
ing poured into a delicate stomach.
Half the nervous wrecks among soci
ety folk who live well are caused by
eating soup.’ ”
TRANSFERS AS WEDDING FEE.
Peculiar Emolument Offered to City
Pastor.
The pastor of a little Lutheran
church up town was called upon the
other day to perform a hurried wed
ding ceremony, says the New York
Press. As the couple left the bride- ;
groom thrust a fat envelope into the
clergyman’s hands. The grateful
smile that immediately overspread
the clergyman's face gave place to a
! look of chagrin when later the en- j
velope was found to contain a roll
of green street car transfers.
“Why don't you have a regular fee,
say two or three dollars, and collect |
it in advance?” asked a friend to
whom he indignantly told the story.
"Because,” explained the minister,
“even though a mean trick like this !
is sometimes played on me, I come j
out better in the long run by leaving ■
it to the other’s generosity. My peo- j
pie being mostly poor, they generally ;
give me one or two dollars; but an j
occasional $10 or $20 pulls up the
average. And once, the year of the
Pan-American fair, an actor who came
in here to be married, said he could
give me nothing but a pass to Buffalo
and the fair. I gladly accepted, and
that is the only outing my wife and
I have had for years.”
Lindy’s Select Patronage.
It was during the time of the Span
ish-American war. An officer of a
Massachusetts regiment, carrying
under his arm a bundle of soiled lin
en. called at the home of a colored
woman living on the outskirts of
Jacksonville, who had made quite a
reputation for good laundry work
among the soldiers.
'Hoes yo' berlong t’ de Fif
Maitland?” I.indy was asked.
"No.”
To de Hund'ed-an-fifty-fif’ Indee
any?"
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Tir'd Penirsellvany?”
No.'
'Twen'v-second Ohio?”
‘No!”
“Wale, yo' all clar outen here; I’se
kep' private wash-lady by dose fof
regiments! ”
Caught Mother, Too.
A little girl went with her mother
to see a baptizing which was being 1
conducted at a lake a short distance ]
from her home. She watched with '
great interest while the men cut a !
long hole in the ice, it being winter, '
and when the preacher took one of 1
the candidates for baptism by the arm
and led him down into the water and
1 immersed him, the little watcher,
thinking, no doubt, that they were all
to be treated in like manner, turned
and fled to the house. A short time
i after that her mother, who had been
! baptized, came up to the house drip
ping wet and was astonished by the
; following from the little one:
"Well, mamma, they caught you, |
didn't t hey ?"—,1 udge.
Metals in Sea Water.
The world's oceans hold in solution
at least 2,000,000 tons of silver. There
is also much copper and a little gold
in sea watei.
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