TRADE AT HOME
Why Farmer Should Give
His Support to the
Local Merchant.
k ^RESERVES HIS OWN MARKET
Depreciation of Village Property
Must Inevitably Mean Deprecia
tion of Agricultural Property
and Encouragement of
Monopoly.
(Copyright, 1006, by Alfred C. Clark.)
The most serious problem tnat con
fronts the rural towns and villages
■ of this country is the competition of
fered local enterprises by the cata
logue houses of the large cities. It is
■j» Problem for which a solution must
Ibe found if the prosperity and sta
bility of the nation is to stand.
And the solution of this great prob
lem lies in the ham' i of the people of
<he towns and villages and the farms,
especially the farms.
The people of the rural communities
lave everything to lose and nothing
K&in by Bending their money to
jlhe catalogue houses, by passing by
their lecal merchants and sending
jtheir dollars to the concerns who have
^absolutely no interest in their com
jmunities.
These catalogue houses do not pay
itaxes in your town; the local mer
chant does. They do not build side
walks in your town; the local mer
chant does. They do not contribute
,to the building of roads over which
■the crops of the farms are hauled to !
market; the local merchant does. I
[They do not help to build school j
jhouses for your children; the local
.merchant does. They do hot assist in
;tlie support of your churches; the
[local merchant does.
But there are some things the cata- :
logue houses do for you and the
first and greatest of these is to assist
materially in bankrupting your com
fmunity. The dollars they take away :
[never come back to you. They will
!never help to make a city of your vil
lage. They will never increase the
value of your real-estate holdings by
making local improvements.
Let us look at the subject from the
standpoint of the farmer, for it is the
farmer who is the greatest patron of
khe catalogue houses.
The town or village one, two or !
three miles from his home is his mar- |
fket for the butter and eggs and other
[produce of his farm. The half dozen !
[or more merchants of the town, each
anxious to obtain his full share of the j
business of the community, maintain
ia competition that affords to the
farmer at nil times too nrices for the
Do not
buy old-fashioned, odd-look
ing shoes, even if they are
strong and durable; nor con
spicuous, loudly stylish shoes,
because they are worn by the
many.
The “good." sig,n. in
shoes is
This mark guarantees correct
taste and style.
True style is that at
tractive difference
which distinguishes
Manss “Urfit” Shoes
from all other shoes,
along with comfort, durability and
the patent “ Urfit,” which supports
the ankle, holds up the sides, pre
vents heel slipping and shoe twist
ing.
GRIFFITH & MORROW.
Give your town a chance by patronizing your local merchants
may confidently expect its growth in business and population and a
teal estate valuation. Send your money to the catalogue houses and
look for the reverse. The picture tells the story of the possibilities
and you
raise in
you may
products of his farm. It is these half
dozen merchants that make farm
profits possible; the profits are in no
way due to the catalogue houses of
the cities.
But the farmer persists in sending
his dollars to the city. He wants a
buggy, or a set of harness, or a pair
of stockings, or any of the necessities
or luxuries of life, and to get them he
takes out his mail order catalogue and
looks at the finely printed cuts, reads
the well written description, and, pass
ing the local merchant by, the mer
chant who has purchased his produce
at the best market prices, the mer
chant who has helped to build the
community, he sends his dollars to
the catalogue house in the city and
takes what they choose to send him.
What is the result?
One alter another the doors of the
local stores are closed, and where at
one time there were half a dozen mer
chants, each bidding for his share of
patronage by offering fair prices for
that which the farmer had to sell,
there is now but one merchant who
has a monopoly, not only of the sell
ing, but of the buying as well, and he
pays what he pleases for the farmer’s
produce.
The farmer can continue to send his
money to the catalogue house in the
city for his supplies, but he cannot
send his produce to the same place
In disposing of that he is absolutely
dependent upon his local merchant,
and by his patronage of the catalogue
houses he lias killed competition, and
must now take whatever is offered for
what lie has to sell.
Mr. Farmer, are you helping to kill
the goose that is laying your golden
sgg?
Are you sending your dollars to the
catalogue houses and by so doing kill
ing the local industries of your town?
Are you putting your merchants out
of business, and creating a monopoly
that will pay you what it pleases for
the products of your farm?
If you are doing these things it is
time for you to stop and consider the
future. You will have to look but a
little way ahead to see the result, and
it will not be an attractive picture that
greets you. The prosperous com
munity of which you are now a part
will fade like the summer flowers be
rore the winter winds, and almost as
quickly.
It is the fact that there is a market
within close proximity to your farm
that makes your acres valuable. The
men who maintain this local market
for you are the men who cause the
railroad trains to stop at your town.
Take them away and soon the town
will be wiped off the map. The
churches will close for lack of support.
The schools will cease to be a pride,
If vou haven’t a regular, healthy movement of tho
bowels everyday, you’re ill or will be. Keep your
bowels open, a,1 d bo well. Force, in the shupo of
violent physic or pill poison, is dangerous. T'he
smoothest, easiest, most perfect wuy of keeping
the bowels clear and clean is to take
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KEEP YOUR BLOOD CLEAN
and your sons and daughters will lack
the opportunity that is theirs by right
of birth, and your acres, that are now
valuable because they lie in close
proximity to a market, will show a
depreciation that will astonish you.
Your interests are identical with
those of the pierchants of your town.
By sending your dollars to the city
you may cause the merchants to close
their establishments, but when they
are forced to this they can pack their
stock of goods and go elsewhere, but
you cannot pack up your farm and
move it; your acres must lie in the
bed you have builded for them whether
it be fair or foul, and it is “up to you,”
Mr. Farmer, to spend your money at
home, and in this way you can solve
the greatest problem that now con
fronts this country.
Will you do it?
YANKEE IN DIAMOND FIELDS.
Commissions to Study a Country
Which Produces Such Men.
Mr. Alfred Mosely is an Englishman
j who admires American ways so much
'that he sends commissions here to
| study us.
Mr. Mosely does not admire ' us
without a reason. It is not a very
specific reason. Its name is Mr. Gard
ner F. Williams, and it is by way of
being an American mining engineer.
Mr. Williams directs the diamond out
put of the world.
Mr. Mosely made his fortune in
South Africa. He watched Cecil
Rhodes' dream of empire develop and
knew the men who made it real. The
one who took his imagination was
Gardner Williams.
Here was a man who had left
Michigan at the age of 15 to go with
a pioneering father to California in
the flush days oi the early mining
camps, had had a taste of California
mining, had gone when still a young
man to explore in South Africa and |
had become a general manager of the
great monopoly' of the diamond
mines.
A fighter of financial battles and a
manager of men, a writer, a scientist
and one of the world's greatest en
gineers, he so stamped his personali
ty on the people among whom he
lived that he was feted and cheered
by .all South Africa when he retired
last spring and came back to the
United States to build a home for his
leisure years in the land of his birth.
—World's Work.
Keep Your Money at Home.
Don send money to mail order
houses to deposit. Your home bank
is the only safe place to keep it and
will pay you as good interest as can
he had, and then you run no risk as
in such cases as ’.he “Cash Buyer’s
Union” failure. The home bank will
grant you favors and mail ordes
houses never do.
Character in Eyebrows.
Heavy eyebrows, close to the eyes
and forming a mass near the nose,
show a violent temper, and usually an
overbearing manner; while thin eye
brows, running up from the eye, de
note an inquiring nature, and usually
a certain amount of conceit. Eye
brows that are of uneven thickness
show good thinking powers.
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Boxes filled with sodium acetate are
used in French railway cars as heat
producers to keep passengers’ feet
warm. The salt is put in boxes in the
solid state and liquified by placing the
boxes in hot water. During the five
or six hours it takes to solidify the
salt continues to give out heat.
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and has been made under his per
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- * Allow no one to deceive you in this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and “ Just-as-good ” are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment.
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UNCLE BY
The Bird.
Behind his prison bars lie sang
A song that touched my heart,
A song of thankfulness and peace,
A song of wond’rous art.
Behind the iron bars his throat
Throbbed wild with joy of him;
Ebbed to and fro, despite his Fate
"Within a prison grim.
No sky, no stream, no bud, no rose,
Xo grand, inspiring world—
And yet all day his mellow yoiee
In trilling gladness purled!
And 1—as free to come and go
As vagrant breezes stirred—
I sit in moody silence here
In envy of the bird.
All. you—Yes, YOU: My inner self—
Bow low and plead thee long,
Until thy praying teacdies thee
The wisdom of a song!
Remember To-day Tha
The best way to make people
remember you for your good
deeds is to keep on doing them.
Harp Strums.
The man who hires the fiddler
doesn't always pay him.
He who observes conceitedly, often
misjudges.
When the superintendent is gone,
the assistant is a wise gazabo.
When the moon is full, it. begins to
grow smaller gradually, but when a
man is full and his wife gets him by
the ear, he makes the moon's meta
morphosis look like a snail's race to
the North Pole.
The higher the man who goes wrong,
the further he must drop to the dregs.
Smoke does not come from a tire
less chimney, but smoke is not scan
dal.
A Korean maxim declares that fam
ily must be rich which, for ten years,
has had no sickness. Ever know of
such a family?
A Boston girl is so modest she
won't wear lfwced shoes because they
have eyes for the laces.
Why should a woman who can
make her own living, marry a man
who can’t make it for her?
A college education seldom lifts a
drain from a rich father’s pocket
book.
If a girl takes too much of a young
man's time, he should marry her.
A young woman who is about to
marry a young man should believe
him when he tells her she is the only
girl he ever loved. The other girls
did.
rl he difference between auburn hair
and red hair is about $:J0,000.
A woman knows that, her husband
could run the country better than the
senators—and usually she is right.
Farmers’ Union official receipt
books at The Journal office.
City Directory.
MUNICIPAL OFFICERS
Mayor, M. L. Arnold,
Recorder, E. W. Madness,*'
Treasurer, O. F. Craig,
Marshal, Walter Pascoe,"
Aldermen:- F. C. Hoyt, R. B. Ath
ams, T. H. Bearing, C. M. Edwards
1 and W. C. Mi ins.
Council meets first Monday night in
each month.
CHURCHES
Methodist church, services at 11, a.
m and 7:30 p. m. the second and fourth.
Sunday in each month. Rev. Jas. F.
Jernigan, pastor.
Baptist church, services at 3 p. m.
Saturday before first Sunday, and 11
a. m. first Sunday in each month.
Rev. W. P. Jackson, pastor.
Christian church, services first and
third Sundays in each month at 11 a.
m. and 7:30 p. m. Rev. J. IT. McDon
iel, Pastor.
FRATERNITIES
Pannelly Chapter R. A. M. meets
third Saturday night. I. C. Nuckolls,
E. II. P.; T. II. Bearing, Sec.
Newark Lodge F. & A. M. No. 248
I meets second Saturday night. F. C.
! Hoyt, W. M.: J. T. Tharp, Sec.
Newark Camp W.O.W. No. 288 meets
second and fourth Tuesday nights in
month. E. W. Magness, C. C.; O. F.
Craig, Clerk.
Newark Grove W. C. No. 87 meets
first and third Tuesday nights. Mrs-.
1C. M. Edwards, Guardian; N. A.
| Speed, Clerk.
! Newark Lodge I. O. O. F. No. 263
| meets the first and third Wednesday
nights. R. M. Galloway, N.G ;T. M.
Harrelson, Secretary.
Banner Rebekah Lodge No. 15
meets every Saturday afternoon at 3
o’clock. Mrs. T. J. Raney, N. G.; Miss
Lucy Lawton, seeretary.
Independence Lodge No. 2370 K. &
L. of H. meets first and tnird Monday
nights in each month. E. M. Edgar,
Protector; Zed Griffith, Secretary.
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Louisa, Va., says: ‘*1 ran a nail
in my foot last week and at once
applied Bucklin’s Arnica Salve.
Xo inflammation followed: the
salve simply healed the wound.*”
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The Journal office.