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DEAD MERCHANT
HE, SOMETIMES DRIVES TRADE
.AWAY, FROM THE TOWN.
HINDRANCE TO LIVE MERCHANT
Are as Much to Bo Feared as the
Competition of the Catalogue
Houscb Should Be Awak
ened or Burled.
Why should the homo merchant bo
patronized lnnteatl of tho mull order
Iiouho? Tho subject has been ex
hausted almost and from nil points of
view and all sides thore Is no valid
rcaBon why the merchant at homo
should not excepting two, price and
articles wanted.
"'UjBJiot the Intention of tho writer
to Jot tloVn a pleasant flow of lan
guage or to produce an Interesting bit
of reading matter, but merely to state
In tt few simple sentences" what. I havo
seen and learned of the compotlton be
tween the catalogue houses and tho
homo merchants. In the first c no
ono community suffers greatly In this
competition. That makes tho problem
all the more difficult In solution. I
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When the local editor and the local merchant put their shoulders to the
wheel of local progress the, town will move, Its Industries will thrive, it will
prosper. But remember the editor cannot do It all;; he asks and; must have
the merchant's assistance. .
main by this that' tfio majority of buy
era An no one community purchaso by
$ mall. The huslnessbi: Jhe mall order
'' house 1b scattered' oven, a lareo ton!-
3 tory, the number '-ot, orders com ng
Mlih) the whole ;la. comparatively small
Vlo't'he humbeot pr)lerst In the 'tojm.
Tjhere is ah eNoepflon to this In a com
- nfunlty whero tho home merchants aro
Keead5ones and ask exhprbltant prices.
, J! TqfHugtrato." Xhor'o Is a little, city in'
If Whittle iplaco.lthiitalihadyf streets
and 'jpleasant homes. pIt?JHkal several
general stores owned by Jive, -wide-P
awMkemerchants, who are hustling for
iHwineus,.yet are always pleasant and
ready to Visit with a customor. They
fir are ofc rimt out at'uhV tlmri in nhnw
I woods, taklng'down bolt' after bolt of
' aflve-cent sale. Thoy take that as
Dart of their business: they aro .always
s willing to send post-haste to tlie, city
t.foraBi(aril.clo thoy may .not havo in
stock "ihat Is wanted'Tii'y a customor:
their stocks nro up-to-date and freo
SOME REMARKABLE HORSES.
Wonderful Stories . About 'the Steeds
of Famous Men.
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In his Jotters to Lord Granville, pub
Ilshed bytheJloyal Philosophical so
ciety, who was also greatly interested
In natural history, Smlthson, the
founder of tho Smithsonian institution
in America, relates' how the horse ot
Alexander the Great, Bucephalus,
would at night, on hearing a blast of
the trumpet from the soldlors on guard
showing tho approach of tho enemy,
fun at great speed to his mastor's tent
and with his" teeth grab the sleoplng
monarch and shake him until he sprang
.Into the saddle and galloped toward'
the enemy.
Also that the great Caliph Harqun el
RaBchld in the eight century in march-
' Ing toward tho forces of Queen Irene
'fit Constantinople constantly had a
mumber of trained Arabian horses (dl-
frect descendants ot the famous horse
owned by Ishmael 4,000 years ago)
' thrown forward aa scouts, who from
time to time returned to camp and by
from shelf-worn goods. These men
make tho humblest customers feel wel
come In their stores, and particular at
tention Is paid to waiting on children,
giving them even hotter measure and
quality than their elders would re
ceive. And th'eao men are advertisers.
Their ads In the local pnpers are
changed regulnrly and show time and
study. They meet tho mall order man
more than hnlf way In special sales
and clearing of odds and ends, Hero
Is an Instance whore there la no legi
timate oxcuso for a person Bending
away after goods. And the people do
not. Very few articles of general mer
chandise aro shipped Into that city.
The buyer and sellor aro working In
harmony to their own betterment and
advunlnge.
But look at the other side. Tho city
which we have In mind has one hard
ware and one furniture store. Doth
have fairly good stocks for tho size of
their circle of trade, but Just step Into
either one of these Btores. Tho pro
prietor may be in tho back room or the
back yard for all you know, but by and
by some stir Is heard and leisurely he
makes his appearance neither store
has need of a clerk and probably with
some grumbles about being disturbed,
asks what is wanted. Thore might as
well be placurds in the store announc
ing "Huy what I've got and keep still"
and "Wo aro busy, don't disturb us."
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No effort leT.mudo tcCshow you an arti
cle; nothing Is ever' taken down from
tho shelves uulesa ulrectly asked for.
Neither hardware nor furniture man
nets willing. to get what you want If ho
does not have it in stock. And again
neither ono of these stores believe In
advertising. They use no spacq in
their homo papers; a newcomer would
never know the city pdssessed such
places ofJjysluesB entorprlsq. Who
overrhenrd of a.cpuntry, hardwaro or
furniture B'tore 'having "a sneclal sale.
orlharveBUsalotofjtluBillke But why
iwu i hubo two HioreKeepcrs are ult'
tor against tho mall order houses.
wohder why? I talked with th mil
road' agents In that little city and he
Bald lots of hardwaro and furnitui
was shipped In. Ho said. "Ono dav
made out an express order for $34 to
pay for' a bill of hardware I told tho
man to go up and see If the merchant
couldn't nil the order. Ho -went but
soon came back, savlnc that, 'im iiiiin
havo half of the stuff on hand and that
ho wouldn't cut a- bit on what he did
have.' "
a peculiar whinny and nolgli reported
tho proximity of tho enemy.
But, to conio down to tho presout
day, It is related by a retired Now
England clergyman, whoso sands of
life hnd nearly run out, that ono day
on leading his horse down through a
lane to a brook for a drink tho animal
suddenly halted and, turning its head
round, grabbed up with Its teeth ono of
Its hind shoes which had just dropped
off, and, holding it in its mouth with
tho nails dangling, It backed up against
a stono wall and clnpped It onto Its
hoof and with a few violent kicks
nailed it on again.
Philanthropy, Did. Not Pay.
'It requires a vast; deal of courage
and; charity to be philanthropic," Sir
ThoraaB Llpton was saying tho other
duy, apropos of ono of Andrew Car
negie's book bounties. "I remember
when I was Btartlng in business. I
was very poor and making evory sac
rifice to enlarge my little shop. My
only assistant was a boy of 14, faith
ful and willing and honest. Ono day
I heard him complaining, and with Jus
tice, that hie clothes were go shabby
Column after column has been writ
ten deploring tho fact that tho buyer
spends hor or his money away from
home, that she or he is helping to build
up tho mall order house to the detri
ment of tho home merchant. The sen
timent Is good nnd tho causo Is worthy
of tho efforts being made to stop this
undertow; but no amount of writing,
and no amount of homo patriotism will
ever overcomo the bad effects of the
dead merchnnt.in the littlo town. Tho
truth can bo plainly scon.
Let us turn back to tho general
stores and look up the proprietor of
any one. He probably will be found
busy waiting on a customer, but If not
ho Will tell you that It Is not the cata
logues alone that he fears, but also
that It is tho lethargy of these two
dealers. Thoy are helping to drive
away trade from homo.
I have wandorcd from the subject
and gotten over on the buyers side
of the fence; but Isn't it well at times
to look at the other Bide of this pitiable
story ? I started to write a few lines on
"Why People Should Trade at Homo,"
and have gotten into tho field of "Why
the Home Merchant Should Induce
People to Trade nt Home." If may be
fair to the little town to once in a
while thj-ow a few shovels full of earth
on the dead merchant, lest he stinketh
and polluteth the rest.
EDWARD T. HALE.
All Cutting Sawing.
Knives, no . matter how carefully
sharpened, aro littlo saws; the grind
ing away of tho steel, done by the
stono, is not an even work, but when
the edgo gets' thin Is a process of tear
ing away tiny hits of steel by the grit
of tho Btone. This tearing makes tho
teeth. A fine stone makes fine1 teeth,
a coarse stone coarse teeth. A carving
knife, used on meat, Is sharpened on a
coarso ston,e or a steol, and has coarse
teeth, although Its edge is thick. Its
action in parting tho meat is more that
of a saw than a fine wedge. No mat-
tor how soft It may bo, it will not
cut easily unless It is drawn over tho
meat and not simply pressed down.
A razor, however, with its paper-llko
edge, will cut Into flesh with a simple
pressure It is a wedge dividing the
libers of flesh Just as a wedgo of Iron
divides the fibers of the log It Bplits.
But a razor is a saw, too, only as it is
ground on the finest stones and later
finished with a leather strop, Its' teeth
aro very fine Indeed hundreds and
hundreds to the inch of blade. St.
Nicholas.
Indian Philosophy. -
The other 'day Elsie, the oldest liv
ing Tonknwa Indian, was making some
purchases in ond' of . our hardwaro
stores, and the enterprising salesman
called her attention to a washing ma
chine which he said would make "Blue
Monday" a day of pleasure. Old Elsie
admired the gaily painted machine,
but when she was made to understand
for what purpose It was Intended she
sniffed the air In contempt. "Me no
wash. Pale face wash, wash all time
wash. WaBh Monday, Monday, Mon
day, heap wash. Indian no wash; all
time dirty. Pale" faco wash; all time
dirty, too." Tonknwa (Okla.) News.
At the Play.
A young man 'was arrested In a Man
hattan theater recently becauso ho
laughed at a part of tho play where
excuse for mirth was supposed to be
entirely absent, sayB the Brooklyn
Eagle. He was '.convicted and fined,
but we trust hlsjcase can be carried
higher up, on appeal! It would be a
Joy to havo a definite and decisive
ruling as to tho public display of tho
Individual sense of. humor. If to laugh
when others would be Bllent bo a mis
demeanor under the law, how would it
do to jail and fine. some of the "paper"
claque who applaud' a dull play that
other auditors desire to damn?
Honest In Face ot Temptation.
Littlo Ethel had just returned from
church and whispered to her mother
in great confidence: "Deacon Brew
ster passed the money, but I didn't
take any." .
that ho was aBhamed to go to chapel.
'There's no chance of my getting a
now suit this year,' he told me. 'Dad's
out of work, and it tnkes all of my
wages to pay the rent.' I thought tho
matter over and then took a sovereign
from my carefully hoarded savlncs
and bought the boj a stout warm suit
of blue cloth. He was so grateful that
I felt repaid for my sacrlfico. But the
next day he didn't come to work.
met his mother in the stroot and
asked her tho reason. 'Why. Mr. Lin
ton,' she said, courtseylng, 'Jimmie
iookb so respectable, thanks to von
sir, that I thought I would send him
around town to-day to see if he
couldn't got a bettor Job.' "
The Actor's Complaint.
The physician looked grave.
"I give you," he Baid, "but ten more
years of work."
"Grinding his teeth, the actor hissed
malovolently:
"Curse you, why didn't you tell me
this before? Are you aware that you
have robbed me ot at .least seven fare
well soHsons?"
Childhood and Edu
cation of Moses
Sunday School Lesson lor May 26, 1907
Specially Prepared for This Paper.
LESSON TEXT.Exo.lU8 2:1-15. Mem
ory vrracH, U, 10.
GOLDEN TEXT.-"Most3 was learned
In all the wisdom of tlie Egyptians, and
was mlKlity in words and deeds." Acts
7:J2.
TIME. Moses was born probabfy dur
ing the roltrn of nnmesos II., which last
ed (!" years, llamcses dying at the ago
of nearly 100. Sayco gives as the limit
of IiIh reign H. C. 1318-1281; Driver, 121B
1208; Breasted, 12D2-122.?. According to tho
common chronology, Moses was born B.
C. 1B7I, and our lesson, covering the first
10 years of his life, would extend to 1531.
PLACE Moses was born at the capital
of Egypt, which at that time was either
Memphis, nearly whero modern Cairo la,
or Tunis (Zoan), In the eastern part of
thu Nile delta.
Comment and Suggestive Talk.
The Working of God's Plans. See
what factors entered Into this preser
vation of the world's greatest man.
There was (1) a humble slave family;
(2) a little basket of bulrushes; (3)
a little girl; (4) a baby's tears; (5)
Pharaoh's own daughter; (6) the
child's own mother; 1) a royal court.
11 of these were brought together
al just Hie right time, In Just the right
Way. "This lesson Is one of the best
illustrations of a perfect combination
of the best co-working of human effort
and divine providences."
The Court Life of Moses. "The fa
vor of the king's only daughter and
presumptive heir made his life in
these early years one long, unclouded
summer morning, for all that wealth
and power sould command were at his
service." Gelkle. "He would live
chiefly in the apartments of his moth
er, which would probably be a portion
of the royal residence, and would be
furnished with evory luxury." Raw
llnson. Yet life at Pharaoh's court,
"amid all its attractions and advant
ages, must have had some drawbacks.
Egyptian youths and Egyptian court
iers could not be altogether cordial
to the Hebrew boy, who, as the grand
son of Pharaoh, enjoyed so exalted a
position, and received such eminent
attention." Blalkle.
The School Life of Moses. Egypt
then had two great universities, at
Heliopolls and Hermopolis, and Moses
Is said to have studied in the former,
which was situated about 20 miles
north of Memphis. It was "the Ox
ford of Ancient Egypt," as Alexandria
Was in later times. Herodotus went
thither to gather information for his
travels, and Plato studied there for
13 years. "Shady cloisters openod In
to lecture rooms for the students, and
quiet houses for the professors and
priests, In their' nlany grades and of
fices; there being room for all in the
corridors of the huge pile." Gelkle.
A splendid library would be at his dis
posal.' The library of the Rameseum
at Thebes a structure built by Ramo
ses II. contained 20,000 books.
The 'studies of the young man would
Include the two forms or difficult
Egyptian writing, arithmetic, geomet
ry, trigonometry to some extent, as
tronomy, music, both vocal and Instru
mental, painting and architecture,
medicine and chemistry, history and
law, poetry and other branches of lit
erature, and especially theology, ox-
tending to Its highest form, "tho phil
osophy of symbolism," in which the
Egyptian religion, gross as it was,
came nearest to tho Hebrew. As a
member of tho royal family, Moses
was no doubt received into the priest
ly ca3te, and knew all their' secret
lore.
The Military Life of Moses. Steph
en tells us (Acts 7:22) that Moses
was "mighty in words and In deeds."
The words "may have meant' such
power of composition an appears in
the hymn by tho Red sea, and In the
magnificent valediction to his people."
Expositor's Rible. As to the deeds,
after completing his university course,
Moses might have become a hanger-on
at the court, or obtained some civil ap
pointment and sought to climb the of
ficial ladder, or entered the literary
life, or devoted himself to the priest
hood, or becomo a soldier. The tra
dition that ho chose the last-named
calling Is In accordance with the prob
abilities, and explains his great mili
tary ability "displayed In the exodus
and afterwards.
The Patriot's First Attempt It was
natural that Moses' first attempt at
aiding his poople should be a blunder.
Even the greatest men make mistakes,
and prove their grentness by their
ability to learn from their mistakes.
The Patriot's Second Attempt. "To
smite tho oppressor waa not enough.
Mqsob must unite and discipline tho
oppressed. And this was his next ef
fort." Hanna. "Tho treatment ho re
ceived from tho Hebrews ho sought to
aid showed that thoy were by no
means ripe for freedom or national
ity." Townsend.
Lessons In Patience. Ex. 2:16-25.
Moses remained in Mldian for the sec
ond of the three 40-year periods into
which his life is divided.
Pretty Epigram. 'J
A charming epigram adorned an ad
dress that Mrs. J. C. Phelps Stokes
made on her last. visit to Detroit. She
waa rejoicing over the fact that in
tho alums woman, no matter how
wretched her case, kept her speech
pure, as a rule, of profanity.
"An oath from a woman s Hps, sne
ended, "Is" unnatural and.ylncredlble.
I would as soon expect a bullet from
a rosebud."
Journalistic Difficulties.'
Since Its reappearance. In Belgrade
ten days ago tho Journal Otatsblna
has been confiscated four times. Its
editor, Capt. Novokavitch, has been
sentenced to a month's Imprisonment';
the printers have been locked up -on
various charges, and the office boy ex
pelled to Zemlln. In spite of these
little difficulties the paper continues
to appear daily. London Standard.
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