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that. And the small saving he is able
to make by large purchases is more
than offset by his larger expenses.
These expenses must come out of the
purchaser SO the mail order man is
compelled to make larger profit than
the local dealer. 1t costs him more to
market his goods. He must maintain
large and expensive Office force and
he must advertise. AS an example
of what the mail order man expects
to make out of his customers, letter
written by prominent mail order
man might be quoted. Writing to a
magazine he said: advertising in
your publication cost us II cents an
inquiry and we made sales at a cost
of only Sc cents each for advertising.
This is about half of our regular cost"
This man was selling "a complete out
fit of clothes for $685." He was will
ing to pay a dollar for each sale the
advertising brought him. Ask your
local dealer how long he could keep
the sheriff away from his doors if he
took dollar out of every ten dollar
sale.
You can't buy the same class of
goods any cheaper from the catalogue
houses than from the local dealer,
though one may think he can after
reading the catalogues. The differ
ence comes in the quality of the goods.
There is a particular class of goods
known as mail order goods" This
trade term is applied to cheap but
snowy goods and novelties which can
be sold at a large profit. 1t means
much the same thing as street fakir
goods" and, as is the case with street
fakir goods, mail order goods are not
handled by the regular jobbers and
wholesalers. They cannot afford to
handle them because their customers
want better merchandise. The street
fakir duplicates, in appearance, the
jewelry carried by first class jew
elry house and makes large profits.
The catalogue merchant does the
same thing but does it on larger
scale and much more cleverly.
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COUNTY CORRESPOND
DANCY.

DANCY.
Mrs. Frank Sell, of Moon, visited
friends in Dancy day recently.
Mrs NJ H. Altenburg visited over
Sunday with her sister Mrs. Henry
Kronenwetter in the town OF Kronen-
wetter.
Miss Ellie Marched spent the past
week at junction City doing dress
making.
Miss Evelyn l.. Knoller visited Wau-
sau friends couple of days the past
week, aud while there attended the
dramatization of the novel, IF Were
King" by Mrs Bertha Kunz-Baker, of
New York-which was given in the
opera house under the auspices of the
7. M. G. A. Mrs. Bakers work in this
line is considered marvellous.
Messrs G. r. Treat, of Meadow Val
ley, and II. r. Dougherty of Denver,
Colorado, were in this village a couple
of days the past week in the interests
OF the Dancy drainage district and were
guests at the home of G G.. Knoller.
Mr.. Treat is civil engineer of much
ability-and has under his directions
the engineering of different drainage
districts on which active work has be-
gun-in the country lying south from
Grand Rapids.
Leo. Helm, of Stevens Point, visited
over Sunday in this village with his
brother Eugene.
The many friends of Colon Parrish
throughout this locality will be sorry
to hear of his death which occurred a
few days ago in New Mexico from
tuberculosis. Colon was son of John
Parrish, of Grand Rapids, and was here
attending to his fathers numbering in
terests las one of the Grand Rapids
Lumber Company several times, and
was avery bright and promising young
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All of these cost him rs cents. He
was not experienced at putting spring
wagons together and he didn't do a
very good Job of it, for one of the
seats refused to sit in the right place
and he had to get local blacksmith
to help him fix it. This cost him
another half dollar and delayed him
so much that he and the boy had to
go to the hotel for their dinners; an
additional expense of 70 cents. So
before he got his team hitched to the
wagon II cost him 1880, allowing him
a saving of $1.10, which was very
stingy pay for the time he had lost.
OF the amount he spent for the wagon,
only $1.95 remained in Boone county.
The railroads and the mail order
house got the rest of it.
In the meantime his neighbor, Mr..
Jones, bought the SIS wagon from the
local dealer, who made a profit of
SIC on the sale. AS the vehicle was
already assembled and there were no
extra parts or tools to buy, the amount
the cost to Mr.. Jones. The dealer
spent the SIC profit for new sign on
his building; the sign painter hired a
carpenter to repair the roof on his
house; the carpenter paid his bill at
the butchers and the butcher bought
a hog from Mr.. Jones. And so the
SIG kept going in the county until a
farmer with the mail order habit got
hold of It, He sent it to Chicago and
it never came back.
But this wasn't the last of the two
purchases. A few weeks after the
two wagons were bought, Mr.. Browns
boy ard Mr.. Jones boy, driving the
new vehicles, met on the country road.
They drove too close to each other
and a smash-up resulted. The weak
est part of each wagon gave way; an
axle on the mail order product was
broken and a doubletree on the other
was smashed. Both breaks were plain
" because of defective construction.
Mr.. Jones took his broken doubletree
to town the next day and the dealer
gave him a new one. Mr.. Brown at
tempted to explain to the Chicago firm
that the axle would not have broken
if it had not been defective and
coupled this explanation with a re-
quest for new part, but after several
weeks of correspondence with the
piece as far away as at the begin
ming. he gave it up and bought the
axle himself This experience told
Mr.. Brown why he should trade with
home merchants instead of patroniz-
ing the mail order houses.
In Boone county and in every other
county there are many who send thou
sands of dollars out of the county
every year. without ever considering
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the fact that they are making their
community poorer, reducing the per
capita of wealth, and dwarfing local
business, only to enrich concern al
ready rich enough to buy several
counties. An extra thousand dollars
in any community will mean, during
the year. many thousands of dollars in
business transacted and increased in
come for practically every one in the
community. Often tie amount sent
to the mail order houses is more than
enough to turn the balance the other
way and business depression exists
where prosperity would prevail under
normal conditions. Even if the cOun-
try purchaser was able to save snug
sum by ordering his supplies from a
mail order house, the loss to the COM
munity would be greater than the gain
for himself. 1t is needless to point
out that as the amount of the mail or
der business from any community in
creases the amount of loss to the COM
munity also increases, until 1t is only
a question of time until the individual
loss caused by the general depression
of business will exceed the individual
saving.
In fact if everyone in the commun-
ity bought from the mail order houses,
local markets would disappear and
the farmer would be compelled to sell
as well as buy from the catalogue
concerns. The rural districts would
be devoid of business activity while
the wealth of the country would be
centered in one or two points. Buy
ing by mail may be attractive, but the
most pronounced mail order fiend
must look with apprehension on any
condition whereby he would be COM
PEELED to depned on the mail order
man for market for his products.
But the idea of saving On individual
purchases is, to great extent, a
fallacy. In spite of his boosted ability
to buy in large quantities, he is not
able to buy for much less than the
country merchant. Competition in all
manufactured products is too keen for
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GOING EAST.

A man who has done much to build
up the southeastern part of our county,
especially in the towns of Ringle and
Norrie, is Rev. p. Vanderkam. He
came here about four years ago, bought
some land and commenced to clear
farm He found the conditions so very
favorable for the laboring man and es-
pecially the farmer, that he urged his
friends to come. The G.. ID. Jones
Land company recognized in Mr.. Van
Gerkam man just suited for their bus
mess and he has been with the COM
pany for nearly four years. He is now
making arrangements to go to New
York City, where he viii make his
headquarters and see what he can do
towards steering immigration into this
section.
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MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Otto Brandt, Stettin, to Helen Bor-
ehaTdt, Hamburg
Chris HARROW, town of Seymour, Out
agamie county, to Marie Thomson, city.
Sollie Cooper to Laura Schoeneberg,
city.
Henry Gressens. town Marathon, to
Lizzie Hemmirch, Emmett.
Gust Dessert, Easton, to Anna Gosden,
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+. Gaetzman, John Braasch. VIM.
Raschke, Ferdinand Sellin and Henry
Werner, who compose the county board
committee on poor, met yesterday for
the purpose of making new contract
for medical attendance for the county's
poor. The Sisters of the Divine Savior,
who had the contract last year for $3.50,
would not agree to make another con-
tract at that price. An arrangement
was finally agreed upon whereby DR..
p j. Taugher will give his services for
$3.50 and the sisters viii furnish bed
in ST. Mary's hospital and supply
nurses for $780, The committee met
again today and drew up a contract,
which was signed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-05

ElelQ pas et-Holnomann, L; Jones,
2; Voyer, 2; Wood, 2; Voyer, and
Arpin l.
Lincoln debating club admitted
Robert Sipes to membership last Friday
night and elected the following officers:
President-Arnold Wegner
-President-Arthur Lamotte.
Secretary-Frank Mumm.
Treasurer-Myron johnson.
Program committee-Ralph German,
Arthur Lamotte and Clinton Bismark.
The champion girls basket ball team
is the junior, which is composed of the
following named:
Lena Burns, center.
Selma Paff, left guard
Marie Brands, right guard.
Lena Kamrath, left forward
Elizabeth Plantz, right forward.
The following named were graduated
from the high school last week: Sol.
Heinemann, Harold Morisette and Miss
Mary Van Adestine. 1ney will take
part in the graduating exercises next
June.
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PURCHASED CREAM ERY.

Gust Dessert, the expert buttermaker
from the town of Easton, has purchased
the town Berlin creamery, form erly
owned by the Kieser company. Mr..
Dessert rented the creamery for year.
with the privilege Of purchasing the
same at the end of that time. He took
charge of the creamery in his own
name on February LIST. He is one of
the best buttermakers in Marathon
county.
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To pomesticate a Cat.

It is said that an unfailing remedy
for a cat that will not accustom itself
to a new home is to grease its feet
thoroughly with butter and put it
down the cellar. When it has licked
its feet clean it will be thoroughly
domiciled and will cause no further
trouble by running away.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-05

For firemen and patrolmen it is sug-
gested that they be employed for three
months on probation at a salary of $50
per month. Then if they prove salts
factory they are to be paid S. more per
month for the balance of the year and
$50 per month thereafter.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-05
Marriage Days in Italy.

In Italy Sunday is usually selected
for the marriage of those persons who
have never been married before.
Widows, however, in accordance with
an old custom, usually choose Satur-
day.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-05

Money to loan enquire at the PLoT
office.
DIR. Turbin. the eminent German
specialist and surgeon, will be at the
Bells House, February L.
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Advertised Letters.

List of letters remaining uncalled for
in the Wausau P o. for the week end
ing Feb 4, 1907. In calling for same
please say advertised"
Burke, John Mckime, Con
Brendemueke, Martha Mcdonald, Chas.
Betka. Charlie Marshel, Chas.
Bohma, August Pretser, MIR. Alec
Corning, Mrs F. p Plautz, Mrs. Mary
Prof. Girard Payel, Max
Gleason, Hattie SalliOtte Miss
Holtz, Alvina Schultz, Fred
HartIgan, Miss Eugene Smith, Walter
Hughes. Miss Pearl Treyes, Alb.
KuchebeckerBros. Voshmik, Lawrence
Kelly. NeilJ. Wausau Music Co.
Lucas, Dr.A.C. Wayosik, Mrs Gondy(2)
Leuck. Miss Lena Weisnie. Mrs. Louise
Mr.. Leebin Young, M. C.
Foreign:
August Kornus Frenn Bros
Packages:
Mrs. Sarah Aldred Mrs. Dora Garski
Mrs. Winnie Bartell Margaret Marsh
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DTHCV.
l. Helm, Referee
DR.. Leith, Umpire
Miss Mamie Grunnuel, Timekeeper
Becker, Scorer.
The game of basket ball played be-
tween Dancy and Stevens Point Bust
ness College in the opera house, at
Knowlton, last Saturday night resulted
26 to in favor of the latter Owing to
the extreme GOODNESS of the weather
our boys thought the game would not
materialize and was therefore caught
mapping. Prof. Showers of the Bust
ness College was scorer and timekeeper
for his boys. Return games will be
played in the near future.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-05
LINCOLN SCHOOL NOTES.

The promotion cards were given out
Monday noon, although the standings
were a disappointment to some, on the
whole they were very satisfactory All
are beginning the new semester with
renewed vigor.
Marches for the new building were
played last week by Alma Peterson and
Clara Grass.
A window of the ungraded room was
accidentally broken by Eric Zingler
last week.
Last November the Ladies' Literary
club extended an invitation to the
children of the public schools to visit
the Art Exhibit given in the Spencer
building on Third street. We accepted
the invitation and felt fully repaid for
we saw many beautiful, interesting
expensive and instructive pictures
With the proceeds of this the Literary
club purchased number of these
pictures for the schools of the city
These pictures are being circulated
through the different schools and are
at present in our building. Most of
these pictures are brown photographs
namely:
Angel Heads, by Sir Joshua Reynolds
Children of the Shell, by Murillo
Shooting of the Bay Mare, by Laadseer.
Prince of Orange, by Van Dyke.
Feeding Her Birds, by Millet.
The other two, though not of this
kind are equally interesting, one Bel
gian scene, by Houben, and the other,
Hiawatha, by Elizabeth Morris.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-05

The wire weighed about
100 lbs. and was valued at about $50.
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There will be a regular meeting of
the council this evening at which much
important business will be transacted.
1t is expected that much time will be
taken up in the discussion of the mat
ter of re-paving Third street. The
council will also be asked to revoke the
saloon license of Mrs. Mary Mess, who
recently pleaded guilty to the charge of
selling liquor to minor. This is per-
haps the first request of the kind TO be
made in Wisconsin since the recent
supreme court decision was made and
may have some effect in other cities.
The council will be asked to cancel the
tax on the Christian Science church
property, which was assessed at s71.70.
There are several other important mat
tiers which will occupy the attention of
the city solons, so that a long session is
looked for.
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HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

Miss Jeanette Wilson, who has been
absent from school on account of sick
ness, returned to Carroll Monday noon.
Miss Jeanette will take part in the
commencement exercises in June
Miss Bertha Pearson has been sick
for the past week and unable to take
her exams.
The boys basket ball team was
defeated at Grand Rapids last Friday
night, by score of 81 to 24 the boys
would, no doubt, have won if they had
had their regular team, but some of the
best players were unable to go with
them. Let US hope they will have bet
ter luck next Friday evening at Stevens
Point.
School was closed last week on &C
count of exams The exams this year
were run differently than in previous
years. They began Tuesday morning
and followed In order as the periods
ran; that is, those classes which recited
the first period in the morning, had
their exams Tuesday morning, and so
on in order. No classes recited during
The examinations and those students
who had no exams were allowed to
remain home and study.
The new semester began last Mon
day morning with the rustic of new
ell
there a groan was heard, but on the
whole the opening was a quiet one.
Mr.. Parlin made a short talk in which
he complimented the school on its work
for the past semester and asked that
the students all unite in making the
coming semester the banner one of the
Wausau high school,
Last Saturday, the library was pre-
sented with three beautiful tables, from
the manual training department. The
tables are ten by four feet and are
made of quarter sawed oak. They are
built in the mission style and the excel
lency of the work deserves to be highly
complimented.
The senior girls were victorious over
picked team of sophmores and juniors
Friday evening, score to u.
Miss Anna B. Fisher, who teaches in
the sub-primary department of the
Lincoln school was called to her home
near Madison last Wednesday, by the
serious illness of her father. She will
be absent several weeks.
Line up OF basket ball team at Grand
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man. At the time of his death he was
but 81 yrs. old. His funeral was held
last Saturday afternoon from the family
home in Grand Rapids.
Quite number drove from here to
Junction City last Friday night to wit
ness the game of basket ball played by
the Dancy and junction City boys.
At the close, the score stood "a to 8 in
favor of Dancy. The line up was as
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-01-25

The anti-pa>s bill was passed by
the senate Saturday. The land men
wanted clause exempting them from
the operation of the law, and the news
papers wanted to trade advertising
space for mileage, but it was no go.
So far as the senate is concerned, both
will pay fare or walk. There are two
sides to both questions. The land
men hold that the railroad is fully re-
imbursed through the increased busi-
ness realized from their efforts. The
other side is that the land business is
strictly for private gain, and land
agent has no more right to free trans
portation than any other man. The
newspaper men hold that they have
the right to trade their commodity
(advertising) for mileage as much as
the farmer has the right to trade but
ter and eggs for groceries. The fact
is that he has right, The opponents
to this proposition hold that the news.
papers received more favors than their
advertising at regular rates would
purchase, and that on the part of the
railroads the exchange was made for
buying the friendship of the papers
and thus creating a favorable senti-
ment for the railroads when the facts
warranted the opposite. There may
be some foundation for this, but on
the whole the facts do not warrant the
conclusion The railroads treated the
machine and insurgent newspapers
on the same basis during the last
campaign lone received as many
favors as the other, regardless of the
stand taken on proposed railroad leg
islation. But the Legislative mind as
judged by the action of the senate,
seems to regard mileage paid for in
advertising in the same light as passes
given to state officers and the judiciary
whose only possible way of returning
a favor would be in the line of official
acts.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-01-25

IT is reported from Washington
that President Roosevelt will send to
congress message urging that the
interstate commerce commission be
given the power to order the distri-
button of cars on interstate roads. We
think the president has struck the
key note to the situation. With such
power in the hands of an able and
honest commission such thing as a
fuel famine could not occur and there
would be no such shortage of cars
for the transportation of grain as has
occurred on some roads this year. The
fact that some lines have had neither
fuel famine nor shortage of cars for
grain leads us to believe that such
conditions are due more to the policy
of the roads than to scarcity of cars.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-01-25

That the INDEPENDENT two weeks
ago published the correct version of
that Gamble affair, made so much of
by the machine, is proven by the re-
port of the investigating committee.
No attempt was made by the senator
to deny that his son Ralph had been
on the senate pay roll and that Ralph
had also attended school, although the
senator made correction by. stating
the time as two months less than
claimed by the machine. Ralph's
first appointment was byt sergeant
alarms of the senate to the position
of folder; the second appointment was
to the position of messenger for the
committee of which the senator was
chairman, and that this appointment
was also made by the sergeant,at-
arms. The duties of each position
during his term as such folder and
later as messenger were performed
by Ralph, and were not performed by
another, and the government did not
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-01-25

A MATTER that should receive the
attention of our Legislature is the
plan of taxing telephone property. At
the present time all local telephone
exchanges escape the tax levied for
the maintenance of the municipal in
stitutions where they do business, and
which are enjoyed to a greater extent
by such companies than by almost
any other line of business. The local
exchange is always indebted to the
community for it's business, and it
should bear its just proportion of the
tax in that community.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-01-25

an expression of the peoples choice
will be had TO guide the Legislators in
their action on this important ma ter.
The popularity of the movement
whereby United States senators, and
even the president, can be voted for
direct by the people can be gained by
a glance at the results of referendum
votes taken in three different states.
A vote in California in 1892 gave 1877
958 for the popular election of United
States senators, with only 1892
against. In Nevada, a year later, a
similar vote showed 6,775 in favor and
866 against. A referendum vote taken
in Illinois in 1902, resulted in 45l ,3l9
for and 1876 against.
If public sentiment in general may
be inferred from the results in these
three states, it may be possible to jar
the United States senate from its
present position of stoical Indifference
to the demands of the people on this
question and so amend the constitu-
ton that the proposition may become
a fact.
Between the years 1893 and 1902 the
national house of representatives, on
five different occasions, passed by more
than the requisite two-thirds vote,
resolutions for the direct election of
senators, but the senate, possibly with
the instinct of self preservation, has
declined to take action, thus effectu-
ally blocking the movement.
In the absence of this amendment
it is upto the several states wherein
the edemand has gained sufficient prom
inence to warrant action, TO provide
through it's Legislature, some means
whereby the people can express their
choice in the matter, such choice to
be blndlng upon the members OF the
Legislature during the red tape process
necessary under the constitution. 1t
is true that no binding force of law
would compel a legislator to vote for.
this choice of the people against their
own inclination. Neither is there any
binding force of law that now compels
a presidential elector to vote for the
nominee of his party, but there are
few, if any. instances where such elec-.
tor has refused to be bound hand and
foot, by the moral responsibility which
accompanied his election to the elec-
toral college. 1t is barely possibl0
that this moral responsibility might