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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-02-07
HOME-TRADE CLUBS
They Should Be Organized
and Active in Every
Community.
PATRONIZE HOME MERCHANTS
The Great Danger to Local Interests
That Are Found in the Mail
Order Systems-Educate
the Public,

Copyrighted. 1906. by Alfred c. Clark
Why should we trade at home?
Why should we consider home in any
way more than any other place unless
1t pays US financially? First, becae~s
it is cur home. The pride we should
take in the prosperity OF our home
town and our neighbors should be suf-
fcient inducement to give them the
preference. Second, because beyond
all doubt or question. it pays from, a
money point.
The greatest menace to the country
merchant to-day is the mail order
business, and with the decline of the
country merchant comes inevitable
loss to the citizens OF both town and
country. What at first was considered
great convenience and an exhibition
OF commendable enterprise has grown
to be one of the crying commercial
evils. The success of the mail order
house is the result of constant, ex.
tensive and intelligent advertising. 1t
is not by persistent swindling as some
tell us, for no business was ever built
up in that way. The home merchant
can do no better than to adopt the
same method, the judicious use of
printers ink.
While the merchants are the heav-
lest immediate losers. and could dc
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-02-07
LESS PAY FOR RAILROADS
The Government Will Save $4,000,
600 in Mail Contract.
House Committee and Railway Rep
rcsciIta:.;ves Have Agreed on a Ba-
sis for Proposed Reduction.

Washington, D. c. - A Compromise
mail pay was agreed upon Thursday
between representatives of various
railroads which have mail contracts
and the house committee on postof-
fees and post roads. The PROPOSE
ton to compromise and waive a hear
ing was made through Representative
Hedge of Iowa. The bill provided for
a fire per cent reduction on all con-
tracts over routes averaging $4,000
pounds per day; ten per cent re-
duction on all routes averaging from
$500 to $4,000 pounds per day; and
a flat rate of SIS per ton per mile per
year on all routes averaging more
than $4,000 pounds q day. Through
Mr.. Hedge the railway men agreed to
accept this cut providing that the
flat rate on routes over 10000 pounds
a day be increased to $50 ton.
The committee agreed to increase
the rate from SIS to $40 and this was
accepted.
In addition to reducing the price
per ton which railways are to be paid
for hauling mail. which will amount
to at least 100000, the committee
has approved a cut of 81 100000 III
the amount to be paid to railways for
the rent of mail cars. The commit
tee also decided that the weight of
mail bags must not hereafter be added
to the weight of mail, in computing
the amount carried.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-02-07
ADMIRAL DAVIS REPORTS.
The President, Admiral Evans and
Secretary Metealf All Praise His
Actions at Kingston.

Washington, D. c. - In uneQuive-
cal terms President Roosevelt Fri
day approved Admiral Davis entire
action in connection with his visit
to Kingston, Jamaica, and requested
the secretary of the navy to express
to Admiral Davis his heartiest COM
mendation of all, that he did. The
long expected report of Admiral
Davis of the circumstances leading
up to the withdrawal of the fleet
from Kingston reached the navy de-
partment and was at once laid before
the President Inasmuch as the
president already has announced
that the diplomatic phase is closed
incident, the report itself will not be
made public. However, Secretary
Mercalf gave out the order of Ad-
miral Evans ,commanderin-chief of
the Atlantic, warmly commencing
Admiral Davis for his conduct of a
situatice which was to say the
least, somewhat embarrassing"
The correspondence is supplement-
ed by strong letter of commenda-
ton of Admiral Davis by the presi-
dent and by Secretary Metcalf.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-02-07
---------------
New Varieties of Sin.

The real weakness in the moral po-
sition of Americans is not their atti-
tude toward the plain criminal, but
their attitude toward the quasi-crimi-
nal-the "criminaloid." Let a promi
nent man commit some offense in bad
odor and the multitude filings its stones
with right good will. The social
lynching of the self-made magnate
who put away his faded, toil-worn wife
for the sake of a soubrette proves
that the props of the old morality have
not rotted through. Sex righteous
ness continues to be thus stiffiy upheld
simply because man has not been in
venting new ways of wronging wom-
an. So long ago were sex sins recog-
nized and branded that the public,
feeling sure of itself, lays on with
promptness and emphasis. The slow
ness of this same public in flashing
other kinds of transgression betrays.
not sycophancy or unthinking admira-
ton Of success, but perplexity, says E.
A. Ross IN Atlantic. The prosperous
evildoers that bask undisturbed in pop
or seem to shun-the familiar types
of wickedness. Overlooked in Bible
and prayerbook, their obliquities lack
the birthstone smell. Surpass as their
misdeeds may in meanness and cruel
ty. there has not yet been time
enough to store up strong emotion
about them. and so the sight of them
does not loose the flood of wrath and
adherence that rushes down upon the
long-attained sins
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-02-07
The Higher Obligations.


Recent events have made impnra-
tive some consideration of the ethics
of giving testimony. Every one de-
spises a talebearer. Even the children
call such a person "tattletale," and
justifably look down upon him. The
informer is a spy, breaker OF good
faith, violator of the sacred laws OF
hospitality. Loyalty to family and to
friends is the cement which holds So
ciety together Trouble comes when
men act upon a mistaken view OF what
constitutes loyalty to society at large,
that society which is but an aggrega-
ton OF families and friends. The ex-
istence of orderly government depends
on the observance of certain laws, I'M
punished disobedience to which pro-
duces anarchy. When crime is commit
ted, every person with knowledge OF
1t is under moral obligation, when
asked, to tell what he knows. In some
cases the obligation extends SO far as
to require him to volunteer informa-
ton against his friends. The mainte-
nance OF order and safe government
is OF SO much greater Importance than
the protection OF law-breaking friends,
that the state justly conceals the
crime or who assists the guilty to es-
cape This rule is the result OF long
experience, and its justice is nowhere
disputed. Yet. in practice, it is diff
cult to enforce it, says Youths Com
panion, because OF the prevalence of
false standards growing out of abhor-
renee of the informer. There is no
high school principal or college presi-
dent who has not come in contact
with these false standards in his at
tempt to maintain discipline. There
is scarcely a large city in the country
in which members of the police force
have not at some time or another been
actuated by belief in the mistaken
notion. In the army and the navy
similarly false idea of the obligations
Of company loyalty has many times
confronted the commanding officers,
as II the men regarded it as of greater
importance that half a dozen friends
should be saved from the consequences
OF their misdeeds than that the body
of national defenders should be pre-
served from those who would under
mine the foundations of all orderly
Institutions.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-02-07

much toward checking and correcting
this growing evil. by liberal advertis-
ing and publishing prices, they should
not be expected to do it all. Every
newspaper should preach home trade,
every teacher should instil it into his
pupils in the school room, every min
;ster should preach it from the pull
pit. The debating societies and pc.
litical conventions should discuss It.
The interests of town and country
and newspaper and church. and So
ciety generally. are so interviewer and
so identical that whatever Injuries one
will eventually injure all. When the
merchants are compelled to bring on
smaller stocks, and employ less help,
and pay cheaper rent. they are not
alone the sufferers; the whole com
munity feels the loss. The price of
real estate is largely dependent on its
proximity to a good town. Rents are
dependent on the amount of business
The merchant can move to some other
town and establish himself again more
readily than can the professional man
and many others who have built up
business through years of acquaint-
anceship and establishment of char
acter. If the farmer. or property own
er in town. want to sell out they are
the greatest sufferers-they can't
move their property to some place
where people are booming their town
and country by patronizing home.
The remedy lies in education and
publicity. In many places that edu-
cation will come through bitter ex-
perience, but, il other communities,
where they are quicker to detect the
approaching evil, and heed more read
lily the warnings of the press and
friends of home, they may correct the
evil more readily.
Wealth and power are corrupting
influences and the mail order houses
are probably not sending out as hon
est goods as they once did. They have
learned the tricks of imitation and
substitution and how easy it is to
deceive the public. But. if the mail
order man is honest, and his methods
of advertising legitimate in every way,
his success is of no interest to us
and will never benefit our community
in the slightest degree. If crops should
fail or sickness render US short of
money we could not expect him to
trust us for dollar-we must always
look to the home merchant for credit
in times of adversely.
Who is 20 blame? The mail order
house? Not in the least. We alone
are to blame. The near-sighted mer-
chant who has lost trade by not &C.
quainting the community with what
he has to sell and with the fact
that people could obtain at home.
where they could personally examine
them and return them If defective in
any way. goods at as low a price as
any catalogue house can sell them,
every man and woman is to blame
who sends away for goods; and every
one who fails to raise his voice in
favor of home trade. The editor holds
the most resIor sible position and
should be the leader in this move
ment.
The remedy has been outlined in 4
general way. We will suggest the first
steps. Let m,rchanas buy at home
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-02-07
sented. That is why l say the rem
edy lies in education.

sented. That Is why l say the rem
edy lies in education.
Most mail order houses claim they
are enabled to sell cheaper than coun-
try dealers because they buy in larger
quantities and get especially low
prices. This is often base mis-
statement of facts; let me cite an in
stance: A stock man from eastern
Washington was visiting in Kansas
City. One morning, walking with his
nephew, who was 4 clerk in a lead
ing wholesale hardware house. he
asked where Bland & Co.'S store was
located. Don't think / ever heard of
them," replied the young man. 20,
yes, | do remember the firm; they
have no store. they have an Office in
(giving the name of the building),
but l don't see how they can sell hard
ware as low as your home merchants,
for while we sell them goods at less
than retail price. We don't give them
as low prices as regular dealers, be-
cause they buy in such small quaint
ties, just as they get orders" The
stockman was greatly surprised. he
supposed he had been dealing with
one of the largest firms in the city.
The mail order business has devel-
oped so slowly. and works so quietly
that few persons realize the magni-
tude it has assumed nor to what ex-
tent it is now sapping the life-blood of
many small cities and towns. Even
now we hear the excuse given for
sending away for goods, that the mer-
chants carry such poor stocks. The
wonder is that they carry any.
1t is a fact that country merchants
sell the same class of goods cheaper
than the big city merchants. and there
are good reasons for Indifference in
rents, insurance, clerk hire, etc. The
same Is equally true as to the mail
order house-it may save in rent and
in several ways over the big mer-
chants. but it pays more for advertis-
ing, packing and shipping. so that,
for the same quality of goods, the
home merchant can, and generally
does. undersell the catalogue house
The latter makes selling goods a study
and his advertising is carefully word
ed and weighed. He uses few stand
ard articles for bait, by selling them
at cost, but he adds enough to the
price of other articles, with which the
public is not familiar, to make up TIC
loss. Perhaps the country merchant
could not duplicate the price on these
articles while he would be perfectly
willing to sell the whole bill orderDd
at the mail order house price.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-02-07

they cannot consistently ask others 10
trade with them when they do not
uatronfze their brothers in trade The
editors should patronize home, ana
even at considerable personal sacrlnce
refuse foreign advertising for lines OF
goods In competition with the nome
merchant. The editor deserves more
credit than he receives. Many we'll
to-do farmer or city man would THINK
himself perfectly justified in sending
away for all his groceries and cloth
ing if he thought he could save ten
dollars thereby on years purchases,
but most editors forfeit many times
that much every year by refusing ad-
vertising from distant firms in the
same lines of business as his home
merchants; and sometimes the home
merchant even then declines to ad-
vertise.
Trade-at-home clubs might be or
ganized, with mottos something like
Club" or Il Patroni8e the Home Mer-
chants" or 81 Buy Nothing from Mail
Order Houses" for members to dis
play. The acceptance and displaying
of such a card might constitute per-
so nor member.
Much of the trading away from
home is due to thoughtlessness and
ignorance of business principles.
Many persons consider only the first
cost; if they save % cents on a ten
dollar order by buying from mail
order house they consider that clear
gain. They should be shown that
merchant and his family living in
their midst, keeps up a house, pays
taxes, adds to the social features, con-
tributes generously towards public en-
terprises, etc. If by buying at home
their town gives support to several
more local merchants, creating bet
ter home market, they get back a lib
eral percentage. Every man and wom-
an takes more or less pride in local
affairs and is willing to contribute
something toward home improve
ments, if the matter is fairly pre-
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-02-07
His Practical Idea.

benevolent old man who lived on
his farm in Iowa never refused shell
ter to any who might ask it of him.
His many friends demonstrated with
him about this characteristic, know
ing that many INSCRIPTIONS hoboes
would avail themselves of the oppor-
tunity, and that there was great dan
ger of the old man being robbed. To
these remonstrances the old man re-
piled that he believed in practical
Christianity
But" said one of his friends, this
seems very impractical. Suppose one
of these men took it into his head to
rob you one night?"
My dear young friend" was the re-
ply. 81 bid all enter in the name OF
God, but 1 prove my belief in practi-
cal Christianity by locking up their
pants during the night"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-02-07
MAY BE COFFEE
That Causes all the Trouble.

When the house is afire, it's like a
body when disease begins to show, it's
no time to talk but time to act-delay
is dangerous-remoYe the cause of the
trouble at once.
For number of years." says
Kansas lady, 81 felt sure that coffee
was hurting me, and yet, was SO fond
of it, could not give it up. l paltered
with my appetite and of course yield
ed to the temptation to drink more.
At last l got SO bad that 1 made up my
mind 1 must either quit the use of cof-
fee or die.
Everything I ate distressed me, and
/ suffered severely almost all the time
with palpitation of the heart. 1 fire.
quently woke up in the night with the
feeling that 1 was almost gone,-my
heart seemed so smothered and weak
in its action that 1 feared it would stop
beating. My breath grew short and
the least exertion set me to painting.
slept but little and suffered from rheu-
matism.
1.-TWO years ago stopped using the
old kind of coffee and began to use
Postum Food Coffee, and from the
very first / began to improve. 1t
worked miraclei Now can eat any
thing and digest it without trouble.
sleep like baby, and my heart beats
full, strong and easily. My breathing
has become steady and normal, and
my rheumatism has left me. l feel
like another person, and it is all due
to quitting coffee and using Postum
Food Coffee, for 1 haven't used any
medicine and none would have done
any good as long as kept drugging
with coffee" Name gwen by Postum
Co., Battle Creek. Mich. There's a
Reason" Read the little book THE
Road to MELVILLE" in pkgs. AL
grocers.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-02-07
BY Endless Chain.

Speaking OF the endless chain
prayer that is going the rounds" said
the woman with the cheerful voice, Il
can't see what good that can do, I'M
less, maybe, it might start some poor
wretch on the road to glory, but l got
an awfully nice silk petticoat through
an endless chain once. The manufac
turers sent letters asking for five
names and ten-cent piece. l sent
five names and the ten-cent piece, not
thinking much about it, just trying
it, and it wasn't long before they sent
me this lovely silk petticoat 1t was
the incest sort of silk, too. AS long as
I wore it it didn't crock"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-02-07
sixty-four Bodies Recovered.

Charleston, w. Va. - Sixty-four
bodies of victims of the Stuart mine
explosion have been recovered up
to Friday nigha About IS more
bodies are thought to be in the
wrecked mine Officers of the min
ers' union will. it is said, endeavor to
have the company prosecuted for
criminal negligence. They charge that
the mine has been operated without
a full compliance with the state law.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-02-07
Ownership Of National Banks.

The ownership of the national
banks of the United States is not in
the hands of the rich few, as is COM
moaly supposed, because fully one
half of the banks have a capital Of
less than 100000 each. Twelve per
cent. have capitalizations of from
100000 to $25O.O00. while only seven
per cent. range between $250,00O and
B, 900. 900.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-02-07
Allen BUYS Wichita Beacon.

Wichita, Kan. - Henry ]. Allen of
Ottawa, bought from Harry ]. Hagney,
Tuesday, the Wichita Daily Beacon.
Consideration about 100000. 1t is
said that Mr.. Allen will take posses
sion of the paper in about week. The
Beacon in the leading democratic
daily in Kansas. 1t is said that it will
be changed to n republican paper as
soon as Mr.. Allen assumes control
of il.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-02-07

The Chinese have long been credited
with the invention of gunpowder, but
Prof. E. o. Won Lippmann, of Halle,
has collected evidence to indicate that
this is mistake, and that the Arabi-
ans did not, as commonly stated, in
troduce gunpowder into Europe dur
ing the eighth and ninth centuries
Prof. Won Lippmann believes that the
manufacture Of the first gunpowder
was based upon the Fire book" of
Marcus Graecus, which appeared in
Constaninople about the middle of the
thirteenth century. This was the
source from which Roger Bacon, AL
bertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas
derived their knowledge of gunpowder.
The first use of gunpowder to drive
projectiles is ascribed to monk,
Berthold Schwarz, whose discovery
was made accidentally while preparing
the mixture for medicinal purposes.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-02-07
Fifth Attempt to Wreck Train.

Springfield, Mo. - The fifth attempt
to wreck a train on the Kansas City
Clinton Springfield railway was made
one mile south of Osceola Tuesday
night section foreman on his way
to work Wednesday morning found
eight railroad spikes between rains.
The obstruction were found in time to
prevent wreck of the passenger
train due in a short time.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-02-07
viii Co to WASHINGTON.

San Francisco, Calf. - After
conference at the home of Mayor
Schmitz Friday morning the men,
bers of the board of education decid-
ed that the entire board with Super
intendent Roncovieri. and Assistant
Attorney Williams, will go to Wash
ington TO confer with the federal Off
Gals on the Japanese question. Mayor
Schmitz will also be one of the party.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-02-07
rhaw Jury Secured.

New York. The Thaw jury was
completed late Friday. The selec-
ton of the twelfth Juror came as a
complete surprise at the end of a
long tedious day-the eighth of the
trial ard Immediately after this last
member of the trial panel had been
sworn in Justice Fitzgerald adjourned
court until 1920 o'clock Monday
morning
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-02-07
Economy as the Bow Saw Il,

Paul Morton. in a recent address on
insurance, said of a certain proposed
economy:
THAT would not be an economy, but
an extravaganza, in the long run. 1t
reminds me of the boy and the jam
My son. said this boys mother.
isn't it rather an extravaganza to eat
butter with that superb JAM
49, No. ma'am, it's an economy the
boy answered. The same piece Of
bread does for both"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-02-07
Voice of American Women.

Why is it always the women of
America who are rebnked for their
way of speaking when it is really the
men who deserve = scolding? Amer
lean women have tteir peculiarities.
but their voins and their accents are
at any rate careful, ard have o refine
ment of their own-Dot an English
finish, but z very perc.s,tible one. says
a writer in the London Chronicle. On
the other band Ame.f can men very
seldom ha fe what one .nast sSi., 50 as
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-02-07
Aid For Chinese.

Warrington. - The national Red
Cross has received from DR.. Klop-
tsch. of the Christian Herald an
additional $1,000 for the Chinese fam
inc sufferers and the money has been
cabled TIC Consul General Rodgers at
Shanghai for the purchase OF food
supplies for the stricken people.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-02-07
THE WHITE PLAGUE
SYSTEMATIC WARFARE wAeED
TO WIPE OUT CONSUMPTION.
Warning That intemperanee Increases
the Liability to Contract Disease
Neglected Colds a Prolific
Source.

Organized effort is now being made
throughout the United Stated to fight
consumption. A warning is given
against Incorporate habits. which in
crease the liability to consumption,
while splitting is public places is de-
precated. as the disease is frequently
contracted from dried sputum.
Colds should not be neglected, as
they leave the lungs in a peculiarly
receptive condition for the tuburcu-
lar germ. The following simple for
mula will break up a cold in twenty
four hours. a leading authority on
lung trouble says that when pre-
pared from pure ingredients. it will
cure any cough that is durable.
Take half ounce Virgin Oil of Pine
(Pure); two ounces glycerine and
half pint good whisky. Shake we'll
and use in teaspoonful doses every
four hours.
The ingredients can be secured
from any good prescription druggist
at small cost, and to avoid substitution
should be purchased separately and
mixed in your own home.
Virgin Oil of Pine (Pure) is put
up in half-ounce walls for dispensing,
Each vial is securely sealed in a
round wooden case. with engraved
wrapper, with the name-Virgin Oil
of Pine (Pure), prepared only by
Leach Chemical Co. Cincinnati, o.
plainly printed thereon. There are
many rank limitations of Virgin Oil of
Pine (Pure), which are put out under
various names. such as Concentrated
Oil of Pine, Pine Balsam, etc. Never
accept these as a substitute for the
Pure Virgin Oil of Pine, as they will
invariably produce nausea and never
effect the desired result