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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-28
Trade at Home.

Patronage of the big mail order
houses is founded largely on short
sightedness. In one way it is akin to
patronage of the get-rich-quick
schemes. The buyer believes he is
getting something for his money that
is really not given, and fails to realize
either where his money goes or what
he gets for it,
No one would think of telephoning
to a furniture store and asking the
dealer to send up dozen dining room
chairs, without having previously eX-
amined the chairs, or of ordering a
dress or pair of shoes, or stove in
this way Yet that is practically
what the patron of the mail order
house does. He orders by mail without
having seen the goods or having any
idea of their appearance or character.
He is taking a long chance. Two
things on which he has to base his
conception of the articles ordered is a
description in the catalogue and the
cut given there. In other words, the
ALL dCIlVSHSSS VI IlC OuSI IIldU0 uS-
pends on the promises of the firm and
the engraver's art. It is possible to
make very creditable cut from a
flimsy and worthless model. 1t is
possible to describe an atrocity in a
way that makes it appear most desir-
able. Incidentally it seems to be al,
ways possible to find some one who
will accept the promise and cut at
their face value, without properly dis,
counting them, and on the credibility
Of these people the mail order bust
ness thrives. A little investigation
and comparison will convince the
average person that his money will &C
further and yield greater returns il
invested right here in Beverly, despite
the fictitious values offered by the
outside houses. But the articles sold
by the mail order houses must be
compared as they really are, and not
as they are reputed to be in the cata
logues.-Beverly (Mass) Times.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-28

An exchange says that war has been
declared on the great catalogue
houses of Chicago and other cities
by the 500 retail merchants of the
west. In one of the most striking eco
nomic movements this country has
ever known the small dealers are
fighting, they say, for their lives. The
mammoth institutions, employing
thousands of workers, doing their
business entirely through the medium
of their bulky catalogues, spending
no money in the communities whence
they derive annually millions of dol
lars of patronage, are forcing in
creasing numbers of home merchants
to the wall and so their opponents
claim, are making commercial
graveyards of once prosperous towns" "
People living in country towns ought
to get wise and trade at home.-Phil-
adelphia Episcopal Recorder.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-28
USE MORE PRINTERS INK.
Good Advice to the Small Merchant
Who Would Succeed.

The mail order question is one that
is of perennial importance to nearly
every one of the smaller cities and vii
lages in the land, although the danger
that these institutions were bound to
annihilate the smaller stores does not
seem as imminent now as it did
few years ago. For instance, since
.he passage of the pure food law by
congress many, if not all of the n2ii
order people, have discontinued the
selling Of groceries. 1t was plain in
this case that there was a consider
able amount of adulteration in the
goods sold or the mail order houses
would not have taken this step.
There are aspects of the mail order
question which may well give hope to
the local dealer. The facts in the
case are that the catalogue houses
are not enjoying an unmitigated cinch,
for they are handicapped i'll many
ways in which the country merchant
is not For example, the entire coun-
try press almost without exception is
closed to mail order advertising. Here
is a distinct advantage for the home
merchant, although sometimes he is
somewhat slow in taking advantage
of it. If he is fossilized and walking
around to pay funeral expenses in a
business way, figuratively speaking,
he will spring that ancient chestnut
that 1T doesn't pay" to advertise. But
let the newspaper man take an ad
from a mail order house and place II
in the remotest corner of his paper
and this same business man will be
apt to object very strongly.
The mail order houses have ad
vanced their business by advertising
and have been badly handicapped by
having virtually only the magazines
and the catalogues to tell their story
! If the merchants of to-day expect t.
cone with the mail order houses ant
hold a fair share of the trade tha
they ought to get, it means that they
will have to use printers ink and ad
vertising space. Furthermore, the!
| Will nave u duNeIllS0 lHI0LiSCh'i'
and in accordance with twentieth cen
tury standards. Don't spring thu
ancient gag about having been IL
business so many years. The peopl'
don't care a rap how long you hav'
been in business They are interested
mainly in two things: First, wha
goods have you got? Second, what d.
they cost? Unless your advertising
deals with these questions, it will b
as sounding brass or tinkling cymbal
The mail order houses have built Vi
trade by doing just these things, AM
their glowing descriptions and price
have done the business.-San Antoni
(Tex.) Light.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-28
President of Constitutional
Convention.

house, United States quartermaster's
house, stage office, and a small build
ing used as hotel Between noon
and sunset of that day Oklahoma Sta
tiop became a town of 5000 people.
Within a month 1859 buildings, many
of them ugly, temporary affairs, were
erected.
And so Oklahoma City has contin-
ued to grow until 1t now claims pop
ulation of $4,000, modern schools edu-
eating 9,484 children this year, as
against 1875 last year; buildings Tin
cluding ten-story skyscrapers) aggre-
eating in value $15,000,0OO; banks
having an aggregate capital and sur
plus of $1,060, ,S34, and deposits aggre-
eating $6,549, 900; post office receipts
in 1905 aggregating $141,509, and
freight tonnage into and out Of Okla
homa City in 1906. 1,22S,246,9O2 tons
Factories are springing up. Oklahoma
City this year has 2,347 factory en-
ployes, a gain of 5S1 over last year;
and 1,176 jobbing house employees, a
gain of 230 for the year.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-28
FAMOUS NEW ENGLAND TREES.
Havoc Wrought by Recent Storms
Among Cherished Antiquities.

None of our antiquities are more
cherished by healthy natures than our
ancient and historic trees, says tho
Boston Transcript.
When the old elm on the common
blew down, about 80 years ago, there
was genuine grief among the older
residents and there was a general
scramble for souvenirs Of this patrl-
arch of our Oldest park, even down to
the smallest twig.
The charter oak at Hartford has
given its name to numerous institu-
tions, and its remains have been scat
tered in various forms, artistic or 9TH
erwise, through the homes Of Connec-
ticut and even other states.
The old elm in Cambridge, under
which Washington received his COM
mission from the continental congress,
but now fast tottering to its fall, has
been the shrine of hundreds of thou
sands Of patriotic pilgrims. The severe
storm recently was almost as fatal to
two more remarkable sentinels Of a.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-28

many towns. The revolutionary tree at
Arlington was two-thirds destroyed.
and probably the remainder has sNI-
tanned more injury.
But Lancaster mouTns an even
greater loss. Her chief native diBtinc-
ton is practically destroyed. Her
queen elm, which has been declared
the largest in Massachusetts, is O
wreck. For years it has been bracOd
with rods and bound wiSh iron bands,
but the force of the incipisnt tornado
was too strong even for these. The
diameter of its spread was 50 feet and
the ground circumference Of its trunk
nearly S7 To these two towns the
storm brought general bereavement.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-28
japanese Flower Decorators.

In the Japanese method Of flower
decoration-to become master in
which man must study for at least
IA years, seven years of hard work
making him only fairly proficient
only few flowers are used. One
beautiful bough is considered ample
aesthetic food for day. The Jap
anese know. that only one beautiful
object at time can be appreciated.
and they aim at placing that object in
perfect relation to its surroundings.
A vase Of flowers in Japanese house
is the principal thing in the room,
near which the chief guest of the
evening is seated.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-28
HELPS THE TRUSTS
ERROR TOO FREQUENTLY MADE
BY THE FARMER!
BUYS THROUGH MAIL ORDER
And In Doing So Contributes To
ward Capital Concentration In
the Big Financial centers, to
His Great Injury.

Lord bless the American farmer.
He is one OF the nabobs of creation
and he hardly knows it. In single
year his work adds to the wealth of
the nation more by hundredfold than
all the mines of the country. He gives
to the world twice the value in crops
and produce than the output all the
factories and mills of the nation pro-
duce. He supplies the lubricant to
keep the wheels of progress in mo-
ton, and if he only knew'it could buy
and sell a few hundred Rockefellers,
and still have enough left to purchase
a few kingdoms as large as Spain.
Yet it must be admitted that this great
American farmer needs some enlight'
enment as to common economics.
While he is the king of wealth produc-
ers, and a lot of it sticks to his fingers,
he is also a philanthropist and doesn't
know it. He works hard to produce
his wealth and then patronizes the
machinery that lands goodly portion
of it in the Golfers of the Captains OF
Finance who dictate things in Wall
street and elsewhere; in fact he as
sists the trust magnates to the money
required to build up combinations that
the good philanthropic farmer is com
PEELED &C support. He does it and he
knows not that he doeth So Every
time the good tiller of the soil sends
away tc the big mai! order house fol-
his supplies he does his mite toward
capital concentration in the great
financia! centers, and his little mite
seeks a resting place among the
money held in reserve to feed the
wants of the trusts. 1t is about time
western farmers take tumble to colo
facts, and come to realization tha
their interests are best subserved by
keeping their earnings as close tt
their homes as possible.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-28
ABOUT THE REAL ARAB HORSE.
He 10 Virtually a Pony, But = Re-
markabIy Sturdy Ono.

The Arab horse Is virtually a pony,
standing 14.2 hands, oftener under
than over. He is not fast, even at the
gallop; indeed, he is slow. He is a
very poor trotter, both as regards speed
and action. a bad hack, and cannot
walk without continually sticking his
toes in the ground He is totally un-
fitted for hsrness and Is uncomfort-
able to riSe except at the gallop; this
is his na&ural gait, and in 1t his move
nent 10 free, smooth, delightful and
easy. As regards his general makeup
and formation, he is perfect and his
constitutional and physical soundness
is wonderful. He has great bone sub
stance, vigor. resolution, strength,
staying powers, courage, beldness, the
aoundest legs and feet and extraordi-
nary lung power, which is due to the
atmospheric conditions and free life
to which he has been used from time
immemorial; extraordinary eyeslght,
good temper. mild manners. tractabil-
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-28
FACTS ABOUT OKLAHOMA.

than Indiana and Ohio combined
will the twentythird state the union in point OF
population.
Oklahoma $500 railroads. daily
oahomas metropolis City forty miles Of asphalt
pavenents
oahomas biggest union made
Of thousand words.
dc prohibition ls provided In the constitution.
constitution and
xtend % municipalities
266s full bcoded Indians and $3.50 part Indians
Many highly civilized.
Oklahoma raising 15ooooooo bushels
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-28
Advertise What You Have to Sell.

After all that has been said or can
be said about the big mail order
houses, the simple fact remains that
they get the business by thorough and
persistent advertising, showing cuta
Of goods and giving prices. II home
merchants would take the same meth.
ods, much of the trade now going to
the mail order houses in cities would
come to them. A man we know re-
Gently made up list Of tools and
hardware from one Of the mail order
catalogues and took it to a home
dealer to get prices. He was surprised
to find that he could get the same
articles at home for less money and
save the express charges, and also
see the goods he was buying.-Clear-
field (Pa.) Spirit.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-28

Of the most interesting educational IN
stitutions in Oklahoma. About 5000
Of its $3.50 acres are in cultivation,
the rest being in meadow or pasture
land This school has 100 to 500 stu
dents. 20 instructors, more than 40
buildings, and is known as the best
institution in the Indian service for
imparting practical agricultural
knowledge to Indians. In addition to
agriculture, stock raising, dairying,
etc, all other lines Of industry are
taught at Chilocco.
Oklahoma has more than 1900
manufacturing plants, representing In
vestments aggregating $4,000, 900,
and giving employment to 10000 wage
earners. These plants include -four
mills, oil mills, cotton gins, broom
factories, brick and tile works, salt
works, cement factories, woodenware
and carriage works.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-28
Coal In Montana.

More than $5,6O0.OO is now invested
in the many coal properties in Mon
tana. About one-half this sum repre-
sents the value of the annual product;
and nearly third is paid each year
for wages. Their are now $50 finished
coke ovens in the state and one or two
mines produce nothing but coking
coal. Thp value of coke produced an
nually does not run much above $780,
900. Twenty-four out of the 81 coun-
ties in Montana produce more or less
commercial coal or lignite.-Mines and
Minerals for June.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-28
Oil Fields Are Rich.

Some of the richest oil fields IN
America are in Oklahoma. The Glenn
Pool oil district, south of Tulsa, be-
tween Red Fork and Mounds, has be-
tween 45O and 500 producing oil wells,
with a total capacity of 100000 bar
rels a day The first Of these wells
was sunk in December, 1905. Pipe
lines have been constructed for the
transportation of this oil to the Texas
saaboard and to the refineries at Whit
ing, Ind. More than $10,000,000 has
been invested in tanks, pumping sta
tions, and pipe lines in Tulsa county.
Eastern Oklahoma, which is not SO
uniformly even as the western portion
of the state, produces more than
100000 tons of coal a year, for
which its mines receive about $6,O0O.-
900. The coal field extends from the
vicinity of Tulsa on the north to the
Texas line on the south, and is more
than 100 miles broad. The state con-
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-28

tains about $50 coal mines, employing
about 10000 operators.
The principal rivers of Oklahoma,
all of which flow toward the south
east, are, naming them from north to
south, Arkansas, Salt Fork, Cimarron,
North Canadian, South Canadian,
Wachita and Red.
The government acquired what is
now Oklahoma more than century
ago under the terms of the Louisiana
Purchase. Early in the century the
government set this land apart for
the segregation of ti15 various Indian
tribes, then being driven west by the
advance of white settlers. Hence,
while Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Ne
braska, Colorado and other Louisiana
Purchase states were being populated,
Oklahoma remained for 80 years a
wild Indian camping ground.
At the time of the opening all Of
Oklahoma, except that portion taken
from Texas in the Greer county bound
ary dispute and the narrow strip be-
tween Kansas and Texas, extending
to the Colorado and New Mexico lines,
was included in the Indian Territory,
Oklahoma territory, which was held
by the government for the use Of the
Indians, but had never been assigned
to any tribe, consequently consisted
in those days Of only about 2,0OO,0OO
acres. There occurred the first great
rush for homes, which brought into
existence Oklahoma City. From time
to time the government transferred
other portions of land from the Indian
Territory to Oklahoma territory for
settlement by whites, until, when the
Oklahoma-Indian Territory statehood
bill passed, all that remained of In
dian Territory were the reservations
of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Chero-
kee, Creek, Seminole and Quapaw
tribes.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-28
Individual VS.. Corporation.

A well-known eastern financier, for
some time the president of large
trust company, recently resigned, CIV
ing as his reason that man, accord
ing to his belief, can do better work
for himself, and that no man can
really earn salary equal to what he
can make in business for himself. In
these days when all kinds of business
are being converged into corporations,
the number of trades in which a man
may engage in business for himself
have become so few that for great
bulk of men, even those having the
mental equipment which in other
years would have been sufficient to
make them their own masters, there
is now no other opening than that Of
service for some corporation. For
the bulk of the people, outside OF
those in agricultural pursuits, it is
service for the corporation or no work
at all. This truth is becoming more
evident day by day. Even the farmers
are feeling the grasp of corporate
methods. 1t is true that millions must
have the products of his lands and his
hands, but the corporations are the
mediums he must work through, and
from him they exact their fittings. II
is to the interest of the farmer as
well as the laborer in every walk and
sphere, to prevent as far as possible
further encroachment Of organized
capital, and this can be done by as
far as possible keeping the dollars
that you earn in circulation in the
community where earned, and thus
| prevent the further concentration oi
money and of business in the great
cities.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-28
Raised In Rank.

Sir Chentung Liang-cheng, until re-
Gently Chinese minister at Washing
ton, has been received by the en-
press in audience for three successive
days. He has been raised from the
second to the first rank and appointed
director of the Southern railroad
with headquarters at Shanghai. He
will also act as traffic superintendent
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-28
Liat Of Miorobea erowlno.

The list of microbes continues to
grow steadily. That of whoGping
cough must now be added to the list.
DR.. H. Albrecht, of the Wilhelm hos
pital, recently spoke on the subject
before the Vienna Medical society, de-
claring that he had discovered the
specific agent that caused the COM
plant. There had for some time been
suspicion that kind Of bacillus was
at the bottom, but DR.. Albrecht felt
himself able to assert that whooping
cough bacillus was identical with that
Of influenza.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-28

Cheyenne (Wyo) merchants are or.
ganizing to fight the mail order
houses. It is claimed that fully one.
half of the clothing and dress goods
purchased by the people of Cheyenne
come from outside towns, and the 10.
cal merchants are deprived of this
business, to say nothing of the hard.
ware, notions, novelties, etc., that are
secured through the mail order
houses
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-28
Larne Number of Nets Used.

According to Consul-General Sorer
Listoe, of Rotterdam, about 100000
nets are in use during the herring
season by the 800 fishing smacks Of
the Netherlands. A net lasts about
three seasons, but owing to losscl
from storms and other causes, be
tween 10000 and $4,000 new nets are
purchased annually.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-28

OF the United States so far as its pop
ulation is concerned any more than 1t
is as far as its agricultural products
are concerned. Northerners, south
erners, fasteners and westerners
mingle harmoniously there, all grow
ing prosperous together. Every state
in the union is represented by at least
500 natives.
A substantial evidence of the intel
lectual worth of Oklahomans generally
is the number Of modern daily news
papers which they support. Further
more, they have good schools, libra
ries and churches.
Oklahoma has a modern public
school system supported by the in
come from a $35,OOO,OO0 public school
fund and local taxation. The "S5,OOO,-
900 fund" consists of 3,10O,S75 acres
of land, valued at $3O,000,000, the in
come from the rental of which
amounts to about 100000 per year;
and $5,000,00O paid into the school
fund by Indian Territory in lieu of
land, all of the 3,100,S75 acres being
in the former Oklahoma territory.
The original act opening Oklahoma
territory to settlement reserved in
all that section of the territory then
thrown open sections 16 and &c in
every township for the benefit of the
public schools of the future state.
Each successive act provided for simi'
lar reservations and the statehood en-
abling act made additional grants to
the higher educational institutions, re-
sulting in the big total above named
The state will decide whether the
school lands shall be sold. All pro-
ceeds from sale of the school lands
must be turned into the school fund
and forever remain intact.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-28
Put In a Good Word.

Lord Arlington was arrested the
other day in England for speeding his
auto. Said the arresting policeman
in court the next day: "Hfs lordshiE
was most civil; in fact, 1t was 9
pleasure to meet him, and that lie
more than can be said of some motor.
lists" Still, his lordship had to pay
fine of SIS and costs.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-28
1.-TWO story" Bed Appears.

Among the new Inventions for fats,
where room is at premium, are the
two and three-story beds or cots of
enameled iron. They certainly have
the advantage of being room savers,
whatever their defects from the stand
point of beauty may be. In width they
are about the size of ordinary single
beds. Each is furnished with a
woven wire spring, mattress and
pillow,
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-28
OMEN Air Museum Planned.

An open air museum is planned fol
Bremen, of the type already familiar
in many Scandinavian towns. Az
epitome of the local culture and ar
from the earliest days is to be offered
in a park dotted with old peasant
houses.