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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-09
MAIL ORDER EVIL
ITS RISE is NOT THE RESULT OF
LEGITIMATE DEMAND.
DUE ENTIRELY TO GREED
And It Feeds Upon the Prosperity
of the Country Towns-A
Menace to the
Nation,

Copyrighted, 1906, by Alfred c. ClarlS.)
AS the years go by we are more
than ever brought face to face with
the vital question of trading at home.
During the past decade the habit of
buying goods abroad has grown to
such proportions that the country
merchant may well feel alarmed at
the probable outcome unless something
is done to fOrestall the great calamity
which will surely result therefrom.
Trade conditions 25 years ago were
satisfactory. At that time catalogue
houses were entirely unknown and
country merchants were "monarchs of
all they surveyed" so to speak, in the
lines represented, and the people were
prosperous and happy. Perhaps not
so much because they generally had
money enough to meet their wants,
but because of the contentment that
prevailed throughout the country at
that time. The farmers raised good
crops, generally, and received good
prices for what they had to sell. They
sold their surplus stuff to the local
merchant and bought what they
wanted; and this was the height of,
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-09
INTERESTING STATE NEWS
LETTER SAVES GIRLS LIFE.
She Writes Sweetheart She Had Ia.
ken Poison.

Hamilton, GA farewell letter, writ
ten by Elsie Delong, 1G, to her sweet
heart, John Quick, 19, was the means
of saving the girls life. Quick was ar
rested on a warrant procured by the
girls mother.
The couple are much in love and
wanted to marry. The boy was locked
up and the girl went to the home of a
sister, Mrs. Johnson, in South A street.
A boy appeared at the police station
with note addressed to Quick. Turn
key Hufnagel opened it, and this is
what he read:
"Mr John Quick: Dear Sweetheart
Don't worry because am taking car
bolic acid, because you know that it is
all your mother and sisters fault All
| want is for them to let you and me
be free, sweetheart. Let them see
this if you want to. | will send you 4
lock of my hair, so you can remember
me. Good-by, sweetheart. IL | send,
come"
The police telephoned to District
Physician Hodges, and he ran 10 the
house, where he found the girl writh-
ing in the agony of carbolic poison.
Prompt use of the stomach pump and
antidotes saved her. though she is ter
ribly burned. The authorities will try
to bring about the marriage.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-09
Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles)

Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles)
Karuizawa, Japan.-The first day
landed in Japan l set out, hot
foot, to find a missionary. l want
ed to hear what he had to say
'or himself in answer to some of the
criticisms that l had heard aboard
ship. But hours of jinriksha riding
IN Yokohama and Toxic failed to un-
cover one.
karuizawa," was the word | got
from native servants in tenantless
missionary homes; and Karuizaws,
said the red guidebobk, which is the
tourists badge of greenness, is a re-
sort in the mountains of interior
Japan much frequented by mission
aries and other foreigners. When l
said "Karuizawa" to one of the polite
officials at the railroad station
he straightway took my affairs in
nand; attended to my baggage, requi-
sitioned the proper porters, and then
himself went with me and ordered my
ticket and saw that l got the right
change; all without expectation of a
fee, which he, like the Japanese po-
liceman, would consider an insult.
The ticket, by the way, was second
class, | found; and later learned that
1t is thus that all missionaries travel
in Japan.
The Simple Life in Japan.
In the light of what I see here in
Karuizawa, the many tales have heard
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-09

tion at the outset, since it Is the con-
stant specter at every missionary fam
lily board, is the enforced separation
of parents from children. This strikes
down to the deeps of human nature.
The breaking of these ties that are as
old as the race, and stronger than
death, is the ever-recurring tragedy of
missionary life. Children must be ed
ucated in the homeland; it seems i'm
possible to raise a good American in
an Asiatic atmosphere. Even in earli-
est years the children imbibe with the
native tongue more knowledge of evil
than comes to the normal boy and girl
at home in 20 years. AS they approach
or enter their teens missionaries chill.
dren must be surrendered, and fire.
quently they are not seen again by
their parents until they have attained
manhood or womanhood. Tragic tales
are told of children who do not recog-
nize their own parents and of parents
who do not recognize their own chill
dren, after these long separations.
This appears to me to be the worst of
all the hardships that come to these
accomplishing missionaries.
While on the domestic aspect of the
missionarys life, it is worth recording
that the second generation may fire.
quently be found on the field. I have
met several instances of it here A
"children's party" of second genera
ton missionaries brought together
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-09
QUARTER MILLION
Of Young PickereI Expected From
Spawn Cast Into the Lake.

Toledo, O-The United States fish
hatchery at Putin Bay closes its
spring season Of spawn collecting, with
over half million cggs as the harvest
from Maumee bay and Lake Erie, the
largest season for many years. The
last keg of spawn was brought up the
river. The spawn now in fhe hatchery
has been collected since April /, and as
about 80 per cent. of tie e,ggs hatch,
it is fair to presume tnat a quarter of
million Of young pickerel will be add.
ed to the lake waters by the first week
of June.
The fishermen have double motive
in supplying the spawn. Besides keep.
ing up the supply of fish, they are paid
40 cents a quart for the eggs, which,
when received, are cleaned mixed
with the milt of the male fish, and
shipped to the bay.
The method of ridding the female
fish of the spawn is simple. After the
nets are lifted and the sorting is going
On in the run to the fish houses, the
female fish are pressed gently, and Il
ripe" the spawn runs freely into the
keg
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-09

There are a thousand and one items
of expense which the city merchant
has to meet that are entirely unknown
to the country merchant.
The time is rapidly approaching
when people who patronize mail order
houses will be looked upon as soon.
ers" by the solid and influential citi-
zens of all commonwealths and will
suffer ostracism at their hands.
Cities and towns are built by com.
bined efforts of the residents thereof;
! not by foreign capital. So too are our
churches and schoolhouses built It
may be true that in many instances
eastern capital has been employed to
make improvements in the west, but
always with good round interest to
the lender of the money. No one ever
heard of case where an eastern man
or firm contributed to western enter
prise for the fun of the thing. Nor
did you ever hear of a case where any
mail order or catalogue house ever
contributed to any church building
fund. Nor yet did they ever build or
help to build any of our schoolhouses.
You never heard of case of this kind
and you never will. All these eastern
sharks care for is your dollar, and
you know it, and when they have got
ten that they have no more use for
you. Then why should you patronize
them? You can go to your home mer-
chant any day in the year and if you
are short of change, he will extend
you credit. If you are sick and un-
able to work the home merchant will
see that your family is provisioned
until you get on your feet again. He
will do all of this and at the same
time furnish the same grade of goods
at the same or even at a less price.
VIII the catalogue merchant do this?
A society could be organized and
designated as the Peoples Protec-
tive Association" An organization
q this kind could be perfected in
every town and hamlet in the coun-
try. Merchants and business men
would push these organizations for
the reason that it would be to their
interest to do so. After the organiza-
tion is formed and things are running
smoothly questions of the day may be
discussed, and also matters pertaining
to the welfare of the immediate local.
ity may be brought up which will in
clude the important question of trad
ing at home. OF course it will be ad-
mitted that this question will have to
be handled with gloves on. But there
are men in business in every town
who are equal to the emergency and
no trouble is anticipated in getting
the farmers and others who buy of
mail order houses to listen to reason.
Teach the farmer to love his coun.
try, his town and his people; make
him realize that they are his; that
they are a part of his being, his life.
Teach him that it is to his financial
moral and social interest to buy his
goods in his home town, and If he be
a man he will do it.
J. p. BELL
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-09

their ambition, hence the contentment
that prevailed.
But in after years, when cities
grew and trade expanded, the mer.
chants of these cities not being con-
tent with conditions of trade, devised
plans by which they might reach out
for more business. Advertising in the
newspapers being cheap way of
putting the merits of their goods be-
fore the people, this plan appealed to
them and it was adopted. At first they
operated ON a small scale; then, as
the merchant saw the opportunity for
making it pay, he added to his adver-
tising fund. And so it has continued
until to-day millions of dollars are
annually sent to mail order houses by
the people of the United States.
The best and most effective way to
throttle the catalogue house has been
question uppermost in the minds of
country merchants for several years
past; some advocating one, plan and
some another. There are several plans
which might be presented to induce
the farmer to buy at home. In the
first place his pride might be appealed
to. There are very few farmers who
own their own farms but that would
be interested in building up his own
locality. He realizes the fact that if
his farm is to be valuable it must be
farmed in the most scientific manner
and all buildings, fences, ETC.. must be
kept up in the best possible shape,
and above all the farm must be To-
Gated not too far from some good
town, for we, all know that farm land
brings much better price when near
to some good town or village. 1t is
not hard to get the farmer to reSlize
this, for if he ever sold any farm land
or tried to sell any, he knows this to
be a fact. Well, then, after he has
realized this fact, the thing for him
to do is to patronize his home mer-
chants and business men, so they may
be able to build and maintain good
town.
Public schools are much better in
the towns than in the country for the
reason that where the population is
most dense, there is more taxable
property to the amount of territory
covered, hence there is more money
collected for school purposes, and as
result more and better teachers are
employed. All this is of the highest
Importance to the farmer, as most
farmers who are of any Importance in
their profession are interested in CIV
Ing their boys and girls a good educa-
tion. And right here is wnere the good
town proposition comes to him with
great force. He knows he can send
his children to the village school at a
great deal less expense than to send
them away to college, and that in
most cases better results are OBJ
tained
II the farmer seriously desires all
these good things he must of necessi-
ty help to build them. Let him under.
stand that he is one of the main
spokes in the great wheel of com.
merce in his vicinity and that he can
lll-afford to send abroad to purchase
even the smallest item of merchan.
iise, though it may seem to him that
le is saving few cents by doing SO.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-09
NEW SUIT AGAINST STANDARD.
Which Seeks To Gust II From It's Ohio
Franchises.

Findlay, o.-George H, Phelps filed
suit in the common pleas cSurt
against the Standard Oil Co., its sub
sidiary companies and directors. ask.
ing that they be enjoined from doing
business in the state of Ohio, and
claiming they are operating against
the provisions of the Valentine anti
trust law. Mr.. Phelps, in journal en-
try filed later, stated he and the peO-
pie he represented were ready to fur
nish bond in the sum of 100000 that
the people of Ohio would not want for
the necessary oil products should the
companies be Ousted as prayed.
Circuit Judge Duncan overruled the
motions to quash the indictments
against the Standard Oil Co. and its
constituent companies, but sustained
demurrers to the indictments found by
the grand jury in January, 1907. Judge
Duncan stated he would be ready to
hear the first trial the week beginning
May 13. Prosecutor David will en-
deavor in the meantime to obtain
ruling from the supreme court on
some of the legal issues involved.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-09

It seems that It could be easily
pointed out to him that il there was
no town near him and he had to drive
20 or 80 miles to take his produce to
market and haul his groceries the
same distance home, he could easily
see that his land would greatly depre.
ciate in value and the disadvantages
he would encounter on every hand
would be very disastrous to his time
and he would gladly spend his money
at home to divert this calamity.
One of the most potent levers with
which to control trade in country To-
calit;es is the liberal use of printers
ink, coupled with intelligence in ad
vertising the wares of the merchant
The catalogue houses employ the best
talent obtainable to write their adver
tisements and spend large sums Of
money in this way. Besides advertis
ling judiciously they advertise on q
large scale and consequently get the
business. The old saying that "You
must fight the devil with fire" will an.
ply in this case. The home merchant
must advertise. He must do more than
say: Come to Smiths to trade.
cheapest place on earth" He must
describe his merchandise as he would
in private conversation over the coun.
ter to a customer, and then quote the
price. This will nearly always act as
a clincher and will at least put him
on a standing with the catalogue
house. In fact it will give him an ad
vantage over the catalogue house, for
in almost every case he can sell the
same grade of merchandise cheaper
than the catalogue house can sell it.
This is not mere theory but a state.
ment of fact, for the reason that the
country merchants business is oper,
ated at a very much less expense thar
that of the mail order merchant.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-09
SAW NAKED MAN
In the Woods Gnawing Bark From the
Trees.

Marietta, O.-AleXander Johnson, a
wealthy farmer of Fillmore. this coun
ty, left home, after telling his wife
that he was going to look after some
cattle. His failure to return alarmed
his wife, and, although searching par.
ties have made diligent search, his
whereabouts is deep mystery. 1t is
feared that he has committed suicide,
as he drew his money from the Cool
vile bank, and was heard to say few
days before that he would cut his
throat when his money was gone.
However, school children report that
they saw naked man gnaWing bark
from trees in a copse OF woods near
here, and the description they give tai
lies with that of Johnson.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-09
captain Willis Bounced.

Columbus, O.-Adjt. Gen. Critchfeld.
by command of Gov Harris, issued an
order dismissing Capt. Pearl Willis,
formerly of Co. |, Seventh Regiment.
Ironton, from the o. N. G. He was
convicted of having forged the name
of J. Davidson to receipts for armory
rent and is now an inmate of the Ohio
rcfOrmatory.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-09
camnaion Aaainst Druggists.

Columbus, O.-The state board OF
pharmacy is on the eve Of a crusade
against all proprietors of drug stores
in the state who conduct their places
of business without a registered phar-
macist Reports come to the board
that in numerous instances some OF
the owners Of stores, who are not pro.
fessional druggists, employ help who
have nothing but the certificates Of
assistant pharmacists.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-09
LEAPED TO DEATH
Did Travelling Salesman, With iron
Bar Tied to His Neck.

Cleveland, O.-With 50-pound iron
bar tied to his neck, c. G. Sickle, of
Pittsburg, salesman for the Pittsburg
Gauge G Supply Co, ieaped from Sui
eide pier" here and was drowned. Fish
ermen subsequently recovered the
body with graphing hooks.
Stickle's employers were greatly
surprised at his suicide, saying over
the long-distance telephone that his
financial circumstances and health had
been excellent. A dozen persons have
ended their lives by leapng from this
pier.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-09
State Senator Goes To Workhouse.

Ottawa, O-EX-Senator w. w. Sut-
ton was sentenced to the Toledo work
house by Mayor Summers for drunk
enness and disorderly conduct.
Sutton was the adopted son of
Stansbury Sutton and at the Geath of
the latter inherited a fortune, which
he squandered in ten years. He was
at one time one of the most brilliant
lawyers of Northwestern Ohio, but was
disbarred two years ago. He served
two terms as state senator from this
district,
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-09
Books EnulIsh Bows Like.

BY poll taken recently by the
Peoples Friend it was ascertained
that Robinson Crusoe" is still the
first favorite with the English boy.
Next to it come Coral Island" Uncle
Toms Cabin, 'Ivanhoe," "The Swiss
Family Robinson" Treasure Island .
Pilgrims Progress" Westward Ho!"
oliver Twist" and David Copper.
field"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-09
onerator Saved Drowninu Bov.

Bellefontaine, O.-Frank Laubis. 8,
living at Hepburn, fell into lake while
fishing. Frank Spencer telegraph
operator, rushed from mis- office, and
after wading about in the water for
some time, stumbled over the body Of
the little boy. Rushing to the shore
with the little body in his arms, Spen-
Ger worked over the almost lifeless
form for nearly an hour, and finally
was rewarded in seeing the boy return
q life
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-09
Amusement for chlIdren.

If parents would invest in small
amount Of ordinary modelling clay they
would feel we'll repaid in seeing what
source Of amusement it is for the
children. They rarely tire OF the
work, and very quickly learn to model
useful household articles. Vases, jar.
dinieres and even flower boxes can be
made, and when covered with enamel
paint prove useful for the summer pi,
azza.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-09
Recognized Each others Voices.

Zanesville, O.-Mrs. Mary Simpson,
of this city, and Mrs. Jane Wade, of
Newark, blind sisters, met for the first
time in 25 years Notwithstanding
their blindness and their long estrange-
ment, they recognized each others
voices when they first met.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-09
Taft Win Attend

Springfield, O.-Col J, w. Burke.
president of the National Millers' as
sociation. received a message from
Secretary Taft, accepting the invita-
ton to be the guest of the association
in st. Louis. May 80, and to make an
address
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-09
Germans Goinq To Toledo.

Hamilton, O.-Max Henning, presi-
dent of the Ohio State German.Amer-
lean Federation, announced that the
annual state convention will be held
in Toledo August and 4. 1t is ex-
pected that 1000 Germans will attend
from all Ohio cities.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-09
LAUGHED WHEN SENTENCED
Did Woman SaIoonkeeper For Violat.
ing the Liquor Law.

Springfield, o. Mrs. Fredericka
Stark, who conducts a saloon on East
Main street, was before Judge Geiger,
of the probate court, for the second
offense of Sunday violation. She con-
fessed her guilt and was fined $50 and
given ten days in jail. Mrs. Stark
said she was ready to enter upon her
sentence, and she laughed while be-
ing escorted up the stairs to her cell
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-09
Ohio Wheat Crop Damaged.

Columbus, O.-As result of freezing
weather, the wheat crop of Ohio has
been damaged, according to the month
ly bulletin of the state board of agri-
culture. The condition of wheat on
May /. as compared with an average. is
IA per cent, or 13 points below the con-
dition reported on April |.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-09
Nictorv Eor HDrvs "

Washington c. H., O--The special
election under the Beal law in this
city resulted in victory for the
"drys" by majority of 151 votes. A
total Of 1867 votes were cast-909
dry and 76S wet" This is the
largest dry" city in Ohio, and the
temperance workers waged a terrific
battle.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-09
Guthrie Appointed.

Columbus, O.-State School Com
missioner Jones announced the ap-
pointment of ]. w. Guthrie Of Alliance,
rs statistician. vice King G. Thompson.
resigned. Thompson has engaged in
business.