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Going to Get.

that they are in reality paying more
for an inferior grade of goods than
those sold by the home merchant,
which probably cost them q few cents
more.
Since the catalogue house has
sprung into the commercial world and
begun operations in the United States.
all kinds of schemes have been tried
and worked to get the money from
the people that are always looking for
bargains. No expense has been spared
in their struggle for the almighty dol
lar of the country people, and they
have been so far successful, at the
great expense of the home town of the
people that sent their money to these
concerns.
Magazines have been started for
the sole benefit of the catalogue house,
and these circulated among the cOun-
try people at ten or Is cents a year.
They build up a circulation on this
low price of hundreds of thousands;
this circulation brings to them mil
lions of dollars in advertising from the
catalogue houses and this money ex-
ptuuSu lol 10 thdh
doubled from the sa<ss of these con-
Germs to the country people who are
lo.,ers by the transaction.
Catalogues are sent out telling the
people that the house from which they
came is the cheapest place in the
country to buy, and 1t is. If the person
receiving this catalogue wants a cheap
article, not only in price. but also in
make and material. The farmer re-
ceives this catalogue, looks it over,
and after reading the well composed
guarantee or assurance that the goods
described in it are the very best that
can be found anywhere. sends in an
order. The house receives the order
and Immediately ships the articles
wanted. The farmer drives many
miles to get them and when the box is
opened 1t is found to contain some
thing much below his expectations,
but this does not satisfy his mind on
the fact that he has been duped and
that he is not getting his full money
value. In a second order he may be
treated the same as the first one, but
still he may think that he has saved
money by buying it where he could
get 1T cheap.
a: the same time the merchant at
home has the goods on the shelf in
his store waiting for them to be taken
away SO that he can replace them with
newer goods. thereby keeping his
stock fresh and up-to-date. If he has
not the article wanted he can order 1t
from the wholesaler or manufacturer
and it will be sent to the purchaser
ia as good condition and short time
as If it had been ordered from a cata-
logue house. The home merchants
business must be kept up and in order
to do this it is absolutely necessary
that the people at home patronize
him and help him keep up with the
times, or else he will soon be out of
the struggle for existence among the
coritry people.
The home merchant should rot be
-raected to pay the highest pric,. for
pr 1850 and farm products and then
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or take an interest in the surround
ings thereof.
Home trading makes home indus
tries. brings more to the town and
keeps them there. and it helps to build
up the place. But the town will be at
stand-still SO long as the people per-
sist in this way of robbing the home
merchants of the right to live and do
business among them.
If the people will keep their money
at home there will be no need for
complaint. The place will assume a
lively air, 1t will take on metropoli-
tan look, and the people will say to
their neighbor that business is good.
and it will be. as long as the people
continue to trade in the home mar
kets. The least that person can do
toward the betterment of the COM
munity and his own interests, is to
keep the money at home and see to 1T
that it is put where it is most needed
and wanted.
This should be vital question to
all concerned in the welfare of his
community and 1t should be an estab-
lished rule that one should not seek
for things in other parts that he can
get at home.
FENTON ]. LAWLER,
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UTILIZING CORN FODDER.
The Best Way 10 to Cut It UP Into
Short Lengths.

It is desirable to utilize all the
fo6u value there is In the corn fodder.
though the usual way of feeding 1t to
the stock is very wasteful method.
Where the daily supply of fodder Is
thrown in the barn yard at feeding
time. what the cattle do not eat Is
trampled down and DESTROYED SO far
as the feeding value is concerned.
The leaves and tho stock are all stock
will eat. From one-third to one-half
the length Of the fodder is readily
eaten In racks without cutting. When
the stalks are heavy. coarse and hard.
the upper half may be cut for feed
with sharp broad axe and heavy
block II but a few cattle are fed. For
a larger herd. says a correspondent
of Farm and Home, we have adopted
a large shearing knife. home made.
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publican for the first time in years.

publican for the first time in years.
Bill didn't boast much. He simply
repeated his assertion that Ollie would
beg to kiss the baby before he got
through with him. Then he went up
to cambridge on business and caught
the train for Waverly. and what did
he do but buy tax claim on a piece
of land that belonged to KILLER. Ollie
had neglected to pay the taxes and It
was advertised among the delin-
quents. SO Bill bought it. Just to spite
Ollie and make him spend money.
People began to say that Bill Durham
could be just as bad an enemy as he
was a good friend, but they didn't
know him until he had two Of Ollie's
stray cows that were feeding along
the roadside taken to the pound.
When Ollie had to pay one dollar each
fine he was so mad he threatened to
lick Bill.
That's the way the feud stands now
Bill still VOWS that Ollie must kiss
his baby and ask his wife's permission
to do it. But Ollie swears he'll law
Bill out of Pike county before he'll
do it.
As for little Miss Durham. she is
growing prettier each day and from
present signs about the time she gets
to be II Ollie or any other human
l being will beg for the chance.
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viceable in very many ways cold
ch.sel must be drawn occasionally and
tempered by a blacksmith, then kept
sharp on the grindstone at home. As
a cutter of all sorts of soft iron. In.
Guiding rivets when taking repairs, II
Is invaluable. 1t should be driven by
quick. sharp blows, through the ar
ticle under treatment. which is placed
on an anvil or other solid iron. have
a piece of steel rail about two feet
long that | use as an anvil. 1t sets
on a block. To cut out old mower
knives and rivets on new ones, tighten
the loose ones and straighten them is
quick, easy work. The other day. says
writer in Farm and Home, I cut
down an old hoe. as shown in illustra-
ton. and made narrow, neat, light
garden hoe that is worth quarter.
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be turned down by the seller OF these
articles when he wants anything in
the merchants line. He should be the
first one to be consulted when the
farmer intends buying. He should be
seen and arrangements made for the
purchase of the article. if he does not
carry It in stock.
The home merchant advertises or
should advertise, in the home paper.
This keeps the home paper In the field
and helps the community along. The
people take the home paper because
it gives all the local news that they
cannot get any other way and thus the
advertisements of the merchants are
read by them. If the people do not
patronfze the home merchant he can
not afford to advertise. and without
advertising a paper will soon prove
failure. Soon the home paper is sent
to the wall for the want of support
from the merchants; it may have
large circulation, but without the mer'
chants help it will soon be fost to
sight. Then the merchant Is next to
get out of business for the want OF
support, and the town will decrease In
population, and the people Will won
der what the trouble is when the
editor and the merchant leave town
together.
The home merchant contributes to
the support of the church, he pays
his taxes to keep the schools up, he
contributes to the horse show, the fall
festival, and the hundred and one
things that he is supposed to help out
and give his support to. He is at the
head of the list for everything that is
for the good of the community and he
deserves the honest and hearty CO.
operation of all the people, all the
time, that are interested in the well
fare of the community in which they
live. The merchant helps to elect the
men that are to represent them in the
city. county, state and national af-
fairs, and he is ever on the go looking
to the interests of the people.
The people like to be entertained
and they will come many miles to
some amusement given by the mer-
chants of the town where they are
ever ready to go to sell their farm
products. The merchant cannot give
these entertainments unless he has
the support of the people and it is not
fair to expect this of the men that are
striving for livelihood. when the peo-
pie send their money to concern in
some far away city that will neither
contribute to any of these enterprises
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"Helpmeet" has had a curious his.
tory which began with the biblical
account of the creation. when "the
Lord God said, 1t is not good that
the man should be alone: l will make
him an help meet for him." That is
to say, fit assistant. But the two
words hove become curiously combin-
ed into 'helpmeet." and they are
constantly used as one. Moreover.
the confusion is increased by the cor
ruption of the words into "help-mate. -
and Macaulay writes of the waiting
woman who was generally consider
ed as the most suitable help mate for
a parson."
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using an extension OF the franc or the
front to keep wheel entirely clear of
tie box. our correspondent places the
wheel at the further end and builds
a protective cover on the inside of the
box in which the wheel turns. The
advantages are that the load is closer
to the wheel and there is less labor
in moving a load
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FEID IS RESULT
OF A REFUSAL
TO KISS BABY
Whole Section in Trouble Because
of Unappreciative Man
with Crouch.
COMMUNITY TAKES SIDES

That ollie kebIer Shall Yet Beg for
Privilege He seornfuIly Refused
kebier Had Loved Pretty Little
Ones Mother, and There 10 the Root
of the Whole TroubIe-Fisht So Far
Has Been Interesting, with Further
Developments Expected.
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POTATO Scab.

When you talk about scabby pota-
toes remember that scab is a disease
spreading by means of germs. These
germs may be on the seed potatoes
or in the soil. You may kill those on
the seed by soaking in formaldehyde.
Lime, ashes or manure will make the
germs in the soil more active.
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If your flock is of the kind known
as cross-bred. or mongrels. why not
select the best of the females and pur-
chase strong. vigorous, pure-bred
male to mate with them. 1t will in
crease the market value of next years
flock 25 rer cent
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There is no quicker way to trim
grapevines than as follows: Procure
sharp knife IL to IA inches in
length, and. posing 1t deity in the
hand. slash it quickly through the
cane to be removed. The action each
time must be so sudden as to make a
quick, clean cut. The vine will barely
move. 1t far exceeds, for speed, the
use of the pruning shears.
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Clever French Imitation.

The French manufacture a paper
linen so cleverly that it is almost i'm
possible. without examinat:ea. to d.
tect the difference between it ard dam
ask and even to the touch tho e--
ucies made of papier hinge crs very
much like linen, and are often vs.d in
its place.
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A Farm Combination.

Combination is the thing for farm
ers nowadays and the best combina.
ton of which we know, says Farm
Journal. is one that takes in the farm
er and his wife and their boys and
girls; this makes trust which IL hard
t. beat
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When cat looks poor and thin.
with ill-kept fur. no appetite, or a
ravenous one. for no good cause. it has
worms. Then get half grain of
santonine in one powder and mix in
half a teaspoonful of lard or molasses.
Stir with a clean splinter. and smear
on the foreleg where she can lick 1t
off
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Story About the Baby.

All those things happened years
ago. possibly ten. Bill Durham got
along pretty well in the lumber bust
ness. running sawmill over Newell
Mills way, and hauling to cambridge,
and his wife was just as pretty as
when she was girl. although in a
different sort of way. They were hap
py. but until few months ago their
happiness was incomplete.
Bill Dunham's friends said he hadn't
an enemy on earth. He was one of
the most popular men in Pike county
and lot of the Republicans up at
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but very few farm
ers know anything
about it. Some
have a dull one
that is of no use.
To be greatly SER
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NEW PLAN FOR WHEELsARRow
More Room and Easier Wheeling Are
Said to Be Its Advantages.

Here is a new idea of a wheelbar-
row published by Prairie Farmer.
The plan is brought out in the &C.
companying Illustration. Instead of
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Big Appetite But Short en- Milk.

Cold may cause a big appetite. but
If the food is all used in fighting the
cold, there will be very little left to
increase tie milk flow. Just take
s-6ice
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THE COLD cHisEL.
How II Can Be Used to Give New Life
to Old Hoe.

There isn't a more useful tool in the
hands of man than the cold chisel,
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KILLER Refused Precious Boon.

Nate never had seen the baby. so.
OF course. he spoke to it, and began
playing with 1t. and when it cooed
and laughed and wrinkled up Its dim
pied little face he didn't do thing
but stoop down and kiss her. Nate
is family man himself and has three
or four kids at home and likes them.
But Ollie never moved. He just stood
there and looked disguised and Nate
and Mrs. Durham talked baby and she
asked how Mrs. Giddings was. Then
Nate. not meaning to make any trou-
BILE, laughed and said, "Ollie. come and
kiss the baby. Ye amt afraid. are
ye?" Ollie said something about not
making fool of himself over any
slobbery brat and walked away.
Nate said afterwards he was SO mad
he could have kicked Ollie, and Mrs.
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The real trouble didn't start until
Margaret was over two months old.
Her mamma had her out riding in her
new go-cart (the one with the front
that let's down, and the blue silk para
sol. with robe to match. all covered
with blue ribbon) when. right in front
of Wickersham's store, they met Ollie
KILLER. He was standing there talk
ing to Nate Giddings. from over at
Paint.
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Durham was so hurt she almost cried.
She went straight home and at supper
she told her husband and Bill was hot
under the collar. OF course. he didn't
care whether Ollie Kibler ever kissed
his baby or not. In fact. he'd rather
he wouldn't, but that didn't make 1t
any better.
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swore KILLER Should Be Sorry.

And then and there Bill swore that
Ollie would kiss the baby or be sorry
for 1t. He went right up to the store
and told Ollie what he thought of him
before all the men and repeated his
vow that Ollie would be begging for a
chance to kiss the baby before he got
through with him. Ollie was just as
mad as Bill was and swore he would
MT kiss anybody's squawking, colicky
brat. The idea of saying that when
Margaret never had collie but once
and that was when Lizzie Muntz gave
her lump of sugar.
Bill and Ollie came near fighting
and would have fought If Mr.. Wick
ersham hadn't told them to dry up or
else go out in the street and fight it
out.
The trouble grew serious at once.
Half the people In town declared that
Ollie ought to be tarred and feath-
cred. A few said that the Dunhams
oughtn't to be SO touchy. The rest
Just kept quiet.
A few days later Bill came out az a
candidate for township trustee on the
Republican ticket, just to beat Ollie,
who was a Democrat. He only had
three weeks to campaign in, but he
swept the township and it went Re.
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A JOURNALIST
WITHOUT ARMS

A veritable Mark Tapley has been
discovered In the mining dis
trict OF Seaton Delaval, says the
Sheffield Telegraph When he was
n child of six, Mr. f. Hartshorne
was caught in a steam pillow and lost
both his arms. Despite this depri-
walton, Mr.. Hartchorne showed him
self pushful. He loves the poems
Of Chevy Chase" because It tells
OF Widdrington, who
When his legs were smitten of
He fought upon the stump.
Without arms, Mr.. Hartshorne has
conducted an extensive press CORE
spondence, using his teeth to write,
and producing an excellent cali
graphy He has never given way.
as weaker men might have done. Re
Is married and has three children
and he does more with his teeth
than many OF his journalistic con
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DANDLED ON MA
POLEON'S KNEE

The old Countess De La Pesouse
De Bonfils. who died the other day
at the Hotel d. Albertas at AK, az
the age of ninety-one, was handled
as a child on the knee OF the first
Emperer Napoleon at ST. Helena. She
was born there. where her father.
General Count Montholon was one
of the little band of devoted retainers
who followed Napoleon into his cap
tivity end on the occasion OF her
baptism was held at the font by
the exiled emperor. She was about
Ave years old at the time OF the
latter's death. and during the last
two or three years OF his life had
been his constant companion and
playmate. To her father. the Count
De Montholon. the world is iudebt-
ed for some of the most interesting
"reminiscences OF Napoleon's life and
death at st. Helena.-Chicago Trib-
une.
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DOG INITIATES MASTER

Miss Agnes Slack, secretary of the
Worlds w. C. u, praised at a
dinner party in Boston the tenn
perance Of women.
who ever heard" she said. "a
woman complain about her food =?
Who ever heard of women gour-
NETS? Even the really fine cooks
are all men; for women do not take
sufficient. interest in food to attain
to such excellence in its prepare
ton as Brillat-Savarian or Gavarni
had.
81 am remined OF little story
about man. This story would Mt
many men, but where is the woman
it could be applied to?
IAN old gentleman, pointing to
his favorite dog, said proudly:
That dog certainly seems almost
human at times
Yes said his wife, "he growls
over his food almost as much as you
do Minneapolis Journal.
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AN ALARM CLOCK
FOR A PENNY

I've got the best alarm clock in
the business and Uncle Sam provides
1t for me- said the West Philadel-
phia business man of irregular hours
yesterday. 1.-TWO or three days of
each week / have to rise early. Our
postman always rings our doorbell
good and hard when he leaves any
mail. He comes along regularly as
clockwork at a. m, but does not
always leave mail for me, and. con
sequently the doorbell does not al
ways ring. When I want to get MP
I just buy a postcard in the after
noon and mail it to myself. It has
never failed to arrive in the early
mail, accompanied, of course by the
ringing of the bell by the postman
Telk about a cheap system, I can
make the most important kind of
an appointment for the morning and
fill 1t by the extra expenditure Of
a single penny" Philadelphia
Record.
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said e. Il. Carter and ]. NJ. Echols.
| viii. on the
18th DAY Or FEBRUARY. 1907
at ten O'Clock In the forenoon. at
the front door OF the law office of
Harold A. Ritz, In the city OF Blue
Held, Mercer County. West virgiaia
proceed to sell at public auction. to
the highest bidder. the following real
estate. towit:
A certain lot or parcel OF land sit
uated on the South side OF Summit
street. In Blueheld, Mercer County
West Virginia, bounded and describ-
ed as follows: BEGINNING at a
stake at the S. Il. corner OF lot No.
2, or the II. S. Carter and ]. NJ.
Echols plat; thence N. 16 deg. 15
min. w 1875 feet to stake on tho
south line OF Summit street: thence
lbs deg. so min. IL. with the south
line OF said Summit street, 40 feet
TO n stake; thence S. 20 deg. 10 min.
10. 1875 feet TO stake on the north
limo OF fifteen (15) feet wide al
10y; thence with the north line OF
said alley. s. 5s deg. so min. w.
10 feet TO the beginning. and being
known as Lot No. 1, OF the said
Carter ad Echols Plat.
TERMS OF SALE.
Cash I'm hand on day OF sale.
G. w. LAZENBY. Trustee.
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A MYSTERIOUS WORLD

What a mysterious world this is,
Good and evil, harmony and discord,
light and darkness, smiles and tears,
Today the sky is dark and gloomy;
no birds MARBLE and the flowers are
but withered symbols of the grave
Tomorrow all is sunshine, when It
is good to be alive; when birds sing
brooks babbDe and flowers bloom.
There can be but one rational mean
ing in life. and that is to view it as
a discipline. Use life as a disci-
line and you can never be quite
overcome by sorrow-Ex.
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trust executed by Ardalia Ratclln
aud Il. +. Ratclife. her husband
dated the 18th day OF April. 1904,
and recorded In the ofnco of the
Clerk of the County Court OF Mercer
County. In Trust deed book No. IL,
page 81. etc. 10 secure unto e. Z.
Carter and J. NJ. Echols the payment
OF certain notes therein described
and default having been made In
tho payment OF said notes. when. ac-
cording TO their tenor and effect
the same became due and payable.
and being required 80 to do by the
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BIGEFED DER TUESDAY EvnNINo FERRuARY u so7

cult Court OF the County OF Mer-
Ger on the 2Sth day Of January. 1897.
Henry J. Tabor. ct al. Plaintiff.
Against In Chancerv
Hugh J. Dudley. ct al. Defendant.
The object OF this suit is TO attach
and subject to sale certain real es-
tate mentioned and described In the
bill. being the interest of the de-
PENDANT Hugh j. Dudley therein, FOR
the payment Of debt due the COM
plaintiffs by the said defendant Hush
j. Dudley for the sum OF $54S.9O.
with interest thereon from the goth
day of August 1898. until paid. and
$3.50 costs or the Circuit Court or
farewell County, Virginia. and the
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costs Of this suit, etc, and for gen.
eral relief.
And il appearing from an amdavit
made and filed with the papers In
this cause that the defendants
Hugh J. Dudley. j. r. Dudley. Ma
riah L. Dudley, Walter Dudley. EN-
ily auckland. ]. J. auckland, C. f.
auckland, and NJ. h. Sarver. and C
F. auckland, Administrator OF w.
j. auckland. deceased. are non
residents OF the State OF West vir-
ginia. It is therefore, on motion Of
the plaintiff. by counsel. ordered
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that said defendants do appear a,
the Clerks office of the Circuit
Court OF Mercer County within one
month after the date OF the first
publication OF this order and do
what may be necessary 20 protect
their interest In this suit.
Attest: w. b. HoNAKER. Clerk
Sexton 6 Roberts. z Q.
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The Chicago Inter Ocean con
soies itself with the reflection that
Chicago must have attractions since
the population grows. notwithstand-
ing the smoke. But there's steady
increase in the population OF Hades.
Notwithstanding the nre.-Louisville
Courier Journal.
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ORDER PUBLICATION

WEST VIRGINTA:-At Rules
held in the Clerks Office of the Cir
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ferees 70 with pair OF hands
PAN Mall Gazette.
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TRUSTEES SALE.

BY virtue OF the authority vested
In the undersigned. by deed OF