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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1907-02-28
Men Changers Entertain.

Gentlemen's night at Battenkill Val
ley Grange, Feb. q. proved success
in every way. The lecturer for the
evening. w. w. Bennett, provided the
following program.
An original poem by the poet of the
Grange, A. j. Davis, which was espc.
cially good. A discussion on the qnes-
ton Of Which Is more profitable to
the farmer 10 raise, the trotting horse
or the draft horse!" was led by DIR. j..
Y. Page and District Deputy Roberts,
followed by remarks Of other gentle
men present. j. n. Dinond gave 3
very interesting talk regarding the
manufacture Of straw hats. that having
been his business the greater part OF
his life. he told how straw hats were
made from the braiding OF straw 10 the
finished hat; most Of the straw for
mems hats being made in China, where
the employees work for two cents per
day. Mr.. Dimond showed samples Of
many kinds Of straw, and hats in dif-
ferent stages Of completion. He showed
one straw bonnet made over iifly years
ago, when all the hats were braided
and sewed by hand in the United
States instead OF sending 10 China for
the straw and work.
After the serving Of an oyster sup
per by the gentlemen Of the Grange.
the ladies being the guests Of the even
ing, the meeting closed, every one
present voting il . success.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1907-02-28

--Isan. u. X. SssnopAs has t~sn
hossed vita m siaAes ~ The grip.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1907-02-28

Mr. and Mrs Reuben Rentley res
18th.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1907-02-28
SUNDERLAND.

The Town Clerk reports IA births
and 10 deaths in town during the year
| 1905. OF the deaths were children
under years of age, the oldest of the
remaining being 81 years. "a days,
youngest rs years, 10 months, 10 days,
averaging (for the7) 81 years, month";
20 days.
SYNDICATE,
Mr. md Mrs Reuben Rentley re.
turned from Brattleboro Monday, Feb.
18th.
Obituary.
Mrs. Leon Bentley whose burial took
place in Newfane, Feb. 10th, was a
member of the W. G. r. IT,, Of Sand
gate, from which place the family
moved to Arlington in the spring OF
1906. Mrs. Bentley was in her 2lst
year. She was well liked by all who
knew her and one who will be missed,
she leaves two little boys, her husband,
father, mother, a sister and brother
to mourn her loss.
LANDGROvE.
Charles Whitney is on the sick list.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur D. Bates have
gone to Albany, N. Y.
Eli Wilmington is working for G.
Harris drawing logs.
After the 18th of February we shall
be without Post Office.
1T was % degrees below zero Sat
urday morning, Feb. %.
Mr.. Lemuel Streeter from Rutland
is at his home in Landgrove.
There was a prayer meeting at q.
w. Thompson's Friday evening.
Ed. Tits boy who has been sick
for long time is said to be slowly
gaining.
1T is reported that Mr.. Harmon has
sold his mill at the Hollow to NJ. }.
Hapgood Of Peru,
Mrs. c. w. Towslee OF this town
has quilt composed Of $3.50 pieces
and they are all silk and velvet. 1t is
beauty.
The little daughter Winnie, Of Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Abbott, fell out OF a
chair the other night and hurt her
shoulder quite badly, but is getting
better now. Fl
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1907-02-28
Green Cut Bone the Cheapest Poul.
try Food

The problem OF finding cheap poul-
try food that will increase egg prodae.
ton during the winter when eggs are
high Las been solved by those farmers
who purchase Green Cut Bone for their
Poultry. &. s. Page OF Hyde Park,
VI. grinds many thousand pounds an
nual'y OF this article and is this year
selling Il for $3.50 per barrel ~ go
pounds freight prepaid 10 buyers rail-
road station. There IL now 10 neces-
siiy for gong without this staple Ponl-
try FOOD. II you cannot use barrel
youryeif, es some 81 your n.ighbors
10 Join "a with you. You win find il n
valuable egg-produeer.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1907-02-28

Brazil Laid is on the sick list.
Henry Lucia was In Manchester
one day last week.
Prayer meeting Friday evening.
Wish to see all present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton Towslee
we're in Granville one day last week.
Miss Amy HARDWOOD visited rela-
,ives and friends in Pawlet few days
last week.
Miss Young, our school teacher,
celebrated WashIngton's birthday with
exercises by the school.
Rev. and Mrs Charles l.. Carhart
dined with Mrs. Mary Phelps and Mrs.
G. A. Towslee recently.
John c. Roberts is in South Wal.
lingford looking Mt a farm. Miss May
Frost is staying with Mrs. Roberts.
Mrs Mary Phelps and Almira Sykes
of Dorset called on Mr.. and Mrs. Chas.
Phelps Of South Dorset one day last
week.
--George Baker. who is visiting in
this place, has al last moved his goods
from North Clarendon 10 Smithtown.
near West Rutland.
Mr.. Horning Of New York, book
keeper Of the chair factory in Airing.
ton, and Mr.. johnson Of Arlington,
we're at A. A. Roberts one day las,
week.
A number from here attended the
play, "Ye Deestrict Skule." given by
The w.R.c. Among them were Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Towsiey. Mrs. Geo. Baker
and daughter Carrie. Henry Roberts
and Mr.. and Mrs. n. o. Whe,en and
family. All reported a good time.
WEST ARLINGTON.
Mrs. I'd. Hall is very III.
Mrs. 7. Hayes is III with the grip.
Pred Farnham Of Dandy spent Sun
day with bis brother, II. NJ. Parnham.
Mrs. j. c. Poor was called 10 Cam.
bridge, n. v. by The illness Of her
mother.
Miss Estslls Harrington Of Burr
ard Burton Seminary spent few days
Al home iss, week.
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Miss Msndc Adams is visiting in
Adams. Mass.
Miss Mary Long spent Sunday al
llrr home In North Clarendon.
Miss julia caliinan Of Bennington
spent Sunday al Der home herr.
Miss Emma Benedict 81 Marches
,er ~ss 10 town several days recently.
Miss Clara Perkins Of Manchester
was a guest al l.. Hsrd's over Sunday
Mrs Floenee Hard Of Science
,ady. y. Y, visited her psrnts here
Recently.
Miss Flora Hamilton Of Eagle
Bridge, n. ". il caring TOT Miss Add,e
Holden, who a. qaii~ III.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-05-23

PROTECTION IN THE BALANCE.
How the Stand-Patters Captured Pres
ident Roosevelt

A belated speech on the te tiff, plr-
porting to have been delivered by
Congressman Cleary on June IS, has
just been published in a special mum
Der of the Congressional Record. The
reason for holding It back until now is
evident, for it could not be published
until President Roosevelt had decided
to stand pat, as the speech took the
position that the president was on the
same ground as the Protective Tariff
league, which advances the idea that
the tariff law is a sacred contract with
the trusts and combines that it would
be wicked to abrogate. The publica-
ton now of this belated speech gives
an inside history Of the fractional fight
in the Republican party, ever tariff re-
vision. For when this speech purports
to have been delivered, both the tariff
reform faction and the ultra-protec-
tionists were claiming the president
as on their side of the issue and it
was not until the now famous stand
pat agreement between Speaker Can
non and the president at Oyster Bay
was consummated that it was known
which faction should really claim him.
The McCleary speech was evidently
held in allegiance until the stand-pat-
tiers captured the president.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-05-23
b. DAVID GRAI4AM PHILIPS. AuAar Of Wt
N2HRUT NS RpNs AQQa5ZZ2RN O9Z4ATT1

the crimes he committed for his ben
eft and by his order, and where he
could disclaim responsibility and even
knowledge. The great lawyers of the
country have been most ingenious in
developing corporate law in the direc-
ton of making the corporation a COM
plete and secure shield between the
beneficiary of a crime and its conse-
quences; but before a great f1nancier
a use this shield perfectly, he must
build up a system-he must find lieu
tenants with the necessary GOODNESS,
courage and cunning; he must teach
them to understand his hints; he must
educate them, not to point out to him
the disasagreeable things involved in
his orders, but to execute u%nquestion.
ably, to efface completely the trail be-
tween him and them, whether or not
they succeed in covering the round
about and faint trail between them
selves and the tools that nominally
commit the crimes.
Wilmot was the instrument he en-
ployed to put the coal industry into
condition for reorganization" He
bought control of one of the coal rail
roads and made Wilmot president of
it. Wilmot, taught by twenty years
of his service, knew what was expect
ed of him, and proceeded to do it. He
put in a loyal" general freight agent
who also needed no instructions, but
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-05-23

Column after. column has been writ.
ten deploring the fact that the buyer
spends her or his money away from
home. that she or he is helping to build
up the mail order house to the detri-
ment of the home merchant. The n
timent is good and the cause is worthy
of the efforts being made to stop this
undertow; but no amount of writing.
and no amount of home patriotism will
ever overcome the bad effects Of the
dead merchant in the little town. The
truth a be plainly seen.
Let us turn back to the general
stores and look up the proprietor of
any one. He probably will be found
busy waiting on a customer, but if not
he will tell you that it is not the cata-
logues alone that he fears, but also
that it is the lethargy of these two
dealers. They are helping to drive
away trade from home.
1 have wandered from the subject
and gotten over on the buyers side
of the fence; but isn't it well at times
to look at the other side of this pitiable
story? I started to write a few lines on
Why People Should Trade at Home"
and have gotten into the field of "Why
the Home Merchant Should Induce
People to Trade at Home" 1t may be
fair to the little town to once in a
while throw a few shovels full of earth
on the dead merchant, lest he stinketh
and polluteth the rest.
EDWARD T. HALE.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-05-23
DEAD MERCHANT
HE SOMETIMES DRIVES TRADE
AWAY FROM THE TOWN.
HINDRANCE TO LIVE MERCHANT
Are as Much to Be Feared as the
Composition Of the Catalogue
Houses-shouId Be Awak-
ened or Buried.

Why should the home merchant be
~patronized instead of the mail order
house? The subject has been ex-
hausted almost and from all points Of
view and all sides there is no valid
reason why the merchant at home
should not-excepting two, price and
articles wanted.
1t is not the intention Of the writer
to jot down a pleasant flow of Ian
guage or to produce an interesting bit
of reading matter, but merely to state
in a fey simple sentences what have
seen and learned of the competition be-
tween the catalogue houses and the
home merchants. In the first place no
one community suffers greatly in this
competition. That makes the problem
all the more difficult in solution. l
mean by this that the majority of buy
ers in no n community purchase by
mail. The business of the mail order
house is scattered over a large terri.
tory, the number of orders coming
from any n community compared
with the whole is comparatively small
to the number of orders in the town.
There is an exception to this in a COM
munity where the home merchants are
dead ones and ask eXhorbitant prices.
To Illustrate. There is a little city in
the central part of Wisconsin, a beau
tiful little place, with its shady streets
and pleasant homes. 1t has several
general stores owned by live, wide
awake merchants, who are hustling for
business, yet are always pleasant and
ready to visit with a customer. They
are not put out at any time to show
goods, taking down bolt after bolt Of
cloth and maybe then not making even
a five-cent sale. They take that as
part of their business; they are always
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-05-23

willing to send post-haste to the city
for any article they may not have in
stock that is wanted by a customer;
their stocks are up-to-date and free
from shelf-worn goods. These men
make the humblest customers feel vel.
come in their stores, and particular at
tention is paid to waiting on children,
giving them even better measure and
quality than their elders would re-
ceive. And these amen are advertisers.
Their ads in the local papers are
changed regularly and show time and
study. They meet the mail order man
more than half way in special sales
and clearing Of odds and ends. Here
is an instance where there is no legi-
innate eXcuse for a person sending
away after goods. And the people do
not. Very few articles of general mer-
chandise are shipped into that city.
The buyer and seller are working in
harmony to their own betterment and
advantage.
But look at the other side. The city
which we have in mind has one hard
ware and one furniture store. Both
have fairly gooG stocks for the size of
their circle of trade, but just step into
either one of these stores. The pro.
prietor may be in the back room or the
back yard for all you know, but by and
by some stir is heard and l~eisurely he
makes his appearance-neither store
has need of a clerk-and probably with
some grumbles about being disturbed,
asks what is wanted. There might as
well be placards In the store anncunc-
ing Guy what I've got and keep still"
and I'VE are busy, don't disturb u.s."
No efforf. is made to show you an arti-
Gle; nothing is ever taken down from
the shelves unless directly asked for.
Neither hardware nor furniture man
acts willing to get what you want If he
does not have it in stock. And again
neither one of these stores believe in
advertising. They use no space in
their home papers; a newcomer would
never know the city possessed such
places of business enterprise. Who
ever heard Of a country hardware or
furniture store having a special sale,
or harvest sale or the like? But why
not? These two storekeepers are bit
ter against the mail order houses. |
wonder why? ! talked with the rail
road agents in that little city and Es
said lots Of hardware and furniture
was shipped in. He said, "One day |
made out an express order for $34 to
oay for a bill Of hardware. | told the
man to 60 up and see II the merchant
couldn't I'll the order. He went but
oon came beck, saying that he didn't
have half Of the stun On hand and that
wouldn't cut : BIT 90 what he ala
a4a--4m #t||- #F...|HHU W. RI .H.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-05-23
All Cutting Saving.

Knives, 40 matter how carefully
sharpened, are little saws; the grind
ing away of the steel, done by the
stone, is not an even work, but when
the edge gets thin is a process Of tear
ing away tiny bits Of steel by the grit
of the stone. This tearing makes the
teeth. A fine stone makes fine teeth.
a coarse stone coarse teeth. A carving
knife, used on meat, is s~harpened on a
coarse stone or a steel, and has coarse
teeth, although it's edge is thick. It's
action in parting the meat is more that
of a saw than a fine wedge. No mat
ter how soft 1t may be, it will not
cut easily unless it is drawn over the
meat and not simply pressed down.
A razor, however, with its paper-like
edge, will cut into flesh with a simple
pressure--it is a wedge dividing the
fibers of flesh just as a wedge of iron
divides the fibers Of the log it splits.
But a razor is a saw, too, only as it is
ground on the finest stones and later
finished with a leather strop, its teeth
are very fine indeed-hundreds and
hundreds to the inch CT blade,-St.
Nicholas.
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of Constantinople constantly had q
number of trained Arabian horses (di-
rect descendants of the famous horse
owned by Ishmael 1000 years ago.
thrown forward as scouts, who from
time to time returned to camp and by
a peculiar whinny and neigh reported
the proximity of the enemy.
But, to ONE down to the present
day, it is related by a retired New
England clergyman, whose sands of
life had nearly run out, that one day
on leading his horse down through a
lane to a brook for a drink the animal
suddenly halted and, turning it's head
round, grabbed up with its teeth one of
its hind shoes which had just dropped
off, and, holding it in it's mouth with
the nails dangling, it backed up against
a stone wall and clapped it onto it's
hoof and with a few violent kicks
nailed it on again.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-05-23

busted himself at destroying his own
and all the other coal roads by a sys-
tenn Of secret rebates and rate cut
tings. AS the other roads, one by one,
descended toward bankruptcy, Roe
buck bought the comparatively small
blocks Of stock necessary to give him
control Of them. When he had power
over enough of them to establish a
partial monopoly Of transportation in
and out of the coal districts, he was
ready for his lieutenant to attack the
mining properties. Probably his or
ders to Wilmot were nothing more
definite or less innocent than: Wi.
mot, my boy, don't you think you and
| and some others of our friends ought
to buy some Of those mines, If they
come on the market at a fair price?
Let me know when you hear Of any
attractive investments of that sort"
That would have been quite enough
to "tip it off" to Wilmot that the time
had come for reaching out from con.
troll of railway to control Of mine. He
lost no time; he easily forced one
mining property after another into a
position where its owners we're glad
were eager-to sell all or part of the
wreck Of 1T lat a fair price" to him
and Roebuck and our friends" It
was as the result Of n of these
moves that the great Manasquaie
mines were so hemmed in by ruinous
freight rates, by strike troubles, by
floods from broken machinery and
mysteriously leaky dams, thai | YVES
able to buy them "at a fair price
that is, at less than one-fifth their
value. But at the time-and for a
long time afterward-I did not know,
On my honor did not, suspect, what was
the cause, the sole cause, Of the
change Of the coal region from a place
Of peaceful industry, content with fair
profits, to an industrial chaos with
ruin impending.
Once the railways and mining com.
panies were all on the verge Of bank.
ruptcy, Roebuck and his friends
were ready to buy, here control for
purposes Of speculation, there owner
ship for purposes Of permanent in
vestment. This is what is known as
the reorganizing stage. The processes
Of high finance are very sImple--first.
buy thu comparatively small holdings
necessary to create confusion and dis
astrr: second. create confusion and
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-05-23

disaster. buying up more and more
wreckage; third. reorganize; fourth,
offer the new stocks and bonds to the
public with q mighty blare of trum-
pets which produces a boom market;
fifth, unload or the public, pass divi-
dends, issue unfavorable statements,
depress prices, buy back cheap what
you have sold dear. Repeat ad in
finitum, for the law is for the
laughter of the strong, and the public
is an eager ass. To keep up the fic-
ton of responsibility" the inside ring
divides into two parties for its cam.
paigns-one party to break down, the
other to build up. One takes the
profits from destruction and departs,
perhaps to construct elsewhere; the
other takes the profits from construc-
ton and departs, perhaps to destroy
elsewhere. AS their collision is mere,
ly tacit, no conscience need twitch. l
must add that, at the time of which
I am writing, l did not realize the ex-
istence of this conspiracy. knew, of
course, that many lawless and savage
things were done, that there we're ras,
Gals among the high financiers, and
that almost all financiers now and
then did things that were more or less
rascally; but 1 did not know, did not
suspect, that high finance was through
and through brigandage, and that the
high financier, by long and unmolested
practice of brigandage, had come to
look on it as legitimate, lawful bust
ness, and on laws forbidding or ham.
pering it as outrageous, socialistic, an
archistic, attacks upon the social or.
der!"
Roebuck had given me the impress.
sion that it would be six months, at
least, before what I was in those fatu.
Gus days thinking of as "our" plan for
putting the coal industry on a sound
business basis" would be ready for the
public. So, when he sent for me short.
ly after l became engaged to Miss Ell
lersly, and said: Melville will publish
the plan on the first of next month and
will open the subscription books on
the third-a Thursday" l was taken
by surprise and was anything but
pleased. His words meant that, if
wished to make a great fortune, now
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-05-23

was the time to buy coal stocks, and
buy heavily-for on the very day of
the publication of the plan every coal
stock would surely soar. Buy l must;
not to buy vas to throw away a for
tune. Yet how could | buy when l
was gambling in textile up to my limit
of safety, if not beyond?
| did not dare confess to Roebuck
what | vas doing in textile. He was
bitterly opposed to stock gambling,
denouncing it as both immoral and
unbusinesslike. No gambling for him!
When his business sagacity and fore
sight CD informed him a certain stock
was going to be worth a great deal
more than it vas then, quoted at, he
would buy outright in large quanti-
ties; when that same sagacity and
foresight of the fellow who has him
self marked the cards warned him
that a stock was about to fall, he sold
outright. But gamble-never! And |
felt that, II he should learn that I had
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-05-23
SOME REMARKABLE HORSES.
Wonderful Stories About the Steeds
of Famous Men.

In his letters to Lord Granville, pub
lished by the Royal Philosophical So
ciety, who was also greatly interested
in natural history, Smithson, the
founder of the Smithsonian institution
in America, relates how the horse of
Alexander the Great, Bucephalus,
would at night, on hearing a blast of
the trumpet from the soldiers on guard
showing the approach Of the enemy,
run at great speed to his masters tent
and with his teeth grab the sleeping
monarch and shake him until he sprang
into the saddle and galloped toward
the enemy.
Also that the great Caliph Haroun-el-
Raschid in the eight century in march
ing toward the forces of Queen Irene
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-05-23
Guirnard the Idol of Paris

gonard, for whose paintings to-day
fabulous sums have been paid, lost
his commission because he dared to
fall in love with his patron. Guimard
had a theater in her own house, and
her entertainments there were
deemed e%xtravagant in an age of
luxury. Paris could not spare her
to London until she was past her for.
tieth year.. She was a sort Of boudoir
adviser to Marie Antoinette, and SO
great was the esteem in which she
was held that n of the most dis.
tinguished sculptors Of the day mod.
eled her foot, and when her arm was
broken in a state accident, a mass
for her speedy recovery was cele-
brated at Notre Dame.-Macmillan's
Magazine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-05-23
Third Term Feared.

The Republican members of the
lower house of the legislature Of Penn
~sylvania defeated by a viva voce vote,
without debate, a resolution asking
President Roosevelt to be a candidate
for a third term. 1t is said the Penn.
sylvania Republican leaders fear that
President Roosevelt running for a
third term would not carry the state.