The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-01-30
MIL ORDER HOUSES.
It is Better Policy to Buy at Home.
rFrom the Hridgton News.


wares. brought IN the United States
courts. and some of their customers in
this section who have been "stung"
will watch proceedings with grim salts
faction. :.
Recently a friend of the writer wit
messed an amusing scene that Is PROB
ably duplicated every week wlthin the
circuit of the territory covered by the
News. A number OF ioaters were sun
Mug themselves on the steps of neigh
boring country store, when Well-to-oo
farmer drove up with a patent brass
bedstead in his cart, bearing well
known mail order house tag. The store
keeper entered into little good natur-
ed banter with the man, in the course
of which he discovered that he had paid
fifty cents more for his purchase than
the said storekeeper charged; the bed
was inferior III every way ana just SIX
inches short of standard width.
The truth is that very few mail order
houses handle the real standard goods
and YOUR home dealer can beat them
every time on the same quality of
article. The sheeney trader who ex-
blamed to his customer that he lost
money on his sales but made a slight
profit on his paper and string, has
about as good an argument as the
average mail order house otfersfas a
bait to eaten the nnWary.
A Brdgton party, who visited the
Worlds Fair at Chicago, on the way
home went into the magnificent Mar
Shal Field Department store. he
stock was large and elaborate, but they
had no use for $500 ermlne-llned capes,
the $1,000 rugs, or the high priced I'M
ported dress goods. One OF the ladies'
purchased Il very pretty necktle TOT
$3.50 and a gentleman of the party, by
way of a Joke on his daughter, secured
at the five cent counter All ingenious
device for pounding tough beefsteaK.
In that fine stock was nothing else that
the party absolutely required thaI they
couldn't find on the counter OF our
local stores; that is, nothing Within
reach of their pocket BOOKS. W hen
the Young man to whom tne nechIie
was presented oStentatlously dlsplayed
it before the clerk In a local dry goous
store-P. p. Burnham's, If we remem-
Der correctly-he turned to the traue
mark and discovered that he was
then getting but S1.00 for the sell
same tie. Mr.. Burnham, no doupt,
had to pay as much or more tor IL, oot
must be content with a profit within
the reach of his trade.
The smart Yankee on the stage VINO
demurs at paying twenty-five Genus
for a ten cent drink is shown the ele-
gait paintings on the wall. "1 es, L
paid for the paintings, yesterday, ne
reiolus. If YOU purchase OF the city
stores. YOU have to pay tor the on
naintirGs uretty often. This principle
extends to every line Of business ana
is AS uuaterable as the laws OF the
Modes and Pprsians. The writer is IN
mo Lahi+ at letting for the same quail
itv Of inhhinU IN Am establishment ten
,,JIss ont of BOSTON. lust three times
,yLaf IS charged in Bridgton; and The
rules are invariably cash or delivery.
The exnrripnce of the Norway citizen
who vartpd to get city clothes at coun-
try nrIcps is quite familiar. He pur-
CHASED a lob lot of cloth and had a
fashionapDp city tailor cut it for him.
Inen he took if nome and had his local
faiInr make if mn. The suit was about
SIX inches short all round. The Nor
way rliizal. began to storm around III q
,yay mat bade fair to rum his new suit.
see mere hoW DO you explain thls?'
he asked the tailor The knight OF the
shears scratched his head meditatlVeIs
and then drawtpd out: "Well, | reckon
Yer duubpd sight bigger man, Bin, III
Narwav taan Won be in Bostlngi"
4 Hridotol, trader pays less rent, less
far clerk hrp advertising. and every
tLIug else. H. doesn't carry large
sninI,s stack He has every advantage
aver his CITY brother except in the vol
umr of trade. He knows his customers
Individual wants and he caters to them.
Uptakps hack YOUR purchase if it ism t
Satisfactory and gives YOU little lee
wav if vonr credit is sufficient, H. the
matter Of PAYMENTS, He is reliable,
,rnrtfv and oct. at.able. He is here at
nraspnt AS he was last vear-and ex,
n cts to he next He is YOUR neighbor;
lie contributes his proportion to toWu
imnrnvaments and to the support of
+hd ohnrnb is a frlIow sufferer in all
the vicissitudes of village life. In the
first Mace II is for the advantage of
xonr nocket hook to patronize him, be-
c c uhen ali is said and done, he can
eve Won thp most for YOUR money. 1t
p Tcnr d,,ty 70 natronize him AS a
,,ai9,I,hor IVA a nnhlic spirited citizen,
W " ,',,,a II ~ vopr nncket hook. YOUR
inUu ~ f,,r ;Jav and your village
ions,t " i''- F''
4'i o.! ,.o,, ,,io,, mn J.. ton cent magazine
,,,3 ~. arct ti,i,,n Won see is the picture
' o. wy ,I,i.;,1,r ,,lanI,;na five wear old
W q Ir,,;dino II around annie
gu :" On wy ,+:',,e LIE and along the
"t.o'' t,,ro,,.,I Foot vines And she's