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Built Up by ADVERTISING.

Enterprise of high order ever de.
serves admiration. No n for a mo-
ment can doubt the ability of men
who, starting on less than $10O, can
within rs years build up a business
amounting to more than $50, 600, 900
annually. This is the record of the
managers of the worlds greatest mail
order house. There is no secret about
this great success. 1t is simply a mat.
ter of judicious advertising. The mail
order house is an example Of persist.
ency, of careful, shrewd and highly
attractive advertising. The mail order
field Is the world. The field of the
local merchant Is comprised within ap.
proximately a hundred square miles.
The mail order houses attract trade
from the local merchAnts' hundred
square miles wherever the local mer.
chants are found lacking as wide
awake advertisers. But in the dis.
tricts where there are live storekeep-
ers, who realize the value Of printers
ink, there is no profitable or productive
field for the mail order houses. 1t mat
ters not whether 1t be the biggest
mail order house or the smallest store
in a little country town, advertising
principles apply TO n as we'll as to
the other.
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tries come into existence TO give EN-.
ployment to a greater number Of PEG
pie, and thus carrying on an upbuild-
ing process.
In summing up conditions as they
relate TO the community and the home
town, it is patent to the nan of intelli-
gence that the patronizing of every
home enterprise best ~subserves his in
t%erests, as well as the interests of all
of the community. The patriotic man
who would be a model citizen will
make it his rule to put forth every
effort to build up the local community.
This effort should be directed to the
patronizing of every home industry;
to keep within the community as far
as possible all the earnings of the peo-
pie; to invest surplus capital in home
enterprises; to improve the schools,
the churches, the roads, develop every
resource Of the place; and with in
creased prosperity of the town more
happiness, more contentment and
more wealth results to all the worthy
ones comprising the community.
D. M. CARR.
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on its outside wheels from Wall street
into Broadway as the crowds on the
sidewalk held their breath in horror.
!, too, was on my feet, but crouching
as I hung to the sides. Thank God,
that usually crowded thoroughfare was
free from vehicles as far up as / could
see, on beyond the Aston house. What
could it mean? Was that divinity.
which It's said protects the drunkard
and the idiot about to aid the mad
rush of this love-frenzied creature to
his long-lost but newly returned dear
one? I heard the frantic clang of
gongs, and as we shot by the World
building, l saw ahead Of us two plung-
ing automobiles filled with men. Twas
from them the gong clamor sounded.
AS we drew nearer I saw that these
were the cars of the fire chiefs answer
ing a call. / thanked God again and
again as l yelled into Bob's ear, For
Beulah's sake, Bob, don't pass; If you
do, we'll run into a blockade. II we
keep in the e a they'll clear our way.
and we may get to her alive" l do
not know whether he heard, but he
held the machine in the real of the
other cars and did not try to pass.
Away W. went on u mad rush
through crowded Broadway. AT Union
Square we lost our way-clearers. AS
u automobile jumped across Four
teenth street into Fourth avenue, Bob
must have opened her up to the last
notch, for she seemed to leap through
the air. We sent two wagons crash
ing acros the sidewalks into the build.
ings. Cries Of rage o above the
din of the machine, and seemed to fol
low in il wake. Bob was dead to all
we passed. His entire being seemed
set on what was ahead. / knew he
was an expert in the handling of the
automobile, for since his misfortune,
automobiling with Beulah Sands had
been his favorite pastime, but who
could expect to carry that plunging,
awaying car to Forty-second street!
Bob seemed to be performing the won
drous task. We shot from curb to
curb and around and in front Of vehi.
cles and foot passengers as though
the drivers eyes and hands were in
spired.
Across the square at last and on up
Fourth avenue to T~wenty-sixth street.
Then a dizzying whirl into Madison.
Was he going to keep to 1t until he got
to Forty-second street and try to make
Fifth avenue along that congested
block with Its crush of Grand Central
passengers and lines upon lines of
hacks and teams? No. His head must
be clear. Again he threw the great
machine around the corner and into
Fortieth street. For a part Of the
block our wheels rode the sidewalk
and / awaited the crash. 1t did not
come. Surely the new world Bob vas
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CHAPTER X,

The instant after the gong sounded
BoS Yrownley was alone on the floor
at the foot of the presidents desk.
His form was swaying like a reed on
the edge of the cyclones path. l
Jumped to his side. His brother, who
had during Bob's harangue been vain
ly endeavoring to beat his way
through the crowd, was there first.
For Gods sake, Bob, hear me. Word
came from your house half an hour
ago Of the miracle: Beulah has awak-
ened to her past. Her mind - clear;
the nurses are frantic for you to come
to her"
He got no further. With a mad bel
low and a bound, like a tortured bull
that sees the arena walls go down, Bob
rushed out through the nearest door.
which, l thanked God, was a side one
leading to the street where the crowd
was thinnest. He cast q wild look
around. His eyes lighted on an empty
automobile whose chauffeur had de-
serted to the crowd. 1t was the work
OF a second to crank 1t; Of another to
Jump into the front seat. Quick as
had been his movement, | was behind
him in the rear seat. With a bound
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upon my tortured senses. I did not
need to seek its direction. With a
bound / was at the threshold of Beulah
Sands-Brownley's Office. In that brief
time the groans had stilled. For one
instant I closed my eyes, for the very
atmosphere of that hall moaned and
groaned death. l opened them. Yes,
| knew 1t. There at the desk was the
beautiful gray-clad figure Of five years
ago. There the two arms resting on
the desk. There the two beautiful
hands holding the open paper, but the
eyes, those marvellous gray-blue doors
to an immortal soul-they were closed
forever. The exquisitely beautiful
face was cold and white and peaceful.
Beulah Sands was dead. The hell.
hounds of the System" had overtaken
its MANNED and hunted victim; it had
added her beautiful heart to the bags
and barrels and hogsheads stored aHay
in its big Observation-Disclosures" safe
deposit vaults. My eyes In sick pity
sought the form of my old schoolmate,
my college chum, my partner, my
friend, the man l loved. He was on
his knees. His agonized face was
turned to his wife. His clasped hands
had been raised in an awful, heart
crushing prayer as his Maker touched
the bell. Bob Brownley's great brown
eyes were closed, his clasped hands
had dropped against his wife's head,
and in dropping had Embossed the
glorious golden-brown waves until in
fond abandon they had coiled around
his arms and brow as though she for
whom he had sacrificed all was shield.
ing his beloved head from the chills
and dark mists Of the black river that
laps the brink of the eternal rest. The
System" had skewered Robert Brown
ley's heart, too. 1 staggered to his
side. AS I touched his now ~fast-icing
brow my eyes fell upon the great black
headlines spread across the top of the
paper that Beulah Sands had been
reading when the all-kind God had cut
her bonds:
TniDATs TIE HiHl NJ
And beneath in one column:
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN VIRGINIA.
The Richest Man In the State, Thomas
Reinhart, MuIti-milllonaire, while
Temporarily Insane from the Loss
of His Wife and Daughter, and Of
His Enormous Fortune, Which Was
Shattered In To-day's Awful Panic,
Cut He Throat. 4is death was
instantaneous.
In another column:
Robert BROMLEY Creates the Most
Awful Panic In History and Spreads
Wreck and Ruin Throughout the
Civilized World.
THE END.
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politics. Our neighbor closes the ar
gument: For" he concludes, "as
Lincoln says The minister in the
church speaks of patriotism, Lincoln
is there. The nation adopts this or
that policy; 1t is defended or con
demned in terms of Lincoln and his
policy. The influence Of the man is
with us always-not only on February
10, but every day.
Yet 1t is wholesome that we should
remember days like this day. We live
SO fast. Great events crowd one upon
another. We are stated with a wealth
of sensations. That which aroused
the burning interest Of the nation yes
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speeding TO must be = kind one. eiss
why should Hag Fate, who had been
at the steering wheel Of his life-car
during the last five years, carry him
safely through what looked a dozen
sure deaths? Without Stacking speed
a iot we swung around the corner of
Fortieth into Fifth avenue. The road
was clear to Forty-second; there a
dense jam of cars, teams and carriages
blocked the crossing. Bob must have
seer the solid wall for l heard his
lew muttered curse. Nothing else to
indicate that we were blocked with his
goal in sight. He touched the
speed controller, but took the two
blocks as though shot from a catapult.
The two? No. one, and three-quarterg
of the next, for when within a score of
yards of the black wall he damned
down the brakes, and the iron mass
ground and shook as though It would
rend itself to atoms, but it stopped
with its dasher and front wheels
wedged in between a a and a dray.
1t had not stopped when Bob was off
and up the avenu like a hound on the
endin-sight trail. l was after him
while the astonished bystanders stared
in wonder. AS we neared Bob's house
l could see people on the stoop. l
heard Bob's secretary shout, THANK
God, Mr.. BROMLEY, you have come.
She is in the Office. / found her there,
quiet and recovered. She did not ask
a question. She said, Tell Mr.. Brown.
ley when he comes that I should like
to see him. Then she ordered me to
get the afternoon paper. / handed it
to her an hour ago. l think she be.
lieves herself in her old Office. l shut
off the floor as you instructed. / did
not dare go to her for fear she would
ask questions. l have"-but Bob was
up the stairs two and three steps at a
time.
My breath was almost gone and it
took me minutes to get to the second
floor. My feet touched the top stair,
when, o God! that sound! For five
long years I had been trying to get it
out of my ears, but now more cultural,
mor agonized than before, it broke
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"sEcoNDs" OR "oFF" GOODS.
How They Are Disposed OF by Big
Manufacturing Concerns.

Manufacturers who put out their
goods under brands are watchful as to
keeping their output up to the stand.
ard. Big whose goods are
widely advertised and are known for
their excellency will not allow defec-
tive articles to go from their factories.
Everything is inspected, and it must
be perfect before the brand is allowed
to be marked upon it.
In the large cutlery factories, the
silverware manufacturing plants, the
collar and shirt factories, and the like,
regardless of what care is exercised,
defects will be found in a certain per-
centage Of the work turned out. In
cutlery the temper of a blade may be
uneven; the handle may be marred,
the lining may be imperfect, and all
such defects cause the knife to be
discarded, that is, thrown out and not
marked with the brand, if the maker
has a reputation to maintain. In shirt
factories the defective shirts are
placed aside just the same, and so it
is with hundreds of manufactured
articles. All these articles are dead
loss to the manufacturer unless they
be remodeled, or disposed of at a cost
covering the expense of the raw mate
rial and the time of employers used
in their making. Thus manufacturers
welcome a means of playing even,''
of disposing of this damaged stock so
as to prevent loss.
In many cases the damaged goods
are sold to "job-lot" men who auction
them off to small jobbers. But the
majority of these goods are sold by
contract to large houses located in the
big cities, and it may be said that
fully so per cent. of the goods that
these houses handle are either of the
damaged class known as seconds" or
prison made or contract goods, cheap.
ly turned out in sweat houses.
A number of concerns have con,
tracts with these houses for all the
''off" goods made. These goods are
wrapped up in such a way as to cover
their defects. The concern buys them
for about 80 to 40 per cent. below
prices at which perfect goods can be
had in the markets. Thus it can be
seen how some concerns can make low
prices on goods that look about as
we'll as regular dealers carry, but
which are far inferior.
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- N February II, 1909, the
ALTNA Kentucky farm where Abra-
&NIMH ham Lincoln was born,
NSEH will, if all goes well, be
W dedicated to the American
people as a national park.
Its ITO rocky acres in the heart Of
the Blue Grass state have been pur-
chased, and an association has been
organized to restore its many natural
beauties.
The log cabin in which the future
president was born was recently res
cued from a cellar at College Point,
Long Island, where it had been igno-
miniously dumped after travelling
about the country as a show. With
imposing ceremonies, it was carried
back to its native soil, and restored
to the very spot where Tom Lin
coin, the father, put its rough tim
bers together. On another part Of the
farm, as an %antithesis to the hut, and
as illustrative of the height to
which the son attained from such a
humble origin, it is planned to erect
a memorial structure which will be
an exact reproduction of the White
House at the time Lincoln lived there.
Within its walls will be preserved all
the available historical treasures as
ISOLATED with his name and fame.
The date chosen for the dedication
of the Lincoln farm is especially ap-
propriate, for it marks the Tooth ami
versary of the birth of the martyred
president. Prominent Americans from
the north, south, east and west are
expected to be present at the exer-
cises. President Roosevelt has ac-
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hurried to Hodgenville in the fastest
conveyance he could hire.
On reaching Hodgenville the New
York man asked that the auction be
held as early as possible, and he
bought the farm for $4,000 about a
quarter of an hour before the whisky
mar arrived.
The restoration of the log cabin to
its native state was a spectacle as i'm
posing as its consignment to a cellar
In New York was %inglorious. It was
placed on a special car and escorted
back to Kentucky by a squad of Ken
lucky militiamen. At Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Harrisburg, Altoona, Pitts
burg, Columbus and Indianapolis it
rested under military guard. Gov
errors and mayors met it at various
railroad stations and paid tribute to
the life that began within it's rough
timbers. When the special train on
which it rode crossed the Ohio river
from Indiana into Kentucky, it was
met at the Louisville station with mil
itary honors. Col. Henry W~atterson
and Adlai E. Stevenson made the
chief speeches of welcome.
The cost of making a park of the
Lincoln farm, of erecting the mem
orial hall and of carrying out other
plans is being met by popular sub
scriptions sen to Clarence H. Mac
k9V trpa Curpr 0f tho lincoln Farm
association. Other officers of the as
ISOLATION are Joseph w. Folk, presi-
dent; William H. Taft, Cardinal Glib
bons, Samuel L. Clemens, August Bel
mont and Lyman J. Gage.
The movement to preserve the
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Commercial Travellers Interested.

h'tN~h =
There are more than 100, 900 COM
mercial travellers in the United
States. These men are trade mis-
aonaries. They are a very necessary
cog in the commercial wheel. While
there are some who take the view
that they are not producers, they are
nevertheless important in the system
of distribution Of that which is pro-
duced. The successful travelling man
is a close student of human nature.
His vocation is such as calls for a
high class of intelligence, particularly
as to trade conditions and the lines
which he represents. His keen OBJ
servation of the trend of affairs has
made him a pronounced home-trader.
He realizes that his interest lies in
protecting the business of the small
city and town. Were trade in mer,
camille lines concentrated in the
large cities, the field for the traveller
would be narrowed. Thus we find
him a strong combatant of systems
that mean concentration. Circum-
stances have made him as equally in
terested in protection of local trade
of merchants as the merchants them
selves, and he is also interested on
this account in the welfare of the PEG.
pie who are the customers of the
merchants. The force and power Of
the great army Of travellers in the
United States is not to be considered
lightly. Their influence is wide
spread. They will be found quite
willing to work most tremendously
with the townspeople and the resi-
dents of rural districts in the matter
of home protection.
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scenes Of the earliest years of Lin
coins life has revived unusual inter-
est in all the associations Of his youth.
The g~raybeards of Hodgenville, the
hamlet which is situated about two
miles from the Lincoln farm, ever
since they were aroused by its sale
at auction, have been telling many a
story about Little Abe" when a lad;
about "Tom," his father, and Nancy,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-02-13
THE HUT IN WHICH LINCOLN
WAS BORN,

This log cabin was removed from
the Lincoln farm, in Kentucky, and
carried about the country for some
time by a Snowman. Later it was
dumped ANONYMOUSLY into a cellar
in New York city, from which It
Mas rescued and restored to It's ma
tive state.
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his mother. "Abe" lived on the farm,
they say, until he was four and a
half years old, when, because of the
scant produce of its ITO acres, the
family was forced to move to a house
in the village, where tom" Lincoln
barely supported his family by work.
ing at odd jobs as a carpenter. There
they lived until the boy was nearly
ten, when the Lincolns moved to In
diana
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TO LIVE IN MEMORY FOREVER.
Lincoln's Birthday Brings to Mind
the Greatest of Our Great.

He birthday of
of Abraham Lin
coin! But il one
day is his birth
day, the other
1854 are his life
days and his in
fiuence days.
w
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AS it happened, whisky helped de-
feat whisky. When it was publicly
announced that the long drawn-out
litigation in which the farms title
had become entangled was at last
ended, and that it would be sold at
auction on August %, 1905, the Louis
vile distiller sent a representative
Ito bid it in," no matter what the
figure. The agent got as far as Eliza
BEETHOVEN, KY, some II miles from
Hodgenville, where the auction was to
take place, and, as it was Sunday
and the sale was to be held in the
afternoon of the following day, he
put up at a hotel and took things
easy" intending to drive over to
Hodgenville the next morning. But
although the trains do not run in
that part of Kentucky on Sunday, the
bottles do, and the WHISKY man drank
long and often in the barroom. Here
he made the acquaintance of a young
man from New York, who had come
to buy the farm for its preservation
as a park, and who is now secretary
of the Lincoln Farm association. On
learning the purpose of the man from
Louisville and noticing that 'the tide
was coming in," the New Yorker got
up at daybreak the next morning and
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LincoIn's Own Epitaph.

Die when | may, I want it said Of
me by those who know me best, that {
always plucked a thistle and planted
a flower when l thought a flower
would grow.-Abraham Lincoln.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-02-13
cepted the invitation to make the

cepted the invitation to make the
principal address of the day.
Had the farm not been purchased
when it was for a national park, it
might even now have been the site
for a distillery. Because of a spring
on the farm, famous throughout Ken
lucky for the purity of it's waters, a
wealthy Louisville whisky manufac-
turer had sought to buy the property
that he might advertise his product
in some such way as this:
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Rye

Made from the PUREST MALT,
combined with the crystal waters
of the famous LINCOLN SPRING,
which gushes out of the rock with
in a few feet Of the place where
Abraham Lincoln Was Born.
Visit our distillery at Lincoln's
birthplace and
See and Taste for Yourself.
(All genuine Lincoln whisky
shows portrait of Lincoln drinking
from the spring.
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That town which has not sufficient
Industries to employ it's people is sure
to go backward.
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Were there only large cities, hov
poorly would fare the farmers ant
the others who toll for a livelihood.
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