The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-08-19
He SAUN ERERS.

thing for less than its real value, 1t
is kind of sporting spirit. Now,
the man with the article to sell takes
advantage of this gambling weakness
and he makes tho man who wants to
buy believe that he is giving an article
for less than cost, and the sale is at
once made. We are easily made to be-
lieve what we desire to be SO.
The result is that the seller tries his
level best to meet his patron half way.
The factories are called upon to put
material on the market that is posi-
lively inferior-shoddy cloth, shoes,
canned goods, that could not 60 on
the market on account of some defect
in their sealing, perhaps only a pin
hole that can be closed with a drop
of lead, but enough to make them sus-
picious goods to the general buyer,
glucose for sugar and so on, with here
and there real bargain for advertis-
ing purposes. And this stuff is sold
invariably for cash. With his i'm
mense profits no wonder the dealer
can put on the market lines of really
nice goods that sometimes defy the
competition of the plain storekeeper.
have in mind now store in lit
tie village on a Canadian lake shore
The proprietor was doing nice bust
ness among the Indians and half
breeds and contributing largely to the
life and progress of the village, when
the blight of the catalogue business
fell on him. What added insult to in
| jury was that he, the postmaster, had
the chagrin of writing money orders
for fineries for the very people who
still owed him for the blankets which
he sold them on trust to keep them
from freezing the previous winter His
business dwindled down to a miser-
able subsistence and his family as
they grew up left the village to it's
very great detriment.
Among the various educational en-
terprises now in vogue, would it not be
we'll to start department to teach
economic buying" and as an object
lesson find what percentage of the
shoddy goods manufactured and the
seconds" in groceries find their way
10 the catalogue houses.
Camp Hughes.
Across the sunlit prairie the train
crawled with assertive leisure from
Winnipeg toward Calgary. The tele-
| phone posts marched by in four-four
time, and the little sentinel gophers
stood at attention as we passed, and
endlessly stretched the green prairie
that only wanted men of courage and
purpose to work it into homes. A
great country, indeed, in the future,
but now a waste. Not even a flock of
cattle broke the level green expanse,
and the wind seemed to have died out,
for there was no tree nor shrub to
show it's motion. Suddenly there was
little tent in view. Indians came
to- my mind; but before l could think
we were in the midst of the camp
| Billows on pillows of white tents
spread away over the green. Can you
that was what we saw. It's little
| streets we're laid out with checker.
board regularity. Some of the boys
and it looked pathetic, in the midst
of the grimness of the scene-had laid
out little gardens in front of their
tents. that is, they smoothed the
ground and bordered it with white
stones. A little mound facing the
track had BAIT 108" picked out on il
with the same white stones. To one
side some cheap wooden buildings
were thrown together for the horses
Further down was a mountain OF
empty crates and boxes and cans, fol
soldiers must be fed. Two boys played
handball as the train stopped to un
load provisions, and il victory depend
ed on their ability in this game the
Germans are defeated right now, fol
no matter what kind of high or low OF
| twister was sent, it was all one to the
catcher. Not many soldiers were tt
be seen around at that hour, probably
about six in the evening. The week
before 1900 boys had been sent tc
the front from this camp.
So here were the men who could
people these prairies and build the
hearth fires on every quarter section
Well, after all, God is served in many
ways and the man who lays down his
| life for what he believes to be a just
cause, reaches the reward quicker and
more splendidly than the brave fellow