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NOTICE OF ELECTION VOTING TIME NOT QUITE TWO i WEEKS OFF. List of Managers For Voting Pre cints?-The Campaigners Are Now on the Home-Stretch. Eleven days from to-day the pri mary election will be held for town ship and county officers and for a \ representative in congress, a solicitor a stare senator and all state officers. The candidates have been before the people now for some time, and already there are many*who have settled on their favorites. The elec tion is so near at hand that it is al ready of interest, how, when and where it will all happen at in the dif ferent sections of the county. Be low is the official notice of the elec ' tion as handed out by County Chair man Robt. Lide. v Notice of Election. SU'.te of South Carolina, County of Orangeburg: Notice is hereby given that a De mocratic Primary Election will be held at the several clubs established by order of the County Democratic Convention for Orangeburg County, on Tuesday, August 25th, 1908 for U. S. Senator, Congressman, State ? and County Officers pursuant to the Constitution and rules of the Demo cratic Party of the State of South Carolina, adopted in the State Con vention, at Columbia, S. C, May 20, 1908. and in accordance with the Acts of the General Assembly of this State regulating Primary Elections. One of the Managers for each club must call upon J. A. Berry, the Sec retary, at the Court House between Saturday August 15th, and Monday before the Election, to receive bal lot boxes, etc. The Managers have. the power to fill any vacancy, and If none of the Managers attend at the time for the opening of the Election, the mem bers of the club present must appoint from among their number, managers, who, after being duly sworn, can conduct the election. The managers of election shall open the polls at.8 o'clock a. m., and shall close them at 4o'clock p. m. After tabulating the results, the managers shall certify the same and forward the badot-box, poll list and all other papers relative to such election, by one of their number, to J. A. Berry, the Secretary of the ? County Executive Committee, imme ; diateiy after the close of the polls. The following named persons have been appointed managers to conduct said election, and will also have charge of the Second Primary to be y held two weeks later: Bethel?W. R. Austin, P. F. Shul er and J. H. Jenkins. Bethlehem?J. F. Jennings, W. H. Zeigler, J. E. Metts, managers, and Henry Zeigler, clerk. Bolen?G. E. Bolen, H. R. Jame son and J. W. Cannady. 1 Bowman?A. G. Stroman, O. L. Carn and Frank Haigler, managers and T. Y. Easterlin, clerk. Branchville?A. E. Shuler, W. P. McAlhany aud G. M. Noble. Cattle Creek?C. P. Myers, R. i. Metts and W. T. Westbury. Citizens of Orangeburg?Henry E. Bolin, John F. Blanche and James M. Bell. Cope?G. E. Griffith, F. H. May .?and E. E. Ritten Cow Castle?W. H. Whetsell, Clarence Berry and P. W. Carn. Dry Swamp?W. A. Smoak, Ray sor Griffith and Vostine Smoak, managers and M. S. Jennings, clerk. East Cow Castle?G. W. Myers, G. E. Fairey and B. S. Wilson. East Orange?C. J. Inabinet. J. J. Fairey, J. C. Till, managers and L. S. Rickenbaker, clerk. Edisto?F. A. Antley. J. T. Antley and M. K, Antley. Elloree?M. L. Posey. J. S. Ulmer and W. I. Harbeson, managers and W. M. Fair, Secretary. Felderville?J. D. Shuler. L. B. Connor and J. W. Watson, managers and W. L. Felder, clerk. Coodbys?F. D. Rush. J. C. Huiir gerrpiller aud A. L. Shumaker. Hampton?J. U. Phillips, Joseph Axcn and D. S. Fogle, managers and Mike Gleaton, Secretary. Hurse Range?S. P. Shuler. Ceo. W. Dantzler and J. O. Shjller, mana gers and Harris Webbes, clerk. Jamison-r-Wm. Harley, R. H. Riley and J. W. Horger. managers and H. L. Beckwith, clerk. ' Liberty?W. C. Davis, C. S. Kirk land and J. W. Sheppard. Limestone? Livingston?D. V. Livingston, R. L. Pcu and F. M. Livingston. Long Branch?J. N. SIstrunk, J. R. Amaker and C. Porter, managers and O'Neal Amaker, clerk. Mlddlepen? Neeses?W. R. W'illiaras, H. M. Stevenson aud J. G. Dukes. North?E. H. Sally, Julian Jones and W. G. Pou. North Hebron? Norway?V. S. Hutto, C. S. Rut land and G. B. Boitin. Orangeburg Cou/rt jHouse?S. J. Holladay. W. L. Izlar, T. C. Alber goiti. managers and C. H. Glaze. Poplar?J. A. Dantzler, A. B. Bookhart and A. A. Way, managers and J. S. Weeks, clerk Pariere?H. A. Felder. R. C. Feld er and L. F. Shuler, managers and A. R. Felder, clerk. Providence?W. C. Evans, M. C. Rast and W. D. Moorer, managers and W. T. Hutto, clerk. Rpwesville?D. S. Funches. T. G. Robinson and E. S. Dukes. Sawyerdale?R. (C. Williamson, H. J. Sally and J. M. Knotts. St. George?N. N. Hayden, Jr., L. P. Jamison and D. H. Bair. Springfield?Henry Inabinet, L. E. Phillips and D. R. Fanning. Tillman?W. S. Barton, Jr., J. F. Bozard and Z. E. Shuman. Trinity?C. C. Livingston, E. C. Hydrick and Frank Knotts. MARTIN'S TROUBLES INCREASING Uncle Sam After Man Arrested at Branchvillo. J. T. Martin's Itroubles are In-' creasing. Martin is the white man who was arrested at Branchville on Saturday for an attempt to commit a fraud. He claims to be a repre sentative of the Standard Scale Com pany, of Detroit, but telegrams re ceived from' the company state that Martin is unknown to them, and has absolutely no connection with the concern. Martin was lodged in jail here Saturday night. He makes strenuous protestations of innocence and insists that he will be able to prove that he is connected with the Detroit Company. His arrest grew out of an effort to make a deal with Mr. G. M. Noble, of Branchville, for the establishment of a branch house of the Standard Scale Company. Telegrams repudiating Martin were received in Branchville by Mr. Noble, and further advices to the same ef fect have been received in this city. Uncle Sam has now taken a hand, a warrant having been issued Mon day morning by United States Com missioner Robert Lide, charging Martin with using the mails unlaw fully, his alleged attempts to defraud having been conducted by mail. It is also uuderstood that at least one other party in another town has wired here requesting that Martin be held for a similar offence commit ted some time ago. The opinion here is thai:, as Martin did not act ually commit a fraud, he cannot be held, under the State laws, but the Federal Government goes farther and holds a person responsible for using the mails in an attempt to de fraud, even if the act is not commit ted. Martin will have a hearing be fore Commissioner Lide on next Tuesday, 18th inst. WILL ORGANIZE UNION. Meeting Will Be Held at the Court House on August 18. To the officers and members of the local Farmers Unions of Orange burg County, take notice. I will be at Orangeburg Court House on August the 18th, for the purpose "of organizing your County Union, you will therefore please take immediate steps to have your local unions represented at this meeting, which is an important one, as the officers of your county union are to be elected, and other matters of importance transacted. Your representation will be on a basis of one delegate for every ten members, one for a majority frac tion thereof, and .one delegate at large. In case you have no regular meeting of your local before this date, presidents will please call a meeting of their Unions for this pur pose, or appoint delegates. All members in good standing other than delegates, are entitled to seats in the County Union as ad visory members. Yours Fraternally. L. L. Baker. Bishopvllle, S. C, Aug. 8, 1908. LAYING OF CORNER STONE. The Woodmen of Providence to Con duct Exercises. Willow Camp, No. 356 W. O. W. will lay corner stone on lot near Pro vidence church on Sept. 4th. The public is cordially invited to attend and bring well filled baskets. All Woodmen are requested to be at Providence School House at 9.30 a. m., and join the procession. After laying the corner stone there will be speeches by several distin guished Woodmen on woodcraft. It will be the largest gathering that ever was known in this county and about 5.000 Woodmen and guests are expected to be In the procession, so do not fail to come an? bring plenty to eat. Mr. EdUor, we want you especially to attend. I want every paper in the county to copy this piece and send me a compli mentary copy to be put in the stone. .1. F. Wannamaker, Clerk of Camp. Vance, S. C. Registration Appointments. The county board of registration is now making up its list of appoint-j merits over the county. These ap pointments will be kept druing the month of September and they in clude eighteen places. The Times and Democrat will publish on Tues day a list of the places and dates of the appointments. A Sud Incident. A very sad incident occurred on the Southern passenger train yester day morning which passed througn this city going from Charleston to CoMtobia. A small infant died in th^arms of its mother on the train between Branchville and this city. The lady got off the train here, ac companied by a Catholic Sister who went to her in her sorrow. Rev. Lightfoot Will Preach. Rev. Lightfoot will preach on Sun day night at the Baptist Church on the subject: "Moral or Legal Act, Which?'" This sermon is one of the series in the campaign aganist sin which is being waged in this city. Rev. Lightfoot will suggest a remedy for our short comings. Two Mile Swamp?L. W. Bars, Lucius Darnell. Vance?W. A. Avinger, Felix P. Shuler and A. P. Avinger, mana gers and S. F. Dantzler, clerk. Willow Straightout?E. W. Blake. J. A. Reed and Eugene Gue. Woodford?A. Z. Stroman, W. P. Smith and P. L. Wingard. Zion?J. E. Mack, H. A. Gibson and A. L. Smoak. Robt. Lide, Chairman. J. A. Berry, Robt. E. Copes, Secretaries. LOCAL ITEMS PICKED UP HERE AND THERE BY OUR REPORTERS. Brief Newsy, Paragraph? From AH Parts of Orangeburg County and Vicinity. Don't forget to register. On Thursday night a very pleasant dance was given in Barton s Hall. Don't forget the B.^.nd Concert on the Court House Square this af ternoon. I Anyone in need of Gillette Safety Razor hlades can get them at Sims' Rook Store. j We had a pleusanf. call from Mr. Smith, cf the Dorchester Eagle, who is in the city for a few days. Bryan's i;peccli accepting the Dem ocratic nominal km will he round In full on the first and fifth pages. Tuesday afternoon (lie Amatuers met the Clerks on the diamond and defeated them by a score of 10 to 5. Mr. H. E. Garrick killed eighteen snakes In ore nest on his plantation J in Willow Township, near Norway last Monday. Rev. E. M. Lightfoot has just re turned to this city from a two weeks visit to Latta, where he conducted a successful meeting. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. L. Sims and two youngest children, who have been up in North Carolina for several weeks, returned home yesterday. Call at Sims' Book Store and look over the new copyright books they have received and which they are selling at 60 cents each. The Band of Hope and the Tem perance Chapter will sell ice cream on the Court House Square on Fri day afternoon, the 28th of August. The Orangeburg Amateurs played Bamberg a very poor game of ball at Bamberg on Wednesday afternoon and were defeated by ? score of 14 to 5. There will be a game of ball at the College Park Monday afternoon between the Bankers and Elks. It is said that the Clerks will challenge the winners. Four negroes were brought to this city from Creston Wednesday night and locked n the jail here to await trial on the charge of breaking into some freight cars at that place. The members of the Young Ladies Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church will serve ice v. earn on the Court House Squats on this afternoon during the band concert. The Hon. Thomas F. Brantley has gone to Lincoln, Neb., where he took part in the official notification of the Democratic standard-bearer on Wednesday as the South Carolina representative.' Every citizen is urged to register for the coming primary. The books will remain open until August 31 and the supervisors of registration will also visit each township for the convenience of those v rs who do not come to the city. Mr. J. M. Bell, of this county, at tended last Friday and Saturday at Brewington, in Clarendon County, the reunion of the Clarendon Guards This company originally lead 100 men in it when it marched away to the war. Only twelve men were at the reunion. Death at Bowman. Bowman, August 11?Special: The youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Sain of this town, died last h riday morning and was taken to Rowesville for burial on Saturday. The little fellow was about four year; of age and died of fever, having been sick only five days. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Livingston, who live on R. F. D. No. 1, was buried yesterday at White House Church. Th? sympa thy of thO. community is with these friends in this their hour of bereave ment. Dundee. Moonlight Picnic. On Wednesday evening the young people of the Cameron neghborhood were given a treat when .Messrs. Felder Evans, Cleveland Ulmer and Will Stoudemire gave a moonlight picnic on the lawn of Mr. Frank Dantzler, near Cameron. These young geutlemen were the hosts of about 100 invited guests, who. It is needless to say, had a very nice time. Stole a Watch. A colored girl, named Mary Olver, was found guilty by the Mayor yes terday and sentenced to a Tine of $20 for stealing a watch and some other articles from the home of Mr. R. E. Wannamaker, where sue was em ployed as a nurse. The theft was committed several days ago, but she was only arrested and brought to trial on yesterday. Gained in Weight. Mr. Wm. R. Raines, 1H03 Wil liams street, was run down in health was weak and suffered from stomach trouble for a long time. Used Globe Tonic and now feels like another man. Has gained in weight and is entirely cured of stomach trouble. Samples free or $1 size bottles for f>0c. 14 S. Broughton Street, (Crum Building.) Read the Advertisements. Read the announcements of your merchants in this issue. Many a dollar has been saved by a careful persual of a merchant's ad. When a business man advertises for your patronage he not only has a line of goods that "speaks but there may be some article or articles listed that you desire and that it may be ad vantageous* to boy at this time. CHILDREN DAY EXERCISES Leid at the Bowman Baptist Church on Last Sunday. Bowman, Aug. 12.?Special: Chil dren's Day Exercises was held at the Baptist Church here last Sunday. A large crowd, including a number of visitors, was present and spent a pleasant hour witnessing the exercis es. Superintendent John H. Patrick handed this correspondent the pro gram of exercises requesting the publication of the same in the county papers. Song, Bringing In the Sheaves. Parable of the Sower. Prayer, by Superintendent. Song, Work for the night is com ing. Recitation, by Yirgie Cook. Recitation by Willis Canady. Sowing Time?by Clayton Godfrey and Fred Canady. Recitation by Eva Hutchlns. ? Little Chatter Box, by May Pat rick. Recitation by Harold Godfrey. One Little Penny, by ten small children. Song, Little Feet. Recitation by Maud Ulmer. Recitation by Doshia Patrick. Recitation by May Belle Hair. Recitaton by Bessie Cook. Recitation by Estelle Hilton. The Seed and the Sower, by 12 children. Song, Rescue the Perishing. Recitation, by Pearl G odfrey. Recitation by Edyth Rast. Recitation by Ennis Cook. Recitation by Stella Hair. Reciation by Fannie Cook. Gleamings' of Gospel Light, by 5 girls. Song. Send the Light. /Recitation by August Fralix. Song, God Be With You Till We Meet Agan. Ten minutes talk on Missions. Benedcition. The Superintendent states that about ten dollars was raised and will be applied to the Missionary Fund. Dundee. LIST OF LETTERS. Those Remaining Unclaimed in the Orangeburg Portoffice. The following is the list of letters remaining unclaimed in the Orange burg postofflce for the week ending August 10, 190S. Persons calling for these letters will please say they are advertised. A. D. Webster, P. M. Mrs. Mary Adams. Mr. Ele Aiken. Julia Ancrum. Kelly Bakery. Miss Addie Bruner. Mr. Fred Cullem. Chas. H. Dudley. Miss Henrietta{Ellis, Jr. Miss Maze Grand. Miss Maggie Green. / Mae E. Green. Miss Minnie Hoiman. Mr. Sisie Howman. Lemuel Jamisin. W. M. Jones. A. H. Kelly. Julius Long. Miss Mamie Lyone. Frank Nareny. J. H. McDonald. Henry Miltson. Miss Minnie Middleton. Chas. Muldrow. Miss May Putnam. Mrs. E. W. Pierce. Mrs. Lillie Salley. (Registered) Hattie Suiters. Ed. Worker. W. 0. Wrathers. A. A. Whetstone. Miss Maud Williams. Mrs. Julia Wolfe. Miss Alice Yhost. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Re ward for any case of Cattarrh that cannot be cured by Hail's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. Walding Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0.1 Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken in ternally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for con stipation. J When a Man Proposes I To let you thoroughly test an arti cle before you buy it. that fact [should go far to convince you that it contains merit. Globe Tonic stands the test of time, and hundreds of people in Charleston who have been cured of indigestion, liver trouble, kidney complaint and rheumatism, willingly testify as to its curative powers. We give free samples every day, or sell the regular $1 bottle for 50 cents, and will refund your money if not satisfactory. Give It a trial. Globe Remedy Co., 14 S. Broughton Street, Orangeburg, S. C. To Mend Itroken Dishes. A lady of our city has found a sure cure for broken dishes. If the dish lo be mended can be tied to gether with a stout string then place it in boiling milk and left one hour, you can never tell the dish had been broken and it can afterwards be put in boiling water without the pieces coming apart. This experiment has been tried and proven and many are the broken dishes which were thought to be useless which are now as good as new. County Campaign Meetings. Norway, 13th; Canaan, 14th; Pine Hill, 19; Orangeburg, night of the 20th. The Senatorial campaign party will be here on the 21st NOT TIME TO SELL SAYS PRESIDENT HARRIS OF THE FARMERS' UNION. Issues Address to Holders of Spot Cotton and Urges Them to Hold For a While Longer. To Holders of Spot Cotton: Now is the time to hold, and vic tory is yours. Farmres, do you re alize that cotton is scarcer in the world today than it has been for 25 years? If you do not, the sooner you realize it the mor eyou will think of the spots you have on hand, and the crops you are growing. Now remember that it all depends on you to make it bring the minimum price, 15 c-juts. If you cau be scared out of your cotton for less than the mini mum price I do not blame the fellow for scaring you. I would do the same thing if I were in his place, but you, the Holder of spot cotton, have all under hold in this fight, and if you give up it is because you have not the nerve to stand the fire of the battle. Let me say to you, the Holder of Spots: Hold to them, for the next two months is the most criti cal period, as both the American spinner and the European spinner is about out of cotton to spin. If you, the Holder of Spots, will not sell, there will be many mills that will have to close down and not from choice, but for the want of cotton. Conditions are all in your favor, but nerve the back-bone you lack. Now do not say you cannot hold. We have plenty of bonded ware-houses in our State and you can put your cotton in them and borrow money on your receipt. Let me urge you do this, and do not put any cotton on the market until the minimum is reached. Let me tell you the European mills are now out of cotton and they have contracts sold ahead. They have to come to America for cotton and they will have to do this now at once. This is the situation, so no cause for alarm. I know the bear side of cotton is using the new crop to bear the market so they may get you to sell the remainder of your old crop, The price will now soon go up back to 12 cents, and they think you will then sell. I know some of you have said if it reaches 12 you would sell. Now the same thing that brings it back to 12 will if you hold on make it bring the minimum, 15 cents. Now as to the conditions of the 1008 crop. I have correspondence from every cotton growing State. There cannot be a more accurate ac count than we, the Farmer's Union, can get. up and reports from all the States is of this character. In the first place, too much wet weather in the early spring and there was a poor preparation of the soil. When the preparation is poorly done you cannot make an average crop. The rains west of the Mississippi river continued until July 1st, and the cotton grew to weed too much and is not fruited well. Now, the hot dry weather lias set in with them and much damage is being done. In other words it is impossible for the West to make anything like an average crop when they have a wet May and June. Such weather fills the cotton plant with too much ma laria and it cannot, stand the hot sun without great, damage. To prove this look how the plant is now turn ing yellow and the leaves dropping from it. This reports comes from many of the States. We cannot now more than duplicate the 1907 crop, and remember the shortage of last year's crop 4,000,000 bales, and just remember cotton futures cannot be spun. B. Harris, President, S. C. State Farmer's Union. Jj<*uvcs for New 1'ork. Mr. and .Mrs. Sol Kohn left Sun day for New York to purchase the Fall and Winter stock for Kohn's Emporium, Orange burg's lea.i.ng store. Following its past record, the Emporium will endeavor to pre sent its customers wita the finest and most stylish line of ladies' and children's wear to be had In the Northern markets. We can easily add that the reputation of Kohn's Emporium as one of the most up-to date stores in the city, will' not on ly be added to by Mr. Kohn's trip to New York, but will be greatly sur passed by his efforts this year. We anxiously await the Fall Opening of tne store. Orangeburg Union No. 2. The Woman's Missionary Union No. 2, Orangeburg Association, will meet with the Woman's Missionary Society at Willow Swamp Church Saturday Aug. 29, at 2 o'clock p. m. Program as follows: Devotional exercises by President. 1. Enrollment of delegates. 2. Essay, by Mrs. J. H. Compton. 3. Discussion on Woman's Work. Recitation, by Miss Flossie Davis. Hope all the Societies will send delegates, so the meeti'1^ will be in teresting. Mrs. J. S. Rollings, Miss Joe Bolen, Committee. A First Class Opportunity. On another page Dr. D. J. Hydrick offers an exceptional opportunity for the purchase of healthy and well lo cated building lots. This property appropriately named Fairvlew is within the city limits, only a few minutes walk to business center and purchasers will have the benefit of school, light and police protection. Good building lots are getting scarce and these should find ready purchas ers, especially as lumber, labor, and everything that enters into the con struction of a home 13 cheaper now than they have been for several years past WATCH YOUR TONGUE. If Furred and Coated, it is a Warn ing of Trouble to Come. When it is the morning after the night before, you do not have to look at your tongue to know that the stomach is ups~t, the head is aching with dull rhythm, and that all the world looks dreary. , The real time to wrtch the tongue is all of the time. If it is coated with a white fur, or possibly with dark trimmings, even though the stomach does not tell you by the acute pains of indigestion that it needs help, yet the coating shows that you are get ting into a bad way and that there is need of Mi-o-na. Mi-o-na is so positive, so sure, so reliable in its curative action upon the stomach that Dr. J. G. Wannama ker Mfg. Co., the local agents, give an absolute guarantee with every 50 cents box thy sell to refund the money unless the remedy gives abso lute and complete satisfaction ORIGIN OF THE OCTOPUS. How the Mail Order Business Had Its Beginning. In view of the light against the mail order business now being made throughout the country in the interests of the local merchants, a brief article in the magazine called System on the origin of the mall order trade Is high ly interesting. While the founder of the business aud others engaged there in are engaged in a perfectly legiti mate calling, there cau be no doubt that this constantly expanding mail order business is a real octopus. It reaches out Its millions of tentacles to the farthest corners' of the country, seizing and raking in the dollars which should be left in circulation around home. These dollars are the llfeblood of the community, and the mail order octopus sucks them out of the commu nity's system. Forty-seven years ago, says System, a young man, then a clerk in a small general store at St. Joseph, Mich., ob served with some satisfaction that res idents of many smaller towns miles distant could be attracted from the tradesmen of their own village to this selling center. Four years later, as a salesman In a Chicago mercantile house, he observed with Increasing attention the number of letters that came to this establish ment bearing small orders from resi dents of distant towns and from farm ers living miles away in the agricul tural sections of southern Illinois, In diana. Iowa and Nebraska. Another period of three years, and, haviug served as a buyer and then con nected with a St Louis house, he stop ped at a town that stood as a country seat in southwestern Missouri. He was In a small store wh.tch had attalued the position, despite the limitations as to extensiveness Imposed by Its rural location, of the smart retailing concern of the littie city. The proprietor had Just Inclosed a small parcel,in an en velope. "Here, Jim," the latter called to a clerk; "take this over to the postofflce. It's for Mrs. Henderson, over at Green ridge. It's surprising." he continued, turning to the visitor, "how the folks over at Gr^eenridge?one of the small towns within a thirty mile radius stick to me. 1 have a good mpny cus tomers over there. Some of 'em write almost every -week for goods. The storekeeper over there doesn't seem to hold his people very well. Guess he doesn't give satisfaction." And these things, turned over in the mind of Montgomery Ward, gave ger mination of the idea, then crude In Its imperfection, of retailing direct to the customer by mall. If these people? and the towns and the agricultural reaches of the west were taking ou a population of vigorous, hardworking, j ambitious folk who wanted the best they could get for their money?would buy through letter outside their own towns, and at that without any spe cial material Inducement being extend ed them, why could not a trade be built up If the purveyor would cater direct to these people and offer them attractive advantages of lower prices, good service and honest goods? The young man Is now the head of a great Chicago mall order house that boars his name?the pioneer in a new Industry. Home Trade Homilies. It's all very well for you to think you're doing yourself justice by buying your supplies from the big city many miles away, but in the long run you're doing an injustice to your descendants, who are supposed to live in the town which you are killing oil by ueglecting to patronize home industries. You may save an occasional nickel by ordering "bargains" through mail order catalogues, but don't you lose at least a nickel's worth of your self respect when you happen to meet oue of the home merchants whom you have known all your life and from whom you could have bought the same bar gain? Governor Johnson says one of the great issues of today has to .do with the curbing of the trusts. The chances are ninety-nine to a hundred that you agree with Johnson, no matter what party you may belong to. Very well. How about the big mail order trust, which is organized to kill off country merchants? Are you a supporter of the mail order trust? If you are a farmer aud sell your produce to the local stores and then stick stamps on letters orderlug ordi nary household articles from a city many miles away, wouldn't yon think it the proper sort of reciprocity if the town merchants should quit dealing in fresh vegetables and supply only can ned goods to their customers? Throughout the country for some months we have heard the cry that "there Is no money in circulation." Times have been tight. People who keep up the habit of buying mall order goods on the slightest pretext or provo cation may expect to'hear it said that there is no money In circulation around home. 'Cause why? They send it out side of the community. A blind actor should be able to act with feeling. There never was a pretty girl so stupid that she couldn't Cool the cleverest man of her acquaintance FINE COLLEGE TOWN. SOME EFFECTIVE IMPROVE MENT ADOPTED. Three Villiage Improvement Socie ties Are Always Working to Beau tify the Town. i- _ Nature and man have joined effort to make Wellesley, Mass.. one of the most beautiful suburban towns in the United States. Abrupt hills, flowing brooks, placid ponds and a charming lake, with many a noble tree and a wealth of the green things of earth, are the contributions of nature which man has molded and directed to make of all a harmonious whole in which the modern house of wood or the vine clad stone looks at home. It is an important item in the dally concerns of the Wellesley inhabitant, this thought of the beauty of bis town. There Is no Intention on his part to wake up some day and find that unsightly buildings have replaced the elms and pines that now adorn the wide streets and cover the hill slopes where pretty homes nestle. There is a passion for the good things of nature among the dwellers in this college town, and they let slip no opportunity to get another chance at the open air of heaven or to direct the energies of those who would build a "real prac tical store or office" where nature has hitherto had her way .unhampered There are three village improvement societies in Wellesley. with Its 6.18G in habitants, of whom 1.000 are college students. These societies have not ex pected to make the town perfect all at once along all lines or any lines. They are patient, but always wide nwake and pushing some new improvement, says the Boston Herald. The latest step has been the campaign of the Falls and Hills Village Improvement society to secure the purchase of the Elm Park hotel property, so that the square at Wellesley Hills may be made of a beauty that will accord with the rest of the town. The activities of these societies are quite diversified. They have secured the adoption of an attractive street sign, of which many have already been set up. and have planted and secured the planting of hundreds of street trees. They provided free of charge plans for a new telephone building at Wel lesley HDls square. Many small im provements have been secured by them In the lighting and care of railroad stations and grounds and the handling of carriages at the stations. They have Issued a pamphlet on the planting and care of trees. The tree warden of Wellesley is a man of means, who does the work for love of it These militant societies preach In general and in par ticular in the local paper. They have started a system of removing ashes and rubbish. WelleBley's real estate and personal property have a taxed value of $18,352, 080.22. which sum Includes exempted property to the amount of $3,455, 140.22. of which the larger part is the college property. Of the Improvements in the town Is Hunnewell park, of eleven acres. On the top of the hill In this park Is the beautiful stone building for town hall and library. This park and the build ing were the gift of H. H. Hunnewell, who also gave the bx>ks for the libra ry and $21,000 for a library fund and also a playground of eighteen acres. This playground Is over the stona fence just off Washington street Wel lesley's principal artery of commerce. It is laid out In ball fields, tennis courts <md gridirons, the whole being a strik ing example of good caretaklng. The town itself has taken many acres of land along Fuller brook, be tween Wellesley Hills and Wellesley, which in course of time will be devel oped into a parkway. This parkway will extend from Wellesley Hills square to the Charles river, at the southwesterly part of the town, a dis tance of thrc? miles. It borders on the Hunnewell playground and when com pleted will be a very beautiful feature of the town. The four railroad stations in Welles ley from the plans of the late H. F. Richardson are tastefully laid out and planted with trees and shrubs. They form a fitting introduction to the vis itor who Is to see the greater beauties beyond. Recently there has been co operation between the railroad and the town in the leasing, through the suggestion of the Village Improvement society, to the town by the road for a long terra of years of a piece of its unused land in the vicinity of the Wellesley station. This piece Is being developed by planting bushes and shrubs of decorative value. The three Wellesley Improvement so cieties are distributed through the vil lages of the town. The Wellesley Vil lage society is. at the Wellesley end In the village known as Wellesley, the Hills and Fells society at the Hills and the eastern part of the town and the Fells society at the Fells In the south westerly part of the town. The Welles ley club, organized "to consider and discuss questions relating to the wel fare of Wellesley," was organized In 18S0 and meets seven times during the year at some hotel In Boston. It has a membership of 110, with a long wait ing list At Its meetings it usually discusses some live question Intimately related to the municipal and social life of the town. Tree Planting Along Roads. The Stockton (Cal.) Arbor club has commenced an ac**'-e campaign to raise funds for tl rpose of saving the fourteen miles of tree* , 'anted along four roads leading out of Stock ton. The scarcity of moisture this season makes it necessary that the trees be watered several times, and ad ditional funds are necessary to carry the many fine trees that have been growing through the summer. It Is also the intention of the Arbor club to later extend the tree planting on the four roads already lined with trees. Officers of the organization hope be fore many years to have the main thoroughfares leading to Stockton nice shady lanes. It takes only self-control to toler ate your relatives; it takes will pow er to be nice to theo.