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fierald and Advertiser. NEWNAN, FRIDA Y, F E B. 19. ONE DOLLAR A YEAH. The Mail Order House. Can the average Mail Order House undersell the retail merchant of your home town? Let us see what the fig ures show. A very able business man has taken some pains to go into the matter thoroughly, and figures it out somewhat in this way : One of the Mail Order Houses claims to have spent more than $800,000 last year in newspaper advertising to have sent out 1,000,000 catalogues at a total coat of $1,200,000. They claim to em ploy over 9,000 people in their business, as clerks, bookkeepers, packers, and handlers of merchandise, etc. Add to this the interest on the money invested in the stock of merchandise, which they claim amounts to $7,000,000; also, building and equipment, which they claim cost over $3,000,000, together with bills for heating, lighting, freight, taxes, insurance, etc., and you have a total expense of $8,300,000. Assuming that they have sold during the year $30,000,000 of merchandise, this would mean an average expense of 27 2-3 per cent, on their entire trade. Very few merchants have an expense account exceeding 15 per cent. Most of them who have an exceptionally large business are able to conduct it on a much smaller basis. With this statement of facts it is readily seen that the second item of cost, as stated above, is at least 10 per cent, grenter to the catalogue house than to the retail merchant; therefore, the only other item in the cost of the goods to the user is the item of profit. The two leading catalogue houses in Chicago were started by men of small means. These men to-day are million aires. Sears, Roebuck & Co. are capi talized as a corporation, with $40,000,- 000 of capital stock, on which they paid a dividend of 8 per cent., which would equal $3,200,000, or about 11 per cent, of their sales. There is scarcely a merchant in the country in any line of trade who aver ages n net profit of 10 per cent, on the sales of his entire business. Most of them would bo glad of a net prolit of (i per cent, on their total yearly sales. The expense account of the catalogue houses will average at least 10 per cent, more than the expense account of the merchant, while the per cent, of profit of the catalogue houses has been very much larger than that of the re tail merchant. The claim made by the Mail Order Houses that they are able to buy goods so much cheaper than retail dealers is not a reasonable claim, except that they are always willing to take goods that are just a little hit inferior in quality to standard brands. Before sending your order to a Mail Order House in Chicago or elsewhere take your list and catalogue to your lo cal dealer and ask him to duplicate it for the price mentioned, plus freight, etc. Allow him the same privilege of putting up your goods without your seeing them, and he will do so, and you can rest assured your order will be quickly filled and prove even more sat isfactory. When you consider that when the Pure Food and Drug law went into ef fect some of the largest Mail Order Houses cut out their drug department (the most profitable part of their busi ness) as being no longer profitable, yoij can readily understand what kind of drugs were being sold by them. You did not hear of any of the drug stores in your town closing for that reason, did you? Is it plain to you now? He Caught On Eventully. It is reported that one of our well- known young men went out to visit a couple of capricious young Indies the other night, and it seems that they framed it up on him to some extent, and had planned to have all sorts of fun when he came to spend the even ing. As he was accredited with being somewhat bashful they thought it would be a great joke to imitate every thing he did. At last when he ap peared in the par'or he blew his nose. Each of the girls promptly followed suit. The incident struck him at the time as being rather peculiar, but he made no remark about it. "Nice evening,” he said, and sat down. They repeated the remark and the performance. Before he did anything more he rubbed his hands together and stroked his hair, and they did the same. "Not so cold to-night,” he ventured, in ordtjr to be sure of his ground, and they repeated, with a slight change in emphasis, "Not so cold to-night.” There was a twinkle of mischief in their eves and he caught the cue. He • straightened his collar and they did the same, and one of them smiled a trifle. He didn’t hesitate any longer, but de liberately stooped down and turned up his trousers. Elgin (Tex.) Courier. Shake Into Your Shoes. Allen’s Foot - Ease, a powder. It cures painful, swollen, smarting, ner vous feet and instantly takes the sting out of corns and bunions and makes walking easy. Try it to-day. Sold ev erywhere. Sample FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. Candid Tribute to a Great Actor. Harper s Weekly. One of the most candid tributes the late Edwin Booth ever received was rendered him on his last Southern tour by one who knew neither of his pres ence nor of his identity in the play. "We opened our engagement in At- j anta, Ga., with ‘Othello,’ ” said Mr. Booth, "and I played Othello. After the performance my friend, Mr. Ma lone, and I went to the Kimball House for some refreshments. The long bar : was so crowded that we had to go j around the corner of it before we could j find a vacant space. While we were waiting to be served we couldn’t help hearing the conversation of two fine- looking old hoys, splendid old fellows with soft hats, flowing mustaches and chin tufts, black string ties, and all the other paraphernalia. " ‘I didn’t see you at the theater this evening, Cunnel,’ said one. ” ‘No,’ replied the other. ‘I didn’t buy seats till this mawnin’, and the beat we could get were six rows back in the balcony. I presume, suh, you were in the orchestra.’ " ‘Yes, Cunnel, I was in the orches tra,’ said the first man. ‘Madame and the girls were with me. We all agreed that we never attended a mo’ thrillin’ play. The company was good, too; excellent company. And, do you know, Cunnel, in my opinion that d—d nigguh did about as well as any of ’em !’ ” Law and Crime. WiiHhlnifton Pont. Public opinion is to blame primarily. It does exact of judges and juries per formance of duty. Moral and physical poltroonery accounts for a miscarriage of justice; witnesses and intimidated or corrupted jurors fear the evil consequences of faithlessness to their oaths. Legal technicality employed by skillful and unscrupulous counsel oft makes a farce of a criminal trial. But the big mesh through which murderers escape is the stubborn witness. When an influential citizen turns murderer the newspapers print full ac counts of the crime and go into the minutest details of the tragedy. Of course, when an honest talesman is asked by counsel, when the work of impanneling the jury is in progress, if he has formed or expressed an opinion ns to the guilt or innocence of the ac cused, he answers "Yes,” if he has in telligence enough to read the papers; whereas your rascally talesman who has been "fixed” brazenly answers "No,” and thus qualifies himself under the technique of the law to be a pillar of state in the administration of jus tice. That is why we have scores of mur derers where England has one, and that is why Judge Lynch is so active on the bench, and, it may be, why he is abso lutely indispensable in the adjustment of numerous affairs. Mr. Broughton, the English artist, while sketching in the Alns, was one day in search of a suitable background of dark pines for a picture he had planned. He found at last the precise situation he was seeking, and, best of all, there happened to be a pretty de tail in the figure of an old woman in the foreground. "I asked the old lady,” said Mr. Broughton, “to remain seated until 1 had made a sketch of her. She assent ed, but in a few minutes asked me how long I should be. ‘Only a quarter of an hour,’ I answered, reassuringly. "Three minutes or so later'j she again asked me—this time with mani fest anxiety —if I should be much lon ger. " ‘O. not long,’ I answered. ‘But why do you ask so anxiously?’ " ‘O, it’s nothing,’ she sadly an swered, ‘only I’m sitting on an ant hill.’ ” _ Said a visitor to a teacher in a west side business college; "That girl from the country seems to be the brightest student in the room.” At the request of the teacher she designated more particularly the girl she had in mind. "Oh, yes,” said the teacher, "she is very bright, but how did you know she is from the country? She does not look countrified. ” "Her habit of washing her hands so often gave her away,” said the visitor. ! "I have been sitting here about two j hours. In that time she has washed her hands three times. No city girl j would have done that; she would have I sharpened pencils or turned over dusty j books and simply have polished her hands on her pocket handkerchief and gone on working. The country girl finds it impossible to work under such cireum- i stances. She must have clean hands. ! After each task down go their hands ; into a basin of water. City life cures j most country habits; but frequent bath- | itig of the hands is the last to go.” A station master requested an in crease of salary and threatened to leave j if he didn’t get it. i The superintendent replied to his re- j quest by relating a story. | "When I was a young man,” said he, “1 once did as you are doing—I told the superintendent of the line I was then working on what you have told me. He refused my demand, and I left —and, would you believe it?—that rail road line is running yet.” Industry pays debts- despair increas es them. For $50 a Month Bank Clerk Goes j to Jail. Houston, Tex., Feb. 14. — Every night for a month Carl Summers, em ployed by the State Bank of Bishop at a salary of $60 a month to serve for the purpose, has been locked in the cell of the Bastrop county jail with all the funds of the bank in his possession for safe-keeping. Now he is on a strike, and the offi cials of the institution are compelled to j buy a vault. No one else is willing to j assume the task. Summers was hired when a condition demanded action. The bank was organ ized and a second- hand safe was bought. The first day’s deposits were large, and at night the money was laid away in a strong-box. The president tried to lock } the vault door and couldn’t. Something | had to be done, and so Summers was | hired to go to jail with $50,000. He j was escorted to the jail by the bank president, who personally turned the key in the cell door and left the clerk inside to sleep on a pillow of bank notes. In the morning the prisoner with the money was released. All went well until Summers was invited to take dinner with the family of the girl he is going to marry. The bank president was willing to wait up, but the sheriff wouldn’t. Summers quit without further notice, and that night the president, his pockets stuffed with bills, sat up in jail himself. The next day he ordered a real vault. Don’t Knock. If there is a chance to boom business, boom it. Don’t be a knocker. Don’t pull a long face. Hope a bit. Get a smile on you. Hold up your head. Get hold with both hands. Then pull. Bury your hatchet. Drop your tomahawk. Hide your little hammer. When a stranger drops in tell him this is the greatest town on earth. It is. Don’t get mulish. Don’t roast. Be jolly. Get popular. It’s dead easy. Help yourself along. I’ush your friend with you. Soon you’ll have a whole proces sion. Be a good fellow. No man ever helped himself by knocking other people down. No man ever got rich trying to make people believe that he was the only good man on earth. You can’t climb the lad der of fame by stepping on other peo ple’s corns. They are their corns, not yours. And they’re tender. Keep off the corns. All men are not alike. Once in a while you may find some one who is very much alike. But some are differ ent. You’re not the only shirt in the wash. If you don’t like their style let ’em alone. Don’t knock. You’ll get used to it. There’s no end of fun in minding your own business. And it makes other people like you better. Better have others get stuck on your self. Nobody gets stuck on a knocker. Don’t be one. Re good. Bernard Robbins, head of the legal department of New York Court of Tears —this charity helps the poor to adjust their marital troubles without going to the expense of lawsuits—said the other day to a newspaper man ; "Such work as mine makes you, if you are not careful, pessimistic about marriage, so that you find yourself tell ing grimly over and ovei again the story about St. Peter and the widower. "What? You don’t know the story? Well, it seems that two weary souls ap proached St. Peter side by side, and the younger was repulsed sternly by the saint on the ground that since he had never been married he had never known any suffering. "The older man advanced with glad confidence. He stated that he had been married twice. "But he, too, the saint repulsed, say ing, ‘This is no place for fools.’ ” An elderly patient in the Tennessee mountains region was suffering from a malady the remedy for which the doc tor prescribed in the form of capsules. The old woman trusted her medical ad viser, but for the medicine she evinced much suspicion. Some time after she had taken the capsules she was asked by her son how she felt. "Poorly. ” "Don’t you want nuthin’ to eat?” “No.” Soon, however, the old woman arose | from her bed and took her seat in a rocking chair. Thinking that the at- [ tention would be gratefully received, j the son filled her pipe and taking a j live coal from the hearth, carried both to his mother. j "Take that away, son!” yelled the | old woman in the utmost fright. “Don’t j you konw better’n to cume near me when I’ve got them cartridges in me?” "Do you ever think, George, dear,” said she, and her voice was soft and low, as befitted the perfect beauty of the night, "do you ever think how closely true happiness is allied with tears?” "I don’t believe I ever do,” admitted George dear, "but I will, if you like.” “Yes.” she went on. gazing up into his face, and her lips were very close to his, "when one is truly and wholly happy, George, dear, there is but lit tle to divide a smile and a tear.” "Well, that’s a fact,” assented George dear. "But I never thought of it before. After all, there’s nothing but the nose. ’ ’ Bryan’s Specialty. New York Times. William Jennings Bryan has a habit, when speaking, of addressing argu ments to some one man in his audi ence. In this way, he claims, he can concentrate his thoughts much better. Of course, he does it in a manner indi rect enough not to be embarrassing to the victim. Once during one of the campaigns he addressed himself most particularly to an old farmer, who, he observed, fol lowed all he said with marked atten tion. Bryan was much pleased. After the speech was over the candidate sought out that old farmer. "What was it that struck you most particularly about my speaking?” he asked. "Wal,” began the farmer, and paused, seemingly embarrassed. But Bryan urged him to explain, so at last he cleared his throat and remarked : "Mr. Bryan, you’re the only speaker I ever heard whose set of back teeth I could see while he was speakin’.” Henry—"I got a raise in my salary the other day. ” Harry—"You ought to make a rise in the world, then.” Henry—"No, I talk in my sleep, and now, gosh ding it, my wife knows all. about it.” Tired Traveler (to barber)—"Spend ing the night in a sleeping car doesn’t improve one’s beauty, does it?” Z The Barber—"I don’t know what you looked like when you started, but I guess you’re right.” AFTER FOURYEARS OF MISERY Cured by Lydia E. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound Baltimore, Md.— “For four years my life was a misery to me. I suffered si from irregulari ties, terrible drag- lljging sensations, HI extreme nervous ness, and that all gone feeling in my stomach. I had given up hope of ever being well when i began to take Lydia I.. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound. Then I felt as though new life had been given me, and L am recommending it to all my friends.”—Mrs. \Y. S. Ford, 1938 Lansdowne St., Baltimore, Md. The most successful remedy in this country for the cure of all forms of female complaints is Lydia E. Fink- ham’s Vegetable Compound. It has stood the test of years and to-day is more widely and successfully used than any other female remedy. It lias cured thousands of women who have been troubled with displacements, inflam mation, ulceration, fibroid tumors, ir regularities, periodic pains, backache, that bearing-down feeling, flatulency, indigestion, and nervous prostration, after all other means had tailed. If you are suffering from any of these aliments, don’t give up hope until you have given Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege table. Compound a trial. If you would like special advice write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass., for it. She has guided thousands to health, free of charge. Malaria is due to impurities and poisons in the blood. Instead of being rich, strong and healthy, the'circulation has become infected with germs of disease which destroy the rich, red corpuscles that furnish nouigshiuent and strength to the bod} - , and reduced this vital fluid to such e. weak, watery condition that it is no longer able to keep the system in health, or ward off the countless diseases and disorders that assail it. The loss of these red corpuscles takes the color and glow of health from the cheek, and we see pale, sallow faces and washed out, chalky complexions among the first symptoms of Malaria, But Malaria is a general systemic disease, and as the blood becomes more heavily loaded wit’A its germs we have more serious and complicated symptoms; the impure blood having its effect on all parts of the body. The appetite fails, digestion is weakened, chills and slight fever are frequent, and the sufferer loses energy and ambition because of a constant tired-out and " no account ” feeling. The lack of necessary nour ishment and healthful qualities in the blood causes boils and abscesses, skin affections, and in some cases sores and ulcers to break out, and sometimes the patient is prostrated with a spell of malarial fever which may leave his health permanently impaired. To cure Malaria both a blood purifier and tonic are necessary, in order to remove the cause and at the same time build up the system from its weakened and run-down condition. S. S. S. is the medicine best fitted for this work. It is the most perfect of all blood purifiers, and tile purely vegetable ingredients of which it is composed make it the During 1900 I was running a (arm on the Mississippi river and became so impreg nated with Malaria that for a year I was almost a physical wreck. I tried a number of medicines recommended as blood purifi ers, chill cures, and Malaria eradicators, but nothing did me any good until I began to use S. S. S. The result wis that after taking it for awhile I was as well and strong as I ever was. I have never had a chill since nor the slightest symptom of Malaria. I hope others will be benefited by my experience, and with that end in view I give this testimonial, knowing that S. S. S. is the best remedy for Malaria. Amory, Miss. S. R. COWLEY. greatest and safest of all tonics S. S. S. goes down into the circulation and removes every trace of impurity or poison, and at the same time gives to the blood the health-sustaining qual ities it needs. It cures Malaria thoroughly and permanently because it removes the germs and poisons which produce the disease, and while doing this tones up and strengthens every part of the system. When S. S. S. has cleansed the blood the symptoms pass away, the healthy color returns to- the complexion, the old tired, depressed feeling is gone, and the entire health is renewed. Book with information about Malaria and any medical advice free. 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