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Show fl Home Trade is Best. Here is a good ono from the Galesburg, 111. Mail, which says: Tho mail order catalog is a thing of beauty, but not a joy forovor. Indeed, there is many a sting and disnppoint-mcnt disnppoint-mcnt in its alluring pages, and its votaries do not always wear perpetual smiles. Some articles thoy can and do soli cheaper than local merchants, but they are few when tho wholo cost of freight and delivery is consider-ed consider-ed and their cheapness is as often in the quality as tho price. A local merchant dare not usually sell inferior goods. His customer has a tolophono and a voice, also a momory. If his customer is displeased and leaves him, ho cannot replace Hj tho lost customer with a now one, for his tield is limited. Ho must please or quit business. Tho mail order houeo has the whole country for, its Hold and can viow tho loss of a customer with complaceucy. A little ad-vortising ad-vortising of cheap prices will bring two in his place. The customor comes to the local merchant, handles his goods, tastes his coffee, fruit, voge-tables, voge-tables, looks over tho joints and Burfaco of his furniture, takes his cloth to tho light, tests its strougth, weight and quality, and selects with discrimination. When tho goods are delivered, if thoy are not satisfactory tho customes is free to return or oxchango, and may do so with little if any inconvenience. If he is disatisfiod with his bar-gain, bar-gain, with tho mail order house and, having no previous ex-perionco, ex-perionco, writes about it, some timoho will get tho curt information inform-ation that ho ordered catalog No. J.'J(i0757G from page 48J) of catalog 7(1; that the article described des-cribed by catalog No. .111(507070 from page '1811 of catalog 7(5,was sent him and advised to stop kicking. There is satisfaction in trading at home. Disappointment, Disappoint-ment, vexation, delay, and in the end loss, lurk in the pink pages of the mail order house. Homo trade is the best trade. |