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Show 1 SCISSORED H (from the Cotilville Times.) H (Never go in dopt for a luxury ( or an unnecoessary nrtiolo of ' any 'description. p i Why is it, a earolcss .seven-year-old kid can drop a burned match in an alloy and burn up h all tho barns in a block, while i H I an able-bodiod man has to use H i up a whole box of matches to H 1 get u wood fire started in a. H heater that has draft enough to draw all tho furniture up the) H stove pipe? j 1 j I Tho story is told that a cor-1 I j tain woman Avas reading tho I niatrimouial colums of a paper I and remarked to her husband: I J "Horo's a strange coincident H a "William Strange married a I i. Martha Strange." "Strango I indeed," romarkod hoi hus-I hus-I band, "but I oxpect tho noxt I ' news vill bo a little stranger." I I ' Tho trado territory of a town is not all dopondent upon the W r. distauco to neighboring trading r '" points. The trade territory de-I de-I ponds upon tho enterprise of tho I " merchants and tho rosidonts of I tho town. If a town does not I roach out after the trado it will I come only as fast as it has to, I and it will grow as it is forced I 1 to. But if tho morchants go I a after businoss in the surround-I surround-I ing county, advertising in ovory I M possible way, and making good I ft every word of thoir advertising, I & trade will come from an evor in creasing radius, tho town will gain a reputation for being awake and it will forge to the f ront. It is the men in the town and not altogether the men living liv-ing within a certain number of miles from it that makes the town. |