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Show The New Commandments. An oxchange publishes the following Ten Commandments as expressing the policy of catalogue cat-alogue houses. As they contain i some good hard sense, wo com- i, " mend the local press to give same publicity. I THE COMMANDMENTS 1. You shall sell your farm produce for cash, wherever you can, but not to us; we do not buy from you. 2. You shall bolicve our statements state-ments and buy all you need from us because wo want to be good to you, although wo are not acquainted ac-quainted with you. 53. You shall send in the money in advance to give us a chance to get tho goods from the factory fac-tory with your money; mcan-whilo mcan-whilo you will have to wait patiently pat-iently a few weeks because that is our business method. 4. Sond us your money and wo will skin you on the quality of tho goods. fj. You must buy your church bells and interior church fixtures from us and forward tho monoy in advance, for that is our business method. (5 You shall collect from the business men in your vicinity as much money as you can get. for tho bonelit of your churches. Although wo got more money from you than they do, still it is against our rules to donato money for building country churches. 7 You must buy your tools from us and bo your own mech-anic mech-anic in order to drive the mcch-anic mcch-anic from your vicinity, for wo with it so. 8 You will induce your noigh-bor noigh-bor to buy everything from us us wo have room for more money i). You shall often look at tho beautiful pictures in our cata-loguo cata-loguo so your wishes will in-froaso in-froaso and you will send in a big order, although you are not in immcdiato need of the goods ; otherwise you might havo some H moiiey left to buy noccessary H goods from your local merchant. 10. You shall havo tho merchants mer-chants that repair the goods, you buy from us book tho bill, so that you can sond the monoy for his labor to us for new goods, otherwise ho will not notice our influence. 11 . Yoiydinll believe in us in preferance to your local dealers. You shall in case of accident, sickness or need apply to local dealers for credit, as wo do not know you. Ex. |