Show CONGRESS should veto the anti equated custom of 0 the tree free distribution of 0 seeds it Is simply a steal that costs the country per annum and la is productive at 0 no good and is not wanted except by senators and congressmen who pose as givers at the public expense GIVE ME HE the money that has been spent in war and I 1 will purchase every toot foot of land upon the globe says henry richard I 1 will clothe every man woman and child in an attire of which kings and queens would be proud I 1 will build a school house on every hill bill and in every valley over the whole earth I 1 will build an all academy in every town and endow a college in every state and fill it with able professors I 1 will crown every hill with a place of worship warship consecrated to the promulgation of the gospel of 0 peace I 1 NI will ill support in every pulpit a teacher of righteousness so that on every sabbath the chimes on one hill should answer to the chimes on another around the earths wide circumference and the voice of prayer and the song of praise should ascend like a universal holocaust to heaven A PLAN for drawing trade to a town that has haa been successfully worked at several points might be adopted to advantage in this city the plan is as follows an agreement was reached between a all ra the merchants ulie whereby reby they offered special sales on certain days each merchant selecting some special line of goods upon which lie he made a lower price than usual thus one dry goods house would sell gloves at a special price while another would otter offer bargains in dress goods one hardware merchant would reduce the price on skates every line of business was represented and care was taken that no conflicts occurred prizes were ot of fared to the farmers bringing in an the best load of grain or the handsomest baby and the bargain day was extensively advertised in the surrounding country the names of the merchants and their special sales being in all cases stated the farmers responded in a most gratifying manner and the merchants were well pleased with the plan the idea has already been carried out in several cities THE IEDA Is intertwined entertained by some of the older type of at merchants that the good repute of their firm is spread from mouth to mouth in conversation and that they do not need to advertise in the newspapers that condition may have prevailed many years ago when people had nothing else alse to do but gossip about their neighbors in those times everyone discussed all of his home purchases with all his neighbors today a man who depends upon conversation and gossip to spread the news of his store will not find that his place of business is much frequented people do not exchange information about their domestic habits as they used to you have little idea whether your neighbors buy their goods of smith jones or brown the world Is full of wide interests and the bargains one may find in a certain store are ordinarily known only to those who find them the newspaper Is the only efficient means of 0 acquainting qua inting the public with the business news of the town for one person that will learn something about a given store by word of mouth a hundred learn about it through newspaper notices the advertising columns of a newspaper are read just as attentively as any sensation that may appear in the news columns the results ot of the two policies are obvious in one case a merchant drags along with only a small part ot of the community knowing anything about what is happening in his store in the other case practically everyone knows when that merchant has special bargains and what can be done in his store at any riven given time can there be the least question as to what kind of merchants get the business |