The Cedarville Herald, Volume 33, Numbers 1-26

n MM m utm m* m m tea ThirdAnnual HORSE SHOW Springfield, Ohio, June 8th & 9th Afternoons and Evenings. The best Horse Show in the West. Come and see the prize winners of Madison Square Garden, New York, Horse Show which will be here. Given by the Spring* field Matinee and Horse Show Association. CLARK COUNTY FAIR GROUNDS. WARREN D. ALEXANDER, Sec'y. KANY, THE TAILOR There is no use for you to go and buy your Spring Suit, ready-made, when we will take your measure and make you a Suit to Order for the same money W e want you to give us a call and be convinced. KANY, TheLeadingTailor. XENIA, OHIO. MggiB C A R P E T S C U R T A IN S W A L L PA PER In all the now Spring designs, patterns con­ trolled by us, SPECIAL OFFERING 100 9x12 Brussels Hugs $12 each, worth. . . . . . $10.50 Drop patterns in best quality extra super A ll Wool Two P ly Carpets,............... . 521& a yard, worth 75e. Drop patterns in L INOLEUM regular 50 and 00c grade................................................... .37 l-2c yard. STEAWMATTINGB , one and two room lots, half price THE P, M, HARMAN CO,, go& ga N. Main St., Dayton, Ohio. — i ate ■ I C a r p e t s • S t i n g s Linoleum Mattings Oil Cloths A l l at Reduc ed r Ices K teM VAN AUSDAL ’S Closing-Out Sale For Bargains In House Furnishing Goods S O U T H M A I N S T ., D A Y T O N , O H I O . ; W a l l P a p e r Lace Curtains j P o r t ie r e s j S h a d e s Pictures ; A l l at Reduced Prices OUTS OFF WASTE ON EVERY HAND Taft Administration is Quickly Making:Reforms. MUCH BEING DONE IN NAVY l*i!es of flew Vorte. Wise Advice, ftsft AmesL-in-ftOujaa dst'.i w»t for-» Otoe?/ human life with jflowsre? rw f atnvofe,oajoaf'.rr.L;atio;j. SliftEavo every hear for tho feofishlintd If a ruin to tu alwto/fi cmivcb -*Exalt soap coals! Widen tire synv !oml sad W'-fislHiy firefreed. end gftA v-fdiiii'S cf year hcarfal Make jay feat ofs hung ! t fee vafifcuaul bt ntKs to these you lovoft- Richard <fef* tttftimy-'Xom atttl country. fifes. ■ 6t ■. Secretary Meyer's Plans Have Brought Good' Results and Great Savings—Work Will Be Pushed to Completion. The voice of the imiekraker is loud in the land, and the clamor of criti­ cism of the Taft administration—al­ most if not entirely along the line of unimportant details—is not going to blind the intelligent citizen to the, many important reforms that are be­ ing developed in the interest of-the whole country. Today, as always, •the situation calls “for more reason and less pas­ sion;’’ for a closer study of what IS being actually accomplished, rather tnan the hysterical speculation as to what might pocsibly happen — hut doesn’t. Greater Efficiency Sought. Increased efficiency seems, to be the first purpose of the administra­ tion." ' The secretary of the treasury is following up the exposure of frauds under the New York customs service by a thorough reorganization of that, department in every portion of the, nation. The postmaster general Is pursuing •a ' business policy which Is eating holes In the postal deficit—accom­ plishing savings beyond what his pre­ decessors for two decades have been' able to bring, about. ' And now comes the secretary of the navy with a searching investiga­ tion of hi$ department which fa shocking the bureaucrats, but Is at once improving the efficiency of the navy and reducing ita coat by mil* lions of dollars. Navy Yard* Reorganized. Mr. Meyer has placed the navy yards upon a business basis, dividing them into two departments, one of hulls and one. of machinery, with a commandant' as superintendent. HO has redistributed the duties of the bureaus in the department, doing away with a great deal of red tape; has advised congress that there is no necessity for a bureau of equipment, which in a useless expense,,and has formed a cabinet of four expert-ad­ visers to assist him In settling tech­ nical questions. In additon, he has the assistance of the general board, of which Admi­ ral Dewey Is president. Thus he has effected an organization whose single dfity is to keep the fleet up to the highest notch of efficiency. Good Results Already Shown, There Is no doubt that Mr. Meyer's work has been attended by results of a gratifying character, livery ship In commision is In first-class order. The battleship fleet now at the navy yards has been improving steadily in efficiency, r.ot cnly as a unit in fleot operations hut individually, with re­ spect to -win fire and steaming. For instance, the fleet has an enormous coal bill, amounting to $3,000,000 an­ nually. In three months a caving of $1330,000 was made. fiat beside the improved apparatus a spirit sf rivalry has been developed between the engineering crews on tUo different ships. This has brought about marc systematic firing, greater economy fa steaming, Instant repair of flefoertvo machinery and higher training of the men. Mr. Meyer is encouraging repairs at r,oa co that the crow itself can keep the vessel efileic-nt oven if it should prove ita* pssalblo or undesirable to go to a navy yard. ■Mr. Moyer's reorganization plan has not been approved by congress. |The staff Is snaking a fight upon ft |because of the increased authority it } gives to the line, Unquestionably it ; makes for efficiency, and the hands |of the secretary aboutd be strength- | m o i by the lavra be has- reeota- |mended. ^ ! THE BUCKEYE PRESS : Comment, Caustic and Kindly, on i Ken and Measures Just Now j In the Publib Eye. I Senator Chamberlain saya "victory I Is just ahead of Democracy.” That la the poult!w victory has hold la rela­ tion to D'moeracy for a long time.-* Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune?, * You don’t hear the talk of party |aissc nr,ion that prevailed a few weeks ago1, neither do you hear the I cry of "anybody to beat Harmon,” I Tfso Hattaoa stone wall doesn't imk } near difficult to pefiftrato es tho i jiopnbVlcam get close tip to it.- wil- •?!*.!*?g!on Signal. The Wanda utllltlfo bill which met ; ftn death hi Coiumima through the ! hittm-ieiitallty of Governor Haraeii i wan a atop in the sight direction. Be* |pudod of What the author considered 1more or Ices fundamental virtues bo • St caino to a vote in the senate, (I'vortbeh so offer* d the baglnaiftB bettor tilings, tte fete might at* , ho cAiled phosphorescent la Jt* j itlHMiaatloft of Ohio lawmakings ! ttlvi i*. Trfftcntfl, : Y* ii 1me:;! CANMAILCiiDERHOUSES sell dependable mer ­ chandise CHEAPERTHAN THE HOME MERCHANT? CY O. A. CHARGES. CP«KP*te»t by O. A, i ’I ku J cs , 10W.1 la tu<s three prevailing urtlcleo of this -series, "Cap Mail Order Houses Soil Dependable Gouda Cheaper Than the Homo Merchant?” wo have tried to chow you. first, tijn.fr they can not manufacture good merchandise cheap- os? than homo merchants, Wo have aicq tried io show that the expense of operating mail order houses is enormously out of proportion to their income■as derived from their sale3, and we have tried to show you that their advertising Is out of .proportion to their sales and that they resort to false advertising to cell their goods. Now we want to make a compari­ son between the mail .order house and the local merchants, because the mall order houses claim,that the reason they can sell goods cheaper, than the local merchant Is because of the enor­ mous volume of their sales, which en­ ables them to buy cheaper and to op­ erate cheaper, etc. Taking the same mail order house we have been using as an example in the three preceding articles and. com­ paring it with local merchants, we find the following: This house claims to have sold approximately $60,000,000 worth of merchandise in one year, and to do this amount of business they claimed that they require a cap­ ital of 340,000,000, Stop and think; $40,000,000 is two- thirds of sixty million, therefore their total sales were only $26,000,000 more than their capital;. We find by computation that it would take six hundred merchants, each selling $100,000 worth of mer­ chandise per year, to fiell .560,000,000 worth,. ■ - By referring to the commercial agencies, by talking to bankers, by getting infermaiion at first hand from the merchants themselves, wu find that the average capital of a mer­ chant who sells $100,000 worth of merchandise per year Is between $25,000 and $25,009. Then the loth! capital required by the six hundred local merchants who soil the same amount of merchandise as this mall order house, allowing each merchant the maximum amount of capital, which would be $35,050, would require only $21,000,000. of lust $1,000,000 more than one-half what the mall ere def house required to do the same amount cf business. We also find that the average expenses of a mer­ chant who soils $100,000 worth of merchandise per year docs not exceed over $20,000. Then the six hundred merchants would have a total oper­ ating or overhead expense of $12,000,- 000, as compared with $20,000,000 re­ quired by flie mail order house for their overhead or operating expenses. Now, then the mail order house re­ quires practically double the. capital and.has almost double the amount of expense to do the same amount of business; then docs it look reasonable that tlift mail order liouoe could be selling merchandise, realy first-class goods that they could stand hack of and guarantee, cheaper than the local merchants? We do not think it requires any ar- guement to prove that the comparison is entirely in favor of the local mer­ chant. Then this being the case, knowing that the mail order house requires practically double the capital and incurring practically twice the expense, we ask yon again if this mail Order house was giving you value re­ ceived--a hundred cento* worth of merchandise? for every dollars you gave them - how <c,rdd they, in less than thirty year;), starting out on a ver. limited capital, with a very email pr ifd, as they delta 1ft their cata­ logues, how could they have accum­ ulated the rasn.;-,;;e Wealth they claim, and which wo are hound to ad­ mit they have, and at the same time sell.you gcoda equal to that sold by your tom» merchanta, at a very much cheaper price. CULTIVATE THE GiVIG OPIRIT. If there? la oao thing winch every email form Ed 3c, it is the cultivation of a broader civic spirit-a op it which wit! bo animated by something more than eOfInterest; a spirit which will look upon the affairs of a town aa the lonrezn of oil ita citi­ zens; a flvie e.p.lilt which believes that he growth r/ ? Mi 3 can he con­ trolled, that ih if fniftttss 2 d subject to direction and d? velopraont, a civic spirit which can look at things from tho Btandpffiufc of a i otimitinify; that will n«,t allow m -noy which should ho spent aft home to ho a nt away to support tho r'iHiiojMhstlf’ Mail Order houses. Most every, city or town bus Sts Business Men's <»remiration;, (' obi morclal ffltih. i hatch? r of Commerce w oard of ‘l i t- fin1mfelons of all of which aie to promote tinker business relations, bLNin Inwcid freight rates, kaeoiirage and Indte o manufacturer^ to kuato ,and an- h Ujiuts ru direttly relate to the p.-ncssl iiualatss wel­ fare r,f a town or i i<v. Baft the ?ui<: spirit the intoreoto fend t isnpc-Attou of fthe cudltUl’V frill- Zf'ii has not !>-»'!» i nji'v.if<lr and un­ til it lifts b- **)1, HOgri'Sf )r - oH us fraft ho nffitV’ !n a foa ,,'s wcif ■?;> until then ?«/ n'oii m<nr t »n t ” ftij’-ci roful in aojjjT-ftting fio« xresfr Y evil which rvi't* jufrjisicd a tom of viic.ge tho Mtd; Hyde- Mf-nnprth, Svte AGodPainter with Poor Paint yets Poor Results A Poor Painterwith GoodPaint gets Better Results But a good painter with can produce results in, every way satisfactory. G R E E N S E A L P A IN T will go further, wear longer, look better, and actually save the consumer 15 to 25% on a job of painting. FOB SALE BY KERR & HASTINGS BROS, i BUT FEW WEEKS TOWAIT Homo-Coming of the Colonel Awaited With Unmixed Interest For Reasons, It won’t be very much longer, now, until Colonel Roosevelt will return from Ills pilgrimage, and that keen, interest will attach to his first utter­ ances on American politics goes with­ out saying. Singularly, this Interest attaches even In the ease of people who are hot Interested in y.olitifcs—paradox­ ical though that may sound. The for*, mor president returns a larger figure than ever before, for, while he had the following of his country as no man has ever had It before, there was here and there and now and theft a fear that perhaps, after, all, we were too generous In our ntitiapal estimate of Roosevelt, But now that our opin­ ion has been endorsed and emphasiz­ ed by all Europe, wts feel more sure of our ground. It’s much like wheft a bright boy in. the neighborhood,, leaves and wins signal success In” strange fie'ds—we commence' to boast that we saiew It was In him, all the time. ■ fiat, “ Buck from Riba!” This’ Id the Cleveland Leader's view of the |l.OHf'ilillitl' fes | “N- ft)rioii;~; frcomics of tho presl- |dap. and o; posanta of hia adminhitra- tSna are'Ian i in their j:i:otor,?atkms of loyalty to Theodore Roosevelt. Not only that, hut they laud klu judgment to the skies and profess entire faith in his wisdom, •'Those conditions contain certain intorestittg psaslbilittos. They give f special welcht. and Importance to ’ one big Roosevelt "if." ” Wh?t if T. R. should come homo, ntrdy the situation carefully and de- c’fle that the highest interests of the country would be best served by sup- parting the Taft administration, rally­ ing to Mr, Taft’s standard and elect* big a house of r« presc-ntatlVeo which would work with him in constructive legislation, iftoUad of a Democratic tengross which would antagonize and opjKue the president and Ids party? In that case would the anti-Taft ad- Uiheis of Colonel Roosevelt admit that he understood tho situation bet­ ter than they and was a wiser coun­ selor in respect to the nation’a needs? f£ not, .what could they say of the judgment and soundness of their idol, who Is also tin? Idol of the country? "This So an interesting possibility. Tt may assume great Importance la the c lining campaign.” c r r/ r iv vm therer-re, ton hi*!*v MWl RH *Hi svhH' mil walk liart!iftni(«i»lv for y»>nr own tosatim- good, and your reward will bo ti imfey, pctMpBiouA, flfriurisl'in* com- ftiunity, Money On B O R R O W Lowest Rate* Short Notice Where Y ou ’r e Sa fe Possible. . XENIA LOAN CO. ■ I , Payment* Weekly Or Monthly I5i E. Main Street, Xenia, Ohio. C it iz e n s P h o n e 102 Straiafht Time to Farmers. The Palace Restaurant Mrs. Chas. Harris, Prop. Xenia Ave. Rooms formerly occupied by C. C. Weimer, Meals by day orjweek. Lunch served all hours. Furnished Rooms for Rent. WHY THE H. C. L. Tisa bard of Smith county, Tennea- cee, liar, beat the congressional inves­ tigate!u to It. ami reveals in pursy tho real rra:.;n for tho high cost of living. •'The price of pig Is cmiuthiiig big Because It’s corn, you’ll understand, I d high-pric-sil, too; Because it grew Upon the high-priced farming land. "If you’d know why , Tho laud io high, OonDidf.r this: Its price io big Because it pays Theretm to raise Tho costly earn, and high-priced pig!" SHORT MEASURE To urgo legislation thnt’o been def­ initely promised id one thing; to dg - crotly undertake to accomplish ontlo is quite another. ■ Oil Inspector Finley hasn't publish­ ed tho Bet of contributions to tho campaign of 1008 ao yet; and nary a word from Harvey Garber, cither. "Gravo diggers arc on & strike in Toledo,” announces tho Xenia Ga* cotta. Get 'em back on tho job by November; there’ll bo hopes to bury, then, • DSBOBBDS '**»»■*u-iuiLiBB mow*1 PURE PAINT X b jnado from paro materials. You htat* a great deal, now-a-dnya, about PUJU3 PAfiNT, but what you want to know is—aro you gotiiag GOOD PAINT For paint to bo GOOD ausic&o PUIUL y**y D & B PAINT Is Both Pure and Good PURE because it Is made from pare aiaterialg-HPf®® %VHITI3 1,11AD, FUilH &1ND, FUIi.13 LIN^EBD OIL AND TURK COLORING- MATTI5R. 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