Where Strikes Are Not Known

It is particularly pleasant, especially amid the din and tumult - the general unsettledness and dissatisfied condition of affairs throughout the entire country, to discover aome little resting spot where peace and harmony, tranquility and prosperity reign undisturbed. It is an example of what honest purpose rightly directed and a determination to succeed is able to accomplish, under the most adverse condition and difticulties. The subject of this sketch is The Store. under the management of Walter C. Mack. At the beginning of the present year, vvhen times were gloomy and the outlook discouraging, as never before, when in tne mouïh of every merchant was the prediction : "this will be the dullest spring Ann Arbor has ever knovvn. " Instead of being governed by these discordant notes of warning and preparing themselves to meet such a eondition of trade by redueing ex- and cutting down their salery list, they adopted an exactiy contrary plan to meet sueh an emergency. Calling his foi'ces together, Mr. Mack explained to them, that it was his determination to make this "the greatest season The Store bas ever enjoyed"- "never mind about the times" he as the proposition feil upon many ineredulous ears. "Washtenaw county is big enough - her resorses are large enough, the people are intelligent, will be ecoiai enough in such times as are up-. that with the extraordinary effort wc v.'iu make and the splendid merchandising we propose to give them, they will readily recognize our efforts, and their advantage, and will respond ia i way that will be a mutual benefit to all. Ha ving adopted this plan for the season no time was lost in executing it to the fullest extent. With plenty of capital at their commaud, the markets wcre ransacked for their best values, great Unes of seasonable goods were bought in unbroken lots at prices never before obtainable- uothing that had the merit of a big bargain was allowed to escape and goods were piled up in The SUm - tilling jts great capacity - and this too, with a paralysis of business coming upon them. The goods had to be sold - that was certain. No carrying purchases beyond the season, and to ao this they could resort to but one means- teil the people what they have got, let the people know what they have been doing in the way of buying goods, let them know just what they expecteá to do in the way of selling them. For this, they relied entirely upon rinter's ink. Not in hotneopath doses but in gigantic quantities, enough to teil their story in every household of the county. The great trade-tide at once began to now Ann Arborward, raising higher and higher - each day submerging all previous sale records, all attempts at competition. This season 's remarkable retailing, this rapid assembling and disbursing of large quantities of merchandise, illustrates how thoroughly equipped they are to take advantage of every commercial condition. in any part of the country, renders it impossible for any house in the whole country to undersell them, renders itall together improbable for any local house to meet the marvelous merchandising at The Store. It was these advantages combined with an indomnable will that has made the flrst half of the present year the most successful in its history. A Great Mid-Summer Sale. As a fitting endingof this remarkable season they are now preparing lor a great mid-summer sale to close out all odds and ends of their great purchases; but more especially to close out their entire line of Carpets and Draperies - they advertise in these Unes of goods - prices this country has never known, and as it is their intention to clean out this entire department in the next few weeks the public can look for something startling. This will be all the more appreciated in the city where houseeleaning is now in full blast in preparation for next year 's college year. Too inuch cannot be said of those special sales as well as their Saturaay sales, which bring a concourse of of people to Ann Arbor in the course of the year and make The Store what it really is- Washtenaw Co. 's TradingCenter.