The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-24
THE MAN OF IDEAS.
He Makes an Economic Proposition
TO the Busy Man.


He Makes an Economic Proposition
to the Busy Man.
From HGypeT's Magazine.
He entered the office with a brisk and
confident air, hardly in consonance with his
battered hat and buttoDless coat.
"Well, sirl" said the Busy Man, LOOKING
up from his desk for the space Of one-eighth
of a second.
II will not detain you five minutes said
the stranger. you would not care to hear
my name In fact it is immaterial. am
a Man Of Ideas"
ty-three-elght-thi
one What's thatr said the Busy Man,
who had not paid very much attention to
what his visitor was saying.
ideas" replied the unknown. removing
his hat and rubbing his forehead briskly.
~ am full of ideas. and give them forth
on certain occasions for consideration.
There are few people who know how much
the world-eSpecially the business worlds
indebted to me. Perhaps you do no,
known
The Busy Man smiled vacantly, then
recovered himself. and said, sharply, "Whal
are you talking aboutF
Eyes, yes, said the Man Of Ideas, mildly
''of course. They all begin that way. I'm
used to it. No one wants TO listen to me
until let one of my ideas drop"
You'd better let some of them droI
pretty soon." observed the Busy Man, witt
asperity, "or travel out Of here. What Dc
you want, anyhow"
Want to tell you who am" was the
brisk answer.
| S."Well, who are your
MAN of Ideas. Pm the man who con.
ceived the idea of holding the beer glass
thirty inches from the spigot. This effect
| a saving Of 50 so on each barrel of beer, OF
! somewhere between 81 ,00O, 900 and 81, COX. O0t
| a year"
"What did you get for that idea mill
iouw asked the Busy Man, curiously.
mo. SIR" answered the Man OF Ideas
That's what makes me liked. I sell my
| ideas very cheap. got a mere nothing fol
the idea of making 200-yard thread spool
run 150-a clear saving of % per cent-anC
making eleven ounces Of knitting WOO
weigh pound"
The Busy Man sold wool and cotton, aut
| he rubbed his chin with ruler refiectively
at was my idea" continued the visitor
ITO effect 80 per cent. saving in lead pencils
| by emitting the final third OF lead. OBSERVE
ton convinced me that the average mar
never uses but two~thirds Of a lead pencil
| the rest was easy"
But" asked the Busy Man, who was get
ting interested. suppose he sharpens the
pencil at the bogus endP'
"He won't" responded the Man OF Ideas,
calmly. 1--WE put the gilt stamp on the
bogus end, and no man is bold enough TO
cut that stamp"
True enough" assented the Busy Man.
II am also the man who introduced
| opera cigars at saving TO cigar manu-
facturers of 40 per cent, or SIG. 600 6
year. You see. it was like this: All cigari
used to be five inches long, of which about
| two inches we're thrown away. Isuggestec
cutting the cigar downto three aiuches, and
having paragraphs inserted In the newspa-
pers to the effect that little cigars were en-
regle or tony. That did the business"
"Are you the man who invented papeI
soles for shoes" asked the Busy Man.
Eyes. sir; also paper Russian leather
| pocket books and paper alligator bags Tit
world also owes sawdust mahogany dool
knobs to me. and real hair mattresses stuffec
with dyed excelsior"
"And Chinese silk made of cotton?"
Exactly. And wolf robes made of goa
skins. A week would be too short for ms
to reclte all my ideas, and / am Away
thinking up new ones. For instancen-ht
left the fire, where be had been warming hi
| frame, and came closer to the Busy Man
81 have new idea just now"
And ycu want to confde it to me %
"For our mutual benefit-yes, sir. My
idea is to make a saving of so per cent. tc
the government In printing bank notes, anC
you may calculate what the idea Is worth.
"Yes, but how ~
Like this. picking up a blotter 1--WE
will print on the diverse a 81 bill, and OF
the reverse IS bill, or we may make it ter
and twenty, or any posi- BILE combination.
well 2" said the Busy Man, puzzled.
Don't you see the ideaa Each bill II
practically two bills. II you owe a man
| dollar, you give it to him dollar side up; il
| five dollars, why, five-dollar side up. Or, il
You owe him four dollars. you turn the i've
dollar side up; he takes it. turns it over
hands It back to you, and there's youl
CHANGE -i.tfts
AZ see." said the Busy Man. with dan.
gerous glitter in bis eyes. "But why no
divide she note with red lines, front anc
back, into four quarters. giving each I,
different denominationW
"Ah. see you also are a man Of ideas,
said the other. warmly. But would it no
be we'll to try my idea frstl / would sug-
gest that you give me five and a one, and
pli 60 of and paste them together. thinl
can fiud a man somewhere to whom owe
| 81. and will experiment. on him."
viii s6 be enoughp queried the Busy
| Man.
"Quite sufficient" replied the Man Of
| Ideas, rubbing his hands softly.
Then the Busy Man descended from the
stool brandishing the ruler. and there was
| swishing sound, and also one OF falling
bodies. for the space of perhaps minute
Then the Busy Man bent over his led ger Ia
solitude and quiet.