The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-09-15


Observation-Disclosures
Copyright, 1906, by
Now, another way that man can
build a business. said q manufac-
turer of specialties, is by making
something different from what the
other fellow understanding unique
and original remember when ! was
boy away down in Kentucky that an
old man named Gray used to BRING
ginger cake and cider and Watermelons
into town on election day and draw up
his wagon on the shady side or the
public square. There was a kind or a
flavor to that ginger cake and a sort
Of sweet glaze made out OF brown
sugar over the top Of 1t that no other
ginger cake had, and he always tapped
q barrel of cider that would bubble on
your tongue when you first tasted It.
It was just naturally good, rich cider
and made out of crab apples. Nobody
else in the country had trees that bore
such good fruit as old man Gray.s did.
Nobody else had such good c1def.
When you drank the other fellow s
cider the roof of your mouth reminded
you of a eankered brass kettle. It was
a prohibition town and, save when the
moonshine man would come along
boot-legging out his 40 rod. the boys
who were inclined never got anything
to drink that would make them want
L to
ssPll tell you, these people who are
making things nowadays must always
keep grubbing up sassafras sprouts,
and if a man can. let him try to make
something for the market that the
| other fellow can't produce.
Ideas the Things That Count.
eyes, you're right about that
ehimed in halter. In my line OF
/ business there are scores and scores OF
people making hats. OF course there
are a few and here the master hat
maker let a CLEAN slide over his face
who make stuff in my line better than
others do, but still, no one Of them has
any very great advantage over the
| other. But in some lines its different.
/ Just look at these incandescent electric
light globes, for instance. The COM
pany that makes these has a cinch.
Edison had an idea. He worked out
this idea and put 1t into practice
.Yes, and I'll tell you another
thing spoke up the shoe merchant
"he hit onto a thing that fits into the
needs of lots of people. Il a man has
/ d corner on canary bird food he can't
/ do as much business as II he were to
have a grip on all the wheat that
I grows. Everybody eats bread, but
only a few women buy bird seed. :
But began the silk buyer, when
ever there's anything like making
bread where it's very plain to any
mind that there will be demand for
It, you will always find a lot Of people
! going into that business. It is a great
deal better to start up something on
your own hook that nobody else has
than it is to start in on something that
! everybody is using and go into eompe-
/ tition with others. Why, there's a firm
out in Chicago that's doing business
of nearly half a million dollars year
and what do you suppose that bust
ness is? They are making a prepare
1 ton which is said to take the kinks
out of negroes hair. Who would think
4 that a business like that would amount
to anything? Still, that firms cleaning
I'D bushels of money every year. Of
course, there's an element Of fimaan
! in the business. The stuff will straight
en- out the kinks all right-but after g
week or two they will come bael
again"
Continuous Demand.
ssThat is a good thing for any bust.
ness" exclaimed the hat manufacturer
SIT makes a continuous demand"
eyes, you're right about that, con.
tinued the silk buyer. but It would be
! better still to make something tina
will last and give permanent satisfae
4 ton and meets a genuine demand OF
the part of the general public
Now, I know of man who used tt
be a clerk in a grocery store in Kan.
SaS, He ndu Sces Gu ny dDOut d hun
bred dollars when stranded booi
agent struck his town and unloaded OF
him hundred dollars worth of cool
books, The agent pictured in glowing
terms the amount Of money this gro
gerry clerk could make out of the booI
business, at which the smooth and vii.
agent himself had made fuke.
.aThe sucker bit. He went down il
Arkansas and cleaned out that buncf
OF books inside of a week. He mad,
more money than he had made in
whole month at shooting flies off from
molasses barrels. He bought anothe
bunch of books and sold them out ami
still another.
.The next summer, he struck a fel
. low that was selling these here parlo
pfcture things-What do you call en-
You put a sort Of a do-funny up Il
vour face and look through two glas
ewes that make the picture look If
size and have depth to it-iust lIk
the thing itself.
sYou mean the stereograph,' yolun
teered JoannIs Carolianus.
THANK you. John answered hi
fathers silk buyer Yes. sir, this fel
low who had been rube grocery elerl