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but distillery and paper making mill

as well.
Chicago concern, which started TO
make a certain kind of patent door
hinge, was forced to close 1T doors.
Too many trusts, was the reason as
signed. However, the management took
new lease of life, and began the manu-
facture of fire doors and shutters Ono
day the head of the firm went into
the shop and noticed that the black
smith in forging the hinges for the
shutters, threw them on the floor after
the first process. making it necessary
TO rc-handlc and rc-hcat them before
they were completed. The manager put
ID twenty minutes evolving new meth.
od TO avoid The expense and loss of
time in the second heating. The saw.
ing led to another and another, until
the whole foundry WIS put on modern
system Now there is nothing hut pros
perity for if, despite the trusts and
other coporate evils. Probably You,
Mr.. Business Man, might tighten up
things a hit if you should look around
your establishment in a hunt for waste
full practices. Suppose you try IT.
4 San Francisco smelling firm had
a thousand tons of lead and zinc stored
in its warehouse during the great earth
quake and fire. These soft materials
melted, ran down in the deep cellar:
and there cooled into r solid mass OF
metal How to get it out and save II
was the problem After several fail
ures il was solved by nm electric com
pany, which cut 1T out IN large blocks
bv the use of electric arc mining chan
nels. The intense heat Of the arc ap-
piled at particular point did the work
In the salvage work at San Francisco
the electric arc proved able to cut
loc
time required to saw through 1t IN the
old fashioned way.
Stained glass windows are beautiful.
but they are very expensive, 1t was
a Yankee notion 10 get up "a geiatln
compound with which TO closely initiate
stained glass in any design, tor nom
inal price. The first concern IN me
business is doing well. and the idea has
met with success from the start a
great increase in stained glass windows
in private residences may be looked
for,
Clerks in the great store of IL, IS
Claflin in New York, were resolved lo
get themselves into position wneIe
they would be independent OF the
den need for small funds. They formed
a mutual benefit association, and eaGh
stockholdcr paid in % cents week:
The money in this fund was loaned AT
> ner cent a week 10 such clerks as
had hitherto patronized the l0-per-cent,,
a~week sharks. The scheme has WORKED
to the satisfaction of everybody, inc
association has money IN the pank, an1
none Of the clerks are In the power OF
the Shvlocks who loan money on SAL
aries, This idea could undoubtedly be
adopted with great satisfaction ana
profit hy the employees of many oth-
er large establishments IN the conn
try.
Sever years ago an ILLINOIS piowT
manufacturer sent a salesman TO Sonth
America. He ccntcred his efforts upon
Argentina, hut the best he could do IN
+be first twelve months was TO dispose
of forty plows Considering that AT"
ecntina is rs large as all that ,port,on
of the United States east OF the MIS-
sissippi river. and one uer or states
west OF it. this was rather sim snow
ing The Young man felt particularly
had about his failure. because he knew
! that he had far better plow than
! those which were being used IN the
country. He could explain all the
roints Of superiority but the natives
/ would pay no attention to ms talk.
Then the Young man evolved new
! plan Of procedure. Il' Md2 81 h"N ', !
cyncrt. but had never had any held
experience. so he bought a team ol
horses and secured permission TO break
nm farmers $ field for him. he re
hesrscd diligently for number OF
days. and then invited all the men IL
the neiphborhood to be his guests al
n sort Of barbecue.
The plcasurc-loving Southerncrs re
spnndcd TO his invitation without nav
ing any idea of the business nature %
thc entertainment. The Yankee plow
drummer furnished them with plenty o.
food and drink. and had some musl
clans present to cnlivcn the programme
Tbon no donncd his ovcralls, mounte'
his plow, aud got busy with pracl.t
cal demonstration of how Uncle sam
machinery could tear up the VIRGIN so,
of the Argentine pampas. lie 'o"'
more than enough orders 10 pay tu
expense of his" party, and altcr INA
went from Que community TO anothe
Giving similar demonstrations ma
vas the opening we'd gc for YANKEE
nIows in Argentina, and they are nov
bcinn sold there by the rralnload
When | was in Bueuos Ayres ylslte,
Great Wholesale implemeT and hard
worc house that had $+,O0O.OOO wort
nf Goods on it's floors. and on most o
the tags and box ends could be see
tha sentence which is so comforting 4
all American travellers Made in U
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