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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1909-03-04
The Good Eat Men.

Jones-You never hear of fat Grim
inal, do you? Bones Certainly not.
Look how difficult it would be for
stout person to stoop to anything low!
kansas City Independent.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1909-03-04
leasing the Farm.

Put everything down in writing
when you lease a farm. Memory can
not be relied on It is remarkable how
different men VIII remember different
things. If it Is all down in black and
white there can be no mistake.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1909-03-04
Japanese MiIIet.

japanese millet requires less atten-
ton than corn, is easily cut and han
died and gives a great yield to the
acre. Under favorable circumstances
it will grow four to five feet high
The cattle eat it as well as they do
the corn, with about the same results
in milk and butter production.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1909-03-04

Larger crowd at M. P. Newton's
horse sale last Saturday than ever.
Be sure to attend his horse sale on
March 9Th at Woodstown. Will have
more horses than ever.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1909-03-04
Hardened.

Tom-Tm going to ask your father
tonight for your hand. Tess-But You
don't seem to be bit nervous. Tom
No. I've been both life insurance
agent and book canvasser. -Pick-Me-
Up.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1909-03-04
Shovel Handles For a Barrel.

A couple of railroad laborers carry
ing barrel of water between them
clearly demonstrated that necessity is
the mother of invention. A closer in
vestigation showed that they had
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1909-03-04

Guy Pole Support For Fruit Trees.
If fruit trees are long limbed and
high headed, support with a guy pole.
Lash the guy pole to the tree at the
foot and at the forks. Branch guy
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1909-03-04

A falling off of $50,OOO,OO0 in the
earnings of the Pennsylvania R. R.,
tells the story of 1909's prosperity.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1909-03-04

One thing is sure, nobody will dodge
no matter how high the waves of pros
perity rise, under Taft.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1909-03-04

wire and tie to clubs. stake pieces of
board and support several limbs. There
Is no reason why guys cannot be left
permanently Props will slip out and
limbs split down and disfgure valuable
trees.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1909-03-04

In Holland horses are fed the fol
lowing daily rations with great sue
cess: Oats, Is pounds; hay. sc pounds;
straw, SS pounds.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-06-18
PHILOSOPHY or ISOLATION

My doctor having succeeded in. exil-
ing me and my eight-year-old heir to
what he called "the recuperative will
derness," sent me occasionally a tart
reminder of the wholesomeness and
beauty of the process was undergo
ing. He is a delightful megatherium
of an extinct school, and his correc-
tive bellowings, muf1ed by distance,
afforded me much amusement III my
solitude, and doubtless much edifying
precept
1t was by artful ticklings of my
pride that the old rufian got me
to wear my chains with a sense of
heroism. I begged for some news
very much as a morphine patient begs
for his drug. News" he replied;
there is nothing new in the news.
Everything seethes and rolls and
jostles and bursts just as it did when
you were here. City men are running
over each other ruthlessly, and drop
ping out of sight as usual. l don't
know whether you remember Calhoun
he snapped his E string at concert
pitch last week. He is pretty well for
gotten by this time. He was so load
Cd with the events of the universe
that his mind snapped. He was one
Of the modern idiots who try to play
the role Of Atlas with nothing but
their sensibilities. Becky Moultrie,
you knew. I saw you at one of her
receptions before she got to be a wom-
an of affairs. She sent for ne last
week; said she had stitch in her
side-would drop In between q and
1. Her lunch time was the only op-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-06-18
Curiosity That Was Fatal

He found his way into the park, pos
sibly for the first time in his wretched
little life, and prowled on until he
came to an open door, He entered,
shifting, cheered by the conviction
that he was not the only member of
the feline tribe who had been in that
strange place.
Above, and to one side of him, ran a
row of upright bars, and looking
through these he was suddenly over
whelmed with admiration. For there.
standing on all tours, flashing tail, was
certainly the king and ruler of all
cats. He had never seen such a cat
So he made himself very small and
sat still and looked, just as the adage
gave him permission to do, his hunger
forgotten.
It was several minutes before Dick,
the leopard, became aware of the pres
ence Of the intruder, and glanced at
the pitiful object crouched on the
floor. Dick did not approve Of the
street cat in the least. He glared for
a time and then made. arrangements
for one Of the terrifying demonstra-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-06-18

awe. That ghost of identity, forgot
ten in the rush OF impressions, had
caught me alone, and I must have
shuddered at myself. It was nothing
more than what Burns means when
he says: "Oh, wad some power the
giftie gle us, to see oursels as ithers
see us But it was an analogue of
that old superstition which turns the
mirror to the wall when there is a
death in the house, for no one knows
what uncanny recognition may fit
over its surface. There is always a
lurking suspicion that some wrath
Will pass and haunt us. If you make
the inquiry, you will find that no belle
looks in her glass when she comes
home from the revelry. The confound-
ed thing betrays her. It reflects,
How to get on comfortable terms
with yourself when you are alone.
This is where the doctors Charlie
philosophy" az I called it, came in.
The best way to contemplate your
SELF" he wrote me, both incidentally
and morally, is through parentage. If
man would see himself through a
crystal lens, let him become the ia
ther Of boy. That is the answer to
that vain prayer Of experience: oh,
that could live my life over again!
You are living it over again. Watch
it. While you have been throwing life
away like a heap of fagots, it has
been budding. It is given to every ia
Their Of boy to be his own incubus,
or his own good angel. If you will
only listen to your primitive self, you
will hear a Memnonian voice as of
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-06-18
HARD QUESTION 70 &NsNtEn


The following story which leaked
out of Z Yale faculty meeting il also
typical OF waterloo" &Whesler.~ The
case Of Z fast student was before the
faculty, Though the Yale principle 10
to NEEDLE a. little a. possible with
the life and morals of the student, in
sisting merely on the; rule. keep q
good scholarship stand and, be regula>
In attendance. still fragrant cases of
misconduct are summarily disposed
Of The student in question had been
seen n the company Of, = woman OF
rather poor reputation and there was
a question Of dismissal. Lest he bs
wr6ngfully sentenced the cautious
Prot. 'Ladd, the philosopher, had in.
quired, WAS the young man positive.
" identified ?" Oh, yes. the professor
knew the man we'll: there could be No
mistake about it. Then Prot. Wheeler
looked up quizzically, tapped. his spec
tacles against the fingers OF his left
hand, a characteristic gesture, and in.
CURED: "And can the professor also
positively identify the other party!-
Bohemian MAGAZINE.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-06-18
The Interior of the Earth

R'he University of Jena has lust
awarded the prize for the best essa.~
on the condition of the interior of the
earth. NJ. Theme, who won the Uni.
versity of Jena's prize, did it with the
following theory: t. ..
The mean density of the earth is
known to be more than five times that
OF water: AS the outer layers of the
crust have very feeble densitv-
water, 1; rocks, an average of 2h-it
follows that the interior must have
a density of about IL. which is that
OF iron. Again, there is enough accu-
rate information about the rigidity Of
the earth to make it fairly certain
that this is slightly greater than
steel. NJ. Theme calculates that the
crust of the earth is about $50 miles
thick, though most of the bert author.
tiles. are Inclined to place 1: e. about
30 miles. If his figures be correct
there must be inside the crust an ex.
ceedingly dense and rigid core, which
he calls barysphere. >:'.5
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-06-18

Prominent Women Aid Good Cause.
A large number of women occupy.
ing prominent positions in society, or
on the stage, are taking an active in
terest in the .anti-tuberculosis cam
paign. Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt has re-
Gently given 100000 for sanitary
homes for consumptives. Mrs. Keith
Spalding of Chicago has erected 4
sanitarium for the Chicago Tuberculo-
sis institute at a cost of about $780,
600; Mrs. Coils P. Huntington and
Mrs. Borden Hartman have given
largely to the consumption fight. In
Porto Rico, Mrs. Albert Norton Wood.
wife of prominent army officer sta
toned at San Juan, has stirred the en-
tire island through the anti-tubercu-
losis crusade she inaugurated. Mme.
Emma Calve is most enthusiastic
worker. and has given largely Of her
talent and money for the relief of
tuberculosis sufferers, and Miss Olga
Nethersole has even lectured before
the public on tuberculosis.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-06-18
Feline Street Wait Paid with His Lii
for Temerity in Hooking at
King"

That a cat may look at king is a
fact in natural and social history that
has the support of the most eminent
authorities and is apparently beyond
dispute. From an incident that &C.
CURED yesterday in Central park, how
ever, says the New York Herald, it
seems likely that the adage was
framed from the standpoint of the cat
and without due regard to the posi-
bility that the king involved might
possibly have ideas of his own on the
subject.
In this instance the cat was name
less. Perhaps at some past stage of
his career he had had a name, but
when he entered upon the scene he
was merely nondescript street wan
derer, bedraggled and homeless, and
not at all remarkable for anything, un-
less it be that he was gifted with an
unusual amount of curiosity. He Mas
paid dearly for this last quality.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-06-18
HOW TO COLLECT MONEY BY
LETTER.

More and more all collections are
being made by letter. In strictly To-
cal business, where the customer is
being called on at frequent intervals,
the personal collector goes around;
but in the local installment business
the collections are very largely made
by letter, and when the business is at
the mail is depended on almost entire
ly, with final resort to a lawyer in ex-
IRENE cases.
1t takes time to collect money by
letter-often weeks and months. But
at the end of six months it will be
found that good letter collection sys-
TEN has cleaned up nearly everything
In making collections by letter, GER
tain primary principles must be borne
in mind:
l. Ii an account is allowed to drag,
it becomes correspondingly more diff
cult to make the collection. for it
seems to be easier for human nature
to pay promptly than after long de-
lay. The customer should be made to
understand in advance when he is ex-
pected to pay, and when the account
becomes due he should be tersely re-
minded, and kept reminded.
2. 1t is useless to send out a dozen
letters all just alike. If mild request
brings nothing, the confidential appeal
should be tried, and again the sympa-
thetic dunning letter, or in some cases
the brutal dunning letter; but fresh
style is required to make a better i'm
preston, even if it is only q new form
of irritation.
3. II you are dependent on contin.
ued buying from slow payers, it is
even more necessary to keep their
good will than to collect your money,
and good collection letters, while they
irritate and force payment, must also
hold the customer for new sales. The
stimulation of new desires, that is,
craftsmanship, should be Intimately
united with the effort to get the money
in. Many strict credit man, who was
very successful in his collections so
that his losses were very small frac-
ton of one per cent, has driven away
business many times as important as
all the doubtful collections put to-
gether, so that the firm would actually
have been better off to let the collec-
tons go and take the business. The
credit man who knows nothing of let
ter craftsmanship cannot possibly per-
form his duties satisfactorily.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-06-18
The Right Way to Write Letters.
By: SherWin Cody !
System of How to Write Letters That Pull

An advertising man wishes to- ex>
plOit his own services in letter writ.
Ing especially wants to induce
business men to use more ADVERTISING
letters than they do, since letters are
his specially.
His letterhead displays the catch
line "How to Write Letters That Pull
The word pull" is an Americanism,
but every business man knows pre-
cisely what 1t, means, and it is much
more forceful than "win," for example.
because it comes home harder.
The letter begins with the customer
and his special situation-"you:"
Are you aware of the advantages OF
advertising by circular letter-if you
can write LETTERS THAT PULL?
Here are some advantages:
Il. You can say enough to get or
ders by return mail.
"2. You can try out a given propo-
sition on 1000 names for $15-a page
in magazine costs 500 up.
%. Letter-writing is the gumshoe
method of advertising-your COMPETE
tors don't find out all about it the
first day.
But CAN YOU WRITE LETTERS
THAT PULL"
The short numbered paragraphs
| make easy reading. Each has an i'm
portant fact in itself, and the three
points offer strong argument in ia
] vor Of advertising letters. The main
catchline Letters that Pull" appears
three times in capital letters, and so
Is made overwhelmingly strong, since
it is happy and effective phrase.
The application to the thing to be sold
is made in the question: Can you
write letters that pull?" Obviously, If
you cannot, you ought to turn the writ.
ing over to an expert, and the adver-
tiser has led his customer into an in.
tense interest in his services, though
he would have failed entirely had he
begun by saying: Il can WRITE LET
TIERS THAT PULL" The customer
would say: 1.-The devil you can! What
do 1 care?' You must start with
''you," and end with a."
Ordinarily much briefer introduc.
ton is sufficient, as:
| Catchline: Are You Bow-Legged?
| mo gentleman likes to admit it.
and no one need know it if you have
a SPECIALIST IN BOW-LEGS make
your clothes" The tailor has got to
his own peculiar merit in the very
first sentence.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-06-18

ton for successful letters: write mo
a pulling letter to get life insurance
Inquiries" or whatever it may2be.s as
If he could produce letter out of his
head without knowing anything about
the business.
The first and most important thing
is to analyze the business, the. GUS
toner, and the competition. It is a
matter of psychology much more than
matter of rhetoric. It is still more
matter of common business shrewd-
ness and ability to make the business
success in any form.
But the wording of letters must be
right, too, and wish to illustrate by
series of examples the important
principles of wording and arranging
letters or other advertising matter.
First, the right letter to reach ordi-
nary business men must be extremely
energetic. 1t must bubble over with
enthusiasm. Such enthusiasm gets
infectious apparently, and the reader
cannot resist. 1t makes him. "feel
like" doing what you WISH
A letter must be arranged with
some substitute for headline. which
| will attract attention and rouse some
interest at the first glance. A large
majority of business men throw
letter in the wastebasket unless they
are interested at the first glance, so
that glance is really a very important
matter
| This substitute for headline should
be the brief and emphatic statement
of some fact that will directly appeal
to the reader, and it may be printed in
the display Of the letterhead itself and
on the corner of the envelope, or it
may be sort of subject caption at
the top OF the letter, or it may be
some fact stated in the body of the
letter and emphasized by being put in
paragraph by itself, or underscored
or capitalized. Any strongly empha-
sized fact, even in the middle of a
letter, will probably catch the eye first
and be read first. In some cases
7 such a fact strongly emphasized in the
middle of letter causes the letter
to be read both ways from the middle
Very seldom is letter read straight
through from the beginning, and the
man who counts on having his long,
solid letters read straight through
makes a sad mistake He ought
to take pity on the busy reader
and make skipping easy. If he doesn't,
into the wastebasket goes his letter.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-06-18

portunity she could spare me. I have
not time to be sick she wrote me;
I've got to preside at the meeting to-
morrow, and my time is all laid out
for next week. 1t was three days
before I called, for I had something
more important than stitch in the
side to look after. But she was
woman of neatness and dispatch.
When I got there, she was laid out. It
turned out to be pleuritic stitch. and
the flowers were coming in as l ar
rived. This universe of ours is con-
structed on the stop-over plan, and
there is no use in kicking against it.
This through train business doesn't at
all agree with the tropical swing of
things, which provides cloisters and
still nights for forgetting. By Jove,
old fellow, there wouldn't have been
any renaissance if there hadn't been
any Dark Ages first, and there would
not have been any Pilgrims Prog
ress' if somebody hadn't impounded
Bunyan. l have never read it, but
understand it's a great work. Go to,
every man can be his own Buddha,
inasmuch as he has Bo-tree in his
soul-1f he will only sit down under it
at times and be mum and get &C.
quainted with himself"
The only scent of the city in this
philosophy was skeptic and mortuary,
and there were times when I would
have given a good deal for sniff of
an ailantus tree or Whit of con-
somme. But all the same, the regimen
of isolation was working a quiet
change in me. 1 was getting on bet
ter terms with myself without know
ing it.
l recalled a curiously trivial expert.
ence once had in the city, similar to-
something narrated by wellknown
Frenchman. had come home, one
night from late and rather: riotous
supper to my room. There was q full
length msr5or in it, and as lit my gas
I"got a glimpse of myself, flushed and
eager, and it gave me strange start;
why, could never tell. But regard
ed myself for q moment with startled
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-06-18
The Oelirious Kind.

H. K. Adair, the western detective
was being complimented in Grand
Rapids about an absconding banker he
had run to earth.
"Oh, the man gave himself awav -
said Mr.. Adair. "He SHE'D too much.
Everything seemed, in his morbid
mind, to point suspicion at him. He
was like the old wildly woman.
AN old WILDLY woman went to the
undertaker's to order coffin for her
deceased husband.
He was very, very, very good to
me- she said, and I'll have a coffin of
the best yellow pine
YES, madam. Thatll be s14.' said
the undertaken And what kind if
trimmings will you have on the COT
fn?'
Trimmin's!' cried the widdv
woman. And right we'll We know. We
spalpeen, that I'll have no trimmins at
all, when it was the trimmins that the
poor lad died of, bad luck to 'en!'"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-06-18

Nature herself. 1t is saying: 1T is bet
ter to have one woman who believes
you are the greatest man in the world,
and who presents you with a boy who
agrees with her. than it is to be the
greatest man in the world Under all
the flashing tumult and flying spume
of masterful life are the unsullied
depths of a creative love with Kyrie
Eleison in 1t. These sub-depths never
get stirred by the life you have been
leading. You must sit a while on the
shore of this sea you have crossed,
and see the shallop of yourself sport
ing on the beached margent, and feel
how helpless you are to load your ex-
perience into it without swamping
it. BY and by as it's sails get strong
er, it will venture out to try it all
over again. No charts or comDasses
Of yours will still the voices of the
sirens, and no silken sails that you
can furnish will turn him from the
magical horizon. The isles are float
ing on a furlong still BEFORE Sit still
while and wait on the sands. Some
day he will sail YEARLY back, looking
for the love that he never found else
where, to find when he returns, may
hap, only the runes and the desolate
water-marks. Now is your time, old
fellow. Take yourself by the hand, let
yourself climb up on your knees and
enfold you in protective innocence and
reproach you with warm kisses. There
is millennial touch in it, believe me,
for you will have gotten rid of your
carnivorous egotism and will lie down
with the lamb. A touch of prophecy,
too, If you will but remember. For is
it not written that "a little child shall
lead them?"
= Literally to renew ones youth, &C.
cording to the doctors prescription,
turned out to be a series of gracious
surprises. With Charles hand in mine
I walked into some mysterte, that
gladly turned into revelations. We
took up with, some toys in our mag
nations, and let the. real fairies into
our experiences. %, that little curtains