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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-07-27

chief occupations of Road-mon
key"
Gosh. Almighty! but cant a fel
low STIR up an appetite doing moth.
ing or doing something, if only he
be In the great piny woods.
Off up the broad trail from in
among the forest giants come the
szwish, szwees' of cross. cut saws
and sounds of cring, crock of
Justly welded axes resound adown
the otherwise quiet forest aisles
with now and then a shout of
T-i-m-b-e-r!' or "W-a-t-c-h
/ O-u-t! given to warn their fellows
OF the near approaching downfall
OF a forest monarch. And then off
IN another direction, the boys are
loading on the twelve or fourteen
foot hunks, the snaked-in logs of the
skidders, and the echos of the calls
OF Once up" or Come back
shouted to the cross-haulo teamster
are borne to me.
All, what joys are those of the
Road-monkey!' Then their is
confab with others of his ilk: maybe
|
set-to, or rough-and-tumble, and
into the snow goes the vanquished.
But such are only monkey-shines''
"a natural performance, as may be
seen.
But someone's got stuck on the
hill! We know the call: "Whooee!
Heigho!' just the tack-headed old
horse-skinner horse. she SHOUTING for f the M teYss eYs
of horned horses trailing along
heavy chain. Soon the chain is
fastened on for an alongside pull.
The man away up there on the
peaker," the STAR load, by the
way, for that day, stands up; gathers
t he reins of his four-horse team;
speaks to his leaders, who straight
en- as do trained soldiers, and with
Whoa! Get away!" shout and crack
of black-snake by the oxen's driv-
er. She starts! She's offr' and the
snow from firmly planted hoofs flies
as step succeeds step. The top Of
the hill is reached. There is shout
for Sand, Hay!'' and another Hey!
you moss backed, old Road-mon-
key!"
"Allee samee me splinkle some
hay! Gwan, you old hoss team
ster!'
| But here we are at the landing.
A cant-hook manipulated by log
pirate at either side Of the skidway,
at each end of the load, is thrown
into back-action position, as it
were, and held against, or directed
toward the centre of the load. A
third man steps in between the long
rolls of skidway, and with the re-
verse side of his cant-hook strikes
an upward blow on the long end
grab-hook' and jumps back out of
the way. Previous to this the cor
ner- BIRDS are loosed; and now the
unloading Of the sleigh commences,
with the "Road-monkey" standing
around, generally i'll the way, but al
ways looking wise.
The tailers-down' now get busy;
the pups q should say the boys
who are shooking-pups' jump to
their places; the, 'jammer" with a
crack, pop, pop, and preliminary
lurch, falls into line, and the load
ing on to the cars goes merrily on.
But, bark! There she goes! Hurray,
boys-hear the old fog-hornl Say,
/ could eat raw dog! directed to
no one in particularly It's dinner
time, and Mackinaw, Soo-clad, gum
booted figures of all ages, sizes, and
color are logging it off to the cook
shack at camp.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-07-27

Some years ago while working il
chicago, became tired and unhap
py by the sight of the same thing
day after day and road job LOOKED
very good indeed. Having conyinc
ed myself that certain large mea
concern needed my services. in fac
was daily losing large trade be-
cause of my absence from the sale,
force, l became persistant user ot
the phone that connected me with
yards 44-11," and no doubt the cal
route manager fully realized the
hoplessness Of further efforts to pre.
vent my becoming a member of the
yards force when he replied to my
inquiry: Report at the Office Mon
day morning."
Valuable space in The Mirror
cannot be devoted to the student
stage of my stay at the stock yards:
suffice to say that in company
with ten or twelve other equally as
green student salesman was com
PEELED to study the meat business
from the cellar up, and learn the
many intricate details of one of the
most important industries in the
world. So that at the end of the
student period [ was competent to
take car route and sell everything
Some idea of what it means to rep
resent one of the Big 3 on the road,
travelling out of Chicago, can be
formed by enumeration of the num-
ber of things the salesman must try
to sell to butchers, grocers, farmers,
hotel men, drug stores, in fact every
one but milliners. A partial list of
what | was expected to sell includes
fresh, salt and corned meat of all
kinds, also frozen meat, hams, bacon,
eggs, chickens, butter, cheese, but
terine and renovated butter, soaps
of all kinds and oils. bone meal and
fertilizers, sausages of many kinds
and all kinds of cooked and uncook-
ed articles of the sausage family,
glue and pig skins, castings and tai
low, lard by the pail or barrel.
Having been assigned to a car
route and receiving transportation /
was on the job feeding the hungry
hoosiers of Indiana. My third day
out / received a wire from the car
route manager reading: Advise
tonnage we may expect from YOU"
AS was new to the the trade and
unable to make my schedule time, it
struck me as somewhat unreasonable
for me to estimate how many pounds
my sales would total at the end Of
seven days. Every salesman has a
car-one of kind you have seen
with the names Armour, Swift or
Nelson Morris adorning the sides.
The cars are the property Of these
comp panies and are hauled on rates
figured on basis of 10000 lbs. for
car load; anything less than this
amount raises the rate and of course
adds to the cost of laying the goods
down at destination of purchaser.
A salesman who constantly fails to
sell at least 20, 900 lbs. a week must
prove that it cannot be done or
make way for some one who can do
it.
Each route is covered once in I
days and complete schedule show
ing the dates, arrivals and depart
ures from every town is filed with
the car route manager. He uses it
to fire kilograms at you full Of spice
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-06-04

Suburban Homes and Fams-1.000 Bargains.
81. 000-Capitol Hgts-. 3 rms, lots, fruit etc
81. 400-Brentwood, rms, bungalow. i00xi35.
N.T00-Great Falls cleo, house, 81 acres.
S,s00-Berwyn. rms, lots. fruit, etc.
81. SO0-BallstOn. Va. rms, large lot
s.. 0O0-Potomac Hgts., 6 rms. stable, etc.
81. 000-Cherrydale, Va. acres fine land.
s.. 350-Brightwood Park ST. brick. and stable
81. 0O0-Mt. Rainier, rms. lot 1O04l50.
s2,500-Dun Loring. Va, rms. az acres. etc.
s.. 50O-Takoma Park, rms. big lot.
81. 50o-Riverdale, corner. rms. stable, etc.
t2,50o-Bethesda, Md, rms. lots.
81. sT5-Cherrydale, Va, rms, 50. POS. new.
50. 00o-5M acres. 5-rm., bungalow, fruit, etc.
50, 0o0-Riverdale, Nd. 10 rms. large lot.
So. 000-Laurel cleo, ST.. III acres, fruit, etc.
SO. 0o-Bethesda, Md, rms. large lot.
So. 500-Takoma Park. new bungalow. rms.
SO, S5O-Langdon. D. C, rms, 40xl65.
A.500-Brookland, D. C, 10 rms, bath, etc.
s.. 00O-Beltsville, new, 6r. acres. fruit etc.
s.. 5O0-Bethesda, rms. hot water, 7 lots.
Exchanges on above for city lots or houses.
MYERS & BOOTH CO. Inc, 1872 10Th n. W.
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UNUSUAL LIST OF BARGAINS IN
HOMES.
FOR SALE-E, 600; Maryland ave. n. z.
a 2-story and cellar. bay-window brick;
rooms and bath; southern exposure.
chance to get a modern home on that
beautiful thoroughfare at a bargain.
FOR SALE-s4. $50: $500 cash; $50 monthly
on the principal; very attractive
home, finished in hardwood: heated by
HOT WATER: 6 rooms and tiled bath;
side lights and side yard. Located on
an avenue in Petworth.
FOR sALE-Ao0o The only corner In
Petworth at a price 80 low; contains
rooms and bath; large cellar; will sell
on very easy terms.
FOR SALES. 49, Near the Congression-
al Library, Capitol HILL Groom brick
house; rented at 5000 per month. Lot
e0Xs0 to alley.
FOR SALE-$3 900. Scheutzen Park: half
square from Brightwood ave-; 2-story
and cellar, semi-detached. S rooms and
bath; steam heat; great bargain.
VIM H. SAUNDERS & CO.. 1907 F Ct. NV
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GENERAL HOUSE REPAIRS

vail papering house painting, glazing
clustering. Postal or phone Main 17s5 N.
los CATLOTH, 314 " st. s. w.
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JOHN +. DONOHOE & SONS
314 Pennsylvania Ave. S. E.
FOR RENT-HOUSES.

Let US send you our Rent List We have
properties Of every description to suit every
demand. We will gladly enlist your name
in our file and notify you when we have the
best houses to be had in the neighborhood
desired. Houses opened on request by phone
or keys sent to your address by messenger
We Will be glad to submit any reasonable
proposition received to owners Of the prop
critics in our hands.
We do as we SAY
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ELECTRICAL

ELECTRICAL WORK, all kinds; repairs .
speciality; estimates furnished; work guar
snIeed 1. L. HAYES, 1427 P st. u. ".
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SMITHS AUCTION & STORAGE HOUSE,
SsS La. ave. N W., furniture and household
Goods stored for 81 per load per month: large
storage rooms. Phone NJ. 69l4i goods lnsureo.
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FOR RENT-H0USES
Unfwnished.
VIM. H. SAUNDERS q CO..
1407 F ST. N. W.

VIM. H. SAUNDERS q CO..
140T F ST. N. W.
uNFURNIsHED HOUSES.
\: ssd e. s g S Ss4,sI ne G s.s a
1870 &c. Sr,b.:.. lO0O 4s o st. ne. sr;S q &c
l40s Belmont St. H2 Col. rd' SIP ~ ~ ~
81, 81 a.. and 3D. go 54Oa 9Th St Sr;S. % 1sSo
10 Portner ne.6r. 8.5cl 1887 @ me-. Sr'.. Aa'o0
APARTMENTS
HEAT FURNISHED.
The solano. Apt !. 6 rooms and bath. ..sss.@ "a
E E st. NV: No; I; rooms and Datn'' NV
No. 8, I rooms and bath..........'..' S1'o ~
No. a. rooms and bath.......'....-. so'S ~
No 80, rooms and bath.......'.'.''' t''OO
l46 l. ST. NV.
rooms and bath, front. ~
rooms and BATH rear. -]o'
TWO-FAMILY FLATS. n
tI62 Willard ST. NV, rooms and BATH. - ~
1919 18th st. NV, III floor, rms q oatn- sa' "a
l72l 4th st. NV, rooms and bath........ o.sS
66i Orleans st. ne, rOoms ana patn'' "a ~
1858 l-2 L Sc, rooms and bath........ !o'W
1867 l-2 L se.. 4 rooms and bath. ...... lo'ov
1857 L &C.. 4 rooms and bath. LIST noer..' ."
STORES AND OFFICES.
sl6 st. NV. 1st floor, ID and "a
3l14 18th st. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. ~
1881 18th ST., LIST floor .................... SO'W
The Glover Building. lab F st. NV: 4.
LIST floor; per year: ...............;::M wv"
equipped ..................'...::.'s ~"
FOR GOOD CoLoRED TENANTS.
20O4 18th ST. NV. 6r. and bath. $3.50
rs 10Th ST.. Ar. and bath. l6oO
1877 Q st. alley, Ar and bath.............. lo.0
Bellevue court NV, rooms. e'W
keadJB alley, rooms, ID door.... A0e
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$500 Is SUFFICIENT

THE FOLLOWING PRETTY HOMES at
Mt. Rainier. Nd, terminus OF the one
and best car fare limit outside of Wash
ington, and the most THRIVING and beau
tiful suburb around Washington, where
taxes are low, and the chief and prac-
tically only restrictions are against sa-
looms and colored people: Pretty broom
cottage; large lot, gas, gas range, coal
range; prettily papered; &.s00 Neat 4
room house; gas, gas range, etc, 81, Us:
$40 cash and $40 per month. Handsome
S-room house all modern improvements.
Also beautiful bungalow; hardwood
finish; fine cellar; gas stove, and pretty
decorations; small monthly payments.
All these new properties are near the
car fare, Mt Rainier, Nd. District
line station. and can be bought on very
easy rent terms.
J. c. ROGERS. Owner.
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PAINTING AND DECORATING

PAINTING in all its branches: expert work
nromptly done. Phone N. 357S or drop pos
tai for estimate HARRY L. DULEH, 12Se
HOUSE PAINTING-Expert workmen; rssr
sonable prices; estimates furnished; postal
or phone II. 2sOs. JACKSON SIC III St N.
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GASOLINE ENGINES
WOOD AND COAL

BEFORE GOING AWAY
STORE YOUR COAL!
Discount on all Goals for the next 30 days.
Best quality. Prompt delivery. Phone your
order today. n. 76l.
WI ]. HOFFMAN.
4s9 st. n. W.
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SUBURBAN REAL ESTATE

BE SURE YOU get my estimate on that
house Won intend to build. l can save you
dollars, city or suburban. BOX 247, Times
officA
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TEXAS Is SELLING GOOD LANDS. $50
To- $500 acre: One-fortleth down; balance 40
Years. Write for particulars. TEXAS
SCHOOL LAND PUB. CO. Houston. Tex.
FT-TLY EQUIPPED POULTRY FARM, 22h
acres: . miles trolley; fine orchard; 4-rOOm
house. barn. other outbutldings. chicken
Eouses 1880 each, wire runs, 375 chickens,
breeders incubator: 2 cows, calves, l
horse. brood SOW, , buggies. l wagon, har-
ness implements. etc. with crop; $500.
owner, A. NJ. GOLDSMITH, 4l6 6th St NV.
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FOR SALE-FARMS
READ THIS ONE.

No. l94-A 100-acre Loudoun CO., Va.
farm, completely stocked. as follows;
cows ! heifer, ! bull, mares, ! colt, 8
brood sows, pigs, ! boar, turkeys and
other poultry; all farm implements and
tools, wagons and harness: II OF 25-acre
oat crop seeded TO grass: u lS-acre corn
crop; n potato crop; garden all planted;
orchard Of assorted fruit; so acres cleared:
20 wood: farm all fenced and abundantly
watered; the dwelling is an old-fash-
toned S-room frame, metal roof. in good
repair; 4-room tenant house and COM
plete set OF outbuildings: the house is
surrounded by grove Of large shade
trees; the excellent fishing and boating
of this section make it a most attrac-
= tive location; everything that makes
country life enjoyable is found here:
on auto road. Price, $500; "a cash.
]. w. LATHAM.
1920 New York ave. Evans Bldg.
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FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE

SMALL ACREAGE right in line Of improve
ments. See US about 1t.
Eight lots, Georgia ave-; cheap; will con-
slider trade; builders take notice.
CAPITAL REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE,
Wash. Loan & Trust Building.
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SHOE REPAIRING,

FIRST-CLASS SHOE REPAIRING-An
handwork; everything guaranteed: reason
able prices. J. STANLEY. sos eth n. w.
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SMALL WORK EXCLUSIVELY
THAYER

ENVELOPES and business cards a spe-
cialty for this week; quick service phone
NJ, 1851, BLUNDELL & BRAUGH, S2S John
Marshal place
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NJ ST. n w. SO52-STORE FOR RENT
SUITABLE ANY RETAIL BUSINESS.
APPLY 42O 10TH ST.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-09

The N. N. S. club will meet Tuesday
afternoon with Mrs. F. L. Benjamin,
800 Lane street
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-09

Mr.. and Mrs. S. L. Courtney viii &c
to California soon after Thanksgivihs
to spend the winter They are giving
extremely low prices On their hats il
order to crowd in as much business as
possible and dispose Of a good deal OF
their stock before their departure.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-09

Authentic display of
furs extremely artistic in
conception at special
prices for our anniversary
week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-09

times, and said that / ought to have an
operation. I would not listen to that,
and when q friend of my husband told
him about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound and what 1t had done
for his wife, I was willing to take it.
Now I look the picture of health and
feel like it, too. can do my own house.
work, hoe my garden, and milk a cow
I can entertain company and enjoy
them. I can visit when I choose, and
walk as far as any ordinary woman:
any day in the month. I fish ! could
talk toevery suffering and girl =
Mrs. DElIA BETHUNE, Sikeston, Mo.
The most successful remedy IN this
country for the cure of all forms Of
female complaints is Lydia Z. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound.
Tt is more widely and successfully
used than any other remedy. 1t has
cured thousands of women who have
been troubled with displacements, in
Illumination, liberation, fbroid tUmors,
irregularities, periodic pains, backache,
that bearing down feeling, indigestion,
and nervous prostration, after all other
means had failed. Why don't you try it,
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Mrs Norman S. Wear and her daugh-
Ter, MISS Marian Wear, are issuing in
vltat1ons for a tea which they will give
saturday afternoon, October IA, at the
Country club.
Ih1s weeks social affairs began to-
DAY with a tea given by Miss Mary Har-
rison for her sister, Mrs. Louis Nelson.
Of Kansas City, at the T. w. Harrison
nome on western avenue. The party
was the largest of its kind given so
Iar this season. and was attended by
about 300 guests The rooms which were
open to the callers were quite elabor-
ately decorated with palms and flow
efs- In the barlOr, the crate was banked
win palms, and the bouquets for that
room We're of pink roses. The dining
! room, also was in pink and green. The
centerpiece for the table was a basket
OF pink roses, and from the chandelier
60 each corner of the table pink and
green ribbons reached TO corner bou-
quests OF pin roses. yellow chrySan-
themufns were used in the living room
ana library, and in the upstairs living
room wfeIe ices were served An or
chestra which was stationed behind a
screen Of palms in the trent hall, play
ed during the hours of the reception.
Mrs Hall and Mrs. Lawrence Rurd, of
Kansas City. stood in line with Mrs.
Nelson and Miss Harrison. Mrs Nell
son is remembered in Topeka as Miss
Anna Harrison, who is regarded as one
of the brilliant and talented Topeka
girls she wore this afternoon a hand
some white lace robe made over white
satin. Her sister, Miss Harrison, was
gowned in grey marquisette over
foundation OF pink satin.
The hostess had the assistance of
tie following friends: Mrs. Robert Gar
Yer, Mrs Frank Merriam, Mrs. William
Swan, Mrs. Charles M. Sheldon Mrs.
Herbert Armstrong, Mrs. Adrain
Greene, Mrs. Merrill Mills. Mrs. Jacob
AIohler Mrs. Ray Sexton, and Miss
Ethelyn Harrison. The girls who served
Were; Miss Mary Dallas Gage. Miss
Mary Helen Shirer. Miss Ruth Bauer
Miss Louise Culver, and Miss Lois
Lindsay.
Mrs. Nelson has been visiting her
mother, Mrs T. w. Harrison, and her
sister, Miss Harrison, the past week.
Her little daughter, Ruth, is with her,
and they will return tonight to their
home in Kansas City.
< x x
There is a pretty frock sketched to-
day which will serve well for general
wear for early fall and later under
the winter coats Cheviot would be a
good selection in the way of material
for this frock. The waistline is short
and marked by a belt of self-tone vel
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EVENING CHAT
BY RUTH CAMERON

II think my mother ought to be
called the where is it lady," d quaint
little boy once commented.
He was the youngest of a large fam
lily, and he had heard his mother 70
often appealed to in this way by the
various members of the household that
he had good reason for his suggestion.
I fancy there are a good many homes
in which 1.-THE where is it lady" might
be one of the house mother'stitles.
For I have myself observed not a few
families where the habit of appealing
to mother to find anything which does
not come readily to hand is a fixed one.
Now, of course, a mothers mind
would naturally be the best index Of
the home and a mother is inevitably a
last resort to which to appeal when
anything simply can't be found.
But here's the rub.
I think she should be kept as a last
and not a first resort.
And first resort is what she is fire.
quently made. 1t is so much easier to
say, Where is so-and-so'' and to throw
the responsibility onto mothers mind,
than to use your own brains; it is so
much simpler to say, II can't find
something or other" and have mother
come down or up and help you hunt
than to go poking about by yourself
that many of us get into the habit of
making no effort to do anything else.
what have you done with that mag
azine I was reading last night cries
father It's gone and was right in
the middle of a story" And mother
gets up and finds it right under faith
er's elbow hidden only by newspa-
per.
where on earth is the tie that goes
with my dress suit?'' calls big brother,
and mother tolls up the stairs and finds
it right in his handkerchief box, where
he left it the last time he went to a
wedding.
Mother, I can't find my pumps any
where I'm sure Bridget did something
with them when she swept" Eliminates
big sister. And mother leaves her sew
ing and locates the pumps in the closet,
hidden only by the folds of sisters
dressing gown, right where big sister
might have found them very easily her
self if she had only really tried before
she called mother
ssWhere is the milk bottle? How can
I go and get the milk If you don't tell
me where the milk bottle is2' sputters
little brother. He has seen that milk
bottle on the pantry shelf dozen
times but, of course, mother gets UP
and gets it for him.
And all this means that mother must
bear all the body and brain fag that
hunting for things means-and myself,
I think there is nothing more firing
than hunting for things-which should
be distributed over the shoulders of the
whole family.
Now I believe that Il can't find il,
and where is it?" are habits that all
children fall into unless they are
checked.
And / think they should be checked
Both for mothers sake and their own.
A child who is taught to hunt for
things until he finds them will have
more self reliance and initiative than
the child who gets into the where is
it?'' habit
A mother whose family does their
own hunting for things instead of pill
ing it all on her shoulders, will have
less care to lessen her chances of be-
coming a happy old grandmother.
The largest and best assortment Of
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TOT IOuT OL AF0 I'd y D
at a tim g yer Y
month, and SO weak
/ could hardly walk.
I cramped and had
backache and head
ache, and wa s SO
nervous and weak
that I dreaded to
see anyone or have
anyone move in the
room. The doctors
ga We me medicine to
ease me at tho Sc
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SEVEN
YEARS OF
MISERY
ALI Relieved by Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound.

Sikeston, Mo. = For Seven years
suffered everything. I was in bed
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vet. There is wide collar of this
velvet finished on the edge by narrow
lace. There is also a short stole of
the velvet similarly finished and having
an additional ruffie of fine lace sur
rounding it. The skirt is made with q
font panel and plain bottom band
marked by a piping of velvet and deco
rated with velvet buttons and cord.