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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-08-17
Fly Protection.

An Oklahoma correspondent
writes:
Il would like recipe for keeping
flies off stock; something that will
stay"
The proprietary fly remedies
give as advertised. quite good re-
suits, but applications must be re-
peated frequently in order to be
effective, The following formula,
as given by the Kansas Experiment
Station, while somewhat bother
some in preparation, is more last
ing.
Resin, one and One-half pounds:
laundry soap, two cakes; fish oil,
one-half pint; enough water to make
three gallons. Dissolve the resin
in a solution of soap and water by
heating, add the fish oil and the
rest of the water Apply with a
brush. If it is to be used as a spray,
add One-half pint of kerosene. The
cost is seven to eight cents per
gallon. About one-half pint of the
mixture is sufficient for one appli-
cation for a COW. Give two or three
applications per week until the
hair becomes coated with resin.
Afterwards retoUch those parts
where the resin is rubbed off,
Wallaces' Farmer.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-08-17
An Advertisement is Your Cheapest Salesman

ed cheap at the enormous price
paid for it because it is engaged in
building up big mail order bust.
ness with new material.
The local retailer can apply
lesson from this to himself. If
those mail order houses spend so
much money to get one new GUS
toner, why should retailer not
make an effort in the same direc-
ton? Why should he not adopt
the same means of attractive sales
manship on paper? II he can
bring even one new customer a
week to his store with an eXpedi-
ture that is many times below
what a mail order house has to pay
for getting the same results, it is
worth while paying closer attention
to this successful method of selling.
! If he can influence more than one
customer, and it would be poor
local newspaper advertising indeed
that could not do that, he would be
accomplishing far more than the
mail order houses with their highly
paid selling experts. And, as a
business man he could congratulate
himself on a good investment. He
could say to himself that he had in
his advertisement the cheapest
salesman on his force.
1t is. of course, not always posi-
BILE to readily get this strong, con-
vincing selling matter in your
newspaper space You may not be
able yourself to write it and you
| may not have any local person to
whom you can turn. But that
need not deter you. There are now
on the market one or two syndicat-
ed advertising services that are de-
signed especially to suit cases like
yours. These services are supplied
in a series of fifty-two advertise
ments with accompanying copper
plate engravings, one for each week
in the year, at prices ranging from
one dollar per week up. Many of
the advertisements have been class
ed by authorities as equal to the
best that have made successes for
the big city department stores and
national advertisers. Reduced fac
SMILES of several of these adver-
tsements will be seen at the top oil
this column.
The advertisements shown above
have received many testimonials
from experts. For instance, VIM
H. Ukders, President of the Grocery
and Allied Trades Press Associa,
ton Of America "a combination Of
the entire American Grocery Trade
Press) aud editor of the Tea anC
Coffee Trade Journal. New York
writes:
Il consider your advertisement.
the best l have seen IN a lonI
time"
The Retrilers' Journal, Chicago
writes:
I'VE believe the samples of you
advertisements sent US are the bes
we have ever SEEN"
After expressions like these from
men who have spent long live,
amongst the kind of advertising
, that has built fortunes for tn,
, shrewd users, the local merchan
who neglects the offered him to OBJ
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-08-17
Giving Thanks.

A little strength was lost each day,
A little hope dropped by the way,
The feet dragged slowly up the road
The shoulders bent beneath their
load,
Courage seemed dying in the heart,
The will played but a feeble part,
Night brought no ease,
Day no surcease,
From heavy cares or Wearying
smart,
Then why give thanks?
Somehow strength lasted through
the day,
Hope joined with courage in the
way;
The feet still kept the uphill Rad
The shoulders did not drop their
load,
An unseen Power sustained the
heart
When flesh and will filled in their
part,
While God gave light
By day and night,
And also grace to bear the smart
For this give thanks
Thanks for the daily bread which
feeds
The bodys wants. the spirits needs;
Thanks for the keen, the Quick'nine
word.
HE only lives who lives in God"
Whether his time on earth is spent
In lordly house or labor's tent.
Thanks for the light
By day and night
Which shows the way the Master
went.
- And he gave thanks.
Elizabeth Lord Condit.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-08-17

The chances are that if you 60
into almost any store in country
town, at the present time, and tell
the storekeeper that his cheapest
salesman is his advertisement in
the local newspaper he will laugh at
you. He will laugh because he does
not know what craftsmanship means.
1t is the mere showing of his goods
to any customer that has the good
luck to come into his store, accord
ing to his lights. He does not
realize that it is possible for Gus
toners to be enticed to his store to
actually demand goods that they
never thought they wanted before.
1t is a comparatively easy mat
ter to sell a woman or man goods
when you have them in your store
and can lay the wares right in
front of them. In such a case
much more than nine-tenths of the
selling act has already been ac-
complished by the coming of your
customer to the store. Even then a
salesman who can get big results in
the store is classed as highgrade,
and his salary. no matter how
large, is considered a reasonable ex-
penditure and. in many cases, cheap
ly spent.
To cause a customer to have a
desire to come to your store, where
no desire existed before, requires
craftsmanship of a high order; Such
craftsmanship makes new customers
builds your business and lays, in
short, the foundation of your for
tune No retail business of modern
times can make a great success
without such craftsmanship WITH
out. in other words, the proper
utilization of space in your local
newspaper. Considering the re-
suits this kind of craftsmanship OBJ
tains, it is the best and cheapest
you can buy.
This efficient use of space in your
local newspaper has been called
craftsmanship on paper. If you fill
the space with forceful matter that
will create attention, conviction and
and bring results, you have an addi-
tion to your sales force that may
surely be called the best promoter
on your staff. The results that are
obtained from this craftsmanship
depend on the selling ability used
But no matter what results are Ob'
tanned. the quality of salesmanship
necessary is much greater than that
required inside the store.
The big mail-Order houses reck.
on that they must pay so much
money for every inquiry they get
The amount of this SUN is ascer'
tanned by the number of letters re-
ceived in answer to the same. This
refers to inquiries only. Not every
inquirer becomes a customer. The
securing of actual customers costs
more. The money that has to bt
lspent to get one new customer by
! those concerns would astOnish the
local retailer. 1t is usually not less
than the amount spent on severa
weeks advertising by the average
local storekeeper. The salesman
ship on paper that is necessary t
do all this is the finest that can b,
leot for money and it is consider
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-08-17
own town.

To Regain a Lost Catch of Clover.
An Illinois correspondent writes
us that he has lost his stand of
clover this spring, that he will have
to depend on blue grass next year,
and wonders why he cannot disk
the stubble on which he lost a seed
ing and reSeed it.
We do not see why this method
should not prove effective. AS we
have repeatedly pointed out, the
question Of getting a stand of clover
by sowing at the same time we
SOW alfafa in the humid section,
during the last half of August, is
experimental. There is no reason
why he should not SOW timothy and
make an experiment with clover
There is no difficulty on most soils
in the humid section in getting a
stand of timothy sown even as late
as September, provided o. course
there is veil prepared seed bed
and sufficient moisture in the soil
to insure termination.
If we had a field Of this kind, we
would not hesitate to make the ex-
pertinent; but We would not wait
until ready to SOW before diskins.
We would disk at the earliest
moment practical, then disk re-
peatedly, and SOW clover and timo-
thy the last week in August Given
enough moisture in the soil, it can
not help but grow, and you would
be making the experiment with
clover under the most favorable
conditions If the clover fails to
make enough growth to live through
the winter, then he can again SOW
clover in February or March on the
frozen ground.
In the drouth stricken district,
which covers large portion of the
West. we are up against a rather
serious condition of things Clover
sown last year would naturally die
where cut for hay or seed, and we
shall have a famine of clover.
Therefore we would not hesitate to
risk the experiment, which the
oretically should work out all right.
AS a matter of fact, sowing timothy
in the fall either with wheat or
without any nurse crop is not ex-
pertinent, 1t has been tried over
and over again. The essential
thing is to give it sufficient cover
ing to insure termination. We can
afford to take chances under cir
cumStanceS when we know that
unless we do something we shall
| be out of clover in 1912. -Wallaces'
| Farmer.
Fly Protection.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-08-17
Call E. Y.

When you want your sales cried
and want Col. W. 7. Youell, call up
Ebert Yates at the F. & M. Bank
and he will give you dates. Re-
member and call E. Y.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-08-17

tain some of these success making
announcements is missing the
Chance~of his lifetime
The editor of this paper will be
glad to supply further particulars
of the syndicate whose specimen
ads adorn the top of this column
and / advise early application as
only one of these services will be
supplied to each storeke. e in his
own town.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-08-17

Mrs. Grassland, of St. Louis
came Saturday for visit with Mr..
and Mrs. j. S. Buchanan near this
city.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-08-17

The Clarence Chautauqua will be
on from Aug. 1920. W. j, Bryan
is to speak at 8 o'clock Sunday
aftern DON,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-03

Our China Painting Glasses are large;
And what is nicer than hand decorated
china3
MANY special nricos on certain rock,
ers. certain furniture. A small deposit
will hold the goods for Xmas
Lots of folks avail themselves of our
LIGHT lunches at the soda fountain.
Early shopping mas its advantages,
First selections, no crowdlng, perfect
attention. Therefore, it is well to make
as many purchases as possible before
the rush. Our Christmas goods are
now ready for inspection.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-03

You do lots Of buying for your hus.
band and the bows, You know all about
our Mems Section. 1t was never In
such splendid condition for holiday
buying.
Soon everybody will be thinking of
gifts and talking of Keith o 'Brieu s
tho store of ideas, of suggestions, of fin
al decision.
4 wonderful scene is our Doll Section.
Tho little girls go into ecstasy over the
beautiful dolls. And every little girl
should be brought 70 the store-thelr
enthusiastic pleasure will be your pleas
ure.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-03
A Crusade Against Tips

When you stop to think of it tips the limit of in
consistency How absurd to think of tipping lesperson
in store. Would it add to the service rendered? Not
one bit; it would only encourage fawning.
In Salt Lake KelhO Brien started the campaign against
tbs bv not permitting the nefarios habit to become
associated with Cafe. And glad to note that
certain restaurants and hotels advertising no tips
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-03
Fur Goats

1t is we'll TO mention that the skins cured
in Europe thus making the coats light III weight,
durable in quality, and fast in color The skins
were carefully selected and beautifully matched
so that the garments near perfect as IS
possible.
FULL LENGTH RUSSIAN PONY SKIN
COATS LINED WITH FANCY BROCADED
LININGS-Also plain Skinner satin lined-spe
cally priced in this sale at $500, $3.50, $500,
$97 so, $l25.00 and $1650o
HUDSON SEAL COATS = (French dyed
muskrat) full length; beautifully lined, at
$4,000, $175.OO, $19750, $250.0O and $4,000.
ARCTIC sEAL--(F French dyed coney) full
length garments cut in latest styles; very hand
some fur, at $500, $3.50 $3.50.
NATURAL PONY SKIN COATS with large
raccoon collar and cuffs; very smart, $4,000
HUDSON SEAL COAT-Trimmed with skunk;
large collar and border of skunk around the bot
tom--in this sale at-$l95.00.
This coat can not be duplicated at $4,000.
HANDSOME SABLE SQUIRREL COATS
Very rich fur made on the new loose lines
priced in this sale at-$17500
LARGE SELECTIONS IN SCARFS AND
MUFFS. The variety is so large that it is impos-
sibIe for us to describe each style We shall sim
ply quote prices. However every scarf and mS
is carefully finished and the Innings are the best
quality
BLACK FOX SCARFS-At $3.50, $500,
$3.50, $3.50 $500, $35 90 and 1920
BLACK FOX MUFFS-At $1175, $3.50,
500 so, $500 and $3.50.
POINTED SITKA FOX SCARFS-At $500,
$500, 500 so up to $4,000
POINTED SITKA FOX MUFFS-$39 so,
$40 90 800 80 up to $500
ERNfINE SETS from $500 set up to $4,000
SKUNK NECKPIECES from $39. 80 to $s7. 80.
SKUNK MUFFS from $500 up to $65Oo
EASTERN MINK NECKPIECES-At 500 so
$500, $1,000, $135,00 up TO $4,000.
EASTERN MINK MUFFS-At $49.5o, $500,
$500. $3.50. $l35,00 up to $245o0
CROSS FON SETS From $4,000 to $4,000
RED FOX SETS-From $3.50 set up TO
$4,000
HUDSON SEAL SETS-From $500 set up
SEAL ND ERl1INE SETS-From $4,000 up.
NATURAL. RACCOON SETS-From $40 90 set
up to $4,000 set
SABLE SQUIRREL sETs-From s25 90 set up
JAPANESE MINK NECKPIECES-At S125o
$3.50 $2230 $500 up to $50 90
JAPANESE MINK MUFFS-From $3.50 up
to $500
A GENUINE NATURAL MINK SET-Nobby
new style; satin lined two skin; fancy scarf;
plain pillow nmf-set $4,000
MOLE SKIN SET-Handsomc throw and
large muff-vcry smart--$10000 90 set
GENUINE BLACK FON SET skin scarf,
satin lined, plain pillow mutf -$32 30 set.
SABLE FOX NECKPIECE-Fro $500 up
SABLE EON MUFF-From S25. 90 Ip
We carry full line of children S t(IRS
4 small deposit qciH ho d
any fuy nrtH qUanted.
u0e nGa uon l0p ,Gn ,Gn ,M rs
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-03
The Spirit of Christmas

now for Christmas!
The spirit of Christmas is in the air.
1t is infectious.
No one runs from it---rather, we run right into
it, gladly, joyously.
1t is the one time of the year when we forget
self.for Christmas means giOing. In COM
memorating the day Of His birth are we not
mindful that He ultimate ly gaze His life that
our sins might be washed away?
To give freely is almost divineit is as an invis-
ible chain reaching from celestial realms to
human hearts,
Because--giving is broader than the confines of
family ties 1t includes friends and reaches
even unto the children Of impoverished families.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-03

These elegant materials of the latest concep
tions of the weavers' art They soft and plant will
drape gracefully and admirably adapted to handsome
toettes When take into consideration the worth of
these fabrics which requires on from 12 to ID
wards to make gown you get high class silk pattern
at a very reasonable price-NIonday $3.50 yard.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-03

1aCrurtrS ne QUdIly IS dUSUIUltIy gudT dI1lccHI
NE qv not sell fur no matter hoqU humble or hoqv
may be- une it qvM do credit the Keith Bren store We
gladly fu because desire that pat
should be satisfied obvious people not
to purchase fus which guaranteed because is
open that furs sold places under false pre-
lenses EOery fur sold in Keith Brien just q0ha h
no fancy names or masquerading permitted.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-09

to know if the esteemed STRANGERS cared
To have music? Why certainly we did
and the dancing also. Bring on the
entire bill of fare. We might as well
make whole day Of it,
-Four handsomely gowncd-Oricntally
OF coursc-hnd charming young women,
entered the room each carrying a
strlngcd instrument suspended from her
waist by a colorcd ribbon. After a low
curtsy the quartctte settled gracefully
TO the iioor and began playing. Such
music was never heard outside the
homeland. 1t was simply enchanting
ana the upward slances of the maidcns
made harmonious. If silent. accom-
panincnt to their efforts.
o While the music was in full swing
TWO more women glidcd into the apart
mcnt and ere we gathered ourselves to-
eether, there was a maze Of drapery
SWrlinS before our eyes sinuOus forms
were waving To and fro like n lily
Under the influence of Il summer wind
II was the most artistic and least Vu-
gar presentation Of an Eastern dance |
ever Witnessed. There was not the least
hint of suSGeStivcncss and wholly lacked
The features that mark the misrcprc-
scented production at home. Al! the time
inc girls performed, the attendant, a
woman, cha1croncd the artistcs
We made our contribution and left the
the tea house favorably impressed with
what we had seen and heard We later
learned that the girls were daughters
of the Samurai. or chivalry of Japan
VINO. when their male protectors faith
crs or brothers. were Killed while bat
Ting for their Emperor. were permitted
to display their accomplishments before
visiting foreigners in order to insure
Il living. They are counted among the
most Nirtuous Of their race. something
wei worth bearing in mind. Were the
least suggestion of insult offered them
by the guest. he he native or foreigner.
a Killing would surely follow and the
laws of hospitality overlooked
The gcisha girl is all she claims to
be. so Tar as have seen. and I for one.
tip my hat to her.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-09
By John S. Ormsby

us in good stead and we rcconciled
ourselves To securing three or four jim
rickshas with view to seeing the
sights about Nagasaki.
The vehicles were pulled about with
the greatest OF case by the oak like
limbs of the "jchus" who climbed high
and steep hills with the recklessness of
u mountain goat.
Prohibited from entering the temple
we contcntcd ourselves at first by visit
ing the military barracks where we
lcisurcly watched a batch of recruits
being rounded into shape to test their
strength and agility against the armies
of the Car Of all the Russias. Our APP
pctitcs whettcd To Il fine edge we next
proposed visit to a tea house.
Located in the center of a garden
overlooking with cherry blossoms, the
national flower of Japan, stood a
Suuarcly built structure ornamcnted
with fanciful cupolas. 1t Was a choice
Quarter of the city we had entered. and
far from the noise and verbal turmoil
of Il seaport town. our 'rickShus STOP
ped in front of the garden entrance ard
we passed up several steps into a large
apartment rcsembliH: reception room.
ON the il1or Were rugs of real Oriental
manufacture. There were no seats and
we followed the custom of the country
ana "SGUattcd." An attendant, array ed
in all the glory of lowered kimona APP
preached us. Would the honored visit
ors have some tca?" Would we? For
what else had we come?
Within few minutes the delightful
aroma If real simon pure tea pcrmcat-
ed the room. and before we realized it
we were being served with the nectar
of the gods in cups that might possibly
measure up to a thimble in vogue in
a well kept American household. Never
thclcss, despite the smallncss of the
quantity of the beverage. ii was stimu
latiHg To a degree and entirely out of
ratio with the supply. Again the at
tcndant. This time ii her desire
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-09

a MoNG the least understood. and
IA most frequently misreprcsentcd
"A people in the world are gcisha
girls Of Japan. Some who have
only casually looked upon these charm
crS dared to catalogue them as being
among the ordinary serio comic sing
crS. and some went even further and
accused the women of being of frail
rcpute. Such is not generally, if at all,
the case.
Not very long ago, for the mem
DRY being a pleasant one. is ever with
me, had the good fortune to be in
Naeasaki. an important seaport of ia
pan. where ships of war were built
during the Mikado's little affair with
Russia. In company with half a dozen
friends | WAS watching a horde of di-.
minutive, stocliily- built women. busily
coaling an American transport that was
homcward bound from the Philippines.
The women who worked like beavers.
every one, stood in two lines stretching
from the coal bunkcrs of the vessel to
the pile of coal ashore. One line passed
loaded half bushcl baskets OF the an
thracitc, one Ia another, to the bunk
crs with daring deNtcrity. while the
second line, located directly opposite.
returned the empty rcccptacles To he
replcnshcd. Each one of the little hui
man bees had a joke, or snatch of song
to tighten her task and their good hui
NOR was truly infectious,
After some time spent in watching
the coalers one Of my party suggested
that as ii would take Il couple of days
or more to load the vessel with the
required amount of fuel. it would bc in
order to take a railroad "trip up as far
as Toxic. To see the capital of the
Flowcry Kingdom. No sooner said than
the journey was begun ana we boarded
a train for the metropolis of Nippon.
However. had no sooner started on
our trip when AN order was received to
the effect that no strangers would he
permitted to proceed into the interior
without Il special permit from the gov
eminent officials. Somewhat disappoint-
ed at first our American training stood
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-09

Whatsoever Il man soweih, that shall
he also reap"
Champ Clark, in common with all men
Of ripe scholarship, looks after the little
words and little things. as carefully as
about the big words and the big things
THERE Was Il short rotund woman
very busy business man. who
pulled of his top coat, and handing il
TO Il Waterman, asked him To kindly
take care of IL for him, for a few min
utcs. Now. it is not the duty of
capitol watchman to be a carctalser mt
this particular Waterman was a man Of
experience and wisdom. and he courtc-
ously took the coat. ana let tho bUsy
man rush on to a committee ncctina.
which he was to attend. In about half
an hour he came back. thanked the
Waterman for his courtesy, and handed
Please take my card. with my
thanks"
The busy man had Disappeared
through the doorway ana was in his
automobile before the astonishcd
Waterman realized that there was 81 ten
dollar bill wrapped around the card
Then. when ne caught his breath and
got back to earth, the astounded Capitol
Waterman read the card:
John Hays Hammond"
q NE of the guides of the Capitol was
taken off his feet. one day re-
cch'ly, by chorus of people from Mis-
souri,; nine In the party. Referring to
the work OF Brumidi. the Michaelangelo
of the capitol, the guide said
There are people who doubt the s,ory.
OF the wonderful decorations of this
Capitol. ana when tell them that
Rrumidi made this the most wonderfully
decorated Capitol in the world. the pco-
PIE usually look as If they were all from
Missouri"
We are" choruscd the nine and the
guide VAS almost spccchless with aston
shmcnt.
THERE was "a short round woman
standing IN one Of tho ample door
ways of tho capitol. and there were
other women about her, The short ro-
tuhd woman, however. was conspicu-
ously present. The courteous Senato
came along with couple OF friends, ana
remarked:
Il guess that we can sc, around this
crowd"
Don't you call me crowd" indig-
mainly shouted the rotund woman; and
the Senator went on. smiling but saying
nothing.