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session. Then she proposed that he put
himself on a salary and that he should
not take penny in excess Of that sal
airy out of the business for himself.
Next she did some figuring on the va
rious branches of the business. The
jeweler did a good deal of repair work.
His way of estimating what he should
charge was to guess how much time 1t
would take to do the job, how much the
material used would cost and then add 100
per cent for overhead charges and profits
She advised that card record be kept of
every repair job, and on this card should
be entered the time the workman was en-
gagged on the repairs and the material he
used. She advised. too, that the charge
should be based on lis per cent instead
of 100 per cent. as formerly. Then she
suggested that 10 per cent should be added
to the price of certain items of the Jew
eiers stock. She considered his prices
low and she argued that the average per-
son would not haggle over the price II
the goods were right.
That card system worked we'll. II had
a gADd moral effect upon the men, They
didn't dawdle or waste time They didn't
waste material, either. This resulted in
saving, small, 1t is true, but important
nevertheless. The jeweler became more
careful He was more earnest and pains
taking in everything that he did He be-
came a better business man. AS a result
he was able at the end of a year to pay
off nearly all of the $1,000 which he owed
to the wholesale houses. Today he is out
of debt. q free man and a better mer-
chant than he ever was before
The grocer who engaged Miss Green
law had some surprising things disclosed
to him. She figured the various items of
his business from a strictly bookkeeping
standpoint. For example, she showed how
1t cost him about 8 cents per unit to de-
liver his goods. Where the delivery
amounted to 80 cents gross for the goods.
there was no profit to the grocer. The
cost of delivery wiped out what he
thought was profit. She organized a
neighborhood store delivery system by
which three retail dealers used the same
delivery equipment. This reduced the ex-
pense of delivery about one-third and
made the grocer prosperous whereas he
simply had made a living.
In millinery establishment her card
system brought about a reoi ganzation of
the working force and resulted in better
work and the stoppage of variety of
leaks
Today Miss Greenaw has her own office
and several assistants. These assistants
are trained to work along the lines she
laid down. She keeps the books of about
20 retailers. She is making more than
twice as much money as she received
when she was bookkeeper for the food
products company, and she has the great
satisfaction of knowing that she is doing
a very good and helpful work. She says
that when you come to think that the
great volume of business in this country
is not done by the trusts, but by the small
manufacturer and small merchant, 1t is
surprising that they have managed to ex-
list in view of the lax methods that have
prevailed in regard to their bookkeeping.
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he should have been prosperous, but he
ha1 a hard time meeting his bills. He
had been In the same location nine years.
He owned $1,000 to the wholesale houses.
They pressed him continually. If they
were inclined to do so they could close
up his shop at any time. The only reason
they did not was because they felt they
had $1,000 invested in his business and 1t
was perfectly safe. In addition they
knew he would have to buy from them
at their price and was not in a position
to balk or protest. He was hitched, hob
bled, tied-an Independent retail merchant
in name but not in fact.
One of the first things Miss Green
law did was to inventory the stock. The
jeweler said his stock invoiced $50, 900.
Miss Greenlaw found it did not invoice
$4,000 There was a lot of dead stuff
in the COLLECTION, articles that had a
fair value when the jeweler bought
them. but which passed out of style
long ago. If the stock were such things
as clocks that were not much as time
pieces. but had all sorts of statuary to
set them off. Then there were old time
cruets for oil and vinegar ornamental
nor particularly serviceable, but cer-
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BY JULIUS OSTMANN

days after release she fled from her
fathers house. leaving a note which said
she was off to the Turkish frontier,
where she hoped to find Abdul sotnia
of Cossacks was sent ont after her The
Cossacks discovered Abdul's camp in the
high mountains 20 miles to the south of
Kars Orders were given to surround
the camp. AS the Cossacks were about
to attack they saw the girl Soft, footsore
and ragge1, making her way slowly
along a river channel. The Russian COM
mander made signal to the men to be
careful The men misunderstood and
opened fire. Three of Abdurs men fell.
The Cossacks rush in, and a hand to
hand struggle took place during which
five of the brigands were killed or
wounded, two captured unwounded,
VIII lie Abdul and the rest got away. The
girl had mysteriously disappeared. She
was found dead in the channel with a
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the Moslem Tartars on the revolu
ries. and Doll Ali was chosen "a
command He did admirably, and
ranged several massaeres of ArmenianA
which gave great plasure to the authors
ties.
Doll Ali had an interview with the gov
ernor OF Elizahethpol, whose cousin he
had murdered. The governor begged
him to restore order" in the town. This
he did When the Armenian revolution
aries began work in the Siemens mines
at Kedabag, Doll Ais brother brought
400 bandits to suppress them. This was
good business for the government as
against revolution, but it meant giving a
free hand and license to the Mosem
bandits to do as they liked. And when
Doll All ."restored order he retired to
a nest on the Turkish frontier. whence
he issued to kill officers and carry fof
women. AT last Doll Ali went too far;
he was driven into an ambush, and to
avoid capture, jumped-so people said
from precipice, and broke h pe TX.
But this week 1t is reported tha.fDoii
Ali is as alive and as mad-that Is, Stne-
as ever and that he has carried Off an
Armenian doctor.
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AEROPLANES GREATEST
RISK OF INSURANCE MEN

The loss of ~ lives when the Zeppelin
dirigible balloon LIZ blew up 1000 feet
above Johannisthal. near Berlin, Ger
many, recently recalled to st. Louis fire
insurance agents that four other air
ships recently have been burned. with
a life loss of five. and that a long list
of aeroplanes have caught fire. The
aeroplanes were worth from $4,000 to
$4,000, and the dirigible balloons cost
enormous sums, even as much as $780,,
600 to 100000, If experiment operations
are included. The aggregate loss is
therefore very heavy. Ignition of tank
and backfiring have been the chief
causes of losses.
There have been many inquiries for
coverage of the fire risk on aeroplanes.
and few companies have been accept
ing such lines with mis- givings as to
what the experience will show when
enough business has been transacted to
enable them to formulate conclusions
other than that the hazard Is severe.
They are. therefore watching the fire
losses on aeroplanes with keen interest,
says the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
A list which covers fires in four ball
looms and all cases where aeroplancs
have been badly damaged or destroyed
by fire, and gives. where obtainable,
the origin of the outbreak, and also In
clLdes many smaller fires, follows:
June &c. 1911. Hanover. Prussia-Par-
seval airshlp; caught fire while being
repaired and destroyed; no lives lost.
September IA. 1911, Grossbelow. Prus-
sia--Dirigible balloon. army type,
burned by back fire igniting gasoline
June rs, 1912, Dusseidorf-Zeppelin air
ship: burned: insured for 100000 at
about $4,000. July 3. 1912, Atlantic City
--Vanniman balloon: caught fire in the
air, five occupants killed.
Aeroplane Fires of 1911
Aeropane fires in 1911 were: May is,
Rheims, + lanee-aeroplane: fell In TAX
ing corner and gasoline ignted two &C.
cupants killed. May 49, voghera, Italy
Bleriot monoplane; motor trouble ig-
nited gasol ne one occupant killed June
5. Rome. italy-gasolne caught fire and
one aeroplane fell; one occupant killed.
June 10. Chateau Whitry. France -gaso-
fre explosion in air: one occupant killed.
Same day and place, gasoline ignited and
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aeroplane fell; one occupant killed. June
10. Mneola, l.. l., N. Y.-gasoline ig-
nited, due to broken pipe leaking on ex-
haust; fire extinguished. August IL,
Greenville 1ll.-gasoline ignited In tank.
August 25. Nyback, N. Y.-gasoline, lg-
nited from back fire of motor; fire ex-
tinguished.,, September 2, Troyes. France
gasoline tank exploded: operator killed.
September IA. NCh cago-aeroplane ignited
by striking high stension wires. Septem-
Der 10, Mulhausen, Germany-ga
tank ignited; two Occupants killed. Sep
TENDER %, Dayton. Ohio--gasoline tank
exploded; occupant kllleG.
The 1912 aeroplane fires ewere: January
q. Senlis, France. aeropianA capsized and
gasoline ignited, occupant Killed: April 4.
Marblehead. Mass, gasoline iSnited: Au-
gust 5, Garden City. N. Y, gasoline ig-
nited from broken feed pipe; August Is.
Donai. France. gasoline tank ignited
OPERATOR killed October IA. Berns. Sw'tz-
e1lsnd. gasoline tank ignited. operator
killed
Fires In aeroplanes since January h
are: February ?. Falrview. Miss. hydro
plane burned on Missouri river gasoline
ignited from baclsfre; May 1. Hempstead.
N. Y. sercplane sheds and contents
burned: May 26. Salisbury. Md. gasoline
tam fen''e1 in flight occupants made
safe landing; June r. ina. O.. burned
in the afr. occupant kil'ed july a. Yer
sailes. France. aeroplane capsized and
ga solne IN tank ignited. two occupants
Killed; July 20. Por 1eaux. France. gaso-
lire In tank i"n'ted. operator made q
safe landing: June IA. st. Louis. opera-
tors coat caught fire from exhaust: FIRE
ext'ngushed: another coat of same oper-
atcr caught fire and was extin gu'shed;
August 4. Berlin GERMANY, easol're in
tank lgnited. orerator killed. August 7,
chicaso. frame Of aeropiane caught fire,
baze evtngu'shed IN midair: September
8. Nuenster. Germany. gasoline In tank.
TINTED when aeroplane fell. occupant
killed
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sat with her half an hour. kissed his
children affectionately, and on his way
off called at the house of a man named
Youssoun. who, he imagined. helped the
police. Selim called through the window
thrice, Come out Youssouff!' When
Youssouff came out, Selm handed m
a revolver, and said. Shoot firsti' Yoas-
souff hesitated.s Selim then shot him
through the head, and threw his body in
through the window on his wife's bed.
abdul the Avenger" came into prom
inence during a lull In Selm's career.
He is a young, good looking man. who
speaks all Caucasus dialects badly, and
Is supposed to be Persian or Bachtiar
Abdul started in 1911. He carried off three
Armenian girls and a Russian girl, and
held them for ransom. On the money
beng pad he sent them home unframed
The Armenian girl, Soft. had fallen vio-
lently. in love with her caplor. A few
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Ronances of Business WordAarha Gree11a1U Bookkeeper

Copyright, 1913. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
nYHE boss. in announcing that there
was to be a redistricting of the
branch food products houses. was
delighted. His branch was TO be closed,
but he was to have charge of another
in larger city and was to have an In
crease of salary. He wanted to take
most of his subordinates with him. He
told Martha Greenlaw. who had been his
bookkeeper for seven years. that she
was to be transferred with him.
Miss Greenlaw went home with no sense
of elation. What was an ordinary hap
pening to big business concern was a
matter of supreme Importance to her. If
she moved 1t meant the breaking up of
her home, the sale at a sacrifice or the
rental of the little house she had pur-
chased out of her savings and to which
she was greatly attached, separation
from friends of lifetime and the OPEN
ing of new existence under conditions
she never had known before. She might
face the change alone, but 1T would go
hard with her mother. Her mother was
old and none too strong. Martha was
her sole support. It is difficult for an
old tree to take root In new soil.
Miss Greenlaw thought 1t all out for
herself. She knew she was a good book-
keeper, but she also knew 1t was no easy
matter to get as good a position as the
one she had held. The more considera-
ton she gave to the matter the more
convinced she was that she couldn't leave
the home town. She told the boss. He
said he was sorry. Then he forgot Misa
Greenlaw. His mind was full of the de-
tails OF moving and the big prospects
Z before him in his new field.
Following the ordinary methods Miss
Greefaw went among her business friends
and acauaintances looking for job as
bookkeeper. Most Of them told her times
were dull. None of them knew of a va
cancy just then, but they assured her
they would keep her in mind and when
they heard of anything they'd let her
know. It usually Is that way. Weeks
passed and no work came to the woman.
Then she concluded that If she was to
sA employment she would have to make
\ POSITION for herself.
Sas Of the many things she observed
- years she worked in the branch
office OF the food products company was
that the average small retailer to which
the company sold goods was lax in his
business methods. Many of them were
slow In paying their bills. Some of them
got mixed in their accounts with the conf
pany and apparently didn't keep their
records straight. She had heard the trav-
cling men of the house tell remarkable
stories of the slipshod ways and gen.
eral carelessness of men whose trade
amounted to many thousands of dollars
Il year.
Unable to sell her services to one large
concern. she got to wondering if she
could not sell them to a number of small
ones. The more she considered the mat
ter the more 1t appealed to her. She
= went to the credit man of large job
bling house and told him what she had
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bullet wound in her head. The bullet
was Russian.
NAbdul. a week later. sent a letter to
Colonel Pimenoff.. head of the Cossacks
at Kars, signed Abdul Metitel," his new
title, and Ever since then he has made
war officials and military.
He has left all villa gers alone except
those whom he suspects to be in league
with the law He carried off the daugh-
ter of an Armenian police clerk, mall
treated her and then killed her. In July
he killed a Cossack with a shot fired
from a distant hill Nobody knew that
this was Abdul, until a boastng letter
came signed Abdul the Avenger." The
popular singer, Mile. Bosharina, had a
narrow escape. While driving near Kars
she, her maid and two guards were
held up by Abdul. Abdul robbed her of
$50. and stripped the guards to their
shirts.
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Most of them are all wrong in the way
they figure their finances. They estimate
that they have so much stock at GER
tain arfount. They never take account OF
depreciation OF stock. of fixtures or equip
ment. Economically. sch says. the small
merchant is not half baked-not even
warmed through-and that he never will
be a really good merchant until he be-
comes a good bookkeeper OF conducts his
business on good bookkeeping lines.
There is room in America for 10000 or
more persons to do the work that Martha
Greenlaw Is doing,
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A Coed Substitute

From the Kansas City Journal.
why have YOU not come to my b
party as you promised7" teiephoned N
rate hostell You are breaking up ons
table?"
~ an sick" was the reply.
That's an old excuse
'Rea'ly. I'm sick. have Q trained
nurse"
well. you should have sent a substi-
tute. Ask the nurse II site plays"
The sun., 1913-12-19
AUTHOR DISCUSSES "PUBLIC
WITH NON-LITERARY TASTES

literature. which when all Is said Is never
| a controlling factor In anybody's life. The
automobile and the telephone. the ac
complishments OF Mr.. Edison and Mr..
Burbank and. ] might add. Of Mr.. Rock
efeller Influence nowadays. In one fashion
or another. every moment OF every living
Americans existence I. whereas had Amer
lea produced. instead, a second Milton or
"A Dante II would at most have caused a
few OF us to spend few spare evenings
rather differently
And besides, we know that America is
i'm fact producing her enduring literature
day by day, even though, as Is always the
case, those who are contemporaneous with
Its makers cannot with any certainty point
them out. To voice a hoary truism. time
alone Is the test OF vitality. In our present
Hood OF printed books. as in any other
hood, II y OF course the froth and scum
which shows most prominently. Yet the
desire TO write perfectly of beautiful hap
penings Is. as the saying runs. old as the
hills--and as immortal Questionless
there was many "A seiviceable brick wasted
~ Nineveh because fncky persons must
needs he deleting here and there n phrase
In favor of its cunea:ic synonym. and Il
is not Improbable that when the worn out
sun expires In clinkers its final ray will
gild such zealots tinkering with their
STYLE Some few there must be in every
age and every land Of whom life claims
nothing very insistently save that they
write perfectly of beautiful happenings
And It is such. We know and such alone
who are to-day making in America tina
portion OF her literature which may hope
for permanency"
The sun., 1913-12-19
HOW TO BECOME A WRITER

nothing For my tyn.writinp was
deeply in debt.
thank nv lucky stars that | wasn't
fool enough TO blame either bubllc or
publishers. The work us sheer writing
was good. I knew that nut the construr,
ton was faulty. | was like painter
with an eve for color but poor draur hts.
manship What did doo | devoted a
year to studying and contrasting all the
technical methods by which the great
novelists had obtained their effects.
traced the novels DEVELOPMENT from
Greek times TO the present and came To
the conclusion that no one had beaten
Defoe in the main essentials. took him
as my model and built over him myself
But before | started building knew that
there was more to learn. I'D come across
"a curious fact, that most conspicuous
noveiists had been, some time or other,
publishers readers. therefore came to
New York and In telling other people
what not to write In my official capacity
suddenly Jumped into knowledge OF
what to write myself
The first draft Of 1.-THE Garden without
Walls" took a year and quarter. II
was written during evenings between S
and 10 after full days office work
The sun., 1913-12-19

the centre of the room Is an enormous
oak table black with age and beautfu'ly
carved that was once used i'll the rcfec-
tory 81 It Breton monastery. kouhd IL
are som. quaint oak seats which cam"
from England and are called conn
stools" because in tn. sixteenth century
every old fashioned house had pair OF
th,,l to- rest thu coffin of the dead upon.
ON. "nl of Mis-. Stoc.ley's tabl" * al
ways Uttered with papers typewfi,er &c
but tn, other end Is kept clear Tor l'n-
p,oup.u meals, which ar not only shhr"d
hut often prepared hy other artists an
writer's living IN til" same building or ire
same street. Ru. lio!ssonad- is indeed "A
famous street for artists ana writer's
10th English md American Richard MIL
Ter. the American. whosr pictures In IN"
Luxembourg Gallery are 50 "cl Known
has a stu 10 there. Constant LounsDerfN,
the po,t,ss and playwright, lives on the
san. sid. Of tn" street; Leslie Rosenthal.
tn" artist. and E.a'ricc Irwin. the au-
tNor.ss ot The Pagan Trinity, likewise
l.N. in IT," street. Round th" corner in
the next street is Mar" van Saan"h AMI
IN. authur,ss Of Marie Glare" Inc
chicago artist Harry solomon lived in
IN, studio which Ms. Stucklcy now occu-
pies. The street is an mpassc with an
nli Jesuit monastery and gardens al the
md Of H. Right In the middle OF the roai
i. "A tree that vas planted by Victor
Hugo
The sun., 1913-12-19
PERTINENT GOSSIP OF AUTHORS AND THEIR WORk

slngularly optimistic expression of the
poet. written shortly after his marriage.
Li"blcr " Company have secured the
dramatic right of Ralph stock
Mariana" which WAS recently published
by Little. Brown AZ Company The SOuth
Sea Island setting of the story AFFORDS
unusual opportunities for staging
Byron is a leading character In Maurice
Hewlctts new novel. "Bendish." which
has just been published by the Scribners.
Tom Moore. Wellington and the poet
Rogers also figure. The romance has
already run into its second large print
ing.
Owing to the similarity In names. Few
reviews have credited a Juvenile volume
entitled Children of the Wild" to Stewart
Edward White. The author of the juve-
nile is named s. r. White. but he y.
not related to the author OF Cold and
THE Blazed Trail"
The dramatic rights Of J.iYory Farnors
"'The Amateur Gentleman" have been Sc
cured by James Is Hackett. His con-
ception OF the pugilst who became
London dandy will be presented to the
public directly after the holidays
In his recently published wild AMI
mails at Home" Ernest Thompson Seton
defends the character Of the much misun-
dcrstood skunk and alludes to the sixty
pet Skunks he Keeps at his own home.
An amusing ancCdote is told OF Richard
lie Gallcnne. The poet not long ago
called on Mr.. Seton and found the nat
uralist not at home. However, he ram
bl,d about the place and saw the sixty
pct skunks. particularly the new and
harmless variety. which Seton is trying to
10 eed. So he left the following note:
with Buibanks praise our ears are
uuutd,
The sun., 1913-12-19
AUTHOR WITH VARIED
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

Edward cave. the author of "Thc Boy
Scouts Hike Book" recently published by
doubleday. Page and Company, has had
a varied editorial experience. After SOM.
eXperieuc" in burlington, la, Cleveland
and Chicago h- came To New York In
1899. Sine" then he has been editor Of
the sporting Goods Dcdi.r and the
Dtdi'r and Rcpdr0tdH and assistant .di-
tor ~ the automobile and Of sports
Atcid. He has twice been editor Of Rccr,-
alton and twice assoCiit" editor and is now
associate editor Of Outdoor World and
Recreation. Of which caspar Whitney is
editor He has twice been editor of Ffc,d
and stream and once associate editor un-
der Emerson Hough as editor Recently
H. has been editor Of Boys' Lifc the OH
cial publication of the BOY Scouts OF
America He il scout master and ac-
tive in the movement.
Mr., cave was a pioneer IN the agitation
that led 10 the awakening of national in
terest In game protection. Two years
ago he mad" a 5000 mile automobile
camping trip through twelve middle West.
ern states with his wife and daughter
speaking In favor Of "A national federation
for fish and game protection. His reports
on the danger of a fish and game famine
in the middle West resulted in the organ
zng OF the American Game Protective
ana propagation Association In Srptem-
her, 1871, and he greatly aided that asso-
citation in securing the passaee of the
Weeks Mclean bin tMarch. 1919 which
provides for Federal protection Of all mi
giatory birds
Mr. Cave also started the Anglers Club
of New York. the leading club Of gentle
men anglers in this country now over six
years old. Recently Mr.. Caves articles
in Country Life in america have at
tructed/a good deal of attention among
sportsmen, Mr. Cave advocates a new
and fascinating game clay bird golf
which is an ingenious combination of trap
shooting and golf
The "Boy Scouts Hike Book" which is
10 be followed by the no, scouts Camp
Book" Is the first of "A series of handy
little pocket manuals of outdoor insIira-
tion. Mr. Cave has led an outdoor life all
his days and knows woodcraft He has
interesting views on the strenuous life Of
an editor. 81 have found that working
hard yourself will get other people To
work hard for YOU" he SAYS III my
contributors find out that | am working
nights and Sundays as we'll in the work
OF the magazine they will turn IN and give
me better work"