Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1911 — Page 2

Good Advice

of all the stenographer who wouid show that she can I manage the correspondence shouldn’t make it too evident that I she can improve on the manager’s diction or give him pointers "Brt in grammar and management. i Managers usually believe in the efficiency of their own methods, and whoever will step on the toes where their little vanities are concerned isn’t likely to be boosted. ||» The stenographer who is inclined to say all she thinks—to air her private opinions regarding what her chief does or doesn't do—ris always in danger of spoiling her chances.

Silence is as great a virtue in an office as capable talk, and every one knows that the managers little whims and predilections have as much to do with your promotion as your own honest efforts always to dd the right things at the righttime in the right place. You must copy your manager in the beginning. You may sneer at the copy-cats and the self-satisfied imitators, but on the other hand strain your originality too much in the face of an old fogy manager and see what happens. The new correspondent must be ■diplomatic. It ought to be easier for her to tickle the vanity of her chief than to outrage it, though personally she may despise people who are always rubbing you the right way for a purpose. Make the manager’s style your own. Acquire some of his phrases and peculiarities of expression, and you will be surprised to see how soon he will let you handle some of his letters independently. Knotty correspondence is always a bugbear to a harassed, hurried manager, and sometimes he is only too glad of the opportunity of giving over a portion to a reliable assistant. And if you tally with him in the beginning he is more likely to give your own methods a little leeway later on. When you can once prove your knack at writing good, fetching business letters that do not clash with the head’s own way of doing things, (you are soon a factor in the office. Bv and by you can introduce those little original methods that would have rattled and roiled the boss before. At that point your chief is bound to consult your opinion in many things. [Because of your steady contact with customers through the mail you imay find out a thing or two about his business of

which he is not aware. Instead of being only a servant you are also a co-operator. When a letter involves a particularly knotty problem always consult your boss and recognize him ias first authority in adjusting doubtful matters. But a good deal depends on your judgment in referring things to him that may rightly devolve on you. Don’t fuss and haggle about trifles. The more readily and firmly vou can make up your mind about a thing the more correspondence you can cover in a day, and it stands to reason that the more work you can put out in a day the more substantial your claims to a raise.

Would Build School for Out-Door Training

By FRANK CRANE

in a stuffy gymnasium, after the manner of our extant hothouses, kiln drying educational infirmaries, but the first and unremitting effort would be to perfect the house of the mind. Whether my children should fill their noggins or not, their nerves, blood and sinew should be stuffed full of fresh air, they should be graduated as splendid, supple animals, as healthy and physically joyous as dogs or deer. The school term should begin with the spring and end with autumn. Every minute, day and night, the pupils should be outdoors, using tents for sleeping in bad weather. They should learn how to be cold and hot, wet and dry, without taking sick. Girls as well as boys should learn to swim, to sail a boat, to ride and to run and to throw (for which their grandchildren would build me a monument). Boys should "also learn to dance, to sing, to sew and to cook. There would be no clothing question, certain uniforms being prescribed for all. No human being, before the age of twenty-one, should waste one thought upon clothes.

Criticise Some of Our Modern Sports

By PAUL SIMS Elgin, Ill.

upon prize fighting and numerous laws are passed for its elimination, but in its stead we commend a sport that is more fatal and more brutal. How quickly will the public condemn two physical giants who endeavor to massage one another’s countenance in the most approved prizejing style! Meanwhile this sane and civilized public will permit, nay, •encourage, the slaughter that seems to be a necessary adjunct to automobile races. Every one is familiar with the situation of ancient history times, grhen assassination was a profession, but the game of today seems to be m suicidal contest, with a mixed reward of notoriety and dollars.

Make Your Manager’s Style Your Own

By MAUD BENEDICT

If I had a billion dollars I would establish the University of Outdoors. There would be no buildings to speak of; it is not for them I would need the money, but to hammer my idea into the heads of my countrymen. Somewhere on one of the great lakes I would set up my school, consisting of twenty miles of water front, plenty of virgin forest, and many little lakes, hills, rocks, streams, meadows and sandbanks. The health and training of the body would not be an elective hour or two a week

The followers of sport today demand a spectacle equal to the blood flowing scenes of Nero’s time. The recent Elgin races would compare with a gladiatorial contest such as the barbarous Roman emperor was pleased to conduct for the Roman rabble. Instead of a reeking sword and a shield the gladiator of today drives a huge wheeled demon of destruction. What is the reward of today? It is the same reward that gracious Nero was wont to bestow —honor and gold. The stamp of disapproval is placed

PUTTING HER LOVER TO TEST

Young Woman Arrange* With Pretty Girl to Try Out Her Sweetheart With Startling Results. . ' " >*.•■ . ■ ’ - .' -v Lincoln Beachey, after a flight In bis biplane, was congratulated on bis daring by a reporter. “But I wasn’t daring.” the aviator said. “I put my machine only to sftch ordeals as I knew it could withstand. In flying, as In love, we must run no risks.” j He laughed softly. “I know,” he said, “a young worn an about to wed who decided at the last moment to test her sweetheart So, selecting the prettiest girl she knew, she said to her, though she knew it was a great risk: “I'll arrange for Jack to take you out tonight—a walk on the beach In the moonlight, a lobster supper, and all that sort of thing—and I want you. in order to put his fidelity to the proof, to ask him for a kiss.’ ‘The other girl laughed, blushed and assented. The dangerous plot was carried out. Then, tßte next day, the girl In love visited the pretty one and said, anxiously: “ *Well, did you ask him?* “ r No, dear.’ “"No? Why not?’ “‘I didn’t get a chance. He asked me first.’”

MODERN PROPOSITION.

She —I am afraid you can’t support me in the way I have been accustomed. He —-Why—er— er-—how much alimony have you been getting.

Why the Walter Worried.

With a smile on his rubicund features the hotel manager was enjoying forty winks. Trade was booming. The place was full. Good! Knocks on the door of his sanction recalled him to earth. In staggered a perspiring waiter. “P-p-please, sir,” he stammered, *Tm in a terrible fix. A gent has just ordered roast mutton!” “Well, what of It?” snapped the manager. ‘There’s plenty of it, isn’t there?" “Y-e-s, sir,” breathed the distracted knight of the napkin, “but he’s already had one portion for venison!"— Answers. ~

A Crop Bulletin.

Five-year-old Ella had been enthusiastically engaged In garden work all the spring. She was especially interested in planting seed and watched anxiously for sprouts to appear above the ground. One day, while visiting a neighbor who possessed a six-months-old baby, Ella was delighted to see two tiny front teeth displayed when the baby smiled. "Oh, Mrs. May,” the little girl cried, excitedly, “the baby’s teeth have come up!”—Youth’s Companion.

Wonderful Music.

Sir Frederick Bridge, the famous organist of Westminster abbey, tells a story of two ladies who were in the abbdy just before the coronation. A vacuum cleaner was at work, making a great buzzing. One lady said to the other: “There’s the organ; is it not splendid? It’s Sir Frederick.” The other lady said: “So it is; I thought it was Sir Walter, but he can't play like that’’—Tit-Bits.

Just the Same.

“The first thing I do every morning jp to tell my wife that she looks younger and more beautiful every day." “Doesn’t she ever suspect that yon are lying?” “Oh, yes, she knows it; but it keeps her from starting ifa to find fault: with me, just the same.”

A Bracer.

“Here," she said, offering him a brownish concoction in a medicine glass, after he had called the slxtll time, “drink this.” “What is it?”\he asked. “Medicine.” “But why should I take medicine?” “You seem so cold. This is good for the circulation.” ■/'

Hyde Park, Sunday Morning.

’Arry—Say, Bill, wot’s the difference between a atheist and a agnostic? Bill—Well, yer see, a atheist don't believe in nuthink, and a agnostic -bnly believes in about ’arf of it!—Lon don Opinion.

Foiled.

Suspicious Neighbor—Did your mother have a rooster for dinner yesterday, sonnie? Sonnie—Yes’m. Suspicious Neighbor—A big one with black tail feathers? Sonnie —Duno. Mother didn’t cook the feathers. —Sydney Bulletin.

“Tabernacle Shadows of the Better Sacrifices."

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CHINESE CUSTOMS.

It te not difficult for the western mind to make mistakes as to what is decorous behavior in China, and at Ningo-po there was recently much consternation, for it appeared as though two distinguished foreign visitors were being taken away to suffer the extreme penalty of the law. These individuals hired two of the native sedan chairs, and whether the roofs were too low, or their hats too high, is not stated, but they ordered the coolies to take off the tope. The coolies refused, and the visitors did it for themselves, and wondered very much at the excitement with which their progress was followed, especially as they went towards the south gate of the city. Later on they learned that to ride in a roofles sedan chair was the distinctive mark of a criminal going to decapitation, and as the usual place for such punishment was near this particular gate, the populace had imagined that an execution of most unusual character was about to take place.

THE WORLD'S DEEPEST HOLE.

The deepest bole in the world up to date Is the boring begun ten years ago at Czuchow. Silesia, with the object of attaining a depth of 2,500 meters, and which has now reached a depth- of 2.240 meters (7.340 feet). The bore la 44 centimeters in diameter at the top, and diminishes progressively to five centimeters. Measurements of temperature have been made regularly. At 2 220 meters the temperature is 83.4 deg. 4?. (182 deg. F.) This gives a "geothermic degree” (amount of descent corresponding to a rise of temperature of 1 deg. C.) of 31.8 meters. The change of temperature does not proceed uniformly. In fact, an interesting “temperature Inversion” occurs between the depths of 040 and 730 meters, where the temperature actually falls, with descent about 2 degrees.— Scientific American.

Big Public Sale The undersigned will offer at Public Sale at his residence* *4 mile south of Parr, commencing at 11 o’clock a; m., on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1911, 6 Head of Horses—Consisting of 1 Brown Mare 6 years old, in foal to Swaim's Jack; 1 Bay Mare 10 years old, in foal to Swann’s Jack; 1 Brown Mare 5 years old, in foal to Kenton’s Jack, these mares will weigh 1150 lbs.; 1 Gray Gelding 5 years old. wr. 1350; 1 Bay Gelding 8 years old, wt. 1000; 1 Black Weanling Colt. 16 Head of Cattle—Consisting of Cows and Heifers. The most of these cows will be fresh in December; 4 head Calves. 32 Head of Hogs—-Consisting of 1 Sow with 8 pigs that will be 6 weeks old day of sale; 1 Sow with 5 pigs 4 weeks old; 4 Shoats will weigh 125 lbs.; 9 head of Shoats, 80 lbs.; 4 Sows will farrow in December. Hay, Fodder, Implements—-20 tonsi of Clover and' Timothy Hay; 1 rick of Straw; 80 shocks of Fodder; 200 bushels of potatoes, 100 bushels of Turnips; some farming tools and other articles not mentioned. A credit of 12 months will be given on sums over $lO, with usual conditions; 6 per cent off for cash. M. A. BELTS & J. S. LAKIX. Alvin McCurfcain, Auctioneer. James Chapman, Clerk, Hot lunch on ground.

FARMS FOR SALE. « j 21 acres, four blocks from court house. 66 acres* good buildings, six miles out $75 40 acres, 4-room house, barn, good land ...,..........'....,..550 60 acres, mile out, stone r0ad..,.5160 SO acres. mile ; out, stone r0ad....5160 120 acres, half mile out, well improved $l2O 160 acres, good land, good buildings. $1,390 down .-. $45 120 acres, good buildings, some timber $35 165 acres, 15-room house, other good buildings, orchard, well tiled, half mile out j|w 59$ acres near station, good buildings, on large ditch, win take up to $20,099 in good trade, remainder time $55 $5,000 mortgage and cash for farm or: property. 160 acres in Kansas, 160 acres in Arkansas to trade for land or property. 1 G. F. METERS. 1

Germs Spread In Skin

KrXpma. Psoriasis and other skin troubles are caused by myriads of germs at work in the skin. Unless these -germs are promptly destroyed they rapidly multiply, gnawing their way deep into the sensitive tissue. This is what causes that awful itch, and what seemed a mere rash may grow worse and develop into a loathsome and torturing skin disease with its years of misery. Don’t take any chances! Destroy the germs at the beginning of the trouble with that soothing and cleansing wash, the D. D. D. Prescription for Eczema. A 25c bottle will prove this to yon. B. F. *Fendig,

IS PRACTICAL AND INEXPENSIVE.

This Desip Provides For a Dwelling Containing Five Rooms art Bath—it is a Cottage ot Simple Eiierior, but Not Without Individuality, »# . - Design 82, bp Glenn L. Saxton, Architect, Minneapolis, Minn.

PERSPECTIVE VIEW—FROM A PHOTOGRAPH.

FIRST FLOOR PLAN.

Herewith Is shown a very practical and trim looking cottage which can be built at a small financial ootlay. The dwelling has the appearance of a bouse that would cast more money, and. while it Is designed to meet the needs of only a small family, the five rooms it contains, besides the bathroom, are all of fair size, and their arrangement Is modern. The exterior of this cottage, although quite aimpte. is not without individuality. The advantages of the house both from a viewpoint of economy aud desirability are striking. Comfort and even coziness are suggested from without. The porch and its large window add to this Impression The hall. living room and dining room are thrown together by large cased openings, tending to make them appear largerThe Dutch window In the dining room is effective viewed from the outside or inside. Size ol cottage is 20 by 24 feet, exclusive of the piazza, which is seven feet wide. First story eight and one-half feet high, second story eight feetBirch finish in the first story, pine in the second, with birch floors. Cost to build, exclusive of heating and plumbing. $1,200. By special arrangement with me the editor of this paper will furnish a complete set of plans and specifications of design No. 82 for $lO. GLENN L. SAXTON.

a HighPriced Wagon When you consider the quality of material, and its splendid construction. The price is very reasonable, and lower than any maker could produce a wagon of anything like the same quality for in anything but enormous quantities. 70,000 Wagons Are made and sold every year Only the purchase of materials in great quantities enables the makers of the Studebaker wagon to market it at the price they do. Talk about value! Why, there is no wagon made that has the value in it that the Studebaker has. If you like to get your money’s worth, buy a Studebaker. Vhhsi We Sell and Guarantee it C. A. ROBERTS"*^ Q I - T>*|| PRINTED while you wait —and Oal6 DLLIS printed right by the democrat

We have had experience with many remedies for skin trouble but have never seen such remarkable cures as those from D. D. D. Prescription. Instant relief from the very first application. We are so confident that D. D. D. will reach your case that it will cost you nothing if the very first foil size bottle fails to make good every claim. If yon have skin trouble of anykind. we certainly advise you to drop in . and investigate the merits of D. D. D. anyway. We know that D. D. D. will help you. Rensselaer, Ind.

SECOND FLOOR PLAN.