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BlUMXG LESS WEALTH
In s'x months out of the first
Sfcveii this year the fire losses in
the United States fell below the
figure's for the corresponding i
mouths of 1914. From January to:
Jul", loth included, the total d<»- ■
stxuctlon of property by fire was
about §35,000,000 less than it was 1
iu the like part of last year. The'
rate of saving was 25 per cent.
This is a change as gratifying as
it is remarkable. It is too great to
be explained by frequent rains and
the less inflammable state of build
iugs and other property exposed to
the weather, it cannot be account
ed for by diminished activity in
business and industry and lessened
use of manufacturing establish
ments. It seems a fair and safe in
ference that important progress is
being made in the long campaign
of education which has been car
ried on against the fire waste which
has always been a great burden to
American trade and to the produc
tive interests of the country.
It is well assured that this gain
will be continued far beyond the
linn* o' recent improvement. There
will be years of exceptionally heavy
losses but they will not prevent
gradual progress toward conditions
which will cut the fire losses t>f the
I'ji'ed States down to less than
half of the average for the vast
Quarter of a century. That saving
will mean at least $100,000,000 a
ye.ir or Jl.OOO.ooO.OOO In a decade.
NOT ALL IV AMERICA
By :>o m-ar.s nil of the war-made
millionaires are in this country,
aud not al! of them are the bene
ficiaries of traffic in munitions of
war or speculators in "war stock,"
says the Cleveland Leader War
conditions have made many
muuufacturers, merchants, vessel
owners, contractors and others rich
in the neutral countries of Europe
and also iu belligerent states.
Shipowners have been looked
upon as the victims of many hard
ships, but they have reaped enor
mous profits when they have es
caped losses and most of the vessels
seut to the bottom of the sea have
been well insured. The returns
from some recent cargoes have been
almost beyond belief. Official re
ports frcm American consuls iu
Holland, Norway and Denmark
show that it has been possible to
pay for ships iu two or three voy
ages. So large a company as the
one which owiss the Holland-Ameri
can line steamships is known to
have made net earnings of about s0
per cent in the first half of the pres
ent year. It will undoubtedly clear
much more than 100 per cent be
for the year ends.
Such conditions account for the
Btroi g demand for new ships. They
explain recent sales of lake vessels
for use on the Atlantic. It requires
no further information to under
stand the filling up of shipyards
along the Atlantic coast with orders
from impatient capitalists eager to
get tiie vessels contracted for into
service.
What has happened iu shipping
has taken place, in greater or less
decree, in other fields. Manufac
turing coucerns which had difficulty
in selling enough of their products
to keep the wheels turning have
been rushed with orders for cloth-1
ing, cloth, leather aud leather
goods, dyes, chemicals, tools, ma
chines aud products of many other
kinds. It has beeu easy for them to I
raise their prices and make extraor
dinary profits.
Wars have always made a few
men rich while many were dying or
being ruiued in health aud left de
pendent for life. It is one of the
contrasts which abound in such
orgies of destruction, in this great
est and most terrible of wars the
old rules work out in the old way,
in Europe as well as in America.
SW.vT THE FLY
Don't go fishing without good
flies. Trout are taking the fly
tbtse fine days, and you'll find the
g>aiost assortment of good flies ii
i -vj at Keller Bros. Drug Co. A
lew favorite ones we name: Yel
low Jacket, Montreal, Governor
i.red tip) Grey Hackle, Black
Hackle, Governor Black Hackle
'»e-icock body). Black Gnat, Grey
l unite, English Admiral, Seth Green
<«rey Hackle (gre«n body) White
*1 flier. Dusty Miller.
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About two acres under cultivation.
Good house, all kinds of tools, suit
able for chicken ranch. Inquire
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By MONTAGUE GLASS
VII.—OPPORTUNITY
[Copyright. The Frank A. Munsey Co.]
(Continued from last issue)
Do you get the Idee?"
"Might you could even pet the fellei
to pay for the coffee, maybe," Znrnp
suggested, completely carried away bj
Sliimko's enthusiasm.
"If the deal goes through," Shlmkc
declared In a burst of generosity, "1
would even pay for the coffee myself!"
"And when would you bring the fel
ler here?" Zatnp asked.
"I would see hliu this afternoon yet,"
Shlmko replied ns he opened the store
door, "and I would telephone you sure
by Dachtel's place, at 4 o'clock."
Zcnip, full of gratitude, shook handf
with his landlord.
"If I would got such a head like you
got it to think out schemes, Mr. Shlm
ko," So said fervently. "I would be n
millionaire, 1 bet yer!"
"The thinking out part Is nothing."
Shlmko said as he turned to leave
"Any blame fool could think out a
scheme, y'understaiul. but it takes n
pretty bright feller to make It work!"
"If a feller wouldn't be In business
for himself." Shlmko said to Isaac Mel
selson as they sat !ti Wasserbauer'f
cafe that afternoon, "he might Just as
well never come over from Russland
at all."
"I told you before. Mr. Shliuko," Mel
selson iv'orted, "I am from I.emberg
geborn."
"Oestrelcb oder Russia lid, what is
the difference?" Shlmko asked. "If fl
feller Is working for somebody else,
noliody cares who he Is or what he la
while if he's got a business of his own
understand ine. everybody would re
spect him. even If he would be bora
in. we would say for example. China."
"Sure. I know. Mr. Shlmko," Melsel
son rejoined, "but there Is businesses
and businesses, and what for a bus!
ncss Is a small retail clothing store or
Canal street?"
"Small the store may lie. I alu't deny
lug It." Shlmko said; "but ain't it l>et
ter a feller does it big business In t
small store as a small business In f
big store?"
"If lie does a big business, yes." Mel
selsoD admitted: "but If a feller does
a big business why should he want tc
got a partner?"
"Ain't I Just telling you he don'i
want no partner?" Shlmko Interrupted
"And as for doing a big business, ]
bet yer wo could drop In on the fellei
any time and we would tlnd the ston
full of people."
"Gewiss," Melselsou commented
"three people playing auction plnochh
In a small store Is a big crowd!"
"No uuctiou pinochle gets played ii
that store, Melselsou. The feller hai
working by him two cutters and thre<
salesmen, and he makes 'em earn theli
store, and If you would believe me
Melselson. his own landlord he wouldn't
talk to at ull, so busy he Is."
"In that cows what for should he neoi
nie for n partnerV I couldn't under
stand at all," Melselson declared.
"Neither could I," Shimko replied
"but a feller like you, which he woul
soon got S-.uoO to invest, needs hin
for a partner. A feller like Zamp wouli
keep you straight, Meiselson. Wha
you want is somebody which ho is go
Ing to umko you work."
"What dy'e mean, going to make mi
work?" Meiselson asked indignantly
"I am working Just us hard as you are
Mr. Shimko. When a feller is sellinj
toilet soaps and perfumeries, Mr. Shim
ko, he couldn't see his trade only cer
tain hours of the day."
"I ain't kicking you are not working
Melselson," Shimko said hastily. "A1
I am telling you is what for a Job 1
selling toilet soaps and perfumery
i'ou got a~limitea Trade there, Melsel
son, because when it comes to toiie
soaps, understand me, how many peo
pie takes it so particular? 1 bet yei
with a hundred people, Melselson
eighty uses laundry soap, tifteen ganven
soap from hotels and saloons, and th<
rest buys wuust in six months a flv<
cent cake of soap. As for perfumery
Melselson, for a dollar bill you couli
get enough perfumery to make a thou
sand people smell like an itallener bar
ber shop; whereas clothing, Meiselson
everybody must got to wear it If yot
arc coming to compare clothing wltl
toilet soap for a business, Melselson
there ain't no more comparison as golc
and putty."
Melselson remained silent
"I-'urthti'iaore," Shimko continued
"If Zauip sees u young feller like you
which even your worst enemy must
got to admit It Meiselson, you are a
swell dresser, and make a fine, up-to
date appearance, understand me, ht
would maybe reconsider his decision
not to take a partner."
"Did he say he wouldn't take a part
ner?" Meiselson asked hopefully.
A GREAT RACKET
That is what a number of vis
iters hav» said about the new
"Horstman" tennis racket, of which
(vo have just received a complete
line direct from the manufacturers.
Princes rarige from $-.50 to $10.00.
Ml are guaranteed against defects,
dont" in and look them over. Kel
iar Bros Drug Co. ' tf.
For all fine fabrics uso LUX.
10c box at Kellers. tf.
"lie Buys u> nie "So sure us ^ou nro
sitting there: 'Mr. Shlmkoi lny dear
friend. If It would be for your sake I
would willingly go as partners together
with some young feller,' he says; trat
when a business mau is making mon
ey,' he says, 'why should he got to got
says. So I says
to him: 'Znmp,' I
says, 'here la a
young filler
tvhich ho Is go
ing to got mar
ried to a young
lady by 0"e name
Miss Babetto
Schick.'"
"She ain't so
young no long
er," Melselson
broke In ungni
lantly.
" 'By the name
Miss B a b e 11 e
Schick,'" Sliim
io continued,
recognizing tho
uterrupUon with
1 malevolent
j 1 a r e, " 'which
she got, anyhow.
"She «ln't so young n ™U}>P "f u"
no longer." Band dolllira. 1
says; 'and for
her sake and for my sake,' I says, 'If
I would bring the young feller around
here,- would you consent to look him
overV' And he says for my sake he
would consent to do it, but we shouldn't
go around there till next week."
"All i-lght," Meiselson said; "if you
are so dead anxious I should do 60, I
would go around next week."
"Say, looky here, Meiselson," Shlm
ko burst out angrily, "don't do me no
favorsl l>o you or do you not want
to go Into a good business? Because,
if you don't, say so, and I wouldn't
bother my head further."
"Sure, I do," Meiselson said.
"Then I want to tell you something,"
Shlmko continued. "We wouldn't wait
till next week at all. With the busi
ness that feller does, delays is dauger
ous. If we would wait till next week
some one offers him a good price and
buys him out maybe. Tomorrow after
noon, 2 o'clock, you and me goes over
to his store, understand me, and wo
catches blm unawares. Then you could
see for yourself what a business that
feller is doing."
Meiselson shrugged.
"I am agreeable," he said.
"Because." Shlmko went on, thor
oughly aroused by Meiselson's apathy,
"If you're such a fool that you don't
know it, Meiselson. I must got to tell
you. Wunst In awhile If a business
man Is going to get n feller for partner,
when he knows the feller is coming
around to look the business over he
plants phony customers around the
(Continued tomorrow)
"Oh, to Be
A Soldier!"
f (See next page.)
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meets 2d an<2 4th
FrL Ey'gs. of each
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Elmer L. Wbeeler, W. M.
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