K F EPING UP-TO-DATE.
Pertin ir Suggestions to Storekeepers
As to Doing Business Rightly.
Or. ■ st successes In the retail
fh Id. e been made by men who
have Joyed system in all branches
of th msiness. Men of antiquated
ruetlio - who have made succcsseg
would have made more money had
they he,-n systematic in their busi
ness. Ip-to-date methods of book
k< epin a system for checking over
good us they arrive and as they go
out v. the orders are filled are most
ess t: Stock should bo kept In
such a way that the merchant does
not have to waste considerable time ;
before oing abl© to know whether
he has any need of any line to fill I
stocks.
One excellent way In which the
Country merchant can keep his ideas
up-to-dntc is by spending a day or
two each year in visiting the large
cities and studying the methods em
ployed by the firms engaged in his
line of business. A day off oeeasion
allv in some strange town where a
study of windows and store interiors j
and methods may be made is mors
than helpful.
In the home town one can never get
away from the practices of his fellow
tradesmen, unless he benefits by ex
periences had elsewhere. In a strange
place we are of the gazing crowd,
and we see things from a different !
point of view than when at home.
Some criticism may point out a
fault that we have been guilty of a i
hundred times and never noticed, and
:a criticism of a stranger sometimes
forces us to realize that we can im
prove in our own methods and we
profit, by the suggestion.
A country town storekeeper may
learn much in a city but much of it
may be little suited to rural condi
tions. The small town merchant needs
some lessons from progressive mem
bers of his own class. Remember
that there are many who can excel
us in some ways. If we fail to keep
alive, some more enterprising com
petitor will beat us out.
Lcuct and Lusty Advertising.
There ran be seen every once in a
while the front of some erstwhile cJipr
nified store plastered with flaming red
sign;;, announcing unh ard-of bargains,
tremo ulcus reductions, sensational,
disastrous, ruinous cuts in price, and
the rest of the well-worn expressions
so common to the cheapest grade of
stores. It seems that a merchant
is extremely apt to succumb to the
ypM'.s mK ’Vffifrtftfh “it'''m'e-'-'aj'bone- and
with a bucket of red paint. What man
has the most infiuer.ee—the man with
the loudt st voice? What friend gives
advice which is heeded—the man with
the heaviest tone, who yells in your
ear and enforces it with crazy gestic
ulations? Does the man who exag
gt . ate.- extravagantly claim faith and
trust the most? Advertising is right
am! pro..or, but advertising with such
method.- is cheapening and harmful.
It appeals to the b uses in the wrong
way.
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Hon. H. H. Harrington, former pres
ident of the Texas A. and M. College
and Ur. Oscar A. Knapp participate*
in a conference at the department o
agriculture at Washington to devisv j
a campaign against the advent of th*
boll weevil in the Mississippi valle;
some of the experts now in Texas intc
delta. The department plans to visi
the threatened districts before plant !
ing time to give the planters all th<
information the department has re
garding the variety of seed to plan
and the manner and time of plantiui
in order to circumvent the weevil.
Does the
Baby Thrive
If not, something must be
wrong with its food. If the
mother’s milk doesn’t nourish
it, she needs Scott’s Emulsion.
It supplies the elements of fat
required for the baby. If baby
is not nourished by its artificial
food, then it requires
SCOTT’S
EMULSION
Half i teaspoonful three or
four imes a day in its bottle
will tve the desired effect. It
seer to have a magical effect
upo ‘ ies and children. A
fift' *ottle will prove the
trui v statements.
c, •lent, together with name
of p .<-'pears, your address and
f, 'lav-., and \v.- will send
y.-ci ,Jy Atlas of the World.’
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Is always extended to those in
distress, but we have no sym
pathy to waste on the man
who borrows his neighbor’s
paper when he can have one
of his own at a mere nominal
expense. Your home paper
stands for your interests and
the interests of your home
town. It deserves your moral
and financial support. If you
are not a member of our
family of readers you should
begin now by sending in your
subscription.
THOUGHTS
ON BOYS
By J. S. KIRTLEY, D. D.
Author of the “Young
Man and Himaalf,” ate.
HIS ROOM
(Copyright, by Joseph U. Bowles.)
tt ft* iW V.3&P noPfit
it. at home he always wants to estab
lish headquarters somewhere else—on
the street corner, or a vacant lot, or
in an old deserted house, or in some
basement or in another boy's home;
and that always lessens his attach
ment for his own home. The rule is
that when he will not stay at home, he
is pushed out for lack of a room.
He is not apt to be blind to the in
justice of it, either. His little sister,
bless her dear heart, has the daintiest
room in the house and mamma an4
papa bring her all sorts of exquisite
souvenirs and decorations, till she is
like a pink rose in a garden of exotics,
but he is put into any kind of a corner,
with instructions not to interfere with
what little he finds there and not to
make any noise, as lie goes to his
gloomy quarters, nor xvliil- he is there,
nor on his way back, on pain of being
asked to vacate the house, and if his
sense of chumship overrides his pride
enough to bring in another, now and
then, he is halted at the door, with a
shrill voice which informs him that he
is not to bring other boys home with
him. Then when he is compelled to
take that bundle of energy which he
carries around with him, out of the
house and is reinforced by some other
boys, stocked up with similar supplies
of energy, arid they go off and get into
mischief, the people shake their stupid
heads and say “those bad boys again/'
when they would do far more wisely
if they would organize a vigilance
committee to wait on the parents of
those boys.
The light of the library is good for
his eyes, but that is not enough. The
corner of the family room is better
Lhan nothing, provided that corner is
recognized as his own property at cer
tain important times and many a boy
and girl too—can look back to
happy moments when the crowd of lit
tle folks were playing in one end of
the room and father and mother were
talking or reading by the light glowing
at the other end of that dear room.
But even that is not all he wants.
He already has the proprietary in
stinct and that cannot be fully gratl
fled without a room he can call his
own. The mere possession of that
room may be training Instincts that
will make him a useful citizen and
property holder and keep him from
becoming improvident and a vagabond,
It is one and the same instinct with
him and hence his room has a perma
nent value to him.
Besides, he has immediate need for
it. It is a place where he can lot o3
eti im and makt more nob e than
couid be borne in any other part of
file house. That Is a relief to the rest
of the family, for they can persuade
him to be fairly qaiet everywhere else
when he knows that there la one yell
irjg room always at his disposal. That
room is enabling him to secure valu
able voice culture.
His self-re ject and social stand
ing require that he have a place
where he can bring his friends, b. h
informally as individuals and formally
as a club or gang. If he brings n
there they are In a respectable place
and not apt to get. their relatives into
trouble. He will be proud to have his
parents become honorary or sustaining
members of the club, and that wdl
give those parents a chance to ta/e
the sting out of all their mischief and
i renew the joys of the long ago. H e
room is necessary. His little sis or
has one. where hc*r little friends can
come with their dolls ar.d have the
sweetest time till they get to pouting
and they all go home without umbrel
las in a shower of tears. He must
have a place for his friends, too. His
room Is a social center training him
for life.
He wants a room where he can ob
jectify his thoughts, by means of the
things ho puts into it. The articles,
both useful and ornamental, match up
with his inner self. If he is an artist,
he will have pictures, and perhaps
make some; If he is musical, he will
no doubt have a banjo or mandolin
and It he is just hoy he will probably
have some hair raising pictures and
at least a mouth-harp, anyhow. In
dians and warriors and clubs and
things are on bis walls.
i j ucu aj'i rauts air a wui n ui
supererogation, whatever that may
mean—his room is no parlor, it is a
den. Rugs and carpets can come in,
only under strict regulations. It i
hard to make them harmonize with
boys. His decorations are an aggrega
tion of things. They will he inos'.lj
the implements and emblems of sport,
with pennants in the place of honor—
balls and bats and gloves and knives
and all the kinds of firearms it is safe
to allow him, from a squirt gun to a
Flobert or Winchester. Flags are one
of his specialties. He is apt to gat he
ii]) the flags of various countries, pui
"Old Glory" in the center, and drag
the others around to add to its glor>
In after years, he will preserve
those collections us happy memories
and others will trace a vital connec
tion between the substantial citizen,
with his thrift and his friendships, and
the lad that once lived and loved anu
yelled and dreamed in ihat room.
A Blade of Grass.
It was only last spring that I was
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.morning and noticed a swarthy, olire
skinned Italian lad on the steps of a
one-time mansion, now turned tene
ment, busily poking oats into the dirty
cracks of the stone steps. I stopped a
moment .and noticed that down one
side were already growing encourag
ing little green sprouts. I asked if he
had planted those also, and learned
that every day he picked up the oats
that were dropped by the horses feed
ing from their bags, and planted them.
Then when they came up he trans
planted them into a paper shoe box
which he proudly pointed out to me on
the sill of an attic window.
“Theresa,” he informed me, “got a
real garden off the nurse, but I ain’t
sick, so I made one.” I looked around
me, and verily Tony's box and tiny
row of green blades were the only
growing things my eyes could light
upon in any direction.
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Nervous
Prostration
“I suffered so with Nervous
Prostration that I thought there
was no use trying to get well. A
friend recommended Dr. Miles’
Nervine, and although skeptical
at first, I soon found myself re
covering, and am to-day well.”
MRS. D. I. JONES,
5800 Broadway, Cleveland, O.
Much sickness is of nervous
origin. It's the nerves that
make the heart force the blood
through the veins, the lungs
take in oxygen, the stomach di
gest food, the liver secrete bile
and the kidneys filter the blood.
If any of these organs are weak,
it is the fault of the nerves
through which they get their
strength. Dr. Miles’ Nervine is
a specific for the nerves. It
soothes the irritation and assists
in the generation of nerve force.
Therefore you can hardly miss
it if you take Dr. Miles’ Nervine
when sick. Get a bottle from
your druggist. Take it all ac
cording to directions, and if it
does not benefit he will return
your money.
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FOR BOTH COOKING AND
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AT PRICES THAT DEFY COMPETITION
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To the Farmers •—We want vour produce, and will pay
you the highest market price in cash or trade.
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and Promptly Done at The Journal Office
a similar story of appreciation is
told by a settlement worker who was
making her way down Allen street
the dingiest of all East side streets
the darkest and most forbidding, wher
she noticed a little girl tracing a fin
ger line around two grass blades al
the foot of an elevated station pillar
“You have a flower, haven’t you?’
she vouchsafed interestedly.
“’Tain't no flower, teacher,” was
the indignant protest, "here stands e
ark.”—The Craftsman.
BETTER OFF WITHOUT THEM.
ntoxicants Are Falling Into Disuse ir
London Asylums.
The records of the London Count)
asylums show that in the treatment
if insanity the use of intoxicants hai
been almost abolished. A table is
given showing the quantities of spir
its, wine and malt liquors consumed
by both patients and staff of the Lon
don County asylums for the year 1881
and the year ending 1906. In 1881
four asylums with a population of
8,107, used 1,902 gallons of spirits ana
■vine, and 255,48C gallons of beer. Ii
the latter year the number of asylums
was nine; the asylum population had
increased to 19,457; the liquor con
stimed was, spirits and wine, 250 gal
'ons; beer, 1,281 gallons.
Thoughtful perusal of such facts
will show that the temperance and
prohibition movement is not only in
‘he interest of moral and social
progress, but is in harmony with the
stest conclusions of scientific
nought, and that even as a drug, al
oholic liquors are being discarded by
lie men who are giving most studv
;nd thought to their character and ef
fects.
Railroad Time Card,
WHITE RIVER BRANCH
St. L. I. M. & S. Ry.
Trains pass Newark as follows:
GOING wicst.
No. 210 (passenger). 7:43 a.
No. 246 (mixed).12:62 p, m!
going kaht.
No. 209 (passenger). 6:48 p. in.
No <_4.i (mixed).9:0;> a<
F. C. Hoyt, Agent.
When You Buy^
BUY AT HOME ~
?,h® IBerlt year support,
Ah/ tik th® m*lnstay»cf the community.
hn5 .7^." yo“ kuy 01 Merchant*,
boy of those who advertue.
Swept Over Niagara
I liis terrible calamity often happens
►etause a careless boatman ignores
the river’s warnings—growing ripples
and faster currant- nature warnings
art- kind. That dull pain or ache in
the hack warns you the kidneys need
attention if you would escape fatal
maladies-dropsy, diabetes or Bright’s
disease. 'Fake Klectric Bitters at
once and see backache tty and all
your best feelings return. “After long
sufTcring from weak kidneys and lame
back, ono 81.00 bottle wholly cured
me,’’ writes J. It. Blankenship, of
ib lk. Tenn. Only 50c at J. I. Sturdi
vant’s.
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