Do you think enthusiasm is
greater than laughter?
I This accuracy review
department is for co
operation in informa
tion on the enemies
of easy errors ami
friends of forethought,
to reduce mutually ex
pensive mistakes. It is
for mechanical, com
mercial and profes
sional people; the in
dividual employer,
emp'oye and customer; and consists of extracts
taken by permission from the copyrighted letters,
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Jk-att, Oak Ikirk, Illinois. He is hunting the
whole world over for information of every day
wee to you. and he regrets his inabi'ity. personally
to reply to contributors, lo far as possible he
wishes to hare in this space the rery idea you
would tike to find here. You are a! liberty to send
him any suggestion you may care to. His collec
tion was started in HC72 and now contains un
published information dating buck to non. with
systematic plant extending to 195.'. Your short
story of some example of forethought given to
him may prove to be your most valuable gift lo
Others.
Men, Methods and Work.
The manager, for a very successful
money maker, said that he worried
over the big things, while his employ
er worried over the little things.
The manager got along with the
employes and the details better than
the proprietor did, but the proprietor
got along with the whole business
much better than the manager could.
Some men can keep anything run
ning lovely if some one else will only
see that pay day Is passed in good
shape. The man able to attend to
pay-day requirements might rattle
the whole concern if he were to see to
little things.
A man able to make a hundred dol
lars an hour may be able to hire for
a hundred dollars a month a man who
can do some things better than the
employer can do them.
Few are able to get a living doing
Just what they want to do. and very
few are willing to limit their efforts
to the things they can do the best.
One man told me that more men
failed in his line of work for lack of
ability to handle men than for any
other or all other reasons.
Few men know how to interest,
animate, educate, and keep on good
terms with other men. In some cases
the mo'.e you know the more in the
background you have to go, due it mr»
be to having more knowledge tha®
skill.
Iu one case, of an unpopular fore
man going on a vacation and a popu
lar workman taking bis place for the
day, the product was over twenty per
cent more than usual.
If ten thousand men of nil kinds
should find themselves out of work,
one might create ideas, another exe
cute them, another organize and man
age the others.
Some could do some parts of the de
tail work twice as well as some of
the others could. One would be a
good buyer of material ana another a
good collector of accounts.
Some would win honors and some
would get disgraced, but they would
finally drift or climb, fall or jump, to
positions just as we find them to-day.
Only this difference—the successful
might make better use of their success
and the failures profit by their ex
pensive experiences more than they
have been doing: during this century.
If thU possibility were to be ac
complished the next century would he
more than a hundred years ahead, and
the common humdrum life would he
quite ideal.
If our best intelligence wore to ac
company our every action much would
be doue. We all know why things are
not better than they are.
Sunday Recreation.
Statistics say that Monday Is the
careless day of the week and the day
for mistakes and accidents. This
must be due to people using Sunday to
get untuned rather than to become
better tuned. How is it with the vio
lin and strings? Is it better to loosen
the strings when not irt use or should
the Instrument be kept all the time
in tune? I may select Sunday for
a subject in order to learn how to
use the day to my profit. I heard
Moody say that, he had learned by ex
perience that he could not preach
seven days a week and keep free from
headaches. The teacher and preacher
live the longest of any class of work
ers, so the hint from Mr. Moody Is
worth remembering. What do you
know about Sunday recreation?
How Is This?
Mistakes may be due to coaxing a
person to promise or try to do some
- thing not possible for him to aecom
jrbat ih. Weak people are easy promis
proof t and some people can coax the
y is ad out of the bushes; so every
jen you t'.our hpnrt beats come one lias
mir.« Koii .to do an impossibility, and
,Zold Itf*
d the parents diu bad exatnp]p. ran
ire it. I suggested ,1(> js C3reies8 liave
t a bottle of (,’ba are careful? Can a
inedy and put sor-ppp good workers under
it the baby was sth of time? If as I re
ubt eure the obilulrteen In every hundred
Might about s qrtn think on the last ques
t baby.” This r__
endahl Bros. jr says: “The three de
lawyer's progress are get
ting honor, getting hon
Questions.
Can you report something which
was fine in theory but a fizzle in prac
tice?
What is your remedy for serious
trouble due to foolish sport?
What have you learned by expensive
experience?
What do you want to know which
you would be willing others should
know ?
Are you willing to Join us in build
ing lighthouse thoughts on life's dan
gerous rocks?
Are little errors the sources of big
mistakes?
Can you recall a laughable laugh
last event?
Have you a record of a fakir's funny
reasoning?
How could the accidents you know
about have been prevented?
Have you spoken to a stranger while
thinking him an acquaintance?
Have you been injured while watch
ing to see if some other person would
get Injured?
Can you think of a good illustration
of profitable politeness?
Old or new or both. What are two
or three of the difficulties you havo
to contend with in your work?
. Lending Money.
Years ago I read that a young man
should be satisfied with a low and safe
rate of interest and take the advice of
those more experienced—to not know
it all. I have been very fortunate in
not losing money lent to friends. Fre
quently I give small sums to old
friends who are now deadbeats and
wish to borrow for a few hours or
days. I never get such sums back and
never expect to when I let it go. But
whenever I have lent |60, more or less
to a friend and expected it back it has
come. I think this i3 due to my use
of a discriminating judgment before
lending. Once it cost me a good deal
over a thousand dollars cash to dis
obey' my better judjment and go into
a s'^.--iine business with a friend. 1
did not get the cotinsel of those to
whom I should have gone, and I re
fused to follow my own feelings. I
was "roped" in by talk.
Health Helps Money Making.
I began talking with a man soon
after we left the morning train, and
some remark brought up the subject
of his health.
He said: “l have not been feeling
well for three weeks.”
‘‘Your health is generally good, Isn t
it?”
"»es, I am usually as strong as an
ox, but I have been working too hard
and I wish my vacation came to-day
'n place of a month from to-day.”
“How to take care of yourself while
you overwork Is a pretty good subject
to study."
“Yes, I should say it was. I sleep
pretty well, although 1 dreamt last
night that I was a cashier in a bank
and was taking an inventory of the
stock when the papers in the safe
caught fire.”
The Man Himself Studies.
“What is the cause of criminal care
lessness? ’ Two years ago a man ask
ed me the above question. He had
been having trouble and I have been
thinking about the subject ever since.
It may be due to Ignorance. Some
claim that people are not as good nor
as bad as they appear to be—If we
knew more we would be better. But
we will know more If wo are any good
and have our goal In the right place.
The Idea that experience is a dear
school but fools will learn in no other,
might be revised to read: It is a
wise man who learns by experience;
fools never learn. Though a man is
not to be blamed for being born ig
norant, he can be blamed for re
maining ignorant, and continued or
repeated carelessness may be called
criminal.
One's Sphere of Usefulness.
One of the most important things
for us to learn early, is what we are
able to do and not to do. As for my
self, I believe I was born without a
sense of money value, and as I look
back and note my expenditures and in
vestments, I feel that I might have
had a nice little property to-day had I
put my wasted dimes and dollars reg
ularly In some trustworthy place. It
has taken me a quarter of a century
to recognize my lnaltlity to lend mon
ey commercially, or in a wise way so
cially, and I feel like saying to all
yOung people the quicker you can find
out what you can do well, and what
you are unable to do well, the oetter it
will be for you.
Hard to Believe.
1. That any one would try to start
an orchard by planting dried apples.
2. That any one would stock a mule
stock farm with mules.
3. That people would make a hole
In the ground to fill another and keep
on till they ran the hole out of town.
4. That a man would move his office
furniture and also his telephone with
out notlr/lng the telephone company
and then complain tc the company
that the telephone was no good—that
it h»_ not worked since he moved. But
this last net is on record and dupll
| cated.
VER THE
EACUPS
Raspberry Tartlets.
I.ine some patty pans with good
pasting, then spread a layer of rasp
berry jam. Make a rake mixture with
two eggs and their weig.it in sugar,
butter and flour. Beat t*je mixture
thoroughly end put a good heaped tea
spoonful into each patty pan. Bake in
a quick ovun, and directly they are
cooked, put on the top u teaspoonful
if raspberry icing.
Gown for Early Fall.
Gown of blue satin-ftnished Vienna.
The skirt is plaited over the hips, and
1 lias a little plain yoke bordered with a
band of the material. It Is trimmed at
the bottom with n wide band of lace,
forming scallops at the top, and bor
dered and trimmed with bands of the
plain cloth.
The blouse has a little corselet cor
responding with the hip-yoke, the tvo
separated by a girdle of dark blue lib
erty. The large c ape collar Is trimmed
with the lace and cloth bands like the
skirt, and is fastened a little on one
side with a motif of taffeta. The plas
tron and the full sleeves are of (ace,
the latter finished with deep cuffs of
the same encircled with bands of the
otb.—Le Guide ties Couturieres.
Pink Voile and Lace.
Costume of pink voile trimmed with
bands of lace insertions and tucks.
Cravat of pink and blue cicpe de
chine, with silk fringe. It at of pink
tulle.
Elaborate Imported Gown.
An imported gown of reseda velvet
has the skirt trimmed with bands of
broadcloth in the same shade. The
blouse bodice has a trimming of Per
sian embroidery, and it is made to
plo3e on the left side. It is shirred
ever the shoulders, the shirring ex
tending to the sleeves, which are very
full. The yoke and the under-sleeves
are of white lace over pale green
silk, and the top of the collar is of
the same.
Fora Knockabout Suit.
A coarse scouring serge, in Ivory
white or navy blue, is the leading fab
ric for the useful knockabout suit.
The skirt is invariably fashioned of
serviceable walking length, while the
corsage takes, as a general rule, a
bolero movement, though many most
successful costumes are completed by
blouses Russian or sailor bodices.
Pretty figured silks may be pirked
up at bargains now for house gowns
later on.
Kerosene will last longer and pro
duce a better light if a lump of salt
about the sl/.e of a walnut be placed in
the reservoir of the lamp iu which it
ia used.
Chairs should he chosen for com
fort as well as for appearance. The
fragile ones that look as though they
would collapse if a substantial person
sat on them should be abolished from
the modern home.
When making cakes, try greasing
the pans with olive oil instead of
butter. You will find that the cakes
lurn out better.
Stains on knives, however obstinate,
will disappear if rubbed with a piece
of raw potnto dipped in brick dust.
White promises to continue a win- '
tor fad.
A wreath of green is worn on elabo
rate coiffures.
Sleeves grow more voluminous from
elbow to wrist.
Petunia is to share the fuchsia rage
in autumn colors.
Bunches of red and white currants
are a feature of the new millinery.
In evening and tea gowns the fash
ions of the first empire are tollowed.
A trimming of black velvet bows is :
one of the prettiest of quaint revivals.
A Jeweled baud of lace, fitting
•snugly like a dog collar, is worn with
evening dress.
Accordion plaited skirts and waists
are one of the loveliest fashions of
the hour.
Jeweled reticules of golden links are
carried at garden parties, theaters and
all fashionable gatherings.
The newest touch is to turn the
deep shoulder collar up on each side
upon the shoulder as though to leave
the arms free.
Peach Pudding.
Pare and slice six ripe pencecs; add
to them one pint of sweet milk, one
half cupful of bread crumbs, two
thirds cupful of sugar, three eggs,
yolks and whites beaten separately, a
pinch of salt, and one half teaspoonful
each of cinnamon and nutmeg. Stir
all together, then turn Into a buttered
pudding dish and bake till set. Serve
hot with hard sauce or cold with
sweetened cream.
jgftUben
To remove rrud stains from dark
dresses dissolve a little carbonate of
soda in water and wash the stains
with it. Spots may also be removed
from black dresses by wnshing with
a very weak solution of ammonia.
Irons should always be kept In a
dry place. A convenient thing to keep
under the set tubs or In some other
out-of-the way corner Is a soap box,
into which may be placed the flat
Irons, holders, stand and wax cloth
when not in use. says the Chicago
News.
Owen Daw Corn Bread.
Take two teacups of boiled hominy
and while hot mix with It a very
large spoonful of butter; beat four
eggs very light and stir them into the
hominy; add a pint of milk, gradually
stirred in, and a half pint of white
corn meal; sak. The better should be
of the consistency of boiled custard.
Bako with a good deal of heat at the
bottom of the oven and not to much
at the top. The pan should be deep.
This bread is often baked in a milk
pan.
For the Hat Season.
When one’s millinery shows the ex
ercise of taste and thought it does n
great deal toward beautifying a worn
a ’s face, and when it becomes merely
a matter of display it loses its charm
The hat should be in harmony with
the costume of the individual, oi
[ make artistic contrasts. The colors
! should also suit the complexion, and
its shape oe appropriate to the face
There are very few women who look
I well in every style and color. A be
I corning hat is the most beautiful orna
ment a woman wears.
White Cloth Mantle.
V*
Mantle of white cloth inerusted with
heavy guipure of yellowish shade, fast
ened by a button covered with guipure.
Pretty Petticoats.
As to the shape of the popular petti
coat. It is little changed, though the
widening of the outside skirt must nat
uraliy soon effect an increase in the
under one. The best gown skirts in
the market are already very full in
the back, and it is predicted that petti
coats will soon be as wide as they
have lately been narrow.
Meanwhile, as everything Is done tc
preserve the umbrella look of the get
up, some of the tricks employed tc
achieve slimness are worthy ol study.
Where the thickness of the outside
skirt admits of it many stoutly built
figures go entirely without petticoats
Cloth and Chiffon.
Cloth and chiffon seem an incongru
ous combination, yet they are occa
sionally made to harmonize perfectly
A plum-colored cloth gown Is describ
ed with bodice and voluminous sleeves
of chiffon of the same shade, both be
lug trimmed with applications of
leaves formed of the cloth. Plum
color, by the way, is to be much seer,
in the autumn. It Is one of the color*
peculiarly suited to be worn with rich
hued autumn. Like brown and crim
3on, it tones in with the season.
Athletic and Aesthetic.
The athletic girl’s corset is a com
fortable girdle made of broad liner
tape, stitched stoutly at every seam
This allows freedom of movement an:
improves one's carriage considerably
FALL GOWNS FROM PARIS.
The gown at the left is of blue serge ,
or cloth. The bolero Is composed of
many bands of the cloth, some tin
ished at the ends with buttons, and Is
trimmed with colored galloon, of a sort
of basket, or matting, weave. The col
lar and cuffs are of ermine, the cravat
of black satin, and the draped girdle
of blue velvet. The skirt, of walking
length* is planed all round to a plain
hip yoke. The right-hand gown is of
gray cloth. The bolero and odd
sleeves, loose on the outside, are trim
med with embroidery and passemen
terie buttons and bordered wita a band
of doth in another shade. The waist
coat is of white doth, embroidered in
colors. The blouse front is of white
silk, and the collar and girdle are ol
black satin. The plaited skirt has a
hip yoke which extends to the hem in
front, forming a tablier. The rest ol
the skirt is encircled near the bottom
with stitched bands of the doth. The
little sleeve caps are also stitched.—
Chic Parisien.
PROSPERITY IN NORTHWEST.
Mitchell, South Dakota, Sept. 30.—
The South Dakota idea tills year Is to
emphasize the riches of this state.
When it is confidently stated that this
year for the s'vth consecutive year
South Dakota will lead all other state*
in the greatest per capita w'calth, it
can readily be understood why South
Dakota is ambitious to advertise it*
crops and resources.
The report of a fortnight ago regard
ing the heavy fall of snow and dam
age done to the crops by frost, now
appears to have been a false alarm.
This is the Judgment of a party of
newspaper men and representatives of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry.
who have made a trip of more than
1,200 miles through the state during
the last ten days. The greatest esti
mate of damage that is now made by
those in a position to know is, three
per cent, damage to corn crop of the
state. In the rich agricultural section,
in the valley of the Missouri River,
crops appear to splendid advantage.
Occasionally one finds fields wher*
there has been perhaps too much war
ter and the crops are somewhat late,
but this is the exception.
The following Is a conservative esti
mate of the products of the state and
their value for 190,1:
Product. Bushels. Valus.
Wheat .60.000.000 $35,000,000
Corn . 00.000.000 31,000.000
Oats .\»,000.000 ll.UOO.OOO
Burley .U.000.000 4,000,000
Klax .\J,OOO.OUO 2,000.000
Rye . .1.SU0.0U0 060.000
Live stock . 32.000,000
Dairy and creamery....... 7,000.u00
Kggs and poultry . 5.0OO.UOO
Hay . 12.000.000
• Wuol and hides . 1.N00.000
Harden products and fruit. 4.000.u00
Minerals, stone and cemevnt. 12.000.000
Total . $146,450,000
While corn io the second product In
total value, tbo 1903 crop shows an
increase of about thirteen and a half
million bushels over the crop' of 1902.
At the rate corn Is being increased la
acreage, the prediction that corn will
be klBg In South Dakota withitA a few
years, seems to be reasonable. The
total production of new wealth for
1902 was $119,949,000. The Increase
of nearly $27,000,000 of this yei\r is
auffleient answer to the derogatory re
ports about the state that have ap
peared within the last fortnight.
Perhaps a stronger argument In
favor of the state is shown in an ex
amination of the bank deposits. n
..uly, 1901, South Dakota banks hail
deposits amounting to $!4,000,000.00'’
op July 1, 1902, these amounted tiV
$30,000,000.00, and on July 1, 1.03, Ui
$32,000,000.00.
In addition to the money In corn,
wheat and the gold of the Black Hills,
which has been termed the richest
one hundred square mlleu In the
world, there Is good money in South
Dakota cattle. Men who have come to
South Dakota without money, ar.d
who now count their dollars with five
figures, say that raising cattle is the
only business in the world for which
a man can borrow his entire capita.
It Is a fact that South Dakota bankt
are glad to help any henest. Industri
ous young man, who comes well reconr
mended for his commercial Integrity,
in cattle buslnesc and accept his cat
tle as collateral, a banker of Ips
wich told your correspondent that dur
ing twenty years of such loans he had
not lost one cent and he could name
by the score young men who had se
cured from South Dakota banks the
price of their first herd of cattle.
A visit to the cattle ranch of Lee ft
Prentls near Vermillion, 8. D., was
cne of the Interesting features cf the
above mentioned trip. Lee ft Prentls
are the largest cattle breeders la
south Dakota. They exhibit wltli some
pride, among their valuable short
horns, a two-year-old heifer which re
c:ntly took sweepstakes over the win
ner of the sweepstakes at 1902 Inter
national Live Stock Exposition at Chi
cago. Other shorthorns have Just re
turned from a very victorious tour
among interstate and county fairs,
winning eigh* first prizes at Sioux
City, eight at Yankton and six at
Huron. There are other stock farms
in the state that show blooded cattl*
not far behind these prize winners.
A large number of the farmers and
stockmen, as well as a majority of the
South Dakota editors have been in at
tendance at,the Corn Palace at Mitch
ell during the last week. The South
Dakota Commission to the St. Louts
Exposition has just decided to repro
duce the Mitchell Corn Palace as the
Souiu Dakota exhibit, and visitors V*
St. Louis will have an opportunity to
see a building 140 by 100 feet, the ex
terior of which will be entirely con
structed of corn.
Like other South Dakota towns,
Mitchell is shov'ng considerable pros
perity ar.d enterprise this year. The
cornerstone of the $40,000 city hall
was laid last week; the walls of a
$50,000 hotel to be built of stone and
steel are up above the first floor; a
Carnegie library has been built at a
cost of $15,000, and a score of smaller
buildings are under construction, and
improvements and pavement of streets
are under way. As an especial reason
for such a fine showing at this time,
the last legislature of South Dakota
agreed to submit to voters of the state
In November, 1904, the question of
moving the state capitcl from Pierre
to Mitchell. The people of the latter
town, backed by a goodly number of
those In the most thickly populated
portions of the state east of the Mis
souri River, and In tho Black Hills,
who will find Mitchell more accessible
than Pierre, have already under way
a lively campaign by which they ex
pect to securj the capital In Novem
ber, 1904 The reproduction of the
Mitchell Corn Palace at the St. Louis
Exposition Is regarded as a big card
In their favor.
People whose nerves ate o » edge
are incapable of cutting much of a fig
ure.
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Men of ability are not always po»
sessed of attractive manners.
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