OOMPLETEST BUSINESS BUILDING
west
0 THE DAZZLIXQ FARM.
Miss Mnv was quite unused to country
ways;
On the farm (he spent a few vacation
days:
And she lost herself one morn,
In a little field of corn,
For it was, to May'y amaze, a maze o'
maize.
Kansas City Time.
FULLY EXPLAINED.
'Ta, what la an entente eordlale?"
"That's a polite way of referring
to it when a couple of fellows who
liaven't been the best of friends decide
to let bygones be bygones and step in
to have a drink on It" Chicago Record-Herald.
, FAHTLY niCMEMBERED IT.
Teather ".Marcus Aurelius was one
f the greatest pagans that ever lived.
Remember that, Tommy."
Tommy (at home a few hours later)
"Markasaw Itcelius was the biggest
pig that ever lived, mamma. Teacher
ays go." Chicago Tribune.
HER POSITION.
Nell "She talks a good deal about
her grandmother's position In society."
Belle "Well, all her grandmother's
positions were In society. She never
engaged as cook with any but the
gwellest families." Philadelphia Led
ger. HEROES.
"A navnl hero should never allow
himself to be forced to explain." said
the man who repeats all the good
things be bears.
No," answered Mr. Dustln Stax.
He hafru't the faculty for forgetting
things in an Investigation that a finan
cier enjoys." Washlngtoa Star.
OVERDONE.
Mistress "Well, why don't you boll
the eggs:-"
Cook "I've no clock In the kitchen
to go by."
Mistress "Why, yes. Bridget, there's
a clock in the kitchen."
Cook "What good Is It? It's tin
tnlnlts fast!" Cleveland Leader.
WHY THEY MOVED.
Robin "Yes, we're going to move.
Our neighbor, the mocking bird, is try
ing to imitate a bass drum."
HIGHER QUALIFICATION.
Cutten "Jorgins is always brag
ging about bis wife's cookery. Is she
auch a famous cook?"
Drydc "No; she's more than that.
She's a hypnotist. She has Jorgins
under such perfect control that he'll
eat anything she cooks, no matter bow
bad It is." Chicago Tribune.
ASSERTING HERSELF.
Mrs. Upniore "A learned scientist
says everybody eats three times as
much aa-he really needs to eat."
Mrs. Lapsllng "Let him speak for
himself. .He's got no right to prescribe
for other people. When it comes to
telling me how much I ought to eat
I'll take no man's Ypsilanti." Chicago
Tribune.
SOMETHING LIKE IT.
Marryat "Hello! old man, you're
looking prosperous."
Munniman "So I am. I'm in the
leather business now. I will tell you,
there' nothing like leather "
Marryat "Think so? Say! come up
and take dinner with us to-night My
wife's baked some peas for dessert."
Catholic Standard and Times.
MODEST.
"I have always held that when
man is wrong he should admit it
frankly, at whatever sacrifice to dig
nity," said Braggsby.
"You!" exclaimed his friend. "Why,
only yesterday one of your closest ac
quaintances told me that yon had nevet
been known to admit that yon were
wrong."
"Certainly not. But wouldn't I bav
done so if I had been wrong?" Chi
cago Daily News.
AN EXPERT.
"Where is the nearest barber shop?"
asked the hardware drummer.
"Ain't no -barber In this town," re
plied the landlord of the village Inn,
''but If you want a hair cut I reckon
the editor of the Weekly Clipper can
accommodate you."
"Get out!" exclaimed the h. d.
"What does an editor know about hair
cutting?"
"That's all right" rejoined the land
lord. "That fellow's the handiest chap
for miles round with the shears." Chi
. cago Dally Kewa.
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Kl n 'v'VifAV eu-l
Features of W. L. Douglas' Admlnit
tration and Jobbing House.
The dedication of the new adminis
tration and Jobblug house building
erected at Brockton, Mass., by the W.
L. Douglas Shoe Co. as a part of its
mammoth manufacturing plant at Mon
tello was marked by the thoroughness
and attention to detail characteristic
of the firm in all its undertakings.
As the new building is said to be the
most complete and convenient of any
ever built for a commercial bouse In
the United States, so were tbe expres
sions of appreciation by the many per
sons who visited it for inspection sin
cere and of a highly congratulatory
nature.
The dedicatory program included
open house from 11 a. m. to 8 p. m.
with concert by the Mace Gay orches
tra and the presence of a Boston
caterer to attend to the wishes of all.
The building Itself afforded a feast for
the eye, especially the offices, which
are marvels In many ways. Fifteen
thousand Invitations were sent out, In
cluding over 11,000 to the retail dealers
In tbe United States, who handle the
W. L: Douglas Co. shoes, tbe others
going to shoe manufacturers and all
allied Industries In Brockton and vi
cinity. Mr. Douglas will be glad to
have anybody who is interested call
The new building Is situated Just
north of the No. 1 factory on Spark
street facing the Montello railroad
station. Its completion marks tbe es
tablishment of a modern up-to-date
wholesale Jobbing bouse and ofllce
building. Mr. Douglas has long con
sidered the advlsabilty of a Jobbing
house, not only for the purpose of sup
plying his own retail stores more read
ily, but that tbe 11,000 dealers through
out the United Slates handling the W.
I Douglas shoe might be able to ob
tain shoes for Immediate use with
greater facility.
Under the present system all shoes
are manufactured to order, and cus
tomers sometimes lose sales waiting
for shoes to arrive. With the new Job
bing house they will be enabled to
have their hurry orders shipped the
same day they are received, which will
be far more satisfactory to the cus
tomer and will result in a largely-Increased
business to. the W. L. Douglas
Shoe Co.
The new building Is 2C0 feet long
and GO feet wide and two stories In
height. The Jobbing department will
occupy tbe entire lower floor, while
the olliccs will occupy the second floor.
Leaving the new jobbing bouse on
the first floor, tbe mnln staircase as
cends to the second floor level In two
divisions separating on the first land
ing and meeting again upon the fourth,
where the large Palladlan window Is
situated, which appears over the en
trance. At the head of the staircase In
the mosaic floor appears the word
"Atrium," the name of the inner hall,
planned and decorated after the man
ner of the central apartment of th
Pompeilan house. This room is direct
ly In the center of the main building,
being 26x08 and 16 feet In height, and
Is lighted by three large ceiling sky
lights t classic design.
Around the atrium are placed tbe
private offices, where the heads of the
departments are located, with their
assistants. Beginning at the right of
the main entrance. In order, are those
of the C. F. Richmond, buyer; H. T.
Drake, general superintendent; Hon.
W. I Douglas, president; and H. L.
Tlnkham, treasurer. They are finished
and furnished In mahogany and are
ensulte. Mr. Douglas' own room oc
cupies the southwest corner of the
building, and is a very handsome
apartment To the left of these comes
the room of C. D. Nevins, assistant
treasurer, Mrs. Marlon Shields, cor
respondence clerk, and the store de
partment. On the east of the atrium and open
ing Into this ball are two alcoves sep
arated by mahogany counters, the
fronts of which are plate glass and
grilles of bronze. These are the offices
of Warren Weeks, paymaster, and
Harry L. Thompson, tbe bookkeeper.
The next In order to the left are two
rooms devoted to the credit depart
ment one the private office of A. T.
Sweetser and the other occupied by his
clerks. The next two offices are those
of F. L. Erskine, advertising manager,
and hla assistants.
The three other rooms completing
the outer wall line of the atrium are
the reception room to the left of the
staircase hall, directors' room and
lavatory and the sample room. Here
are located the telegraph Instruments,
telephone switchboard and booths for
nse of guests.
The directors' room Is a fine cham
ber occupying the space In the north
west corner of the building. This
room Is finished and furnished In ma
hogany and all appointments are in
keeping. Here hangs a portrait In oil
of Mr. Douglas, tbe president Tbe
last room, in this series Is the sample
room, also in mahogany.
On center with the entrance-and be
tween the bookkeeper's alcove and the
credit department is a hall leading to
tbe general bookkeeping room, where
Is located tbe host of clerks which
this hnge business employs.
Romans Used Concrete.
In these days of increasing use of
concrete .for building purposes It is
interesting to recall the fact that the
Pantheon&'n Rome, about 2,000 years
old, is cowed by a dome over 142
feet in diameter, which Is cast In
concrete. In one solid mass.
Need No Compass.
In the tropical northern territory of
South Australia travelers need not
carry a compasB. The district
abounds with the nests of the mag
netic, or meridian, ant The longer
axes of these point due north and
south.
SCRAPNO is the chosen chow of every
man who likes to get a KOft, juicy quid in his
mouth ,i chew that is clean above all tilings.
SCRAPNO, the Clean Chewing Tobacco, is
as clean as any food you eat. Choice, full length,
long leaf, packed loose in the biggest kind of a
l package always fresh, juicy and
1 1 rn. .
inree times as many " chews"
average live cents' worth. Kept
l a Avaxed paper wrapper, inside a strong
THE LABOR WORLD.
The teamsters of Miami, Fla., have
secured the recognition of theli
union.
The boilcrmakers of Mattoon, 111.,
have secured Increased wages and
other concessions.
Butchers of Evansvllle, Ind., have
received an Increase of ten to fifteen
per cent, in wages.
Engineers have formed new unions
in Atlantic City, N. J.; Jefferson City,
Mo., and Milwaukee, Wis.
Thousands of girl workers In Chi
cago bookbindories ma strike on ac
count of a cut in wages.
All kinds of new local unions are
being formed. A baseball stitchers'
union was recently formed in Phila
delphia.
Ithaca (NT. Y.) striking carpenters
started a fully equipped planing mill,
and are now competing with their
former employers.
Japannse barbers In California are
working for about $5 per week, and
are actually driving the white bar
bers out of business.
Street railway employes of Detroit
are agitating for an increase of scale
from tweuty-three and one-half to
twenty-seven cents an hour.
The Building Trades Council of
San Francisco has distributed 200
complete sets of tools to mechanics
who lost theirs in the recent earth
quake and fire.
One hundred Chinese recently ar
rived at Galnesboro, Fla., to take the
place of the striking men in the tur
pentine fields. They are to receive
eighty cents a day, while the strikers
ask for S1.50 and $2.
A significant speech has been de
livered by Samuel Gompers, Presi
dent of the American Federation of
Labor, in which the laSor leader
again serves notice of the actl7e en
try of organized labor into politics.
Sometimes the man wno Dets ano
wins Is more to be pitied than the
man who loses, for there is a danger
ous fascination in race track success.
It seems so easy; observes the Wash
ington Star, this taking away fifty
or a hundred dollars by merely risk
ing five or ten. Visions of great
wealth float before the eyes of the
victim of his own good fortune. The
habit Is quickly formed. On the other
hand, the roan who loses may pos
sibly ibe cured by his supposed mis
fortune. It he is iwse and philoso
phical he regarua his losO as a rich
investment in the game for htm un
less he becomes a professional, and
to be that he must make a close
Btudy of conditions, horses and men.
He must devote himself to the work
as assiduously as he is supposed to
devote himself to his own business
or that of his employer. And If he
goes Into the business he must do
so with the full understanding that
every dollar he takea in as a winning
comes from eome other man's poc
ket, and he has given nothing in re
turn tor It
Is the Chew for
rilOMIXrNT PEOPLE.
Senator Chauncey M. Depew is tak
ing the rest cure at Dobbs Ferry.
Senator Hans'irough began as a
printer after leaving the public
school.
Senator Perkins, who was a Maine
farmer's boy, went to sea when he
was thirteen.
Edison is unquestlonally one of the
most unassuming and democratic of
our great men.
The Duke of Abruzzl has sailed
for Africa to explore the Ruwenzonl
mountain range.
King Edward Is fond of plovers'
eggs, which he generally spreads on
Russian black bread.
Before he was twenty Senator Pat
terson had worked for eight years as
a printer and Jeweler.
Professor A. B. Macullum, of
Toronto University, has been elected
a member of the Royal Society of
London.
Thomas F. Ryan, who, next to John
D. Rockefeller, is regarded in the
Wall Street district as the most de
termined money maker in America,
is a director in thirty-two corpora
tions. John Burns, now a British Cabinet
Minister, once contended publicly
that no man's work is worth rnore
than $2500 a year. Yet Burns has
accepted an office which pays $10,000
a year.
In addition to his knowledge ol
continental tongues. King Edward is
said to know a little Gaelic. It Is
probably not very much, for even
Robert Louis Stevenson, a born Scot,
could not master this difficult tongue.
Elbert H. Gary, Chairman of the
United States Steel Corporation, has
ordered a family mausoleum, costing
$100,000, to be built at Wheaton,
111. The largest root stones ever
quarried will be used in the mauso
leum. Farming Is now one ot tne Deat
careers open to American young mon,
and the fact is becoming quite gen
erally known. Yet some prejudice!
survive from less prosperous times.
Now and then a young man, forced
to drop out of a college or profes
sional school because of Impaired
eyesight voice or similar handicap,
takes up farming with an air of hope
lessness, as if all ambition were
passed for him. Such an attitude
would mean failure In anything; who
tries for little receives less. Let him
take up farming with vim and glad
ness. For the right kind cf a man
there is no nearer road to all that Is
most worth having. If you will study
and work and hustle, young man,
your brains and energy will put you
where you belong. But otherwise, If
you let yourself sag into the ranks,
satisfied with the ways, and doings
of the average man. Brace up and
resolve to 'become the best farmer
in the State-, and pave the way for
wtda Influence and leadership.
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SPORTINO BREVITIES.
W. C. Weimer Is the lawn tennis
champion of the University of Penn
sylvania. R. D. Little won again in the lawn
tennis tournament for the champion
ship of England.
The Elmlna defeated the new
scliooner Queen in the New York
Yacht Club Regatta, on the Sound.
David D. Stowell, of New York
City, was elected captain of the Col
gate basketball team for next sea
son. Rockaway was defeated by Bryn
Mawr In the polo tournament for the
Woodcrest Cups by a score of 11V4
to 11.
Yale won two of he three races at
New London, but lost the university
race to Harvard for the third time in
twenty years.
James Braid, with a score of 300
for four rounds at the Muirfleld links,
won the open golf championship for
the third time.
Fay Moulton, of Kansas City, who
took second place in the 100-metre
championship at Athens, has re
turned to America.
William Minot, '07, of Boston, has
ben elected captain of the Harvard
track team for the coming year.
Minot Is a consistent mile runner.
Sydney Paget bought a yearling
colt by Ben Strome Strychlnia. a
full brother to the lamented Highball,
a winner of the American Derby, at a
sale for $10,500.
Twenty-one horses, driven during
the season ou Alfred Vanderbilt's
Venture coach were sold at auction
by Van Tassell & Kearney for $9700
an average of $4 61.
Eleven members of the Coaching
Club, of New York, went on a drive
of 300 miles to Lake Delaware and
return, the longest round trip run 1?
the annals of amateur coaching in
America.
Morbid, unwomanly curiosity to
hear shocking details of criminal do
ings is scandalously exhibited In out
courtrooms, observes the New York
Herald. It is on a par with that sac
rifice of honor and esteem to which
some women stoop thank heaven,
tout few when they visit and coddle
condemned murderers In the prisons.
It Is a pity that the law does not per
mit their being driven from the trial
room or cell corridor In defense of
the good name of womanhood id gen
eral. '
The northern teriitory of Australia
Is little more developed. Its capital,
Palmerston, contains more Chinese
than whites, and the Mongolians gen
erally are the masters and the
whites the servants. The climate is
very trying to whites. .The aboriginal
blacks are of a fierce and sanguinary
disposition. Vast herds ot buffaloes,
the descendants of a few that were
experimentally liberated a century
ago. roam over the plains.
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PITT3BURQ.
Qraln. Flour and P-ed.
Wheat No. t rd I AO a
It ye-No. 2 ? 7.1
Cera Nn. 2 ysllow, ear 55 5?
Nn. S yellow, shelled 45 yl
Mixed ear 55 M
Oats No. white 43 4
No. whit m 41
Flour Winter patent 4 10 4 is
Fancy untight winteri. ....... 4 00 4 1
Ha? No. 1 Timothy 15 00 15 S
CloTer No. 1 10 75 118
Feed No. 1 white mid. ton ti 50 MO)
Brown middlings 19 so M 00
Bran, bulk 200 21 M
Straw Wheat 7 . 7 M
Oat 7W SO
Dairy Products.
Butter Elgin creamery I !3 27
Ohio creamery , 4? tl
Fancy country roll 19 20
Cheeee Ohio, new 11 is
New York, new U U j
Poultry, Etc.
Bens per lb t It 1
Chlrkene dressed , tl M
Eggs Pa. and Ohio, fresh 17 1
Fruits and Vegttablat.
Potatoes Fancy white per bn.... &5 go
Cabbage per ton w 15,
Onions per barrel 4 oj 2 'M
BALTIMORE.
Flour Winter Patent f 5 et aa
Wheat No. red jjj w
Corn Mixed 44 47
ggs u 20
Butter Ohio creamery ti t
PHILADELPHIA.
Flour Winter Patent I J 05 IB
Wheat No. red tH ft
Corn No. 2 mixed as 54
Oats No. S white to M
Butter Creamery gu gt
Bggs PennsylTanla Brats is J
NEW YORK.
Floor Patents J 00 IB
Wheat No. S red 89 W
Corn No. . 7
Oate No. S white t4 M
Butter -Creamery U 2a
hggs State and PennsylTanla.... It U
LIVE STOCK.
Union Stock Yards, Pittsburg.
Cattle.
Extra, 1.450 to 1,600 lbs 13 5 $3
Prime, l.aou tol, 400 lbs, . t 40 5 60
Good, l,tf)0tol,W lbs a & 40
TWy. 1,060 to 1.150 lbs H) 5 a
Fair, MM to 1,100 lbs 4 V. 4 15
Common, "CO to D0 lbs 4 00 4 7',
Common to good fat oxen 75 4 5
Common to good fat bulls i SO 4 1"
Common to good fat cows i 00 4 ttl
Hellers, 700 tol, ICO lbs lit) 45,1
Fresh cowa and springers 16 00 45 i)J
Sheep.
Prime wether I 5 &) 57-,
Good mixed 5 5 S)
Fair mixed ewes and wethers.... 4 50 too
Cullsand common 4 ou
Culls 10 choice lambs 554 J j,
Hoga.
Prtmeheary hogs t 7 00 7 1,1
1 nme medium welghui. 7 10 7 15
Besl heary Yorkers...., 7 (u 7 .)
Oood light Torkera S 90 7 00
Pigs, aa to quality t 70 )
Common to good roughs. t 40 t )
Stags - 4 00 4 1j
Calve.
Veal Calves $450 sj
HeaTy an 1 thin calves .... t M AM
Oil Markets.
The following are tie quotations for credit
balances In the. different flolda:
PennsylTanla. tl W: Tlona, tl T Second
Sand, tl 64; North Lima. Sue: Snath Lima
Indlana. Wr, Somerset, via; Kagland, Uu; Caa
a4a, IL3&.