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still plenty of room for improvement in machines and merchants'
ing methods and we should do all we can to encourage the inventive
minds. Unless a new machine is given a fair trial and actual#
placed on location it will never be known whether it presents ^
opportunity for additional business and profit or not. The success'
ful person is almost always, if not every time, the analyst. ^
thinks and studies and does not pass up anything that might lea
to greater gain and profit. It is true that continued prosperity lS
likely to encourage us not to bother about thinking and to pass
over new and worthy ideas with only a glance. It seems to b®
human nature to accept prosperity as a permanent thing, when 1
is not, unless we use unceasing vigilance to make it so. The
established operators seem to be satisfied to go along drawing thetf
profits from the old type machines when it is more than likely they
could materially increase their earnings if they would only give
the new machines a trial. Sooner or later someone will take 11P
the improved machines and make a success with them, and at th®
same time will no doubt cut in on the earnings of the old fashion^
vendors., Operators should give the new ideas a trial and'even if
they lose— they will be all the wiser. The odds are with you, f°l
if the new idea goes over the profits will be exceedingly lai’ge’
whereas not a great deal can be lost. Get out of the rut— take uP
the new ideas— and give them a fair trial. .
In the French Nigerian court of
Sultan Barmous, Mohammedan tra
ditions are cai’efully preserved. Like
some Oriental despot of old, the Sul
tan has his di'nner served in solitary
state under a great mango tree, while
the court musicians, whose duty it is
to entertain him, play with backs
turned, since no one must see him
eat.
Corot’s oaks have been sold to a
timber merchant. The country folk
of Mur, near Loudeac, Brittany, were
forced to choose between the trees
and higher taxes.
Hauteville House, Victor Hugo’s
home in exile, has been given by his
descendants to the city of Paris.
© International Arcade Museum
When Alfred McGee, a wealth
farmer near Glenville, Alabama, die
he made the request that his gi'aV*
be made near the highway and th®
the farmers hauling their cotton ci'OP
to market would call out to him i’n *
loud voice the price of cotton for tha“
day. This has been done for foi'w
five years.
Sense of smell is worth $800,
cording to a case in Paris w hei'e
cook was awarded this amount i°
the loss of the sense of smell wh®
knocked down by a taxi.
Every bride in Mackenrode, S®*
ony, married in twelve months, 'V1
one exception, had the sum#3®
Mueller.
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