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S. R. CAMPBELL, Pres, and Gen. Mgr. W. C. BENTON, Sec. and Treas.
Mansfield Trading Company,
Department Store
To the Trade:
You will always find our stock of goods up-to-the-minute and polite
salesmen to serve your wants.
The best is none too good. GIVE US A TRIAL.
Yours to serve
■ Li Tradins Company, Inc.,
Where Quality Counts Mansfield, Georgia
CALL FOR LEGIBLE SIGNATURE
Business Concerns and Hotels, as Well
as Legal Firms, Find Themselves
Compelled to Insist on That.
“Kindly favor us with a legible sig¬
nature," Is an appeal now often en¬
countered. It appears on the letter¬
heads of many a legal firm and Is
conspicuously printed on contracts
and other Important documents. In
hotels this request 1 b sometimes used
as a heading on each page of the reg¬
ister or printed on a card. It hangs
In plain view of the counter.
A room clerk In one of the big
hotels declares that the task of de¬
ciphering signatures has reached a
crisis.
"It has got to the point where we
couldn’t bluff on names any longer,”
he said. “In these days of constant
telephoning and telegraphing we’ve
simply got to be sure that every
guest’s name is correctly entered on
our books or there’s bound to be
trouble.
"Of course a successful hotel clerk
must have a gift for deciphering bad
signatures Just as he must have a
good memory for names and faces,
but when a man we’ve never seen be¬
fore comes in and scrawls a long
wavy line on the register without a
single letter plain enough to even
guess at, how are we going to call
him by name the next minute? He
may have important mail waiting for
him or he may be telephoned for any
minute, so our request for a legible
signature arises out of a necessity.”
A member of a law firm on whose
letterheads is printed “A legible sig¬
nature is requested,” says that these
few words have saved his firm much
trouble. Papers no longer have to be
returned for resigning, as was for¬
merly the case, because the first sig¬
nature could not be read. Before this
request for a legible signature was
made important legal documents often
had to be entirely rewritten because
one of the parties refused to accept
the signature of some of the others
on account of their illegibility.
A large employer of labor has made
it a rule recently to have all applica¬
tions for work brought to him. He
orders each letter folded so that the
signature alone shall show. He goes
over these, picks out the signatures
that appeal to him and gives these
applicants precedence over the others.
Restaurants.
A restaurant is a place where you
pay four dollars for fifteen cents’
worth of food, accompanied by about
two dollars’ worth of light labor, light
china and light music, which you have
heard before. After leaving your hat
with a Wall street syndicate, you pay
all the way from ten cents to a quar¬
ter for the privilege of getting it back
and wearing it once more. The dif
iCe between a man and woman
1 indeed today is quite simple. A
worn-
an pays fifty dollars all at once for
her hat, while a man pays five dollars
for his and fifty-five more in tip in¬
stallments for storage at restaurants
while he is vainly trying to obtain
enough nourishment to sustain life
between times.
The object of all restaurants is to
furnish you with everything you want
except nourishment. This is carefully
extracted from all food before it
reaches you.
Every restaurant nowadays has at¬
tached to It a homeless hotel and a
drugless drug store, also a newspaper
stand, where you can buy a paper for
not over twice what you can get it
for almost any night you don’t want
them at the same rates. Every res¬
taurant also has a wine cellar, which
is filled with native cobwebs, Euro¬
pean labels and California grape juice.
—Life.
Brief But Neat.
During the journey of a royal train
from Balmoral to Windsor the ordi¬
nary passenger traffic was very much
disorganized, and express trains were
suddenly "drawn up," to the no small
annoyance of commercial men and
others, who could truly say that with
them “time was money.” An express
train between Perth and Aberdeen was
n, great sufferer in this respect, and a
certain commercial traveler was quite
boisterous in his denunciation of the
frequent stops. At last w r hen he had
tired his fellow-passengers with his
grumbling, he flopped down the win¬
dow and shouted: "Guard! I say,
guard!”
"Yes, sir,” answered the official ad¬
dressed, approaching the compartment.
"Oh, guard, this is simply disgust¬
ing! Why all these stops? What’s
•up, man, what’s up?” said the com¬
mercial traveler, in bantering tones.
The guard's reply was brief, neat
and certainly to the point,, for he sim¬
ply answered:
"The signal.”
The "commercial’s $ window was
closed with a bang.
Makes Body Transparent.
A new method of giving medical
students instruction which, it is said,
will largely obviate the necessity of
dissection, will be put into practice at
the Hahnemann Medical ccHlege, Phil¬
adelphia, at the beginning <of the next
^term. Physicians and sungeons con¬
nected with the department of anat¬
omy are now perfecting the process,
which originates through the recent
discovery by a German .scientist of
a fluid by the use of which the human
body can be rendered transparent.
The fluid, which is composed.of sev¬
eral oils, turns the flesh into a sort of
transparent jelly when injected, en¬
abling the student to study the veins,
muscles and bones far better, it is as¬
serted, than if they resorted to the
dissecting knife. It is said to be
one of the most valuable discoveries
in medical science of late years
GREECE HAD THE RECALL
Only In the Old Days the System Was
Called “Ostracism."
In the palmy days of the Greek re¬
publics, many centuries ago, as histo¬
rians tell us, when a man rose to
such a height of power or affluence
that be became a possible menace to
the state, the citizens took a vote on
his case as an "undesirable.” This
was sent to the senaie, and. if the
vote was sufficiently large and repre¬
sentative, that body passed a resolu¬
tion in which the too distinguished cit¬
izen was invited, in polite diplomatic
terms, to take a few years of retire¬
ment abroad—in other words, lie was
officially exiled for the good of the
state.
This was "ostracism,” so called from
the fact, it is explained, that the vot¬
ing citizens wrote their names on ovs
ter shells, and it was instituted as a
measure of security to the common
wealth. Any citizen of great Wealth
or influence or who had a large per
sonal following which might, in an
emergency, be used to the detriment
of the state was liable to re eive this
distinguished mark of public cousid
eration. It was a kind of primitive
“recall,” which had the advantage of
being equally applicable to “ins” and
“outs.”
Those early Greeks were wonderful
fellows, who knew how to deal with
knotty problems of their day, which
doubtless included grafting and other
human peculiarities not unknown In
our own time. If an election did not
suit them or if any man swelled too
far above his fellows there was al¬
ways the leveling oyster as a whole¬
some corrective in reserve.—Christian
Herald.
A Cheap Dress Shirt.
As for paper fasteners, a touring
actor writes to point another of their
utilities: "There is, at times, in a
small company especially, a scarcity of
starched linen. And shirts, like King
John's treasure, get lost or mislaid In
the wash. You are playing a diule
part, say, with naught but a flanuel
shirt to go with your dress coat. Take
a sheet of note paper or foolscap, prod
It under your vest, and where the
central stud should he—insert a
round headed brass paper fastener!"
Necessity mothers invention.—London
Chronicle.
Maine’s Needle Rock.
In Blue HU! bay. Me., there is t
pinnacle rock only six feet in diameter
at Its top which projects to within
seven feet of the surface of the water
and rises nearly perpendicularly out
of a depth of seventy-eight feet. The
existence of this rock is an evidence
of the difficulty, even in well known
waters, of demonstrating that no iso¬
lated rocks are lying in wait for heed
less victims.—Harper's.
INVITATION
When in need of Dry Goods, Notions?
Shoos, Hats, Clothing and Underwear,
call on us. We have some very attractive
bargains to offer in these lines.
You will also find the best of Groceries
and Hardware at our store at the very
lowest prices.
Respectfully,
The Almand Supply Co.
Mansfield, - - Geoigia
