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Show There are few manufacturing firms which enjoy a larger business than the National Cash Register company, the concern which makes the many styles which greet the eye in every well conducted store, market or shop, where the legend: This registers the amount of your purchase seems to be ever present. So great has been the demand for these money-saving, infallible incentives to honesty that the factories have had to be enlarged. For not only does Uncle Sam use them all over his domain, but our foreign cousins take very kindly to time-savin- g, lectures and entertainments. In short, the factory has drawn to it the very the employee, is made, to feel that he is best class of labor to be found in the a member of the concern. He is paid country. No one engaged there lacks for his suggestions in the way of Im- in any of the qualifications which goprovements and that is the one great to make up the true lady or gentlereason why the register is so perfect in its construction. The salesmen are and sales agent's stimulated in their effort by the offer of prizes for the best records made each month, in addition to the ' liberal commissions paid, so that every one connected with the sales department is a hustler all the time. The company keeps in touch with all its employees all the time. If one does well he is congratulated on his success and goes to work the next The visit of Carrie Nation to this city reminded a druggist of something, which he told to Truth. When I was a boy, he said, we had a temperance revival in our town, conducted by a husky lunged person, who railed against all forms of hoi and who was particularly anxious that we should not eat mince pies, because brandy and cider were used in their manufacture. Will you allow a few mince pies to stand between your souls and salvation? inquired this Well, strange to say, there chap. were a lot of well meaning old folks who cut out the mince pie, lest by eating they might become possessed by an irresistible appetite for booze. I suppose, he continued, there are lots of people so imbued with the idea of keeping their bodies free from the taint of alcohol they would decline to partake of anything of which it forms r a part, and I have a for that sort. As a matter of fact, if a person could eat enough of it at one time, he could get drunk on fresh bread. It used to be said that baking drove the alcohol out of bread, but recent experiments demonstrate that this is not so and thatlin every 10b ounces of bread there are five ounces At this rate, every one of alcohol. who eats bread consumes in ten years about seventeen or eighteen quarts of But I do not- - suppose the whisky. white fibboners will bar bread just for that small quantity, do you? Then the druggist went behind the prescription case to compound a formula of spiritus frumenti in quantum suf. for a pale youhg man who said he wanted it to wash a hofse with. "Say, remarked a mild looking man to Harry Evans a day or two ago, did you know the new telephone company is going to use barbed wire for Its new lines here in Salt Lake? No, responded Harry, picking up his ears with interest, what on earth do they want to use that-kinfor telefor? phone purposes Oh, said the mild looking man, as he took a convenient position near the door, so you folks from Merthyr Tydvil can talk Welch over it. And the fact that the. mild looking one reached the elevator first was all that saved him from being immolated on the altar of a good mans righteous wrath. . well-know- n stem-winde- O. E. GROSHELL. The same applies to the district managers, sales agents and salesmen. The best talent obtainable is employed. man. Unless, a man is a top notcherand a hustler he cannot hold his place. . Oscar Grosliell is the sales agent for tliis territory, which is in the Denver district, under the direction of Walter Cool, district manager. Oscar takes care of the city, while O. E. Groshell, better known as Box, attends to the outside business. Between the two but little business gets away. Of late Oscar has been doing extremely well, having won a couple of prizes offered for the best work. In March he led the United States procession for certain kinds of sales, and in the February before also took down one of the handsome, gifts which the company makes. OSCAR GROSHELL.them, and the agencies across the water sell hundreds and thousands of them yearly, all the way from foggy Great Britain to 3unnv It alyl The National Cash Register people have an enviable reputation for many things. First the care they take of their employees, the buildings being erected with a view to providing each one with comfort, while the surroundings are laid out so as to ever present a scent of beauty to the eye; free baths, free clubs, free reading rooms, free playgrounds, for children, free - month with the consciousness of having pleased his employers and merited their approbation. All this work is under the direction of JohnH. Patterson, who is the managing genius of. the company. It is he who designed, the grounds and made them attractive; it is he who demands the finest quality of workmanship and by so doing secures the finest products. It is he who conceived the idea of offering prizes for suggestions and records. He is the animating - spirit everywhere. As a result of. his work People through the west are just beginning to appreciate the cash register and although looking through the several places we visit one wonders if all are not.al ready supplied, still there are new firms starting up every day, and it is in that field the agent meets with success.' Increase in business creates a demand. too, for the successful merchant finds his old machine was all Ight when he had but two clerks, but now with six he has to have a larger one. And thus it goes. Groshell keeps :an eye on all these matters, and with such success that he has been warmly commended by his employers, to appreciate his labors in their ' behalf. wch-aoe- m . d o ; Maude Adams Going to Europe. Maude Adams, who has been spending the winter in regaining her healtn and strength, will go to Europe for an extended stay. Although the main reason for the trip is rest and recreation, she will be in close communication during her visit In. England witli J. M. Barrie, who is writing for her a nev: play, in which she will next sea ion return to the stage. A. G. CIAUQUE. i RESIDENCE PHONEI675 k. . 9 t i PHONE-548- . |