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Show TWO METHODS OF BUSINESS. One Conspicuous Success and the Oth. er a Complete Failure. A few years ago the proprietor of a great steel fllo company In Now Kng-land, Kng-land, which has sovc:r1 hianch factories fac-tories In various- partr of nerlca, altogether al-together omploylrg s'tild workmen by the thoiio-nd, cal'ed at tho olllco of a forwnidhig fin.i h, xow York, one of whonr partners h a European, and nskcil that tliry su ;gest tho proper prop-er way to Introduce 1,1s files In En-rope. En-rope. This factory rn-tc-8 7,000 varieties vari-eties of flies, and enjoys a great reputation repu-tation throiiRhout the mechanical world of America. The a;ont selected select-ed was a European, who had been Americanized, who b?llevod in tho virtues of the llles lie was to sell, and Who wnfl fnmltln,. ...Id. .,. . "no was ramiiiar with the great opportunities op-portunities In Industrial Europe. Ilo wont from ono mnuiifacttirlng town In the old world to another, and to demonstrate tlio superior quality of the American Implement, look similar European tools and filed right through them, to the astonishment of foreign mechanics and factory owners. Or-dors Or-dors begnn to go to America by cable, says a writer In Apploton's Magazine. It vas not long before ono request roaehed Nov Kn ' id from Gormnny for 100.00-' !!.. . good salesman and su perh ., bad done tho work. Tho enhir of tho nsunt was rnlscd to $2(.liW .1 vear and expenses, nnd tho Am;!er:i pie to-day Is furthering fur-thering the enristHK-'lvi' ,- r of overy mechanical center In ":i,'o. Con-trnst Con-trnst that niasicrfiil ic o: .1 with tho fiasco of 1 lie American who spent $2,000 to Introduce corn medicine. Into Japan, only to discover that tho multitudes mul-titudes of that empire wear no BI1003 and consequently have no corns. |