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1907. a ;g 11 n i i i"n"7t W-.l'y.u. a 7v ' tf. o, i o a A-uvi ." ':v 'I n n ,n x j m n n n: n i q n i t " u, g.'t a u n '.Tr,r c " a;" u a r. fl'"'t ji, i n g-r 'i n; arr rr t't n " zhj. c;;::co: su;;day .journal, i-c:;tland, Sunday r.:o:N::TG, aiiul How Harris W oh His Point;; Success Story of the Mines. By Chacll ARRIS wu tand1ng Hone at th pit's mouth., Tb picture before blm was not attractive, even la full glare of the sun, and now the darkness made - it all the more desolate and gloomy. He bad corae to take a last look at the old : Charles mine.' , , Harris had been, the brain, the will, the soul of this black bole In the around. Now, ' alter be had spent the best part of his life in this dark vein of the earth; now, when ; destruction was Impending, he was, to be held back; his ambition and enorgy were to be crushed, destroyed by a man who could not see or understand the strange new forces that had shouldered their way Into the coal ' Industry,. " ,.; . , . , The Charles mine was owned by John' Wells, a man of the old school of mines and . mining, and not to be counted on to hold his ' own in the competitive method of modern mining. For year Harris had aspired to ' the position of superintendent, snd now that " ' be had attained the dream of bis ambition by hard work, he was to be replaced by Doug las Wells, the erratic son of the owner. , A Harris ttood before the old mine the ' one great desire of hi Ufa came to him . for power and authority. With these two- , weapons bo knew he could fight a good bat tle for the old mine. He believed be could . find a way to increase the1 capacity of the -Charles mine beyond that of the nearby Bher burn mine, and put the old mineVn a paying . bssla, v.v ...'.".. ;,'. . ::::;: . ( Harris Longs for Powers JVV. But without the power to do, to make his energy count, It would be from breaker boy to' breaker boy. - The thought of this fate burned hlsbrain11ke fire. There came to him the true meaning of the Ufa's work of many a good coal miner. 'Starting as break-' r boy It was a long pull to a full fledged miner: then as age comes on and the miner is weakened by some disease incident to mine' work, h begins to drop down, rung by rung., over the same bumble ladder by which he climbed up. ,- When. I do go down," though Harris, Ms whole soul ablase at the injustice being Jieaped on Mm, " it will be by tb gravity of human Bfe, and not by a push from the 'foot of - a detestable, drunken 'dreamer' beet" : ,::'.".;.-!';. ' Harris Wt the mine and' found Wall sit-', ting on the veranda at his palatial resi dence. ' .:.'. . 'V., -,' r Mr. WeM." said Harris. Tve come to eH you that t must leave you. t believe you understand why it Is Impoestbls for me : to remain longer." ,.' ' j,v " I'm sorry to hear that. Harris, for I need ,' you here; but I can't afford to spend money trying to keep bp with your modern Ideas and ambitions as a superintendent. And be- . Idea.' exclaimed the old man, " f believe my so has struck his gait, lie never lacked anythJn except steady application: h aU f way had a good head, and now I'm going to give, him a chance." ... .": t:., v'f J ..'''; i."';.;;"s Wort i Again at Minr. . , "The next Morning found Harris seeking,: work as a common miner at the Bherburn mines, He bad heard of the wonderful oper- atlona of this mine, but be never understood . what it meant until be saw It with his own yes. It was a wonderful revelation, for v. ' 'the Bherburn mine was a model example of ' electrical mine working. Here were modern "mechanical coal nutters and coal drills oper- ( sted iby electricity and compressed , air. -K very car of coal was hauled from the mine by electrical locomotive. The traction sys ,' tern of electrical baulags was a part of the -'. equipment which tnade thoughts fly through ' Orders of Boss Not Kno the Rules and Know the Rules and By Edwin I OUNQ man. If you always obey orders you ars apt to remain at the foot of the ladder.,' .-' . ' Probably you have heard a lot of talk about the cardinal virtue of obe- - dience, 'but tt Is a fact Oiat th men who have disobeyed orders the most frequently are th men who got to be junior partners- provided they discriminated properly mthelr -riUnhMllanr. disobedience. One ther was a night fir alarm from ' th Dee ring harvester works, upon, the north branch of the Chicago river. ' When the fire , engines arrived they found th night watch- . . man on guard at a twelve foot gat. " Ye can't com In her," he declared. 4 ; Ol have me ordeV nivlr to open trl gat .'kfter slvln at' night.: Tes'B bar to drive j 'round on Clybourn .r-vinue, or I lee stbay out" . 1 ' ; .' ' ' .''..' '''"" ' Common Sanio Is tao Hoy. . The firemen smashed In th gat with their f ae.' nd th next morning the. watchman. ' wa discharged because h obeyed orders literally. ' "' " . ' . Rule ar for peopt with llttl brain , power. Th quick, astute, self -thinking man ." the uni) who gets ahead In the world le . the mexj who makes his own rules.. WUhlii ; certain limits, ot course, he refuses to be bound by th petty restrictions which pre ' vent him from 'exercising common sensot 'After an, common sense I th key to the whoJ thing. .If yoor mployr-refuses to... allow you th right to develop that neces sary quality, th us of your brains, then; quit him. Ther ar other employers who" ar looking for you who want your brain, Refuse to be a mere rule worker. - ' , '. .'- . " .''"',':' ' Ralos Shold Rot Bo Doomo. lafltxlblo. Marshall Field,' In talking of th young ' men In his smploy, one said tomei ';." , " How seldom do w find a young man who ' will go ahesd and do a thing do It right! If he I given orders, ho Wilt follow them ' as bHndly as a mule follow a towpath, or . else he. will neglect them altogether and be Indifferent. Ninety-nine men out of a hurt- ' dred Will stick to a rule when they know the best Interests of their employer requlr them to euepend It for thxoce, or modify ' : It to fit conditions. They will offend cus ' tomers and drive away trade, What wended , most In the commercial world Is young men of perception who ar not governed hy rote. 'We want men to do things right, and when a man see that a law of his establishment PsxncooLst. Harris' tver working brain, and these germ thoughts stuck. . ; It was Ilka 'living in a new world. Never ' before had he realised the efficiency and economical production of Coal by electrical power, and mechanical devices. As a com mon miner,' with ths bead Of a superln tendent hi saw plainly that the efficiency of this mine wss so great that the saving obtained In the end Increased the profits and enlarged the output. Hew his heart glowed to see the clean methods of machine produc tion of foal. " ." - v . 1Ie went into .the eooFnlght air, where he could give freedom to his feverish brain. Whlla fighting the battk that wsgud in bis mind there shot .Into his brain a plan of how : ha might save the Charles mine and all his -;. friends and fellow-workmen from the dls- , ester which wa Inevitable with the dosing of the Charles mine. The plan wa based ' on a hard fight with the two narrow mlnded owners of the Chsrles. , " . .-. -"": V ' ' ; i ' ' ' Sec ft Way to Sacc4. ' All 4h seed of thought, th full years of scheming, the knowledge and experleno of life he had been acquiring everything ther was in him came surging up Into on grand purpose. How It came t him of a sudden, born of on llttl msrk, which bad burned Itself Into his brain, was beyond sxplanatlon. . Planning and scheming, b went back to his room, where be sat In deep thought until a late hour. The be wrote a Utter, etplaln lng In detail all the conditions pf th Charles mine.' " ' v i . : ' sA. few days latef . atranger Visiter this mine, and th rigorous examination he put th eld ui In through mystified th mlns. workers. ' H asked quesUons about th ex tent of area, how it opened, depth of rfoal, dally output, water supply, and a hundred othsf thing ' . -That evening th stranger had a long talk with Harrl at th houL They sat with heads Ugthr. talking In low tones, for an hour or so; then thy mad their way toward Wells' bom. ,''.'" Until late Into the night th four men fought r wordy battle In John Wells' library. Th itranger was putting Op a good fight and hitting th tin hard. . Th fact and figures he hurled, at the two Wall operators de feated every argument they could put up. . , - ;',- .., .-. '-,. . '. ; ,- - Bdcomtt Bogg Oaet Mar. John Wells was so set In th waysof th old school that It wss som tlm befor b could be mad to see th Inevitable danger of sticking to old methods, vn When It wa pointed out to him that the lives of his work men were Imperiled by the methods he used. :'. The man who had so mysteriously Visited the Chsrles had obtained data on which to es-t tlmate the cost of a mechanical plant: f proper slss for thja particular mine. , When John Well did got his syes opened to the full meaning and Value of a complete mechanical equipment for Ms mine, he re' grettrd that Jhls .obstinat Idea never had been challenged before. . ' . 1 ; '. With the land mapped out: with boilers, engines,' dynamos, compressors, wiring, piping, undercutting machines, electric loco-, motives, etc., all formed Into-a complete plant and turned over with machinery Inoperatlon, Harris, the reinstated superintendent, -felt that It bad been worth while to drop from superintendent to common miner and tbes be obliged to fight his way back again. - Th one little mark that had flashed through Harris' troubled mind and burned Itself Into hi brain on that eventful night after a few days' labor In the Bherburn mine was a cer tain trade mark which stood out with force ful mesnlng on every engine and machine. Alway s Sacred. Why They Make 'Emi When to Break Em. M; Woolley. would be clearly wrong In a given esse, should follow his judgment . - " v.. he Marshall Field' Missouri CItrk. ' "Once a young fellow cam up from a little town In' Missouri and wa given a. place s clerk In the Marshall Field Co. retail -et ore. A few days afterward a cus- .0me good, an hour . . . previous, cam carx ana snowea tnat tne goods were damaged. She only had half an hour to catch -a train for her home, several hundred miles from Chicago. It wa clearly Axatnat th rule to exchange goods without ' th O. K. of th department manager, who was not within ready call. - The clerk from -Missouri Instantly exchanged the . goods, wrspped them, himself to save time, and sent th oustomer away in tlma to mak th train. .'';' .", -,,'''"'";'. "This young' man now Is a European buyer tor th firm. He doe things right, regardless of petty rule. He 1 not a hid-; bound man, but Is big enough to take re sponsibilities. , W want that kind of men. They ar sure to Oil th high positions." Young man. If you have staid for a long time In one position, the chances ar that It Is because you have been too much a plod ding, obedient spiritless sort of man, afraid to mak a move unless somebody told you to do this or do that Get out of the rut. ' 'V ''" ',. Tragic Rosnlt of Obeying! Ralos. ; ; ' t remember distinctly an aggravated ln stano of rule obedience which cam wlthjn my ' personal observation. A child drank poison and It frantic mother tried to call a physician by telephone. The party line hap pened to be busy and the parrotlike operator refused to break the connection. ' ' ." It's against the rule," she asserted. "You'll have to wait tilt th other party is through. i . . ' . , ', . . Th child jdied because th operator was bound hand and foot by a rule made tin gov era ordinary, and not extraordinary, condi tion. Afterward, a a newspaper many I Interviewed the manager of th telephone company and asked htm If the girl would have been discharged had she given thVcon nectlon desired. He sighed. . . The greatest trouble w hav," he replied. " Is because our employee have no power of discretion." I will venture to say ttiat this manager himself held hi position-because he had disobeyed a Jousend rules. V 71 If Words Will Not Sell Goods; Hov College Man Fell Dowii : By iH; 0' T late year w have been bearin g argu ment pro and . eon on th value of a college education for a man tntendtag to enter business. I will not attempt - to argue on either .one side or th. other, but simply will rlat my own ex perlenc. ;.'- . .-, ' - - ;. I waJtbora and raised) In Chicago. - Ooa trary td general opinion,' ther ar Just a many " hayaeed " In Chicago as In ths rural dtstrleta By. this I mean that If a fresh young Chicago boy t plaoed In gurrouadinn that ar nsw and Strang to him h. will be Just much lost aa "Reuben Oluo" On hi first visit to town. Until tha Mm t left oIlg I had no Idea of th condition that prevail la th country or small town , If Phad been asked to de : scrib a fanner I would hav pictured an old farmer as a man with long, tangled whisker, with a straw In his mouth, a battered straw or phig hat oa hi head, a lone linen duster, soiled trousers, and ? congress gaiter a" II Invariably carried a cat-pet beg and said , "taown and k entry," and tried to corner the gold brick market A young farmer had a pleasant, silly mil, a snippy llttl derby hat, a cost too short and trousers that missed hit boot top by several Inchea ; ... , ' "' . . o . v. ; ; .; " , - Cltr Boy's lda of Farmer. Th feminine member wer different t v Would hav described " mother " a an old. Whit haired, bespectacled lad, slthef fat or thin, who said " Naow, Hiram " and kept' 'desperate hold of her husband' coat tails. Tha daughter of th family was f a quit unllk peies. How So wonderful a sreatur occurred In. such a family was a mystery . that I not only never tried to solve but which ' never occurred to me. She always was " buxom." . I sever hav found any clas or ,rao of people so invariably buxom as this ' beauteous farmer's daughter. Oh was red cheeked, wore a short skirt, and spent her. days In milking cow and boxing th ear of th hired hands. All people outside of th cities wer to be found ln one of these four " classes, i '.. . ' ' -' ; , . As I attended college In a large city I had ' no reason to chsngs my opinion of country 'people. . '''',' y 'i- ''.'; : .While in college I made a special study of i psychology and oratory- I had the great, honor of winning several debates. In fact, . before th end of my college career I was recognised as one of the bestrdebaters not., only In school but In the'rival colleges. " . Now, befor the and of my course (urged by several gentle reminders from my par-, snts) I began to look around In order to de- -eld what wa to be my future career. In toxicated by the glory coming to me from -my debating, I had taken a course that : helped m in this, but It did not, a I began to perceive, give m any. special training for the serious business of life.". : . - ; . -' ' 'l '."'-.' ...' ; Loams Oratory In College. - A my oratory aeemed to be th only thing of value to me acquired in college, the only thing that I really knew much about I de cided to try to mak us of thi gift. It oc curred to me that ae I knew the various steps of argument and could convince the Judge in a debating contest, why, then, could I not convince a buyer of th value of any certain line of goods? I thought that I would get a Job as traveling salesman and bring into play my well known ability as an orator. I had read of th large amount of money made by traveling salesmen. With the ad vantage over them of knowing each step of a convincing argument, I thought a goldn fu ture was awaiting me. ' , Befor th commencement day had dawned I had applied to the " brain broker " for a job a drummer. For th small sum of 125 they found me a position aa salesman for th " Eureka acetylene gas plant." I wss given a run out ot Chicago through th small towns of Indiana, i . .-.:' Th first town I struck wa a small Indiana town on th Pennsylvania railroad. I won't tell you the name, but if I Mv to be as old Insanity Nurses Face Perils; Made to Struggle with Death. 'ftBy Mary Watson. ; ' EW people appreciate the difficulty trained nurses sometime hav with delirious or Insan patient. : In th days of my apprenticeship, when I was -' , glad to take anything that came along, I was offered 110 a week to go to Wisconsin and take charge of a woman who wa af- Dieted with a nervous disease. She wa -somewhat flighty, bat never bad been re garded aa dangerous. I bad a pleasant horn and th dally drives wer such a treat to m that I settled down with gratitude to enjoy the peaceful life In small place. :.,..' .'.- . a - a v. ' '.. : 'X Wll Wnim Soiios Patlont, 1 On day when every on In th house ex cept my patient and myself wa at th county fair I noticed that she had th pre monitory symptoms of a spell, and I prepared to give her th regular quieting powder pre scribed by the physician. Thi waa about fiv grain of sulphate of morphia. 8h waa accustomsd to th drug and could take this amount with safety. . Wa wer In th dining room at th time, and I got on of th powders to glv her. I laid the paper containing th morphia on th -table and turned away to get a glaas of water. I heard a low laugh behind me. and when 1 looked back I saw that ah bad taken up th powder In on hand and In bar other hand set ' wa holding a large carving knife. . . Bh looked st me exultantly, as If she had thought of a good Joke and was prepared to play It A I looked In her eyes I could ZoIIoli - s. as Uethueelab' grandfather I never will for-' get th town. ' , ' .. v.. , ' Trylaf Flno Wordt'oa Farmtr. I dropped off th trsln on May morning 'With my sample carefully packed. I ex pected, of courss, to meet with th farmer as I have described. I wa surprised to see that Mr. Jones, ths drat man on my list, ' was dressed much as ths people I had known .In Chicago were. After recovering from my surprise I cheerfully tackled him. Of course 1 hav forgotun most ot my oration, bull remember with-what usto I let toes this peroration on th poor, unsuspecting Jones. v '.... j -t .-. , - " air, I have called n you thi bright May morning to addres you on th subject of lighting. (Now for few compliments to get my audience with ma). I am sure a progres slva, capable, and aergetie business mat, living a you do in such a beautiful city, will ft It your duty to embellish your store with th most modern of the works of maa. " Now, sir, th subject of Illumination la an Important on. . Light I something w cannot do without. (Just a touch of humcr I lighten, th discourse.) It Is not a light subject, a you may suppose, but a grave, an earnest, and a pressing on. Bear with me -but a Httl while, my dear lr, whilst I run hastily through th history of lighting tine history first known to us. ',..,,.". ; , , Castomtr riots from Spooctv ' "Many, many atone ago, when maa wa In his Infancy, a creature of darkneea, but ' little separated from th wild beasts that roam In th Jungl, light was unknown. We may plotur th prehistoric man, brutish and uncouth, crouching low aa ever and anon' : " But Mr. Jones politely' explained that be. had to answer the telephone. As he did not return immediately, in fact he didn't return at all, I continued my oration to the ' Clerks who were present, hoping to influ ent them o that they would put in a good word for me. The clerk ceenied to be much mor lntetv ested In my speech than Mr. Jonee was. In. deed, they took a lively interest although I must confess they were a little too willing to see the light touches of humor I bad laboriously worked In'. I remember there .were faint cheers when I reached this part: .; " On the one hand we have the gross bar barian tolling with Ma tJndor. On the other the enlightened American easily Illuminat ing tils hardware store with ths Eureka acetylene plant. Gentlemen, where there la light there Is civilisation. I repeat It, gentlemen, whrr6 there Is light there 1 civill- . sation,' there is Industry, there is an uplift ing, a broadening of the soul." . .'.".; " "'..' : :;v! . Forensic Eloqaenco Uaavatllng;. Much, to my sorrow I failed td make a sale hers. This was due, I thought, to Mr. Jones not returning. I mad several mor attempt that day without selling anything. Towards the end of the day I noticed In the crowd that had collected around . me (everybody seemed to be there out the pro prietor) several of the clerks I had addressed . earlier In th day. . This aeemed to m to be -highly encouraging. , The follow ing morning after beginning my ipeech to a Mr, Wambgamt. a saloonkeep er. I heard a small boy outside shout, " HI. feller, hurry up, h le In here," And a short time later several of ths men I had spoken a the previous day came In.. Befor th day wa up I had quit a following. Men ' and boy tagged me around from place to place. This wss rather embarrassing aa they all crowded Into each place I visited.' At on place, after beginning my. peroration,' the i boss sputtered out, What sort of monkey business hi this?" and promptly retired. . After four day of notoriety that increased ' daily, and without making a sale, I pulled up stakes and continued to the next town. It took me nearly two weeks to And that college oratory Is of no use when one wishes to sell " Eureka acetylce ga plants." ' read the Whim that had salsed her, and I wa not surprised to hear hersay: "This time. I'm going to mak you take your own medicine. " :', '" ':.'. "!'.:' V,' - ' folsonotf at Point of Knifo. -1 tried to sooth her andl to reason with her, but all to vain. My persuasions only caused her to grow mor exolted.. Bh ad vanced upon me with the knife, and as she was fkrg and strong and now thoroughly angry I was too frightened to move. . - ' I knew that for me the five grains of mor phia was a dangerous, perhaps a deadly, dose but menaced by the knife I took It, and even humbly licked the paper In which it had been folded. Then she was satisfied and her good nature returned. " Tou have made me drink thi now get m th mustard and water If you can," I begged faintly. ,.',,. , , .......,. . ;. ..'''' ,'' , Savosl by Following: 0t Play. - Hrr fancy wa atruck. She was perfectly willing to play th nurse for roe and hurried ibout th bouse aa If sh understood that my Ufa depended upon her speed) and Judgment. She gave me the mustard and water and such Other remedaee ' a k could suggest or sh could think of, and befor th drug had a chance to take effect th emetic had worked thoroughly. I eniffered only slight Inconven ience. - But after that I ws oaretul never to turn ray back upon her when w wer alone, ' . ; t ,' ' - ' A .' . WealthBring'sIts OvnW 02s; Hard to Give Money Wisely. . By a R.ich Man. . I AM unfortunate enough to be wealthy. I did not mak eh money. , It wa left to me, uherefor thi II not a success story. - My wealth la great enough to . make my nam well known. ' Few per-.' sons know me, and in that I rejoice,' for it lve mo the chance to enjoy myself among my friend who do not worry me. Certain duties fall upon a man who baa wealuh, H may be as hard hearted and Conscienceless and unfeeling a be Is said to be, but even so he ba duties which hi con science Impels him to attend to. Before I was wealthy I had friends. I could mingle with them In perfect good fellowship. On -hundred of occasion I have heard fellows wish they were rich and explain graphically all the good they would do. A I expected to be rich some day I mad no rash asaerttons, bub give myself credit with planning even then to try t do great good when I earn Into my wealth. Perhapa I have succeeded In doing some good. Psrhsps I might do even mora good, but for th fear of doing harm. . - ,. . . " "r. I" Whan I first Inherited my fortune I em- :'lin.A J' ' T. ' . "7,7- incuneo towara sociailam. and really a sclenttfl humanitarian, to assist ma In char- . Itable works. If It bad become known that I wa seeking chances to do good, I would have been ewampsd with application In a ; day. ';". ,,'., 0 0 ' Charity Is Oantforont Bnslnoss. '' ', He acted for me in Investigating ease and w discovered tbat at least 95 per cent of all cases we Investigated wer unworthy of help and that at least 10 par cent of thoee W did try to help wer damaged by the pecuniary assistant. I came to th conclu sion Shea that charity Is dangerous busi ness, and) ttiat those who most nsed and de- ' serve assistance scarcely can b found. . It I small wonder that after a time, I decided' to limit all giving tov cases discov ered or heard Of accidentally and then only after investigation of th most careful kind. After a Mm I proceeded to do good scien tifically and decided upon the following things to do with mony: To educate boys, especially street boy and office boy who showed symptoms of bright nee and good qualities. . To have my representative visit hospitals and pay for treatment of patient who ap plied for admission and wer turned away because too poor to enter th hospital. To glvs temporary assistance in thform of loan to young men stranded in the city and looking for work. .' ., ' Ultimately, I decided the entire fortune should go Into a colonisation and Irrigation scheme in th southwest but that is yet a dream. . - . Man Havo Million Schomos. Having pointed out th few difficulties that beset a rich man who ardently desires to as sist Ms fellow men I wtH sketch brte fly soma of th propositions to which I hav listened. The most Iraportunat person that besets and dog th footstep of a rich man Is th man who has an Idea that with little finan cial backing, he can get extremely wealthy. For the reason that he seeks selfishly after millions and b money mad I generally de cline (d assist him, being certain that wealth In hla hand would do more harm than good. When I receive one oflhese men personally I begin, after listening to his plan, bysaytag: " What will you do with the million when you get Itr ' Not one of these visionaries ba given that a thought. They want tbs million for thsmselve and not for human ity. : '- .'.- ' . , 1 ; One man cam near answering. Tears leap- . ed Into his eye when- I ssked the question, and then ba said, thickly t " I'd let th missus handle It 6 he'd know how to do good with It" r I bscked that fellow, but w failed, and he now 1 running a nioe little machine shop I built for him, and Insists on paying Interest on th money. '., .. But what I started to tell wa about th wonderful proposition that ar advanced by Bossford Almost Got Iftch; Rode Good Horse to Death; By Robert Winter.. BOSSFORD la th young man who talks. Ther ar several young men of whom this may be said, but not ths wsy it may b said of Bossford. Bossford Is not A young man who talks, but Th on. . Which is a fin distinction, but a large one. Wherever Bonrford goe he I known aa Th Tslkr. He goes everywhere ; and meet everybody, and it I hla talking that take him around, for, save for the facile tongue which I given him: Bossford t is s poor as a church rat. H wa born poor. He hs remained poor. A few weeks ; ago he started to remedy this condition.. Ho was well on th way to do to, when. In com mon English, "people got next".- And so' Bossford still la poor. . ; ' '. - Th get rich Idea began honestly enough. A friend met Bossford la the street and said: ' " Hello, Boss, old man. Just the fellow I .want to tee.. Going to give a little dell , eateseen party up at th bouse tonight snd ' 1 was scared to death for fear that I wouldn't find you. Been without anybody , to help ' things go smooth, then, you know. But ,1 ' now that I've found you I begin to breath easy again. ' Tou' 11 come, won't your Got to hav you, yoo know, old man. ' Party wouldn't be anything without you.- Told a lot ot people that you-'r coming, and they'll look forward to meeting you with esger ears. . : At T, please." v. . ; ' ; -- -.I-' .- a ' '. - -' v Picks Vf $60 lasy Monoy. Bossford thea and there told th truth. Said b: " I'" awfully sorry, but I can't com. I v got a lecture date for that night at the Fortieth Century club. Got to go up and amuse th Important people ot th city. Can't possibly go to your place cost me IM ; If I did." ;, - " Tbe friend was rich. He was ambitious so cially. He knew hi limitation as an enter tainer and he knew Bossford' capacities. He reached Into hla vest pocket and extracted therefrom three 120 bill. "Plsss come with me," be pleaded, thruat , Ing th money Into Boasford's hand. " I t these wouluVb millionaire who seek a finan cier to back them. ' ' . .; ; a ' a '.' ". , ' -tavontora All Are CranEs. First, thsr ar th Inventors cranks ll ' but often man devoted entirely to their one idea and mor than probably wasting Ufa on tbat Idea. This olass I generally strive to discourage In the most practical way, and that is by spending a llttl money to hire an expert to examine the Invention and report on their practicability and their prob able utilitarian worth. Not one In five is practical and not on in ten of the practical one are worth Inventing. If I am convinced that his ldtaa ar practical and worth some thing to humanity, I advance money enough to start th man In business or to protect his' Interests. ' .. .,''-, Tha second class ar the schemers and pro moter From this source com th wildest lot of Ideas ever advanced by any one. ' One of the reoent cases wa that of a man who cam to m to assist blm In a colonisa tion scheme. H Wanted to colonize an Is land, preferably th 1st of Plnea, with Amer ican negroes, and, whlla developing the re sources of ths Island, to settle the negro ques tion. I hinted that Liberia waa not an entire success, and gently told him that he could not get the negro to leave the United States, "I've thought that all out," he. said, en thusiastically. "We'll raise watermelons, . andl have drawn plans for a big opera house. All we'll have to do Is to hire William and Walker to play there every night and they'll all go." . .' ', : ' '"'. ' '.' ' ' V: ' -V 'laas Moantain a MUo Hlga. . Last summer a man came with a scheme to build a mountain a mile high within ten milea of Chicago, With real snow on the summit, real Alpine chalets, abysses, gla ciers, and all. ' He had It figured out that the trolley and roadhouse privileges would . pay 8 per cent on th cost, and that much more could be made by using the summit ss -a cold storsgs plant and for harvesting ice. He had plans all drawn for Ice slides from the summit, ski and toboggan courses, ami all. Hs expected It would take ten years to build ths mountain, but he waa willing to wait end still is waiting. . ' - Another freak came with a wave motor idea. I have examined perhaps 200 wave ' motors, but thi on had them all beaten. All the man wanted wa to build a combination float and breakwater along the entire water front of Chicago, to supply the city with all heat light and power. Ho had over f.vm worth of bin prints, made, to his order, to show that th scheme wss feasible. . :.:.'. ., . . ' . : ,!' Traction Problem Is Easy. - Solution of ' traction problem ran b found very day by any one who has the rep utation of being rich If he only will listen to th ideas of collets. My secretary has tab ulated about forty different solutions of Chi cago's traction problem. Kndlees chains of" rolling chair propelled by central power sta tion caught my fancy because the ortglnaioi ' of the idea added detail which, made th--prospect of that" kind of traction delightful,.'' He put in foot warmers . and adjustable shades and awnings, and , had ' a scheme . whereby the rider, by merely extending a . board, would receive any paper or magazine desired from the wayside stands. It took two days to get rid of that man. . On Idea, which Interested me vastly, tir.r been Jost, because the promoter , waa too much afraid I would steal his secret to U entirely frank. H refused to reveal the Inner working until he aw th money, but : th outlln of th scheme wa enormously interesting. ! HI plan was to educate boyu and girls practically Instantaneously thus saving them all the time lost in school anti college. ' ; : r . ,1' ..' '"'','. - Altogether th rich man who really'would Ilka to help haa hi troubles. Even now I am forced to bide my Identity for fear a ewarm ot person would descend upon me, asklnic ' me to back them In scheme which might help them and hurt a hundred other, ' 1 . got to have you, and wilt protect you from loss." . .. .. : , . i ' .,'.;,.-'.' To oblige a friend Boesford took the 160. and the Fortieth Century club wa informed ' that Mr. Bossford wss too III to lecture. So . Bossford htd an idea.. Next week another -friend Implored him to come to a social , gathering at his reddence. , ; ' . ' ' . " Tou know we've got to have you to make ' things go along smoothly," he said. - Then Bossford begsn to gft rich nuick. . "I'm awfully sorry, but I can t come." he ' . said. I've got a lecture for that night at the Stein and Platter club. Got to go up and . amuse them. Can't possibly go to your place. ' . much ss I d like to. Cost me s.10 if 1 did. and Tm too poor to throw money away like that." - V '.- '-''' ;"' a ' ' a , f : '..,'.- '' Cots His Datss Miitd. This friend also was rich. Moat of th people who Invited Bossford to help them out on their entertainments were rich. Fifty dollars?" said th friend. " H'm. Say. Bossford. Just ss a piece of friendship. If I stand your loss glvs you the flfty will you throw those other people over and come and help me out? Wouldn't ask you, only ws'r friends." ., ' ' " Friendship ' wins," said Bossfnrd, and he nailed th fifty. If Bossford hadn't yielded too much to the promptings ot th get-rlch-qulrk mlcror. h might not be poor today. But he went too far. Itecently he repeated his uanal re gretful declination ot a friend's Invitation, winding up with. " Oot to talk to the Ca hogey Country club that nljht" , The friend In question, looked st hint an l gasped. , "The Cehogey Country club?" he ma t tered. "Why. hang It. man, what il,. v. i meant It's the Cahocey country rtv' r it I'm giving this dinner ti; th..y'r cm , n my place. They're my iwat v at . But Bossford P'd. So he r t',',1 t t ' .' i Kill remain so. Honesty t (U I ' i even for a good taiker. V)