Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-01-21
There is a great deal to be picked up by tramp
ing the roads-leaders keep close to nature.
A CHEMISTRY ANALYSIS.

Men can be divided into personal
qualities just as a grain of wheat
can be divided into elements.
There is organic and inorganic
chemistry. and we might have third
chemistry dealing with the elements
| of personality.
The only reason for giving these ell
ements of the man himself is to state
the subjects to be studied The fruit
full part of research is the finding of
| useful information on the daily
sources of the desirable qualities.
In an aggressive effort to grow de
| sirable forces the undesirable are
overcome, displaced, crowded out and
| starved
Few men are perfect, rather no
man Is perfect" few men approach
perfection. Are not the strong tempt.
ed to be dishonest and the weak
| tempted to inactivity?
Certainly men should learn to work
| together, to help each other. to look to
each other for each others wisdom.
| The plunger and the over-conserva-
| tive should recognize peculiar quail
| ties of each other and unite to make a
strong and very successful team.
Inherited tendency, environment
and education compound a man just
as a chemist would compound a prod
uct of the laboratory.
Desire and reason enable man to
resist, counterfeit and conquer en-
emies within and around him. Have
you noticed that some very strong
men physically are most particularly
tempted to be mental imitators, neral
towards and treacherous friends? I'm
less they know this. and know how to
fight the tendencies, they become vic,
tins of them.
Very weak men, physically, are
tempted to seek escape from physical
| demands, and unless they recognize
| their enemy some distance away and
fight it skillfully it will make them
| trouble, it will make them slaves.
In going among all classes of work
ers and all degrees of mental altitude,
| | find some men are unconscious spe-
cialists in the management of them
selves. They have had the compan-
| ionship of wise men and absorbed
wisdom and thus acquired intuition,
Some become wise also by getting
| down and helping others up.
young man alighted from a train
and had just twenty-five cents in his
pocket This money he paid the hack
man to carry him to his uncle's home
The young mans father was a poor
business man. The uncle was a good
business man. The young man became
a good business man and very sue
cessful lender and collector of money
The young mans mother may have
| given him commercial elements OF
success, but the uncle's instruction
year after year, must be recognized
as of great value A banker told me
| that a certain amount of executive
ability could be acquired by ihstruc
ton and attention.
An advertising concern starts with
a half million dollar capital and loses
/ II. Another concern starts with three
thousand dollars and makes hall
/ mllllOH. why hoN w
| worthy of careful investigations and
beginners should respect reports that
are unbiased.
Some claim that unless there is q
man inside with sufficient indepen
dent ability there is nothing outside
of a concern which can lead 1t to per
manent success. Can a man with
nearly enough ability acquire neces
sary amount? Yes, he can, If he is
willing to go at it in the right man
| ner.
A man comes to town with foul
million dollars and loses all of 1t. An
other man starts on four dollars anc
builds up a successful business. The
details of the elements of such cases
contain basic truth men should know
more about And to all such these
letters are endeavoring to reach
Some days the climbing is slow ant
the products small, but the latter are
beginning to amount to something
| What you put down in black anc
white and add to will help you SEE
more and see 1t better also. Why no
start a blank book for basics for your
self to-day?