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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-29
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Of $500, making commission Of $75
for me the first week.
My employer then wanted to put me
on a salary of $40 week, as I had at
first suggested. OF course, said "nay,
nay"
That was a good many years ago.
But that was the beginning. Since then
I have secured other positions thru
want ads, and one that came to me
thru that medium gained for me the
confidence and friendship of man who
opened many business opportunity doors
for me, and today I am the vicepresi-s
for me, and today I am the vice presi-
million dollar manufacturing corpora
tion.
And, strange to relate, almost every
man for whom I have worked as re-
suit Of want ads, is either a director or.
stakeholder in the company over which
preside. IS. 3. Fox.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-29

other attorneys who are seeking to get
at this man Of business. The preacher
would lose many good text and topic
Of this busy man Of affairs, while it is
simply awful to imagine what would
become Of the DR.. Washington Glad
dens, the Ida M. Tarbells, and the Pro-
lessor Edward Atkinsons were not this
business man sticking to his business
according to business methods.
!. !. I.
From the worldly and yet sober point
Of view a success in any Of the pro-
fessions which makes 100000 income
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-29

small wages. He kept it six years and
contributed to the support of his fam
lily out Of it and at the same time got q
little ahead. This enabled him to 90 to
Buffalo, where he had heard Of the
chance of a better business opening,
and soon after he was made cashier in
the Merchants bank Of Erie county.
fund Of savings reached $1,000 soon
after that.
It was then that the gold discoveries
were made in California. He took ad-
vantage Of them among the first, went
there and opened a general store and es-
tablished an eastern exchange with his
little capital, and cleared $4,000 the
first year. This was the foundation Of
his great fortune which he later made
by his gold bank and his investments in
mines and other property.
!. !. f.
Andrew Carnegie is never tired Of
credit.
"In what manner did you reach out
to establish your present fortune9' he
was asked.
"By saving my money" was the
answer. "I put a little aside and it
served me later in the way Of credit. -
ing millionaire he says, "his income
always exceeds his expenditures. He
begins to save early, almost as soon as
he begins to earn. No matter how
little It may be possible to save, save
that little. The little you have saved
will prove the basis Of an amount OF
credit utterly surprising to you Cap
italists trust the saving young man. ,"
In his book on labor this capitalist
declares that small balance on thu
right side performs wonders. He re
calls how once in tbs history Of hi
own firm credit was kept high during
panic by using $4,000 from re
serve fund that had been laid away ant
came in OPPORTUNITY at the critica
time. every single dollar,' he says
"weighs a hundred fold when credit
tremb1es in the balance.o
i. + +
This is large application Of tn,
habit which Mr.. Carnegie, acting upol
his own precepts, began in the smalles
of ways. J. Orion Kerbey worked sid
by side with him when the two wer'
in their twenties. In speaking of hin
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-29
Saving Key to Success of Young Men

~ NE day young man asked an old
III friend for advice in investing his
III money. He was only getting Sc a
~ "Why, you haven't any money,
have you7' asked the friend.
t 1T have nearly $780," answered the
Soung man.
/ "But how did you save it, You only
You only get Sc now."
GLOW would I spend it7' was the
}nswer. ga few DO oks and 50 much ev-
Try Sunday at church. What else would
/ do with it,"
The young man was Schwab, the
teel king, and at that time he didn It
Understand why his friend, after q
,urst Of uncomfortable laughter, said:
i'Boy, you're all right; you've got a
luture.'
Except that In most cases they be-
~San earlier even than Schwab, an In
ident similar to this can be recalled
+ all men who have grown rich. In the
;dvice which they hand out to young
ing "must be'' Of success. At the
anne time there is an interesting d.
ersity Of view as to reasons and meth
DIS Of doing it.
It Is to avoid the humiliating and de-
loralizing habit Of being "broke" that
Darius 0. Mills warns men to save.
There Is no one SO helpless as man
rho is 'broke,' no matter how capable
e may be, and there is no habit SO
'etermintal to his reputation among
'usiness men as that Of borrowing small
hms Of money. This cannot be too
alphabetically impressed upon young
len.
+ i +
"Only the wealthy and not many Of
hem can afford to indulge in expen.
We habits. How much less then can
le man with only few dollars in his
ocket. No one can acquire fortune
Mess he makes start, and the habit
thrift which he learns in saving his
rst $500 is Of inestimable value later
- It is not the money but the habit
;hich counts.
In Mr.. Mills case the money, as vel
the habit, turned out to be Of in
alculable benefit, and he began to save
is first $1,000 just in time: It wal
lille he was still boy at North Sa
m that he got clerkship in store al
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-29

possible exacts at the Same time the
maximum Of individual effort and CON
centration. tying the professional to
the environment Of his profession.
The man Of business whose establish
ment may make for him only this
100000 minimum finds his personality
SO little a necessity that he may leave
his affairs for indefinite periods, con-
fident that his ieutenants will carry on
the established routine perhaps as well
as If he were there. He has his out
ings, travel recreations, and scores Of
diversions that are denied the profess
sional man whose income may be as
much.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-29

YYYITHIN a generation something
NkR has come over the American
wv public making the professions
wv secondary in Importance to bust
AA ness when the two fields are
considered for possibilities for. the
young man. Once father in business
was Set from the beginning upon lead
ing his promising son into a profession:
To-day the ambitious father in business
encourages his sons to enter business,
s taking the slightest consideration Of the
Hovercrowded professions." -.
Every little while the story is in print
show the athletic son Of big business
man, fresh from Harvard OF. Yale, has
entered the ''works'' Of his father 8
from tho ground up. He puts on a
spair Of overalls, q leather apron, hob
onailed shoes, and a workman 8 cap,
c probably going thru the "works' to
cthe utter GENERALIZATION of such "fel-
olow workers. as may be in his route to
short cut business accendancy.
+ + +
Perhaps no one example in American
life has been 80 much written about in
o&his respect as was the young Cornelius
fVanderbilt When Cornelius's father
finally had to let go Of things, the
ayounge Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was
gthe favored ono in the will. Poor Cor
nelius was left with measly little $lO,::
married the daughter Of rich banker
twho was not quite rich enough.
!, But, nothing daunted, young Cor.
lnelius put on his leather apron and
lsooty face, went into the shops and be-
lgar to turn out inventions that would
shelp locomotives get there quicker than
ALFRED Gwynne g fastest auto racer. He
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have made rolling stock more profitable
ION rebate principles. Then he seems
TO have cleaned up, put on evening
dress, ard had such nice time during
Prince Henry's visit to this country
that Henry's brother wanted Cornelius
Ito como over to the court Of Berlin
logged out in diplomatic fnery to beat
the German band.
This present point Of view regarding
business career for the young man Of
the business ancestry seems to be basec
on the fact that once coupled up with
o. big business which employs q cor
;poration lawyer all the time, and ever
s3or time and a half, any sort Of young
mar ought to be able to pick up as
side line any possible desirable thing II
the professions, the arts, the Derby, o.
along the Riviera.
And the soberest, saddest fact In thu
new world is that this young man can
1t is this sad, sober fact that one Of
these days may leave the rich. rich ele
ment in society to the employment O.
q $3.50 year surgeon and a fddlins
!. $1,000 a year lawyer, to say nothing o
Its having to dress UP and hear Sun
day sermon from a preacher who is to-
= poor to risk turning around and facins
The other way in even his best bib AM
(. tucker.
4 At the present time there are few
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-29

That job looked good to me, and all
but had it tucked away in my vest
pocket after getting shave, shine, and
substantial meal. I chad it in my
mind
To be well groomed and comfortably
fed gives one courage, and I had plenty
stronghold Of the publisher. After
talking to a young, clean cut, intelli-
gent, magnetic man for a few minutes
I was more than ever satisfied that his
was the job for me. That he did not
fully agree with me cut no figure.
There was difference Of good round
sum, per week. in our relative ideas Of
worth.
I had no capital to back up a bluff
with, but he did not know that. ]
looked and talked as If I was on easy
street. He never guessed that
wanted that job so badly my heart was
FACILITATING at rate that bid fair to
smother me. needed the place whole
lot worse than he needed to fill 1t.
We haggled on terms, for he seemed
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-29

But the great attraction Of the bust
ness field over the professional life lies
in the tremendous possibilities Of
wealth on the one hand or the phenom-
enally short time in which the quickly
successful man Of business may reach
his goal Of affluence. The professional
year will have been years in prepare 5
ton for his work, and many more years
Of work and waiting to establish him.
self will have followed. In many lines
Of business, however, the stories Of how
men have become millionaires almost in
day are carrying with them the long
columns Of young men who arc enter
ing business much as the explorer in
years past entered the unexplored fast
nesses Of the habitable globe.
The successful father In business -
training his sons for business for tho
reason that business is the source OF
everything which has made up his own
life and satisfied his luxurious fancies.
sity is shown these Injuries and extrav-
agances Of riches on all sides, and he II
asking himself how he may attain them.
The answer is, go into business. And
the young man is going-perhaps, In
deed, urged to it by professional "a
the1.
As an example Of business eontrasted
with profession, the world has just seem
how the immature James Hazen Hyde,
as business man, paid tho compara-
lively insignificant retainer Of 5000
a year to the hoary Senator Chauncey
M. Depew-the man once candidate
for nomination for president Of the
United States and long prominent n
the world as "the typical American. ~
And when Cornelius Vanderbilt u. died
a few years ago, leaving almost un-
counted millions behind him, this almost
lifelong associate in professional way
was left q paltry 100000 by the pro-
visions Of the will.
Looking only at the Vanderbilts, why
shouldn't tho possibilities Of business
riches turn the heads Of tho young and
ambitious7 Cornelius I'D. was left his
inconsiderable $1O,O00,000, but his bust
ness father could leave to the son Al
fred q clean $50, 100000 as a mere start
in business life. And how widely the
influences of millions maysdifuse them
selves among the people.
i. !.
These are some Of tho true fairy tales
Of modern business in the business
world. These are the stories that are
ness father, the heir to business instead
Of adventurer In the professions. Why
should one adventure into an iu-paid
profession when he may'succeed to an
established businessf This is the ques-
ton. The answer may not be rational
but it is dead easy. Jonas Howard.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-29

Almost one-foulth the women Of New
York state. are working for wages,
where twenty years ago a trifle more
than one-sixth were SO employed. Mas
sachusetts reports % per cent of its
female population working for wages.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-29

basement a floor at the yards Io to work up
to rebates and the intricacies Of icing
cars, rather than make Of him a
veterinary surgeon, hot on the track
Of anthrax and lumpy jaws
+ +
Compared with the noble professions,
business is business and then some
more. Today business is business, with
all the profits, and then it becomes. the
patron bountiful or the patron neces-
sitous Of all the overcrowded" pro-
fessions. Business as this patron saint
first endows the colleges Of law, medi-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-29

Four shillings year was the rent Of
fve-roomed house in Henry Wis
time,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-29

Milk has bene 50 much talked about
as conveyance of germs that people
are more particular about it than any
other kind Of food. Yet the ice
dealer is in position not very differ
ent from the milk contractors. He
buys from the owners Of score Of diff
ferent lakes and ponds; he cannot have
personal knowledge Of the condition. of
each little stretch Of water from which
the harvest is cut; yet, If there Is any
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-29

The problems to be investigated are
intensely interesting and intensely prac-
tical. For instance, large milk con-
tractor, serving hundreds Of patrons
in the city, is anxious to know the exact
condition Of his supply, which he buys
from 200 or more diaries and farms.
Not only is it "good business" for
him to make sure he is giving his pa
irons only what is pure. and wholesome,
DDS. boards of health and local author
tiles generally are leading dealers in all
manner Of household supplies to have
closer regard for the quality Of what
they sell than used to be thought NEG
essary.
r + + ,...
The board Of health inspectors have
such enormous quantities Of this, that
ly, they cannot keep the daily supervi'
sion over every shipment that comes
into market. The milkman cannot de.
pend on them to be posted as to how
well his farmers and dairymen are Hv.
ing up to their contracts all the time
So he engages the industrial biologist
to examine his supply for him, find just
how near the standard that part Of il
furnished by each producer is, an6
recommend any measures that will i'm
prove the quality and thereby help hi!
trade. The biologist Is work goes be
yond mere laboratory examination. Of
Samples. He visits each dairy; OBJ
serves the methods it employs, notes it,
degree Of cleanliness and the way i
cares for it's cattle, its cans and it,
buildings; tests the water supply ant
pasturage-for both Of these are know
to have no little effect on the quality o:
milk; and reports that the remedy 70:
the deficiency lies in the hands Of tn
veterinary, the sanitary engineer, o
the farmer and his helpers, as the cas-
may be.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-05-29

Frequent backache and distressing
pains, accompanied by offensive dis
charges and generally by irregular
and scanty menstruation indicate dis
placement or nerve degeneration of
the womb and surrounding organs.
The question that troubles women
is how can a woman who has some fe-
male trouble bear healthy children
Mrs. Anna Potts, of $40 Park Avenue,
Hot Springs, Ark, writes:
NV Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
" During the early part OF my married life
was delicate in health both my husband and
were very anxious for a child TO bless our
home. but had two miscarriages, and could
not carry a child TO maturity A neighbor
who had been cured by Lydia K. Pinkham's 8
Vegetable Compound advised me to try IL. |
did so and soon felt that | was growing
stronger, my headaches and backaches left
me, had no more bearing-down pains, and
felt like new woman. Within year
became the mother of strong, healthy
child the Joy Of our home. Lydia +. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound is certainly a
splendid remedy, and / wish every woman
who wants to become a mother would try it. I"
Actual sterility in woman is very
rare. If any woman thinks she Is ster-
lie, let her try Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and write to Mrs.
Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. Her advice is
free to expectant or would-be mothers.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-05-29
AFTER MORE LIFE BU0YS
FOR USE IN LOCAL WATERS

Commander w. f. Longfellow ~ the
Department OF r. L T. s. Volunteer Life
Saving Corps has just returned from a
trip to the headquarters Of the corps in
New York city where he made arrange
ments 10 receive a part OF the apparatus
which the modest appropriation made by
the assembly will allow. He has been ac-
tive for several weeks In preparing for
the opening of the bathing and boating
season and getting apparatus at the dan
gerous points as soon as they are called
20 his attention. ~
lie has just received several buoys and
a medicine chest which are TO he placed
M Pawtucket 20 guard against recurrep-
ces OF Sundays fatality. and as soon as
possible a crew or two OF trained seamen
will he organized along the water front
there
REQUESTS from the citizens for the safe
guarding Of danger points I'm any part ~
the state are promptly attended 20. and
Investigation made. tho apparatus being
supplied as soon as available and the
officials OF the corps are always glad to
receive applications from volunteer swim
mers who arc interested in the work OF
the organization.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-05-29

RAN into
STONE WALL

Eight persons. four women and four
men were quite badly injured. and three
other men and women all members or
William A Streeter post. No. iS and
streeter corps of Attleboro were severely
shaken up in an electric car accident
which occurred at the Attleboro and Paw
tucket line of the Interstate Consolidated
Street Railway on South Main street yes
terday, shortly after noon.
The electric left the rails and plunged
into n sandbank and stonewall. 1t Is said
that the spread OF the rails, and nat
wheel on the "sloomer'' contributed TO
Those who sustained the most severe
injuries were:
Mrs. l. Marshall Inmsn, who was
thrown on her back suffering hurts TO her
spine and shoulders.
Mrs. Melissa Snow, bruises and severe
shaking up OF her entire system.
Mrs Maggie Hawkins, sprains ana con-
tusions about the body.
Mrs. j. A. Jackson. sprains and
bruises
Granville Smith. injuries to his side
Robert Harris. injury TO chest ana
heart
Adolph Langdon. teeth knocked out.
George Blackwell. knee and side hurt.
Among others VINO suhe'eu io" ny
shaking up were: c. r. Fades OF North
Rehoboth, George r. Adams. Fred Le-
Baron. Emmons D. Guild. George Taylor,
J A Dean, Edgar A. Cummings, II. A.
Rutterworth. F. w. Rhodes, George Hor-
ton, Daniel Adams. George Alfred, Major
Everett s. Horton
Everyone on the car felt the effects OF
the accident The majority were able 10
go home unassisted. Mrs. Inman, Mrs.
Hawkins. Mrs. Harris. Mrs. Snow, Mrs.
Jackson and Mr. Smith were taken home
In automobiles or carriages.
Word was sent to Pawtucket concern
ing the accident. and the necessary ap-
paratus was hurried 10 the scene In a
couple OF hours during which the north
end Of the electric line was blocked, the
deraied car was replaced on the iron.
The bloomer was not damaged The men
in charge OF the car escaped injury.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-05-29
SERMON ON GAMBLING
Rev. F. n. Decker OIL elmWosd Temple
Called Rockefeller a Rubber.

In a sermon delivered to fair-sized
in the Elmwood Temple last
evening on Jacobs Methods OF Accumu-
lating Money, with Definition of Gamb-
ling" the pastor. Rev. F. II. Decker,
stated that the fever for gambling is
spreading among the people like con-
tagion. and in speaking of what he
termed gambling he gave as definition
that IL is where one gains at the expense
OF anothers losing. He also paid his re-
spects 10 John D. Rockefeller by calling
him a robber, and said that II Rockefeller
could prove 10 the people OF the country,
or show to them that they had received
full equivalent for the money which he
had taken from them. then he was not a
robber. but he said that this the Standard
Oil king could not do.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-05-29
Wife ASSAULTED
MsIIbufg Produced Scalp Wound and Was
Held for Grand Jury.

A little family Jar occurred at $50 Gano
street. at o'clock yesterday morning. In
Frederick Mellberg's tenement.
The wife holds the family purse. She
had been asked to loosen UP the strings
thereof, that Mellberg might go down the
river for an outing.
Mrs Melberg objected and stoutly.
whereupon the husband threw a tumoler
and cut her scalp.
Melberg was arrested and his wife, who
is So years old was sent to the Rhode ISL
and hospital.
In the Sixth district court. today Nell
berg pleaded guilty to the charge OF maxi
ing an assault with a dangerous weapon
and was held for the grand jury in $1,000.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-05-29
U,S,mARtNE
A SUICIDE
FOR Love

Yesterday afternoon there was a sound
OF an exploding revolver heard at the
home OF Chief Boatswains Mate Joseph
Edward West. and when the friends
rushed to his room he was dead. He had
been attached to the Newport training
station for some time and was thought TO
De OF exemplary habits, so that the cause
for the deed has not been definitely as
certained as yet
A few minutes before the deed was ac-
complshed he was seen TO be in the best
OF spirits and had been busy fitting an
American flag TO the pole from which IL
was TO fly over tomorrow at the front
OF the boarding house where he lived.
West left the station shortly before
noon and went at once to the place where
he was boarding. at Mrs. Thomas on Pros
pect street. After working about the
pole for a short time he went to his room.
IL was but few moments after he
reached his room before the shot was
heard and he was found unconscious from
the wound made by a 22-calibre revolver.
The police were notified. and after the
body had been examined by the medical
examiner the remains were removed and
the authorities AT the station notified. The
funeral will occur today and the deceased
will be buried from the station with due
military honors.
West has been in the naval service for
about eight years. and was considered
most exemplary and ambitious man.
who had advanced to his present rating
the highest OF the petty officers and was
preparing TO take the examination for a
warrant officer, that OF boatswain
He had n good record, and his death
has cast gloom over the station. where
he was we'll liked. Only a short time
ago, he purchased farm at Canning
Nova Scotia, where his mother resides a
number of letters from her being found
among his effects.
In taking the remains from the Thomas
home TO the undertaking establishment
they were wrapped in an American flag
It was ntimated that the act was due
to a love affair.