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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-16
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The person OF nervous Temperament is
more likely than any other to find night
work inspirational. Ordinarily tho phley-s
matte man becomes heavysafteri dinner. His
Digestive processes draw heavily upon his
blood supply; he has hoinerve activity spur
ring him to wakefulness 5on general prin-
cpes; the closing in OF the dark wells the
things In which he might. have an idle inter-
est commensurate with a. slow working
brain. Just as in allBthe lower orders the
disposition Is to sleep after the fullness ofR
meal his animal nature prompts him to close
his eyes, "a
In the case Of the man Of nervous type
nothing Is moro awakening to his susceptl-
bilitics than to be alone. The dark segre-a
gates him The confines Ola lighted room
lend impetus to his m tai activities He
has the concentration that at all times serves
him to the best advan age, unbroken by the
petty lrritatlons that otherwise may be dis
turbins beyond all measure. Under such
conditions he finds himself doing moro work
and better work than in daylight would be
possible to him.
1t IS the experience OF most persons not of
the distinctly phlegmatic type. that they
awaken in the early morning just a little less
clear in brain than they were insrctiring no
matter IL they were sleepy at bedtime The
7 slant daylight is not the best angle OF light
ito fall upon page, Ind for the man who
takes only seven or eight hours as the meas
ure Of his Sleep the eyes are not in condi-
ton for close application In early morning
& In at least three seasons Of the year. too, the
early morning prospects may be more attrac-
tive to out OF doors than to brain work inside.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-16
Makes : Business Of Pleasure.

The hours between closing time at evening
and opening time In the morning the enter
tainer is attending to the business OF pleasure
Well and faithfully. OF what woad erful d.
YeFsity are his ways He can chaperon a
stald whiskercd deacon from Bucyrus,S o.,
VINO desires to look into the workings Of the
CITY missions with apparently as much con-
genlallty as he can " 80 the pace 4 with the
gay and festive young buyer With red neck
tic from Anaconda, Mont. He can land his
man IN q church choir or In d game OF poker
Win equal eadiness. Whatever diversion
MS charges want, he Is always "there
Wit tho goods. |" and everything free Ha
can suit them In any kind OF a game, fron,
1 checkers to manslaughter :,
Does the festive young mercha ~ 49,.
Coles Crossing, who is gold for a fat nrda .o.
the house In the morning, declare for q ro,,ns
! OF visits to the liquor dsperlsaries to sample
the decoctions Of the artists therein? iTha
entertainer is with him the honest az ths
boon; sticks by him, clings 10 him, and may.
be eventually puts him snpgly to bed.
4 Whatever tastes or predictions his cha rpe.
! eyince the entertainer responds IIe % ),
present him with the spiritual exh fla ra tiea
OF q church service. the mental caln,if1f. =.
an ethical culture lecture the barba ria AZ
element Of dog fight, the bowling bedla :,
of nstic contest, a joust against the hirh''
balls, cocktails. and the punches, or a ny mid.
night reyelry desired and stay with his ma Z
to the finish without turning a hair. Z. Y
And therein tho entertainer Is suprenS
He Is never a y gutter" He cllngs until ~.
charge is In the security pf his bed or un i1
he ,sTnilingly lands him ~ the house IN the,
morning, tf9;6 b
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-16
BY j. Howard.

he may earn livelihood for himself and
those dependent upon him undoubtedly are
responsible for placing many men In the
rut, but likewise hundreds and thousands
place themselves there through slothful-
ness of easily falling into fixed ways, even
when knowing that these ways are apt to be
fatal to ones chances for success,
\ Thousands Of men today are working Tor
small salaries In minor positions where mere
is little hope for them to rise to anything
better. because they have care!essly al!oWeu
circumstances to set them down to a disad-
vantage without making the least attempt
to struggle against them, without !" bother
Ing to take the trouble - OF an effort at sen
Improvement. .$ :
& Who has not seen the man in the rut VINO
cannot look over his acquaintances no mo Hv
some man who has allowed himself 60 set
tie into one position with never 9 ftgh Tor
anything better? The ofaces, salesroonns'
and workshops OF every city In the country
are full Of these men. men who might have
amounted to something. but did not.
Lifts Men Out of Ruts,
A we'll known employer, whose force 70
one OF the lar eest in the country, has q sys'
tenn OF "weeding out dead timber 3 mons
his employees This man Is 9 phil y
He helps more men to find themselves, pos
sbly, than any dozen training schools. t4ls
system is philanthropy elevated tothe high
est plane, When he notices that q man begins
Ia show signs that he is falling into Q rut at
one kind Of work. he promptly changes him
IA some other kind Of employment, lfthere
also his disposition is to become mechanical
in his work, lie is shifted again, Two or three
changes will either put him In q place where
he can expend his energy to the best ad-
( vantage of himself and the house, o. snow
decisiyely that his sphere O. aatlYlty' y ne
has any. Is somewhere else. Then ne IS als'
z charged.
',.'I absolutely will not have men in my en-
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-16
Brain Works Better at Night.

It is recognized by the man disposed 70
night work that after the conventional $50
o'clock dinner his brain begins to get into
WORKING order about $3.50 o clock, and at 1880
O clock he may be wider awake and more
active in his mentality than at any other
period in the twenty-four hours. Yet. II he
be in normal health. he will find that in going
4 to bed under such conditions sleep will fol-
low easily and soundy. 1t is only. when
insomnia is the sequence Of such work that
he should call q halt.
In this 'spcale = Of mental rhythm that oc-
ours late at hight the psychologist has OBJ
served that the man employed at brain work
at such a time is likely to discover that the
speech or articewritten at such times, or the
discovery in whatever new field of thought,
appears always to (. flatten out in the garish
light of the next day. In this the night work.
er suffers as the man who has his highest
mentality in daylight is not dispose to do.
y Environment has been credited with the
fact The man who may be working at even
sentimental bit, of poetry in daylight, with
the noises, of the day in his ears and the out
look upon the daylit world outside his vim
idows, is more likely to keep,to pitch stand
ing daylight tests thanis the man Of the same
temperament who may be shut into small
study by the dark and silence, working py
the light Of his solitary lamp But as tho
pitch Of inspiration in the night worker Is
higher than 1t Is in the worker by cay, tho
night man may afford the hattening out next
morning ~.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-16
BY III. w !. Field,

to the best reason for this, as several reasons
may be given. It may have been that, driven
to the quiet Of the lighted room in the night,
he discovered his mentality was at floodtidc;
or that accidentally discovering his mental
" rhythm !" to be at the highest by lamplight,
he resolved to conf1ne his mental efforts to q
night period,
That there Is a mental flood and ebb tide
has been established In a general way for tho
day worker at least. 1t will be highest in the
morning for the greater number Of day work
ers; there Is likely to be sharp decline about
the noon hour, and another between and
o clock In the afternoon. Tho peak " in his
mental rhythm, however. Is not likely to pe
extremely early In tho forenoon; it is the ek.
perience OF most mental workers that WORK
before breakfast is not satisfactory. and that
work Immediately after 1t Is little better In
all probability his period OF highest nentnl
activity will be after digestion OF breakfast
has progressed toward Its finish insthe storm
ach, at least.
From tho point Of view OF the psychologist
the acceptance Of night work and the recog-
milton Of its advantages are mere force Of
habit The psychologist, however, recog-,
nizes that, from whatever cause, the mental
worker takes to the midnight oil he has made
"a good choice.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-16

f, you wish ia do good. hard, nlertn! work
Of any Kind, 3eschew all Of the old adnges
concerning the early bird, the wisdom
az the ant, the " early to bed and early
10 rise philosophers, and light up the
midnight oil, or turn on the equally late
.incandescent lamp. within the last 100
years the perfectinE Of artificial lights has
overturned all the virtues OF early rising IN
order TO do mental work and the students
OF the, most intricate problems everywhere
arc converted to the advantages OF night
work.
Virtually the whole student body in the
uniyersities,of thecountry is pledged to night
study and almost universally the profess
sors are devoted to the same late hours for
tnvestigat ton and research. The early morn-
Ing hours as q time,for mental efforts have
been eliminated from the possibilities OF
university life; they have been tried and
are foundNwanting, ). no 1natter how hard this
practical reaction from orthodoxy may hit
old philosophy Of daylight industry.
Dr.. John A. Scott Of Northwestern uni
versity recently took UP thesubjeot Of night
study and commended It to his class regard"
less, ofrall that has been thought and written
and voiced In epig11an concerning the virtue
Of early rising. AS a.gradnate Of Johns Hop
dns. ns a student IN Germany, and as a
assured OF the advantages OF night effort,
taking both hts,own and his fellows experi-
enceaseosfar asrhe, has been able to tabulate.
EARLY Rising Due to Bad Lights.
Hsn,ust.be remembered that the philosophy
OF early rising was established in those
days whom decent people went to bed be-
caueerthey had no satisfa ctory fight whereby
to sit after dark. There were pine knots,
Wicks floating In uncertain. smoky grease,
and letter the tnllow candle. but with most of
these nstlseasrifts it was impossible properly
to hgtt q room and atsthe some time ventl-
lnte Il as 1t should be-. In the days OF the
axnient Greeks the theaters were open only
between sunrise and sunset, as in such a
necessity 1t would have been impossible to
light and .veIttilate these places of amuse-
merit.
The PersinnsS conEregated at daylight In
order to purshcytheir studies and. while the
AraDians for centuries knew of petroleum
and used 1t, they could not adapt the crude,
srnn king,oi to Illuminating purposes indoors.
Out of these conditions. for man to b.
abroad after 6nrk implied q certain some
thing aldn to, lawlessness unless he had ea-
planation Of it. That literal time for all
good citizens to be in bed I" approached q
moral Signthcance. ne owl ms ~ etAii :.
regar ded as the ernhod iment of wisdom and
.the nightingale because of her singing by
nirirt. might thusaSon prove herself /" bet
far singer than the wren" yot in mans re-
lation to night he,question Of morality was
closely involved. III ~.
within the last 100 ears the night worker
/. ! desk and table has developed. He came In
WIN the lamp chimney and with the ref1n'
~. ~ ,netrobeum. There is some question a.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-16
Pace Too Fast for Salesman.

Pace Too Fast for Salesman.
Time was when the house salesman OF the
great wholesale houses coupled the enter.
tanning OF country customers with the sen
Ing to them OF big shipments. but as th y.
houses grew and trade spread and ms
clientele OF country customers increased the
dual role became too much for him. but
keen competition demanded vigilance N
watching and herding his visiting trade pc
tween closing hours at night a nd opening
time next morning. Obviously the sales
man, who needed a clear brain and all MS
wits during the day, could not fu!f1ll the
dual role. There arose the necessity 81
substitute for the festive period. Hence the
professional entertainer.
The new arrangement Is simpler and
pleasanter. When the big house closes at
evening the general salesman hands over
his visiting customer to the professional
entertainer and can then HE him to his
suburban home to SIT among the trees with
his children and his chickens, secure in the
thought that those precious customers are
being safely herdcd, fed. watered. and corr
rallied by "a conscientious professional enter
tainer. The thought makes him the hap
pier, because he knows the best customers,
the men who buy the big PARCELS and dis
count their bills. are Elusive and need look
Ing after until the last order lin their note
books is filled and shipped. /
The man to do the watching Is the enter
tainer, the king OF anesse and diplomacy,
- = \ b. 80
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-16

ploy who fall into a rut !" is the way this en-
ployer puts It. z don't want ma chimes Ii,
my office, I want men who know enough to
improve themselves as the years 60 on, and
who are progressive enough to be Just a little
ahead Of their Jobs. 80 that IL need a nanto
I'LL the position just ahead will have a
mai to take and promote, The man who
stands still is a detriment to any business,''
World Full Of Stoten Bottles.
ct the business world is full OF men who
stand STILL" It Is full OF men who have
given up the struggle for. success long before
~ really began. The road ahead locke hard,
SO they sat down where they were, and have.
remained there. Others have not :. bothered y
70 Improve themselves Withsa view to self
advancement. Their duties are easy. and
they ma e money enough to live comfortably,
Why should they trouble about the future?
But the most unfortunate OF Jthem all Is the
man who was :" going to do something In a
while. !" IIe Is the most numerous. also OF
the men who are In a rut. Always he is going
to strike out after something better than he
has; alWays the future holds promises to him,
y But these promises; he soon discpyers. are
only valid to the man who acts,
X The man who waits, who defers to fulfill
the promises that he has made to himself,
can never hope to collect anything on them,
So the days, weeks, months, years go past,
and the procrastinator remains where he is
in the nut, After awhile his chances for es.
cape are past, and he Is doomed to stay where
he is until the end, the best that ca be said
Of hin, beiugAt hat he serves as a horrible ex.
ample to young men, 3sss5{
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-16

IIE statement made In recent article
by the writer that /" the labor1ng man
has better chance for success than
8 the man with a trade I" has prompted
much comment on the subject Of !" get
ting into a rut !" In general.
The head OF one of the large downtown
offices, where nearly 1000 clerks are em-
ployed, says: Getting into rut IS a danger.
Imminent not only 10 the man with trade
but to every worker In every line IN the;
world It makes no difference what may pe
ones occupation. how high ones position. ~, =
how low, how hard one may work or now w
tie, there Is always the danger that aA az
will fall Into 'the rut.' When this hapPe''s'
and II does happen with appalling frequett1ey,'
fits near time to write q mans business ep'
taph unless he bestirs himself nightly uatt'' u
gets out of the rut in hurry"
Tho completeness with which a man may
fall into n rut was shown the writer recently
In an indirect but decisive manner, WIS a.N
on a trolley car Just few minutes a w,
the regular evening rush of workers had dleu
down and vacant seats and plenty OF root1'
had taken the place of the tightly packed
mass OF mo4, and women going home after
the days work. man got on at a downtown
street who, at the sight of the empty car,
was filled with Amusement. lie was slr-
prlsed, nearly shocked He took one OF the
cross seats and reveled in the luxurySof q
\ whole double scat to himself,
"Ive been going home on this line for
three years." he conAded, and this Is tho
first time that ever knew there was any
room In these cars"
Rut May Kill Chance of Success.
This Is the condition of the man In the rut
in epitome, Walking day after day. month
after month. year after year, in the SANE
narrow circle, seeing only the immediate days
work before him, having eyes for nothing
outside of his own work. he Is spectacle
to be pitied much, We're 1t not that for the
most part his condition is his own fault
sameness Of duties and the necessity for q
man to perform these duties In order tina!
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-16
PAYs to Get our OF .Rut.

1t will pay most young men to look upon
such examples and heed them, no matter
what their positions in life. It will pay
they VIII not become machines themselves,
II Will payithem to keen away from the nut,
even IL they have to throw UP their present
!. easy Jobs ana suffer prlvatioHs{o for awhile
to do It,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-16

lot pay their dentists bills. There would be
less OF this work, naturally,Iif the patients
receiving honest dental work paid the bills
las they should $50 & 4
At the present time, with more than 800 in
old. worthless accounts in my desk. I am
threatened with eviction on the part OF my
landlord because Of 500 back rent that.is due.
Sociologically, of course I cannot feel that
Il am a transgressor. having done society 500
worth Of good and receiving only $50 to date.
My family must live. however. and obey must
live decently, as they have been used to do,
even II T have to advertise again and crown
teeth that are sound enough for any purpose.
Great Need of Good Dentists.
After twelve years spent in perfecting my
self in my profession. and knowing that I
do know It, could feel justiledlif such a
thing were possible-in holding up man and
doing his dental work, taking from him the
legitimate price for the work. Many man
4 and w oman in Chicago. held up by a good
dentist and forced to submit to his needed
treatment, would be indebted to his assail-
ant beyond the price Of the honest work.
Il VI But with million mouths in Chicago need
Ing the attentions OF a dentist such as I. an6
with days receipts Of the saloons amount
y Ing to a sum sufficient to pay the bill, am
~ afraid T shall be turned out OF my ofIice fol
Lack of rent, M @55 II 81
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-16
His Work All Pleasure,
but Few Want His Job.
By j. e. Organ.

is fitted for the life. The entertainer makes
pleasure his business and his life is one round
OF business. The pursuit OF his pleasures has
Its respon sibilttics, though.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-16
By One Of the Victims.

must be front" Personally haven't any
OF that quality: I am not good mixer; my
wife is Of a quiet, retiring disposition-a gem
stlewoman. In short. But / know my bust
ness I can take q pair Of pinchers and do
things that many an operator with the cost
Hest set OF tools cannot accomplish. But y
can't make the strangerwho comes into my
bare reception room for the first time see
that. No diploma that could frame would
do it.
Tempted to Try ethical" Tricks.
What is the result of all this? Time and
again Of late I have been tempted to put q
crown on a good tooth in order that my wife
might have new pair Of shoes, just as I have
been tempted to bore a hole in sound tooth
and I'LL the cavity In order that we should
have enough to eat For Is it not better to be:
an ethical dentist doing this. than to be an
advertising renegade on the professional
blacklist? Professional dentists are doing
Ethese thlngs-how many O. how many OF
them 81
But before the layman is shocked to death
by the assertion let him understand that for
much Of this lawless sort Of work the lawless
dentist is out his materials and his time and
patience. for the reason that the victims do
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1905-12-01
CHESLEY AUSTIN
CALLED BY
DEATH
4 yonng Man With World Be-
fore Him Succumbs To Dread
Pneumonia Yesterday

Chelsey Austin, young man just step
ping out on the stage of life with the
world to conquer before nun, and The
support and comfort of his father ana
mother. has gone. Eighteen years ago
last August Chelsey first saw the light
Of the sun In Paradise Valley and had
lived there all of his young life. Last
summer his father. e. B. Austin, had his
days later the member was amputated.
Chelsey at once saw tnat new RESPONSE
biIities devolved upon him and took mis-
place in the saddle on the wheeler Of his
fathers big team to do freignting be-
tween Paradise and Winnemucca. t1e
oa..4e 10 wlnnenucca ABOUT one week ago
with his team after load of supplies.
shortly after arriving he complained OF
feeling ILL., K. Z. Bradshaw of the SILVER
Sla,e took MIN to his (Bradsnaw's) room
IN the Bell building and Dr. Mangan was
summoned To mis- bedside. Inc doc.or at
pronounced lne .rouDie pneumon-a.
or. Mangan was caileo professionally to
Oenlo night bfore last and DR.. Salnuels
LOOK cnarge of the patent. All that mod
l.al SAIL could suggest or AL tuaI sind
trends couid do could not silly The aav-
ages of the disease and yesterday mGTn-
ing at 4 O'Clock the dim taper .. life v a.
extinguished. He died in mis- sa1ia and
me last word spoken was TO his horses.
ne said. Whoa turned over In ped and
vas gone. His remains were carefully
laid in his casket by UnderIaKer Cochran
and followed by his fond parents. who
the mournful cortege faced the snow
storm for the home of Chelsey's young
days. Paradise. where today the young
mans earthly tenement was laid to rest
forever in Gods acre. near the town
where he was want to play, and where
ne attended school, 1t is certainly lad
death, made more so by the great re
sponsibilities the boy had assumed in me
care of his parents. When one solilo-
Quizes on the events of this life he 10
very apt to come to the conclusion that
some have burdens to carry that are well
nigh impossible to shoulder. The silver
State sympathizes most deeply with Mr..
and Mrs. Austin in their great affiction.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1905-12-01
DOWN FRO MCARL1N.

Miss Norma Warren, principal OF the
Carlin school, came down Wednesday
night to take her Thanksgiving dinner
with her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. H. War;
rem, and her brother and sisters She
reports Carlin as a good place to liv.,
but says 1t has been little cold, the
mercury dropping to Is below zero tn.
other night and ten degrees below all
day Wednesday. She likes her school ana
seems deeply interested in her efforts to
teach the rising generation of Carlin how
to ''fire" correctly. Miss Warren is a
most charming yuong woman and the
Silver State predicts for her great sue
cess In her chosen calling. She will re-
turn to the school Sunday night