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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-28

- TICK 10 sIT-1V EN- Eo !, '' ';' =
the young man needs VINO 5ente.s !, =
shop with hope O y ~9 pn, come NO from r.
The ranks Of the fly by nights. nor from.
,hn ola IS OF Young men who are afraid OF
gathering the proverblal moss by remain
ING 90 long in one place. It is the employer
who decides whether man is 10 De q LOT =
man = or not, An employer does not place ms
shop in charge Of, any man unless ne mas
seen that that man Is entirely trust Worshy
and capable, and 1t takes time tor MN 70
satisfy himself on thisiscore.
II a man with a trade wants TO get 70 De a
foreman in his line let him pick out shop
wherein he knows the eanplo oyer is a good,
fair minded man, where the Work is OF the
kind for which he is best adapted and where
he will be satisfied 7 o remain, not for one
year or two, but for ten, before the respon-s
sibilty OF a foremanshipis dropped on his
shoulders. Then let him do his work to the
best Of his ability, let him show that his
employer in terests are always his own. let
him study to improve himself and learn
every phase Of the business, and If he Is
fitted for the place he will be given the
chance to demonstrate the fact.
Should Work Up Gradually.
All3men, of course, cannot become foremen.
by remaining in one place for so long. but
AT IS certain that the aJority Of the foremcn
III the city are men who have worked into
their places through many years Of good
service In theshopt they now I" boss"
Ittook mo ten years to get mine, and am
satisfied, The vast majority of the men that
know have risen from the ranks to fore
manships are the men who have stuck at ono
thing and In one place. and so have worked
up much as did.
III or course there are trades and trades.
Some OF them arc OF such nature that the
man who issto be a competent foreman or
superintendent must have a technical train
Ing besides such training as he gets from
working at his Yoca ton, In these lines 1t
would scarcely be prof1table.for a man to
start In to work up. But with the majority
the reverse is more apt to be true
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-28

happens, no matter how busy the season. and
how hard he is worked. how fast goods are
being shipped out, he will be able to handle
everything as it should be handled and keep
the stock up to the standard.
Fine Memory Is Essential.
Probably the first thing that will help him
to get q chance at the stock clerks position
will be the display of an exceptional memory.
A stock clerk must rene mber more than
most workers. and the young man working
in the stock who is able to remember that
2 V 1913 0 stands for double rolled wall paper,
number three hundred and thirty-three, Sc
ries 0. will stand the best chance for promo
ton. Probably he will be made assistant
first and then promoted as opportunity offers.
His pay up to the time he is made stock clerk
will hardly be over $12 a week He is learn
Ing and a firm will hardly pay full wages
for man being taught in their establish
ment.
The pay OF the stock clerk varies as do
the sizes of firms and their lines of business.
A man In a small place will be paid any
where from $l5 to 500 a week. He may have
two or three men under him and will re-
quire but little ability save that Of know
ing the stock. In the larger firms the stock
clerk is n person OF considerable mpor-
lance, possibly with two or more storcrooms
and warehouses under his charge and half
a hundred men to handle Here executive
ability and the lsnack of handling men will
count fully as much as . knowing the stock "
when the total of his efficiency is summed
up.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-28

has forestalled the demand.
Edison Studies Need ofDevices.
MIR. Edison includes this principle In his adj
vice to young inventors: The first essential
is TO find out IL there Is or will be. u real need
for the thing that you want to invent. The
next Is to be sure that 1t is practical. With
the object of making quick money from his
inventions the beginner would best devise
some little thing which 1t costs but little to
manufacturer
After this preliminary advice, the next
given By Mr. Edison is to pursue the sub
jcct with ceaseless and untirlng thought.
TO think without cessation as long as pos
siblc and, nftcr brief intervals FOR rest, to
get up and go at 1t again are the rules laid
down for the first step in the process. After
following 1t perslstently, he declares. some :
thing Is sure to develop itself
In telling how he goes about inventlng. a
continuance, Mr.. Edison says: y First ] ind
out II there Is q real need for thing Then
I attack 1t in every way that can. This
multiplied attack soon SINNERS down TIL
get what call a composite idea. some
thing which is a combination OF all have
4 thought before, or else the one feasible IDEA
which seems to discount all the rest. Having
once got started on what think is the righ,
track, II keep the pace up until ! think me
goal Is reached. Rii5
Keep Mind Away from Old Ideas.
- There IS one piece OF advice can give.
When man starts to invent let him do
50 with his mind free from all knowledge
B OF What has been done In that particular
field in which heis investigating. TO read
I'D what has been done by other inventors
Is almost certain to prove "A snag In the
path OF the inventor. The best way Is to
keep the mind free from all knowledge OF
h what has been done already IN the same
field When you work In this manner YOU
will often find tina i while your own ide a s
are original. another's may be Just as good q
up to a certain point. II you had read what
he had written you would have been tempted
to follow In his footsteps
3 - believe that any person, even OF the
most limited capacity, ca become an In
yentor BY sheer hard work. You can do
almost anything II you keep at II long
enough. OF course, the man With the ma Z
ural aptitude would get there first, but the
other plodder eventually would gain his
. point, The constant brooding upon one thing
Is sure to develop new ideas aboutit. These.
/. In turn suggest others. and soon the COM
& plete5 idea stands out before you. ri,
Perseverance Key TO Success.
4, A bovc all things. a man must not give up
fter he has outlined his plan Of action. or
course. the question OF natural aptitude en-
tiers into the matter. and without 1t no man
y can become star: nevertheless i is an aux
ilIary attainment. Dogged perseverance Is
really the quality to be desired. In the arts.
such as music, poetry, painting and SO forth.
special temperamentis required. but In the
workshop Of science men Of the sanguiae
kind come out ahead"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-28
WAX L ESSENTIAL Is Win For ~ ar1 shi :?

I OF confidenceIexcept long acquaintance With
the same work.
Y For instance, In the machinst's trade.
which is my. trade, the foreman must be the.
best man in the shop, not only In one branch
of the trade but in all ofthe branches that
apply to his shop In most lines OF machine
work every shop has some feature or styleof
work that is different from all others.
4 This means that man must learn the
style OF work in each shop before he is COM
pctent to act as overseer Of the work done
therein. 1t matters not how expert man
may be In one line he will be lost as a fore
man II he is not good inmany.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-28
" y, est,nehouse Trains His Inventors

= : 4E2
Il One OF the practical Instances OF this kind
& az encou "a &c ment is In the Westinghouse
business. Mr.. Westinghouse not only en-
Bploys men who are inventors. but takes IN
technical students with a view to developing
ideas which they may possess. They are put
TO work SO that they go through every branch
8of the factories, and all the time what they
do Is carefully watched. Every man among
the thousands is expected to keep his brains
alert and to suggest improvements when he
sees them. 81
..If a young man Is In charge OF a bit OF
york for some time says the head OF one-of
these departments, - and can think Of no bet
ter way OF doing 1t than in the past, ne 9
not much good to me. II my office boy has
a suggestion to make, I'll#wcighsi IT well. II
want him TO think, and thinking viii pay
him.
Mr.. Westinghouse himself is an illustra.G
ton OF the fact that Invention above all
things demands business faculty HIS IN
Eyentions are no happy hits. Heworks on the
nrinc,nle OF finding out what the day after
tomorrow Will need and setting out to pro-
videIt. Some time ago. for instance. he saw
that railway tru cks must become bigger and
bigger until the old spring buffer would be
useless in keeping til lem. together, for while
springs might be had to take the impact Oh q q
loade fifty ton car, they would be torn apart
by the Dull or the rebound. Here was q pro
lem 10 solve When the fifty ton cars came
into common use the inventor had ready cad
friction draft gear not unlike bluntly point :,,
ed shellin shape, which win absorb a n. enor-
+ nous pressure TO the square inch by yieids-
ing IA few inches and will a minimum
recoil. This gear cannot be supplied fast
enough for the demand. and for the last Two
years an army OF men has been kept busy
turning them out. There are innumera Die
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-28
Inventing IS q Business, I
Not & Gift Of Genius.
Same Qualities as Needed In Any Other
Line Produce Successful Inventions.
BY j. S. Anstead.

@. H1L1 preconceivcd Ideas rate Tie
\8A/ faculty for invention as a gif exc
wv pert opinion ranks It us a business.
4 Evidence points to the fact that u
gift In this direction alone makes
particularly unsuccessful and hopeless Gu
recr while without any special genius the
qualities that arc necessary ito any other
business can produce successful and remu-
nerative inventions.
The encouragement offered to inventors II,
America makes 1t a field for business en-
denvor worth the attention Of the worker.
Prof. Bell, who has had experience in both
hcmispheres, declares that the air Of Amer
\ lea is encourag cling to inventors Apprecia-
ton" he says, . is an element OF Its success
Americans arc not only quick to appreciate
new inventions, but they are ready to back
them with money.
( I" In Europe people are more conservative.
They are we'll contcnted with the old and nre
unwilling to adopt new ideas. An English
man or a Scotchman will be In your
invention and admit that It may be all right.
but will insist that somebody else trylt FIRST.
In America the same Invention not only finds
some one who is quick to see Its feasibility,
but also some one who is looking for IT. Tho
atmosphere OF success in this country Is The
inspiration which inventors need. q
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-28
Work in Each House Differs.

M Opportunity has much to do with young
In I mans chances for learning this line of work,
INV as the boy who is given chance to work
Am alongside of the clerk " in the stock !" has
INN the hes, chance Of learning the stock nd thus
J(W\the best opportunity for rising to be in
IN Icharge.
lINIf There is no general learning Of this occupa
I mn tiun possible. as the stocks OF most houses
| UW are kept on systems originated and incor-
MI porated in the houses own business policy,
wv Thus n man who Is stock clerk must learn
NV in the house, And when he changes position
NJ he must generally learn over gain, unless he
goes - a house In the same line,
II IS safe to say that few men get TO be
stock clerks with firms OF any considerable
importance In less than five years Of service.
young man beginning at his majority to
learn may be clerk by 2G, However. he
probably Will be much older before he Is
placed In charge, man must have proved
N his absolute reliability, honesty, and capacity
= M for the work before he Will be given chance
= u 10 undertake the work of handling a large
stock. He must proye that, no matter what
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-28
Must Be Natural Leader.

The element OF leadership enters consider
ably into the making Of n foreman but ms
Knowledge OF the work is the great thing.
that he must have. Above all,4it must be
remembered that 1t rests with the employer.
He 1t Is who says whether or no n man shall
be n foreman. He must be impressed with
the worth and responsibility Of man before
he will even consider him a possible boss
OF his shop know lots OF men who are
entirely TT to be foremen Of shops. good
workmen, sober, Industrious, and possessing
the natural fitness for the place, who will
never be anything but worknen because Of
their inability to get along with an employer
without friction,
Some of these are young men who have
let the fact that they are good men get on
their minds until they feel that they can
show even their employer something about
his business, When a man hires foreman
he wants some one who will be an assist
ant TO him, who will execute his orders and
run his shop in the manner that time has
nroyed the best for it, He doesn't want a
foreman whom he Will have to be forever
wrangling with.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-28
Lack OF Ambition Fatal,

Another thing that keeps a lot OF good men
from climbing up is lack Of ambition no
man was ever advanced to the post who was
not ambitious. No man who Is now fore
man ever spent his spare time kicking be-
cause the workman has no chance, nor
did he everyday down = on the work before
hin, He never watched the clock, and he
never failed to take the opportunity Tor
learning something. a whole lot' Of men
who have learned their trades are apt to
think they knowall a bout 1t as soon as they
get TO be journeymen. These men don't get
to be foremen, They work along indlffer-
emily year after year at the same job and
then howl about favorltism when the quiet
little man in the corner who was always
busy, always trying to learn something about
his work, Is promoted. S
+ Like all superior positions the foreman
must be a man Just q little better thanthe
others. and his complete knowledge Of his
work Is what makes him better. Therefore
the young man who Is ambitious to be a
foreman and 1t is a worthyambitIon, should
cultivate these two quail les; Industry and
patience, 5
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-28
BY H. c. Herdeman. ~
Years Old. Foreman
of = Machine Shop.

TICK no IT-IVENESS.. This IS W 'll'al
the young man needs VINO enters .
- shop with hope OF working up y. 70 oe
- foreman. Forementdo not come ne . !. ',l
-E.Il. he RI ks Of the fly BY nights. nor from
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-16

ill-ventilated, two-room apartment oc- cupied by whole family, a suitable sick room and under such circumstan- ces scientific nursing is impossible. For the proper care of the sufferer the diet kitchen. too, which Is now to be found in every modern hospital, Is indispensable and not infrequently re- course must be had to the stomach tube, the use of which is necessarily confined to expert hands. As for the actual cure, that Is largely confined to fighting the symptoms as they ap- pear leaving the rest to time and na- ture No infallible specific for the spotted fever" has yet been discov- cred any more than for pneumonia.
 Just what the recently appointed commission will be able to accomplish in increasing our knowledge of cere- bro spinal meningitis is, of course. a question for the future to settle. In the interval physicians from all over the country are seeing. many of them for the first time the methods which are employed in New York to treat those who have already fallen Ill. Few forms of illness are more dihi- cult to handle. for in addition to in- tense pain the patients muscles be- come absolutely rigid. With. children, the chief sufferers, convulsions are fre- quent. So difficult fin fact are cerebro spinal meningitis patients to care for that one nurse declared that she would resign rather than take another case. To the difficulty of nursing such pa tients is added considerable danger. How the disease ia spread is still un known, but 1t has been believed to be only mildly infectious and not contag ious. Recently, however. one of the nurses in a New York hospital was stricken with cerebro spinal meningi- tis while caring for a patient suffer ing from it. and succumbed to the fever almost immediately.
 It is not improbable that the chief value of the commissions work will lie in progress toward the discovery of the way in which the infection is spread and the methods by which 1t can be checked. For such investiga- tions the physicians on whom depends the actual tratment of individual cases have little time. The inestimable value of their work lies in aiding oth- CTS to gain practical knowledge Of what is still. in many parts of the country, very rare disease, but one
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-16

That's the personal question 2 woman asks herself when she reads of the cures of womanly diseases by the use o1 Df. Pterpe's Favorite Prescription.
 Why shouldn't 1t cure herr
 Is it a complicated case? ThousandS of such cases have been cured by Fla vorite Prescription. Is it condition curable? Among the hundreds of thou. sands of sick women cured by the use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription there are great many who were pronounced incuTable by local doctors. Wonders have been worked by "Favorite Pre- scription" in the cure of irregularity, weakening drains. inhemmat4on, ulcerar helps. It almost always cures.
 II commenced taking your medicine, TA- VoT1te Prescription nearly a year ago for chronic inflammation of womb. and can truly
 O xTsss sHs SHiT a n sSsr siS Hs Ed@ aaS SsE IS aSS dssSnoe SSrs 1sa sag A Isa 91S@ taking six bottles of your Favurtte Pre- Icrtptlon I find can walk without difficulty and sp greatly S benefited in ESnST11 health H Pierce's medicine"
 sSSSS hVsT PEiis. 8Fst put up over over
 AeWeN0 4o years aEo. by old Dr. R v. ,,,..,.A ,,,. dac Pierce IbsYvs oSen . ns,Sh as est to take and best They're tiny. su9AF- eoeted, anti-biltous graQules compound of tefned and concentrated vegetable extracts aon. indigestion, bilious attacks. sick and bilious headaches. and all Arrangements of he liver. stomach. and bowels are prevented.
 sSss tSssr nd anS SIEs spa asr scn 6sSs SI s s4H Pellets gently lead the system into natural HaS%S AAAAD> ThaAE-e -eaAusDcs sSts.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-16
They Pface Cabalistic Sign on HOteA
 Rexinter when Travelling.

Columbus. Ohio, Despatch.-On the register of the Great Southern Hotei Is the name of E. c. Scott and oppo- site the signature is cabalistic em- blem. It Is a circle, within which IS a capital H, with a figure above and a below the crossbar of the letter The clerks and bystanders were won dering what that meant when J. r. Hayden, of this city. explained 1t.
 Tt stands for the Homeless 26,' MT Hayden said. "On Thanksgiving Day 1904, a number of travelling men were at the Colonial Hotel, in Pittsburg. None of them could go home. and 1t was suggested that they have a dinner together. The dinner followed and there were just twenty-six homeless men at the table.
 '"The order was started at the meet ing The purpose of the order Is to promote among commercial, business and professional men acquaintance and good fellowship. It provides burial fund of $250 for each member. Any commercial, business or professional man between the ages of eighteen and sixty is eligible.
 "The initiation is $1.26, and the dues 26 cents A quarter. Members always place a sign opposite their names when travelling. There are now over 2.3OO members of the order"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-16
sixth Sense in Birds. Hantuv~xe Oath


 In the animal Kingdom the birds seem to be really the class most highs ly favored by nature. Though they are not placed near the summit of tha line of evolution, their ability to ny marks them off as having some ads vantages over nearly all the mammalss Their mysterious power of changing their polarity or weight, in order t0 dive in water or soar in air, has been often discussed. and the almost in- credible velocity of their motion when migrating sometimes amounting t0, four miles a minute for vast distances has no parallel among other animals
 And now a series of careful trials with carrier pigeons are reported from France, showing. apparently without doubt, their possession of . highly de- veloped sense of direction. It was sup posed that homing pigeons depended upon sight to find their way, but these new experiments have been conducted between Ceremes and Roam in the darkness of night. In twenty minutes. the first bird, dispatched at 10 ?. nn.s, reached its roost. distance of seven~ teen miles being traversed- Half of the number arrived before midnight ana the remainder followed in few houras
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-16
PRESIDENTS IN RETIREMENT.
Only Ten Have Lived Longer than MT.
 Cleveland After Leaving once

Only Ten Have Lived Longer than MT. Cleveland After Leaving once New York Sun.
 Only ten men who have held the of- flee of President reached or surpassed MT. Clevelands present age of sixty eight; only six exceeded it by so much as ten years. and none exceeded 1t by quite twenty years. Only ten Presi- dents have survived their retirement from office longer than MT. Cleveland and four of these lived to a great age Washington, who survived his re- tirement less than three years, thought himself an old man when he was first
 made President at the age of fifty seven. John Adams survived his re- tirement a quarter of a century, and
 his son. John Quincy, who outlived his retirement nearly twenty years, was the only President who had nearly as conspicuous a public career after occu- pying the Presidency as before.
 Monroe's six years after his retire.
 ment from office were passed in com parative obscurity as a redine of this city. and his dying hours were em- bittered by scandalous acusations in connection with Jackson's seizure of Spanish forts in Florida during the first Seminole war
 Polk outlived his retirement less than a year. and there Is every reason to suppose that had Arthur compassed his ambition of an election to the
 Presidency in 1884 he would have died early in his term. for he outlived his retirement less than two years. Tyler, who outlived his retirement twenty years, emerged from obscurity near the end of his life to preside over the vain peace convention on the eve of the civil war. He afterward served
 in the Congress of the Confederate States.
 Buchanan lived more than seven
 years after his retirement. and took
 the opportunity to write what was in
 effect a defense of his administration.
 Jefferson and Jackson were the only
 Presidents who exercised a really pow
 erful influence over party councils af-
 ter their permanent retirement from
 public office. though Van Buren was an active politician as long as he had
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-16

q am now strong advocate of Pe- runa. I have induced many of my friends to take 1t and all have the best praise for 1t.
 Followed pr. Hartman's Advice. Mrs. Fannie Story, Hedrick. Ga, writes: T feel that 1t is my duty to thank you for the advice which you gave me in regard to my health. "I have taken three bottles of Peruna and can say that l feel like new person.
 "It seems such a pleasure to do my own work and take care of nay children with ease.
 T have introduced 1t into a dozen homes or more. since began to take it.. Tt Is a pleasure to me to recommend 1t to any of my friends whom I hear complaining of their stomachs and a tired, worn-out feeling.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-16

hone of renomination at the hands of any party.
 Johnson was the only retired Press ident to enter the United States Sens ate. and the younger Adams was tna only one to serve in the House or ksp- resentatives.
 Cleveland and Harrison have been the only retired Presidents to be con- spicuously successful in private busi- mess. It is not generally known that MT. Cleveland still serves as consult- ing counsel in law eases. in which his experience in the office of President may be supposed to have given him special qualifications and an adviser.i His fees in such cases are large, as were those of Mir. Harrison as a legal adviser and a lecturer on constitu- tional law.