The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1912-06-13
MAKING MONEY
OUT OF WASTE,

WI VI Vnlts
The following excerpts from an ar
ticle by Waldemar Kaempffert In the
Saturday Evening Post of February ~
1910. illustrates the truth of re-
mark made a few days ago by an
old but observing man who has watch
ed the rise and sometimes the fall of
fortunes OF many men in the world OF
business, that the chief factor In a
successful business career was not cap.
ital nor prestige nor pull. but brains,
and that q young man who complains
that opportunities for achieving finan-
cial success are growing rarer only calls
attention to his own inability to see and
take advantage Of openings about him
only. he must not wait for opportuni-
~ with a capital o to hammer the door
down In an effort to attract his atten-
ticn-he must go out with open eyes and
alert intelligence prepared to meet 1t
half way.
An instance of the faculty of being a
BILE to see financial possibilities In what
the average man overlooks on account Of
It's very commonplace nature is familiar
to the people Of the great mining city
of Butte. Montana, where a shrewd and
observing resident amassed snug for
tune by utilizing the dirty. cOpper-taint-
ed water that flowed from the mines on
the big hill, together with the discarded
tin cans, of which in barren Butte there
IL an ever abundant supply.
Scores Of men had passed that way, de
nouncing both the sluggish stream Of wa
ter and the unsightly tin cans as nuisan
cey. but it remained for this particular
man to bring the two in contact and so
precipitate a copper that is of sufficient
commercial value to insure him a hand
some income at practically no cost. He
did not lose any time and energy III de-
nouncing an economic system that al
lowed the mighty Amalgamated Copper
Company to grab all the good claims in
the district. but got his grey matter to
work and made money out Of what they
allowed to go to waste.
Mr.. Kaempffert's article. which Is en-
titled Making Money out of Waste"
In in part as follows:
Every book of fairy stories contains
more than one tale Of the power Of a
magic wand. Pumpkins are transform
ed into stage coaches by its touch; com
mon kitchen utensils into crowns and
diamonds: rags into Queenly robes; and
dross into gold. Yet the most riotously
imaginative fairy tale has never re-
counted marvels that surpass those
which have been wrought by the touch
Of the wand welded by every industri-
al chemist and engineer. In the book OF
true scientific fairy tales We may read
how the chemist or the engineer magi-
clan miraculously evolves palatable
wine Jelly out Of old shoes. how he won
drously charms whiskey out of old shirts
SO successfully Is the wand of science
welded that, with the exception OF the
ekies above us and the green trees and
erass below, things are not what they
seem to be. You and I write our love-
letters on what was once an old linen
cuff. with ink made from the rusty hoop
OF an old beer barrel The billiard ball
that rolls over a green table is probably
a new form of cows milk. The SILK
scarf about your collar was once the
waving branch Of a tree.
..All this we have achieved from the
mere desire Of practically utilizing 10 the
utmost advantage the things that our
ancestors threw away sometimes iro"'
sheer ignorance. sometimes from sheer
recklessnss. A man OF our oay sup
ports his family on what his grahuia'"
or cast into the street. The dump heaps
of our forefathers are our mines' we
rake them over and pick out the pre-
cious metals once flung away-the eo,a'
uranium and radium. When our ia'"-
ers made charcoal they allowed the al
cohol and vinegar and hunureo Nai.-
able perfumes. essences anu uhs "e".e ~
escape with them. Burning CORNER u.ue
store would be the modern equi'a'e.
When the housewife OF OLD maue soap
.he threw away the glycerin ieit over
little imagining that 1t couid o'as. q suo ~.
way or blow up Czar. u'e nv
sewage Of New Yory CITY,, crle"
knowing modern chemist. anu W.
annually return the milk Oh o"e
dred thousand cows" Lord Ia
put the same thought IN aho'n.. 80,
when he said that dirt Is "'ere''
ter In the wrong place."
"No more conspicuous exaWp'e y. -
....r. to find a proper place for art anu
... can he desired than we see IN
,h. .nlendid use that Is now n'aue y.
.ho ra.,dues of gas works, resiu"e. '""'
.,,.,.t of coke, an excellent fuei' VI am
o,,o employed in farming because !
..n,,,,s. nlants artificially with tne III.
..nser they need: and lastly OF o'aS"
nci.ome ooze, which goes oS 'ne 80,
- coal tar. Before 1855 the =.
70. .,aa TO rid himself OF this co~' 70.
~, Giving II away He dared no. poS.
,,to streams. because It pohu'eu ."'
=, he buried it he killed Vese'A
ton.
,ov., II IL a by-product OF sucn
...,ua that many q rich ihous''' .h.
"a or its chemical utiiiza''o". ,.;s.
ssouJst.s touch this fout-sne"e .,' r,o.,
Mou,d IL transmitted into 'ne ms
-d,fferent substances iHas
w'. ".,s,ds dyestuffs after dyestui's' su
-. in beauty, brilliancy anu p
p" Tho colors supplied to US W p
he" .nimals. To such proportions .,.,as I
n ,,au.try Of extracting these =.
the ,hu. S.ve,oped that rarely indeeo ar
al "So. S.wr.l colors employed. Spiehui,
tEe ~ shades, delicate blues, r'cI
H-.sns exquisite yellows' "a ~, ox,ract
dead blacks are now a.. a." ohto,n
sa" ,-om coal tar. The dyes .iu u.rd,,
@ 60 are numbered by thousanu''