FINDING THE PIVOT GOOD ADVICE FOR YOUNG MEN WHO WOULD SUCCIED. LOOK SQUARELY AT THINGS In Considering a Business Proposi tion, Search for the Foundation Upon Which It Rests —Get That and Win. Are you a dreamer? Do you look squarely at things, and make It your aim to find tlie meat of the nut? Have you the tact to get at the point of things, at the main object, and do you make it a practice to aim squarely at the bull'seye? Decisiveness is one of the essentials to success. The man who goes along in a half-hearted, semi-conscious way, his mind wandering from one phase of a subject to another without the abil ity to sift out the chaff, is not likely to get far to the front. Keep your mind on the main point. Get right down to hard work, and probe every proposition deep until you get at the germ, the kernel that is the life of the thing. There is a pivotal point to •everything. Find the point and stick to it. When there is a business proposition for consideration, don't go around the outside looking at every thing in connection with it, but search for the foundation upon which it rests. Find the pivot upon which it swings. In every task you have to perform you will discover that there is a cer tain way in which it can be better performed than some other way. Find this way. The general In command of an army must have his mind trained to see the point of vantage. The man ager of a large industry that gives employment to thousand of men must see the points that are so essential to success. The ability to concentrate energy, to master things, to find the main point, and to take advantage of discoveries is an assurance of success. What ever you undertake to do, he sure that you use your brain, and use it rightly. One man will fret and stew over a task, and spend days in worrying about little things that are unimportant, while another man will notice the main point in an instant and without apparent effort will do what the slow and vacillating one per haps could never do. Only a short time ago a mining en gineer conceived an idea of perfect ing a machine for washing gold. He applied to the government for a patent and it was refused because they ■claimed that such a machine could not he constructed according to his speci fications. Experts tried to work out the problem. All gave it up. By acci dent the engineer met a mechanic and explained what he wanted. The me chanic said: "I'll make it for you." He started to work. He did complete the machine that government experts claimed could not be made. The fel low discovered the main point. He was trained in the right way. His thinking apparatus was all right, and his seeking the "point" was the means ■of making him a wealthy man, and the mining engineer as well. A few years ago a young electrical engineer was experimenting in a Pitts burg steel works. He noticed that certain substances when intensely heated produced a substance that he was not familiar with. He kept on ex perimenting. He got out a patent on the new product. He named it corbo rundum, a substance almost as hard as the diamond and now extensively used in polishing g?ms and steel and used instead of emery. The young man saw the point and to-day is sev eral times a millionaire. It is seeing the "point," discovering things that are essentials, that make the men. The noted John D. Rockefeller several years ago had brains enough to see the great future of petroleum. He set about to get control of the industry. He succeeded. Had he not the quality of "getting at the meat of the nut" he would have done as hundreds and -thousands of others, let the opportun ity pass. There is nothing like keeping your ibrain focused on the main point. Con centrate all your energies on what you have to do. Sift out the chaff. Get rid of the worthless, the immaterial •things, and get at the chief proposi tion. Don't spend time and brain power in little worthless prospecting. Bore right into the heart of things, and discover where tfie point lies. Then work right. Don't lag. Bend every energy to win, and success will be yours. Keep your eye on the hull'seye. Home Patronage Lesson. The west is the section that pro duces the wheat that supplies the na tion with bread. In almost every wheat-growing section there are flour ing mills. Yet how often do we find that people of these districts demand flour made in a foreign place. This principle is wrong. There is a loss to the district. When wheat is shipped from one state into another or from the district where it is grown to some other district and then made into flour which is returned to the people for their use, there is a considerable loss to the community. There is the commission to the grain dealers, the freight paid on the wheat, and the freight paid on the flour back to the place, and not least is the employment of labor in the manufactufa. There is much to be gained through the pat ronage of every home institution, •f'hether it be a manufacturing enter prise or a mercantile concern. The community is made wealthier by keeping in it all the dollars that are the result of the labor of the people. A WEALTH-SAPPING SYSTEM. New Public Utilities Managed in a Way That Retards Progress. It should be borne in mind that the investment of outside capital, the ownership of public and semi-public utilities by others than residents of a community, is a serious thing for the people residing in the place. In west ern cities there are hundreds of Illus trations of the working out of this plan of securing public utilities. There is need of a water-works. Outsiders come into the field with a proposition. The city or town council is approached and the final result is that a franchise covering 25 to 50 years is granted. The works are built. People are then compelled to pay highest rates to meet interest on bonds and watered stocks. The company perhaps pays taxes less proportionately than the residents of the town are compelled to pay, and the only money left in the community that is earned by the operation of the plant are the taxes paid, the wages of the few laborers employed, and the salaries that a few "straw" officers draw. All the profits are drawn to the owners of the plant in some other city, generally Wall street, New York. Thus is built up a system that draws the money earned in the community to some other place. It is the same with street-car sys tems, electric and gas lighting plants and all other semi-public and public utilities under private ownership, and in which outside capital is chiefly in vested. Should these utilities be owned by home capital, all the earnings would be retained in the community, to seek investment in other improvements and the people would receive a general benefit. There is no argument that can prove that foreign ownership of any enterprise is good for a commu nity. Any system, it matters not whether in a commercial line, financial or other branch, that takes from a community the earnings of the people and uses them for the enrichment of other sections, is a wrong system. Let business men of every town get these facts fixed indelibly in their heads. Let commercial club enthusi asts settle down to the fact that when through their work any enterprise is built up that means continual drain on the resources of the place, it Is better there be no commercial club. If there are any enterprising citizens enough in a place to invest in their own town in this way, the town should have no difficulty in stimulating a municipal ownership sentiment and have the good work carried on. Com mercial clubs are all right, but it is often that they are operated all wrong than all right. MAIL ORDER HOUSE EVIL. System Keeps Many Agricultural Towns from Advancing. There is no use in claiming that mail order houses are illegitimate concerns. They are entitled to exist as well as the small merchant. There can be no doubt as to the perfectness of the system that they are conducted upon. No use in denying that now and then they fail to give satisfaction to their customers. So do the mer chants in all lines of trade. He who believes that these great concerns are not injurious to the merchants in the smaller cities and towns knows little about their operations. Then how is it that the mail order houses are in jurious to the people of the land? Great economists agree that it is the concentration of capital and power in the large cities wherein rests the dan gers that threaten the people. The mail order houses are great factors in this concentration. They are suckers of the blood of the country, the mediums that take from communities v/here it is earned the money that should be retained by the people for the development and enrichment of their own communities. Herein is the mail order house evil. On these grounds all wise people will do what ever lies in their power to head off the greater growth of the system. Any system should be retained within its limits for the greater development of its resources and general enrichment, is a bad system and should bo decried. It is not sufficient that the consumers retain the profits that should goto the tradesmen of the place. By this there is little development of industry. The towAs and cities lose the business that is necessary to employ the people, while the wealth to an extent may be retained. True Principle In Advertising. According to the most careful esti mates, the volume of business done by the mail order houses in the United States amounts to more than one bil lion of dollars annually. When it is considered that 20 years ago there were no mail order systems of busi ness as now known, and that since then the plan has been developed, it becomes evident to the thinker that there is magic in advertising, for it is by advertising alone that the mall order business has been built up. It would perhaps be fatal for the small merchant in the agricultural cities and towns to follow the plans, the distort ed and exaggerated advertising meth ods of the department stores and the mail order houses. Yet there is a prin ciple in advertising that ever holds good. This principle is as sound for the little merchant, the dealer in any kind of wares, as it is for the biggest concern on earth. In fact, the great business houses generally had a small beginning, and by publicity pushed up to the front, writes D. M. Carr. Did people of agricultural sectlona fully realize how the millions taken to the large cities by the mail order system causes them a direct injury, it would not be long before these con cerns would be out of business. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1908 EX MAYOR SGHIITZ WINS 1 APPEAL TO HIGHER COURT IN THE FA MOUS EXTORTION CASE. HIS ACT WAS NOT A CRIME. M.t # » Ex-Mayor of San Francisco and Abe Reuf are Entitled to Release on Bail—May be Tried for Re ceiving Bribes. San Francisco, Cal.—The district court, of appeals handed down a decision Thursday setting aside the Judgment in the case of ex-Mayor Eu gene E. Sehmitz, convicted of extor tion in the French restaurant case. Abe Ruef also benefits by the ruling of the upper court for, according to its decision he pleaded guilty to an act that was 110 offense against the laws of the state. According to the appellate judges, the compelling of French restaurants to.pay "fees" to Abe Reuf was not a crime, even though Reuf divided the "fees" with the mayor. After discussing the point the court reversed the judgment against Sehmitz on the ground that 110 acts constituting a crime had been proved against him. Abe Ruef, who pleaded guilty to extorting money from the French restaurants. is therefore equally guiltless. The decision wipes out the French restaurant cases and pending charges of extortion against Sehmitz and Ruef must be dismissed. Both are now entitled to release on bail, if they obtain the necessary bondsmen they can remain at liberty until such time as a jury finds them guilty on one .of the indictments charging them with receiving bribes from corporations. Owing to the num ber of cases against them, the bail, fig ured at SIO,OOO a case, would reach an enormous figure. Sehmitz and Ruef cannot take ad vantage of the decision for 60 days. CANNOT ENJOY HIS LOOT. The Government Wins a Suit to Re tain Possession of Bonds Depos ited in Banks by Capt Carter. Chicago. 111. Judge Kohlsaat, in the United States circuit court, ren dered a decision Thursday in favor of the government in the suit against Capt. Oberlin M. Carter, formerly Uni ted States army engineer, charged with having defrauded the federal gov ernment to the extent of $700,000 through conspiracy with Contractors Greene and Gaynor. The court ruled that Carter was not entitled to the $400,000 in railroad bonds and other securities traced by the government to safety deposit vaults and banks in various parts of the country. Under the decision the government will retain these securi ties and the famous case, which re sulted in the conviction of Carter and of Greene and Gaynor and the impos ing of penitentiary sentences, is brought to a close. ' Funds of Capt. Carter which the government claims were proceeds of Carter's collusion with Greene and Gaynor, are tied up by suits pending in the federal courts of New York, New Jersey, West Virginia, Georgia and Illinois. By agreement all these suits were consolidated anil tried be fore Judge Kohlsaat in the United States circuit court in Chicago about a year ago. It is the claim of Carter that the funds in question were given him by his father-in-law, the late Robert F. Wescott, of New York. Westcott was charged by the gov ernment with having made invest ments of funds sent to him by Carter. The case grew out of the construc tion of river and harbor improvements on the coast of Georgia. The govern ment prosecutors contended that the army officer and the contractors de frauded the government in the sum of $2,225,000, and that one-third of this amount, or about $750,000, went to Carter. After several years' work $400,000 invested by Carter in various states was traced and seized. HE SPENT $300,000 ON WOMEN. Sensational Statement Made in the Trial of a Suit to Break the Will of a Millionaire. Clinton, 111. Testimony was be gun Thursday in the suit instituted by Richard Snell, son of Col. Thomas Snell, the late millionaire railroad builder, in the DeWitt county circuit court, to break the will which cuts young Snell off with an annuity of but SSO. Sensational statements were made by counsel for the plaintiff to the ef fect that Col. Snell had expended $300,000 upon women during the last ten years of his life, of which $75,000 had gone to his alleged grandniece, Maybelle Snell, of Kansas City, Mo., now Mrs. -VlcNamara. Congress. Washington.—ln the senate on the 9th Senator Hale introduced the navy personnel bill and a debate over the Brownson affair followed, after which the senate adjourned until the 13th. The members of the house participat ed in a lottery for choice of rooms in the new office building opposite the capitol. Saved Woman's Life; Lost His Own. New York City. Frank J. Mc- Brien, a wealthy retired business man having a home at Richmond ilill, was killed Thursday in saving the life of Mrs. Mary Schcele, of Brooklyn, who had fallen in the path of a Lons Isl and railroad express train. Two Miners Killed. Princeton, Ind. Mack St. Clair, aged 36, and Solomon Lawrence, aged 32, shot firers, were killed Thurs day in an explosion in the mine of the Princeton Coal Co. Eight other men in the mine at the time had narrow escapes. FOUR LIVES LOST IN A FIRE. FIREMEN WERE BURIED IN THE RUINS OF 12-STORY BUILDING A Fierce Blaze in New York City Caused a Monetary Loss Esti , mated at $5,000,000. New York City.— Four firemen went to their death last night when they responded to h fire that ruined the Parker building, a 12-story busi ness structure (ccupying the block between East Eighteenth and Nine teenth streets 011 Fourth avenue. Fought by half the firemen of .Manhat tan and apparatus that blocked the street for blocks, the flames were never controlled and only with diffi culty confined to the building in which they originated. Floor after floor gave way and dropped to the basement and beneath these and crumbling walls no less than 30 firemen were caught and either killed outright or seriously injured. When the fire had burned itself out and the firemen's roll was called three men of Engine Company No. 72 and one from Fire Patrol No. 3 failed to respond. The monetary loss is esti mated at $5,000,000. The building was occupied chiefly by publishing houses, though a score of other businesses had work rooms there. The loss to the tenants is to tal. The fire started on the fifth floor in the offices of Koper & Jack son. publishers, and before a stream of water had fallen upon it, had shot up through the elevator shaft and presently all of the upper floors were ablaze. On the fifth floor, where the watchman discovered the fire, five girls employed by the Ditmore Woolen Co. were at work. As the llames rose above them the girls hurried down stairs to the street. REVIEW OF TRADE. The Monay Market Is Easier and the Amount of Idle Machinery Decreases. New York City.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Sentiment has improved in response to the brighter outlook, commercial loans being made with more freedom than at any recent date. As much projected business was only held back by inability to raise funds, the easier money market encourages expecta tion that postponed contracts will now be placed. The percentage of idle machinery has decreased. Iron and steel production had fallen very low before the revival occurred, the output of pig iron at the begin ning of this month being smaller than at any time in four years. This cur tailment of output has maintained prices fairly steady, the average now being higher than on July 1, 1906. Sev eral contracts for structural steel are under negotiation, but most mills are idle pending the accumulation of more business. TRAINS MET ON A TRESTLE. Five Men Killed in a Collision on an Alabama Railroad. Mobile, Ala. —A special dispatch from Vinegar Bend, Ala., tells of a disastrous wreck on the Alabama & Mississippi railroad Friday caused by a head-on collision between a passen ger train and a logging train. Five persons were killed outright and two were seriously injured^ Twelve miles west of Vinegar Bend the road turns sharply and the great er portion of this curve is made up of trestling that spans a ravine and a small brook at the bottom. Run ning at fair speed, the passenger train took the curve and trestle just as an extra freight train came into view on the opposite end. Before Engineer Marks could bring his train to a stop both trains met head-on in the center of the trestle. Simultaneously with the collision the trestle gave way and both engines and trains fell to the bottom of the ravine. On the logging train were a number of convicts. THE NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. Proceedings of the Senate and House of Representatives. Washington.—The financial bill framed by republican members of the senate committee on finance was in troduced in the senate on the 7th. In the house Mr. Willett, of New York, made a speech in which he placed all the blame for the recent financial panic 011 President Roosevelt. Washington.—ln the senate on the 9th Senator Hale introduced the navy personnel bill and a debate over the Brownson affair followed, after which the senate adjourned until the 13th. The members of the house participat ed in a lottery for choice of rooms in the new office building opposite the capitol. Washington.—ln the house on the 10th considerable progress was made with the bill to codify and revise the criminal laws of the United States. The feature of the session was a po litical speech by Mr. Burleson, of Texas. The senate was not in session. Thaw Jury Is Complete. New York City. The second jury to try Harry K. Thaw for the killing of Stanford White was com pleted late Friday and on Monday the prosecution will present its direct case against the defendant. Five jurors in all were accepted and sworn at the morning and afternoon ses sions held Friday. A Big Bunch of Indictments. Kansas City, Mo. lndictments to the number of 169 against persons most of whom are engaged in theatri cal work, charged with violating the state law of I .53."), which forbids un necessary labor on Sunday, were re turned by a grand jury Friday. The Return of an Embezzler. Washington. 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