MAKING A WINNING
SELF-CONFIDENCE IMPORTANT
FACTOR TO SUCCESS.
DANGER IN DIFFIDENCE
•One Cannot Ignore Responsibility and
Gain Prominence in Any Voca
tion Chosen—Talent and
Energy Essential.
In the struggle fb succeed many
Tall by the wayside. The goal of suc
cess is not for the one who cares not
<o assume responsibility. Neither Is
It to be attained by him who is ill
•equipped and recklessly plunges into
duties that he cannot perform.
Diffidence in self is a barrier to
many. A lack of confidence has been
the stumbling stone that has caused
brilliancy often to conceal its luster in
obscurity. How many do we find
filling subordinate positions in the
great commercial world who have all
the knowledge essential for a higher
place, and perhaps are playing second
fiddle to one who is inferior as to
training, but whose aggressiveness
and self confidence have been factors
in forcing barriers aside, and allowed
him to step into positions of honor
and affluence?
He who would forge to the front
must first know that he is mentally
equipped for the position he seeks.
It is not years that ripen experience.
It is not age that counts in the strug
gle. It is brains well cultivated,
and energy. It is confidence, and
the power to control. Few would
achieve greatness if they shirked
responsibility. The young man start
ing out in the world should learn that
if there is an opportunity offered him
♦o advance he should grasp it.
He should not be timid. Often older
heads are passed over. He must not
think that youthfulness is a bar to
the performance of duty or to as
suming positions that riper years may
perhaps have been associated with.
Others may smile and deride, but re
member it is ability that counts, and
tenacity and perseverance that wins.
Authority makes easy the work.
Among those of the present who
have achieved mightily and who oc
cupy prominent places in the commer
cial world, and in the arts, ace young
men of talent and energy. The inclina
tion of these later (lays is to seek
the young and the energetic to fill
places of responsibility. No longer is
age considered the chief requirement
for high places. At the heads of the
corporations will be found men of no
advanced years. In the great bank
ing institutions young men will be
found to be the most active forces. In
the army no longer is age considered
worthy of high office, but rather merit.
So it is with every profession or vo
cation.
Accompanying other essentials
should be stability of character. Too
often it is found that of the ones who
goto the front, while all qualities
necessary for the work are in evi
dence, weakness of character, the in
clination to soar socially and to seek
rearoation in ways that are vain and
unworthy, causes a downfall. Our peni
tentiaries are filled with penitents,
with men whose careers were full of
.promise and brightness, and who had
responsibility placed upon them, but
had been unfaithful to their trusts.
'Then it is not all In ability, in self
confidence and energy to accomplish,
but it is honesty and integrity and a
keen sense of right, and right doing,
•that assures greatest success. With
>out these qualities no one can expect
to attain greatness. Even some of
the greatest men, the ones who have
been honored by positions high In gov
ernmental affairs, have had their weak
nesses displayed before the world
.after years of prominence, and are
■passing declining years robbed of the
honor that a higher sense of morality
and justice assures.
•Don't shirk responsibility; don't ig
nore the attainment of the knowledge
essential to success, and do not forget
that there is always more satisfaction
in knowing that we have abided by
honor and all its precepts than that
we gain great fame in wealth.
D. M. CAUR.
BUSINESS EXPERTS.
Every Merchant Should Be One If He
Intends to Meet with Success.
During recent years a number of
«elf-styled business experts have come
Into existence. They are apparently
the outgrowth of the advertising
school. They are business-builders,
men with ideas, and ready to dispense
services at so much per dispense. One
of the reasons why this class of experts
exists is the lack of proper business
education on part of merchants. Were
the average retailer the well-informed
man that he should be there would be
little field for the business specialist.
It behoves the business man these
days to be in the front rank of the
well-informed or he is likely to be in
the front rank of bankrupts. There is
hardly a middleground. One may be
a plodder for a while, but it sooner
or later becomes evident that the re
tailer or the jobber or the man in any
branch of business who does not keep
up to advanced methods Is supplanted
by some one more enterprising. It is
only necessary to study the failure re
ports of any of the large commercial
agencies and the cause of disaster can
easily be discovered. It is the knowl
edge of these truths which encourages
the business experts. But strange as
it may seem, these men who are spe
cialists and know all about how to
run affairs of someone else quite often
lack the ability to properly and suc
cessfully conduct business for tli&m
nelves. _ v .
OUR COUNTRY PRESS.
It la Making Progress and Is
tant to Wide-Awake Advertiser.
Close estimates show that adver
tising In country papers has Increased
fully 20 per cent, the past five years.
This shows that the merchants are
realizing how important it 1s to ad
vertise, and also shows that there Is
merit in the right kind of use of print
ers' ink, or there would be a decrease
instead of a continual Increase. There
can be no doubt that the inroads of
the mail order houses into trade in
different parts of the country have
aroused merchants to the necessity of
more extensive advertising.
One of the things that has no doubt
stimulated advertising is the practice
of many manufacturers supplying deal
ers with electrotypes and ready pre
pared advertising. There can be no
doubt the trade papers have been im
portant mediums in the matter of in
fluencing merchants to do more and
better advertising. It matters not how
the change has been wrought, but it is
a fact that advertising patronage of
the country newspaper publishers has
been increased about 20 per cent, in
five years. This means that the mer
chants are getting their eyes open,
and are on the right path for the pro
tection of their interests.
Now Is the time to start at work
on spring and summer advertising.
There will- be a heavy trade the com
ing seasons. The people have abund
ance of ready cash and they are
anxious to spend some of it for things
that they want. The live merchant Is
going to get his share of it.
He is going to get just a little more
if he sets out right and does a little
judicious advertising. When we say
little we mean that he must use lib
eral space and fill it with the right
kind of ideas, of attention attractors.
Start in early. Take time in studying
out just what you want. You should
have ideas that are worth trying out,
some opinions in regard to goods that
you carry and want to ehove. When
you have carefully weighed the mat
ter, take your printer into your con
fidence and tell him that he must do
his best to get the Ideas in the right
kind of shape. Too often good adver
tisements fall flat because the print
er has no knowledge or lacks the
means of setting up an attractive ad
vertisement. It will pay the liberal
advertiser to adopt the methods the
great concerns in the cities follow.
Have a certain style of type to use
exclusively in your advertising. If
the printer is too poor to get it for
you, it might be a good Investment for
you to secure it yourself and for your
sole use. It will be different from the
others, and the people will notice it.
It will be a kind of advertising trade
mark for you.
OUT FOR THE CASH.
Organizations Which Prey Upon the
Business People as Well as Others.
Now and then comes the news of
the formation of some new-fangled or
ganization. Many of them are de
signed to do away with established
systems of business. Most of them are
schemes devised by insincere persons
who think that they can make some
easy money through the work. Plans
proposed are of the most impractical
and visionary kind. Not long since
what was known as the "South Dako
ta" plan was undertaken, and it in
volved a complete revolution of es
tablished business methods. It was
proposed to have the backing of
Standard Oil interests to the extant of
$20,000,000, and with this great amount
establish supply houses in large cities,
issue immense catalogues with the
names of merchants who would use
them, and supply all these merchants
with the goods listed. It was a bril
liant scheme. Should such a plan be
come operative and successful, it
would be the buildijjg up of a mam
moth monopoly to fight the retailers of
the land or compel them to become
merely agents of the concern. There
is only one way to fight the trade
away-from-home evil, and that is by
educating the people to the fact that
the system is wrong, is unjust and con
trary to economic laws; that the farm
er and the laborer who patronize other
than home enterprises is working
against bis own interests. This is a
tedious process. It is an expensive
thing to do, and the only way it can be
done is by the liberal use of printer's
ink, by utilizing the home papers that
are as deeply interested in the build
ing up of the home town and com
munity as the merchants, the bankers
and as the farmers should be.
Our Common Protector.
Did you ever think.that the govern
ment is a great obliterator of prize
schemes, premium games, adulterated
foods, etc.? It surely is, and the time
is not far off when it will take a hand
in the methods of selling goods, and
let it be hoped cut out such schemes
as coupons and the premiums in gen
eral. Fraud one way is just as bad as
fraud some other way. The lottery
principle involves the plan of making
a great majority contribute toward the
payment of sums to a mighty small
minority. The average premium
scheme works with more certainty. It
means that all the users of goods with
which premiums are given must con
tribute towards paying for prizes
which only about 30 or 40 per cent, of
the users of the goods receive. There
are two ways of heading off the
premium deal: One is to educate the
merchants and the consumers to the
truth that the premium racket is a
plan that works against their inter
ests, and the other is to have the gov
ernment prohibit the plan. The for
mer is a hard proposition to handle,
and perhaps the latter is equally so,
but It is more certain and would b«
effective,
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1908.
Picked Up in "M*- 4K-
Pennsylvania
WASHINGTON. —Catherine Barney,
the 6-year-old daughter of James Bar
ney, died from burns, her clothing ig
niting at a fireplace.
WASHINGTON. —The residence of
Frank Smith at Bowlbys Mills, Greene
county, was destroyed by fire, caus
ing a loss of $3,000.
GREENSBURG.—A 4-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wilkinson of
Herminie was burned to death in a
fire which destroyed their home.
NEW CASTLE.— WhiIe playing cow
boy here Ernest Mornes, aged 9 years,
was perhaps fatally shot by Fred
Kerr, aged 13 years. The shooting
was accidental.
ERIE. —The fish tug Keystone sank
in eight or ten feet of water aP her
deck in the slip at the foot of French
street and there is a strong suspi
cion that she was scuttled.
HARRISBURG.— State Health Com
missioner Dixon has required the bor
ough of Upland, near Chester, to de
vise plans to do away with pollution
of the Delaware river from its sew
age
HAZLETON. —Antonio De Lorenzo,
an Italian, was shot and killed by
Raphael Darieo as De Lorenzo was en
tering the gate of his own home in
Hazle township, near here. Darieo es
caped.
CARLISLE. —On the charge of em
bezzling $35,000 from the Merchants
National bank of this city John V.
Harris, teller of the bank, was arrest
ed upon direction of the comptroller
Df the currency.
CHESTER. Henry Hlnkson, a
prominent citizen, died here after sev
eral weeks' iilness. He was 68 years
old. For many years he was active in
Republican politics, serving two terms
as city treasurer.
BUTLER. —In suits filed here the
Pittsburg. Harmony, Butler & New
Castle Street Railway Co. is asked to
pay $70,000 damages to 18 workmen
who were injur."*! by the wrecking of
a coal car at Evans City.
WASHINGTON.— Daisy Evans tele
phoned to W. A. Roupe to come to her
room. He was just in time to see
the girl fire a revolver shot into her
right breast. She will likely die.
Jealousy is supposed to be the cause.
NEW CASTLE. —Trainmen on the
Pittsburg & Lake Erie railroad cap
tured Sam Parr, an Italian, charged
with attempting to wreck the Lake
Erie branch passenger train running
between this city and New Castle
Junction.
GREENSBURG.—A 2-year-old son
of Mrs. Edward Dorsner of Radebaugh
played with a revolver and it was dis
charged, the ball passing through the
child's face. The bullet was extracted
at the Westmoreland hospital, and the
baby will recover.
BUTLER. —That a vicious dog is a
public nuisance, and owner must slay
the animal and pay doctor bills of per
sons bitten, was decided by Justice
Joseph Crisswell of Lyndora in the
case of Lucas Davon, whose dog bit
Frank Allis. The dog is dead.
READING. —Most of the Reading po
licemen have been in service for many
years and have raised luxuriant
beards of varying cut and hue. The
new chief of police has issued an order
that for the sake of uniformity all
hirsute adornment, with the exception
of mustaches, must be removed at
once.
ERlE —Twenty thousand dollars will
cover the loss by fire at Albion and
about one-half of this is covered by
insurance. The blaze originated iii
the Wick wire hardware store in the
Leory Fountain building, and spread
to the Davenport residence and the
homes of Postmaster Barnes and W.
11. Bulicanan.
ERlE. —"Bernard, put some wood on
the fire," directed Sirs. Anthony Kray
vetsky to her 12-year-old son. She left
the house for ten minutes and return
ing found him hanging by the neck
from the bed post. He had used his
necktie to hang himself. No reason
is known for the rash act. The boy's
feet were on the floor and he must
have forced strangulation.
GREENSBURG. —An acetylene gas
plant in the home of Dr. George
Boehm of Arona exploded and
wrecked the building. The physician
and his housekeepers, Mrs. and Miss
Rosensteel, were painfully burned.
One end of the house was torn out,
the front moved from the foundation,
the porch blown off ami the dwelling
damaged beyond repair.
HARRISBURG. —The state authori
ties have announced that the corrupt
practices act requires that every can
didate for a nomination must file a
statement of his expenses. It is stated
that an impression seems to be abroad
that only successful candidates are
compelled to file statements, but the
law is very explicit, saying that every
person who was a candidate for a
nomination must do so.
PITTSBURG. —John Maxwell and
Charles Utterbach, both of Dennison,
0., trainmen on the Pan Handle rail
road. were crushed to death when two
freight trains sideswiped at Collier,
35 miles west of here.
JOHNSTOWN.—A letter from Har
rlsburg and a postal card from .Mil
waukee, both addressed to James S.
Donnelly, Pitcairn, Pa. were found on
the horrible mangled remains of a
man, discovered by a track walker
near Seward, Westmoreland county.
It is believed the man either fell or
was jolted from a freight' train and
fell under the wheels.
KITTANNING. —A small boy and ft
match caused the destruction of
Simon Schaefer's barn at Blanket Hill.
The loss is $1,500.
WASHINGTON.—A. O. Steffen of
McDonald owns a calf which has
neither eyes nor tall. The calf is
healthy and sticks close to mother.
LANCASTER. The Pennsylvania
railroad station at Parksburg was
wrecked by dynamite, used by robbers
in blowing open the safe in the ticket
office, in which they secured S4OO.
WILKESBARRE.— An explosion of
gas In Woodward colliery at Kingston,
operated by the Delaware, Lackawan
na & Western Coal Co., resulted in
five miners being seriously burned.
TYRONE. —Raymond Henifan and
Frank Crawford, each 15 years old,
who are alleged to have broken into
J. C. Barr's grocery store and robbed
the safe of S4O were arrested. The
lads had $36.
MAHANOY ClTY.— Richard Brown
of Mahanoy Plane was released unin
jured from Hammond colliery, near
here, after having been entombed for
30 hours by a rush of coal and rock
caused by a blast.
PHILADELPHIA. —UnabIe to bear
any longer a retirement that left him
without occupation after 45 years
spent In active business, Thomas H.
Nice, a retired grocer, shot himself
in Falrmount park.
HARRISBURG.— John D. Warfel,
senator from Lancaster county from
1876 to 1884, died at Lancaster, aged
77 years. He was one of the founders
of the New Era and a very prominent
man in that county.
MONONGAHELA.— The Domestic
mine of Domestic Coal Co., across the
Monongahela river from here, caught
fire. The entire tipple and a stable
were burned. The mine had not been
used in several years.
WEST NEWTON— Fire Complete
ly destroyed the planing mills and
lumber yard of Finley & Campbell,
causing a loss of $50,000, with but
light insurance. The blaze is believed
to have been of incendiary origin.
BEAVER. —Employes of the Stand
ard Connecting Rod works, who have
been working on short time, will go
on a nine-hour schedule. At the Key
stone Driller works employes who had
been laid off will be put to work again.
CHAMBERSBURG.—' The First
United Brethren Sunday school broke
all attendance records here Easter,
when one-seventh of the town's pop
ulation attended the session. There
were present 1,480 teachers and
pupils.
HARRlSßUßG. —Practically the en
tire force of attaches in the state
treasury have received letters from
John O. Sheatz, the incoming state
treasurer, notifying them that they
would not be reappointed. Mr. Sheatz
will take office May 4.
PITTSBURG. —Because his parents
objected to his attentions to a mar
lied woman who was not living with
her husband, Abner Bosworth, a young
man 20 years old, started west a few
days ago and later drowned himself
in the Scioto river, near Columbus,
Ohio.
READING. —AIbert G. Kelm, farmer
of Pike township, killed himself in his
home by shooting himself through the
heart. Worriment over the death of
Mrs. Leanda Dry, to whom he was
engaged, and the failure of a Phila
delphia party to buy his farm, are the
causes.
PITTSBURG.— SamueI Elllata, 12
years, Wilfred Wingerly, 14 years, and
Charles Stoltz, 11 years old, were seri
ously injured while attempting to rob
a bird's nest in the iron work of a
bridge. The boys came in contact
with a guy wire, charged with elec
tricity, and fell a distance of 25 feet
to the ground.
CHAMBERSBURG. —A sensational
suicide and an evident attempt to
blow up his home, together with his
own body, was made at this place,
when George Ganfelt, aged 35, plugged
all the holes about the kitchen, lighted
the gas in the chandelier and then
turned on six burners of the gas stovo
and lay down to die.
GREENSBURG. —Reports are com
ing from country districts that West
moreland county farmers were bun
coed by the same mail order scheme
worked in Butler county, where the
operators cleaned up nearly $40,000.
What purported to be orders for goods
were signed by farmers and later
turned up at Greensburg banks as
judgment notes.
HARRISBURG— State Health Com
missioner Dixon has approved the
plans for construction of new sewers
in McKeesport so far as they are to
be used for surface water, but has re
fused to allow the city to use them
for house drainage, requiring that a
study be made of the sewage of that
locality so that pollution of the
Youghioheny may be stopped.
HARRISBURG. —State Dairy and
Food Commissioner Foust's crusade
against "doctored" vinegar is spread
ing through a number of counties and
the arrests in Lycoming and Northum
berland counties have been followed
by others in Huntingdon and Blair.
SHARON. —Jasper Tyrell, a con
stable of Fowler township, advertised
in the newspapers of this vicinity for
a wife. Out of five hundred replies
received he selected a writer from
Sharpsville, who signed her name
Mrs. Arietta Goodrich. They arranged
a meeting and she proved to be an old
schoolmate. They were married.
You Read the
Other Fellow's Ad
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I A H You are reading this one.
I That should convince you
I that advertising in these
| columns is a profitable prop-
I osition; that it will bring
9 business to your store.
' I The fact that the other
[j fellow advertises is prob- ;
ably the reason he is get
ting more business than is
falling to you. Would it
not be well to give the
other fellow a chance
To Read Your Ad
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ia your silent representative. If
you Bell fine goods that are up
to-date in style and of superior
quality It ought to be reflected
In your printing. We produce, the
kind that you need and will not
feel ashamed to have represent
you. 'That Is the only kind It
pays to send out. Send your or
ders to this office.
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Guide
The firms whose names are repre
sented in our advertising columns
are worthy of the confidence of every
person in the community who has
money to spend. The fact that they
advertise stamps them as enterpris
ing, progressive men of business, a
credit to our town, and deserving of
support. Our advertising columns
comprise a Buyers' Guide to fair
dealing, good goods, honest prices.
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it To Drive Away the
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You can drive him out
order houses' own weapon
thousands of dollars every
week in order to get trade
from the home merchants.
Do you think for a minute
they would keep it up if
they didn't get the busi
ness ? Don't take it for
granted that every one
within a radius of 25 miles
knows what you have to
sell, and what your prices are. Nine times out of ten your prices
are lower, but the customer is influenced by the up-to-date adver
tising of the mail order house. Every article you advertise should
be described and priced. You mlust tell your story in an inter
esting way, and when you want to reach the buyers of this com
munity use the columns of this paper.
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1 you wasting your ammunition on the
1 small crowd that would trade with
J\ you anyway, or do you want to reach
those who are not particularly inter
ested in your business? If you do,
t--~~ — make your appeal for trade to the
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audience in your commun
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fi&u. f-*- be read by them, and they
will become your custom- I
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