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IGFE J
JANES
F there was a gold mine
' l 112.T v7 ¥?T]\ ' n Jour back yard or on
I ntg [Kf your farm you'd bustle
Y/wi frvX to work It, wouldn't you?
tfUflF vM OU wouldn't eat, or
7rh s ' ee P> or drink until your
7 lb ir// s P ac^e b ad begun to toss
tip earth. You'd work
yUzfllft like ten men, and you'd
. Silt'A<\' dream of the work nights.
And why? lieoause you're
after gold—the yellow
metal. If it was in a eruder and less
romantic form you wouldn't work so
hard, and that is why—today—there
Is a "gold mine" not so very far off
ifrom every hustling, brainy, ambitious
young man in tha United States."
' These were the words of John D.
Rockefeller, recently spoken on the
subject of "opportunities." And he
finished with, "The times of our great
est gold and sliver discoveries, of our
Yukons and our Callforniaa. am gone,
but the times of our more valuable
"discoveries'—discoveries of gold in
other forms —have just dawned. For
tunes are easier made today than yes
terday."
112 Mr. Rockefeller, who has devoted a
long life to successfully grasping
"golden mines of opportunity," gave
no specific directions as to just where
a few mines might be found, but he
hit. the nail squarely on the head just
the same. The modern fortune-hunt
er does not carry a six-shooter at his
belt and a diploma for accuracy In its
use notched in the butt of it. He dis
likes bloodshed, loves good dinners,
goes to theatres and, as frequently as
not, owns an automobile. Perhaps he
strikes a "mine" in the midst of a
crowded street, or he hits upon it
while listening to a Sunday sermon in
church. It was there, while bowed
In prayer, that one of the most val
uable keys to wireless telegraphy
came to its inventor,
i Last year the country saved about
forty million doi'.ars in the utilization
of what, up until a few years ago, was
known as "waste," and of all the
fields which Mr. Rockefeller might
name there is probably none which
offers greater opportunities at. the
present time to men of very small as
well as large capital, than this. The
utilization of wastes is not an entire
ly new Idea. It has attracted a great
deal of attention during the past six'
years, especially, and its "wonders"
have been exploited many tinges— the
wonders, for instance, of coal tar by
products, of ink made from the rusty
hoops of old barrels, of silk ties made
of the limbs of trees, and of the re
markable utilization of everything
from hoof to tail in our slaughter
houses. It has been estimated that
a hundred million dollars could be
saved, or made, each year by utiliza
tion of wastes instead of forty million,
and that such a department would
■within a few years be as valuable as
the Department of Agriculture, which
has worked a revolution in the farm
ing methods of the nation. This de
partment would be of value not only
to the large manufacturers and pro
ducers, who are the sole "waste prod
uct" utilizers of today, but would open
tnines of profit to thousands of mer
chants, wholesale men, small dealers
and manufacturers, and would open
up, as well, new fields for eith
er small or large capital. It would
show wholesale dealers how the thou
sands of bushels of fruit which spoil
on their hands each season could bo
made to pay the wages of their work
ing forces; how the great dry goods
merchant co\ild add a good percentage
to his profits by "utilizing" in various
■ways, and it would show where new
by-product business could be started
and carried on at a profit in every
city. It is pointed out that practically
the only "utilization of waste" busi
ness with which the mass of people
are acquainted, and in which they
take part, is that of old paper and old
rags!
in the employ of the Canadian gov
ernment, the writer spent a part of
last year in a study of the situation
between the north shore of Lake Su
perior and the Pacific coast. The his
tory of the States has taught Canada
that the conservation of the "surface
■wealth" of a country is a tremendous
ly important matter, and the govern
ment is making great efforts to profit
by our mistakes. In spite of these ef
forts, millions of dollars are being
thrown away each year in western
Canada —millions of dollars which
.American capital and 'American brains
could save.
It may seem a little exaggerated
•when I say that a hundred fortunes
could be made today in Canadian saw
dust What Michigan, Wisconsin and
Minnesota were in the lumbering
world three or four decades ago. Im
mense areas of Canada are today.
For hundreds of miles east and west
of the Superior shore the sawmill Is
the life of almost every town settle
ment. Mountains of sawdust lay
everywhere. Sawdust is a nuisance,
is carted away at large expense, is
a white elephant on the lumbermak
ers' hands. If a man should appear to
any one of the lumber manufacturers
tomorrow and say, "I will contract to
take all of your sawdust for ten
years," the owner would be delighted
to give it to him for hauling it away.
There are not only thousands, but
millions of tons of It. The mills do
not burn it In their furnaces, as many
American manufacturers are now do
ing, because they have more wood
trimmings than they can use.
How can this sawdust be used? Eas
ily enough, and profitably enough, too.
A method has now been found where
by sawdust is easily and cheaply
moulded into briquettes as hard as
wood itself, and capable of producing
a heat as powerful as that of coal.
By mixing sawdust with glue-water
and soluble glass, and hydraullcally
pressing it, a beautiful artificial wood
is made, which in France is called
bois durci, and which possesses a
beauty of appearance found only in
ebony, rosewood and mahogany.
Today the "paper question" is one
of national importance. It has been
pointed out a hundred times that the
newspaper, magazine and popular
novel reader Is responsible for the go
ing of our forests at a rate which
will leave us pretty nearly treeless a
few years from now. And meanwhile,
because of what we can class as noth
ing less than ignorance, the people of
this country and Canada are coolly
destroying an enormous paper supply
each year. For straw, after a brief proc
ess, is paper. Last year I personally
saw thousands of tons of straw burn
ed by farmers on the Canadian prair
ies. Twenty million tons were burned
between Winnipeg and the coast!
The value of those stacks, In paper,
would be tremendous, and the figure
would be doubled by those which are
burned in our own western states.
Scattered evenly over the grain fields
the burned straw would not be a total
loss, as it would be of some assist
ance to the soil; but burned as it is,
in huge stacks, or "winrows," it does
more injury than good to the soil.
In the United States there are hun
dreds of ways in which money is
made in the utilization of wastes—
most of them thus far being in the
hands of moneyed men, like million
aire manufacturers, packers, eteel pro
ducers, and so on. The "poor man's
opportunities" have not yet been tak
en advantage of. Today, for instance,
there is scarcely a city of any size in
the United States where a man with
from two to five thousand dollars at
his command could not set up a by
product factory in waste fruit that
would pay him large dividends on hi«s
money. What a large wholesale fruit
merchant has carted away from his
back door as "waste" would pay the
salaries of his employees if turned
into vinegar, flavors and "oils," and
each of these by-products would be up
to the highest standard of the pure
food regulations, for decay in fruit is
a chemically harmless change.
In another way there are opportu
nities for small capital in the sheep
raising districts of the United States
and Canada. Not many years ago
gold "wash" was a waste; today it
yields a treasure. It has been found
now that when a sheep is washed the
dirty water which has cleansed the
wool Is of considerable value, and
that it will yield a "wool fat" fifteen
per cent as great as the wool on the
sheep. From this fat five valuable
products are secured, used as the
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY. MARCH 23, 1911.
bases for ointments, cosmetics and
fibre lubricants.
In only a very few cities of th»
world is garbage made of value today.
What the "wastes" of the American
housewife may be made to yield in
cash has recently been demonstrated
by Paul Bruet, a German, In London.
Bi*uet says that he started on $1,200.
Ho began burning garbago in large
vertical cylinders, surrounded by
steam Jackets, and evaporated the
seventy-five per cent of water in the
garbage. The fatty substances were
dissolved, and as a result of the proc
ess he produced & fertilizer which Is
worth fifteen dollars a ton. So suc
cessful were his first operations that
ho started a small company on a cap
ital of SIO,OOO, and last year this $lO,-
000 investment made a profit of
$16,000!
In many places throughout the
Tlnited States, and especially In the
Canadian northwest, there are splen
did opportunities for the wide-awake
American to make money In the es
tablishment of a new kind of twine
making factories. Farmers are now
using a hemp or Jute twine for bind
ing their grain, at the enormous cost
of from $l2O to SIBO per ton. It la
now found that an excellent twine can
be made from ordinary marsh grass
and from the common "wire grass"
which grows abundantly over millions
of acres of western country.
Along the Atlantic, the Pacific and
the Gulf of Mexico millions of tons
of seaweed are cast up by the waves.
It is often four and five feet in depth,
and In France, where some of it is
now being used, it Is found that it
will gather best where large stones
are placed within tide-mark on sandy
shores. In this country there is as
yet little thought of putting seaweed
to use, and yet it is one of the richest
and most productive of all "wastes."
One ton will produce eight pounds of
iodine, large quantities of chloride of
potassium, four to ten gallons of vola
tile oil, three or four gallons of nap
tha, and 250 to 400 pounds of sulphate
of ammonia. Only about 70 per cent
of the total mass is actual waste, and
the remaining 30 per cent in each ton
is worth between $25 and S4O. The
highest value is reached when it is
turned in gelose, or vegetable isin
glass.
Science, the wizard of the century,
touches with his fairy wand the black,
viscid coal-tar from the gas retorts,
and from the 140 pounds of gas-tar in
a ton of coal science today makes
aniline dyes numbering over 2,000 dis
tinct' shades. Of medicines, antisep
tics, hypnotics and fever-allaying prep
arations it furnishes quinine, antipy
rlne, atropine, morphine, exalglne,
sornnal, salol, chloralamlde, hypnol,
and a host of others. It furnishes
perfumes—heliotroplne, clove, queen
of the meadows, cinnamon, bitter al
monds, vanillin, camphor, wintergreen
and thymol. It has given to the
world belllte and picrite, two powerful
explosives. It supplies more than 20
flavoring extracts; Is the housekeep
ers' ally, with benzine and naptha, the
insecticides; supplies the fanner with
ammonial fertilizers, and has given to
the photographer his -two developers,
hydroquinone and likonogen. It yields
paraffin, creosote and pitch; material
for artificial paving; saccharin, a sub
stance 300 times sweeter than sugar.
It gives us lampblack, material for rod
inks, lubricating oils, varnish, rosin,
almost our entire supply of ammonia,
and other things whose names would
fill a page.
Not many years ago, when a "beef"
was killed 40 per cent of the animal
was »*aste. Today nothing Is lost
"but its dying breath."
It is true, as Mr. Rockefeller says,
that today "there Is a 'gold mine' nst
so very far from every hustling,
brainy, ambitious young man In the
United States" —and many of these
"mines" may be found In the utilizing
of "wastes."
The Essential Scrap,
.Tudgo—Can't you and your husband
live happily without fighting?
Mrs. Casey—No, yer anner; not hop
pily.
| IMPRISONED FOR SMUGGLING
r~~— ——————i To defraud the government of the
7"iT United States of Its customs coming
here from the °' d world has been the
. darling wish of many women ever
IW/WQiL since Americans have been able to ln
dulge In the luxury of an ocean voy
" age. Miss Multimillionaire, secure In
I |i her social position, did not like to be
I Jj held U P on the dock an d made to pay
Si large sums for being caught trying to
I swindle the government. But -when
I"" ,| ' l) *b® Is caught finally she chafes under
Yhrf/Wnt ber treatment, but society stands by
Vh' J ! liei " aiK ' that encourages others to foi-
! 'A'' To remove this P r °P from the fash
'''<' ionable woman the authorities have
decided to jail those caught In de
'Ki ' fraudlng Uncle Sam of his dues. This
penalty, it Is thought, will prevent rep-
Hi uta ble women from engaging In th®
\ '$T P / 7116 flrst to suffer the lmpiisonmentj
7 •'"•• ''" / -■ 1 and thf» odium which attaches to It 1b:
Mrs. Roberta Q. Hill, divorced wife of :
Major Hill of the English army. She pleaded guilty to smuggling in a sable
ooat and jewelry valued at SB,OOO, pleading in extenuation that she was igno
rant of the law. Judge Martin in New York fined her $2,000 and sentenced
her to serve three days in a cell in the Tombs. Mrs. Hill became hysterical
when imprisonment was added to fine. She is a daughter of Morris Menges,
a horseman of Brooklyn. Mrs. Hill is given to the romantic. At sixteen she
man-led Halsey Corwin of Brooklyn, but she soon after divorced him.
Discovery after discovery of those attempting to smuggle valuables into
the ports of our'country, chiefly at New York, have resulted only In flues,
and this has failed to stop tho practice. Exposure and consequent disgrace
proving ineffectual, the courts finally determined on imprisonment. This
seemed the only way to make the rich and influential and society belles come
to a realization of this kind of offending—that It was a real crime.
HUNGARIAN"STATESMAN HERE
1 One of the most eminent of Euro
pean statesmen. Count Albert Appon
yl, member of the Hungarian parlia
==SEN\ ment and ex-minister of public wor-
ship and education of Austria-Hungary,
mu A \ is now on a vißlt to this country in
vv -v|s the interest of international peace. He
- \yik v has come to deliver a series of lee
£r#\ >\Ka problem in Europe and to urge this
if'ifrO) country to become the world's leader
vVJ 3ji / In the efforts to abolish war. This is
not bis flrßt visit t0 the Unlted States.
He came here in 1904 to attend the
'A peace conference held at St. Louis. He
iV\vraSt- - i if///////, has been active in the cause of the
I W ' ''ti world 8 P eace for many years and has
') jZslh! attended interparliamentary confer-
V if??/ i ences on the subject at Brussels,
, 1// Christiania, Paris nnd London.
[' M i,'V :. t Count Apponyl is a member of a
l'yMHungarian aristocracy which trace®
'///// 118 descent in an unbroken line back
MPQr to 1235. Ho was born In 1846, was ed
ucated in schools conducted by the
Jesuits and has been in public life since 1872. He was a conservative when
he first entered politics, but is now the leader of the nationalists, or the Kos
suth party, in Hungary. Although an aristocrat by birth and heredity, he Is
noted for his democracy and years ago relinquished the seat which was his
by right in the Hungarian house of peers in order to sit in the lower house.
The count is the owner of magnificent estates in Hungary and is wealthy.
His wife is related to the royal family of England, her grandmother having
been a sister of Queen Victoria's husband, the prince consort.
IMPORTANT COMMITTEE HEAD
————————————, one of the figures of the Sixty-sec
ond congress will be Representative
Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama, se
lected by the Democratic caucus to
head the all-important ways and means
1 committee. Mr. Underwood will be
\ the Democratic floor leader, succeed
lng ln that P° sltlon Representative Se
wsb) reno E- Payne of New York, and will
\ giVe h ' S Ilame t0 016 new tariff bill
j \ which the Democrats propose to put
Mr ' Underwood never held an office
" ' or was a candl date for 6uch a position
' until 1894. Then he ran for congress,
J the entire issue being the tariff, and
i/s,/ he had a bitter light. Speaker Crisp
M / i }V\. came into the district to help him and
w ben the votes were counted he had
jar won by 1,000. Since that time he has
' never had an -opponent for the nomi
■ nation. He has been elected to con
gress eight times, three times without
a Republican opponent. He has always been a close friend and confidential
adviser of Champ Clark and la only forty-eight years old. He was born ln
Louisville, ICy. His grandfather was a colleague of Henry Clay ln tfie senate.
Young Underwood attended the University of Virginia, graduating ln law In
1884. It was there that he began to get his Democratic ideas. He has been
married twice, his first wife dying ln 1900. In 1904 he remarried.
Mr. Underwood is a prominent member of tho Birmingham Country club
and spends all of his spare time ln the summer playing golf on the slopes
of Red mountain.
MOUNTS HIGH IN THE ARMY I
* Another step in his steadily upward
career has been taken by Col. Enoch
Crowder, whose enviable army rec-
IW- \ ord is one to stimulate emulation.
Oen. George W. Davis, Judge advocate
ffiw'ii general of the army, was retired on .
. ] account of having reached the age
limlt * and to the vacanc y thus created
WmeSZsM' yMt Colonel Crowder has succeeded in th®
Ordinary courso of promotion, as ho
was tho Be nior colonel ln the judge
vM-lm/?' MM \b ' lw / advocate division,
lap Mmwl <*ffl Colonel Crowder is a native of Mis-
W X \lv kZ// sourl, where he was born April 11,
n m It 1859, the Eon of John Herbert and
// I' l l I Mary ( Welle r) Crowder. He graduat
// /xlliLl// ed from the Mllltai '>' a cademy in 1881,
',/// , Jtgaj, and he received the degree of
LL * B * ' rom th® University of Mis
r / sourl. Colonel Crowder served In the
AfflJ f Philippine islands in 1898-1901. Dur-
' nß War etween Japan and Russia
1 7» ho became conspicuous as an observer
'' !'r/' ■ /!/! //( of the field maneuvers, being with the
Japanese army from April, 1904, until
April, 1905. In Cuba, 1906-'O7, he acted as financial advisor of the Cuban
government, his services being greatly valued.
Warrior that ho Is, however, there Is one conquest which the colon«(
ha.B never made. No womanly heart hr.s yet capitulated to his superior Ud
tics, a willies priaoueri least ha is not married.
A MINISTER BPKAKB.
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A Terrible End.
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"How was that?"
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