INTIMATELY PERSONAL

HE wand of want had made passes over the poor man's head. He was hungry. His friends had deserted him, and life looked a flat failure. His clothes were shabby, his face drawn. His mind reeled. For years he had worked steadily, but he had never saved a cent-not a dollar.

One day he lost something-lost his position.

Then he got another position, and after a while he lost that. Later he got a job, and then six jobs in one year. In fact, he found plenty of jobs, all kinds of jobs, and now he is doing all kinds of jobs; but the trouble is, the world is peopled with so many men who are doing these little jobs, all kinds of jobs-dumping ash-cans, sweeping stalls, cuffing mules-jobs, little jobs.

The man who fails to step up from his present position is liable to fall into a job, and then out of one.

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THE FOOL FARM BOY

A FAILURE farmer lived not far from my boyhood home, and he existed there for a long time-existed. During the day he had to work most of the time picking off the grubs that were eating up his garden crops. He was too poor to get credit at the grocery and so hard up that they would arrest him if he should attempt to beg.

He told his troubles, and this made matters worse. No one would talk with him then, but they all talked of his troubles to some one else.

The mortgage was coming due on the little farm. His wife worried herself sick in the head, and worked herself sick in the body. His two children looked hungry, and they were.

He had a "fool” farm boy “workin' for board." One day this mental short-weight baited a hook with one of the grubs from the garden, and went to the upper end of the pond where the springs are cold, and there he caught a magnificent speckled trout.

Now there are no grubs in the garden, but a lot of trout customers in the city, and the farmer sleeps and eats in prosperity. He often refers to the hired hand as "the fool that does the chores."

SORRY FOLKS

OU healthy, husky, strong and vigorous man, read this; and if, after you read this, you feel sorry

for yourself, I'm sorry for you too.

There will be a chorus of sorry folks in your community, and you know what happens to folks when everybody sympathizes with them. They slip into the ooze. They slip out. Nine men out of ten who feel they are deserving of sympathy are slippery.

Lying on a cot in an attic, out on a poorhouse farm, were five humans-a blind man, a paralytic, a brokenbacked boy, and a man whose mind was lost. Then there was another man, and he was pronounced incurable. He had suffered a nervous shock. There was nothing working well about his frame but his head and his hands.

Finally this man worked his head and his hands, and he wrote a serio-comic verse, and he sent it out to publishers. He sent it twenty-nine times, and it came back twenty-eight.

This man is now helping the broken-backed, the blind, the paralytic and the incurables of this country from the sales of his work. He is writing the comic songs and the funny things of the world at very big pay, and he has not been out of the house but three times in years. He makes other people laugh.

He has helped to provide thousands of dollars for the sick, hundreds of wheel chairs, and has written thousands of encouraging letters to "shut-ins."

Frequently the editor of this magazine receives congratulatory letters on his enthusiasm, and on the idea of trying to help others up the hill. The editor of this magazine is strong, healthy and well, and the very fact that he is an optimist and is trying to help others is nothing to his credit. It would be to his discredit to be otherwise.

Charles N. Douglas, of 1299 Park Place, Brooklyn, is not asking for help. He is trying to help others while paralyzed. The editor of The Silent Partner is trying to help others, and when he thinks of the work done by blind men, paralytics and "shut-ins," he feels ashamed of himself.

We take ourselves too seriously. We can any of us

drop out, and a better man would fill our place. We are all better men when we think we are. The point is, think

So.

K. S. Thompson, of Illinois, is a blind man. He is totally blind. Mr. Thompson has overcome his handicap by a keen sense of hearing and of touch. He works a switchboard in a telephone office, and they say he makes fewer mistakes than the full-visioned operator. You can if you will.

Russell Monbeck, of Ohio, a fourteen-year-old boy, is president of the Boys' Box Factory Company that operates each afternoon from four to six o'clock. There are twenty-eight kids from ten to seventeen years old who are stockholders in the company, and they divided nine hundred dollars last year in dividends. It can be done.

John B. Herreshoff was totally blind for fifty years. He died recently in England. But he left to the world a lesson of wonderful courage. He left the cup winner, and perfected inventions that made the coil boiler possible and the submarine practicable. His mind worked.

When you look upon a leader with envy, you are only displaying your ignorance.

Paderewski played one note until he got it. Beethoven wrote his music in his mind. He could not hear. Milton could not see, but he continued to see through his soul. O you husky, healthy solicitor of sympathy! How I would like to place a kick-properly place it!

JOLTS

Stir

MIX a lot of will with a certain amount of skill. well and take a big dose before you leave the house in the morning. If your system rebels at the treatment, you don't need medicine. What you want is a swift kick between the henhouse and the barn.

Be sorry for the fellow with a harelip. It won't hurt you any, and it may help him. Getting sorry for other folks gets the pity out of your system. All good men pity the unfortunate; but no good man will pity himself, so long as there is a harelip left on the other fellow.

THE UPLIFT PAGE

TART to-day. Start now. Begin this very moment. Prove to your employer that you can fill a high position-higher than where you are now. Show him. He is from Missouri.

Your employer wants good men-men who can render service, signal service.

It will not be necessary for you to ask for a better position or for better pay. Just show this Missourian that you can perform more service and better service. Your promotion will come without the asking, nine times out of ten. The tenth time you are in the wrong pew. Move. This is the most important article to you that you have read in this magazine for months, provided you get it.

There have been other articles that sound smoother, read better, and are better evidences of the editor's command of adjectives; but this article is clothed in common

sense.

Think! Act! Do some one thing better than others are doing it, and do it now. Wake up. Shake yourself. If this punch fails to get you aroused, sleep on, my boy.

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AS COMPARED

YOUR employer depends on profits for his success in business. What he sells, how much he sells, is not so important to him as how much he satisfies.

Your position is not unlike that of the man you work for. How much you satisfy means much to you.

The only way your employer has of judging your value is by results. The only way he can hope to win in business is on results. Your position, as compared with that of the man you work for, is a mutual one; and when you overlook this fact you overlook the fundamental principles of personal progress.

CONSTRUCTIVE action and right thought will bring almost every man close to the gates of prosperity. What a man accomplishes is the answer to what he has tried to do. When a man thinks at random, he works without purpose. He "heads or tails" with success.

fifty thousand horse-power surplus. This large amount of power is good for twenty-four hours a day.

View of Oswego River, in city of Fulton, showing Fulton Lower Dam, head 27 feet, and in the distance Fulton Upper Dam, head 18 feet. The spillway of Fulton Lower Dam is about 550 feet long, and during the winter and spring months the water has usually wasted over this dam to a height of 4 to 6 feet. Much of this water is now being held back by controlling works built by the State at the outlets of Oneida, Seneca and Cayuga Lakes (218 sq. miles of lake surface), and it is estimated that this storage will double the permanent power of the Oswego River. This dam will develop about 20,000 h. p. if all the water is used under the most favorable conditions..

Fulton has three steam railroads-the New York Central, the Lackawanna, and the Ontario & Western; one electric railroad with fast passenger and express service; this electric railroad is practically a belt line connecting all of the local industries with the three steam railroads, the river and the barge canal.

Fulton offers exceptional, in fact unique, advantages for factories having to do with wood, products of wood, with paper and with pulp.

Fulton has an enterprising Chamber of Commerce, the officers of which will be glad to answer any questions as to sites, taxation, etc. Or, if you haven't time to come to Fulton, when in New York City inquire about Fulton of George C. Warner, 42 Broadway.

This company sells electricity at attractive rates.

Fulton Light, Heat & Power Company Fulton, N. Y.