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VOLUME VI. No. 3.

Be a thinker, a planner, a doer.

MARCH, 1906

Don't lose yourself in the jostling throng. A man entering business, like one entering college, is subjected to the "hazing" process.

There is a cheerful view of seemingly the most desperate situation—find it.

There is no merit in idly reading or dreaming away your time. Read to some purpose, and see that this purpose is realized.

It is always high tide on some shore; if it is low tide in the morning, it is bound to be high tide later on. Have patience to wait.

Change of climate, change of environment, change of friends-all have their influence on a life, but the really vital change must take place within.

Humor treads closely on the heels of tragedy. When all that you prize is swept away from you-laugh, and start over again.

Beware of the man who prides himself on being able to "pick" men. He will resort to almost anything to prove the correct working out of his predictions.

Boys coasting do not mind the occasional tumble in the snow, the upsetting, and general mixup the slide was worth it, and they know that if they only have patience to pull up hill they can coast again just as gloriously.

A writer must be able to show the world that he is a clever writer. An artist must know how to come before the ones upon whose appreciation his success depends. And an inventor must be able to market his invention. Like apples left in the orchard, it will fall back to earth, having fulfilled no mission, unless properly marketed. Do not rely on merit, alone, to find you out.

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The good of life is his who can see it. Every success and failure in the world are shadows cast by some one person.

Accept every experience as a teacher, and look for the lesson in it.

You can't afford to cling to eccentricities because you consider your brain power above the average.

A man's so-called friends are more apt to "trim" him than anyone else. They are in a position to take advantage.

Do not allow small disappointments to "put you out." If you cannot do the thing planned, accept the good in the thing not planned.

No experience is so terrible but thinking so makes it worse; none so delightful but reveling in its delight enhances it.

The business "bumps" of a man's life can be read only by the phrenologist, Time, who alone can tell whether or not he profited by each hard knock.

A man who said, "Women are all designing," but indicated the kind of associates he had chosen, and at the same time gave a key to his own nature. Like seeks like.

Some people live in today, some in tomorrow, and some in yesterday. The successful ones only draw lessons from the past, use their encrgies for the present achievement, and build for the future.

The greatest tragedy in the world to-day is an old man penniless. A man facing charity, his money gone, his position gone, said bitterly: "In my time I've paid a dollar apiece in the city markets for strawberries for my wife, and thought nothing of it. I was never hard up for money in earlier days." I understood then his present position, and no longer wondered.

Do not be discouraged if there seems no progress in your affairs. Things may be shaping Things may be shaping themselves in the apparently uneventful days, in a way to change all your future. If you are doing your very best according to the light that you have, cultivate patience to await the results.

Never tolerate the companionship of people who do not bring out your own best qualities, or from whom you do not gain mental and spiritual uplift. This practice will limit the number of your friends and may leave you at times lonely, but can you not always turn to inspiring books?

You will never come up against a wall excepting one of your own making. If you progress, you will find yourself gazing upon ever wider and wider vistas. Life will constantly grow more beautiful until Death draws down the last curtain, and with the same hand rolls up another

one.

A man said in my hearing the other day: "He queered himself with me by that one remark." I wanted to suggest that the point for him to watch was that he did not "queer" himself with others. It after all matters little, to us, how other people comport themselves, but it matters greatly to us how we comport ourselves.

A bright Irish lady had a way of saying, when a grotesquely-dressed or rude-mannered person crossed her path, "And, faith, has that poor thing no one that cares for it, no one to tell it any better?" And truly this is a sensible view to take of the matter. We can't believe that people would continue in their peculiarities or vulgarities if they knew them to be such. We can only suppose that one who does has no one to tell him any better. Another point in this connection: Consider those who tell you of your faults your best friends-never resent criticism.

I heard a saleswoman say to a shopper while showing her some shirtwaists, evidently of a smaller number than the shopper wanted, "But this lot all runs large, madam," and again a little later to the same shopper regarding skirts that were evidently too large, "But these all run small, madam." She sold the goods. Without stopping to question the ethical side of the transaction-besides, she may have told the truth-I smiled to myself and thought, what a smooth way of getting over many a small difficulty.

Our preconceived idea stands in the way and blocks our progress. Just take it for granted, occasionally, that things are not as the rule would have them and slip past without any ado about it.

The world never before offered such opportunities to the young man in business. Graft and dishonesty uncovered in high places do not argue the world all wrong, but all better. The dark methods long in existence are at last being found out and eradicated. It is hard in these days for a man-or firm-to be permanently dishonest. But because a long-hidden disease is discovered and named, shall the body be considered more infirm than heretofore? Shall this not rather infuse warranted hope that a cure will soon follow?

A man who was never seen without a quid of tobacco in his cheek remarked to a group of women, "Well, I'm too old-fashioned to think it's right for men to smoke in the presence of ladies"; and with that he discharged a stream of tobacco juice into the nearest receptacle.

The gallant old "chewer" represents the ordinary situation very fairly. Each person may have a strong perception of certain things that are right, and others that are wrong, and at the same time sin in some peculiar way of his own, unconscious that he is doing so. Your eyes must be open not only outwardly but inwardly.

The real measure of your character is your resistance to those things which attract you personally, but the tendency of which is downward.

All men are not attracted similarly. It may require no effort for a man to pass a saloon, but considerable effort for him to pass a gaming table. Another may be naturally slothful, it requiring tremendous effort for him to be "up and doing," while still another is full of vital energy and has trouble using sufficient deliberation to do thoroughly that which he has to do. Take no credit to yourself for resisting that which is a temptation to other men but not to you.

Have you ever noticed that it is the small things, the labor saving and safety devices from which great legitimate fortunes most often spring? Notice on the cover the picture of Mr. Best, the mining-system expert, and the little lamp that made him famous. The history of his achievements, told in this issue of COMMONSENSE, should be an inspiration to men of an inventive turn of mind.

An inventor is usually supposed to lack practical business ability. When he combines both qualifications of success, he has little to fear. The day has gone by when an inventor, a writer -a "genius" in any line-can afford to be called impractical, can afford to lack business training. It is true here as in every other line of activity of today, that a practical application of commonsense is necessary if one's abilities are to command adequate returns.

Common-Sense

THE SCRAP-BOOK MANIA

I have known writers, both men and women, who had the habit of clipping out their stories, articles, press notes, etc., and pasting them in a neat book, to keep and show to their friends. I always think people who are busy with their past achievements will never progress very far in the race for success. When a thing is done, have done with it and go on to the next achievement. If the world does not accord you admiration and recognition, rest assured no scrap-book evidence will add weight in the final verdict.

Who could imagine Lincoln or Washington sitting down and showing his friends a scrapbook full of his utterances and press notes; or Kipling, or Tolstoy, or Browning-or, in fact, any man or woman who takes life seriously and considers each accomplishment but the stepping stone to another and a greater one.

There is no objection to the scrap-book idea in itself, but to the order of mind a scrap-book slave represents. Such a one will never accomplish things great enough to live outside of a scrap-book.

THE MAN WHO GETS THE JOB

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It is useless to attempt to veil a weakness; the only safe course is to eliminate it.

A man's past is written in his face and attitude. If he has been accustomed to conquering difficulties, you see it there in lines between which is read a story of stony resistance. If he has been accustomed to weakening under hardship, that too is plainly written, and his words. to the contrary will be about as effectual as his breath against the winter wind.

A man who does not understand this law of nature makes the mistake of arguing that he possesses qualities he knows he does not possess. He will declare that he has been successful when unsuccess stands back of all he says, jeering at him, and telling the listener a far different story in language that rings too true against the holAs low mockery of his words for disbelief. truly as dissipation is recognizable in the bloated face, the reddened eye, the trembling hand, and the unsteady gait, so poor business judgment and a lack of push, initiative, energy, and originality are all recognizable to the reader of human nature, in signs equally glaring. Learn to "read the signs."

REFINEMENT A MATTER OF nature, in signs equally glaring.

DOLLARS AND CENTS

Every once in a while we come across the strange anomaly of a man-or a woman—with seemingly perfect eyesight, good hearing, and powers of observation equal to the normal human being, who has slipped through life thus far totally regardless of the finer niceties of civilized livino. We see men who are conversant with good literature and who give evidences of other mental improvements over the ordinary laboring classes, who at the same time have such disgusting personal habits as to nauseate people of refinement. They will eat with their knives, shake hands with their gloves on, loudly resort to the use of their handkerchief at the table, or in the presence of others, pick their teeth and chew the end of the pick for the next hour, etc. Men with such disgusting habits lack innate refinement. They do not number in the majority; they have plenty of opportunity to watch other men of different manners, and thus there is no excuse for them. They deserve the kind of failure they invariably meetfailure to gain the friendship of the very people whose companionship their intellectual attainments make them crave.

It's a matter of actual dollars and cents to cultivate refined habits, to say nothing of their possession being a passport to good society. Consider no small thing unimportant.

Every person is continually building the ladder by which he rises, or weaving the rope by which he is being let down.

An unsuccessful man talks by the hour about his own abilities and the stupidity of the rest of the world; the successful man listens in silence and gains a correct estimate of his man.

A shrewd employer does not need to be told. that the first young man applying for a position is tricky and cunning; the upward or downward glance of the eye to avoid meeting the eyes of another, squarely, tells him that. He does not need to be told that the next one is careless; the soiled cuffs, ragged nails, dusty clothing and slouchy walk tell the story. He does not need to be told that a third is lazy, mentally; his heavy eye and sluggish gait proclaim it. A fourth carries himself with an air of assumed assurance, and the employer knows at once the man considers it necessary to assume that which he does not feel. A fifth is anxious at once about the question of salary and the hours required; `the employer knows this will be a clock and pay-day watcher. But here comes a quiet, neat, dignified, manly, unassuming young gentleman, who looks the employer straight in the eye, who assumes nothing and promises nothing, who is ready to answer questions, but who asks little besides, "Is there a future in your business for me?" He is employed.

An employer who is not a judge of men, who takes the applicant offering himself at the cheapest price, loses a hundred times more through inefficient help than he gains by the few dollars difference in salary. difference in salary. The men who have built up the greatest businesses, the captains of in

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