A sensible man knows when to stop the chase for the dollar. There's some reason for running to catch a train, but no sense in holding on the rail and running the full distance of your jourMen who have been chasing the almighty dollar and who have caught up to it should be satisfied when they get there, and not still keep

The little suburb of Fairhaven, Mass., is the proud birthplace of one of America's great men whose name has been dragged into the limelight of publicity by sensationalists and men who care not for wealth but who are self-appointed public benefactors.

Young Rogers' days were the same as those of other boys. No mark of unusual brightness seemed to attract the attention of that quiet little city where the pulse of life beat slow and regular.

It was back in the early forties that this bud of humanity came into the world unpretentious, yet the process of time has caused the world to stop and take notice of this usual yet unusual being.

Young Henry could be seen daily when a boy helping the neighbor grocer after school hours to dispense sugar, coffee and cheese, working like a little beaver for the few pennies he received for his labor. It was at these very labors he began to develop his business ability. His undeveloped business acumen would peep forth in these narrow confines and his employer would shake his head and say, "that boy will make his mark in the world"-like many "by way" statements that spring from the impulse of the moment, this one came true, and came true in its largest sense. Little was it dreamed in those early days that his measure of success was to be full even to overflowing.

"Hank" as the boys used to call him didn't seem to care much for the hum and hustle of large cities. He was quite a young man before he left his birthplace to go among strangers. And one day when all his companions had enlisted in the Civil War "Hank" felt that there was little left in Fairhaven to incite enthusiasm and he joined the caravan of fortune hunters in the oil field.

It was in 1861 he went to Oil Creek where from then on a great share of his time was spent in a flourishing tide of oil waves, where the fortunes of his friends and neighbors were obtained by striking gushing oil wells on their lands.

These fortunes usually went as quickly as they came; for these oil geysers as they might be called, had a great propensity to cease as suddenly as they erupted.

While fortune was thus scattering her capricious favors with one hand and taking them back with the other, Henry Rogers with several other young men formed a league and worked quietly and obscurely to make oil the source of a fortune that should owe nothing to luck, but would increase from year to year and gradually add new

fields of enterprise until such organizations should dominate the industrial world.

The members of this little company were all poor, plain hard working men, shrewd and ready to make the very most out of what was theirs to work with, and while the envied owners of gushing wells capered about in their glee, these modest young men quietly organized the industry of transporting, refining and marketing oil on a basis from which every vestige of chance was eliminated. It was Mr. Rogers' reckonings and reasonings that stood at the back of this organization; in fact Henry Rogers is credited with the actual conception of the original scheme of combination.

These men invested, not only what little money they had, but all their brains and energy as well, qualities which were worth a great deal more.

Mr. Rogers first proposed that all the well owners should pool their product and allow a single agency to handle it. Later he suggested that a combination be formed to swing the business on its own account, buying out the small producers and gathering in all the profits of the trade.

At this time there was a great competition in the oil business. There were one hundred and twelve petroleum companies in New York City alone, with a combined capital of $134,045,000. At Philadelphia the capital ranged still higher; $163,715,000 lay in oil companies. In ten cities the aggregate known capitalization of business was $326,200,000.

It was at such times as these that Henry Rogers' real characteristics and ambitions popped out. He was determined to make success his one great effort, and he stood strong and staunch to this one end. His opinions were sought, and his advice was followed. He had the great power of looking far and deep into things, and difficulties vanished in the wind when he began to work.

In later years Mr. Rogers tried similar methods in producing a copper organization but did not meet with a similar success and finally placed his entire energies to his one successful enterprise.

Mr. Rogers is a very stern and strong minded man, decidedly persistent in all of his arguments. He is keen, cool, and at times grimly hard to deal with in business affairs though he is a man of many friends.

He has great public spirit and a generous recollection of old associations. He has spent millions in the improvement of his home town-built a five hundred thousand dollar church in memory of

his wife; gave the beautiful Millicent Library in the name of his children as a monument of their late sister, and endowed it with one hundred thousand dollars.

He then gave to the suburb the model town water works which had cost more than one hundred thousand dollars and produced a net income of $6,000 a year. He also built a costly school house.

Mr. Rogers is president and director of over twenty corporations and causes a stir in Wall street when he enters the stock market.

He is seventy-five years old, with whitened hair and a military mustache that adds reverence rather than age to his expressive face, which radiates with a hope and animation that beams forth from his alert keen eyes-eyes that seem never to get weary.

A picture of Mr. Rogers appears on the cover page.

Wood for Paper Costs Twenty-Six Millions.

The Publisher Pays Much More for His Stock Than He Did Last Year.

Today there is general complaint among publishers that printing paper is constantly growing dearer. In the Middle West many local papers are raising their subscription price 50 per cent in order to pay for the paper. From the time when Gutenberg first used movable type, made of wood, to the present day of metropolitan papers, some of which consume the product of acres of spruce in a single edition, printing has in very large degree depended upon the forest.

In the face of a threatened shortage of timber, the amount of wood consumed each year for pulp has increased since 1899 from 2 million to 31⁄2 million cords. The year 1906 marked an increase of 93,000 cords in the imports of pulpwood, the highest average value per cord for all kinds, and a consumption greater by 469,053 cords than that of any previous year.

Spruce, the wood from which in 1899 threefourths of the pulp was manufactured, is still the leading wood, but it now produces a little less than 70 per cent of the total. How well spruce is suited to the manufacture of pulp is shown by the fact that during a period in which the total quantity of wood used has doubled and many new woods have been introduced, the proportion of spruce pulpwood has remained nearly constant in spite of the drains upon the spruce forests for other purposes. During this time three different woods, from widely separated regions, have in turn held the rank of leader in the

Since 1899, poplar, which for years was used in connection with spruce to the exclusion of all other paper woods, has increased in total quantity less than 100,000 cords, and is now outranked by hemlock. Pine, balsam, and cottonwood are used in much smaller amounts.

New York alone consumes each year over a million and a quarter cords of wood in the manufacture of pulp, or more than twice as much as Maine, which ranks next. Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Michigan follow in the order given. Sixty per cent of the wood used in New York was imported from elsewhere, and even so the supply appears to be waning, since the total consumption for the state shows a small decrease since 1905, whereas the other states named have all increased their consumption. Other states important in the production of pulp are: Massachusetts, Minnesota, Ohio, Oregon, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia.

The average cost of pulp delivered at the mill was $7.21. The total value of the wood consumed in 1906 was $26,400,000. The chief item determining the price of paper is the cost of pulp. An example of the increased price of paper is found in the case of a publisher of a daily in the Middle West, who recently paid $1,200 for a carload of paper. The same quantity and grade of paper cost a year ago but $800.

The chemical processes of paper making, which better preserve the wood fiber, are gaining over the mechanical process. In 1899, 65 per cent of the wood was reduced by the mechanical process; in 1906, less than 50 per cent.

All importations of wood for pulp are from Canada, and comprised, in 1906, 739,000 cords, Four and a nearly all of which was spruce. half million dollars' worth of pulp was imported in 1906, a slight falling off from 1905.

Imperial power and economic monopoly may prosper for a time, but only democracy is strong to the end. For democracy is an expression of righteousness, and righteousness alone can ultimately prevail. When righteousness does prevail, then will there be universal peace; not the ghastly peace of the tomb, but the loving peace of brotherly justice. And with that peace will come prosperity; not the prosperity of a Dives with its crumbs for a Lazarus, but abundant prosperity for Lazarus and Dives both—on the just condition that the one quit begging and the other plundering, and that both go to work.-Louis F. Post.

You can always tell how strong a man is on heavy matters by the way he disposes of trivial

If it is, here is your opportunity! The man who is already employed in a trade that holds no future for him is making the greatest blunder in the world if he does not throw out his line of energy into the field of opportunity that now stands awaiting him-even beckoning him-the greatest field in the present market-the field that appreciates a man with brains.

The quality of the opportunity lies in the fact that he need run no risks, for the Correspondence School enables him to continue with his present position until he is thoroughly qualified to enter a better position; and the man who remains a slave to his position with such opportunities as these before him, is doing the greatest injustice to himself than man can self-inflict.

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Advertising is fascinating; it is broadening and cultivates a quality that is not known in other vocations. It opens ways and means whereby opportunities of the greatest natures are constantly placed in your reach.

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The man who fails to prepare for advancement in this great day of competition lacks that quality of "go" that lifts man into his present

sphere; he is not natural and therefore cannot cope with his natural brother. He will reach the day when a stronger hand and a better developed brain will command him to stand back and give space to the betterment of his community.

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Dr. Harper, the late President of the University of Chicago, in speaking of correspondence instruction, says: "The work done by correspondence is even better than that done in the class-room. The correspondence student does all the work himself; he does it in writing, and does twenty times as much reciting as he would in a class of twenty people. He works out the difficulties by himself, and the results stay by him."

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