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THE SEMI MONTHLY MAGAZINE SECTION A Magazine for your Reading Table The Exceptional Employee Orison Swett Marden "M"X. CABNEGIE says: "The most • LVJ ' valuable acquisition to liis business that an employer can obtain is an ex ceptional young man. There is no bar gain so fruitful." By the exceptional young man Mr. Cardegie means the one who is always looking out for bis employer's inter ests, the young man who keeps bis eyes open, who is always trying to make sug gestions for improvements in the busi ness, who is always studying for some better, simpler, more efficient way of doing things. Never before was there such a de mand for the exceptional, the resource ful man, the man who can think, who can devise new and original ways of doing things, the man who can grasp the needs of the situation and solve them with his own resourcefulness. Napoleon said that his soldiers fought so well because every man car ried a field marshal's baton in his knap sack. In other words, every man in Napoleon's army expected advance ment and icas prepared fur it. The principle of advancement, of growth, of progress, is the same whether in employer or employee. Business grows because of enterprising, pro gressive, pushing, Up-to-date methods. Promotion for the employee requires the same pushing, vigorous, alert methods. If you want to be advanced, you must be dead-in-earnest and enthusiastic over your employer's business. You must go to the bottom of it; study it, get a comprehensive view of it; know just as much about it as possible. If you intend to take up the same line of business yourself, your present oppor tunity of observation and study will be of untold value to you. At present, you are really an apprentice, being well paid for your work, besides having the opportunity to learn the business. Enterprise Pays WHEN your employer finds that you have a lot of enterprise, that you are trying to learn as much about his business as he knows himself, he will begin to think that you are made of promotion material. But if he sees that your ambition is just to get your sal ary and have as easy a time as you can, you will never attract his atten tion, except for a possible blacklist. An employer wants no dead-wood around him. He wants live wires. He wants employees who have ambition enough to be willing to pay the price for promotion. The first thing the successful em ployee must realize is that he is really working for himself. Every bit ol' work he does heartily, honestly, thor oughly, is developing his own capacity. making him a bigger, broader, more capable man. If be robs his employer CONTENTS COVER DESIGN-"BOY WANTED!" . . CHARLES A MACLELLAN Pag-c EDITORIALS—THE EXCEPTIONAL EMPLOYEE . . • • ORISON SWETT MARDEN 2 ROUGH ROADS AND ROUGH RIDING TO THE WHITE HOUSE . . CHAMP CLARK 4 Illustrations bp G. W. Harting THE QUEST OF BETSINDA-SUE HANNA RION 6 Illustrations bp Frank V'er Beck NOVEMBER JOE: WOODSMAN DETECTIVE . HESKETH PRICHARD 8 THE CASE OF MISS VIRGINIA PLANK Illustrations bp Percy E. Cowen WOMEN WHO COUNT .... 9 Illustrations from Photographs HOW CANADA DOES IT ELLIOTT FLOWER 13 Illustrations from Photographs -V T -- fl i ßr^*^i»*********^****a Hs^sr^i < e^ BtWJsHssi V ■_ IB s\dH ssssssW. Wj'- wMSjtJ Ti *?r^nr^iffln*i**it*^^ Every Way Not only in homes, stores, offices, churches, theatres, factories and for electric signs and street lighting—but also on ferry boats, trolley cars, railroad trains, automobiles and even on battleships—these are some of the commoner uses of the Edison Mazda Lamps For boiler factory or .ttfjN That's why electric light dining room dome, for'store SftTßa users everywhere are re window or clothes closet, /S|n\ placing old lamps with for pocket flasher or auto f *y$ A \ Edison Mazdas, lamp- for scores of uses— / al \ Everybody some of which would sur- / EJ \ — .. .... . ...... .. .... prise you-millions of Edi- / At* \ § That s why electric light son Mazdas are in use today. / \\\M \ today is so cheap. The tiny There are sizes and styles / IV cottage or ™£ store can for every lighting need. I Ul|| J™" f have better electric V / light than was possible a few Everywhere l ./ years ago for even the man- Wherever any electric sion or department store, lamp can be used, the Edison Ask any lighting corn- Mazda is the most economical. pany or electrical dealer about It gives twice as much light as the best styles and sizes of Edison old style lamps and uses less Mazda Lamps foryour special rfMWßk\ current besides. needs. Inquire today. (WrW^ General Electric Company Tbit Symbol on all „ . * tjt The Guarantee of Edison Maida Largest Electrical Manufacturer in the World Eicellence on cartons Goods Electrical Sales Offices in all Lartfe Cities Lamp Arfencies Everywhere i I £» I If you like this magazine, write advertisers, If not, write ua. of time or energy, be is robbing him self more, because be is practising dis honesty, and cultivating a weakness that will slowly undermine his charac ter and destroy his reputation tor trust worthiness. The men who have done great things in the world have been prodigious work ers, particularly during the time when they were struggling to establish them selves in life. Young men who are sticklers for hours, who are afraid of working over time, who want to leave the office on the minute or a little before, who are always a little late in the morning;, or who take their employer's time for their own personal uses — such employees never get very far. Leaders in the Making IF YOU want to be something more ■ than tlie average worker, you musi Aa something more than average work, tt you expect to become an important figure in tlie world of Commerce, a cap tain of industry, instead of a common soldier in the ranks of tabor, you must put your shoulder to the wheel and push, and push hard. It is astonishing how many young men are trying to get a living without hard work. Jt does not seem possible that so many people could live off one another without really producing any thing themselves. Everywhere we see young men looking for easy places, short hours, and the least possible work for the greatest possible salary. Even if it were possible to get a liv ing with a very little effort, you could not afford it. You could not afford to coin your brain into dollars, to make dollar-chasing the ambition of your life. There ought to be something larger in you than that. There is something in you that will not be satisfied with this sort of a life, something that will pro test against selling yourself so cheaply. You can not respect yourself unless you are doing your best, making your greatest effort to bring out the best thing in you. The Next Issue (The next issue will cuntain the first instalment of a two-part article, en titled "The Drama of My Life," by Ivan Sarodny. Mr. Narodny was one of the leaders of the last revolution ary movement in Ilussia. He was feijM for four years in solitary confinement in one of the terrible fortress-prisons of St. Petersburg, and hie vivid ac count of his experiences is one of the most remarkable human documents ever offered to the readers of a pop ular magazine. The fiction features will include "Mcd Blood," by William Marcus MaiMahon.)