Show capitalizing BRAINS y the late marshall field once said saida the man mail who puts ten tell thousand dollars additional addition dl capital into an established business Is pretty certain of fit increased returns and in the lie same way tile the man mail ho be puts additional capital into ills his brain information well ivell dl beefed reefed thought and study of possibilities willas will as surely yes more surely ret get increased leturno is no capital and ho no increase of oc capital safer and surer than that using this statement as a text mr george frederic stratum stratton tit in a recent number of the saturday livening evening post writes stimulatingly on oil tile the subject of capitalizing brains ills his doctrine is good doctrine for tenc teachers liers to keep in mind it aught to provide them inith a stimulus for their own personal lives and with a text test for discourses to their students here tire arc two to of tile the stories which mr air stratton tells some years ago 11 roan man was boiking in ill the hie general freight office of a great railroad for eight years lie he had used the same desk and ami tugged away ZIL ai the same routine work at the same salary fifty dollars a month which lie received at the end of liis his first year ile he road read that remark ot of mr fields and began to study his own brain capitalization with the re suit stilt that lie he decided the capital was not well invested that what he knew could be worked to bigger advantage elsewhere than in the railroad office lie ile was thoroughly posted on oil the details and inside peculiarities or of freight rates and aad classifications and the divisions of percent percentage lige with other roads out but all that labant no particular chance of promotion to him because there were half a hundred men in the office to whom such lucli knowledge was common brain routine smith I 1 am not at liberty to give liis ills true bame went to the manager of a great manufacturing corporation stated ills his ease case frankly and gave a fair outline of his knowledge on oil rates routes ard and class classifications I 1 fixations ficat ions a knowledge that was so welcome that lie secured work in the shipping department at one hundred dollars a month ills his work proved very satisfactory and lie he lost no opportunity of increase ing his brain capitalization tile company had plants in five cities and the insurance of all was handled it at the central office smiths duties being dahly light he was sometimes requested to help hell out on inventories ind and stock schedules when hen fires occurred within 3 months lie hid had studied the conditions so carefully and obeyed instructions so well that he was regular sent to any plant heie a fire occurred to meet the adjusters and ills his salary a ry was one hundred and fifty dollars a month at the close of one of these adjusting stances which had bad occupied three days the agent when shaking hands said smith if ever youre looking for a job come to us its we want just such a man as you youre a good fighter A kuppr r followed and more conversation teti ten days later an offer came front from the adjusting association pi closing two bundled and lifty fifty dols dolls doli doi I 1 s a month which smith accepted in the now new position there were often legal pouts ponts that require il Ll lefer ence to legal brains and with his brain still in mind he studied law in his spare moments radi nadi ing while on the many journeys lie he U ti in two years lie le passed the law examinations and although alin ough lis ills salary was then three thousand dollars ollars I annually accepted an ail offer of partnership with a i lawyer ot it large practice that is brain ca capitalization pi tall oil in six years he had increased its dividends from fifty dollars per month to mer six thousand dollars per year A yard laborer v olied in a penn ienn sI livania vanIa iron plant loading and unloading diable cars that carried coal from the companas comp anys wharf to its foundry one day lie he suggested to the gang foreman a chance or improvement in the method of coupling to the cable gwan hviid was ivas tile the instant retort theys ingi engineers lookin look iii after tit th machinery men luell dhove got indication idl idi cation an brains an all ela cn figger tit th difference dif frence in tit th length or of a tin phiny nau nail tit th suns stills shin in ill on it an it its 8 cold coid phat daez know about mechanics yer only number rr r r tit civils |