The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 4, 1906, Page 38

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. A new way to stimulate ambition. Give ital of successful men. It has carried them through many obstacles to fame and fortune. = z - By Jno. Francis Byrnes. want to be rich and powerful? want to Do you see your picture in the paper and have & Napoleon of finance? out as you walk on the ade his millions by turning his battery? nted body is & machine. m is the motor. the power that runs it. of Americen enterprise is only an electricity. if you want to do big thing feity. comes from effort; effort is the use of a physi- force; physical force is electrioity. elief of Dr. Samuel J. Hall, a physiclan life study of the bullding up of physical s methods are different from the ways of the He belleves that electricity alone is e human intellect and the physi- tors . w that inventor of the newest device for elec- an body. It is a dry-cell battery or se- ned in & girdle worn about the body at that this dry-cell battery is as le electric belt as the incandescent s the le has been wide, and his success along f his belief has been enormous if one is to judge e £ wing he has and the number of people who m ait for their first look into the happier future e to them shed one of the most read dealing with this subject. ustrated. Any one can e asking. Dr. Hall's opinions: in this world to any man who has e for what he wants. The only way to is to work for it, and work uses up energy has no inclination to that the vital energy of the human erefore, I belleve that electricity ccess. the railroad menager who started traffic manager who earned his h's pay ag brakeman. Contrast them with the tarted as an office boy, and the track ted in as brakeman, and you can see the e janitor had an even start with ted as office boys—and the track as interesting It is get 1t stri u want n without e heard o s an office boy; of th energy. at & man's health has a great deal success. There are few occupations now- 2 men can expect to become anything but a s bis shoulder to the wheel and , and when & man is disturbed every rental torture over his physical inca- e spirit or ambition to strike-out and tle,” advises the man who has won suc- y the force of his energ®. The advice eld down by want of that phy- h makes a hustler, has no in- to drive himself to get through his not work to the man who feels right It ural outcropping of snimal spirits— ’ se of the physical powers. It is fun the athlete gets out of his favorite sport when he for ve of action. nhustle. Every nerve in his body re- al disposition is toward inaction. Nothing is impossible to the man who has stremgth to try for it; mo position too hixh to aim for. There millionaires in this country who could not read write ntil they were men—who ever enjoyed benefits of a vmmon school educstion. yet they ¢ their way to success. They have the strensth ourage. ure or n released from the bonds of depressing Delivered from pain and weak- lifted from his shoulders; his ins to expand his lungs and his head goes up and his shoulders the spar in his eye and the made man. He greets current of electro-mag- om him draws people to him. g0 by filling them with animal s power, energy, force, and women, t00, become dormant, raged and bitious is that the mo- dy—electricity—has been in one way My system 18 to give it : the ned from them. surprise you to see how a few appli- € discouraged, slow-golng man wake e nd now a man who struggled through now—as a journeyman mechanic turing concerns. He was a or worse than dozens of others ed some way to be differently st, He had a nice way about him undeveloped power to do things, #h any more than his fellows. One told his story. e had suffered from a nervous tomach, which would not digest elt weak and lacked ambition, go- a half-discouraged, aimless manner, it came to him and watching the me. His evenings were spemt at —a wife and three children—and ¢ that he was well off. tented. He thought that he was d kept boping for something to’?:f: urn up’ with @ map who works at a Y e never dis; : R otk playd any ability out- 1 promised him relief from his nervo < consequences, and he began treating math 7igor. He felt rellef in a few weeks, and was te well three months after he began. With the return of ith came & transformation In the man. His friends re- rked at his increased energy, vivacity and soclability, bench partners noticed that he took more inter- the little details of their work. Soon he began to =t changes to his foreman—ideas for the betterment e work, and some of those ideas were put in force. Things move Prem* fast when they do move, and with- six months of the time this man got on his feet physi- 1;‘ he was foreman, and is now .superintendent of the works. 6o many elements in success devend uvon alectrinity meke & neme for yourself as a man of | the Hall of Fame give yourselt | your body a charge of electricity every day. Nervous energy is the cap- | | fear that he might make a failure of it an | intended by nature to lead, but who, because o There 18 the brain incentive, the inspi- in the body. there is the heart courage; the fearless de- termination to try; then there 1is the physical strength needed to back up the rest. They all come from that great motive force—electrical nerve en- ergy. The man who gains success must have it—first, to feed his brain so that he may have the inspiration— then to feed the body that he may stand the !'lrn.lnA A few years ago I treat- ed for nervous troubles g man who was clerk in a merchandise store doing a good business. This man was a very faithful worker, and was trusted by his em- ployer with the manage- ment of the store when- ever the employer found it necessary to absent him- self. When he came under my treatment he confidea to me that nothing but his inability to assume the whole responsibilty of the store ration; | kept him from being taken in as a partner. He stated that his boss, who was well alon? in years, wanted to retire aid wished him to take full charge, but he had not the ambition to assume the responsibility. The strange thing about this case was that he looked the picture of health. He would never be picked out as a man suffering from anything worse than a good appetite. But he was extremely nervous, had spells of despondency and self-disgust, and was a regular pes- simist. He had no confidence in himself, and Wwas afr¥id to rake the risk of the store management in lose the position he had. I have found a great many men like this in my ex- perience—men of vigorous constitutions who have not the moral courage to work out thelr own destiny; men me nervous weakness, are left behind in the race. It is pretty evident that this life is a race between the strong and the weak. It is a race where the prize goes to the man with = A strength, courage and ambition to hustle, and any man who does not feel the call to force his way fnto the crush is going to be left behind, Electro-Vigor tured the clerk of his nervous trouble, and the ambition that he lacked was not lon, in showing its return. The vital energy which flowe into his veins and brain within a few weeks after he began the treatment made a different man of him. He took charge of the business, proved to his employer that he was master of all ite details and within a short time was given a half interest. You can met success at the expense of your health, like Rockefeller, who 'poured his vitality into the hopper and brought out millions, and would gladly xive those millions now for a stomach that would appreciate a square meal. Electro - Vigor will put new life into a body ex- hausted and debilitated. 1t will prepare any man for & battle for success by charging his nerves with the fire of vigorous energy. Electro-Vigor will turn back the hands of time for old men by renewing the vigor of youth In their veins. One old man of 74 says that he feels as young as he did at 40, after he had worn Hlectro-Vigor only two months. The history of our men of business success shows some striking illustrations of the fruits of strenuous enter- prise. It seems that most of the men who are now domi- nating the business world began life as the sons of poor men, without any bet- ter start than millions of other men have had and will have. ‘W. E. Corey, president ot the Steel Trust, shoveled iron ore in the mills of Pennsylvania. He gets $100,000 = year now. John D. Rockefeller started life as a grocer's clerk at a dollar and a half a week. Thomas W. Lawson work- ed in a bank when a boy and part of his duty was tx stack up gold. He learnex his work so well that it be- came a habit, and he has been busily occupied ever since in stacking it up for himself. . Paul Morton, the new head of the Equitable Life, was a clerk In the land office of the B. & M. Rallroad. John W. Gates put in his early strides as salesman for a barbed wire factory. Andrew Carnegle tended a stationary engine in his youth; later he was a telegraph operator and messen- ger. He is now giving his millions to libraries, and says ‘that he intends to die a poor man. Charles M. Schwab entered Carnegie's steel works as a stake driver. He 18 now at the head of the great shipbuilding trust. J. Plerpont Morgan began his business career as a clerk in a bank. Marshail Field, who died recently worth between 100,000,000 and $200,000,000, was a dry goods clerk in Chicago fifty years ago, and by industry and honor- able methods” became the greatest merchant in the world. There are only a few of our rich men who were born rich. Wealth and prominence have come from the expenditure of great energy, and any man who can and will hustle has as good a chance as any of these men had. Young men who discover that they are wanting in self-confidence. who shrink from meeting people be- cause of fear that they will be unable to make a good impression, will find by study of themselves that the trouble is only a lack of nerve fofce. Build up your nervous energy wWith a charge of electricity every day, and the nerve force and self-¢onfidence ‘will come. Young men who have been treated with Hlec- tro-Vigor are examples of vigorous energy, strength of character and ambition to dare and accomplish big things. Imagine the man distressed by disease and weak- ness; downcast, hopeless, ill-natured, peevish, despon- dent, absent minded, inattentive, unattractive—how can such a man hope to get up in the world? Every- thing is against him. He not only has not the energy to help himself but he repels people who might have it in their power to throw something in his way, The principal features which commend Electro- Vigor to people wanting a new supply of nervous energy are the great volume of current under perfeot control that is generated by these cells; the WM.E. THOS.W. LAWSON THE COPPER KING. . GOR AS ALABOREH - or regulator, which enables the patient to turn on any quantity of the current desired, and the absence of trouble such as the vinegar or-acid, so disgusting in electric belts. “I've got nerve enough now to tackle anything” writes a man who had worn Electro-Vigor only three weeks. Little wonder, when he had charged his body with electricity every night for twenty-one nights; there is immense courage in a body full of electricity. Glve me a man broken down in spirit, gloomy, despondent, unambitious or lacking confidence In himself, and by charging him with electricity every night for three months I will guarantee to send him out & world-beater. This weak-hearted disposition is nothing but weak nerves, and a daily charge of elec- tricity will overcome it in a few weeks. “There is not enough gold in California to buy Electro-Vigor from me,” writes a man who had been braced up by it and made happy. President Hlfot of Harvard University In a lecture to students of Harvard recently sald this: “So far as I have seen, there is one indispensable foundation for the satisfactions of life—health. A young man ought to be a clean, wholesome, vigorous animal. That is the foundation of everything else, and I hope you will be all that, if nothing more.” 2 Any man who lacks the energy to dig his way to success may get it If he will saturate his body with electricily every night. It creates energy. Here 1s a man who commends Electro-Vigor as one of the best inventions of modern times. Mr. 8. 8. Knoles, United States Commis- sioner, S8an Diego, Cal, says that since it rejuvenated him and cured him of a - general complication of ailments, such as Rheumatism, Lumbago and Kidney Troubles, he will tell its praises to every one he meets. The term “nervous ener; applied to the general inclination of the mind and body to work, s just as applicable to each part of the body which, on its own account, has to have nervous en- er| to enable it to do dts allotted work. It is the loss of this energy which causes all the dis- eases that(we have, ONA STUMP ANDWAITFOR THE DOLLARS FALL IN THEIR LAP" S Z 247 Y= JNOD ROGKEFELLER [ PRESIDENT OF THE STANDARD OIL CO. such as Rheumatism, Stomach and Kidney trouble. Any man can understand that if every organ of the body has all the strength that nature requires there will be no sickness—therefore, any one who is sick must get back his strength by using Electro-Vigor. Mr. J. W. Lunbeck, who lives at Soquel, California, says that he was up to his pockets in his grave when he heard of Electro-Vigor. He was a very sick man from Dropsy, Catarrh, Rheumatism and general debllity, and Electro-Vigof cured him. It you feel well you will feel like hustling; the Spirit of enterprise and success comes from the fire in your nerves, and you should keep that up by a daily application of electricity. Mr. Charles Bonifecio, at Soledad, Cal., says that he is full of strength and energy since he has used Ejec- tro-Vigor, whereas before he was always drowsy and tired, could not sleep and had no strength. He says that he cannot recommend it too highly. Mr. Ed. Killeen, Randsburg, Cal., says: “Electro- Vigor is a great invention. {t ha mine was a case wh octors were of no avalin ere drugs and df _Mr. G. W. Curtls, Ontario, Oregon: “Electro-Vigor seems to tone up the whole system and does more as 2 general tonic than anything I ever tried. It warms the blood and creates new energy in one's body.” The new energy that Electro-Vigor creates, the heat to the blood, is the fire -of life poured into the body for hours every night. Naturally it Increases the warmth and the energy of the blood and nerves. “I went to work at my trade two weeks after I began to use Electro-Vigor, after having been lald up for two months with Rheumatism,” writes Wil- liam R. Clark, Lovelock, Nevada. “I have been wearing Blectro-Vigor on my trip in the mountains, and it has helped me wonderfully, 'n:a:a 18 nb trsuble about using this appliance on such @ trip, as you don’t need vinegar to charge it. 1 Iwe- ciate the difference, because ‘i'n-v.‘u:fi the old-style vinegar belts,” writes C. B. Dougherty, Visalia, Cal. s helped me, and | Electricity | & time by Electro-Vigor, and every Human nature is an odd combination, and guccess often comes to thé man who knows it and greases his path ahead. Here is an illustration: There are two men in line for promotion in a certain establishment when the vacancy appears. Say one man Is in the business for a long time, experienced and capable, but backward in manner, never golng out of his way to be pleasant, depending upon his superior to recognize his merit and advance him when the chance offers. The other, not nearly so old in the business, is bright, jovial, self-confident in bearing and, while not over-zealous, has a way of making himself agreeable to the manager, ‘Who gets the promotion? It's easy to guess. The magnetic per- sonality, when per- sonality counts, will ‘win many a promo- tion where actual cold-blooded ability ‘wHl remain unappre- clated. ecity in the body. There was an edli- torial in a newspaper the other day ocom- menting upon the question of a man who wanted to know if the editor thought “$15 a week was do- ing poorly for a man who has worked in one position for thirteen years at general office work; aged twenty-nine.” The editor sald that it seemed pretty hard that a man should be getting only $15 a week after working thirteen years in one position, but if he felt that he was making any progress he should not be discouraged Perhaps the editor was right. For that man the advice may have been good, but no live office man, full of strength and the self-confidence that comes from the possession of animal vitality, would be satisfled to give up the best years of his life—his best earning years—to work that after thirteen years of training brought him only $15 a week. Yet there are a great many men like him; men who grind along year to year without finding the way to suc- cess. They are plodders. They never find success because they have not the force to compel their energies to dig it out. A man who feels tired, gloomy and blue all the time, owing to some ailment, never has what is called an inspiration; he never wakes up In the morning with that “do or die spirit”; he never has any spirit at all. If things go along decently he 13 willing to let them go, because it would be work that he doesn’t like if he tried to better them. If they g0 wrong he lets them go, and blames it on hard Iuck. The real trouble is a want of vital energy or electricity. It would make his work a pleasure. I once knew & man who suffered from & stomach trouble, commonly known as dyspepsia. He could not make up his mind te a thing and stick to it twenty-four hours. One day he formed a definite conclusion that his business affairs were in a perfectly healthy condition. At the same hour the next day he would come to just as positive a decislon that he was ruined. He sac- rifieed several brilliant opportunities to make success for himself by losing faith in his enterprises and selling them out at a.loss after he had bullt them up to a healthy con- dltl;r}:l.“ is one instance of a brain capable of planning a success without a body strong enough to withstand the strain of working it out—an intellect bright enough to build suc- cess and a body weak enough to prevent its completion. e We read every day of men of brilllant minds—men of blg affairs—who have been swamped under their large enterprises ~ %ecause they had not the physical energy to ee them through. The lesson we get from all this is that success de- pends often upon vital energy. No mah can carry any project to a successful issue unless he has the phy- sical vitality to stimulate his brain. Then there is the man who has spells of ambition that don’t last. He feels a slight awakening of spirit in his body, sizes himself up, and after reasoning with himself that he is as good a man as many others who have made successes, sticks out his chest and struts about for a while, saying to himself: “I can do it and L will.” Ah! What a pity that he can’t stick to that resolution! But after making a good start and work- ing hard for a short time his enthusiasm cools, his interest lags, his strength wanes and he catches him- self saying: “Oh! what's the use? I can’t,” and, like the man held down by superior force, gasping for breath, his struggles grown weaker and weaker, and, finally, he gives up the fight, defeated. - He has not the strength to make a good fight. “There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fame and fortune.” Not every man has the judgment to choose the time of tide, and not many men have the courage to risk the jump from a medlocre position In life to the chance for something better. Health is necessary to success. No man can glve the strength of his mind and body to the strenuous work of building a future for himself unless he has a reserve force to back him up. [ You can’t build success without spend! great deal of nervous energy, and you can't -p.l:: !‘l’rvou: energy unless you have it. R vit:l‘ m)ekdnléu had dl:plenllhed the drain upon his energy a 1 uppl £ electri would be able to enjoy his mililons now o iolty he ‘When you overtax your vital forces you don't break down all at once; the first drain is upon the most sensitive organs, like the stomach, and as the body 1s sapped of its force other organs fail gradu- ally, until the body is like a dried lemon. is poured Into the stomach for hours at application in- creases the amount of vital force and digestive power. -and gets no sunshime out of hi brood: ith a heavy heart The man who sits by his d“k.wsurrvundln who troubles, magnifies small ob- stacles until they look like the swoop of despair, ‘.:2 feels no ambition to shake himself up and throw un“ the blue devils that are smothering his h&vpmu.—-l! man is a good subject for Electro-Vigor, because it brings new life to the nerves, and that life arouses animatioa, develops new courage and renews the spirit to wage & battle for happiness and success. over imagina: Men whose mervous emergy is exhausted don’t feel like work; exertion is distasteful to them; the elettrie motor which runs their meatal and physical machin- ery is rum down. When you bave a task before you and no spirit to take it yp, you should know that you need some natural stimulant to your nervous system—some increase in your mental and physical ambition, and Electro-Vigor will give you that. Don’'t make the mistake of trying to drug your nerves into a renewal of energy. Reason that the life of the nerves is electricity—tbat is sclentifically proven—and that weak nerves are not made strong by drugs. If electricity is thelr life, give them that. Drugs excite the nerves if you want them exeited. Other drugs quiet them if you want them quieted, but in both cases the effect is produced by a poison. It is also true and proven that a man who takes & drug every day for thirty days has got to take twice as big a dose the thirtieth day as he did the first to pro- duce the same effect. Some people take drugs as a stimulant. Recent ex- posures of the contents of patent medicines prove that nearly all of them consist of a lot of alcohol and a little poison. An interesting sclentific article states that half an hour after the effect of a drug stimulant wears off the vitality is 5 per cent lower than it was before the stimu- lant was taken. Can any pers n_ with common sense see any good In that kind of treatment? What will be the effect In a few years? Buppose you borrowed money that way; borrow a dol- lar to-day and pay back a dollar five to-morrow, and keep it up for twenty days. Wouldn't that break you? Is it any more sensible to take stimulating drugs on that basis? . Your body has only a certain amount of vitality, and it you throw away five per cent of it every day, how long will it 1 ? Truly, the human body is abused as you would not abuse your dog. If you set out to accomplish anything, make sure that you supply yourselt with’the means of carrying your project through successfully. The most impertant to a man who expects to work his way up are strength, nerve, power, courage. All those come from electricity, the motive power of the body. The laborer on the street has ambitions—or should have, unless they are dimmed by a sense of physical Wweakness. He wants to earn mors, to secure s more ele vated positlon—to get out of the rut. There are chances all around him and he is bound to land one of them if he has the energy to reach out for it whem It comes along. A few years ago I had a patfent who worked with a street gang repaliring the basalt paving which 1s laid between streetcar tracks. He was typical of his class— hard working, patient and enduring, and seemed to have no interest beyond doing his work honestly and taking his pay. I will not.attempt to say what process of evo- lution took place in the mind of that man in the few | months he was under my treatment, but I will say that when I saw him again he was “slicked up” and act. as If he might own the road. He had fully fecnvarod n‘; health and with it some energy which he had lost, and when he called on me he was timekeeper on the job with a growing chance for something better. It’s a mistake for any man to suppose that he was made for a laborer, to imagine that there is no chance for him at something better. “There's plenty of room at the top,” and any man can do better if he has the energy to try. The reason that there are laborers is that there are always enough men who allow themselves to be held down; men with no ambition to hustle out of the rut; men willing to sell a day’s work for a couple of dollars when they know that the day’'s work is worth probably four dollars to the man who buys it. The good things are not all takem up mow, more than they were whem mem mow rich were poor working boys. Any man with emergy and a mever- say-die wpirit can work out of the rut and make = name and fortune for himself, and his position in life twenty years from mow will be in examct ratio with the encrgy he has displayed. any This ambition which makes business men out of la- borers; this spirlt which awakens in a man and leads his forward; this courage whica backs up every inspiration 0 better himself is nothing but the slectricy force of his body. . The man who s content with his lot, the man wh has no ambition to better himself is weal o4 is the child of strength. o Mt You might preach to the young man and study for an hour before breakfast to do it when he gets no rest from his strongest impulse upon being aroused in the morning & to sleep, sleep, sleep? His feeling is that nnomunh‘ou: of sleep 18 sweeter to him than anything else. His nervous energy is depleted, and he i asy and _unambitious. s oy You would urge a man in business to get out tle for trade., but how can he hustls when. he ra:lnnduhrnoz hfinvyl-hnlne;i and absent-minded? when his natural im- clination is to sit down and worry becaus: i g0 better? x N dory His nervous energy is gone; he feels that I he ap- proached a business man he would kil than he would create. gt You will hear the croaker say of a succ “T can't see what there is about that fellow al'h'::"m‘::: everything he puts his hand on turn to money. He isn’t any smarter than I am, and here I am ploddin along just making a bare living by hard work. I w.: ahead of him at school; In fact, he was the fool of the class, but here he is rolilng up thousands at every turm. while men who are smarter in everything seem to have xroanh to make a decent lving." 3ut here are the facts: The successful man things move; he’s on the go all the time, chasing :hnel.d:: lars uphill and down the lane, and he catches up with lots of them, while his brighter but lazy friend sits down mflm'li(l l‘or :;em to fall in his lap. nergy Is what makes success. Fortune at your front door once, but she is not going a‘moto: you to come and open if you don’t hurry. There is term used In athletic sports t pplies to the man wholune.m..w-ntu-c-:.-':gu-. him; they eall him “a quitter.”” If you are “a quitter you know why—because you haven’t got the merve. “Get up early but how is he sleep, and his ‘Wear Electro-Vigor; feel its exhilarating spark n your nerves, its warming, vitalizing glow in your blood, and after you have enjoyed a month of its use and have felt the return of youthful energy, go out and spend your new force in the creation of better conditions for your- delf. Hold up your head and look your fellow man in the face, and compel fortune to smile upon you. No paln can exist In a body charged with electric life; you can have no rheumatism, no weakness, no inactive parts, because the life generated by this grand fores gives health and strength to every or: Electro-Vigor is not llke ten times the power of old style electric belts, which are charged In vinegar or acid. It is a pleasure, and no trouble, to be cured by Electro-Vigor. 1 would like to talk with men who feel that the lack of nervous energy, vigor and health have kept them down. 1 want to have a heart to heart talk with them, either personally or by mall, because I know that Elee- tro-Vigor will be worth its weight in gold to them. 1 want every man to read my book, which any man to buckle on his armor and make fight. It tells how you may be strong, healthy happy, I send it by mail, free. Call or write to Dr. 8 Hall, 1104 Markot atrect,” just Turk strest Sen mE:uco. and you vm" o s T learn much to g-“ with-success, £ o Slectrieity Bas d ¥ if you can. Consultation free. If you then put your name and address on lhu":o‘—:;' send it in. Cut the coupon out this minute and save it DR. S. J. HALL, 11§ Market Street, Please send me your mmhmm" Name