Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1909 — BUYING HEAT UNITS. [ARTICLE]

BUYING HEAT UNITS.

Large Consumers of Coal Are Adopting This Method. Buying coal on the_heat unit basis Is becoming Increasingly and deservedly common,. « One of the latest proofs of this Is given In Cassler’s Magazine, which states that Chicago Is said to have )et contracts for 200,000 tons of coal on this basis. In the case of the Chicago deliveries, If the coal test shows 13,000 British thermal units, moisture 10 per cent, and ash 8 per cent., the price Is to be $2.30 per ton; but If the coal varies In heat units the price Is to vary accordingly. On a 5,000 ton contract an analysis of the coal is made once a week. The sample is taken by the regular method and analyzed and reported to the consumer and the contractor. Thoughts For People Beyond Forty. It As’ foolish to fix an age at which men become comparatively useless. Some men are young at seventy, others are old at thirty-five. One of the worst delusions that ever crept Into a middle aged man’s mind is the conviction that he has done his best work, that he is growing old and must soon give place to younger men. Every man makes his own dead line. Some reach it at thirty-five, some at forty, some at fifty; bo me do not reach it at eighty; some never reach it, because they never cease to grow. Look around the world to-day and see what some of the men who have long passed the “dead line” are doing, and what they have accomplished. Look at the young old military leaders in little Japan, who conquered great Russia. Oyama was twenty years past his fatal line when he won his great victories, and all of his corps commanders were past fifty. The Marquis Ito, the Grand Old Man of Japan, her greatest statesman, and the one who has done more than any other to make Japan what it is to-day, is still active In the service of his country. The larger part of the great fortunes of this country have been accumulated after their amassers have passed forty. In fact, the first forty years of a man’s life are the preparatory years, the years of training and discipline. A large part of this time he is laying the foundation—just getting ready to rear the superstructure. Many of us stumble around many years before we get into the right place, and then, for additional years, we make many mistakes. Most men do not get wise until they have passed forty. They may get knowledge before this, but not much wisdom. Wisdom is a ripening process. It takes time.— Success Magazine.