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PAGE SIX Why Boys Ar (Kansas City Star.) land \ Many boys who have been "fired" the t< say they don't know why it happened, ('ui according to the editor of the Arneri- gab. can Hoy. which is responsible for col- olize lecting a list of 50 reasons, front em- him i plovers all over the country, why tellini bovs are separated from their jobs.. the d The reasons, as collected and ar- he w ranged by \V. H. I'met and published the qt in the June issue, run as follows: blood Seaman's Supplies The time was' mano never ripe for him to do anything.1 1 had "I'll take that down in the morning," ;ls a s "we won't have time for that today," Ian "there isn't any rush about that at liant, present" these and similar expres- could sions were characteristic. He became ; tr.-mui known as the postpone!*. lie post-Jpoisis poned everything except the postpon- ami si ing. One day a little emergency came my si up. "It's only ten minutes till noon," J ]ous. he said; "we can't do anything in that Hai time." An outside boy was standing chock near and said. "You can do ten min- shrew utes* worth in ten minutes.' I im- tactic: mediately hired that boy in place of jng o the other." would Hook Store He was a boy of some chanij originality, but he wanted to run my on att business on his plan. I couldn't see young it his way. and he couldn't see it my was t< "way, so we parted company. Bar Implement House He complained except that others did not do their duty. < it- Ming, ing their delinquencies as causes of cient extra hardships on him. The fact was at sot that his lack of diligence kept him were constantly behind, and his grumbling charm was only a subterfuge to excuse his Tra own shortcomings, lie saw the mote charm in his neighbor's eye lint could not dishoi see the beam in his own. habit Mining tjuarters I am just a ruu- c.at pod mountaineer brought tip out here He wr among the rocks and rough men that could go with mv business, but one day I ed in overheard him talking to his mother body, with shameful insolence. 1 never to pa: could endure him again. Spc Printing We had contracted to' mornl print b.Oou handbills, agreeing to! had b place one in each home so far as they J Yawn v. cut. The work was done so quickly a,.r \y in one section of the city that we be- wants came suspicious of the boy's honesty. ire He stoutly maintained a show of sin-j weigh ceritv Investigation proved that ho'have had thrown M7 circulars into the halt ers 01 of one home. Any r Dry Goods He gave overineasure obtaii to his friends. Business is a matter of could dollars and cents to us, not of fav- Ra oritism. about Hatter lie got into my confidence. liookl and then told my business secrets. chnn; Music House?He was profane, lie way couldn't talk without swearing. Our tor < < disgust and our self respect forced us confo to ask him to quit. Tel Abstract Office?He was continually wings inassurate in the transcribing of legal messt forms and business documents. One bend error goth us into tin* courts. 1 recoi Clothier He was a hustling little and i sprout. His motto was: "Sell every troub man." And a rattling good motto it Hu is. but lie lost himself in one pocket time! of it. He sold regardless of how he thouf sold. If he couldn't tit the customer was i he sold something that didn't tit. to tin He pulled off deals that made nonde- but i scripts of my customers. They came dopei hack howling at me for running a how i misfit parlor and making them my many victims. He sold goods for the mo-; Hi1 inent; I had to build a business that , out r would stand through the years. I we si Power and Bight Company -Hej wo"'' was always complaining of being sick.! 1,10 1 Perhaps he was. lint we nnit<wt timr night ho made a dependable quarter baekj 'u' at football. I '11' f' River Steamer?We fired him be-j ' ^ fore we hireil him. He was left alone ^ in the office for half an hour. In that ( ' time he handled evervthing in the oT-1 . homi fire that he could get his hands on..^ even opening desk drawers and inspeeding things there. From the place told where 1 was watching him I burst; into the office and sent him ashore les tin the next minute he might rifle , 1 licen tlie safe. I do not believe he was a He it thief, but that his overmastering ruri-l ^ 11m ij wuiim nave made nun a distract- ^ iiiK influence upon mo. Within another ISO minutes had lie acted dif- 1 fercntly. he would have been at work .... ,assui on his job. 'to I h Shirt Factorv? lie was absent ., : 1 I IH minded to a decree of dreaminess. | There seemed always to be something on his niind that held tiis interest I elsewhere. We let hin) so to it. Ca Retail Grocery Store lie was (jurjl cruel to our horses. He whipped them ? ' came mercilessly, he jerked them brutally. ,%ml| he poked along at a snail's pace at times and then slashed them into a , k now breakneck speed. A little observation not i disclosed the fact that he was cruel to go w people also, especially to boys smaller j,| than himself. work Food Products He was a good hjH w talker when we listened, but a poor abov< listener when wo talked. Gf ;f General Store lie bad to bo told execii t over and over every day just what to was < <lo He couldn't see It for himself, secon THE LANCAS e "Fired" f? KEEP WEL ve didn't have time to keep up *? * ' ' A Topooifo! of PERU! rio Dealer?He was too fond of TL T. n ..... ... i- Three Time* Day He permitted tourists to rnonophis time with questions that led ^ \ t I Into his favorite occupation or \ \ \ J I 4 g where the curious came from. * in nettle. as never so delighted as when jest ions led into a tale of Indian and thunder and other to- Has Never Reon D() es of the wild and wooly West. gick gince Taking my curios to sell, lie used them citing to spin yarns about. KJ K4 E^F V T^y wyer'8 Office He was a bril-l A ^ X ^1. precocious little scamp. H<j Read this letter from Mr. write shorthand rapidly, but in' Minnick, Grass Range, Mor ribing it on the typewriter he I Tn, 1900 T wa? out In K - 1 rnnnlnic n t li rrnliliia fiikIiii ted in abbreviating; inv letters. the threshing crew had to , ... "... .. out of doorB. One of the onetimes changed the outline of brought Perun* Aimnni leeches. The result was ridicu- , t,:iy and I feeling very III from ate ont. I derided to Rive Pen trial and sent for n bottle o rdware?lie was an expert runa and a box of Peruna or player. He knew all the straightened m d moves, all tlie professional "I have never been down S. and he was ceaselessly talk- SnT.t^r* med*.clne.dexcep f certain original moves that SJfV?* I always keep it on If I get my feet wet, get a some day make a famous feel chilly, or a little bad. don. He insisted on playing and m?7 'u?They*?l?re " .acting to my house a troop of tse^^tf on*Vnd Uke*?Vc ;stors whoso highest ambition when they feel bad. they * US? It.w a "break into the kingdom." iking House -He wouldn't work . for Csti . . Inflammation of every dsscn t at one desk?with gruinNo emergency was ever sufh to make him a cheerful helper Motlical Supplies -When tn ne other .lesk, though his own nd(lre8a circular )Gtter8 ho idle. We needed an adaptable omit many na|nes on oup ?R, "''V* , pii'g over them to save time nsier < onipanv H<> ovor"ibor for himself, thus cheating id our customers, and to malcltiK him unreliable in an iest\ he added the inexcusatile whore his own honesty was c of doili:i ml i n >? lini - - security. "abp? He had the speed mania. i),.nljst's OfTlce Tp was ?uld brpak up more ears than we from nu)rninp till night. Hp I pay for Hp several times dash- pockets crammed with poanu to vehicles, ulckily killing no",dies, fruits, and such like, ol but leaving us damage claims tftring the ?oor with huus wads and parings, and exasj tiding floods fits red eyes and nervous women with his nois Ing headaches told us that hp jnp pen carousing the night before. m fug and stretching and moping AI?VICK TO SOI'TIIKItX ad signs for the boy who really llKTAIL MKIlf i to hold his job. Richmond, Atig. 12.?"Si Factory ? He gave short and don't rock the boat." was its to customers that he might vice given this afternoon t? an overplus of ice to sell to oth- 1.200 members of the South a his own account as a rakeoff.' tail Merchants' association, in akeoff, no matter what nor how here for three days, by the i ued. is rank dishonesty, and I S. L. Lupton, president of t not keep a thief in my employ, ginta Good Roads association, ilway Office?lie was stubborn Lupton declared that if le substituting his own system of matters of price adjustment keeping for ours. We could not high cost of living agitation wi re the methods of a great rail- just themselves. The speaker system to accommodate him. Ft- pealed to the merchants to gi [infusion followed his failure to support to the good roads pro nn to our way of doing things, to be taken up by the special legraph Office?The hoy had of the legislature. He advoci ?. lie could fly with or for a theory that better roads wi ige. Hut lie could not compre- for better business. the necessity for signatures and ds in keeping track of deliveries A cartoon in a New Yor pports. He kept us in constant renresents :< *i..twW.r de. looking young man as appl) ntber Industry- lie was our employment at a factory of ceeper. It was a very easy, asking about the rate of pa ;h a very important position. He boss replies: oo lazy or too indifferent to go "Twenty dollars a week for > camp to secure facts tirst hand. $4L' for muscle." nstead he went io Hie city and In the same paper appeared ideel on repots from others as to side in the "Help Wanted" t many men were at work and how two notices, one offering $18 hours they were on. for a "bookkeeper with long rery Stable- lie drove the life ence"' and the other offering >f our customers' horses. When a bootblack. ent him 10 blocks for a rig he These facts might be duplk d get into it and take a spin into most anywhere. The old st ountry. If it happened to be at seem strangely reversed toda he would get some friend and going to continue so? for an hour, then make untruth xcu?les for his delay in getting w?* aro l?r??ud of the co doctors, druggists and tin have in IMitt < bill and Fove w Firm For the sake of his Adv. father I strove to make a man m. I offered him a room in my with free board, laundry. s. fuel and everything else, gave a MBS - a?-< ess to my library and plainly with ine in my extensivo prar- --g just as soon as ho could got his so. He wanted to see the world *s. ~T4 still seeing it?on foot mm g, . .. anufin-: itor i'i 11? \ .; !h En '?00? I lOllSCS ill L< rvod advanecment wo promoted j 9 (lust. Wliv ? ? The promotion s> nt him daffy. HI ,,, . ... , mfc. 11 K( A1 SK Wo do a 1; t once became dictatorial, bossy B amount of work 1 it i n - prerogatives wholly foreign Special Modern ie po itlon lie was disagreeable ? cliinery Instead ol >t permitted to have his way. ?? !'and- and alargo quantities as < n is no chance fot the forbear- wo eliminate the whi"h wo would gladly have eon- Bat pense of plans and 1 to him. Sm| elflcatlons. ndy Factory Ho road novels ffl ?^ArSE-We got lun from tho r orest. 1 g business hours, llo often ho* other supplies in t so absorbed that easterners EN lots, and wo are S; d enter, speak to him. ask for with a Reason tiling and leave without his ever profit. .... ... I!* Vou Can Have a lloin ing they had been there. We do B Klglit Now. .hjeot to reading, hut it doesn't gj Wo make a varle,y 1th business. jjfj sizes and styles of read> limbing Me was a com pet en I 9 Put*uP houses at prioo? man for a young chap. lie did ?*] u*\' .. ? , , , , , , tftl W rite or phone us for ork faultlessly so long as It was m iIhlMvnUMl free catalogue 9 ground, but if dirt went on top como to see us. you wore sure to find dirt in the IHVIi: IIOt'SK fOMIM it ion His underground work BY Charleston, H. C. yer.v defective, often requiring a I id doing. ' HHDw?)^^mOHQESSH TER NEWS, LANCASTER, S. C. | PLACES. " j Places 1 love come back to me like * music, _ IIusli me and heal me when I am ^ | very tired; ? I see the oak woods at Saxton's flamNA J ing In a flare of crimson by the frost newly fired, j And I am thirsty for the spring In the " I valley As for a kiss ungiven and long deslred. I know a white world of snowy hills I at Boonton, A blue and white dazzling 1 i^lit on A everything one sees. The larches and hemlocks and maples: Robt sparkle, . ' Their ice-sheathed branches tinkle in itsns* anBflB the sharp thin breeze. e and And irridescent crvstals I' 11 and] sleep crew j crackle on tlie snow-crust '" was With the winter sun druwing cohl cptn? blue shadows from the trees. ma a f Pe- . Tubo out Violet now. in veil on veil of evening. The hills across from Cromwell's 7a5up grow dreamy and far; hand" wood-thrush is singing soft as a cold. viol houUl In the heart of tin hollow where ??oiTi3 i ,h<> dark Pools are; > and , The primrose has opened her pale yelhould . .. low flowers irrhal , And heaven is lighting s'ar after ption. star. ] Places I love come back to me like listed to. music? would Mid-ocean, midnight, the waves s. skip-j buzz drowsily; and la-] in (he ship's deep churning the eeilo ,,s an,l phosphorcsence -* "??iiv isoetns like souls of people who were ",r only drowned at sen; j And 1 can hear a man's voice, apeakeating i,1K> hushed, insistent, kept his midnight, in mid-ocean, hour on ts, ran- hour to me. -Sara Teasdale in Soribners. I, paper crating NOTICE OF OISCHAIUiK. v chew-1 i Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will, as Executor of the esII \NTS 'at<> Stewart, deceased, on t tight "1? <??>' of August, l!?lb, make i his tinal return as sucli Executor and the ad- , , , apply to the Probate ( ourt of Ran i [? about . ,, | caster county for letters d:smi- ;iiy. * I W. II. STEWART, SCHRfon. . r II IV 1 i Kxecutor of said Deceased. speaker. 1 July 24 1919 78-4t-w he \ ir-! 1 r Vouir. >NO''y f> ^eRea 2 I Put Unit m!.'; H you'll find : Z H They're 1 9?; B of econom . Bs just what t ilior PSD * and [J ;;aiHr; ffl Hundred a,,'e || vouch for t ic S There ar< to: w Tires?one 1 ? K I We have NV jg We fen aiy United States FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1919 WMGLEYS ? ?iij| ?? ^JfZM and special I ^ .?ir f ?> and personal for v?1* I \\^ vV^ ^ WRIGLEY5 I \\\'I In Its air-tight I |W Utf sealed package. B A goody that Is I J //h worthy of your fi IfTTlasting regard I \f] because of its I III lasting quality. I Three flavors fo I suit all tastes. B Be SURE to get I j|?^. United States Tires gSp are Good Tires 1 Thing Right Through ed States Tires under your car and 9 them the real thing. 9 built to wear?to give you the kind 9 ical service you want. And that's H hey do. s of thousands of regular users will 0 hat?lots of them right around here. riB e five distinct types of United States S for every need of price or use. , 0 exactly the ones for your car. L Tires are good tires. That's why we sell thVj B. MACKORELL, Lancaster, S. C.