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12 PAGES THIS WEEK. Q>1}? Btlhm feralfr- MIDDLING COTTUN150. ESTABLISHED IN 1896. DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 2, 1911. VoL 17 No< 39 BONES EXHUMDBY SEARCHERS EVIDENCE OF MANY WRECKS-HUMAI BONES WASHED ASHORE Quest FVw Uspt. Jar-vis and Unfor tuiiU CVew of Margaret A. Ma) Unsuccessful. News and Courier. After a two-day search of the is lands about Stono Inlet in an effort to discover the bodies of Capt Edward L. Jarvis, of the schoonei Margaret A. May, and his twc brothers, who lost their lives wher their vessel was wrecked in tlu great hurricane of Au .ust 2 7 and 28, the Custom House launch Sum ter returned to the city yesterda> afternoon. The members of the 0^ party who conducted the search Messrs. G. J. Cherry, J. J. Fleetwood, Arnoldus Vander Horst ami Capt. Ralph McGee, of the schooner Walton, returned with certain evidence of the loss of the Margaret A. May and holding the beliel that the two bodies recently washed ashore and buried on Seabook's island were not those oi Capt. Jarvis or any of the men who perished on that ill-fated vessel. The bodies were exhumed by the search party, and the evidence failed to substantiate the report that one of them was that oi the gallant and popular seaman whose many friends in Charleston have never ceased to deplore his un timely death. Two-Day Quest. The search party left Charleston on Tuesday morning for Klawali in the Government launch Sumter which had been kindly placed a< their disposal by Collector of the Port E. W Durant, Jr. They expected to return to the city on Tuesday evening, but their quest took a longer time than they anticipated and they were compelled ? to spend the night on the scene being well taken care of and most hospitably treated by Mr. Willian Andell and his family. They spent Tuesday and yesterday making s thorough search of all the beaches and keys in the neighborhood ol Stono Inlet, in exhuming the twc bodies which had been found bj negroes and buried, and in exam ining portions of wreckage cast up here and there in widely separ ated localities in that region ol the coast. !>og Hone in Fisher's Net. Bad weather hindered the search ers, and they had a hard and strenuous time of it. They found that the reports that had reached the city of the two bodies found and buried by the negro were correct A negro fisherman, casting his nel for mullet in a creek on Seabroofc Island, drew up out of the shallow marginal water the leg bone of r man. He told others of his discovery. A great mass of dead marsh grass and sedge on the edge of the creek of that point was v burned and underneath it were tound two bodies badly decomposed A grave was dug and the bodies buried together in the same cavity. The search* party was guided tc the place and at once exhumed the bodies. These they found to have been reduced by decay to a mere jumbled mass of bones, with a little decomposed flesh hanging tc them, and the whole somewhat charred by the fire which had heen lighted to remove the covering of marsh grass. No trace of clothing of any sort was found; and the condition of the bodies was such as to render identification impossible. Examination of the bonee disclosed the fact that one of the men had been of small or medium statue, while the other had been of rather large size. Not Capt. Jarvis. Mr, Fleetwood, in telling the story to a representative of The News and Courier, stated that neither he nor any other member of the party believed that the remains found were those of Capt. Jarvls or ? any of his crew. The spot where the bodies were found is more than five miles distant from the nearest fragment of wreckage from the ^ Margaret A. May, and more than 12 miles distant from the place where the figureguard of the schooner was discovered. It is believed that the vessel capsized at sea in the fury of the hurricane. Being loaded with lumber, she did not sink, but was blown in shore and cast upon the beach of Kiawah Island. The wreck of the schooner, with a seei length or about 150 reet waa found bottom side up on the beach, and it is believed that this is the carcass of the gallant ship which Capt. Jarvis sailed out of Charleston just before the storm, in which he was to loses his life. The beach was patrolled for several miles and other fragments of wreckage and a lot of loose lumber were found, indictations being that the latter came more from more than one vessel since it was of different sizes and kinds. On information received from the ^ nernanaez ramiiy, on t;oies isianu, the party visited Snake Island, and there found the figurehead of a schooner. On the figurehead was found the following description: "M. A. May." This would seem to . dispose of the last vestige of doubt ' that the schooner met her end either at sea off Stono Inlet or on the breakers in that vicinity. The Hernandez family had found after the storm a cushion cover, which is believed to be one which was embroidered by Capt. Jarvis's wife. This was given to Capt McGee, who is a friend and neighbor of the Jarvises in Philadelphia, and will be returned to the widow of the Margaret A. i May skipper. A jjumbej- of hooks i | which tfrere found**after the storm i were also given to Capt. McGee, whose schooner, now loading at the I Tuxbury Lumber Company's plant, j will soon sail North. These show no evidence of having been Capt. Jarvis' property, but they bear in-1 8cription showing that they belong-1 ea to the American Seamen's L1- < r brary and were contained In a box bearing a number which will probI ably render easy the task of findj ing out what vessel they belonged ! to. Pin Returned to Family. , Mr. Fleetwood stated that Mr. H.j. "J B. Grimhall, who found a stick pin ;, ?| hearing the initials E. L. J., had IJ 'jsent the pin to members of the Jar' vis family. The pin was found in ' a fragment of lead pipe, which was J in a portion of the cabin on the , r; Margaret A. May washed up on ( ! I Bird Key at the mouth of the In- ( ' let. Mr. Fleetwood stated that , everything possible had now been * II done in the effort to discover the j bodies of ('apt. Jarvis and his 'crew. He said that he had no doubt ;| that all the statements made by the : M residents of the islands eoncerniing ; the wreckage and bodies found were . ; absolutely correct. It is his belief, ' and that of the other members of ' ' the party that the bodies found did I not come from the Margaret A. May, ' and that no trace will ever be <1 is covered of any of the men who met 1 ; their deaths aboard that ill-fated ' vessel. {| Capt. Edward L. Jarvis was well 1 known and well liked in Charleston, his schooner having traded here for years. He was a member of the Commercial Club and of the 1 j Carolina Yaclit Club, and numbered ! 1 his friends in this city by the score. TO ROOST COTTON PRICKS 1 Wiuic Stackbou.se Suggests Plan of Warehousing One-Foili-th of tlie [ Crop. ' The greatest question before the' ' business men ot the cotton grow-! ing States, to-day is: "Can the ' I balance of tills crop be sold at a better price?" That the present . price is near or below the price of J production no one can doubt. Eight- :, r | cent cotton on the farm to-day is | I not so good a price as 5-cent cotton Jin 189G. The cost of mules, labor _ and supplies is almost double the' r price in 189G. I think this crop can he sold at a better price, and I suggest this plan: Get each farm-j er to store in a good warehouse I one-fourth of his crop. J, I^et us suppose this crop will , make 14,000,000 bales; if one-fourth I of it should be 3,500,000 bales, ! leaving only 10,500,000 bales avail-' [ able for the spinners. There can . he little doubt that if the cotton Jspinners knew that the crop avail(| able was only 10,500,000 bales that it would bring almost as much monI j ey as the whole crop. As to re- j j . tiring the 3,500,000 bales, I sug-i . gest that each State form a cotton , j holding company with paid officers of known business ability to manj age the business. Let a strong ' bank be selected as trustee and:( have all warehouse receipts held in ( , trust for the cotton company. Get , each farmer who stored his cotton , to sign a legal contract between , ,! himself and the holding company, ^providing that if he sold his stored ( , cotton for less than 12 cents that he j would forfeit the difference he- , i tween the selling price and 12 , cents. You will note that I sug- j | . gest 12 cents as the minimum price, , ana that the cotton pledge be stor-! j ed in trust till August 15, 1912. j ( . Each farmer would be free to sell , , three-fourths of his crop. If he j , knew the amount to sell was a, small crop he would approach his:. price very close to the 12-centj] minimum. When the 10,500,000 , bales was sold at a good price J \ j part of the surplus could be sold. ' ] \ Very likely the price would reach j < .12 cents by February or March,'] ,11912, and then the parties could , , could sell part or all the surplusj, crop. I] This plan would mean that South;, Carolina would have to put in store !. 300,000 bales this year until Au-', , gust 15 or until the price reached;, 12 cents. We have only got ware-;, i house room for about 100,000 bales ; . in this State. ! If anything can be done it should j be done quickly. My plan provides that the farmers, themselves, put one-fourth of their crop in store for the minimum price. If wealthy men of the North should store the cotton it would 11 defeat the purpose. When each ' farmer realized that one-fourth of | his crop might be carried into 1912, 1 and that the surplus added to another big crop would put 1912 crop i down to 6 cents per pound he woulA ( have a powerful incentitive to cut . i his acreage and fertilizers. No , plan will help sell the balance of ] . this crop that does not pro- ( . vide a small acreage and lees fer- | tlllzers. The Fhrmers' Union made almo6t ], a fatal mistake when they claimed , ! this a small crop and put minimum | price at 15 cents. The cotton world can't be bluffed by false statements, , i as to size of a crop and a threat to 4 i hold. 1 It is up to the South to pro, vide warehouse room to carry fi'l- , , ly one-fourth of the largest crops , likely to be made. These ware- , , houses should be located at railroad , centres and should have large ca- , , pacity. Perhaps 20,000 bales is the ( . minimum warehouse will ever pay. i, . It would be better for one ware- , ( house company to own and manage 4 the few warehouses needed for j | each State. This would give capi-! ( . tal stock of sufficient size hehlrd ( (Continued on page 10.) j i 3 TILES OFULOBE TROTTER ICTUAL EXPERIENCES OF MEN WHO HA "BEEN THERE" L'liinosp Justice ? Fly I'sjst i Catch Tijcers ? Justifiable Hon lol?l ? in Texas. Shanghai, China, Sept 8.?Thrc men sat in the public garden whic F Q PPC W h a n 0!ivc\? ? ? J ??- - .WW0 ? \r\j\j VI CtTft <1II il III <1 I B the end of the English Bund i Shanghai. One of them was a mil sionary, whose station is in the ii terior of China. Another was a English engineer who liad spei many years in India. The thir w;is a Texan, recently arrived i Dliina on a leisurely trip aroun the world. The three smoked i silence while the band played piece of American ragtime and the the missionary broke the silence. "1 have lived out here for te years," lie said, "and the longer live here the more mystified 1 ui when I try to understand the worl ings of the Chinese mind when decides judicial problems. We ha f? very interesting trial in my vi lage only a few days ago and tli result was very different from wh; one would expect in a Wester court. "Chow Ling, a tea merchant, wli had recently prospered, decide that he could broaden his matrinio ial relations and looked abor t f< a X"o. 2. wife. He found a girl t dickering with her mother the agreed on $200 as the amount t he paid by him. " the money had been paid tl girl's mother heard new reports > Chow's prosperity and decided si had not demanded a price as big as she could have received. Tl day before the time set for tl wedding she hired a band of rov dies to waylay the marriage proce sion and carry off the bride and tli programme was executed. "Chow Ling complained to tl Magistrate and soon the girl an her mother appeared in court. Tl Magistrate heard all the evident and then decided that the motht because I belong to that class." Here he held up a big left han ind against the light the mlssloi iry and the engineer could see thi :he third finger was gone. "It was down in San Antonio, continued the Texan, "In the earl 90s when thlngB were a good dei more free and easy than they ai now that the town has gone int the winter resort business ar loesn't want to shock it profitab visitors. But at that time thei was a good many places where >'< jould go for a quiet little game < poker anid feel perfectly safe b 'suae the police would look in e1 sry now and then to see If thei was any fighting going on. should pay tlio $300 sho had r reived U? him in way of a fine. ? poor Chow Ling is without eith( his bride or his $300, and besid? that is not in very good standin with his first wife because of li plans to supplant her with younger No. 2. The mother, wl lost her $300, refused to pay tl rowdies, so the next day they wet to her home and broke up all tl furniture." The English engineer threw h cigar stump into the creek. "That's a typical Chinese con verdict," he said, "hut we must. n< think that these Oriental people at unprogressive. They are advancit all the time and sometimes the surprise you in the way they ad a] Western ideas, or inventions. "A few months ago I was i Gwalitor, India, when a couple < tigers had been terrifying the cout try. They had killed a large amout of live stock and had invaded son Df the villages and killed a fe natives. "The unusual preparation for a extensive tiger hunt were bein made when one of the natives sm ceeded in trapping the two brut< in a special hut he had built fc the purpose. They went inside a ter the bait he had placed then the door was swung to and aut< matically bolted. The tigers wet inside right enough. as any on could know when he got in earsh< of them, buit the problem was no to get them out. "Every one puzzled over this fc o few days while the tigers g< hungrier and hungrier and it b< same increasingly dangerous to 1< them out. Then the very capabl bead shikari of the Maharajah < Swallor solved the problem. H bought a lot of sticky fly paper an carpeted the approach to the h\ with it, leaving the beasts no 01 portunlty to escape except over th iticky substance. When the prej irations were complete the door wj swung open and all of the nativt retired to the highest trees t watch the developments. "The two tigers came rushing 01 ind Immediately found sheets < sticky fly paper clinging to the: paws. In trying to get it off the plastered their eyes and noses wit the same material and then rolle nver and over in their anger ui 111 they became completely envob sd lu heavy sheets of paper. I this helpless condition the hea shikari's men rushed in and tie them securely." The Texan had listened to th? stories with all the Interest of tourist who is new to the Orient. "That beats any hunting story sver heard a cowpuncher tell," sai be, "and we've got some pretl ;ood prevaricators out near th border too. "But I guess you fellows ha\ never had many man killers out th way, so I am a kind of curiosit; S "Being In the cow business, I | played poker, and one night I Bat down in a game with a Btranger to me, but a man who was Buspected of being a little too smooth with the cards. He sat Just opposite | me and we hooked up occasionally in the early part of the game, with varying results, o "Finally I had corralled quite a i- collection of chips, when a hand was dealt me andd I skinned back my cards to see four kings looking me in the face. Naturally I opened and this stranger raised then I " raised a few times and finally each 1 iof us drew a card. The way we " | bet established a new record ~i around there, and after a few fertile efforts every one else dropped ' out and left us in the game alone. .. j "1 felt perfectly confident. 1 had ( seen a man next to me discard an . iiec, so 1 knew he couldn't have me ' beat on four of a kind. Finally we I didn't have anything left to bet and 'l when the showdown came he laid II down four aces, just topping my fours. I knew he had worked an . old game, picking up a confederate's discarded ace, instead of the card dealt to him from the pack. ' The only tiling 1 could do was '. to get out my artillery, and the .' stranger had the same impulse. The difference in results was that they 1 buried the stranger the next day 1 and the doctor trimmed off part of this finger. "But the peculiar part about that shooting scrape was that when the 'l witnesses came up in court the next " day they all swore that only one " shot had been fired and wouldn't ^ believe otherwise until they were shown my missing finger and the ?' empty shell iti the stranger's gun. "Itid you have any trouble with u" the courts over the shooting?" aski ed the missionary. "\n " vonlir.il tlm TMw.r 11 was justifiable homicide." ic j ic : * m e_ ; Business Booming Again. s-1 Convinced that tlie pendulum of business is ready to swing back 10 to good times says the National 1(j News Service, representatives of tlie great manufacturing enterprises es of tlie country with headquarters ' in New York, have ordered the I wheels of industry, silent now for ^ j many months, to again hum with the song of work. ? ^ canvas of the situation at home 'land abroad, they say shows that js ! conditions are steadily improving a and that all business, both big and ,o little, has reached the end of the ie period of depression, which made necessary the heavy retrenchments 10 in expenses and curtailment of production that marked the spring and js summer months. Failures are steadily declining in number and aggregate losses in all )tlsections of the country and a firinrp er tone is noticable everywhere. ,g In New England, sixty mills giv.y ! ing employment to more than 100,^ i 000 men and women, which have ! been shut down from two to ten jn j weeks, resumed operation on full i time 011 Monday and the balance of j. j those that have been idle, have arlt | ranged to start the first of the ie | coming week. From the South and w the West the news is equally cheery. In the former twenty mills n 1 have taken hold again and in the |g i latter 35 large manufacturing t._! plants which have been closed or i operating on a minimum basis, eu)r couraged by the signal improvement f. in new orders, are once more in s full swing. President VVlllinm \i Wnmi ..f .e j the American Woolen Company, ie which controls thirty mills in New >t j England and New York, having 3<>,w | employees, who are now working on ! full time, says that the outlook is )r for a permanent and long contin)t ued change for the better. In support of this conviction, in which all manufacturers here now Le generally share, the Greenwood ,f Cotton Duck mills at New Hartford, [e , Barkhamstead and Canton, Conn., d which have been closed for ten !t years have been re-opened and Riving work to 2,000 operatives, with [3 the promise that the force will be substantially increased in a few iA weeks. ?a At North Brookfieid, Mass., the o Oxford Linen Mills which have orders in hand to keep them going at it their maximum efficiency until well ,f into the winter intend to double [r their force, with the installation on ,y January 1st of new machinery orh dered recently to enable them to d supply the demand for American i- made linen goods With the general revival in trade n which these signs augur, business d is looking forward to a year of lnd creased activity and nation wide prosperity in which every industry ie and every community will get its a: proportionate share. Co-incident with this, a marked lowering of I the cost of living, especially in the d everyday staples of life, is pre,y dieted. ie WORK ON MARION ROADS. i T la Sand Clay Mixture Being I'sexl On y, County's Highways. <1 Marion, October 14. ? Special: i-! The Marion highway commission it is continuing to do some excellent work on the roads below Marion. Just at this time It is building up ly the road from Arial, about twelve a.1 miles south of the city, to connect re with the road from Britton's Neck Lo to Marion, which has already been id made into a boulevard with the le sand-clay mixture, it having been re the first work done with the mon1 ey provided by the $100,000 bond >f issue. e-| ? V- j 'OOUOd SJJB.I re | em o* pejirtdns ueaq oat?h fritoj lesuap m aueiiCjeay LETTER TO COTTON FARMERS SOME GOOD ADVICE UNO HOMELY L06IC FROM A MAN WHO KNOWS Tlic (V>tU>n Fanners Should llnno Tit^tln'r and Stop Selling Cotton at Present Prices. Cotton is selling to-day for 3 1-2 cents per pound less than at this time last year, or $17.60 per hale and is the South prepared to lose this large amount of money? I ask the business men, are they willing for the farmers to suffer lose that present prices mean? The farmers will not he *!" * only loosers for they can't pay the time merchant for their smmlics and will not have the money to spend with the cash merchants. "Oh, hut the crop! the crop!" some say. Now come and let us reason together. Suppose it is a big crop; does not a pound of cotton make just as many yards of cloth or as many pounds of thread when the crop is a big one as when it is a small one? Are there not just as many units of ware and juts as much protection from cold in a pound of cotton now as there was a year ago? I?ist year's crop amounted to, in pound numbers. 12,400.oou bales, and sold for about $843,75n,nun. If this year's crop should amount to 13,800,000 bales, is that any reason It should seil for $700,000,0011, or more than $ 1 to,otto.000 less than last year's crop? These are vital questions and the continued prosperity of the South depends upon their solution. Take from the South $140,000,000 and stagnation of business will be seen on every hand. Rut let that amount come in and the additional $100,000,000 more for the increase in our crop, and business of every description would move up by leaps and bounds. Factories of every description, North and South would enjoy a season of activity such as they have never known. If the big crop is in the way of good prices, let us reduce the quantity of cotton for sale. There is no sane man, who would rather sell 10 bales of cotton for $675 than to sell 12 bales for $500. That is what we are now doing as compared with prices received a year ago. If to procure the better price it is necessary to decrease the cotton put en the market, let us store the two hales'and count them ;ui that many ! already made on next year's crop, and market only the ten and receive the $175 more than the 12 would bring. Then reduce acreage in cotton next year and keep the crop down to the quanity the trade can use profitably. If we sell the 12 bales when the trade can use only H) of them, the other two will he carried over until next year and used as a club to keep prices down again. For this reason we had better keep them in our own hands instead of letting the enemy have them. It is highly necessary that something be done and done at once. It will be too late after the bulk of cotton is sold. There must be unity of purpose and action, or prices will go still lower than they are at present. We need not conclude that the bear interest will let up, neither need we underestimate their daring and confidence nor their resources. We had just as well make up our minds that we have a foe that is worthy of our steel and one that will contest every inch of ground. But we are mightier than they, and we should also remember that while they are fighting for profits we are fighting for our homes and the prosperity of our country. But to win we must present a solid front and not swerve from our purpoee. Let us not forget the New Orleans convention, j when cotton went down to 6 cents per pound, and we were told that it rr/? 1 Rut tlin ers and business men of the South said it should not go lower, and it did not. But on the contrary it i Wiis 4 cents per pound higher before the season was over and that in the face of the largest crop we have ever made. What was accomplished by that convention can he re-enacted by another. Above all hold your cotton. Don't rush it to market, and thus help depress the price. A Farmer. For The State Fair. M. W. Twitchen, the State geologist, is preparing a mineral exhibit which will be placed on exhibition at the State Fair, to be held at i Columbia on October 30 to Novem-j her 3. A food stuffs exhibit will also be shown. Some of the rotten 1 1 corn that has been seized by inspec-i : tore of the department will be shown. PRKKIDKNTH ON THE ROAD Arthur, Cleveland and Harrison Fretful When They Travel. New York Sun. "If anybody traveling needs rest over Sunday it is a President on a Jaunt," said a man who has been ! out with several Presidents. "For-| tunately for Mr. Haft he likoe this, sort of thing, but I notice that he h?m nrHprpH roat a avop CiniH^v in his Itinerary. "1 have traveled with Arthur, McKlnley, Cleveland and Harrison on their Jaunts. Arthur, in spite of his talents for mixing with a New York crowd, was never equal to the Job In the country. If any town in this country is up on the art of catering to any exclusive taste it is Louisville, Ky Arthur was the firs' Republican President to go South, and Ijouisville spread herself tc ma-ke him feel at home. Politica' lines were obliterated on the occa sion of his visit when he went there to open the Cotton Exposition Th* Pendennis Club gave him n banquet fit for a king, but he was glad whet it was over. "When he left Chicago for hi* hunt in Yellowstone he told Phil Sheridan, who had charge of the party, that he could have uninterrupted rest. "McKinley was not as good a traveler as Taft, but he never show ed that he w;is tired 1 heard him say once that he wished railroad companies would make some arrangement by which a log cabin I*.* !111 ? t*r\ ? of a Pullman sleeper. "Cleveland never liked a crowd. He fretted under handshaking: and always grunted when he had to make a platform speech When he v'sited Chicago with his bride he gin the greatest reception ever seen in 'ha. city. The fact that .Mrs Clc\ila?d broke down nailer tlie strain of the excitement may have had soiiiething to do with making Cleveland 'inpatient, hut the way In r.iv. d over tiie iatn and mismanagement i t tln.t affair would have niel'id ih< ty; ? ot any newspaper that It iid 'o oijote hint. When he left tlie city for .Madison, where he was the gin st of t'ol Vilas, he expressed iemsclf as delighted over the n st to which lie was hound. 1 saw hint at an inaugural hall in Washington I wouldn't like to reP< at w!. :' I heard him say about the molt 011 the floor. "Harrison was the most impatient Presidential traveler of all I ever jaunted with One night the crowd in Hurlington became unmanageable. It was the worst 1 ever saw The police was as useless as a lot of wooden soldiers. When the meeting was over and Harrison and his party went to the Presidential train, Harrison asked when the train was due at the next stop, Oscaloosa, la., whore lie was to open the Corn Palace the next day. When he was told that the schedule was for noon the following day he requested that the train he side-tracked somewhere for the remainder of the night in order tllnt tlf. mirlll .rf.l HncI "It wtts so ordered, and the train was run out of Hurlington about 40 utiles and placed in a siding in the woods. There it remained until after breakfast. For the first time in any Presidential jaunt that 1 ever heard of the President was lost to the people of the country for 10 hours. There was no wireless apparatus then. "The next day when Harrison and his parly reached St. Joseph. Mo., be was routed out of bed at sunrise to take breakfast at the railroad station and talk to the people. 1 think Harrison came nearer forgetting his Presbyterian pledge then than he ever did before." vai.h: or sim:\cf Too .Much Talking as tin* Cause <<f Failures. Y tilth Companion. Many of the failures in business and profession as well as social life are due to injudicious talking. A young man of apparently very modorate ability has recently astonished his fellow workers by his notieea.hle success in business. "Pure luck," it has been called, but a policy of natural habit of silence is the real cause . In the first position he succeeded a man of long experience and excellent judgment, a circumstance that made his youth and inexperience conspicuous by contrast. He made no apologies and asked little advice. He was courteous to bis superiors, considerate of It is business inferiors, but absolutely deaf to all the gossip and irresponsible talk so prevalent in every large business office. u.v t.n/i UAI.I ~ *? * ?c iiau lit ui iiir> |iu2)uumi l\?J ?i year: gossip had it that lie had failed, for in that time lie had not suggested a single innovation or enlarged his department in any way. I?ut soon it became known that lie had proposed a change that would result in an annual saving of $2,000. Gradually his step became firmer,his manner more assurand lie no longer outstayed the janitor at night. Slowly, but sureed and he no longer outstayed the general manager and the heads of other departments, and it soon became their habit to come to him for advice. At the end of five years, when his former associates were wondering if they could afford to get married, he was admitted to membership in the firm. In every establishment where a number of persons is employed there is always an undercurrent of gossip. A dissatisfied stenographer talks her troubles over with a bookkeeper. The bookkeeper confides to his telephone operator that ho Piniwtu to cot an inorofiHft in salary. The elevator boy explains that he is going to leave coon for a better job. These bit* of news are exchanged until they become common property. The employer, learning that the stenographer is dissatisfied, tells her that she may leave at her pleasure. The bookkeeper fail* to get his increase In salary and the elevator boy does not get his "new job." Especially if you are dissatisfied should you refrain from discussing your position. A strenuous soul hates cheap successes. It is the ardor of the assailaut that makes the vigor of the defender.?R. W. Ememon