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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.
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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