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INCOLN LOUNTY I AT EWS. II M II II a IOC TWICE A WEEK " ' ' to c Line. let the, Chios fall as then M"!- $100 PER YEAR 5 CENTS PER COPY. . . L... ,- ' . , .7,-,- ," ,.. . ..... . . , ' .. Vol. 1. LINCOLNTON, N. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1907. No. 20 When the Days Begin to Lengthen. The days are growing longer, though the world is white with snow, And the spring is drawing: nearer, though the winds of winter blow; All the sparrows in the hedge twitter "Courage," as I pass; I can hear the, dandelionspushing up ward through the grass. I , The sun is swinging northward, nnd the days are lengthening, ..The lilac buds are swelling with the joy they are to bring; ICvery morning gives a promise, though the winds of winter blow. And liere,'s hope in every sunset, ' though the world is white with snow. ' : S. H. Kiskii. College Men In Business. A very careful and interesting article on this most interesting subject for young men has lately been written by H. J. Hapgood, the president of "Hapgoods". As the head of an organization which is retained by over twenty thous and leading employers in America tf supply them with the right kind ofyoung men for business and technical positions, Mr. Hapgood ought to be an authority. Some of the poiuts he makes are these. The modern employer, in many cases, gives more time and thought to the selection of his employees ' than to any other branch of work. This is because modem businesses are too large for the employer's personal attention. The old fashioned head of a business gave his personal attention to the de tails of it. The up-to-date busi ness man recognizing that it is im possible for him to do this does the next thing he gives his personal attention to each man on the force, from the general manager to the lowest clerk, to see if he can be trusted'to take'eare of "details"" to think intelligently, and to work hard. "Human capital" is one of the best business assets nowadays. Each capable and willing worker who can give results without being "watched" is valued and advanced. No young man need fear neglect or lack of recognition. The em ployer is on the lookout to-day for every indication of ability and .energy.'.' : - Ninety per cent of American em ployers set energy and persistence . above ability; and about the same percentage also put integrity above ability. This is good news for the young man who has no unusual gifts, but is honest and willing ' to "toil terribly'. One employer Is quoted -as . sayiug'iWJiatth.e business man needs to-day is Hot more ability. We have enough of that ; in fact sometimes I think we have too muchhatejteetl is more men who can and will use the ability they have, faithfully and honestly. -" Yet no employer wants ignorance. : Those workers who leave school before they have reached the grammer grade are not much in demand. The high school graduate is wanted, and is usually a better penman and quicker at figuers than the college man. , But statistics gathered from one hundred business houses covering the last three or four years, show that "about ninety per cent, of the college men are successful in rising to - large salaried and responsible positionsr as compared with twenty-five per cent of non college men. Accord ing to these figures, eight hundred dollars a year is the limit of the non-college man who has at least four years, and in some cases a longer start of the college man. Only ten per cent of the college men are absolute failures, . and seventy-five per cent of them :t rise above twelve, hundred dollars a year." The Western Electric Company, which began employing college men about ten years ago, finds that ninety per cont of them make good, as against ten per cent of those who enter busi ness from the high and grammar schools. ' The conn try -bred college man is considered rather more desirable than the city one. He is a trille slow and awark ward ' sometimes, but he ' usually has stronger health (which the modern, employer al ways looks at as an important fac tor),, is hot afraid of long hours, has good habits, is willing to start at a very low salary, and has the great incentive "that . he 'must make good, or walk back to the farm".' A well-known manufacturer told Mr. Hapgood that "men from the country go at their work with an 'I wll' spirit that is simply irresistible. For example'" he added, "I brought a. young fellow down from' New England with me a year or so ago, and for want of anything better to put him at, I turned him loose in the shipping department, and told hini to see if he could make himself useful for two or three weeks. Later when T went to transfer him to the factory, the head of the shipping department would not listen to it. He said the young fellow had been ; put ting in fourteen or fifteen horn's a day, and had learned nearly as much about the work as he him self knew, and was his most valu able man. We had tried a dozen city men in the same department before, and not one of them had made good." The men who have workpd their way through college are usually found io be the most valuable. The fact that they have earned their, expenses proves that they have grit and capacity for work. In making their way, they have a oertsuu4uuluc& -training, and gained experience and judgement. "One or two of the largest em ployers of college men show a marked preference for those who had to make their way; and the mau whose expenses have been paid by someoue else has to look very good indeed to even get hear ing."' '.. .-.. A story is told of a large publish ing house which put a young New England college man into new ter ritory two years ago. In six months, he sold more goods than any beginner had ever done in that time. The sales manager was suprised and said so. ' 'If I could earn my way through college selling subscription booksrlL, re plied the young worker, "I ought to make good with " you. ' ' Whether a graduate comes from a large or small " college does not seem to matter .much, except, of couree7liithecaseof technical schools, where the large colleges and institutions give their graduat es recognized standing. The best training for general positions ap pears to be that gained from the ordinary A. B. or B. S. course, with special attention during the last year to banking, transportation, money and credit, business law, corporation accounting, and so forth. The graduate who has been , manager of a college paper or an athletic team, or some other affair with a business side to it, is usually more valuable than the man who has studied commerce or finance from his books only; The University of Wisconsin has a "Commercial Club" for seniors planning to enter business; and other colleges are beginning the same methods, finding them of much practical benefit to the graduate. ' " No college creates ability. No college training gives honesty or energy. The college diploma is therefore not a. sure passport to business success, and every grad uate must expect to be sifted and tried, and must be willing to begin by addressing envelopes or doing How Much Could You Get I JJ;; For .-Ydiiir 'Fairai? , .You are a farmer. ; You live near this town. You own land. ' J Letlis say that you owu more than you iced and would like to slell ; a hundred acres. ; ;', ft How much could you get per acre? 4.4. Land values have risen lately. But has the value of your land risen as you think It should? ' v , Your land is good laud. You thlulij It Is worth considerably Jj more than anybody has offered you.' Will let us.see. ; .t!$ A man buying farm laud naturally prefers to locate near a Jj thriving, up to date town. He wants gimd home markets for his Jj, - n.tt,- T.T., iiMnlo rrnnil . - SCUUU13. Let us say your land is three miles from town. A farm that looks very much like yours is three miles from n town" twice as big and twice as prosperous as, this town. If you wore going to buy a farm for your own occupancy, wouldn't you pay a whole lot more for land near the town that is twice as large and twice as lively? Of course you would. It would be good business. Now, What makes a town big and bustling? Money. Money in circula tion. Not In circulation In Chicago, for instance, but right In the town that ; wants to grow. How much money have you sent to the big Mall Order houses hi the city the past ten years? How much have your neigh bors sent? How' much have all of you together put out of circulation here at home? It is nrobablv bevond i. j. It calculation. If all that money had town, isn't it reasonable to assume tbat the town would have grown more than It has grown? Wouldn't this town be a bigger and better town ? Wouldn't It have more stores to buy your produce ?'- Wouldn't it have more public improvements to make it more attractive to outsiders who might come hero to live, to go into business, or buy your surplus land at a good figure " 1$ TO TRADE AT HOME MEANS TO HELP THE TOWN f AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD. TO HELP THE TOWN AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD MEANS TO HELP YOURSELF. :.., . ... ... . ttt .i..t--i...........t. j. j-j. j..i..t..t.. j. j. j.. ... WTTT II I1 I 1 I I I I I . , . . . . ........... a . "--" a odd jobs on a minute salary. "For the first two or three months the average college man in business is worth no more than a sixteen-year-old boy who has begun work on leaving the grammar or high school. " But before two years are past the honest, capable,' hard- working college man will be abreast or. ahead, of , his competi.tor.with five years' start but no diploma. There is no doubt that, for the right kind of boy, college is the w j s es t p r epa rat i o n lb r business success, and this is becoming so evident that one business firm en gaged fifty young graduates last year. Several others have estab lished training schools,, taking the men in July, fresh front college, giving them six weeks' business tuition, on a bare living wage, and then putting them to work on a salary and commission basis. The American idea is an educational idea. No young man today can afford to be ignorant; and if he can possibly work his way through college, it will pay him roundly in' the end. Death of Mr. Dorsey. ; - Mr. A. B. Dorsey died at his home, formerly the L. B. Camp place, yesterday morning. Mr. Dorsey had been suffering from grippe for some time, which devel oped into pneumonia. He leaves a wife, who was Miss Anna C. Warlick, of JJeepsville, and sever al children. Mr. Dorsey moved here recently from Cleveland coun ty. The interrment will take place today at 11 o'clock at Asbury M. E. church, the Rev. R, C. Ross conducting the funeral services. It been spent in your own hotne Germs as Hired Men. : From the Minneapolis Journal. The fanner emptied a white powder into a pail of water, and added thereto a tiny wad of cot ton. "I am getting ready to vaccinate niyTand for the spring, " he " said. l his is the virus. The govern-1 ment gives me the virus for noth- itig, and the vaccination increases my crops from 50 to 200 per cent. " " Stirring the thud, he went on: "Dr. G. T. Moore, of tfuTDepliiF ment of Agriculture, is the inven tor oil soil vaccinatioiC Thanks to him, you can fertilize for 4 cents as much soil as $40 worth of ni trate would cover. "You see, the thing that fertili zes soil is nitrogen. Well, there is a lot of nitrogen in the air seven tenths of the air is nitrogen. And Dr. Moore has bred a germ, a little living germ, that all its life long works like Rockfellcr at extract ing this nitrogen from the air and storing it in the soil around it. "This germ is what I vaccinate my land with-This genu,-put-in my soil, toils day and night a fine little hired man. To it the air, the free air we breathe, is a perfect guano bed, and from that guano bed I draw all the profit "And the result? Well, a potato field yeilded 50 per cent more po tatoes after vaccination; an oat field yeilded 300 per cent, more oats,' a wheat field yeilded 52 per cent, more wheat; a rye field yeild ed 400 per cent, more rye." 'There's this mu'h progress in a blunder-It shows you how to stand from under." Mr. and Mrs. Rcinhardt In Cuba. ; Habana,' de Cuba, -.'.; . ' 4th March de 1!K)7. Dear Mr. Fair: Bob has gone out to Matanziis today with a'-gentleman -we met here from' 'Dakota. They are on a "pleasure. trip" 'as I was tired and did not .feel like going out. But we are having a grand time down here, weather is. fine and We . s . . . ate j list as well ..aw "can be. 81111 shines here all the time and is real hot, but with the delightful breeze from the bay it is an ideal climate. You all know what Havana is, but to see Cuba, must get out in the country. We enjoyed a trip to a sugar mill, saw the cane in different stages growing. Then we visited ("apt. Ramseurjajt his home in thellerradura orange grove dis trict found it beautiful and full of attractions for a new settler. '.There has been no rain for three months, but everything grows on without water or work. It is no joke about the palm hut, for rich planters live in them. Since there is a scarcity of timber, an all wise providence gave a substitute in the shape of a palm leaf: These houses are cool and artistic not costing much to erect them one can have the pleasure of a new one every ten years. Saturday we' continued our trip to Pino-del-Rio, and as a guest we had Gen. AmandoPino, a Cuban of ficer from Herradura. He says he is a soldier and loves to fight, but loves better to run; he was bright and fine looking. We enjoyed his society and allowed him to order a Spanish breakfast for us which was a good one, though it was mid day, the time we usually have dinner. We are enjoying our stopping place Mascotte, 'an old Spanish hotel right on the bay Havana. 'Tis a lovely sight to sec the nu merous vessels lighted up' at night. Two American war ships here and a big Spanish boat Everywhere we see American soldiers, and Cu ban rural guards are all over the country, on every train, &c. Yesterday we saw the fourth street carnival, which was a great street parade consisting of many thousands of wealthy natives in gay attire with handsome turnouts, throwing confetti and surpentine rolls of narrow strips of naper of every conceivable color, at each other till some carriages and autos were nearly covered particularly if they contained one or more of the nunHHOusCuT);Hlbeauties'i Really they are perfectly beautiful. The little girls, "too, are darlings. Wish you had seen Bob looking oufrwhere"to pitch "hisrott of "pa per, he was more particular as to color than good looks. - Last night (Sunday) they had a grand masquerade, but we did not attend sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. No observance of Lent here unless it is very early in the morning. Bob asked me to write a little for him as he promised to write you, but now has gotten his dinner and gone shark fishing. He and Mr. Weston, weighing 325 pounds, ex expect to haul out a monster fish tonight. The trip - to Mautauzas was hot and tiresome, but we were glad to visit the Bahama caves. , I have no idea when we w ill reach home, expect to sail via Port Tampa next Saturday. Cannot obtain a state room till then, trav el Is so heavy, rooms are engaged weeks ahead. With kind regards and love to Uncle Wallace, Sincerely, . Lauba Reinhakdt. WHAT liOB SAY8. Well, Fair, I have just landed 3 a. m. and we sure, did catch a big shark, a regular man eater 12 1-2 feet long, and had a mouth big enough to eat old Doc, (our old black mule) at one bite. .Will bring you a tooth. Great' crowds here and the finest country on earth.'. 'Will 'write -you "a book full when ' I 'get home. The madam and 1 enjoy everything, even the good looks of the pretty gi rls.- .Will' get., home some time, but this is a hard country to leave as long as your' money holds out. ' Yoors truly, R. S. I! KIN HA KPT. VIRGINIA LANDS NO GOOD. Messrs. Jim and Will Lore Investigate and Find Property Not As Represented. 'Messrs.. 'J. -A. and W. II. Lore returned last Thursday from a trip to Virginia, where they went to inspect lands previous to purchas ing same. It seems that Lincoln County has been flooded with ex travagantly worded advertising matter "cracking up" certain lands in Virginia, and offering glittering inducements.;- for new cornel's. These exaggerated statements are being sent out by W. D. Hill & Co.,, a real estate firm in South Boston, and by F. H, LeBaum, Industrial Agent of the Norfolk and Western Railroad. Attracted by the marvelous bar gains offered in this advertising matter, the . Messrs. Lore hied themselves thither, to investigate this newly discovered eldorado. They spent 3(5 hours in viewing the sights around South Boston and came back home in great dis gust. The lands offered proved to be very poor, the country has al ready been deserted by its former residents, and the matter of secur ing labor is simply out of the ques tion. These lands lay between the Dan and Bannister rivers, had ev idently, been diked at one time, and the waters had broken through and carried off' all the top soil. What was represented in the advertising matter as "finely tim bered" lands proved to be gullied hillsides ; with . a few straggling saplings.' Mr. Lore says teams would be unnecessary in cutting this "fine timber," a man could carry it in his arms. The truth of the matter is, this effort to induce immigration is founded on misrepresentation and is simply a scheme to sell old, worn out lands to the unwary and un suspecting. .. . -Mr. -Lore saw a handsome new house, not quite completed, stand-, ing abandoned and deserted hy its -owner, Mr. Zeigler, a western man whose credibility had been impos ed upon. : This man had purchas ed landsand- laid In supply- of the very latest and most expensive farm machinery and - equipment, yet the poverty of the soil was such as to force him to abandon his in tention to develop this property. Mr. Zeigler's place was between South Boston and Wolftrap. Inquiry developed the fact that none of these Virginia lands offered arc suitable for grain, or the kind of farming that our Lincoln county men would want to do. The thrashers charge five bushels for a "set down," and one-fifteenth of the grain. - The Messrs. Lore did -not go to Farmville, Blackstone, -CTewey nor an; jMjfThe other locali--ties advertised. South Boston was enough for them. The Skiddoo Society. The Skiddoo Sewing club met Friday afternoon at the home of little Miss Mabel Robinson, those present being Misses Cora Lee Rhodes, Ruth Rhodes, Flossie Rudisill, Mary Warren and , Fran ces Fair. After sewing doll clothes for awhile, and discussing the current topics of the day, the lit tle ladies enjoyed dainty refresh-. mcuts, and theti Skidooed. i ? ' " ! r !' ' I - , i i Si t c - 1 1 i S' :
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