The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-14

THE participants in the Scranton
Trbune's Educational Contest
are now working in real earnest,
AMI as they meet with success their
enthusiasm keeps growing. New names
are being constantly added, proving
that as the news becomes known OF
this papers substantial inducements to
young men and women, the willing and
ambitious youth of the city and coun-
try are glad of an opportunity to enter
its ranks of canvassers.
Points are being scored daily by sew
eral of the contestants. One young
man who took out one of the credit
blank books one evening at the close
of business was waiting for the office
to open the next morning. He had Sc
cured several subscribers during the
intervening night. This young man is
employed during the day. and is using
his evenings to benefit himself and is
striving for future education. Other
workers are going carefully over their
neighborhood among their friends ami
acquaintances, and also among their
friends in other townH The unem-
ployed can make their idle hours very
profitable by entering this contest, as
there is a remuneration in cash for
those who do not succeed in getting
enough points to win one of the ten
special rewards. Those who have en-
plOyment can very well find time to
canvass in their hours of ease" An
ambitious young man or woman, who
expects to amount to something in the
future, should commence to lay a four-
dation for the years to come now. In
the great chance The Tribune presents
to them through this contest they may
begin to build for the future a sub
stantial edifice Of intelligence, business
acumen and commercial priority.
Valuable Experience to Be Gained.
The future is to be pre-eminently an
age of specialists. Among the special
lists who will be in active demand in
few years in the business world will
be persons who can interest others in
separate lines by detailing interesting
ly and eloquently the points of advant-
age and advancement of the project
they are promoting. This work is one
which will be a good preparatory school
for the participant. 1t will teach him
how to approach a prospective sub
scriber, state his business, unfold his
reasons for going into the work, ana
dilate upon the substantial advantages
his wares possess over those of others.
1t will teach the canvasser to forget
his self-COnsciOusness to lose his tim
idity and will tend to give him conf
dence in his powers to gain the atten-
tion and hold the interest of the person
he is interviewing.
More Contestants Enter.
Among the new contestants yester-
day were some from outside the city
showing that the country youth are
fully as ambitious and anxious for
their future as their urban brothers
and sisters. The public is taking q
great interest in the young Canvassers
efforts and show laudable desire tC
help them in many ways, by givins
them their subscriptions or sending
them to friends who they believe vii
be able to do so. Prospective contest
ants should not lose any more time ir
thinking about entering, but shoult
start in now while the public interes
Is intense in this matter. The time fol
action is at hand and now is the ont
chance, perhaps, of your life to gair
an education without cost to yourself
other than a few weeks canvassing.
Wyoming Seminary.
The Wyoming Seminary, the first il
The Tribunes list of special rewards
Is situated at Kingston, Pa, an
was established in 1874, under tn
auspices Of the Oneida Methods
Episcopal conference. The first build
lrs erected was destroyed by fir
in 1882, but, not daunted by the de
struction wrought, the late william
SHETLAND, Esq, of Wyoming, with tn
aid of few other laymen and unde
the leadership of Dr. Nelson, the prin