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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-08
By Allen Wilson.

fortune "a fire in which he saved the BOOKS
of his department favored him BY bringing
him to the Immediate notice OF the manager,
and soon after he was given an increase IN
salary. A little while later they made him
head OF the subdepartment. Burns gave q
little dinner to celebrate that event and
sang the praises OF Going & Co. without stint
So far they had treated him just as q firm
should treat man Of his ability. Besides
they had rewarded him properly for saving
the books. Verify, Going & Co. didn't let
faithfulness and good work on the part Of
their employees go unseen or unrewarded'
Faith In Firm Wrecked.
In the year and a halt that followed, bring,
Ing the time UP to six months ago, Burns
remained firm In this faith He worked hard
or than ever then. lie felt that he must do
all he could to repay the firm for the kindness
shown him, for the liberal treatment he had
received, and for that which he expected IN
the future. He strenuously upheld the good
name Of Going s. Co. When other employees,
whose efforts had mot withless success and
recognition than his. derided the firm and Its
pretensos to interest In Its employees he con.
sistcnly resented It, lie was modest enough
to believe that he had climbed no faster than
any employee could have done who had really
wished to climb, He saw success shining
brightly before him, and he knew that all
the nice, goody- goody tales that great men
tell when they preach success were true III
every way.
So 1t was something Of a shock when he was
stopped short six months ago. It came about
through tho department head. the man that
Burns worked under. The head had year
before formulated a set of orders for tho
governing Of employees In his department.
One of these concerned the papers that came
from the invoice department. The order was
to the effect that under no conditions should
tho department change the Invoice figures
The papers should BIO SEM back for correction
II an error were found Burns ylolat ed this
rule, and the head Of the department. checked
his climb upward as effectively as he could
without discharglng him, lIe was perfectly
justified In violating It, for by changing an
Invoice himself he enabled the department
to get returns on foreign shipment two
weeks earlier than would have been he case
had he waited for the invoice department to
make the change. But he did violate tho
rule,
Loses Reward Of Five Years Work,
The head took his subdepartment away
from him the next morning. He said i,o
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plain check upon bank. This check Will
i be subject first to the credit of the person
drawing 1t, and secondarly to the credit
OF the bank upon which tits drawn The
Individual haynx l,lld cash or Its credit
Z equivalent to a bank and receiving q bank
draft, uses 1t without his own personal risk,
leaving that credit doubt between the bank
that draws 1t and the bank on which 1t calls
for currency. A promissory note Is only
another form Of credit more formal than
a merchants bill rendered for payment at
at thirty. sixty. or ninety days.
How Credit Man Was Evolved.
Here 1t is that the credit man Of the In
divdual house in commercial centers first
found his professional field. Trade mad
grown until the memory and observations OF
the heads OF the establishment no longer
would serve. Somebody had to be charged
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with the sole duty OF keeping track Of the
customers with whom at wholesale there
had never been such thing as a cash quo
tatlon.y The credit man OF ono house dis
covered that the credit man OF another house
was Il mutually profitable acquaintance, and
the two OF them considered the taking Of all
the other experts in; the limo Into local
organizations OF mutual self-interest. Tho
national organization OF these local bodies
was inevitable.
A man not within the circle OF this really
new profession cannot realize how far reach
ing are the interests OF such an organization
into the customs and laws OF a state. When
o credit paper OF credit house may be used
to wipe out the debt in favor OF the creditor,
the position OF the credit man Is apparent.
Insurance a Vital Question.
Today:-ror Instance one Of the great stun
bling stones Of the credit man is the question:
able and inadequate Insurance policies OF thu
country at large. Whether the credit be
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self, to realize that he and Going & Co. are
identical, lnreturn the pamphlet tells what
will DO done for him II he is faithful as pre-
scrIbed. Merit is guaranteed recognition.
Every employee who Is faithful and capable
is guaranteed that he will be taken care Of
to the limit Of his capacities. II IS i,
Going & Co. make for their employees the
motto Merit WINS And the head Of the
firm occasionally gives out Interviews re-
latng to his struggles for success and tell
ing the young men of the present genera ton
how failure Is impossible II one only will
work hard for success. There is room for all.
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~IIIS is an Incident. n business incident,
true and unvarnished. Just as It hap
pened. There wouldn't be any great
] excuse for writing It Il Going SEQ.
did not Issue pamphlet to each and
every employee that comes on to their pay roll
2 The pamphlet Is a precious thing. It tells
in carefully chosen words Of the hign aims
that Going & Co. hold for their employees.
1t begins BY adjurIng the new employt SOL
EMMY TO consider himself Mt once as II
partner In the great and respectable house.
to consider tho interests Of the house as his.
10 work for tho house as he would for him.
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System in Using Pockets
Helps to Hold Good Job.
BY j. l.. Graft.
BY j. l.. Graft.

form Morter has nineteen different pockets.
The trolley world may be secured to find Q
man with another such wonderful precision
IN pocket play The pianist at the keyboard
does not more accurately find says and oc-
y taves with both hands than does this trolley
fare tnker reach right and left to the proper
receptacles for combination that will en-
able him quickly to return his passenger the
exact change When Morter starts down the
aisle Of crowded car the first thing an OBJ
serving passenger notices Is that he seldom,
II ever, looks at the change he is giving out,
though he closely scans every piece he takes,
SO sure Is ho that the pocket into which he
reaches yields the proper pieces, OF course,
in this matter he is aided by the sense Of
touch. for no knows the denomination of a
coin BY the feel q 7 in his pocket,
Every Pocket q Depository.
In some Of his pockets he has three dit.
ferent kinds OF coin. In another he mixes up
tickets. transfers alld nlckels. In another
he deposits quarters and halves, In still an
other he throws Ill kinds OF things tempo
rarIly. In one OF his hip pockets he carriesn
combination purse. That's his bank, In
which he carries his own private funds, o.
rasionally he is required to draw on II TO re.
plsnlsh his stock OF change,
Then there are his trip and other reports,
hir books. and so on lie has trained him
self never to draw his hand out OF his pocket
without bringing that which he expected 70
find there.
In the course OF Il years time one OF these
money changers will wear cut several suits
OF clothes despite the Fact that the pockets
and their bindings are OF leather.
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Best Employment Agent
Is the want Ad" Column
By Will r.. Hamilton.

4 F, figures were compared and the great
mass of intnerants who have looked
for Jobs were interviewed, likewise the
employers who have q looked for help"
It would BIO found that the daily neWspn-
per Is the bost employment agency a5iS
It Is out Of hoquestion to give accurate
statistics In a case Of this kind, but 1t Is O
safe assertion that three-nfths Of the ems
ployed find their positions through the me.
dunn Of advertising columns. The propor.
ton Of men and women In responsible posi-
lions who got their jobs through advertise.
ments Is much greater than that. 3
Employment Agents Disappoint,
The stories OF distress once upon a time =,
Of those unfortunates who relied on employ.
ment agencies such as hang out allurlng
signs and Insert deceltful advertisements are
4 The most woeful OF all. They tell OF how
meal money and the pawnbroker's loan went
70 employment sharks In the shape of regis
tration fees on fictitious guarantee Of get
ting wo:k for the registered; how after
weeks Of waiting when the pawnbroker's
tickets had passed their days of grace f.
nally came job In a cheap restaurant or
worse at a salary Of 81 per week
Out Of the pay In two weeks, the wall goes
on, the employment shark got 81, made in
two payments In addition to the reglstra-
ton fee, In the majority Of cases the en-
ployment agency Jobs never turned<up and
relief came only when he applicant got in
touch with the employer with the news
paper as mtddleman.
Most Of the fraudulent employment agen-
ceE have been driven out OF the large cties
BY newspaper agitation and law, Those that
remain arc supposed to be legitimate Some
OF them are, but precious few have the con-
hdence of employers. Most of them are re-
pudlated by employers and by lockers for
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He couldn't help that 1t was good business
5tokYiolnte the rule In this instance The head
undoubtedly had his reasons for not Wishing
such rulo broken. and he bowed Burns out.
Burns is looking for another position now,
while holding his old one with Going & CO,
The five years OF good work done In hopes
OF winning success are thrown away 8 far
as advancement Is concerned, And there VIII
be no recommendation for him when he leaves
Going & Co. And there are plenty OF Going
g. Co.'s In the business world,
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would have DISCHARGED any other man. Burns
could stay, at the same salary and position.
as long as he pleased. But by violating this
rule he showed that he was utterly unwor-
thy OF ever being given q higher trust. He
had reached his limit, the head told him In
SO many words.
It was. of course, only matter OF spite
with the head, but the manageE backed him
up. He would do absolutely nothing; the
heads OF the various departments had every
thing to say concerning the men under them.
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Fifty million acres IRE sown with grass.
most Of 1t cut with mowers, massed together
with hay rakes OF the modern side delivery
type, carried into the barn by o hay loader.
and deposited In the NOV with the auto
matte hay fork to which Is harnessed q
team. One farm using these modern instru-
ments put into the now 12O tons OF hay be-
tween 4 and 8 o'clock In the afternoon.
In the huge middle west wheat kingdoms
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courtesy. 33#5H S
There arc debts and debts. There are
credits and credits. A man may. be on, the
rocks Of ruin In his small wayHwith debt
OF $500 hanging over him. Another with his
property mortgnged for 100000 may be Just
beginning 10 see the rising sun Of his for
tunes. Considered from either side Of the
proposition, the vital question for debtor and
creditor alike is, For what purpose was this
obligation assumed?
a i; X
Abolish Credit-Wreck World.
II ali at once in a night the whole Intricate
system of credits in the world were wiped
out and civilization attempted to carry on
Its business on an uncompromising cash
basis the whole present structure of civilian
ton would fall. :" Let me see he color Of
your money = Is one OF the old slang chal-5
.lenges of the business world. Look at 1t II
you wll--lools at the money that Is In your
own purse!
Every cent OF It save the chance gold piece
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volving platform upon which the stalks are
gathered. AS The machine advances the plat
form rotates until o. shock Of 10 hills or moro
has been accumulated; the team is then
stopped. the top tied. the shock lifted from
the platform by windlass and placed on the
ground In a vertical position. The corn
binder, with one man and team and three
shockers, harvests from seven to nine acres
per day.
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BY "A. M. KreCker.

Fifty years OF inventive search after
n machine that would pick corn. victory has
been won In a corn picker that plucks ears
which are husked and delivered into wagon
passing along beside the machine, while the
stalks are left In the field. 1t takes quick
man to gather a load Of ears by hand In
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in the general offices OF the firm, according to
the pamphlet; wherefore, 1t follows that tho
story Of Burns Is interesting.
Burns Joins Going & Co.
Five years ago Burns came to work as
clerk In the general offices of Going q CO..
and received the pamphlet Burns had been
trying to break into Going s Co.'S employ for
a long time. TIe was good clerk, and held
n position Will. railroad. The position was
we'll paid as clerical positions So but there
was no promise Of a future In 1t; 1t was not
even certain that tho position was perma-
nent And because Burns and certain
yonug woman, who resided far out on the
west sido, had decided to get married. there
was good excuse for him to want q position
and one with future to It,
While holding the position III the railroad
Office he looked around. In the end he de-
cIded on Going & Co. The firms name was
synonym for prosperity and stanchness,
rs treatment of employees proverbially good
and, generally considered, It looked ms good
a place as there Is In tho city for young
man OF Burns' kind to start IN,
So Burns took a day off and went to SEQ
the manager OF the general Office He was
given an application to Ill out. Afterwards
he had a talk with the manager. The man
nger Impressed 1t upon him,that Going s. Co.
did not want him to come to work for them
unless he Intended to I" stay with them and
grow IN With the house" He told OF the
number OF head officers who had started In
at the bottom. he said the employs who
didn't intend to make his future with the
house was not the kind that was wanted, { He
impressed upon Burns tho idea of co6pera-
ton that Going & Co. made prominent
pnrt Of their employment department.
Hard Work Wins Promotion.
Burns told him that the reason he came
there looking for work was that lie wanted
place where he could make his future. Tie
wanted a place where he could work to the
best OF his ability, knowing that It would
count to his advantage as we'll as to the adj
vantage of the firm, lie told THO manager
that he intended TO get married rs soon as
he had a good position Insured, and SO
Burns cameto work for Going & CO. at an
immediate salary OF $50 aud Il future In
prospect. The glrl and Turns were mar
ried shortly afterward, and he threw himself
into the work of winning his way to success.
Three years later he was head Of a SUBJ
department, He didn't get this entirely
through the logged plugging that he put In
during these three years He had some good
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~ e YOU know how to make systematic use
Of tho pockets IT. your clothes you may
y help yourself to a good Job and hold y.
N ] The lack Of this acquisition may serve TO
\ bar u man from paying employment
rrhe man nowadays who holds down the bob
\ end OF an electric intcrurban car must not
u only have plenty of pockets but he must
I have constant and unerring knowledge OF
their locality and OF what each contains. 10
know your pockets In this KING OF 1op IS
Il to save time and work fast
Y or all the men who patronize talors the
' country trolley car conductor makes the
most extravagant demand fer pockets, They
arc all needed In his business, chiefly In stow
\ ing away different denominations Of coin.
\ For the interurban men have more work IN
| making change than the money takers on city
Y | cars, The city man Is expecting and In the
VI great majority Of instances receives nickel
| for the one fare that is charged. But ~ the
nv country there may be a dozen different fares.
WI and in nearly every instance the rare laker
W must make change. Thus he Is required not
NJ only to keep large Amount OF small coins
ofdinerent denominations. but he must needs
make a money drawer OF his rament. and
keep IN mind the particular pocket In which
he stores coins OF particular denomination.
.HT
Method In Using Pockets.
That there il method In this kind Of dis
trlbutlon OF money about ones person there
Is evidence in living example over on the
Elgin. aurora and Southern electric line
where Will Morter has u run between J1lgin
! and Aurora, and where passengers FIJI every
\ scat and take UP all the standing room In
u the car.
In the coat, vest and trousers OF mis- uni-
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0fWsyTTTT1 Anone the Men who Work [11EKHzpN
&e499XZJ with Hand Or Brain W@MJl
Machines Ne ke Farms Of America Rule World. J

z to all the large farms belongs steatr
.thrashng outfit. which consists OF a twenty.
I'VE horse power, straw burning engine, dirty.
& Ing n self-feeding separator. that will take
4 grain 40 fast as two mon can toss the bundles
to It, and thrash, clean, and sack the grain
registering BY means OF an automatic grain
welgher every bushel thrashed: and It's wind
stacker, which blows tho straw fifty feet
away and builds a good stack without mans
attention.
@ Ono OF these separntors, needing but one
X ,rar,'to give It oil, thrashes 5000 bushels OF
X wheat and from 5000 to u, GOV bushels Of oats
Z In D day.
Binder Started the Revolution.
The revolution Of farming, however, began
With tho grain bindor, which rapidly har-
vests. tho mnohine thereby lncreasing the
acreage which tho u farmer can grow.
Through the advent OF tho self-binder ca mo
tho stoam thrasher,B Tho grain drill, tho gnng
plow and many other Invaluable weapons OF
agricultural warfare. The binder cuts q
swath Of six or seven feet, and works a.
most with in,eigcnce cutting tho grain,
binding 1t into shcaYcs. ana carrying tho
bundles into plies which are atterward put
into shocks IS 5 E 4 VI ss9 u n
W
Il the stalks are stifr, there is u combined ma
chino which cuts the heads OF the stems, I
runs them into thrashing machine where
they are thrashed. cleaned and sacked. and
tho sacks deposited on the ground. Such q
machine cuts swath eighteen feet wide. and
Is drawn by from twenty to thirty horses.
A larger machine, cutting d swath forty-two
feet wide and pulled BY a traction engine.
cuts, thrashes, and cleans the grain from
over 100 acres day. &
Ga soline the Farmers Friend.
IA "A farmers friend In need Is the gasoline
engine, which requires only a few attach.
ments in order to pump water, shell corn.
grind feed, saw wood. run the feed cutter
ana do '.an unlimited am cunt Of things
which are hard to do by hand, ~
A farm truck which draws a pillow, Prof
zinther thinks. may be the next innovation.
He says that II a gasoline engine could DO
nut on truck so that It could perform the
work OF the fields and also do the numerous
hobs about the farm, It would be a strong
competitor with horses for farm work.
The .. man with the hoe = can rume q
little strip Of old world soil and be q poor peas
ant forever; the man with the machine renps
rich harvests from farms OF 10000 acres
On ch. fills his granarics with gold and ex-
ports, as did Uncle Sam In 1904. 5000. 900 900
worth OF grain o year.
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Jobs who have been hood winked into pay.
Ing registration fees. Sometimes advice is
as good as II Is cheap, and you can depend
#on IT that when q man writing his expert
ences tells You to beware OF employment
agencies he knows whereof he speaks,
Employer Bars Agency Applicants
5i a young man out OF work q few niDnths last
winter spent all his money and all no could
borrow, with his clothes as security, on en-
ployment agencies before he rcal lzed that the
newspaper was tho most valuable medium,
Every visit to the employment Offices gave
him only bitter disappointment. With his
remaining few borrowed pennies he took
chance on the newspapers His ADVERTISE
4ment was answered by big flrm In the First
National Bank building. lie called and got
the Job. one worth looking for. AS he was
leaving the office his new employer called
( him back,
l"There's one question forgot to ask YOU"
he said, . Were you sent here by an employ
ment agency or ala you advertise and got
reply from us2''
!" J advertised and you wrote me, to CALL"
replied the newly employed,
Every we'll, you can start to work tolnor.
row. We don't patronlze employment
agenoies, nor give positions to men who dor
You may call great deal of It prejudice
but II 1t Is d great many reputable firms have
It,
Newspapers are read by everybody. It is
tho one medium BY which the employer can
reach practically every person looking for
positions and by which persons looking for
positions can reach practically every en-
ployer. That is evidenced by the numerous
advertisements under |" Help and Situation
Wanted every Sunday. The employment
agency can offer no such Inducements even
at much higher price.
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\ ACHINERY and the man, sings
" Prof. C. j, zntheo OF Iowa State
$V college, who avo~s TINT when the
Z ] man Is d farmer machinery Is his
making, tina I tools Of tillage are his
Insignia of victory, and that, whilo a large
measure OF credit for Uncle Sans position
as the worlds most prosperous farmer Is due
the fertile soil and boundless plains whereof
he Is lord, first praise belongs to the geniuses
N"w who have developed modern farm itnple.
netts and have supplied Our farmers With
Nools BY which they have been able to pro-
duce moro cheaply than any other land finder
the sum- thereby enabling them TO sell their
products In the open markets of the world
4 In competition with the poorly paid aborcrs
F OF Russia and India" Agricrlture's Mason.
and Dxon's line between prosperity and pow
5crtyis machinery.
5a Farm Machinery Helps Wages.
Making and using farm machines more
freely than any one else, Uncle Sam has been
able to pay tho high price for labor caused
By he competition Of manufacturers. hap.S
PLY has shornN farm life OF much drudgery
and hard work md has transtgured It's sordid
soddenness into mn intellectual pursuit. 3
1mprovein erts In ma chinery have. distanced
the rise In wages and caused steady decline
the eastern farmer to adopt intensive farm.
Ing, he windmill pumping the water for the
dairy, the centrifugal separator Swimming
the milk or wind power running the churn.@
Likewise for the westerner they have made
II possible to plant and SOW vast stretches
despite the slender labor supply at his com.
mand.
$1OO, 900, 900 aYear for Machines
fastener and westerner together annually
buy 500 900, 900 worth OF machinery and own
as the total value Of farming implements
s s7o1 ,201, 900. an average Of S133 per farm and
90 cents per acre OF agricultural land
@ Uncle SANS largest crop Is In corn, which
neared 2. 500, 100000 bushels In 1904, ex-
ceeding In value $1,000 GOO, 600, and an impos-
sblo output save with rnodernl corn tools
A corn planter sets out the corn. opening up
furrow and dropping at regular intervals
three kernels In everyhlll. The field is thus
chcckrowed and is cultivated In both drec-
tons, two rows at n time, clearing away all
the weeds while the farmer enjoys the sum
mer breezes from his hammock seat behind
the team.
After years of experiment corn binder
has been evolved which cuts and binds the
corn stalks into bundles, one row at 4 time,
and carries them into piles ready to put into
shocks. The corn shocker has circular, re-
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half day, while the machine Ills It's load
in half IN hour. Isl
Hay and Wheat Near Tie.
Hay and wheat are racing for second place
in the point OF value, and last year the
two together eoualed the corn crop.