The Ordway new era., 1915-01-15


thought for moment. He was paying
fair amount to her and probably was
trifle annoyed because SO many of
his clerks had asked for more money.
80 you are dissatisfied" he re-
marked. II dismissed q man two
weeks ago for being dissatisfied"
She assured him she wasn't dissat-
isfied. She was anything but dissatis-
fed.
He shook his head.
A little later he left note on her
desk saying that he would release her
from her engagement over the holi-
day. In other words. she might go.
The holiday was Memorial day. It
was sad one for Kate Giles. OF
course she told her mother all about
It. Her mother advised her to go
right back and work Just as II moth
ing had happened. Miss Giles re-
turned to the ONCE. but was timid
about speaking to Mr.. Freeman. She
told him II he didn't mind she would
continue as before. He told her no.
when you want to leave" he said.
Ayou leave. You've done excellent
work for me. You can do better for
yourself. You have the notion of be-
ing Independent. Of building up busi-
ness for yourself. Follow that idea"
Mr.. Freeman did more. He had fur
nished all the correspondents Of Miss
Giles with an agricultural publication
Of particular interest to them. The
subscriptions to these papers he had
paid for year ahead. He gave this
subscription list and the paid sub
scriptions to Miss Giles. He was as
kind and generous to her as any en-
ployer could be. but she faced the
future with trepidation. It's one thing
to have regular salary coming in
each week. It's another to trust to
luck as to what monetary return you
are going to get. It's hard for man
to give up the surety of the pay enve-
lope. It's harder for a woman.
Miss Giles wanted ten subscribers
to her service. Subscription to such
service as she planned costs good
bit of money. She got the ten sub
scribers. She had feared the fact that
she was woman might make some of
the persons she applied to hesitate. It
didn't. Without her appreciation of
the fact, many men had come to know
that the reports from Charles D.
Freeman's office were the work of
woman and that the woman was Kate
Giles. M
When she got her ten subscribers
she did a very womanly thing. She
went to Mr.. Freeman and told him
he had been so kind to her that she
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free of charge. He checked her before
she had gone very far in her speech
and told her he had given his sub
scription to her as start In business
and he didn't want another word from
her about 1t.
Has Host Of Correspondents.
As her own boss Miss Giles has done
things according to her own ideas.
There isn't a district of any impor-
tance in the cotton belt in which she
hasn't correspondent. She has Sc
lected these correspondents with care.
Some of them are cottonseed oil nien,
some are bankers, some are mer-
chants, some are cotton growers, some
are cotton ginners. Twelve times
year she sends to each OF them for
information as to the situation regard
ing cotton in their particular neigh
borhood. 1t costs nothing to them to
furnish the information except the
time and trouble in the writing. She
furnishes printed blanks for them to
write on and the postage to cover the
cost Of the mailing. Each correspond
ent gets a moderate compensation.
In addition to answering each ques-
ton she asks, the correspondent is in
vited to add such remarks as he sees
fit
Reports from $500 picked corre-
spondents have decided value. But
these only form one source Of infor-
nation to Miss Giles. She watches
the weather reports for every part Of
the South. from Cape Hatteras to the
Rio Grande and from the Ohio river