The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-01-15

enousn' LOT moment. He was payin
d lalr amount to her and probably wa
, tribe annoyed because 50 MANY =
, MS clerks had asked for more mona1
30 you are dissatisfied" he re-
MARKED 1 dismissed a man tw
weeks ago for being dissatisfied
ohe assured him she wasn't disca,
Islied' sac was anything but dissatis
fed. '''a ''s
He shook his head.
A little later he left a note m be,
desh saying that he would release ba,
from ner engagement over the holi
Gay, IN other words. she might 90
lhe noflday was Memorial day. II
was a sad one for Kate Giles OF
course she told her mother all about
IT, Her mother advised her to 90
r'sht back and work just as if moth
ing mad happened. Miss Giles 70.
turned to the office, but was timid
aDout speaking to Mr.. Freeman, She
'old him If he didn't mind she would
continue a111, as before. He told her no.
When you want to leave" he said
you leave. You've done excellent
work for aaa..s.,,,-.,,.s vsssr rass,s
yourself YeSEe the notion of be.
ing independent, of building Up a bust.
ness for yourself. Follow that idea
Mr. Freeman did more. He had fur
nlshed 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
1uture 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 a 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 a good
bit of money. She got the ten sub.
scrloers. She had feared the fact that
she was woman might make some of
tne persons she applied to hesitate. Il
oidnt. Without her appreciation Of
the TACT many men had come to know
! nat the reports from Charles n
freemans Office were the work of =
woman and that the woman was Kate
Giles. '"'0
"nen she got her ten subscribers
she did a very womanly thing sbe
went 70 Mr.. Freeman and told him
ne mad been so kind to her that she
to furnish the service to him
[ree or charge. He checked her before
she had gone very far in her speech
and told her he had given his sub.
'cflption to her as a start in business
ana ne didn't want another word from
her about it.
Has Host Of Correspondents
AS her own boss Miss Giles has done
hlngs according to her own ideas
mere isn't a district of any imnor.
ahce IN the cotton belt in which she
lash correspondent. She has Sc
ecteo these correspondents with care I
some of them are cottonseed nj, NOV ,
ONE are bankers, some are mer. r
hahts' some are cotton growers, some /
re cotton ginners. Twelve times y
ear she sends to each of them for O
liorfnation as to the situation regard.
ng cotton in their particular neigh. f.
ofhood. 1t costs nothing to tham r. r
arhish the information except tho Z,
me ana trouble in the writing. She y
FINISHES printed blanks for them n n
rite on and the postage to cover the h
's' OF ,'he mailing. Each correspond. n
~ gets a moderate compensation #
addition to answering each oues. ~
on she asks, the correspondent is in. n,
ted to add such remarks as he 5000 =,
:. Noo' VI
Reports from $500 picked CORE.
have decided value. But &c
csc only form one source of infer. Il,
alton to Miss Giles, She watches e,
g weather reports for every part NJ III
e South, from Cape Hatteras to the f.
o Grande and from the Ohio river be