REAL ESTATE? J I It Is a comprehensive occupa- ] [ o tlon that offers the ambitious <> boy several distinct and profit- , , o able lines of advancement. How < • he may break into the business, , , <► and how he may advance along J ; J J several lines. The remunera- ~ <► tlon of various positions. The possibilities of getting Into profit- <> <► able business for himself. ' | ** BY C. W. JENNINGS. ! . _A WHILE you have been thlnk vi ' ng over the problem of your boy's life work, has It occurred to you that the apparently well known real estate business might be just the thing? But don't think for a moment that all your boy would have to do after he g'ot started in this line of endeavor would be to buy and sell lots; for, though that is an important phase of the business, and one, to make a high success, requiring much ability, mod ern advancement has raised the real estate business to such importance as to embrace the best efforts In a large number of distinct specialties. So in this truly comprehensive occupation will be found such a variety of work that, after he is started in it, your boy can develop his choice of several lines of work, each of which may lead on to a good sized competence, perhaps a fortune. There Is no special preliminary edu cation that would be of particular value to a boy taking up real estate for his lifework, and more than all the general learning he can acquire. Even the schools and colleges have not seen flt to take up real estate as a branch of learning, all that is being done in a direct educational way being a few courses taught by the Young Men's Christian association in some of the large cities, and a few more or less complete correspondence courses. So a boy's only chance to learn the business is togo right at it and get a job with a real estate firm. Of course the larger the firm, the greater variety of opportunities he will have to ad vance, and some of them are great enough to take him to the very top of the profession. His first job will be that of ordinary office youth at a salary of four or five dollars a week, if the candidate should be particularly young and inexperi enced, or, if he has gone through high school and can write and figure pretty well, he might be put on at a minor clerkship at eight or ten dollars a week, or even might start in as a stenographer or typist. Your boy, of course, will wish to get a general knowledge of the business before he attempts to take up any par ticular line, and so he will likely go thro\ gh some or all of the different stages of filing clerk, record clerk, au ditor's clerk, mortgage clerk, etc., being promoted from time to time, till, after three to five years, he will be getting $lB to $25 a week. He can stick to the clerical end and become a chief clerk of one of the depart ments at say as much as $35 weekly. In the meantime, however, if he de sires to get out of the purely office end, ho will be picking up pointers on outside work, and, perhaps, be learning how to sell and buy lots. There is more In this than appears at first thought, for the qualities that make n successful book agent are not enough to make a succenfiul real estate sales man. To sell lots successfully, your boy must know pretty mucn everything that enters into a variety of things that don't appear on the surface. He must, for instance, have a good ac quaintance with the general values of property In the neighborhood: the cost of various obvious Improvements that have to be made; the price of adjoin- Irrg and nearby property; street im provements and assessments; what will be charged to make connections with sewer and gas mains; the facili ties and cost of the prospective owner getting to his place of business; ad vice as to the cost and difficulty of getting a mortgage on the property, etc., etc. lu addition, he must have the ability of a Milennial'; for, granted that he can furulfH til tie • d» tails, he still nas to convince the caller that the particular piece of property under conoid ratlrn Just the on h > wants; and then your b<>y ha , to deal with the seller, who may t>« an uncompromis- Ing Individual. A llrsil cla h salitMiian, generally *p< akiiig. vs. ill earn an) where frettt $ t.OO'i up to 115.00(1 or in'*i • a )<*ar In commissions Home become so profl dent that they scorn all other Hues of work aud offers of salary and stli k to M'III.'IK teal estate until they accumu late 'he stake to retire on The other Hues open to your hoy? Well, almost every phase of this bu. I nei . In a specialty, lie must know all the d< tails abuut unimproved property. This may be suburban lots, which It l < desired to acquire In big eh inks tor the purpose of making Improvement* ai 4 i Ulna as Improved property Then *>»# to know bow to advertise anil make opportunities to unload the prop erty after It la improved. He must know the cost of building apartment houses, and tho attractive features of various modern Improvements in such dwellings so as to lure tenants to them. He must be a student of the trend of traffic, so as to appraise office build ings and the value of land adapted to such purposes. Factory sites, trans portation facilities, tenements, stores, boulevards, parks, small farms (in cluding the adaptability of tho soil for agricultural purposes), the trend of population of various classes, the probability of this particular section becoming a residence or a business section —all this has to be within his ken; and, if the customer should wish to build a stcfre or a house or an of fice building or an apartment house or a factory, ho must be ready to tell him glibly of the cost, and the formalities to be gone through, and tho probable revenues, and the taxes, and details about possible loans. All this enters Into the real estate business, as well as other specialties, such as civil engineering and laying out and grading tho property; various phases of finances, such as raising money and mortgages, and financial returns, such as rents, etc.; probable cost of administration, including jani tors, porters, scrubwomen, firemen, etc.; tho cost and consumption of coal; the cost and placing of fire insurance, most of the big operating companies placing insurance on the property they handle; the placing of mortgages, etc. Then there are companies that take a suburban wilderness and turn it into a habitable section, lay out the ground and erect buildings—work which re quires close acquaintance with build ing regulations and real estate laws — and employ their own architects and building superintendents and civil and constructive engineers. What are the Initial steps your boy has togo through before he can take a leading part in all this maze of industry? Well, he goes from a S2O a week clerkship in one of the office ends to one of the specialties, and be comes a chief clerk in that. Then, as he has displayed particular ability in one direction, he is made assistant to one of the superintendants at S3O or so weekly; then becomes a construction superintendent, or head of a civil en gineering co!fs, or a head rental or sa'es agont, or building superintendent, or auditor, or chief accountant, and will be paid from S.'J,OOO to SB,OOO a year, according to the importance of the company he has connected himself with. If he elects to remain with the com pany, the next step will be a man agership at increased salary, and, eventually, the presidency perhaps. Also, he may possibly become a lead ing stockholder. Or, at some stage of his progress, he may go into business on his own account, starting at buying or selling a lot or two, or take up the rental business. Many young men have made their start in securing the agency for collecting rents and man aging apartment houses on commis sion, and in time making this a spe cialty, have developed an extensive business. In any *vent, the young man who takes up real estate in earnest stands a reasonably fair chance to succeed in some one of tho various iines, and to succeed perhaps in a big way. (Copyright, 1310, by the Associated Lit erary Prists.) Georgia's Wealth in Pecans. A dispatch from Albany published re cently in the ('(institution indicated that within tho last four months 15,000 acres of pecan lands had been sold in ui:d aiouud Dougherty county. Preparations are under way for p'aniinK thi.s tremendous area in the toothsome nut that promises so large a revenue to Georgia. The problem regarding this especial Industry tuts lately changed front one of a selling nature to one of gutting lands to sell. At prcM'ttt, It Is said, there is an actual famine of pecan lauds readily available. To be sure there are (till large un- I occupied tracts in the pecan belt, bul ' the owners foresee tho possibilities of \ treniend'nif development and are lu no hurry to rush their holdings on the market. Within only comparatively recent | years h . the country uw likened to Georgia's poit ntlulitics with regard to ! pecans. Now it Ih com mon knowledge among investors tli.u orchards properly tend "d ami the expense of so doing is iiniall reiurii dividends beside which many other crops are negligible. it is logical that tu course of time the pecan will Income one of tlx- H tatf-'s beat rev# line producers. The p« can, moreover, la only on-» Hem. (|i<>:gl;i has plenty more such at h«r hack to le- pire the activities uf the <«reau«r ti *otg la association and other organisation* engaged In th« mUston of developim nf Atlanta i'onstltutioii Counting the Rids Track*. When i 'ta- r«si of the world. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1910. HKJ TTTrnre =*?•=• " THE OE-STRUCTtVE 31/OfiWWIE EVER since submarines were first introduced brainy men have been at work devising methods by which dangers to their crews can be reduced to a minimum. Those who are used to serving in these deadly little craft will tell you that these dangers are not so great as is usually imagined, and that the loss of life from acci dents has really been comparatively small. The two great dangers are colli sion and explosion, and special at tention has been given to methods that will prevent loss of life in caae of accident from these two sources. When the submarine is submerged It Is really half blind, for the peri scope is only a makeshift eye, but even this has been greatly Improved. Formerly the lens in use only allowed half the horizon to be examined, un less the periseopo was turned round. It could therefore happen that a ship might come up unnoticed and strike the submarine before It could dive to safety. Now, however, a new lens has been devised which gives a com plete view all round, so that an ap proaching vessel can be seen from whatever quarter It comes. The peri scope is the eye of the submarine. Its vertical telescopic tube looks like a very thin smokestack, extending 15 feet above the submarine's bridge and its top part contains the so-called eye, which sends down images of the outer world to the interior of the sub marine, either by reflection or refrac tion. One system is almost as good as the other. The reflection apparatus has two mirrors at 45 degrees at the two extremeties. The apparatus by refraction has two prisms of total re flection, as in a camera. Behind the top one a mirror sends down the image that can be enlarged—like the telescope attachment to a camera—■ but both systems have the disadvant age of looking on the world through a pinhole. Suppose the "eye" be fixed north. Those in the submarine get a glimpse due north. To glance a few degrees on either side the whole tube must be turned or else the eye alone. In the first case—if the tube does net twist or grip—the image turns with it and observers have to move around the table. If the eye alone be turned the lower prlsin or mirror remains fixed. The image, consequently, shows all objects inclined at the angle of tbc eye's turning. For years past the French admir alty has never cased to hunt for something better. The navigation of submarines under water absolutely demanded an apparatus capable of disclosing simultaneously the whole circle of the horizon —plus a tele scopic magnifier for the object to be carefully examined. And here we are on the delicate ground of a state secret. They have found their apparatus. It is known, too, that they -got upon Its track by seeking to utilise an annulary prism devised by Colonel Manjln for the takltiK of circular photographs of the horizon from a captive balloon. This is all we re illy know of the construc tion of the machine that is to put French submarines on a footing of such enormous superiority thut the mind does not at first grasp the meaning of It. Hut the effects pro duced by the machine lurve not been kept so secret. In Brest three submarines and three sttbtretsibles were fitted with tho apparatus at once for experiment and extraordinary tales tire told of exploits under water. I'p to within a mile of Its prey the sttbtii.'tKible floats on the surface like a simile torpedo host Then, tearing to ?».• seen, it slnl.s mid con tlnues navigating »ix 112• under w:i ter with tb«» aid of the aduilrultt '• perfect id pel ope Within suu yards of the de»nn I hip H.« . p>dt In the telescopic tube Hid navigate u short time by the compass. When Hi' * they are ..(thill fiiio yards they jmsh the tube into the air nir iln Jc-t tilth « cough o let them their prey |t IH pruc llcally Int. .U ■ <•> people unstispl clout of Its pr« ••■nee lii that ( irti. it lar spot At ;ut> yard iHet. »i M stir.t and what happens It what hap putted to Hie Itu Ia it 11. el su o ten These are sulMSt rglbles, 113 to .'JO feet long, m ini esgilng and furnished tfltli both steam and ehctrle engines Their normal plane of tra> -I being oa the surface just Ilk" a orp. I bml, their primary tu Hve |.ow. r is the steam These steam engines run lis dy tin in i to ft nets Hie i uOve yowtr ut the ilscirit' englio .■> and a'l details of their construction are kept a dead secret. Serious danger ia escaping petrol, which may lead to an explosion. By the regulations the engine must be stopped as soon as an escape is no ticed, a bad accident being caused a year ago by neglect of this precau tion. Two engineers employed at Portsmouth have invented an ap paratus that registers the escape of petrol or other gas, coming Into ac tion long before sufficient can have escaped to form an explosive mixture. By an ingenious contrivance a red light Is substituted for a white one and a bell is rung when there Is a leakage of gas. Sometimes sea water will pene trate into the accumulators, a very serious danger, as chlorine is thereby evolved which may suffocate the crew. A safety helmet, somewhat re sembling those worn in mining ex plosions, has been designed by a couple of naval officers. Attached to a water-tight canvas Jacket that straps round the waist Is a big hel met with a glass front, not unlike that of the ordinary diver. Just below the front of this Is a magazine containing a special sub stance called "oxyllthe," which has the power of giving off oxygen and absorbing the carbonic acid In the air when it comes in contact with water. In this manner the wearer of the helmet has always a good supply of air to breathe, 60 that in case of the evolution of chloride the crew would 1-1 - s . \ crsMfcf or rnr wuscore - v hastily don these jackets, which are kept in all submarines. They have still another use, for, be ing full of air, they serve as life buoys. Thus, in the event of a sub marine being struck by a passing ship and holed, these dresses would be put oil at once. m Then the hatch could be opened, and the men would float to the surface. Air always seeks the highest point, and as soon as a submarine leaks the water fills the bottom and pushes the art- to the top, where a certain quan tity is always held in any odd little corner near the roof. Therefore, thin steel partitions, depending a foot or two front the roof in places where It slopes or forms corners, are being fitted in order to form air traps In different parts of the Interior. Thua, when a bad lenk occurs, filling the submarine with water, the air is pressed into theae traps. The crew Immediately seize their helmets and stand with heads and shoulders above the water in the air traps, so that they can breathe while putting on the safety dress. Another invention that has been ifli d in one or two of the underwater • raft consists of a loni? flexible tube attache I to the oit'side At one end is a H at. while the other cocuniuni tales with the Interior. In the event of an a< eld< nt this tube Is liberated, and IN at em e borne to Hie surface by the Rout, to which is attached a fl ire, to give nolle to any ship near ai hand I'ntll the submarine is tal d, ti e crew can lire 'Hie through thl . tube, i r food might even l> ■ passed down. crew call estate If necessary. This lock if It Is de»ll« Ito leave lite sub tun ll' *, a ilittiiy dr S* IJ donned and tl >• air lock entered Tl e door com v- <1 Is i li. I and ih' n the diver go. into the enter rtuupartmeni, .1 ► lag the illH»» I-J 'lie air lock after him Water Is Hint allowed to enter snd When It Is lull he merely open out again, h that oiter* c*u follow The Revolt By MABEL CHASE ENGLAND Copyright, 1910, by Associated Literary Press "But, Edward, I promised Marian I would dine with her tomorrow night, and go over our parts for the play. Her husband is away, you know." Mr. Orantley waved his hand as one who brushes aside a futile and silly objection. "Nonsense, my dear, you can do that at any time. The Browns are people I want to stand in with — for business reasons, of course—and I accepted, definitely, for both of us. That settles it." Mrs. Orantley flushed. She didn't often oppose her husband, but she had been looking forward keenly to the little dinner alone with her sister. "You knew I was going to Marian's," she ventured, pleadingly. "You can say you forgot, that we will come some other time." Mr. Grantley looked displeased. "My dear, the matter is settled." His tone spelled finality. Mrs. Grantley's lovely, youthful face grew mutinous. A hot, unaccustomed rebellion surged within her. "You never consult me—never!" Her husband's eyes grew cold. "Honora," he said, "you had better go up to your room for the rest of the evening. You are not in a mood for iiensibie discussion. Go, now, and— good-night." Mrs. Grantley rose and walked swiftly from the room, reached her bedroom and shut and locked the door. Then she paced up and down in a tumult of angry resentment. Sent to her room like a schoolgirl! Pun ished because she had dared to object —to raise her voice in protest! It was unbearable! Yet it was the kind of thing that was always happening, always would happen as long as she allowed it to. She sank into a chair and rested her chin on her clasped hands, searching her mind intently for causes and effects. She had been left an orphan and Edward Grantley had been appointed her guardian. Living with him as his ward she had looked up to him, obeyed him, consulted him in every thing, and when, having reached the age of seventeen, he had asked her to become his wife she had consented, knowing little of marriage, caring only that she could continue to live oa with him" indefinitely in the home that she loved so well. After marriage everything had gone on about the same. He had loved her, petted her, censored her; she had con tinued to obey him, consult him and look up to him. Now she was twenty, and mixing more with the world, con sorting with other women, she was coming to realize that the relationship in which she stood to her husband was not that of other wives, that she and Edward were not partners, compan ions, walking side by side through life on equal terms, but still child and guardian. Now it seemed to her as if the thing had come suddenly to a bead. "I must do something, 1 must!" she exclaimed, stamping her foot in em phasis. "This subjection is only a habit —with Edward as well as my self. He doesn't realize —1 don't make him see—" With sudden determination she rose, smoothed her ruffled hair and gown and forcibly regained her composure. Then she unlocked the door, hesitate*} a moment on the threshold, took her courage in both 'lands and passed quickly through the hails and down into the library. As she entered and walked over to one of the bookcases her husband looked up; th»n, evident ly expecting her to select a book and return to her room, went on with his writing. Honora chose a volume of recent fiction and sat down by the open lire. Mr. Grantley leaned back in his chair. "Ilonora, I thought I said good night to you." "You did," she smiled, "hut when 1 got upstairs I found 1 didn't feci sleepy, so I decid .>d to come down again." Her husband looked at her In as tonishment. "I meant you to remain there, my dear, but If you have derided to be reasonable you may »tay here." Mrs. Grantley v«»k Honora, and lit n go upstairs. 1 don't understand you tonight." Honora** hitrt bit pitifully, but h' r vulti wast» rene. ••I want to read Hit* book, id ward: It U beitii! MI uiii.lt talked about. \nd I don't cure tort-ad upstairs -th> room Uifillly I prefer to slay tore " Mr Hrautley looked at her uncer tainly, tb u u».k f»nl r.»i|e-s puces "You can't be w II tonight, Honora." he commented finally Tomorrow I'll have IV Hat. utt run In and look al y i You are tie 1 fours, if at till" H.. settled ta. k ifl M» work. iniet mpting it, however, with many uneasy and perplexed glances at the fair profile of his wife. Nothing more was said that night, nor the next morning, when he was unusually grave and unresponsive, and neglected to kiss her when he left for the office. Honora shed a few bitter tears, then grasped her resolution anew. She would goto Marian's for dinner that night. She must do some thing definite and decided, something that would bring the matter to an is sue. She dressed early, left a note for her husband telling hiin she had de cided to keep her engagement with Marian, and set out. Arrived at her sister's she said nothing about the matter. She talked gayly about the coming theatricals in which they were both to take part, though as the evening drew on she found it hard to control her nervousness and appre hension. When ten o'clock struck she remarked quietly: "Edward has togo out tonight and may not be able to come for me. In that case I'm going to stay all night with you." "You're a dear!" exclaimed Marian warmly. "I don't believe he'll come now—he's never later than ten. Let's goto bed." All night Honora tossed on her pil low, thinks grieving, wondering what he would do when she returned. He was angry, she knew, or he would *" have come for her. Perhaps h§ would leave her, perhaps when she reached there in the morning he would be gone never to come back to her. And how she loved him, in spite of everything! He was so big, so strong, so magnetic, everybody loved him. Toward morning she fell into a troubled sleep, arose at eight unre freshed, and after breakfast started for home. The walk through the brisk morning air did much to restore her poise and confidence. When she reached the house she was almost her self again. To her surprise, her husband met her at the door. His face was pale and haggard. "Come into the library, Honora," he said. "I have something to say to you." She went in obediently and sat down in a big chair by the window. The relief of finding him still at home had lightened her heart. Ho closed the door and faced her. Honora, he said, "I don't know how to tell you, how to explain to you just what this night has been to me. At first I was angry. I had a foolish desire to punish you. Then as the eve ning passed and you did not come I grew anxious, i had thought of course you would let aMrian send you in the carriage. I began to ask myself what it all meant, what reason you had for acting as you did. Then I thought over our disagreement of last night and light began slowly to dawn on me. As I paced up and down, thinking, worrying, longing for you, the whole revelation of my stupid conduct to ward you since our marriage gradually came to me. I saw my foolish atti tude, your rebellion and my insistence in their true light. I seemed to be hold you suddenly in a new aspect, not as a child to he schooled and trained and dictated to, but as a woman—a beautiful woman—my wife. And then, dear, came gripping my heart the terrible fear that I had lost you, that in my thoughtless folly 1 had unwittingly killed your love. Honora There was a swift little rush and two strong arms were round his neck and a wet cheek pressed to his. "Oh, dearest," she protested, half sobbing, half laughing, "I loved you till th«» time, and now more—more than I ever dreamed of. I knew It was just that you didn't think, that you believed me to be still your bad, small child—" He held her to him, strongly. "Hut." she whispered shyly, "you mustn't give me all my own way, even now, for I love you. and™l like to obey you—a little!" Unappreciated Joke. The rigorous enforcem* nt of the customs laws l>y Collector l.oeb cave a wag an opportunity to per;«.trnte a juke on his futility which fut'-..l to pro 1 dure uny tut" uai amount of merrl iui nt Tiii man is a bachelor ami the I loving and liidutK>-ut uncle of four youiiK |" "pie, whom he has been in ihe habit of i member I)»; literally with gifts, il« probably km* that ihe qui-(ton, "What will uncle b.ii.ic i.*lll Cue i vouW i> Illusion* M-n« this note; "Our protection. 1 s at.- i glit We should patronise home Industry. I'm LIIIIIK iiiK nothing HUM' than I tnok, e*ct pt flinch and Ital. n real estate, de limited on my e! tiling whll'' motor ing \\ 111 liot be d tallied at the dock." New York Tribune Qsms as Poison Antidotes, I'olson was thf terror of the nitdd'* UK• It Is natural, the; < tore, In tillll tiiany remedies among ferns the Ja cinth the sapphire, the diamond, the i ornellan. the iwby, th« saute, the t ui.stone, the bmu. r lone were all used as antidotes to poison.