per month. The next step is to the position of roadniaster at
fifteen hundred to two thousand dollars per year, according to
responsibility, and thence upward, as his executive ability and
fitness for railroad work warrants, through the higher positions
with their heavier salaries and heavier responsibilities. Additions
to the engineering staff of the road are made as required from the
ranks of these apprentices.
When the railroad companies and corporations in general come
fully to appreciate the value of a liberal education in business, as
they are now only beginning to do, the demand for college gradu
ates will be greatly increased; the struggle of the energetic student
with a degree but with no chance to use it will for a time be over,
and the young man who has sneered at a college education as fill
ing the head with useless lore available only to the professions
will find this great factor for the enlightenment of humanity avail
able and necessary, unless he is willing to be content with a posi
tion in the lower ranks of society.
The influence of such principles as the Illinois Central Railroad
Company has recently decided to act upon is of vast importance
to the nation. With their development universities will be multi
plied, the demand for teachers will greatly increase, for in the
fitting of men and women for grander success in the various call
ings of life, the greatest of industries, that of education, will be
vastly invigorated; and directly resulting therefrom will be the
impetus which will accomplish the higher intelligence and civili
zation of the masses.
He stands before the cigar store
And fingers something nervously,
Like Hamlet, he is not quite sure
If it’s toby or no toby.
The name Dismal Swamp was long since given to a large area
of fresh water morass lying between the estuary of the James
River and Albemarle Sound. It formerly occupied an area of
nearly 2,000 square miles, but fully one-third of the original area
has been recovered for purposes of cultivation by the drainage of
The Free Lance.
perplexity.
the dismae swamp.
[October,
H. H. Mallory.