showing a fellow where you could pick up a few hunks of lead.

That was forty-five years ago and it was thus that the great Joplin
lead and zinc district was made known to the world.



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(_Munsey's Magazine_)

FRANK A. SCOTT, CHAIRMAN OF THE WAR INDUSTRIES BOARD

BY THEODORE TILLER

One day in the year 1885 a twelve-year-old boy, who had to leave
school and make his own way in the world on account of his father's
death, applied for a job in a railroad freight-office in Cleveland,
Ohio.

"I'm afraid you won't do," said the chief. "We need a boy, but
you're not tall enough to reach the letter-press."

"Well, couldn't I stand on a box?" suggested the young seeker of
employment.

That day a box was added to the equipment of the freight-office and
the name of Frank A. Scott to the payroll.

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