Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1868-12-03

the Providence Press, has been writing
to that paper about what the will and
energy of the New York clerks have
accomplished, The lesson incul-
Gated in the following brief sketch is
worth studying
A green, rustic lad came years ago
to the metropolis, from u Connecticut
village At home he had doue we'll in
4 humble way, but had shown no very
marked ability. He had read and
heard of the wonderful city. He made
up his mind he could do something in
it. When lie reached the city no place
seemed open to him. Day after day he
hunted for business. Want stared him
in the face. He could not go back to
his friends. Dropping into large dry
goods house one day in the search for
work, he CHANGED to come face to face
with the proprietor eve have moth
ing for you to do, sir this great bust.
ness man said in reply to his inquiry !;
"but stay, what can you DO" he con-
tinued, "you seem to be an honest
looking lad"
so, sir / can do anything only try
me. Only give me chance to do some
thing !" And the tears came out and
trickled down the cheeks of the almost
discouraged, forIorn boy, though he
tried as hard as he could to repress
them. II will take the lowest, poorest
place and do my best'e'
He was engaged, and set to work
He was sent down into the cellar, and
commenced his business career in New
York by pounding on bent nails, which
had been thrown in pile behind the
packing boxes, so they could be used
again. This was his work for two
weeks, and he barely kept body and
soul together on the pay he received
Then he was put into better place.
Then he rose to be clerk, and no
clerk was so Woodworking, so faithful,
SO interested in all this great house as
himself. He saw his chance and
counted up in his own busy brain
every point in the game.
In five years from the time he sat on
bench pounding nails straight, he sat
on the managers seat, and hammered
the crooked ms and outs of the bust
ness straight. During his clerkship he
never missed single day and no
morning went by without his reporting
promptly at seven o'clock. He saved
money aud married, and prospered as
the years went by. Go up Broadway
to-day, and you will see his name in
shining golden letters over the en-
trance of one of the largest and finest
establishments. In that building is
seventeen million dollars worth of
stock. His trade extends all over the
land, His fortune is princely. And
even now, though the great merchant
is getting gray, and the old-time
energy is waxing slow, new light will
come into his eyes, and a new life into
his form, when he tells of those past
days of striving, and says to the young
men around him work, if you
would succeed: be true, faithful,
earnest clerk, if you would become a
merchant of position and Importance l''
st. Louis has secured a wrought iron Jail,
which oughtto be a terror to all who steal
Papa says must wait until am sixteen before
we get married That makes eight years vet
TO wait
FAR-FErcHED Ono Of the young members
of the French legation, hard pushed for a
compliment ola fair lady whose face was mar
red by an undeniably fiat nose, remarked -
Madame, you are an angle fallen from
heaven, but you fell on your nose
'-DiD understand You to say that was
lousy, sir?"
'oh, no; l only told nay friend when it
rained lice in Egypt thought You must have
beeu walking there without hat or am UNI
brclla that's ALL
. Wen, Pat, Why don't put up your mn
brelia r Because yer honor, the rain would
spile IT, an so keep il under my arum, and