The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-11-05
w anted-A Young Man from
the Country 4!

All of our mercantile cities are
overrun with young lnen who have
been bred for the counter or the desk,
and thousands of these young men
find it anything but an easy matter to
find bread and situations half of the
time in these crowded marJs of men
and merchandise. An advertisement
in city paper for clerk or salesman,
is sufficient TO turn up u handred
needy and greedy applicants of q morn
ing. LII New York, where a vast num-
ber of these unguided young men are
"manufactured'' by the regiment, for
an already surfeited market, there are
Wretches who practice upon these in
nocent victims of perverted usefulness,
a species of fraud but slightly under
stood. 9u
By confederacy with some expert
enced dry goods dealers, the proprietor
of one of those agencies for procuring
situations for young men, victims OF
misplaced confidence are put through
at five or ten dollars each, somewhat
after this fashion:
Sharp, the keeper of the agency, ad-
vertises for two good clerks, one sales
man, five walters, ten ook-keepers,
&C., and of course every car, Steamboat
and stage running into New York,
brings IL fresh importation of young
men from the country, all fitted, eX-
cept in the knoWledke-box, for clerks,
statesmen, and bOOk-keepers = every
morning new set is Offered to be TIA
ken in and done for.
Sharp demands fee of from five to
ten dollars for obtaining d situation :;
victim forks over the amount, and is
sent TO Sharp number two, who Keeps
the dry goods store; he has got through
the victim of yesterday, and is now
ready for the victim OF to-day; for be
makes it a point to put them through
such a gamut of labors, VeXations,
manouvers and insoIence, that not one
out of fifty come back the next day
and if they do, he don't want them
If the unsuspecting victim returns
to the agency he is lectured roundly
for his incapacity and want of energy,
and advised TO return TO the country
and recuperate!
jeremiah Bump, having graduated
with all the honors OF Sni1finviIIe
Academy, and having many unmis-
taxable longings to become u Merchant
Prince, and see sights in city and
having read of the great fortunes piled
up i'll Il few years by poor; triendless
country boys, like Abbot Lawrence,
John Jacob Astor, &C., he came straight
that clerks, statesmen, book-keepers,
and so on, were wanted dreadfully-
young men from the country prefer
red, - paid his fee; and was sent off to
an Importing House, on - street,
where a good salesman and clerk were
wanted badly.
jeremiah found his idea of an i'm
porting house knocked into a disar-
ranged cooked bat, by finding the one
in the present case a large luminous
store filled up with paper boxes and
sham bundles, while gaudily festooned
with any quantity of calicoes,. cheap
shawls, ribbons, tapes, and an almost
innumerable variety of other tuppeny
affairs.
NebuchadneZZ Cheatum, the pro-
prietor of the establishment, was a
keen, little, lick-as-a-whistle, heavy.
bearded, starched and shaved genius,
of six and thirty, more or less ; and
received Jeremiah with rather patron
izing survey, and opened the engage
ment with few remarks:
From the country. are you?9
Sniffinsville, sir" said jeremiah,
compIacently, county of Scruboak ,and
State of New Hampshire"
"Ah, well, [ prefer country-bred
young men-they are better trained"
said Cheatum, Ito industry, persever-
ance, honest frugality, and the duties
of christian man, 1 was brought up
in the country myself-carved out aud
built up my own position, sir. Yes, sir,
give me good, sound bred, country
young men, for / have tried them and
know what they are"
And he spoke near enough to be
partly true, for he had tried them he
averaged some fifty-two clerks, and all
l..
Jeremiam grew red in the lace at the
complimentary manner in which Neb
uchadnezzar Cheatum was pleased to
review the country and its institutions,
Nv hat salary did you think of allow
ing he asked.
"Well,n said Cheatum, 81 allow my
statesmen three dollars week for the
first year (Jeremiah's ears cooked up)
and three per cent. on their sales the
second year"
BY cyphering it up in his head, Jer-
emiah came to the conclusion that the
first year would not add very material
ly to his pecuniarY elevation, whatever
the second would do with ITS three per
cents. But he was bound tutry it any
how.
Now" said Cheatum, ''in the first
place, Solomon"
Jeremiah, if you please, sir" said
the young man,
sAh, yes, Thomas-pshaw-J ededtah,
I would have said" continued Cheat
um, correcting himself
jeremiah jeremiah Bump, sir"
echoed Mr.. Bump.
"Oh, yes, yes; one has so many
clei ks aud statesmen in the course OF
business" said Cheatum, THAT [ get
their names confused Well, jeremiah
in the first place Won must efitie3tvot. q
please the customers always be lively
and spry, and never give All offensive
answer. Many women and girls come
in to price and overhaul the things,
without the remotest idea of purchus-
ing anything-and it is often trying
to ones patience, but you must wait
nnnn them for Ihnrn IL M nnssihla