The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-17
For Our Bows.

ny A''b otAi L liSHb NV, OCbCi
mined to be in the very foremost
ranks of merchants, manufacturers
or bankers you can do it if you
have health and strength of mind
and body. 1t only needs economy
industry, integrity and knowledge.
1t is easy to practice economy; it
is easier, and you will be the hap
pier for being industrious. Every
well brought-up American boy has
integrity implanted in his nature,
and he only needs to nourish it.
knowledge is always the result OF
industrious habits. You should,
for the sake ofyour father, mother,
sisters, brothers and friends, as we'll
as for your own happiness, strive te
be a respected, influential mem Der
of the community in which you re-
side.
Glow can you do it?' Simply by
letting vicious pleasures entirely
alone, and enjoying the greater
pleasures of good, virtuous compan-
ions, and the companionshlp in
your leisure moments of we'll
selected books and newspapers.
How shall you select them?'
Why, your own well-regulated,
healthy mind will lead you in the
right way. If not, ask the advice
of any good man or woman, and
you will not go wrong.
"How can you earn a compe-
tence| Why, simply by begin
ming now to save a few pennies; by
thinking twice, before spending
them, whether it is necessary.
How hail you get into business
50 that YOU can make an income
sufficient to give YOU an influential
standing in the community? Why,
simply by being the best clerk in
the store, by knowing more about
the value and qu slity OF goods shan
the other clerks, by being accommo-
dating and polite 10 al customers,
and having tlf it is onl u littie)
money saved from your own earn
ings.
What business shall YOU go n
TOP Why, examine into your Ca
liabilities for conducting any bust
ness, closely. Weight well the
wants and surroundings of he sec
ton of the country in which you
propose to enter into business. If
you succeed it will not be by "car
rying coal to Newcastle" There
must be legitimate demand for
the go DIS you sell or manufacture,
and you should not enter into any
business that the circumstance are
such that others will have a CON
tinued advantage over you chat you
cannot overcome. When you have |
decided in the affirmative, then 90
into it with all the energy and ar
dor you can command, keeping in |
view all the time
That little ships shoulJ keep near shore,
That greater ships may venture morc."-
which simply means that you can
not safely do with limited capital |
what person can do with greater /
means, and that the part of a
yond business man is always to be
- VIZ oAAO olNC. NOh, OOl y, blGIt
s not one of you that reads this
but can make himself a greater or
ess power in the portion of this
country where he decides to make
lis home, depending partly upon
lis natural abilities and the state
If his health, but in far greater
iegree upon the different virtues
famed in the fore part of this arti-
lie. We rejoice to hear, as we do
Iuite often, of the success made by
ur young readers in starting bust I
ess, and it glsddens our hearts to
now that something we have writ 1
en- has found 10 'gment in some (
Dung, enthusiastic mind, that has a
urned the owner in the direction
f making a business man. $
A really good business man will f
e good son, brother, husband and '
riend, and also something we can /
Il be proud ola good American
ltizen.-American Grocer and Dry i
foods Chronicle. 8