The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-07-06
A YOUNG MANS MISTAKE.

covers that he has been lao0rlng
under an erroneous impression. de
has been acting for some years IN the
ornate capacity OF clerk, and life to
him has been one amending round.
Every Saturday night he has drawn
out his weekly stipend, and tucked it
casually away in his vest pocket
until such time az he shall get out
among the boys. Let as not forget
that this weekly emolument was at
the beginning of the young mans
clerkly career extremely condensed,
and indeed even now it is not the
widest sense excessive, but yet. such
as it was, the young man has grappled
it momentarily each week. ard
! presently dissipated it to the winds.
Because, you see, the amount was
small. He is young man of spirit,
and must live, you know. He is
acquainted with the boys, and the
boys know him, and be ia = good
fellow and they tell him so. with
merry slap on the back. whereupon
he laugh merrily in return, and con-
siders the compliment no less than
soda water all around. We might
have amended soda water with beer,
but the young man We are discuss
ing of is not a wildly dissipated party.
He is of GLASS found in every town,
who sees life only through the mildly
reckless medium OF cigars and ice
cream and a horse and buggy for the
girls. The weekly indemnify they
receive. as clerks they consider all too
email to supply even these moderate
wants. For saving any portion OF it
-hoh! So it goes-goss rapi dly,
blows away, evaporates, and as exc
the sun of q Monday morn rises alike
upon the just and the uojust. its rays
fall upon never cent OF the wages
drawn by the clerk 30 gaily On the
Saturday night before. Not the first
identical solitary red cent.
Some time speeds on, each week
happy reproduction OF the week gone
past. Weekly wages may come and
weekly wages may go, and the clerk
well, it seems to the CLERK as though
things were likely to go one forever.
/ But, dearly beloved and brethren
toE the order Of worldly wisdom:
There cometh time when o
business opening is profered the erst-
while giddy clerk. Somebody who
knows he is honest, though possibly
a triHe needless, comes to him with
gilded programme that offers fame
and wealth. WhewE but how The
clerks breath grows short at the
glorious prospect. Wal he make the
venture as business partner? Well,
he would like 70 remaYkl AMBER
how much? Oh, onIy a couple OF
thousands will be required to float
the speculation upon the very top
wave of aduLserated success. As
we remarked before, it is right at this
point that the young nan receives q
dawning impression that he has been
at fault. Heretofore ne has looked
upon $4,000 as aa'indeEuits sort OF q
SUM with which ne had nothing to do
in any capacity land indeed he has
thought right. But it looks even
more indefinste and vague and past
finding ont. now. Upon the SUCCESS
ton of airieni hagoes TO old Money
bags, q bald-hea6ed and precise man
of wealth, but who has g. kindly heart
and hase always known the young
mans family. And to him the
young nam set forth the intrinsic
beauty Of the Business scheme, and
confidently winds up With request
for aid. And Aoneybags looks at
him in searching sort OF way that
makes the youeg! ma1, uneasy, and
says:
Two thousand dollars "a quite a
cum, young maa. YOU, hsvS been 9
clerk now for i've or sig ysara; how
much have you saved ap towards thu
! amount No doubt 8 can help you
make up the balance"
This is the place, O. brother. thie.is
the identical, critical spot wherein
the young man mourns. With NOR
tihesliop, oh. how profound, doth ne
confess that owing 10 the unavoidable
confusion incident TO- going to press
be hiss neglected to lay by cent,
He goes out nom, the awful presence
OF tho man OF wealth with humble
crest, and be repairs 10 his home,
And out in tae old familiar woo6she ed
OF bis boyhsod days be butteth his
head five or siE.tinnes against the+Wall
and sitting down upon the well
known sSH-b1ck he nnuseth soma
what thus:
4 y am an sss--an idiot. I hsy,
worked Eve years and half OF, week
lI pay OF from sSto $l2. 1 have hat
10 real demands On thst money, no
even to pay my beard. Easily nigh
I have sailed down one hall of each
weeks pay, foregoing the empty
pleasures that have drawn from m,
every copper. In that case L Wouls
now have money in my pocket, ant
beyond that 3 reputation Tor husiHes
wisdom that would give me. csedi
with che bazks. am kRenty-fsy,
! years old, and ] haven't a cent.
will now proeeed to butt nay head gil
mora times against the side OF thi
shed, and then I will go out and be
man forever after"
. And let us hope. dear reader. kha
he will keep this wise resolve. Ill Rook
land Courier Gazette.
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