The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-22
HOW h a BOY To START FOR
HIMSELF? -

- tIs~is IA Detroit Free Press.l
What troubles me-" Whites boy
from Georgia, ia howl am TO get start
in the world-I sm 10 years old, have
fair common school education, but no
money and no chance TO learn a trade.
Put yourself in my place and tell me
what you would do 49,.
There are good many difficulties
about making the start you speak OF. but
there are nc grave reasons Why you
shouldn't get along in life First, if
you want to learn trade, and no chance
offers at home. widen your field. AL.
most ever day meet boy who left
Southern Indiana on. foot With % IN
money and walked to-Detroit in search
OF place to learn a trade. He was
penniless When he reached this city, but
his frank face and straightforward talk
made him friends, and in a week he was
an apprentice to "a tin-snnith. Hsis now
in the last year of his trade and the
other day. when / asked his employer
how he liked the boy he replied: -
From the end of his first month with
me 1 could trust him With my whole
business. he is honest. ,diligent and
correct and when his time is out I'm
going to give him On interest in the bust
nes.'' - ,al sssol.sa-1-.a .aa.-.es.s -.
If you have no leaning towards a
trade, and no work offers at home, you
must find it elsewhere. If you do not
want to end your days as a Iaboter you
must make up your mind in advance of
any step to be diiigent aud faithfnl-to
be honest and economical. BY observ.
ing the first three msxims- you will hold
any place you may secure, and have the
good will Of your employer to follow you
into new fields, BY observing the fourth
you can, in a few years, accumulate
sufficient capital to enable you to enter
into business for yourself.
what boys have done other -boys can
again. accomplish. Eight olit of eyerv
tensof our rich men were poor boys and
made their own way. As for those who
began life with plenty of money. not one
out OF eight has been anything like sue
cess. Detroit, CLEVELAND, Buffalo, AL
bany, st. Louis and every other city
contains men who began life by
working for smaller wages than will ever
be. offered to YOU, aud WI. So, now
worth from SO, 600 to $1,000, 4 70 apiece.
Some Of the old GROWERS viii tell you
that it was all In luck. Don't you begin
your career BY belieyiugin luck. 1t
leads to- the poor.hofse by the Straight
road. What the lazy man calls iuck is
simply diligeneeS economy and plsaage-
ment.s ssesle q 1a.g- El.s - ~ afsaU
Pick sout the LATEST, poorest man In
your town and you will find HIM growl.
ing about luck. When he comes to ex-
plain his career you will see that he
planted potatoes and waited for luck to
come around and hoe them while he, sat
on the grocery steps and talked politics.
The ill.iuck he growle about has come
more through his own shiftk mess and
bad management. than from s,.y other
cause. Diligence makes luck; yceaomy
makes luck; honesty makes luck. = is
too late IN the day to make the w,,rii
believe that some folkswere born 10
I rich and Others to be poor. 1t rests SOLE
| ly with the boy and man. : ~ Yt"s
Five or six years Ago happened to be
in a railroad efice. when boy of. Is en-
tered and applied for a position. His
paren were. poor, but they had taught
bim good manners =. His clothes ere of
cheap material, bat they were tiesn.
fhe head clerk, to wlfom the Toy APP
| piled, looked him over from head 10 foot,
asked a. tew question:, aud told b1U to
| call again.. ssst salAsIs ~U04 3ea4 s.I
aAs'Pm goingto giveitbst boy chance, -
he said after the lad lad departed 10
Don't you have dozen .aPplicaE 'ns
| every week p -. -, -
| Eyes, but. when a boy of bis age. has
the courage TO walk into an office 4. G
this1ali alone and make application b
has something In hin. I" ~. Ida Isl4 -
The boy was given place as messen-
ger with a salary of 50 per week. I was
In the same office the other, day .auG
where do yOuassi ese ] found him
The head clerk iiaG-a en- promoted, and
this boy was IN Misplace, and. his. salary
had risen from So per week to 'S1e0 pei
MONTH Was it luck2 No. His dill.
genee and faithfulness had promoted
him step by step, and the same things
will.ta him higher and higher, until
he Will SOME day fillsthe- position Of Su-
perintendent or President of the road.
Do. you remember of reading of the
boy Sam" at one of the big iron ,foun-
dries in this city, One day, after q
| tramp of over 100 Undertaking run
away from poor-hoase where he had
been for two or three years-he entered
| the yard of the foundry and asked the
| first man he met for work, ... 80.
| . ."YouTs speered the msu as be looked
down upon the lad in contempt "Khat
coHla youtdoe1 - 60 .D-.43 - ~"
Learn the tradev''-><-i 4s's4
tPcohi Who are your , co.
| 'sSam.7 '- 7A"4" -
uSo-l9,, a11 4 % - also
p 1eni Nuo!5 a. - snllg 10y g.gff
"Sam who wants to learn trada.g
"Humpi 60. away before the dog bite:
I yOuV 7n.a9ev SOFIA ,xa1 ~ y@1 =
But Sam walled into tie shop. asked
Tor the foreman, and made application
IN such an earnest way that he WAS given
n place. For few2weeks he maize him
self usefui.in running errands, and then
/ turned to tools and was made AT
Iapprentiee. This is, his third year, and
he Is not only proving himself Z sRillful
mechanic. but be has saved q, goodly
/ share.Otbls wages, and carries q bank
book. He conld not read nor write
When be entered the -shops His evening.
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