The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1888-12-29
YOUNG MEN WHO COME TO
TOWN.
Vow York Tribune.

tisements that appear daily in the
metropolitan newspapers are sources
of many wrong impressions. "Surely,"
he thinks as he reads column after
column of advertisements Offering
positions to young men, "among so
many there must be several that am
able to fill; have an ordinary high
school education. have kept books
for Mr.. Jones, and have q fair general
knowledge; there certainly must be
something that can do in the great
city" And when he sees attached to
some of them such alluring words as,
mo previous knowledge of the bust
ness required" "will pay salary while
learning our business" ETC., etc, he
becomes more and more convinced
that he can get along easier and earn
more money in the city than he can
In the slow town where ne IL per-
haps living at the home of his parents.
He has, perchance, made several
trips to the city, and becames intoxi-
Gated with the hustle and excitement,
and the more of the advertisements he
reads the more he becomes convinced
that making living in the city Is an
easy affair, and 50 he saves up hun
dred dollars or 30, or gets q friend to
loan IL to him, thinking well, that
will certainly last me until get some
thing to do, and l will not need to
take the first thing that turns up but
can wait until l get something that
suits me-" So he comes.
The first day he hunts up board
ing house, gets comfortably installed
in hall room, for which he has to
pay three dollars per week, and goes
TO the theatre in the evening. The
next morning he goes out, buys a
morning paper, and looks over the
advertisements, marks two or three,
and sets out to answer them.
The first place they want him to
canvas for book. "The idea book
peddler !" He is quite indignant and
starts for the next place.
"Oh yes" they tell him. "They
want a collector; one whom they can
trust and send out to represent the
firm. Is he well acquainted with the
city?"
"Well, no; only in general way"
would he like to visit the differ
ent parts of the city and take orders on
the installment plan for sewing ma
chimes, furniture, pianos, or whatever
the case may be, until he gets
acquainted with the city and their
methods of doing business2"
"Well, he doesn't know he'll think
about it,"
So he goes away and does think
about it. He did not expect to do
this sort of work, and just a grain of
his confidence disappears; he con-
cludes to try something else. And so
q week goes by. He Is lonesome and
goes to the theatre every night; he
isn't acquainted with the city, and 1t
costs him considerable to travel around.
At the end of the week his money has
diminished q great deal more than he
expected, and he Is getting pretty
nearly discouraged but he thinks
this will not do, so he screws his cour-
age up and decides to try an intelli-
gence Office.
He sees some alluring offers-book-
keeper, $50 q week; cashier, etc., ETC.
He goes in. They tell him they have
a number Of good positions for men
of his qualifications. The better the
position the higher the fee. He tells
OF his experience as q bookkeeper ;
they tell him that Q twenty -dollar-a-
week position will cost him three to
five dollars, and II he does not get the
position they will keeu hia name 0n