Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-01-20
NO. IL

get you position in bank. | am
sure OF that, il you want it,
"Of course wanted it. So she
wrote note to one Of the bankers Of
the city. inclosed letter Of introduc.
ton, and sent me out again, not for
getting to add the usual best wishes
for success
II have often thought of IL! How
put my hand On the railing and
stepped into that bank that after
noonl Confidence lifting my feet as
on carpet of down! Imagination
measuring the size of the back I
would be proprietor of in few
years!
al handed my letter to q clerk, and
he delivered it to some one behind
desk. Then he took bis hat aud
went out, and stood there and
waited an hour at least.
Finally grsy-haired old gentle.
man came out aud said:
=" You are the young man who
brought this letter in, l believe?'
"Yes. sir"
"Ahem! Yes; we'll, please say to
Mrs. Green that | am sorry not to bs
able to do her the favor, but we have
no vacancies at present.
Il made no reply. Oaly stood
and looked at him.
Young man. be said at last,
take my advice and never attempt to
learn banking. You coald hope for
nothing better than the position of
bcokkeeper for years, if ever; and it
is nothing bat dogs lie! Besides
the business is crowded, sir. There
are more banks than there people to
support them. Every paper you
pick up is full of bapk failures
And be bowed rae out,
Il went back 70 Mrs Green and
told her the result We'll, she said.
Mr.. Switzer ought to know. He
has been in the business thirty years.
How would yea like to be a drug.
gist?'
II told her I would like anything
that was paying Business. She
had friend who was druggist,
and she was positive he wanted a
clerk
$50 she wrote another note and let
ter of Introduction and sent me off to
her druggist friend"
81 walked slower this time and it
was just as we'll this time. The po-
sition had been filed before I got
there.
But just as I turned to leave the
store, the proprietor, who was quite
an old man. stopped me and said:
Young man. don't spend an
hour in trying to be . druRgist. /
have been in the business forty years
and know what am taking about.
You've got to work like slave, night
and Sundays not excepted. and proba-
bly, in the end get sued for damages
on account of some careless prescrip-
tion clerk. Besides the business is
overdone already. You will 6nd
drug store springing up on every
other corner. Take my word for it,
there is no money In drugs
That night I sat in my room try
ing to decide which way to turn
next, when Charlie Griffin, the felon
who roomed next to me, dropped
in.
"Got the bluesY" he asked.
Eyes, | have l answered with q
great, deep sigh. L am perfectly
sick of the whole of it
20. pshaw, be said, in a cheerful
tone that frightened me q little,
there are plenty of chances. You
will get in somewhere. / believe the
book business would just suit you.
Why don't you try that?"
"Ihadn't thought of it, I replied.
"Well, that will be just the thing
for you, be said with great confidence.
L eau help you on, that too !! / am
acquainted with man in the book
business and he wants a partner.
There is your chance. will go
down with you in the morning and
give you an introduction
"Then he ratified on for half an
hour about subscription books aud all
other kinds of books. The fortunes
that had been made out of them and
the chances there were for young men
in the business, and I went to bed
with renewed hopes.
"The next morning we went down
to the Office. Charlie introduced ms
and told the proprietor wanted to
learn the business
want to learn the book businessp
he exclaimed as though there was
something terrible in the very
thought. If you had the experience
1 have you would never try andling
booksl 1t is the most tantali zing
business on earth. Take a new SUBJ
scription book, for instance 1t treats
of popular topic and you know there
is money in 1t. The books take, the
agent secures large order and every
thing looks prosperous: But wait
till the delivery comes. Some of the
subscribers have changed their minds,
some of them moved away, and pro-
badly those whom the agent felt sur
est of will have diptheria or scarlet
fever 80 that be can't zee them at all !
The result is, two-thirds of the books
come back on your hands. 1t is the
most discoursgng busiaess In exist
ence. l don't want any partner. l
want to sell out
"Do you know Of any opening in
my kind of business!'
"No, sir, DON'T he replied, with
a wild shske of the head. Every
profession and every branch of busi-
ness under the sun is over-crowdedl
There is not even q possibility of sue
cess in anything
"Charlie went back to his work
I and went back to my boarding house.
MRS Green, said, in defiant
tone, will you trust me for my board
for two months?'
"Why. yes. Mr.. Myers, I will trust
you,' she replied. What are you 60
ing to do?'
II am going to open law Office. :
l save spent my time and money in
fitting myself for profession, and /
propose to follow it and make liv-
ing out of it,
"That afternoon I rented q small
e.