The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-10-05


 tween the rich and the poor, the exalted and the lowly, the renowned and the unknown is mainly difference in knowledge Education is . won- drous power. It opens up the highway to pros perity. Through its potent influence many . boy and girl has been raised from . state of timidity and difdence into the funess of business capacity, elf-confdence and general development which mark the we'll balanced and capable young man and young woman.
 The requirement of business education is the best investment young person make. It is productive of immediate and gratifying returns. 1t can be applied to a great many purposes, and in Ia great many ways. It is available at all times and under all circumstances. It improves with age. The longer it is used and the older grows, the greater the income it produces. It is better than capital, because it never be taken away. Business knowledge is the only ready means by which wealth can be acquired, and 1t is the only safeguard which insure the preservation of other possessions for, without business capacity, riches melt rapidly away. A business education involves SO limited an expense to be within the reach of all, and no young man or young woman can afford to do without 1t.
 A business education makes young people thor oughly familiar with the varied round of duties commonly required of them In the business world and gives them a high degree of efficiency in the conduct of commercial affairs. It enables them to make business computations by short and accurate methods. It fAmiliarizes them with mod ern and improved systems for keeping books of account, and recording commercial transactions. It gives them intimate acquaintance with the origin nature and of business and negotiable papers.
 1t provides them with 6 knowledge of the laws and customs of trade and thus enables them to pro- tect their interests and to avoid the liabilities they might otherwise incur. It gives their handwriting more pronounced business appearance and accus- toms them to the important work of preparing business letters and kindred papers in neat intel ligent and business-lik manner. It paves the way to independence and opens up the avenues to honor, eminence, and wealth. It makes them self upport- ing and enables them to lend a helping hand to others It inspires them with the self-confdence and assurance which come only with the knowl- edge that they safely rely upon their own unaided efforts for support, while by their grow ing maturity and by the continued evidences of their increasing capacity this feeling of confidence is broadened into one of permanent security. It enables them to support A widowed mother or to aid invalid father, while their advancing incomes can be made the means of enabling younger mem- bers of the family to obtain similar training, and in their turn acquire the independence of self- maintenance.
 Many of the leading business men of to- day attrib- ute their success in life largely to the thorough of business training they received in years gone by and to the substantial footing 1t enabled them to secure in the commercial world. They regard 1t the entering wedge which opened up to them the long series of possibilities by which they were enabled to take advantage of the great oppor tunities which presented themselves in after life They consider their business training as in large measure the secret of their prosperity, and they are now qualifying their sons and their daughters to preserve and to increase the stores of wealth they have accumulated. They were once poor, and as unaided as many of the young men and young women of to-day, and aside from their business training, had nothing but their energy, integrity and perseverance with which to meet the difficulties before them. They succeeded, however, in sur- mounting the obstacles that barred the way to prog ress, and in the light of their experience they now advise the young men and young women of to-day to rely upon 6 business education as their truest friend and best support in time of need A thorough business training is aid in every sphere of effort and in every walk in hfe It affords young people an excellent mental discipline and provides systematic drill that will prove of ever growing