The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1889-08-29

. we have had good many boys with
from time to time, said Mt Allan th
senior membc- OF q large hardware c.,.
l'shment 10 Market street, Pbi.aelubi,
e "sppfensioes, TO learn ibe business. VII.
may surprise You is that We mover Ia
. eoun'ry boys unicss they live in tho Gil,
: WIN some relative who takes care Of then
and keeps them homo at night, ior wheo
! country boy comes 10 the civ IN b,.
. everything isnew 10 him. and hs is attract
GO py every show window aud uuu.u.
sight. The city boy who is accustomed
70 these things osrss little for them. and
u he has good mother he is q, home And
~ oeu 10 due season, And we arc yery
particular about our boys -And before .e
oep'ins oneasan apprentice we mus, know
'aa' he comes OF honest aud industriou.
parents.
But the best boy We ever had /. nov
WIN us, aud member Of the Hrm. Hs IA
the one man IN the establishment thai wa
couldn't do without. lie was lhijts.n
years old when he was appmntioed 10 n.
aud he was with MS for eleven years. act.
ing Tor several years as salesman. Wban
no first came we told him that fora Ion,
'ime his wages would be very small. bu,
that II be proved to be a good boy his sala.
ry would be increased at certain rate ev-
cry year. aud as it turned out, when No.
Oording to agreement we should have been
paying hlm five hundred dollars a year.
we paid him nine hundred, and he neyer
said word himself about an increasa =,
salary From the very outset. he showed
that he had IN interest in tho busiper. He
was prompt in tho morning, and IL ken,
little over time at night. il never seemed
TO make any difference with him. He
gradually came to know where everything
was to be found, and il information xs.
wanted, it was to this boy. Frank Jones +,
That every one applied. The entire estsb.
'ishment seemed to be mapped ont in bis
head, aud everything in II cata ogued and
numbered. His memory OF faces was
equally remarkable. He knew the pame
oil every man who came TO the store TO bny
goods. what he bought, and where be
came from, l used often to say to him.
Jones, your memory is worth more than
gold mimsl How do You manage To ro
make 1t my business to remember
he would say. | know that II lean m
members man and call him by name when
10 comes into the store. and can ask him
low things are going on where he lives. I
Will be very likely to keep him a. GUS
omer.
And that was the exact case. He made
riends OF buyers. He took the same in
crest In their purchases as he took in tho
tore. and would go to no end OF trouble
suit them, and to fulfil to the letter ey.
rything he promised.
Well, affairs went on in this wsy unti
% had been with us eleven years when
10 concluded TO take him into the firm M
partner. We knew that be had no er-
ravagant habits, that he neither used IN.
acco, nor beer, nor went TO the theatre.
10 continued Is at the beginning to board
home, and even when his salary was
,e very lowest he paid his mother two
ollsrs week for his board. He was s,.
ays neatly dressed. and we thought n
as very probable ths the had laid up one
two thousand dollars ~ his salary for
le last two years had been twelve hun.
red dollars 30 when we made him the
Ter to become 3 partner in the business,
I'd suggested that 1t would DO more sat.
factory il be could put some money into
10 firm. he replied.
lften thousand dollars will be any oh
ct can put in that much. have saved
1t ofmy salary nine Thousand four hun.
ed dollars, and my sister will let me
lye six hundred.
can tell you that / was never more
tonished in my life, than when that fel-
" said be could put 10 ten thousand dol.
IS, and the most Of II his own money.
had never spent dollar, or twenty
Q cents for an unnecessary thing, and
d kept his money In bank where it gath.
ID small interest. am great beliey-
IN the Bible, you know, and always
pit two placards in big letters up in the
ire. On one was the text: he that is
NM IN Mdt uhich is heast. is Eaiatfui as-
IN Aat which is much, and on the other.
that is dittgen IN business, shall stand
ore kings and mol befoye mean mea.-
d Frank Jones success was the literal
fllment Of those two texts. He had
IN faithful in the smallest things ~ In
greater ones, and diligent in busines.
at kind Of boy always succeeds, con-
ded Mr.. Allen.
small boy Of ten who had listened 10
story with eager eyes. ~ well as ears,
i
'ut We don't have any Kings ia this
ntry, Mr. Allen, for diligeDt boys TO
ID beforel
'es. We do. laughed Mr. Allen. We
9 more kings here than 10 spy other
ntry in the world. We have money
gs, aud business kings. and railroad
81. and kings. snd merchant kings
publishing kings. and some of them
ID an enormous power. This 10 great
Dify for kings.