The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-07-12
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had good many boys Win Us
from time 10 time,7 said mr. Al
den, the senior member Of a large
Hardware establishment in Market
street, Philiadelphia, as appren-
: tees to learn the business. What
may surprise you is that We never
sake country boys, unless they
IN the city with some relative
b takes care Of them and keeps
n home at night, for when
utry boy sones to the city to
serytlling S uesss-. lin, and Ise
tzacted b. every SLOW window
lurusual sight The city boy
os accustomed to these things
es little for them. and if has a
god mother be IS at home and in
bed IN due season. Aud we are
very particular about our boys
and before we accept one as an
apprentice we must know that he
comes Of honest, industrious pa
rents.
But the best boy we ever had
is now with us, and a member Of
the firm. He is the one man in
the establishment that We couldn't
$ DO without he was thirteen
years old when he was apprentced
to MS, aud he was with us eleven
years. acting for several years as
salesman. When he first came we
told him that for a long time his
wages would be very small, but
that if he proved to be a good boy
his salary would be increased at a
certain rate every year. and as it
turned ont when according to
agreement We should have been
paying him hye-hundred dollars a
year. we paid him nine hundred,
and he never said a word about an
Increase Of salary. From the very
outset he showed that be haf an
interest in the business. He was
prompt in the morning and If kept
3 Little overtime at night. it never
seemed to make any difference.
He gradually came to know where
everything ~. q, he found. and If
information Vas wanted. it was to
this boy, Frank Jones, that every !
one applied. The entire establish
meut seemed to be mapped out IN
his head and everything cata-
Iogued and numbered. He knew
fine name Of every man who came
to the store to buy goods, what he
bought and where he came from.
I used often 70 say him, Jones,
sour memory is worth a gold mine
how do you manage to remember
I make IT my business to re-
1aember, be would say. 4 know
that If I can remember a man and
call him by name when he comes
into the store, and can ask him how
things are going on where he
lives, I viii be very likely to keep
him as q customer
And that was the exact case.
BE made friends Of buyers. He
took the same interest in their
purchases as he took IN the store,
and would 60 to 10 end OF trouble
to suit them, and to fulfill to the
letter everything he promised.
Well. affairs went on with US
this way until lie had been with US
eleven years, when we concluded
to take him into tie firm as a part
ner. We knew that he had no
extraFagaDt habits, that he neither
q tobacco, nor beer, nor went
he theatre. he continued as
beginning to board al home.
even when his salary was the
lpe l.s.-faid his mother
Tdollers 2 week for his board.
was always neatly dressed, and
fhougbf II was very probable
the had laid up one OF two
ruousa1d dollars, as hls sa!aay for
tie last two years had been twelve
hundred dollars. So when We
made hiln the offer to become a
partner in the business, and sug-
gezted that II would be more salts
faetory if could put some money
into the 6rm; he replied.
II ten thousand dollars viii be
any object / can put IL, that much
IheTe saved out Of nv salary
zane thousand four hundred dol
lars, and my sister VII LET me
haze SIX hundred.
1 can tell you that / was never
more astoHished in my lie than
NZap that fellow said Ire eonId
put N ten thousand dollars. and
the most Of it his ewn money. RI
Aad never spent q dollar, or twen-
tF-Sre or five cents for an unnee-
essary thing and had kept his
uoney IN bank where Il gathered a
small interest ] ara a great be-
iieyeF IN tie Bible, you know, and
: always kept two plaeards in big