The Springdale news., 1889-08-30
HOW ONE BOY SUCCEEDED.
"he That Is DiliEent In Eusness shall
 stand Before Kings"

This is what q lawyer said of the story am about to relate to you: 'It is the best boys story that l ever heard
 We have had good many boys with us from time to time said Mir. Alden, the senior member of a large hardware cstablis ment in Marhet street, Philadelphia 'as apprentices to learn the business. What may sur prise you is that we never take country boys, unless they live in the city with some relative who taxes care Of them and keeps them home at night. for when a country boy comes to tho city to live every thing is new to him. and he is attracted by every show window and unusual sight. The city boy, whois accustomed to these things, cares little for them, and if he has good mother he is at home and in bed in due season. And we are very particular about our boys and before accepting one as an apprentice we must know that he comes of honest and industrious pa rents.
 But the best boy we ever had is now with us, and 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 apron tiCcd 10 us, and he was with us for eleven years, acting for several years as salesman. When he first came we n, I,;. would be very small. but that if ho proved to be a good boy his salary would be increased at a certain rate every year, and, as it turned out, when ac- cording to agreement we should have been paying him five hundred dollars year we paid him nine hundred, and he never said d word himself about an increase Of salary From the very Cu,- set he showed that he had an interest in the business. He was prompt in the morning and if kept a little overtime at night it never seemed to make any difference with him. He gradually came to know where every thing was to be found, and il any information was wanted it was to this boy. Frank Jones, that every one applied The entire cs- tlbishment seemed to be mapped out in his head, and every thing in it cata- logucd and numbered. His memory of faces was equally remarkable. He knew the name of every man who came to the store to buy goods what he bought, and where he came from. l used often to say to him: Jones your memory is worth more than a gold mine! How do you manage to remember? "
 Y I make it my business to remem- Der, he would say. I know that if 1 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 will be very likely to keep him as customer.
 And that was tho exact ease He made friends of buyers. He took the same interest in their purchases as he \ too1 in the store, and would go to no end of trouble to suit them, and to fill to the letter every thing he promised. Well, affairs went on in ths way until he had been with us eleven years when we concluded to take him into the ' firm as d partner We knew that he N had no extravagant habits; that he neither used tobacco, nor beer, nor went to tho theater. He continued as at tt ? beginning to board at home, and even when his salary was at the very lowest he paid his mother two dollars a week for his board. He was always neatly dressed, and we thought it was very probable that he had laid up one or two thousand dollars, as his salary for the last two years had been twelve hundred dollars So when we made ' him the offer to become partner in the business, and suggested that it would be more satisfactory if he could put some money into the firm, he re- piled:
 '.'If ten thousand dollars will be any object can put in that much. have saved out of my salary nine thousand four hundred dollars, and my sister will let me have sisshundred.
 II can tell you that l was never more astonished in my life than when the fellow said he could put in ten thousand dollars. and the most of it his own money He had never spent a dollar, or twenty-five cents, or five cents for an unnecessary thing. and had kept his money in bank where it gathered small interest. l am great believer in the Bible, you know, and always kept two placards in big letters up in the store. On one was this text: He that is faithful in that which is least. is faithful also in that which is much;' and on the other: He that is diligent in business, shall stand before kings and not before mean men, And Frank Jones success was the literal ful(illment of those two texts He had been faithful in the smallest things as