The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1890-02-08
THE BEST BOY STORY.
Catholic Youth. 4

TGathelic Youth.
+. The best boy story I ever heard
This is what lawyer said Of this
story I AM to relate to you: We have
had good many boys with US from
time to time, said Mr. Alden, the Sc
nior member Of q large hardware es--
tablishlnent il Market street, Phila-
.delpfia, as apprentices to learn the
business, but the best boy we ever
had is now with us and Is q member
of the firm He is the one man in
the establishment we could not do
without. He was thirteen years old
when he was appfenticed to us, and
he was with us eleven years and was
acting for several years as sales
man. When he first came we told
him that for a long time his wa
ges would be very small, but that il
he proved to be a good boy his salary
would be increased alta certain rate
each year, and as it turned out, when
according. to agreement we should
have been paying him five hundred
dollars a year, we paid him nine hun-
Cred and he never said Il word him
self about an increase OF salary.
From the very outset he showed that
! he had an interest in the business.
He was prompt il the morning, and
| If kept a little over time at night it
never seemed to make any difference
to him. He gradually came to know
where everything was to be found,
and If information was Wanted, it wsas
| to this boy, Frank Jones, that every
one applied. The entire establish
ment seemed to be mapped out in his
head, and everything in It .cataloguea
and numbered, His memory of faces
was equally remarkable. lie knew
1.-THE name Of every man who came to
his store to buy goods, what he bought
and where he came from. / used to
say to him, Jones, your memory is
worth more than q gold mine! How
do you manage to remember
q I make it my business to remem-
ber,' he would say, + know that if |
can remember a man aad call him by
name when he comes into the store,
and can ask him how things are sssping.
on where he lives, ! wifi be YER S,gsSse- 81
tIy to keep him as q customer. -iA.aast. q
that was the exact case. He made
friends Of buyers. He took the same
interest in their purchases as he took
ii the store, and he would 60 10 no
end Of trouble to suit them exactly,
land fulfill to the lse..tar everything
that he promised.
Well, affairs went Oh this way TN
1 til he had been with us eleven years,
when we concluded TO take him into
1.-THE firm as d partner. We knew that
The had no extray agant habits, that he
neither used tobacco nor beer, nor
went 10 the theater. He continued,
las at the beginning, 10 board at home,
and even when bis salary Was the
very lowest, he paid his mother two
dollars i week for bis board. He was
/ always neatly dressed. We thought
Hit very probahle that he Ind laid up
4 lone OF Two Thousand dollars So when
nc made him the offer ta become q
partner in the business, and suggested
! THAT q would be more satisfactory i
1 he could put come money into the
4 firm, he i11lned lately replied:
ssIf ten thousand dollars will be an y
object can put in that much. /
have saved ont Of nly salary nine
i thousand four hundred dollars, md
| ny sister Will lot me haye.six hnladref,
Il can tell you tlaat never assls more
astonished in my life than when tIsl
.IfeIloW said he could put Ii ten thou
/ ssEsandd, and most Of the of it his oAsn
d Iionss Ie had never spent d ola
SsEEor twenty five cents, or FIVE cents ffol
!, I'D nnnee thing, and had apt
I his money III bank where IL keI1 nth
ering interest. aIWays
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