South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1890-06-06


teen years old at the time
years old when he was apprenticed
TO US, and be was with US eleven
years. setting for several years a.
salesman. When he first came. We
told bin that for long time his wa
ges Voc Id be very small. but that il
he proved TO he good boy, his sa'a
~ NO aid be increased at ceitaiu
rate e ach year. and ss /, turned out,
when according to sgreement we
should have been paying him FIVE
hundred dollars a year, we paid him
zine bundre' add he never saii n
word himself about sn increase If sal
ary- From the outset he showed til al
be had an interest in the business.
He was prompt in tue morning. and
il we kept little over time at night
il never seemed TO make any differ
ence 10 him. He gradually came TO
know where everything was to be
found, ard If Information was want
ed. it was 10 this boy, Frank Jones,
that every one applied. The entire
establishment seemed to be mapped
out in his heal, and everything in II
catalogaed and numbered. HIS me.
mory OF faces was equally remarks
bic. lie knew the name OF every
man who came 60 tie store to buy
goods, what be bought AMI where he
came from. l used TO say TO him,
Jones, your memory is worth more
than a goli mnei How do you
manage 10 re member
Il make it my business 10 remem-
her, he would say, Il know that if
can remember man and call him by
name when lie comes into the store,
aud can ask hin how thinss are 90
ing on where he lives, l will be very
likely to keep him rs customer
And that was the exact case He
made friends of buyers. He took the
same interest in their purchases as he
took In the store, and he would 60 10
no end of trouble TO suit item ex
actyJ al d to fulfill to the letter any
thing that he promised. Well, az
fairs went on in this way until he had
been with us eleven years. when we
concluded to take him into the firm
As partner. We knew that he had
no extravagant habits, that lie nei-
Their used tobacco nor beer, nor went
to the theatre. He continued, as at
the beginning, to boatd at home, and
even when his salary was lowest, he
paid HE mother two dollars a week
fer board. He was always neatly
dressed. We thought it very prob
able that be had laid up one or two
thousand dollars So EheD we made
him the offer to become partner in
the business, and suggested that it
would be more satisfactory II LIE
could pu' some money into the arm,
he Immediately replied:
1T ten thou,a dollars will be
any object. can put in that much.
L have saved out Of my salary nine
thousand four hundred dollars, and
my sister will let me have six nun.
dred. l can tell you that was new.
er more asst 'nished IN my life than
when that fellow said he could put in
ten thousand, and most of it his OWE
money.
lie has never spent dollar, or
twenty five, or five. cents for en- un-
necessary thing, aud kept his money
in bank, where 1t kep t gathering in
terest. I always kept two placards
IN big letters up IN The store. On one
was The text, 'He that is faithful in
that which is least, is faithful also in
1hat which is much = and on the 9th.
or. He that is diligent in business.
shall stand before kings, and not be.
fore men, And Frank Jones sue.
crss vas the ful6 lment of these two
texts. lie had been faithful in the
smallest things as in the g.eatest.
and diligent in business. That kind
OF boy Always succeeds said Dir.
Alden.
A small boy of ten, Who had list
ened with eager eyes, as we'll as ears.
sstd: But we don't have any kings
10 this county, Mr. Alden, for dill
gent boys to stand before! Yes. we
do. laughed Mr.. Alden. we have
moro kings here than in any country
in the world. We have money kings.
business kings, railroad kings, and
land kings, and merchant kings, and
publishing kings and some Of them
WELD an enormous power. This is a
great land for kings.'-Le Coutev1
Leader.