The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-07-31

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Portable; goes into II and sinks all.
Many of the commercial establishments
of our cities are giving their clerks =
mercantile education rs Yale, or Har-
ward, or Princeton are giving scientific
attainment TO the students matricu-
lated. The reason there are SO many
men laundering in business from year
to year, Is because their early mercan-
tile education was neglected. Ask the
men in high commercial circles, and
they will tell you they thanlsG God for this
severe dicipline Of their early clerk
ship. You can afford to endure the
wilderness march, if it is going to end
in the vineyards and orchards of the
promised land.
But you say: "Will the womanly
clerks in our stores have promotion?"
Yes. Time is coming when women
will be as well paid for their toll in
mercantile circles as men are now paid
for their toll. Time is coming when a
woman will be allowed to do any thing
she can do we'll. 1t is only a little
while ago when women knew nothing
OF telegraphy, and they, were kept out
of great many commercial circles
where they are now welco me; and the
time will go on until the woman who
ut one counter in store sells 1900
worth of goods in year, will get as
high a salary rs the man who at the
other counter of the same store sells
$4,000 worth of goods. All honor to
Lydia, the Oh ristian saleswoman.
The second counsel l have to give to
clerks is that you seek out what are
the lawful regulations of your estab-
lishment, and then submit to them.
Every well-ordered house has its
usages. In military life, on ships
deck, in commercial life, there must be
order and discipline. Those people
who do not learn how to obey will
never know how to command. / will
tell you what young man will make
ruin, financial and moral; it is the
young man who thrusts his thumb into
his vest and says: Nobody shall die
tate to me, am my own master; will
not submit to the regulations of this
house." Between an establishment in
which all the employees are under
thorough discipline and the establish
ment in which the employees do
about as they choose, is the differ
ence between success and failure
between rapid accumulation and bank
ruptcy. Do not como to the store ten
minutes after the time. Be there with
in two seconds, and let it be two Sec
onds before, instead of two seconds
after. Do not think anything too in
significant to do we'll. Do not say:
"It's only just once" From the most
important transaction in commerce
down to the particular style in which
you tie string around bundle, obey
orders. Do not get easily Disguised.
While others in the store may lounge,
or fret, or complain, you go with ready
hands, and cheerful face, and contented
spirit to your work. When the bugle
sounds, the good soldier asks no ques-
tions, but shoulders his lsnapsacls, fills
his canteen and listens for tho COM
msnd Of march"
Do not get the idea that your in
terests and those of your employer are
antagonistic. His success will be your
honor His embarrassment will be
your dismay. Expose none of the frail-
ties of the firm. Tell no store secrets.
Do not blab. Rebuff those persons
who come TO find out from clerks what
ought never to be known outside the
store. Do not be among those young
men who take on a mysterious air
when something is said against the
firm that employs them, rs much as to
say: Il could tell you something IL
would, but won't?" Do not be among
those who imagine they can build
themselves up by pulling somebody
else down. BE not ashamed to be a
subaltern.
Again, counsel clerks to search out
what are the unlawful and dishonest
demands of an establishment, and re-
sist them. In the q, 0OJ years that have
passed, there has never been an occa-
sion when it was ones duty to sin
against God. 1t is never right to do
wrong. If the head men of the firm
expect of you. dishonesty, disappoint
them. "Oh," you say: II should lose
my place then" Better lose your place
than lose your soul. But you will not
lose your place. Christian heroism is
always honored. Yoa go TO the head
man of your store, and say: ''Sir,
| Wdut 10 serve you, WdHt W opilbc
you; it is from no lack of industry on
my part; but this thing seems to me to
be wrong, and it is sin
against my conscience, it is a
sin against God, and l beg you,
sir, to excuse me-" He may
flush up and swear, but he will cool
down, and he will have moro admit
ration for you than for those who sub
init to his evil dictation; and while
they sink, you will rise. Do not, be-
cause of seeming temporary advan-
tage, give up your character, young
man. Under God, that is the only
thing you have to build on. Give up
that, you give up everything. That
employer asks a young man to hurt
himself for time and for eternity, who
expects him to make n wrong entry,
or change an invoice, or say goods cost
SO much when they cost less, or impose
upon the verdancy of a customer. or
misrepresent style OF fabric. How
dare he demand OF you anything so in
solont?