St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-08-21

AOA O0OCs kONS AuNO Aw 0uA SAuSAS sAsAs
Many of the commercial establishments
of our cities are giving their clerks :
mercantile education as 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 thankGod for this
severe dicipline of their early clerk
ship. You can afford to endure the
wilderness march. il 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 rs we'll paid for their toll in
mercantile circles rs men are now paid
for their toll. Time is coming when :
woman will be allowed to do anything
she can do well. It il only = little
while ago when women knew nothing
Of tclegraphy. and they were kept out
of great many commercial circles
where they are now welcome; and the
time will 60 on until the woman who
1t one counter In = store sells q. 600
worth of goods in = year, will get IS
high = salary as the man who ut the
other counter of the same store sells
$1,000 worth Of goods All honor to
Lydia, the Christian saleswoman.
The second counsel have to give to
clerks is that you seek ont 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 m establishment in
which all the employees are under
thorough discipline and the establish
ment in which the employees do
about Is they choose, is the differ
ence between success and failure
between rapid accumulation and bank
ruptcy. Do not come 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 any thing too in
significaot to do well. Do not say:
.lt's only just once" From the most
important transaction in commerce
down to the particular style in which
vou tie string around bundle, obey
orders Do not get easily disgusted.
While others in the store may lounge,
or fret, or complain, You 70 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 knapsack, fills
mand Of march,"
Do not get tho 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 ont from clerks what
ought never to be known outside the
store. Do mot be among those young
men who take on : mysterious air
when something is said against the
firm that employs them, as much rs to
say: Il could tell you something If I
would, but won't?" Do not be among
those who imagine they can build
themselves mp by pulling somebody
else down. he not ashamed to be :
subaltern.
Again, / counsel clerks to search out
what are the unlawful and dishonest
demands of m establishment and re-
sist them. In the q, 900 years that have
passed, there has never been IN occa-
sion when 1t was ones duty to sin
against God. It is never right to do
wrong. II the head men Of the firm
expect Of you dishonesty, disappoint
them. ''Oh, you say: Il 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. You 60 70 the head
man Of your store, and say: ''Sir. I
want to servo you; want to oblige
you; il il 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 i :
sin against God, and I beg you,
sir, to excuse me" He may
nush up and swear, but he will cool
down, and he will have more admi-
ration for you than for those who sub
init 70 his evil dictation; and while
they sink, you will rise. Do not, be-
cause Of seeming temporary advan-
taxe, give mp your character. young
man. Under God, that il the only
thing you have to build ON. Give up
that you give up everything. That
employer asks : young man to hurt
himself for time and for eternity, who
expects him TO make wrong entry.
or change m invoice, or say goods cost
20 mnch when they cost less, or impose
upon the verdancy of customer. or
misrepresent = style Of fabric. How
dare he demand Of you anything % in
solentf
Asain, counsel al clerks to conquer
the trials Of their particular position.
One great trial for clerks IS the incon-
alteration OF customerA There are peo-
pie who are entirely polite everywhere
else, but Rru6 aud dictatorial and coz
temptibls when they come into store
to buy anything. There are Thousands
OF men and women who 70 from store
to store 70 price thinGA without any
idea Of purchase. They are not salts
ned until every roll Of goods i brought
down and they have pointed out all
the real or imaRinary detectA They