The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-08-01

=" INV 'lheshfuh ana orchards OF the
promised land.
But You viii say. "Will the woman
y clerks In our stores have promo
iiony Yes. Time Is coming when
women viii be as well paid for their
Toll In mercantile circles as men are
now paid for their toll. Time Is com
ing when a woman win be allowed 10
do anything she can do well. Il is
only little while ago when women
Knew nothing OF telegraphy. and they
were kept out OF a great many CONNER.
cal circles where they are now well
Gene: and the time win 10 on until
the woman who at one counter In
store sells $1,000 worth OF goods In
year. win get a. high a salary as the
man who at the other counter Of the
same store sells 5000 worth OF goods
All honor to Lydia. the Christian sales
woman.
The second counsel I have TO give
20 clerks IL that you seek out what
are the lawful regulations of your es-
iabllshment. and then submit 10 them
Every well-ordered house has its
ufages. In military life, on ships
deck. In commercial life. there must
be order and discipline. Those peo-
pie who do not learn how TO obey will
never know how 10 command. | will
tell yon what young man will make
ruin, financial and moral: Il Il the
young man who thrupts his thumb into
his vest and says. Nobody shall die
tate 10 ice, ! am my own master: will
not submit TO the regulations OF this
house" Between an establishment In
which all the employees are under thor.
ough discipline and the establishment
In which the employees do about a.
they choose. Is the difference between
ruccess and failure between rapid ae-
emulation and utter bankruptcy.
DO not come 20 the store ten minutes
after the time. BE there within two
seconds, and let Il be two seconds be-
fore Instead Of two seconds after. DO
not think anything too insignificant 90
do we'll DO not say. ITS only Just
once From the most important
Transaction In commerce down to the
particular style In which you tie A
string around d bundle obey orders
DO not get easily disguised. While
others In the store may lounge. or fret
or complain. you 80 with ready hands.
and cheerful face. and eontented spirit
to your work when the bugle sounds.
the good soldier asks no questions. bu,
shoulders his knapsack. flls his can
teen and listens for the command OF
March"
DO not get the idea that your In.
teresis and those Of your employer are
antagonlsile Ills success win be your
honor His embarrassment viii be
your dismay. Expose none OF the fran.
ties Of the firm. Tell no store secrets.
DO not blah. Rebuff those persons
who come to ind out from clerks what
ought never q be known outside the
store. DO not be among those Young
men who take on a mysterious air
when something IL said against the
nrm that employs them. a. much al
10 say: 4 could tell you something n
I would. but won't" DO not be
among those who imagine they can
build themselves up by pulling some
body else down. BE not ashamed 10
be- a suhalteru.
Then there are all the trials which
come TO clerks from the treatment of
inoonslderaie employers There are
prolesaed Christian men who have No
more regard for their clerks than they
have for the scales on which the surars
are welghe,. A clerk is no more than
20 much store furniture. No consld.
Grafton Tor their rights or Interests
Not one word Of encouragement from
sunrise 10 sunset. nor from January
20 December. but when anything
goes wrong a streak Of dust on the
counter. or a box with the cover Of
/ thunder-shoWcrs OF scolding. Men inn
perlous. caprlclous. cranky toward their
elerks-their whole manner a. much
az 10 say; AN the interest / have
In you is 20 see what can get out Of
| YOU" Then there are an the trials
OF Incompetent wages. not In such
times a. these. when u man gets halt
salary Tor his SERVES he ought to
be thankful. but ] mean In prosperous
times. Some Of you remember when
the war broke out and an merchandise
went up. and merchants were made
millionaires In six months by the sim
I pie rise In the values OF goods. Dld
the clerks get advantage Of that rise !
| Sometimes. not alwayA I saw estates
gathered In those times over which the
curse OF God has hung ever since. The
cry OF unpaid men aud women In those
stores reached the Lord OF sahaoth.
and the Indignation Of God has been
around those establishments ever since.
Then there are boys ruined by lack
OF compensation. In how many pros
porous stores q has been Tor the las,
twopty years that boys were given Jus,
enough money 10 teach them how 10
sieal' Some were seized upon By the
police T'ir vast majority Of Instances
were not known. The head 90 the arm
asked. where Is George now" "Oh.
De isn't here any more" a lad mlsat
better siarye Co death on blasted
heath than take one iar,hlng from his
employer Woe he to thar employer
who unnecessarily puts q temptation In
a boys way. There have been great
establishments in these cities. building
marble palacos their owners dying
worth millions. and millions. and mil-
Hons. who made o vast amount Of their
estate ont Of the blood. and muscle and
nerve Of half-pald clerks Such men as
well. ] viii not mention any name.
but mean men who have gathered mp
vast estates at the expense oi the pco-
pie who were ground under their heel.
on say such merchants. ~ you
don't like Il here then 30 and get a