Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-02

VIZ 'ipNi ~ iOOh INV thN faliSts anu
congratulate you on all these com
Portable articles OF apparel. The sea
sons are so changeable you have not
taken single precauiion too many,
Some nigh, you will get out in the snow
bank and have 10 walk three or four
miles until you get TO the railroad sta
ton. and you will want all these com
forts and conveniences. But will you
excuse me If make suggestion or two
about this vaise? You say: Certain
~; as we are having plain. frank talk
will not be offended at any honorable
suggestion"
Put in among your baggage some
carefully-selected wholesome reading
Let it be history. or poem. or book
of pure fiction or some volume that will
| give you information in regard to your
line OF business. Then add 10 that
Bible in round, beautiful type--small
| type Is bad for the eyes anywhere. but
peculiarly killing in the jolt OF rail
train. Put your railroad guide and
| your Bible side by sde-the one 10 show
you the route through this world and
the other to show you the route to the
next world oh" you say THAT is SUI
perfluous. for now in all the hotels. in
the parlor. you will find a Bible and in
nearly all the rooms of the guests
you will find one!" But. my brother.
hat is not your Bible. You want your
own hat. your own coat your own blan.
ket. your own Bible. But" YOU say.
u am not Christian. and you ought
not to expect me TO carry Bible" My
brother. great many people are not
Christians who carry Bible. Besides
ihut. before you get home you might
become Christian. and you would feei
awkward without copy. Besides that.
you might get bad news from home. |
see you with trembling hand opening
the telegram. saying: George is
dying" or Fannie Is dead; come
home!" Oh. as you sit In the train.
stunned with the calamity, going home.
you will have no taste for fine scenery
or for conversation. and yet you must
keep your thoughts employed or you
will go stark mad. Then you will want
a Bible whether you read il or not. II
will be comfort to have IL near you
that book full of promises which have
conforted other people in like calamity
Whether you study the promises or not
you will want that Book near you. Am
! not wise when ! say put in the Bible?
Now. you are all ready 10 start You
have your yalise in the right hand and
you have your blanket aud shawl strap
in the left hand. Good-by! May you
have prosperous journey. large sales.
great percentages. Oh. there is one
thing forgot TO ask you about-what
train are you going TO take? Well"
you say. Il will take the five O'Clock
Sunday afternoon train" Why? oh"
you say shall save day by that. and
on Monday morning | will be in the dis
iant city in the commercial establish
ment by the time the merchants come
down." My brother, you are starting
wrong. If you clip off something from
the Lords day. the Lord will clip off
something from your lifetime sue
cesses. Sabbath breaking pays no better
for this world than II pays for the next.
Young man. the dollar that you earn
on the Sabbath is red-hot dollar. and
- tph pun " lHtO u pttH W TN D.bUu NON
est dollars that red hot dollar will burn
hole through the bottom of the bag
and let out all the 5000 honest dollars
with IL.
But you have come now near the end
of your railroad travel | can tell by
the motion of the car that they are
pulling the patent brakes down. The
engineer rings the bell AT the crossing
The train stops. "All OUT" cries the
conductor. You dismouni from the
train. lou reach the hotel The land
lord is glad to see yOu-very glad! tie
stretches out his hand across the reg
istry book with all The disinierested
warmth of n brother. You are assigned
an apartment In that uuinviting
apartment YOU stay only long enough
TO make yourself preSentable You
descend then into the reading-room.
and there YOU find the commercial tray-
elers sitting around long table with
a great elevation in the center covered
with advertisements. while there are
inkstands sunken in the bed of the
table, and scattered all around rusty
steel pens and patches of blotting pa
! per. or course YOU will not stay there.
You saunter out among the merchants
You present your letters of introduce
ton and authority You begin bust
ness. Now. let me say there are two
or three things you ought to remember.
First, that all the trade YOU get by the
practice of treating" will not stick.
| II you cannot get custom except by tip
| ping wine glass with somebody. you
had better not get his custom. An old
commercial traveller gives as his en-
pereuce that trade got by treating"
always damages the house that gets ii
In one way or the other.
Again. charge you, tell the whole
truth about anything you sell. Lying
commercial travellers will precede YOU.
Lying commercial travellers will come
right after you into the same store.
DO not let their unfair competition
tempt you from the straighi line. Il
is an awful bargain that man makes
when he sells his goods and his soul nj
the same time. A young man in one of
the stores of New York was selling