The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-02-25

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Some night you will get out in the snow
bank and have TO 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 IL make suggestion or two
about this vallse? You say: Certain
ly; as we are having plain, frank talk
suggestion"
Put in among your baggage some
carefully-selccted. wholesome reading.
Let IL be history, or poem. or n book
| of pure fiction. or some volume that will
give you information in regard TO your
| line of business. Then add to that a
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 side-the one to 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
periluous, for now in all the hotels, in
the parlor. you will find Bible. and in
nearly all the rooms OF the guests
you will find one!" But. my brother.
that is not your Bible. You want your
own hat. your own coat. your own blan-
l;et, your own Bible. But" you say,
Il am not a Christian. and you ought
not to expect me TO carry II Bible" My
hrother, II great many people are not
Christians who carry Bible. Besides
that. before YOU get home you might
became Christian. and you would feel
awkward withou; copy. BESIDES thar,
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 yon-
Will 20 stark mad. Then YOU will want
Bible whether you read i; or mott 1t
Will he q comfort 10 have il near YOU
that book full Of promises which have
couforted other people in like calamity.
Watcher you study the promises or not
you will want that Book near you. Am
! no; wise when say put in the Bible?
Now. YOU are all ready 70 start You
have your valisc in the right hand and
you have your blanket aud shawl strap
in the left hand, GooG-by. May you
have a prosperous journey, large sales.
great percentages. Oh, there is one
;hjug forgot 10 ask You about-what
train are YOU going TO take? Well"
YOU say. II vii! take the fi& o'clock
sunday afternoon train" Wig? oh"
you say. Il shall save day by that, and
on Monday morning llwill be in the dis
iaut city in the commercial establish
meut by the time the merchants come
| down." My brother, you are starting
wrong. II you clip off something from
the lords day, the Lord will clip off
something from your lifetime suc
cesses. Sabbath breaking pays 10 better
FOR this world than il pays for the next.
Young man. the dollar that you earn
on the sabbath is red-hot dollar. and
K You put !, into a bag with 5000 hon
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 NJ the crossing.
The train stops All OUT" cries the
conductor. You dismount from the
train. You reach the hotel. The land
lord is glad 10 see you-very glad! He
stretches out his hand across the reg
istry book with all the disinterested
warmth of brother. You are assigned
an apartment In that uninviting
apartment you stay only long enough
TO make yourself presentable. You
descend then into the reading-room,
and there you find the commercial trav-
elers sitting around a long table with
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. OF 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.
| If 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 ex-
perience that trade got by treating"
always damages the house that gets it
] in one way or the other.
Again. l 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 straight line. 1t
is an awful bargain that n man makes
when he sells his goods and his soul at
the same time. young man in one of
the stores of New York was selling
some silks. He was binding them up
when he said TO the lady customer: III
is my duty to show you that there is a
fracture in that silk" She looked at il