Year: 1870

The following from the Detroit Free
Press, is worthy TO be read and re-read
by every body in the land, until he
has the words in his memory and the
thoughts in his mind 50 thoroughly
that neither can be forgotten:


"WANTED.-A good, steady boy, of
about sixteen years OF age, to learn
the printers trade. A boy from the
| country preferred-must have . pass
able English education, and come
with his mind made up to learn the
trade"


The above is from the st. Joseph
county Mich, Democrat. The editor
Of that paper wants a good, steady
boy, Of about sixteen years Of age"
to learn the printing business; to COM
mence at low but reasonable wages;
to get the first principles Of manhood,
and lay the foundation of business
life. He wants boy who will come
with his mind made up" to be man
ly, to give his employer his whole
time, instead Of idling or Sinking.
who will work without watching,
who will study to please, to eeOnOmiZs
the property placed in his care. who
VIII be honest, who will stay in nights,
who will let liquor and cigars alone
in TACT, the editor wants one Of the old
fashioned lads, such as were our grand
sires.
Where will he find him! We ask
the question Of every young man
about sixteen years DID," A good,
steady bOy!" Where is he? Where
does he live? Where can a letter
reach his parents? Where is the
young man that is willing to go at
business to make business of it?
The boy who will take up trade, in
preference to loafing about the streets,
selzing upon every new slang word,
every Ioaferish expression, drag up
on MS father, a source of anxiety to
his mother, a disgrace, perhaps. "a
boy from the country preferred. y
All! that tells the stOryl The editor
tells in those few words that young
man Of sixteen who has grown up in
village or city, exposed to and drink
ing in the vices Of the older and more
wicked, will not suit him. He does
not regard him as trustworthy, as cal
culated to ever, make true man, as
willing to listen to patient instruction.
But will boy from the country do?
Perhaps some may prove faithful
The majority will work week,
month, perhaps two months, and then,
when they shall be able to earn part
of their wages, they get dissatisfied,
discouraged, and wrong ideas of their
own smartness and other Ignorance,
and they go away, seldom, If ever, to
take up new trade, but to become q
knot upon the tree of life, Of no good
to even themselves.


If that editor gets ''good, steady
bOy,h one who will fill the place to
his satisfaction, you may look to see
that boy become a mana business
mana true man. He will be patient,
economical, sober and industrious; he
will strive to excel, to understand
without repeated injunction, to getup
the ladder higher every month, and
when he has finished his trade he will
see that some one also wants good,
steady, competent man to assist him
in managing paper-to take charge
Of an othee-to become partner in a
paying business.


1t is so in every business. It wants
those steady boys-boys who will
come to learn-to grow up useful men
to become energetic, rushing, bust
ling atoms OF the business world in
stead of drifted splinters Of cast away
wrecks. There is a place in the great
country for every honest, industrious
lad to learn a trade or do business at
fair wages. 1t may be hard to find a
position, for every day that passes
only serves to make employers dis
trust more and more the modern
youth. But, let any lad with bold
heart to do right by himself and those
who would afford him a chance to lift
himselfintomanhood and competence,
only say as much, only put away the
idea that work was never meant for
him, and go plainly down and say as
much to those for whom he would la
Dor, and he will find open doors on
every side. What the world wants
most, and what is now the hardest to
get, is "a good, steady boy"