Show written for jhb paper A HOMILY ON TRADE buying and selling sel linx trading and exchanging is a laudable a necessary business human needs needa and desires have become so BO numerous and maybe artificial that gratification is ie impossible if persival per sinal effort alone was exercised there are men everywhere who from individual taste and aptitude engage in collecting transporting and distributing the products ot of climes and countries almost unknown and unexplored but a very few years ago but now by the enterprise or of specific dealer orp through tho the combinations of commerce these are at our very doors we may not be as familiar with aames ports 9 localities pronunciation or qualities ties of all that cornea comes within our range of observation and use as are the spool specially ll 11 ily interested parties but we are adva advantaged ta ged ratified gratified comforted and after all at so BO little cost that the inquiry la Is not at all ali infrequent as to how bow if distance Is so great etc we can buy the strange uncommon or adopted article for so little money if it were not so common had not this object to ue u if every village lesson be ore atit would be thought almost impossible to get together th the products of countries so remote and s so for separate so as is done every day the world was calls calle i upon to inspect and marvel at the first universal exposition in hyde park london in many continental duplicates since ince then at the centennial in this thi f j country and later at the worlds world is fair fai r io in 1898 but all that brilliance gran grandeur dout TAXI variety OtY magnificence and overwhelming greatness was but an ultra enlarged or extended reproduction tion of Z C M I 1 or similarly diversified depots in the wonlu of common trade it was said once that comparisons are odious and this may provoke a smile but the MASSON masses of the territory nay of this city have but little idea as to how bow many countries are drown drawn upon for their supplies and even employee employed emp loyes are few who can tell how or where is in pro dured that which they handle all the time ask the average grocery clerk where pepper is grown the difference between the black and white varieties inquire as an to where nutmegs come from what to Is mace where was this coffee grown and to is your olive oil genuine or but a cation seed product how few can tell which of your dry goods clerks can give an idea as am to where many of their everyday every day goods were made in france germany england or america which to Is wool or mixed to Is this pure pare silk milk or otherwise what w ah a of hosiery of 9 flowers of fur tri trimming in pass through any other department and the same superficial education or indifference is noted they make no claim to know they are mechanics mechanical and as far from being experts almost as it is possible to be so we have met booksellers who know nothing of books school teachers who know knew nothing of human nature doctors who had no idea as to the power of drugs or whether they produced duc edthe the desired fiech lawyers who widd could hot bot draw vp up a brief politicians wn abo not tell the views or give platform I 1 adm of their verty party preachers i had ad neither logic nor consecutive thought and vast numbers who take the world and circumstances just as they are without understanding as to the why or idea so aa to improvement or whether this was waa possible poE sible or probable in the future some borne men acquire development by compulsion as it were it if in business natural indolence la is overcome by fear of loss lose or greed for gain it if in the missionary field some gome smattering ot of the system they represent to la sought because this knowledge la Is made obligatory liga tory and failure means disgrace it if burt bened with a family society compels some show ot of labor tor for their maintenance but thoroughness is a very rare ingredient in humanity save where love is the mainspring or the motive power so we have seen been men engaged in merchandising izing 1 ing they love to trade indeed it is a joy to them to handle goods it is second nature as it were they did aid not open the store particularly for a living or to make money but because their heart was lu it anu and they gave it attention they studied it they wanted to know and then ben found out all ali about the goods they handled they were able to commend to give information format loo they could explain the difference between this anu and that such duch men are liked they accumulate they make friends frien and becire authorities and experts expert in this and many collateral directions far too many MOD men perchance are engaged in pursuit for which they have neither taste nor aptitude like our old claw class of school teachers who became pedagogues gues for the winter for a putting ou on a a living or until they could do belter it ir school had been continuo somo some were so BO listless that they never would have had bad any higher ambition than khan boarding round but with late spring they were thrown out and either drifted into something equally disliked or found work which they partly enjoyed there Is not a few in stores who need to be thrown out figuratively they are dying of inanition and afraid to leap in the he dark or trust to their own native energy and resources they would make good farmers fani derp good mechanics cs fl professionals some but they vegetate and die because unmoved there are men in business for themselves who have no n business there but they cannot got get out or sell out they arel are always on the ragged edge they hey are not a success afraid to buy or self afraid to give credit or refuse they vegetate no briskness no enterprise no ambition in debt and difficulty smothered with liabilities and mortgages life becomes a burthen and a disappointment at best assignment or bankruptcy weeds them out from time to time and so the whole bustness business world has become one great and melancholy grave yard and almost aimont every one bears as an epitaph the he significant fateful words ot of failure such have selected an occupation for which they bey were unfitted by nature or experience A small accumulation a friendly credit aris all they had bad with which to meet the competitive spirit we toe restless energy and toe the force and adu culture of a rival in the other street buying ability selling ability trade magnetism popularity and huseim were strangers stra in lathe the disorderly tore in the dirty windows window in the lumbered tore store room and all 11 II appointments were suggestive ot of unclean linesa inefficiency repulsion and nonsuccess non success particularly in IB ajol business tact and all round observation needed in utah where barter to ie the convenience of interchange rather than tham cash every transaction on the latter basis is final there in IB no dubiety about wit no possible discount no waste or low lose or drawback gous are bought and paid for without circumlocution while almost yes we may say eay all produce loses in storing anu anta handling ther s is ie a percenta of lose even een in the most moat careful hands there are also probabilities or of loris lu iu accommodation or the giving of credit and many such customers will by being dilatory eat out the entire profit of the transaction if only a moderate interest was WAIS considered the shrewd and cautious man understands this in is the other one takes no account of an item serious under any circumstances almost there is in another iea fea ture of trading wever however no As was wa salda said all are nut thus engaged because aney love it aud and would rather be there than anywhere we allude to those who are in business purely for money for the profit there is in in it now the undue cultivation of this thin spirit leads to to a forgetta finess of eumana and to a cold grasping avaricious way of deal the final drift is to depreciate that which to is being bought to get it for the lowest possible price and in sell ing to secure all that can possibly be got this thib governed to in fact by the greenness or ignorance of the party ot of the second part if this to is not legitimate business yet men w who bo so BO act are counted smart even when despised and disliked even when suc ful in plain english this lit IB taking advantage it to undisputed thievery and men who under the guise guthe of business demean themselves thema elves in this way using trickery and dd misrepresentation in a stable community like ou ous a go down to deserved and ignominy first or lost last I 1 IB a a large vity city transient trade has ha given many a man wealth we never board beard of but one trader here who acknowledged that when a man came into his bis store he got all he could out of him as am he be never expected to see hlin him again 20 this was waa business suicide lor for he gave up UJ many many years ago but there are some sharp ones one now when they get a chance although competition may compel close having when an article to Is abundant or the price well known scarcity ity however makes a corner and it to Is aina amazing zing how readily business human nature adapts itself to conditions when a dime lit is in the way much more readily says our experience then than when the end is in social social spiritual or mental selan |