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Show HOW TO EE MERCHANTS. The boys and young men now em- j ployed iu our stores will be the future merchants in these lines of trade, especially es-pecially those who are studious, attentive, at-tentive, honest, reliable, and who make the proper effort to master in all its details the business in which they are engaged. Those who are trying to make the best of their opportunity as a rule will be successful. Every clerk should strive to gain a knowledge of the construction, weave, finish and ail that relates to the goods which he handles, buys or hells. The long winter evenings give plenty of leisure for reading and study, which, if intelligently directed and rightly employed by our young men in the trade, will form the foundation foun-dation of knowledge that will be a mine of wealth for them in the near and distant future. Even half an! hour every evening devoted to reading some good book will leave its '""fe create ar ta-sire lor more knowledge. Xo one ever achieved success without work and study, and no one can gain knowledge without it. It is an old saying that "every tub should stand on its own bottom. " Boys, you have got to face the world as soon as you are men, and rely on your own abilities. You can not ail stand upon what your fathers have done, or your family names. You may profit by their example, their experience and the honest names they have left you. What your father did, lie accomplished, not you; what you do the world judges you by. lie governed by good common tense, be self-reliant, be a gentleman, gentle-man, do your duty. Remember that it is the bright, studious store-boy who grows into the good merchant. The more intelligent a young man is in his calling, other things being equal, the higher he will jet. Young men, make positions, do not let them make you. The men who have achieved the greatest great-est success as 'merchants were not ashamed to work, and nothing can be accomplished without it. |
