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Show The Smart Young Man. We know scores of young men employed em-ployed by merchnntile firms who are under the vain deinsion that their services servi-ces are indispensible to their employers and serious complications would arise If they should happen to quit. The men ! who generally have such ideas are those who often hold subordinate positions, and those who are forned to come in eon-tact eon-tact with them are made to feel they are conferring qnifo. an honor to even; condescend to talk to them. This goes on until the head of the firm gets, somewhat some-what unreasonable nnd concludes to take the risk of letting one of these smart young men out. The clerk takes his discharge with a chuckle to himself for he knows, or thinks he does, that it will be only a question of a few brief days when the head of the firm will implore im-plore him to re turn at an advanced salary. sal-ary. Time goes on and the smart young man wonders why the firm has not sent for him, but he concludes it is pride that keeps them from doing their duty and it is with surprise that he hears another man has been engaged and is doing the work as well If not better than he did. Then he begins to learn the first bitter lesson of experience, and if he is any kind of a man he will never forget it. Commercial Tribune. |