| Show GOLDEN roil BUSINESS MET calco co ot commerce for more than a century the commercial men of boston havo bd the reputation of being the careful thoughtful and reliable merchants to be found on the continent yet one of their number affirm that during hi long experience and ot serration ninety seven oat of arery hendred his contemporaries failed they were sold out by the made alignments or corn with their creditors wll aamir honet faithful history of the merchants of other in the united states furnish a better record and yet these failures terrify but fow seven fail ten hare the courage to crowd into the ranks to fill up tho gap that they will be more than their why those compromises and problems Tery com mercial paper should discua in the best light which hm yet dawned on aba history of commerce trade and the tulious of success A man or woman must have a adaptation to any buina bui nM calling or profession and uve of it in onier to insure adaptation implied guch a knowledge of the business that bacin communicate correct ideas of it in few words and in euch a style as will command especial attention and genuine lore of any person or aning will warm tha heart fird nuke liim eloi quent these si the qualities of mind and heart oh requisite to bring th merchant and his gioda fairly before ho public if there qualities aro neither natural nor ac quiren is out of the tion b abo merchant must be thoroughly acquainted with his good many an honest credulous asan his purchased a stock of goods ahiah he has never been able to sell at cost sim ply on the recommendations ions all the art of selling regardless of consequences hence to be a good auyer is an element of i successful ader lie should know at glance the number of threads r a square inch any textile neither starch nor gloss should hide alio basis of froia hia eyo lie should be able to distinguish pure wool boods from fabrics in ha dark and know the difference between new long wool and old shoddy cloth at tight and so of groce riM in purchasing them he should loo k beneath the labels lie should not imagine that all tea cht aro in china anil japan nor that all are made in modi java ayra or brazil no will therefore berre ur chaing large quantities and other standard gro cerica study ama cral use as well as those which but iv purchase tant ho may be prepared to go below the surface of aings indeed it would bo of great benefit to a grocer to study the basic qualities of all his goods under a arst class microscope so M to be abl distinguish the various adultery common at alie present time to be a good purchaser u one of the most important qualifications of a successful trader and benci the value of a faithful apprenticeship under m experienced launching ones own carque c an intuitive knowledge f hum an nature enables a merchant not only to employ the right kind of men to aid him in his briness bu iness but to knew whom to credit d lie must have a or warehouse in the part of the city town or village where the people generally expect to find the claas of good in which he deals e his store and all its appliances ances should ba clean neat conr or should be arranged with all the care and good taste that a lady of taste culture and di tion cheso are among the moat essential tio of ft auche ful trader the causes af failure i a personal business however great the amount of capital beginner may have who contemplates his business as a task and em floyt to do that which legitimately falls to hia own ot ahoi alay more interested in port and the club room than in his tor is already tho bankrupt court b lack of dily knowledge account it will not do for the proprietor to eav I dont like bookkeeping I have em a competent man for cloyed gainess UA iness I can pend my anne mors profitably my salesmen baid mv custo niora so thought ft firm in chicago a few beira since bad a in whom they re coed all confidence the member of the firm gave their attention to buying and telling and the bookkeeper took car of the accounts and the money the unbounded reposed in the accountant tempted hain to overdraw his alary ami to inet funds for future pey bonal aggrandizement the ebors found their ies and w every year and tho shrinkage to the lard almea and the fulling off of trade finally when taft privilege for enjoying tho advantages of tho national act was near at hand they beban to contemplate ic curing ig benefit bo fore it was too late this fact being arnado known to the bookkeeper quite to their he them an offer to buy their good and bubi il did go with the money which ho had gradually tolen from them by some means for murder will out tho bookkeeper s din honesty wa discovered and ha ii now at joliet wearing a striped suit and working for the state I who would avoid bankruptcy must not only understand every account book in their blab them regular and intervals lie ifould know by clori tho cash receipts ami deposits de of vry day ho ay iy nol ailway bavo iho time to verify all tho made to hain but he inay gal ch ai ayery pin hii ber about the eom diction that tho aya of the proprietor can all hi c bradera fail babau their tb i young aiming upon i i i L 77 r A commercial career thinks it important to keep up a home mont equal to hi cifes anole or hie own who has retired from active butia on a millin the young laople deem it important to chii success in bui ineis that they cej up appearances equal to ayin the same circle they seia un Trilling to co that the ful men around them reacts the top round of the ladder by forty years of patient laborious climbing young commercial america begins at the top round when compelled to descend he deems himself unfortunate and deserving the considers con sidera tion of his uncles his aunt hi cousins and all the other mo robers of ibo community ane FRENCH republic py to her president an annual salary of franca franc is equal to 18 cents of our money tho fenc each tha son ate cosh tho chamber of deputies of the II 11 aro paid franc cach 33 fenc and 41 franc the abbod drw the following salaries for their diplomatic services eer vices S petersburg ars frs london vinn berlin madrid two in rome ars frs each poking washington yokohama bern three marshal chief of ficera of the army re arg ch the ach of frt art that of alfiera ertry one of th other 16 draws a salary of fre and the 69 10 fr every french cardinal en joya a atta donation of fr per album in consideration of cheso aih salaries the of of the inferior clergy appears rather pitiful parsons over 75 years re 1300 ars frs from 70 to 75 henrs between 60 and 70 years 1100 and under 60 years only 40 to german residents of are about etting out a city paper published in their own lan guage |
