GETTING A SITUATION.

In seeking a situation, it is always best to appear in person if practicable.  A business man who requires the services of a salesman or clerk, a bookkeeper, stenographer, or some one to remain in his employ a considerable time, usually prefers to see an applicant and have a few words with him about the work that is to be done.

If an application has to be made by letter, it should be done in the handwriting of the applicant.  It may be brief, and should include references.

It is best for a young man to learn a trade.  In this country the trades offer more stable means of subsistence than do other departments of active life.  His knowledge of a trade will form no bar to any effort he may afterward make to rise to a higher or more congenial calling.

When a position has been obtained by an applicant, he should at once proceed to render himself indispensable to his employer by following up the details of his work in a conscientious and agreeable manner.  Thus he will gain confidence and grow in favor with men who are quick to recognize merit, and who respond to that which contributes to the success of a meritorious man.

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There is always room in every business for an honest, hard-worker.  It will not do to presume otherwise; nor should one sit down to grumble or concoct mischief.  The most perilous hour of one’s life is when he is tempted to despond.  He who loses, his courage loses all.  There are men in the world who would rather work than be idle at the same price.  Imitate them.  Success is not far off.  An honorable and happy life is before you.  Lay hold of it.

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[Illustration:  DETECTING COUNTERFEIT MONEY.]

DETECTING COUNTERFEIT MONEY

The desire to accumulate property is one of the noblest that nature has implanted in man, and it is through the successful results of this desire, we are enabled to point with unerring certainty to the disembarking line, which so surely characterizes the advanced educated, refined and civilized man from that of the wild savage, whose highest desire is to slay and rob his fellow men, and proudly exhibit their scalps, or the plunder he has acquired, as evidence of his cunning or courage.

It is through this inborn desire to accumulate that man is willing to labor, toil, suffer, and forego present gratifications for the hope of future greater satisfactions; that has resulted in the building and equiping the mighty ships of commerce, whose white, spreading canvas dots every sea where commerce may be known, or where the interests of God’s creatures may best be served.  It is through this desire, coupled with unremitting toil, that we owe everything of permanent enjoyment, of enlightenment and of prosperity.  The millions of dollars of paper money which is handled every day as the natural fruit of toil and saving through the many and diversified transactions in the vast, illimitable and ever rapidly developing field of commerce, is but the representative of ownership of property.