you cannot make yourself so valuable to your employer that he will not,
before he advances you, inquire into your personal expenses, and find
out what you do with your money. If you have spent it, year after year,
as fast as you could get it, he will have great misgivings about letting
you into a position where your desire to distribute currency can
possibly lead you to practice on his funds. Among the easy ways to spend
money in a small town is the habit of hiring livery-rigs. The business
is just as useful as a drug-store, but no poor boy should hire equipages
for mere pleasure. To attend a funeral, or to take a sick mother or
sister out in the sunshine, is commendable. The youth who does that
rarely needs the other suggestion, however, for those who spend the
most money at a livery stable are usually seen with their mothers and
sisters the least. No young man who thinks well of himself will enter a
saloon at all. Often the worst classes in the whole country frequent