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Wanted--a Boy With Ten Points

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Day
22
Month
December
Year
1871
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Public Domain
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lst. llonest. 2d. Puro, ad. Intelligent lili. Aotivo. 6th. Industrióos. (th. Obodient. Tth. Steady. 8th. Obliging. SHh. PoJU-c. lOth. X'jt. Kuil y 1,000 iivst-class piucos aro open for 1,000 boys who come up to tho standard. Each boy can suit his taste as to tho kind of business lui would prefer. Tho places are ready in any kind of oceupaluiii. Many of them are already füled by boyswho laoksomeof tho most Lmpoetivnt parts, Dut thoy will soon be vacant. Ono is not far from whcro we writc. Tho lad who has the situation is losing his iirst i' .int. Ho likes to attend the oircus and the theater. This oosts more money than he can afford, but soniohow ho ruanagos to bo there frequently His employers are quietly watehing to learn how he gets so mnch sponding money ; thoy will soon discover a leak in thoir money drawer, dotect tho dishouost boy, and his place will be roady lor some ono who is now roady for it, by obsorving point munber ono, and being trutliful in all his ways. Somo situiitionR will soon bo vacant because boys have been poisonod by reading bad books, such as thcy would not ; daro to show their fathers, and would bo asharaed to have their mothers see. The iinjiurothoughts suggestedby these books will lead to vicious acts ; tho boys will. be ruinad, and their places must be filled. Who will be ready for ono of these vacancies ? Distinguished lawyers, useful mon', skillful physicians, sucecssful merchants, must all soon leavo their places for somebody elsc to ftll. Ono by ono thoy are removed by death. Mind your ten points, l' 'vs ; they will prepare you to step into vacancies in the front rank. Every man who is worthy to employ a boy is looking for you, if you have tle points. Do you fear that you will boovorlookod! A young person having these qualitios will shino as plainly as a star at night. We nanied ten points thnt go toward making up tho charucter of a successful boy, so that they can be easily remembored. You can imagino ono on oach finger, and so koop tlioui in mind ; thoy will be worth more than diamond rings, and you will thon ncver bo afraid to '-show your hand.'"

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Michigan Argus