Honesty In Business

Mr. A. T. Stewart once discharged a salesman íor telling a woman that a píece of ftoods wotlld wash, when he knew that t would noL The Dry G'ootlt L'hrouicle reporta a similar case: "A clolliliip; dcnler in ai) luterior town liad ocCnslon lo vleit the city to purchaí-e goods. V 1 1 1 1 o lio was pone, a younir man entered tho Btore to buy a coat A salesman waited upOD the rustomer, and sliowed him a coat plaiuly marked í. The customer tried it on aud sald in ;i pleagant, vonflding way. 'I want a rood inticle, u 1 1 ü I can a fiord to pay u little moro.' Tlio aniesman sliowed him many couts and liimllv, lüiviiip: removed the tac, airnin oilered him lie aeven-dollar c;at which had fiited him at lii-t. and eald, 'Here is a coat, a line artlcli', just. yont fit, wlüdi I cau sell you íor $1' The coat :is agaln trled on, the yOQDg man seeineil plensed, pnlil hls money and went away. On the merchant's retuin, the ealesmaií, wih a sinl'e of trlumph uil over hl8 countenance. rushed up to him, and boasted of wliat lie liad done. Tlie iuereliant looked grava He only said: 'Does any one know wbo the ciistomer was?' A little boy had recounlzeil him ns a workman in a nelchbonng factory, and remembered his name. The tnerchaut sent. for t he young man, told him of hls mortlflcatlOD, eiive him back $5, and the privilege of retnrnlDg tbo coat if he chose, and tbt-Mi finid to the slesiüan: "Now. sir, I wíll pay youi' neok'a salary, and I wish you to ro. If you elieRI inv customers yon havo DOt principie enouirli nót to eheat me. If I can't have my people sell jroods honestly, I will gooutof thu business. Good dav, sir.' "