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Wearing Out Shoe Leather

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
January
Year
1892
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

"1 have but onre maxim for you," snid a sueceesfnl and vrealthy mercbant to a yomng man who went out of Ui.-; employ to 'enter upon tlie etudy oí a pioassio.ii. "and that is never try to save your slios lBatlier, but alv;iys to le eyonomical of the cloth that farms the seat of your tremsers." The yaung man pondeted over this bit oí advlce a long time, but lie tliinks that lie never 'fully uuderstood it uixtil he had been at work in his profrssion for Beveral years. II ■ iO'imd, indeed, that 'Svorn out si.o.' leather" was a good Investment. It meant, for ome thiing, keepirig p with the time by gaining infcwmatioiii at first hand. Ií he needed any facts bearing upon hls proíession, he said to himsoK: "I can buy Ihcm Tvith a littls shoe leather," and he went out and saw the men who had ttoe facts to glve him. If he had waltoed for them t: come to him, probalily th-ey would never have come. He could not buy the informatica witfa pantaloou material.

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Courier