Faithful Boys

FAITHFUL BOYS. There is a greater demand for faithful boys than for smart boys. There is nothing that one more appreciates in one under him than faithfulness. I once heard a gentleman say that he asked a friend why ha paid his secretary such a very large salary when he could secure one for a much smaller sum. He replied that he could secure one for a less amount, but not one who would do the work as did this one. "When 1 am gone." said the friend, "everything goes on just as if I were here.'- Now if this secretary had been smart, rather than faithful, his employer might not have been able to say of him what he did. He might have been obliged to have said, "I can't leave him, for when I'm gone he tries to run matters to suit himself and to improve upon my methods, and it is not a partner that I want, but a secretary." Where one succeeds because of his smartness, ten succeed because of their faithfulness.—Alice May Douglas.