. The authorized pictorial lives of Stephen Grover Cleveland and Thomas Andrews Hendricks. lcould teach, and with an unquenchable thirst for knowledgehe clamored for a course at some academy more suitable tohis attainments than the meager curriculum afforded by thehome pedagogues. This very commendable desire foundbut slight response in the breast of the elder Cleveland,whose purse could ill stand the drain which a collegiatecourse for the son would make, and who was forced tomake him self-supporting at the earliest possible moment. How was this to be done? was the question. The boymight be pu
. The authorized pictorial lives of Stephen Grover Cleveland and Thomas Andrews Hendricks. lcould teach, and with an unquenchable thirst for knowledgehe clamored for a course at some academy more suitable tohis attainments than the meager curriculum afforded by thehome pedagogues. This very commendable desire foundbut slight response in the breast of the elder Cleveland,whose purse could ill stand the drain which a collegiatecourse for the son would make, and who was forced tomake him self-supporting at the earliest possible moment. How was this to be done? was the question. The boymight be put on a farm, or at a trade, or into a store—ofother situations there was a dearth. It was finally con-cluded that the latter promised the highest remunerationand the greatest outcome, and hence application was madeto the store-keeper for a position for the hoy. He was auniversal favorite, was bright, accommodating and, aboveall things, strictly honest, and the merchant was delightedto secure him as a clerk. The store at Fayetteville, in which Cleveland served his GROVER CLEVELAND. 39. 40 LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF novitiate to the trade of merchandising, was like those ofthe Western small towns of to-day. Dry goods and wetgoods, groceries and hardware, stationery and clothes werethere in close juxtaposition; and the clerk was liable at anymoment to be called from weighing out a pound of codfishfor farmer Grano^er to sell a bottle of coloo;ne to Miss Belle,the village beauty. His duties were multifarious and hisknowledsre of merchandise must be universal. Pins andpickles, lard and leather, flour and fish, rope and sugar,teas and tin pans, all fell within his province, and he wasexpected to be a good judge of each. The clerk must be able to keep books and make out ac-counts; he must be able to advise old Mrs. Smiley as to thebest brand of tea, and young Mrs. Mayflower of the properremedy for nervous headache; farmer Frugal came to himfor his opinion as to the best variety of s
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