He who is carrying on a course of latent corruption and dishonesty, be he a president of some mammoth corporation or engaged only in private transactions, is sailing in a ship like that fabled one of old. As he comes nearer and nearer to a magnetic mountain, every nail will at last be drawn out of that ship. All faith in God and all trust in man will eventually be lost. He will get no reward for his guilt. The very winds will sigh for his iniquity.
Strict honesty is the crown of one's early days.
He took pains, the other day, to tell a customer of a small blemish in a piece of goods. The salesboy is sometimes virtually taught to declare that goods cost such and such a sum. That they are strong, fashionable, perfect, when the whole story is false. We hope and trust these cases are rare. But even one such house as we allude to, may ruin the integrity and the fair fame of many a lad.