The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1855-05-25
LITERALLY IN BIISINESS.

There is No greater mistake, saws CO.
temporary, that a business man can make
than TO be mean in business ALWAYS
taking the half cent, and never returning
a cent for the dollars he has made and Is
making. Such policy is very much like
the farmers who sows three pecks OF
seed when he ought to have sown five,
and as recompense for the leanness Of
his sol! only gets ten when he might have
t got fifteen bushels Of grain.
Every body has helrd OF the proverb
OF penny wise and pound foolish" A
liberal expenditure in the way Of business
is always sure to be capital investment
There are people in the world who are
short sighted enough to believe that their
interest can be be>t promoted by grasping
and clinging TO all they can get, and never
letting cent slip through their fingers.
As a general thing, it will be found
other things being equal--,hat lie who is
most liberal Is most successful IN bust
ness. Of course we do not mean il to be
inferred that man should be prodigal in
his expenditures /; but that lie should show
to his customers. if he is trader, or to
those whom he nay be doing any kind of
business with. that, in all his transactions,
as well as social relations, he acknow-
| lodges the everlasting fact, that there can
be no permanent prosperity or good feel
ms IN community whore benefits are not
I reciprocal
| We know Of instances where traders
have enjoyed the profits Of hundreds Of
! a oil II L..
hibited not The slightest disposition to re-
ciproca'e even TO the smallest amount
Now, what must necessarily follow from
such course? Why, the loss OF large
profits per annum, in the loss Of trade,
which, under more liberal system, might
have been retained
The practice OF some men seems to be
to axe as little show in the way Of bust
ness Us possible. Such one, If trader
takes no pains with the appearance OF bis
store. Everything around him is in a
worn-out dllapidated, dirty condition. To
have it otherwise il would cost a dollar
for nhitewash, and perhaps five for pant
ing, and a few dollars besides for cleaning
t.up aud putting things in order And so
he plods on and loses hundreds of dollars
worth Of custom for the want Of attention
TO these matters. while his more agacous
neighbor, keeping up with the times and
having an eye to appearances, does a
prosperous business.
Another will spend no money in any
way 10 make business for fear he shall
not get it back again. Consequently he
sends out no circulars, distributes no
handbills, publishes no advertisements but
sits down croaking about The hard times
moaning over the future prospects of
notes to pay no money, and no trade and
comes out, just where he might expect to
come short, while his neigtbor. follow
ing IN different track. doing all that is to
be done TO make bushes (; isn't short but
has money to loan; and j. would be just
like him TO get twelve per cent, perhaps
more for the use Of il md We should not
blame him for SO doing
The fact is times have changed. Tie
manner Of doing business is different now
from what it used to be 1t would be Just
as foolish to insist upon doing business
now IN the old fashioned way. as it would
be 10 insist upon travelling with an OK
team instead OF BY railroad to get news
by old-fashioned stages ms cad OF having
it brought by lightning telegraph. The
times demand men of enlarged, liberal,
energetic souls--men who will keep up
with The world as il goes men Of hearts
too, who not only desire TO go ahead them
selves, but take pleasure in seeing others
succeed; and who have public spirit
enough 10 do something for, and rejoice in
the prosperity Of the people.
} Et4a- The Northern Methodisls, who
have so long kept studiously silent on the
subject of Slavery. are beginning TO speak
cut The Conferences now or recently in
session at Troy and at Sing Sing have
with very great unanmi'v adopted resolu-
tons denouncing American Slavery as a
political. social and moral curse, and pro.
missing TO work. in q lawful and Christian
manner, FOR its extinction. This is a timel,
response to the whistle Of the bullet and
the CLEAN Of the bowieknife which. under
} The lead of David Rutiian Atchison and hi,
! crew Of land pirates in Kansas, are par
ticular'y directed against all N6flherr
Methodist Ministers in that region
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tie red haired girl. "can procure glass
of milk here p
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