Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-09

A LOOKING GLASS FOR MEN.-How
cross you are! Yes, how cross you
are-and it is high time you knew it.
You are cross in the morning, cross in
the evening, and cross when you 60 out
and cross when you come in cross to
your wife and cross to your children,
and cross to everybody, cross when you
60 to bed, and even in your sleep and
your friends wait in fear lest that in
ternal passion shall continue through
life and be ''strong in DEATH" Your
character is known and read of all men.
1t leaks out or spills over continually,
and there is no use in attempting to
conceal the matter. Now VIC intend in
this discourse to touch only one single
development of your disposition, viz,
its relation to business, to your pros
perity; and leave your minister to give
you other necessary Gospel teaching.
We will begin this ventilation by re-
marking: ... s-.
1st-That cross men are usually des-
pissed by everybody.
2d-That cross men are always in
the want of friends.
3d-That cross men can't depend up
on permanent prosperity.
4th-That cross men, when in trou-
BILE, are left alone and let alone, and
s'0re of all men most miserable."
5th-That cross men are the last men
who should ask for favors.
6th--That cross men have neither
position nor influence.
7th-That cross men are cut off from
the affections, good will and sympathy
of partners, clerk, customers, and
everybody E Es ~ - Z
Lastly-That cross men, when they
depart, (Which is far BETTER" leave
behind short procession, and but few
mourners. de-. ~
In view Of this subject, We venture
farther to say, that when you speak
cross to your partners you are making
muss genel ally, which will have ten
dency to reduce materially the profits
Of your business, render your success
more difficult +; when you speak cross
to your clerks, you discourage, inaame,
and prejudice them so that very soon
they will care little for you or any Of
your concerns when you speak cross
to customer, even if he is unreason-
able and deserves it, you disgrace your
self, and do wrong which cannot cas-
lily be repaired. He will not forget it
if you do, and the meaner he is
and the more he deserves it the more
he will abuse you.
Wherever and whenever you are
cross, you damage and belittle yourself
and all peaceable men will make tracks
give you wide berth, get out of sight
and instinctively shun you as they
would wild elephant.
Lastly, no money can compensate
you for the loss of a good or even a
t0lerd6le disposition. Therefore, dom
indulge a bad temper. You may be ;
Rothschild, OF even Cr9sus, yet n
you are chronic cross man, you vii
be poor beggar-a poverty stricken
fool, without crumb of solitary com.
fort upon which to satisfy the cravings
of poor human nature. Your partners
your clerks, your customers, and thu
public generally, including your poo
dog and cat, will breathe easier wher
you die and are out of the way, unless
you reform. Will you make the ex.
pertinent Begin then with a smile
Follow up that smile with firm reso
luton to persevere to the end. Let wha
will come, keep your temper. If 20,
can't restrain yourself, sing, sing loud
Try Old Hundred, Near, or even Yankee
Doodle. If that don't answer, seek
the open air, and roar at the wind
Try your lungs with u nor'wcster, an(
give US a record Of your experience
Go to Niagara Falls, and, amid tn,
thunderings Of the mighty cataract
give us a trial Of your uttermost Ca
pacity that shall ever after satisfy you
Do anything rather than not become {
reformed man.-Independent.
STRONG MEN.-A correspondent Of
the Boston Journal has known mar
who in feats Of strength takes the wine
out Of the sails Of DR.. Windship. His
name is Westcott, and he lived some
time in Charleston, where his perform.
ances were we'll known:
He at one time lifted, on wager
fourteen hundred weight Of pig iron
at the railroad depot in Charleston, al
account Of which was entered at the
time upon the books at the depot.
While keeping a store in Charleston he
often "ended up' q hogshead Of mo-
lasses. MIR. Westcott lived some twelve
years ago in Bristol: r. L., working il
the ship yard at that place. One day,
while the men were enjoying theil
''nooning" in their ship house, the con-
versation turned upon the subject oil
lifting, when it was proposed that one
Of the strongest men present should
lift one end Of stick of timber lying
near. He tried in vain to do it, when Mr.
Westcott raised it with one hand, and
did the same with three men standing
on the timber, and then requested every