Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1860-02-18
Rules for Business Men

AMI accomplish as Wuch I'D sIHsIe "dy
as required weeks, monhs, or years, loI-
mcrIy.
Use the means, they are open 10 all.
Don't depend alone upon your own
lungs use the lungs OF the Press.
Don't depend alone upon your own
hands, or the labor of other mems hands
use steam power.
Make it known that you are prepared
10 do business.
Confess ignorance in regard 10 subjects
on which you are unlnlormed listen anu
learn.
BE silent when fool prales ; he viii
cease the sooner; you cannot gain by
converse.
BE ashamed Of nothing but your own
errors.
Calculate the probabilities Of The future;
increase and multiply the means of infor-
nation.
70 compete, successfully with neigh.
Dor, participate i'll the facilities afforded TO
go ahead.
The door to wealth, responsibility, in
luence, and honor is thrown wide open
to all.
Establish yourself on the broad and
sound basis of integrity conducl your
business with intelligence and judgment.
He who arms his intent with virtue Is
invIncible.
Trihe not with serious matters, and be
not serious about trifles.
Wisdom and virtue make the poor rich
and the rich honorable.
There are looking. glasses for the face,
but none for the mind : the defect mnst
be supplied by serious reflection upon
ones self.
There is no deep or hidden mystery to
be studied oripractised 10 carry on bust
ness successfully on the contrary, all
that any honest, legitimate concern, de-
manded by the pablic wants, requires is
fair Judgment, close industry, unwaver-
ing integrity, superior workmanship, fair
prices and 10 do better by the customers,
if possible, than others in the same busl-
ness can do by theirs,-and give it pub
liLily.
Let the business of others alone, and
attend TO your own.
Dom buy what you don't want; use
every hour to the hest advantage, and stu
dy even to make leisure hours useful.
Find recreation in looking after your
business, and your business will not be
NEGLECTED ia looking after recreation.
Buy fair, sell fair ; and take care OF the
profits.
Should misfortune overake you, re-
trench, work harder, but never fly the
track confront difficulties with unfinch.
ing perseverance, should you then fail,
YOU will be honored but shrink, and
you'll be despised.
Consider the causes of the good stand.
ing of some, and the decline and fall and
want Of success of others, and regulate
your conduct accordingly.
The tricky, deceiful, and dishonest
are rarely prosperous, for when conf
Gence is Withdrawn, poverty is likely TO
| follow.
With the preservation Of an upright
character, if the opportunities for acquir'
ing knowledge and cullivating the mind,
which lie in every ones way, be proper
Iy improved, respectabiIIty, influence, and
perhaps wealth, may be the reward.
Reflect on what you see and hear. Set
your mind at work reason with candor
weigh well and consider for yoursell-de
eide and act.
Be civil and obligng to all it costs
nothing and is worth much.
Be not diverted from your duty by any
idle reflections the silly world may make
upon you their censures are not in your
power, and consequently should not De
any part Of your concern.
Rest satisfied with doing well, and
leave others to talk as they will.
Never regret what is iEretrievably lost.
Never believe that which seems i'm
probable.
Never expose your disappointment to
the world.
Never complain Of being i'll used.
Always speak well Of your friends hut
Of your enemies speak nel'her good nor
evil.
Treat your customers as your friends,
by serving them in the best manner.
Sell at small profits. for cash, and make
it known through the newspapers.
Long Dresses.
The editor of the Atlantic Monthly des-
pises land who don'ttbat loves decency y
long dresses. lie says:
Why, there isn't beast or bird that
would drag its tail through the dirt in the
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