The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-16
Dorralosolrbille Chief.
Some of the Different Kinds
of Men.
BY SOL. NJ. LEE.

There seem TO De certain laws or HAeu
rules which regulate the former, while
the latter may be said TO constitute an
infinite conglomeration of varieties.
THE rHoRoUGH-Go1NG BUSINESS MAN
is rather an amusing study. His notes
never go to protest-in fact he seldom
giyes any. He is not likely to be pop
ular with school girls or imaginative
Young ladies-there is not enough OF
the g free lancev about him. A wom-
an does not like to receive a spraWiy
letter on common paper, commencing
"Yours of the 14th instant came TO
hand this date" If you chance to be
extravagantly dressed, your intense
business friend regards you reproy-
ipgly. as one who would say, " One
half the expense of that suit of clothes
and that watch and chain ought to be
at interest" When travelling on bus
mess he will sit up all night to save
two dollars, and upon returning nome
subscribe Cat the earnest solicitation
of wealthy female patron) ten dol
lars to the Infant Hottentot Linen AS
ISOLATION. He casts his bread upon
the waters, knowing that it will come
back again after many days. When
your thorough-going business man
tells YOU, with look of placid cold
ness, that he cannot possibly accom-
modate you in the matter OF that T" lit
tie loan,n you know it were easier for
a camel to pass through the needles
eve Tor point, for that matter) than
for YOU to accomplish the aforesaid
.slittle loan" Order is his first law,
and he never fails to impress the fact
upon all about him. MI. Jones
will be in at nine O'clock" the polite
clerk informs you, with a look, as
muchlas to say, Ii you have any
loose change to bet against it, I'm
YOUR man." If John, the coachman,
were to drive around fifteen minutes
late. he would do SO with his official
head under his arm. They are little
tedious and prosy, these systematic
people, vet when one is waiting at the
bank for a "raiser that will save him
from bankruptcy, he appreciates the
prompt arrival of the cashier | Won
der.whether these regular people do
not wish they could lie i'll bed half
hour later now and then, just by the
way of varietyY
THE UNLUCKY MAN
deserves pity. Everything he touch
es miscarries. He works hard, but
does not become rich. He sows, but
gathers not. The Rothsehilds are
said to give unlueky men wide berth
in business, perhaps on the suppose
ton that lack of judgment, rashness
or undue caution, inattention, ana
want of capacity are the prime causes
of so many being unsuccessful. have
often wondered how my friend Tom
kins or Smith could afford to spend so
much money on so limited business.
The solution has appeared under the
disastrous heading, "Failure." The
unlucky man is fatalist. He believes
that some men are sure to prosper,
while with others it is impossible. He
is generally involved, breathing an
atmosphere of debt and difficulty.
Being looked upon at the banks as a
little "shaky,n he is sometimes una
BILE to effect a loan that would save
him temporarily from ruin.
THE ERECT AND POSITIVE MAN
is a great nuisance. What he does
know he knows with such an intens-
ity of certainty that the weight of the
everlasting hills can not press out one
iota of his stock in trade. He is es-
sentially man of details. Regard
less of the opinion of others, he asserts
his own with an air of infallibility.
There should be dot over his head,
that the world might mark him at a
glance as in reality a little "i." He
is the mortal foe of logic and argu-
ment. Ideas petrify in his brains, and
occasionally have to be pounded or
dug out, in which event he lays them
away in a sort of charnel-house, hop
ing they may sometime come into use.
Opposition lashes him into fury. He
is dogmatic, unimaginatiye, dictate
rial and generally hateful.
THE DYsPEPTIc MAN
must receive q passing notice. /
knew man who often ate twice the
average dinner, or, in other words,
two mems dinners, and afterwards
made sad lamentation that God con-
tinued to punish him with that " ter
rible dyspepsia" That man tried all
climes, but his magnificent appetite
followed him. Three times day he
threatened to curse God and die"
but did neither-don't think he had
the nerve. Two hundred and fifty
times, while laboring with his pains,
he has said to me: Have you had
the dyspepsia" I finally came to
answer" No" in a business tone. You
cannot appreciate my sufferings you
do not sympathize with me-" he would
reply with an agonized air. "My
dear fellow" remarked, one day, sit
would take too much time pray let
me make a monthly deposit of sym
patty for you to check on" Since
that time, in my presence, he has
eaten and suffered in silence. Your
dyspeptic is a thorn inhis wife's flesh,
the terror of his children and servants,
ood n hara ta his f,.iapds His