Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-03-08

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sition of teacher in hourishing school
and who passed most creditable exam
ination was rejected by the examining
committee because he carried about Sc
much of mother earth under his finger
nails-do you say it was unjust2 No
for his example might have been .conta
gious, at least it was good though Sc
we're lesson to him, and he afterward:
thanked the committee for their action
Let no filthy habits become yours. Il
others desire to spend their health and
strength upon stimulants of various
kinds, let them do it but in your early
days take correct position and main
tain it. Rest assured of one thing, that
no good business man will want your
services if you in any way become the
servant of bad habit.
YOUR WORD.
Have great regard for your word
Let your word be always as good as
your bond. Never promise more than
you can fulfil, and promise once made
in good faith endeavor by all possible
and justifiable ways to maintain.
Give to your employers, SO long as
you are servants, your most implicit obe-
dience-providing always that their de-
mands upon you are just-and make
their interests yonr own. There is no
fact more patent and more to be deplor-
ed in business circles than this: en-
ployees work only for hire, and with no
real abiding interest in the success of
those for whom they labor. Our sue
cessiul men are constantly on the watch
for young men who are not "eye-ser-
wants" but who can be relied upon un-
der all emergencies and at all times.
Be not hasty in your speech. Learn, if
possible to control your temper. 1t is
| just as true now as in olden time, that
he that ruleth his own tongue is greater
than he that taketh city," Have pa
tience; others will need to have much
patience with you. So cultivate spirit
of forbearance toward all. Under no
provocation use language that you would
not use before your father or mother.
Let no profane or vulgar thought have a
home in any of your breasts. Let your
words be few, but to the point.
BE ECONOMICAL
do not mean close or miserly-far
from it, for of all men, the one most to
be despised is the stingy mantle one
who has dried up all the fountains Of be-
nevolence and generosity, and lives on
ly for himself But | mean just this !;
let no consideration tempt you to live
beyond your ability to pay, and SO be
continually under the harrow of debt
Always live within your income, and
watch carefully that the income that is
yours now or may be yours in the future
shall serve the best purposes possible.
BE MODEST.
Don't push yourselves your true
worth will be found out in time. Never
boast of what you can do, but do, and
boast not; always, in handing in to those
about to or desirous to employ you, your
estimates, make them low enough, for
the opposite reason that most of our
architects know, when they hand in esti-
mates, they are invariably low, that the
person receiving them may be induced
to build, and SO use their designers. re-
sulting generally, however, in the party
who builds giving that architect wide
berth-your reason being that your en-
ployers will find you of more value than
they had anticipated, and so invite you
into higher seats.
DO NOT GET DISCOURAGED.
have plenty Of pluck. This is plain
word and sounds homely, but it means
ever SO much. In fact, there is no other
word that just covers the whole ground.
If you have but little of it, why, cult
vate It; nurse it by first succeeding in
small things, aud soon you will find that
you will hardly hesitate to undertake
almost anything. What if you do fail
at FIRST, get tripped and fall, get up again,
and, although you may be sore and
bruised, try it again. Under no circum-
stances surrender, and say there is no
use, have tried, and tried, until there
is no use in trying more. A young man
started from this city last Monday
morning for an eastern college, a poor
boy with but $50 all told, and without
friends to assist him, yet be has gone to
that college with the full purpose of
taking thorough course of four years,
and fitting himself for the ministry
That boy has got pluck, will, faith, and
will succeed if lite and health are spared
A prominent man of this city who to-
day gives employment to more than any
other man, was, fifteen years ago, so
deep under the burden of debt that he
could hardly make motion, and his in.
domitable will, his pluck, knew 10 such