The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-07-15

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| We wonder if the good fellow ever mis-
trusts his goodness, or realizes how selfish,
how weak, how unprincipled and how bad 4
fellow he truly Is. He never regards the con-
sequence Of his acts as they relate TO others,
and especially those Of his family friends.
Little fits Of generosity towards them are sup
posed to atone for all his misdeeds, while DO
inflicts upon them the diagraces, inconveni-
ences and burdens which attend selfish, dis
solute life. The invitation Of friend, the
taunts Of good-natured boon companions, the
temptations Of jolly friendship. these are
enough to overcome all his scruples, il he has
/ any scruples, and to lead him to ignore all the
| possible results to those who love him best,
and who must care for him in sickness and
all the unhappy phases of his selfish life.
/ The good fellow Is VIGOROUSLY careless Of
his family. Any outside friend can lead him
whithersoever he will--into debauchery, idle
ness, vagabondage. He can ask a favor, and
it is done. He can invite him into disgrace,
and he goes He can direct him into a job of
dirty work, and he straightway undertakes
it. He can tempt him into any indulgence
4 vhiSh thoJ QUIZ Hio NtCiVuo WutulSy Nlu, IT.
| CARELESS of wife, mother, sister, who may be
shortened in their resources so as legitimately
to claim his protecting hand-regardless of
honorable father and brother-he will spend
his money, waste his time, and make himself
a subject of constant and painful anxiety, or
an unmitigated nuisance to those alone who
care straw for him. What does he receive
for this shameful sacrifice The honor of
being considered good fellow with set
of men who would not spend cent for
him If they should see him starving, and who
would laugh over his calamlties. When he
dies in the ditch, as he is most likely to die,
they breath sigh over the swill they drink,
and say, latter all, he was a good fellow
This feature Of the good fellow case which
makes it well nigh hopeless is, that he is a
good fellow. He thinks that this pliable DISPOSE
tion, his readiness to do other good fellows a
service, and his jolly ways, atone for all his
faults. His love of praise is fed by his COM
panions, and thus his .self-complacency is
nursed. Quite unaware that this good fellow
ship is the result of his weakness quite una
ware that his sacrifice of honor, and the honor
and peace of his family, for the sake of out
side praise, is the offspring of the most heart
/ less selfishness quite unaware that his dis
regards of the interests and feelings of those
who are bound to him by tho closest ties OF
blood, is the demonstration of utterly un
: principled character, he carries an unruffied
+ or q iovial front, while hearts bleed or breal
D around him.
OF tho Sna ~, 80 c<,r;afx, 4lo
: tional good fellow is tho most despicable. j
man who for the sake Of his own selfish dc
E lights or the sake of the praise of careless o
r unprincipled friends, makes his home seen
Q of anxiety and torture, and degrades and dis
0 graces al those who are associated with hin
! in his home life, is, whether he knows it OF
not, brute. fla man cannot be loyal to his
home, and to those who love him, then he can
not be loyal to nything that is good. There
is something mean beyond description in any
man who cares more for anything in this
world than the honor the confidence and love
of his family. There is something radically
wrong in such man, and the more thoroughly
he realizes it, in a humiliation which bends
him to the earth in shame and confusion, the
OtblcI luI Blms lAC blduttluithi SOOu lciiOW
is bad fellow from the crown of his head to
tile sole Of his foot. He is as weak as baby,
vain as peacock, selfish as pig and as I'M
principled as a thief He has not one redeem
ing trait upon which a reasonable selfrespect
can be built and braced.
Give us the bad fellow who stands by his
personal and family honor, who sticks to his
H..
his home is in need of the money he wastes,
and who gives himself no indulgence of good
fellowship at the expense Of duty A man
with whon the approving smile of wife, or
sister, does not weigh more than q thousand
crazy braves of boon companions, Is just no
man at all -Swi5ncr's for June.
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THE MAN WHO CAN DE SPARED When
trade becomes dull and but little work Is in
the factory and not much prospect of more
coming, employees ask themselves, Who
can be most easily spared /" One or more
men must be discharged, and those most cas-
lily spared are the ones marked out for a dis
charge, in the knowledge that those most cas-
lily spared are the very men who can be most
easily replaced The men we were most loath
to discharge in dull times are those who have
been long in our employ, who have always
been attentive to our interests by faithful
discharge of duty, and toward whom we have
learned, from long association, to entertain q
feeling of interest and friendship. Such men
will be retained under any and all circumstan-
ces, while the shiftless, eye-serving, afraid-of-
doing-to-much class win be shipped " at the
first opportunity they can be spared. The
same result extends to all branches of trade,
and he who would succeed in the battle Of life
must make himself master Of his business,
or be reckoned among those who can be
spared
Young man. remember that the men who
can be easily. spared are not the ones sought
I after when responsible positions are to be fill
ed. Would yon like to know the probabili
ties Of you getting such a position? Inquire
within ! What are you doing to make your
self valuable in the position you now occupy