The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-11-05

into q second edition, which was I'M
mcdiately issued. He knew the business
from top to bOttom-knew it in his brain
and knew it in his fingers.
So Horace Greeley, on returning from
his first visit to Europe, made up the
steamers news for the Tribune before she
entered the harbor. The steamer arrived
at six in the morning, after all the papers
had been printed. Going straight to the
Office, he too, found the compOst0rs all
gone home, and the pressmen just pre-
pairing to 60. He began forthwith to set
the news in type, and he never left the
case till it was all ready for an extra.
Then he started up town to see his
family. Old Jonas Chickering, old Mr..
Steinway, could make piano from the
legs to the keys, every part, outside and
inside. The original DclmonicO was
himself an admirable cook. A thousand
examples could be given, showing that
the capitalOf house of business is not
money, but brains.
sELF-CONTROL A NECESSITY.
Again: Before man can be king of
business, or king of men, he must be
monarch ofhimself A great part of the
secret of being able to control others is
selfcontrol. l remember Robert Bonner
pointing out a person going by the office
of the Ledger, and saying: 81 worked
by the side of that man for years setting
type, and good workman he was. Do
you want to know the reason why he is
still journcyman printer and l am
not?" did want to know the rea-
son. "Well," said he, the reason is
this: He used to buy five-dOllar pam
falcons, and as soon rs they began to look
shabby he cast them aside but bought
coarse, strong three-dollars ones, and
wore them out. That is the reason"
KINGS OF BUSINESS KINGS OF MEN.
But all these qualities that ! have
mentioned-honesty, knowledge, self
control, resolution, perseverance-will
not make a man king of business. An
individual, let him be the greatest man
that ever lived, can not accomplish much
unless he knows how to avail himself of
the services Of others.
In going over the letters and dispatches
ofNapoleOn Bonaparte, ,-Idetest him, but
he had his good points,-nothing struck
me more than the pains he took to dis
tinguish and crafty the men who served
him.
Strange to say, ladies, there are no
queens of business, unless we may call
Mr.. Worth, of Paris, one-the great
drcss-maker of Europe-or Madame
Cliquot, whose name, am sure, none of
the young gentlemen of the Business
College have ever seen upon champagne
bottles. AS this college numbers young
ladies among its graduates and pupils,
there will doubtless be business queens
enough in the future. Let them be sea
captains if they will.
SLAVES OF BUSINESS.
In our complicated modern life, man
may get together an enormous mass of
property and yet never become king of
business. There are kings and there are
slaves of business, and it is not till man
has made fortune that we can certainly
tell to which OF these classes he belongs.
1t was said during the late panic of an
enormous by rich man who makes great
pretensions to religion, that he could lose
three millions of greenbacks without feel
ing it, but the loss Of five dollars worth
of his religion would bankrupt him. He
was slave of business, inasmuch as he
regarded the accumulation of money, as
an end, and not as a means He valued
his five millions only asa means ofgetting
another five. No man is such slave as
one in whom the gentler affections are
dead, and who lives only to accumulate
property. The late Edward Forrest was
melancholy instance of this. He used
to din in the ears of his patriotic and
and generous friend, Murdock: Work,
work, work while you can; money is
power" 1t was a strange mistake for
such man, who had had peculiar ex-
perience of the powerlessness of money to
bring into human life one gleam of
joy. Other men, generous and good, get
ness, from which they have not the
strength to escape, not the less are slaves
of business.