The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1875-11-11

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lowers remark: Il will loose my camel and
trust it 10 God" NO, no; not 60" said
the prophet; "tie thy camel and trust it to
GodI'
GOOD SUBORDINATE.
Men in engaging employees should be
careful to get the best. Understand, you
cannot have too good tools TO work with,
and there is no tool you should be 30 par
ticular about as living tools. An import
ant element in employe Is the brain. You
can see bills up, Hands Wanted" but
Glands" are not worth great deal without
"head." Mr.. Beecher illustrates this in
this wise: An employe offers his services
BY saying, 81 have a pair of hands, and one
OF my fingers thinks" THAT is very good"
saw. the employer. Another man comes
along and says he has two fingers that
think. "Ah! that is better" But another
calls in, and says that all his fingers and
thumbs think. That is better still. Final
" another steps in, and says, IL have a
brain that thinks; think all over; l am
a thinking as we'll as a working man"
"You are the man want" says the de-
lighted employer.
Young men after they get through their
business training, or apprenticeship, in
stead of pushing their avocation and rising
in their business, will often lie about doing
nothing. They say, 81 have learned my
business, am not going to be a hireling
what is the object OF learning my trade or
profession, unless establish myself?" Ev-
ery man should make his son or daughter
learn some trade or profession, 80 that in
these days of chang ing fortunes-of being
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have something tangible to fall back upon.
This provision might save many persons
from misery, who by some unexpected turn
Of fortune might lose all their means.
Engage in one kind Of business only,
and stick to it faithfully until you succeed,
or until your experience shows that you
should abandon it. A constant hammer
ing on one nail will generally drive it
home at last, so that it can be clinched.
| When a mans undivided attention is CEN
tired on one object, his mind will constantly
be suggesting Improvements in value which
wouln escape him if his brain was occu-
pied by dozen different subjects at once.
Men should be systematic in their busi-
ness. A person who does business b. rule,
having time and place for everything,
doing his work promptly, will accomplish
twice as much and with half the trouble of
him who does it carelessly and slipshod.
BY introducing system into all your trans
actions, doing one thing at a time, always
meeting appointments with punctuality,
you find leisure for pastime and recreation
whereas the man who only half does one
| thing, and then turns TO something else and
half does that, will have his business at
| loose ends, and will never know when his
days work is done, for it never will be done.
BE Up WITH THE TIMES.
| Always take a trustworthy newspaper
and thus keep thoroughly posted in regard
| to the transactions of the world. He who
is without newspaper is cut of from his
species. In these days OF telegraphs and
steam many important inventions and i'm
provements in every branch of trade are
being made, and he who don't consult the
newspapers will soon find himself and his
business left out in the cold.
MAKE YOURSELF ACQUAINTED WITH THE
PUBLIC.
| We all depend, more or less, upon the
public for our support. We all trade with
the public-lawyers, doctors, showmen,
opera singers, railroad presidents, artists,
blacksmiths, shoemakers and college pro-
fessors. Those who deal with the public
must be careful that their goods are valu-
able (, that they are genuine and will give
satisfaction. When You get an article
which you are sure is going to please your
customers, and that when they have tried
it they will feel that they have got their
moneys worth, then let the fact BE- known
that you have got it. Be careful TO adver-
tise it in some shape or other, because it is
evident that if nan has ever so good an
article for sale, and nobody knows it, it
will bring him 10 return. In a country
like this, where nearly everybody reads,
and where newspapers are issued and circu-
lated in editions of one Thousand to two
hundred thousand, it would be very I'M
wise if this channel were not taken advan-
tage of TO reach the public in advertising.
A newspaper goes into the family and is
read by wife and children, as we'll as by
the head of the house hence hundreds and
thousands of people are reading your ad-
vertisement while you are attending to
your routine business. A French writer
says that "the reader OF newspaper does
not see the first insertion OF an ordinary
advertisement; the second insertion he sees,
but does not read; the third insertion he
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price, the fifth insertion he speaks of it to
his wife; the sixth insertion he Is ready to
purchase, and the seventh insertion he pur-
chases."
| FREEHEARTEDNES.
OF course men should be charitable. be-
cause il is duty and pleasure. But even
as matter of policy, if you possess no
higher incentive, you will find that the
liberal man will command patronage, while
the sordid, uncharitable miser will be
avoided. The best kind of charity is to
help those who help themselves. Promiscu-
Gus almsgivihg, without inquiring into the
worthiness oil the applicat, il bad in every
sense. But 10 search out and quietly as
sist those who are struggling for themselves,
is the kind that "scattereth and vet increas-
eth" But don't fall into the idea that
some persons practice of giving a prayer in
stead Of potato; and benediction in
stead of bread, to the hungry. 1t is easier
to make Christians with full stomachs than
empty.
KEEP 1T TO YOURSELF.
Some men have a very foolish habit of
telling their business secrets. Ii they make
money they like to tell their nelghbors how
it was done. Nothing is gained by this,
and ofttimes much is lost. Say nothing
about your profits, your hopes, your expec-
tations. your intentions. And this should
apply to letters as well as TO conversation.
Goethe makes Mephistophiles say: "Nev-
er write letter Tor destroy one" Business
men must write letters, but they should be
careful what they put in them. III you are
losing money, be specially Cautious not to
tell of il, or you will lose your reputa-
| ton.
BE UPRIGHT.
A mans integrity is more precious than
diamonds or rubies. The old miser said 10
his sons: Gee; money get it honestly if
you can, but get money" This advice was
not only atrociously wicked, but it was the
very essence Of stupidity. 1t was a. much
as 10 say, IF you find il difficult to obtain
money honestly YOU can easily get it dis
honestly. Get il that way" Poor fool
| Not TO know that the most difficult
thing in life is TO make money dis
honestly! not TO know that our pris-
ons are full of men who attempted TO fol-
low this advice; not to understand that no
man can be dishonest without soon being
found out, and that when his lack of prin-
ciple is discovered, nearly every avenue to
success is closed against him forever The
public very properly shun all whose integ-
rity is doubled. No matter how polite and
pleasant and accommodating man NAV
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