The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1879-02-06
Accuracy . Path to Wealth.

m0nce0 Win tne importance VI accuracy
in the value of testimony, all depending
on its exactness, and proceeds to say :
The protested end of logic is to teach
men to think, TO- judge and reason with
precision and accuracy. S. Martin asks:
"What makes the scholar? Exactness.
What is most likely to secure success in
the learned professions? Exactness.
What raises men of various calIings to
the highest position a.tainable by per.
sons in their occupations? Exactness.
What makes . mans word pass current
as gold? His known exactness. What,
above oil things, is essential in the labo-
ratory! Exactness."
Mr.. Martin is right. Exactness, accu-
racy, perfection in all the work you IN.
dertake will bring you sure reward.
And the record OF noted man Ia found
IN these words: "He became an homo
rable man, successful merchant, and
bank president" His splendid career
commenced in backing pair of boots
we'll when . boy ; and he continued "do.
ing we'll" through lite. whether backing
boots or managing finance. What be
did he did accurately, and, of course, il
did not have to be done over or improv-
ed or mended, but always gave satisiac.
ton and secured commentator.
President Tuttlc, on Chow to Get the
Best Place." gives Us this instance: 81
saw young man in the Office of West.
ern railway superintendent. He was
occupying q position that four hundred
boys IN the city would have wished TO
get. 1t was honorable and lit paid well,
besides being in the line of promotion.
How did ho get it? Not by having a
rich father, tor be wa, the son of labo
rer. The secret was, his beautiful &C.
curacy. He began as an errand boy land
did his work accurately. His leisure
time hs used in perfecting his writing
and arithmetic. After q while be learn
ed to telegraph. At each step his EN-.
ployer commended his accuracy, and re-
lied on what he did because he was sure
it was just right
And it is thus with every occupation.
The accurate boy is the favored one.
Those who employ men do not wish to
be on tho constant lookout, as though
they were rogues or fools. liza carpen-
ter must stand at his journeyman's el-
bow to be sure his work is right, or il
a cashier must run over his book keep
er's columns, he might as well do the
work himself as to employ another one
to do in that way; and it is certain that
the employer will get rid OF such an in
accurate workman as soon as possible.
knew such young man. He had q
good chance to do we'll but he was so in.
accurate and unreliable that people were
afraid to trust him. 1t he wrote deed
or mortgage or o contract, he was sure
to leave out something or to put in some
thing to make it an imperfect paper. He
was o lawyer without business, because
he lackedIthe noble quality OF accuracy.
Just across the street from him was
another young lawyer, who was proven
bal tor accuracy. He was famous for
searching titles, and when he wrote out
the history of q title to q piece of prop.
erty, it was taken tor granted as just 80
His ann was absolute accuracy in every.
thing. Ii he copied conveyance or
cited legal authority or made q state.
ment, he aimed to do it exactly. The
consequence is, he is having valUa'
bic practice at the bar and is universally
esteemed.
"But," says some boy, "when be-
como q man that is the way shall do.
mean to DO accurate" Perhaps so;
|, could tell better it I knew just how
you do your work now. There are sew
eral ways of getting q lesson. One is to
get it "tolerably WE'LL" which does not
cost much labor the other to get it
taultlessly we'll, which costs great deal
of labor. A boy can get a general idea
of his lesson Tin . jiffy )" but to get it
accurately is very hard, and requires
both time and industry. If you, my
boy, to-day are getting your lesson IN
the slipshod way, you will grow up
slipshod man but if your habit is to
get every lesson with perfect accuracy,
| will warrant you will DO that way
when you become q man. How is it?
Millions Of persons in the world are
clamoring for work, and work is abund-
ant; but they are careless, inaccurate,
unreliable, Enthusiastically. Shake off
your stupidity, idle one; get wide
awake and do your work well. Accu-
rate, perfect, tor even dot or point
ray shelter you or turn you out of
doors.
To illustrate the importance of accu-
racy and careful, honest work, take this
instance OF loss by penmanship "a
decision was rendered by Judge Van
Brunt, of New York, which may be OF
interest to those who are careless in pre-
pairing manuscript, and think anything
in the guise of hand writing will do that
can either be deciphered or guessed at.
It was sui, brought to recover dcmages
from . telegraph company for errors
in transmitting q message,
by which the party suing suffered pc
cuniary loss. On the trial the original
message, as written and handed to the
operator, Was offered in evidence, and
was 90 illegibly written that no two per-
sons could agree from the marks sub
mitted what 1t actually did contain.
Whereupon the judge instructed the
jury that if people wrote their dispatch
% 10 such . hand that the contents are
uncertain, they have no right to recover
damages from the dispatcher because he
failed to read it correctly, and that if
damages do result from such causes, the
sender and not the company should
boar the less. This Was good common
sense, which is the essence Of common
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