Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-12-06
You will see how much depends upon

satisfaction when you feel it is not merely
70 many do!la-s to the young man but
it is relief OF the dire necessities that
stand back of il. Moreover, you will
help IN his financial welfare. You can
advise him about investments, about
Reinsurance, about savings banks. Give
him the advantage Of your long exper-
ience. There are in England and the
United States institutions, where em-
p.oyer3 on large scale have directed
the financial prosperity of hundreds.
Such men ~ Brooks OF Hudders6eld
Akroyd OF Hollyfeather, Ashworth OF
Turton, Marshall OF Leeds, Lister OF
Bradford, and many so near home that
IL might be offensive to their modesty i:
mentioned their names. Rich men es-
tablished readiSs rooms, libraries, choral
societies, cricket grounds and lecture
halls and gymnasiums for their employ
es. In such cases the employer pays not
only the wages for that week or that
month, but through the contentment
and thrift and good morals OF the en-
poyes will pay them wages from genera
ton to generation and forever.
Again counsel employers to br care.
ful OF the physical health of their EN-.
ployes. You ought, better than thev,
to understand the importance OF venti.
lation and sunlight and the laws OF hy-
giene. There are stores and banks and
factories and newspaper establishments,
where the atmosphere ia death. Some.
times the employe may not appreciate
IL, as in the instance named by Charles
Reade where the manufacturer provided
fans for the blowing away OF the dust OF
marbles rising from the swift saws and
the workmen refused TO use the health.
full prevention and went on inhaling the
filings. But il all employes do not ap.
precate your efforts for their health,
some OF them will. In order to their
health put upon them no unnecessary
fatigues. / never could understand
Why the drivers OH our
city cars should have to stand
all day when they could sit and drive
jus. as well. There is no reason why
| the female clerks in our cities should be
KEEP. standing 4. thos- times OF day
| when there are few or no customers
Surely they have
Enough Aches and Pt ins and Weaknesses
without these unnecessary fatigues.
Unless positively going to and fro on
| tue business OF the store, let the women
sit down. At the close OF the day and
the week and the year, you Nil find
that they have sold as many goods and
made az fine bargains, yea, better; for
the clerk with clear brain and rested
| limbs and radiant spirits is worth two
with health bedraggled. To carry out
| the sanitary idea, compress the toll q
each day in as short time as is practi.
cable. There are over ten thousand
| grocery clerks in Brooklyn who go to
business At five O'Clock in the morning,
and keep at it till ten O'Clock at night.
That is simply inhuman. Let there be
simultaneous acton on the part oil all
dealers in different styles OF merchan.
die for early closing Give our youEg
men opportunity for going to the read
ing rooms and the gymnasiums, and the
concert halls and the churches. These
young men have nerves, have bra n,
have intellectual ambition, have immor.
tai spirits. Ifthey can do a good days
work in thirteen hours, do not keep
them harnessed seventeen. No employ
er can afford to be Indifferent To the
health OF bis employe. Again he watch
ful OF the moral and spiritual welfare Oi
your subordinatts. First OF all know
where they spend their evenings. Iou
had better not have around your money
drawer Young man, who the night be-
lore went TO see Jack Sheppard. A young
man who spends his evenings in dlsso-
lutte society, and comes to your store in
the morning ghastly with midnight revel.
~ is noadvantage TO your business. The
young man who passes his evenings IN
the society OF refined women, or in mu.
sical or art circles or in literary improve.
ment will be valuable subordinate.
You need not be impatient or DISCUS.
tingly inquisitive but let the young
man know that you are 20 interested IN
his welfare that YOU want to know what
ne does with his leisure time and he
will tell YOU. You ought not to feel or
say: III the young man is faithful in
business hours that is all | care. God
has made you his guardian. Many OF
these Young men are orphans, tossed
into the street TO struggle for themselves.
They are pitched into the middle OF the
Atlantic ocean and plank is pitched al
tpE tlelu duu tIltN toih w oNih
ashore. Treat such one
As You Would Have Your Son Treated
if YOU were dead. Be to your clerk a
father. like to see all old merchant
talking 10 clerk call him my SON.
That young man in your employ has
history. His father was drunkard.
His first remembrance Of his father was
his coming home late at night and the
children hiding under the bed in fright.
MANY time did he stand between his
father and mother 10 keep her from the
brutal blow. He is prematureiy old Tor
having planned about house rent aud
the clothing OF brothers and sisters.
He may seem TO you ke other young
men, but God and his mother know him
10 be hero. He has at 20 years had
az much trouble as many at %. Do not
tread on him. DO not swear
at him. Do not send him on
useless errands. Say good morning."
and good night" and good bye" and
"merry Christmas" and "happy New
Year | verify believe that you will
decide his destiny in this worll and the
next. One OF my earliest acquaintance
was
Old Arthur Tsppan.
About his politics there was great dif-
ference Of opinion; but that he WAS an
earnes; Christian no personal acquaint-
ance ever doubted. He had room in
the top OF his store 10 New York, where
every morning he called his clerks 10.
cether, and with prayer and song and
Christian exhortation he introduced
the duties OF the day. On Monday
morning he asked his clerks where they
attended church the day before, and
what the sermons were about Samuel
Budget, who had the largest business
in the west OF Enclsud, had room in
his storehonse furnished with CON-
Portable seats and fIetcher's Family De-
yoticn and Wesley's Hymns, and all
the employees we're expected every
morning to be present. All knelt and
prayed, employers and employees. No
wonder the Lord Prospered him. so that,
thirty years before having started
partner in a retail shop in little village,
he died worth millions on millions.
That is the kind OF man the Lord can
trust with plenty OF money. Sir Titus
salt, whose wealth can hardly be com.
puted, has at Saltaire, England, Wes.