Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-12
BE HONEST.

WuotHcT Ill tiIe lIet, uduly IAuu0MJ "a
the farm and the workshop; in the pro-
fessional, or the more hazardous and
wearing mercantile undertakings let me
say to. you, be honest. You have
doubtless been told this in print and by
word, since your earliest recollection
But have you realized the full import Of
its meaning what vital Importance it
is to your whole future career? In
brief, it amounts to just this: IF you
wish to succeed, to be happy and re-
spected, then be honest, freely and
heartily, for principles and honesty's
sake. If you wish to go down to ruin,
shame and dishonor, then be dishonest,
untruthful, tricky, and your wishes will
be speedily carried into effect. You
may see times when the temporary sue
cess of unprineipled undertakings may
allure, but do not be deceived. B
firm as o rock for truth and right, and
you will find yourself on the rising road
to fortune and to fame when their rot
ten structures are topping to destruc-
ton. If you are mtrusted by others
with their interests and business, prove
worthy Of the trust in every particular.
You will have hard battles to fight, but
keep up your courage and stick to prin-
ciples Of right. Let not the heA-gilded
allurements Of the practices and
amusements of those who spend more
money uselessly each week than their
wages amount to ever lead you from a
firm determination to be honest and
manly, and you cannot help but sue
coed. You may oftentimes find yeur-
self spurned, neglected, and those less
worthy promoted over you, but let this
not swerve you. In time your success,
your upward career. will be all the
speedier, all the more glorious. Never
misrepresent to make sale. Never. adj
vertise humbug, falsehood or color
able statement. Be frank, gentlemanly
and honest, and charge for yeur labor
and your products all they are worth,
just what you can afford to take, and
you will find plenty to appreciate,
plenty to patronize. ;g
Young men, let me especially and
earnestly advise you to SO conduct your
lives and acts that each night, when You
seek your pillow, you can truthfully say
to yourself and to God: I have been
faithful, truthful and honest. I have
not wronged others to enrich myself.
If you do this you will be happy and
successful. A peace and a JOY Of heart
and mind will be yours, which the world
could not purchase from you. There is
nothing in all my varied experience
which gives me SO great comfort and
.sbiding satisfaction as an inward con-
sciousness that I have never been tempt
ed to grossly misrepresent, nor to IN
lawfully appropriate to myself a single
fraction nor farthing intrusted to my
care.
Young men, you will be greatly
tempted you may have reyerses and
misfortunes, may be fyully slandered !;
but be steadfast for truth and honesty,
proving to the world by your lives that
your reverses are not through your care
lessness or inability; that contingent
SANDERS are without foundation, and
SUCCESS will supplant misfortune, and
Islander will revert with crushing force
on the heads of it's inventors.
n PRINTERS FUNERAL SERMON.
This was read over the grave Of Ar
minus Kerns, printer, at San Jose,
one Sunday afternoon: cold friends,
here's one for remembrance. Think
you not that as we, the craft, have this
day borne you from our midst to the 81
lent, lonely city Of the dead, we recog-
nize that we have laid away one Of the
truest, purest, warmest-hearted friends
that ever sailed with us down the aisle
Of life? Think you not that, with the
moisture of the heavens over us, we, too,
are shedding silent tears that the
'chase' Of our companionship is brok-
en-; that the Zines of our being must
henceforth run apart; that your pres
ence is no longer copy among us
that your thoughtful though pleasant
sface' no longer Eliminates or cheers
our midst? And think you not in this
parting tribute we, who have knownyou
longest and best, do not temper our grief
with the reflection that In the eternity
to which you have gone, the pains, the
sorrows, the dsappointm which were
yoursLnot earned, but heritage are
over, and that, though the little space
between us be ever SO slight, it enecn-
passes freedom and joy that was nev-
er yours Old friend, rest Oh There is
no more might work. Day has dawned.
The sod above your grave viii not be
greener than the memories you have left
behind you. The birds that carol in
these tree-tops can make no sweeter,
purer melody than will the 'impres
sions you have left behind. The rose
and violet that will blossom beside the