Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-11-08
How stands the Record 2

The Importance of good record was
most vividly illustrated ina talk on the
cars, between one of our w. Z. L. Y,
workers and q prominent business man
of Il large Southwestern city. He said:
you ladies may find encouragement
in the fact that, contrary to the custom
in former years, one of the first ques-
tions now, when Louisville firm
would engage a young man to work, Is
this: Does he drink Total abstain
ers are at a high premium, can assure
you. Another fact that helps the Tenn
perance cause, is the constantly I'M
proved facilities we have for finding out
mans record in his own home. For
instance: "Our firm is in the shoe
business, and we have ten men on the
road as drummers. Suppose one of
them sends us the name of John Smith,
of Smithfeld, as customer. We have
three ways of finding out how that man
stands. We have access to the private
books of Bradstreet and r. G. Dun Il
Co.'S business agency, where every
mans state and standing can be ascer-
tanned at once. We also instruct our
travelling clerk to get the facts about
him from the books of record of the
county, always open to public inspec-
ton. If he has title deeds, they are re-
corded there; if his property is mort
| gagged, that can be ascertained. Our
agent also inquiries among other bust
ness men of the town where the stran-
ger lives. Suppose we learn from these
sources and from Dun's and Brad
streets books, something like this:
"John Smith, aged thirty, is married,
owns his home free of mortgage, keeps
| his engagements, neverd drinks intoXica-
ting liquors. that settles the case; we
/, put HIM on our books and send him
| goods on credit. But suppose we get
this instead: JOHN Smith, aged thirty,
rents, mortgage on goods, drinks, that
settles his case. We want no further
proof that he's worthless as customer"
The value of a record-how sharply
it stands out in the light Of these hard
| business facts! All earth rs well as
Heaven conspires to help the man who
helps himself His is the "frctionless
way He ties the laws of nature and
the supernatural to his chariot wheels;
why shouldn't he succeed? Our record!
1t is our foreshadowed destiny, "the
substance of things hoped for, the evi-
dence of things not SEEN" Science
brings to focus its vivid light upon us
in these days by postal route and tele-
graph, and we can hardly now escape
| our recoad more than we could if the
Judgment throne were set.
Boss Tweed hides away in Spain,
where a stray cartoon of Nast's reveals
his true lnWardness, and he is remand
ed back to New York and the ToOmbs.
a defaulting clerk outrages the con-
fidence of those good Christian bankers,
Preston, kean & Co., Chicago, and the
last photograph, whose negative he
could but leave behind him, establishes
his identity away down in an obscure
| province of South America. A rascal
| ly young Russian steals twelve thou
sand dollars from his employer IN Mos
COW, and is arrested the day after he
arrives in New York. Surely this
world at least has no place of rest for
the transgressor. Crazed by drink are
three-fourths of those who transgress.
Away, then, with drink in the interests
of all legitimate trade and successful
business. Most of all away with it in
the interests of mans record Here and
Beyond. Union Signal.