The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-08-23

did perfectly right
And this ended Mrs. Mayfeld's re-
bellion. She had won her freedom,
and that was all she wanted.
Why Business Men Fail.
Let me give your readers, says cor
respondent of the United States EeOnO-
mist, the benefit of the replies have
received from the leading men of our
country to the qustion, "What, in
your observation, have been the chief
causes of the numerous failures in life
of business and professional men7"
Governor St. John answers "Idle-
ness, intemperance. Alexander H.
Stephens says: "Want of punctuality,
honesty and truth" Hon. Darwin R.
James answers: "Incorect views of the
great end and aim oflife. Men are not
contented to live plain lives of integrity
and uprightness. They want to get
ahead too fast and are led into tempta-
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College, names as causes of failure:
''Lack of principle, of fixed purpose,
of perseverance. President Eliot, of
Harvard, replies: stupidity, rashness,
laziness and dishonesty" Dr. H. NJ
Dexter, ofthe C0ngyegattOnaliSt, answers:
"1. Want of thoroughness of prepara-
ton. 2. Want of fixedness of purpose.
8. Want of faith in the inevitable
triumph of right and truth. - Anthony
Comstock's answers are: "Unholy
living and dishonest practices, lust, and
intemperance, living beyond ones
means" Mr.. H. E. Simons, of the
American Tract Society, replies: "Fast
living, mental, spiritual and bodily;
lack of attention to the details of bust
ness" General O. Howard answers in
substance: ''Breaking the divine laws
of the body by vice, those of the mind
by overwork and idleness, and those of
the heart by making an idol of SELF"
Professor Homer B. Sprague, of Boston,
answers: "I. Ill health. 2. Mis-
take in the choice of employment. 8.
Lack ofpersistance and protracted effort.
a.. A low ideal, making success to con-
sist in personal agrandizement, rather
than in training and development of
true and noble character" DR..
Lyman Abbot answers: "The contin-
ued spirit of lazinesss and self conceit
that makes man unwilling to do any
thing unless he can choose just what to
do" Mr.. A. w. Tenney, of Brooklyn,
replies: "Outside of intemperance,
failure to G asp and hold, scattering too
much, want of integrity and prompt
ness, unwillingness to achieve success
by earning it in the old-fashioned way.
The attorney general of the neighboring
State replies: ''Living beyond income,
and speculating with borrowed funds;
unwilling to begin at the foot of the
ladder and work up. Young men want
to be masters at the start, and assume
to know before they have learned"
And another reason in the same line:
sDesiring the success that another has
without being willing to work as that
man does. Giving money-making first
, place and right-doing a second place."
Judge Tourgee, author of ga Fools
Errand," considers the frequent cause
of business collapse to be: "Trying
to carry to big load" As to others,
he says: 81 don't know about a pro-
fessional mans failing, if he works,
keeps sober and sleeps at home. Law
yers, ministers, and doctors live on the
sins of the people, and of course, grow
fat under reasonable exertion, unless
the competition is too great. 1t requir-
es real genius to fail in either of these
walks of life. - Hon. Joseph Medill,
ex-mayor of Chicago, says: "Liquor
drinking, gambling, reckless specula-
ton, dishonesty, tricky conduct, cheat
ing, idleness, Sinking hard work, friv-
olous reading, lack of manhood in the
battle of life, failure to improve oppor-
tunities"
Among the causes of failures given
by correspondents many may be classi-
fed under the general fault wavering
stick-to-it-iveness,S '.failure to grasp
and hold," scattering too much, .
''trying to do too many things, rather
than stick to the one thing one knows
the most about" A young man spends
seven years in grocery store, and when
he had just learned the business con-
cludes to go into dry goods. By fail
ing to choose the first he has thrown
away seven years experience. Proba-
bly,, after learning the dry goods busi-
matchmaker, and at last becomes 'jack-
at-all-trades, and good at none. A
prominent merchant says: "Nearly all
failures in legitimate business come from
not serving an apprenticeship to it,
that is, from leaving a business one
knows for another which he does not
understand.
Another cause of failures is the dis
position to escape hard work and get
rich in haste-"desiring the success
another man has, without being willing
to work as that man does, and begin,
as he did, at the foot of the ladder"
How many who were in haste to get
rich, to reap without patient industry
in sowing, have learned the truth of
the old proverb: "The more haste, the
less speed"
HINTS FOR THE SICK RooM.-Never
stand at the foot of sick-bed and sur
vey the patient. All figures loom large
to fevered eyes, and by the side of the
bed are only partly seen, and do not
annoy with the sense of too much pres
ence. Do not open the door very slow
ly, for then the attention is strained,
speculating as to who the next conner
can possibly be after all this preparation
and with such cautious approach, gen.
orally creaking. Low but clear tones,
quiet but sure movements-not tip-toe-
ing-and rapid, rather than slow, are
great relief to any person who is blessed
with practical nurse. Whispering is
torture. Silence is best until you can
/ discuss matters in another room -ha.t;f
YOU speak, speak out, and make no