The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-03-27

SHORT TALKS WITH THE BOYS.
Hurry ~up-quick!''

that we have plenty of time. Take time
to eat. Take time to dress. Take time
to do whatever task you are engaged in
to your complete satisfaction. / always
feel like kicking a lazy man, and if / set
out on a journey | can't go fast enough,
but this impatience has lost me days of
time and a good many dollars. If l want
to make a shelf or bench | rush for the
first handy board, saw it off ~hap-hazard.
pound in any sort of nails in any sort of
way, and when the job is complete l have
a shelf which won't fit by a jugfull, or a
bench which rests on three legs and holds
up the other one as if it had a sore foot.
| have taken the wrong street car, lugged
off other mems hats. left my change on
store counters, bought sugar when | was
told to buy butter, spoiled any number of
boots, offended dozens of good men, and
all because | wanted to save time.
Don't rush. The Older | grow the less !
believe in the man who leaves a cloud of
the time. He will botch his work, upset
the best calculation, and lose a dollar for
every seventy-five cents he makes. A pet
ulant, impatient boy makes a man who
unreasonable, %unforgiving and thoroughly
despised. Don't argue that it is born in
you and you can't help it. A boy can help
anything if he has any sand in his nature.
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fits of anger which ought to be boot-jacked
out of his nature to save him from the gal
lows.
But you hate to be bossed, ell? Well,
my boy, if we could all do as we pleased
this would be a fine country to live in Our
workingmen would get to their labor at
10 o'clock in the morning and quit in time
for ) o'clock supper. Our stores might
open in the morning or wait until after
noon. Our mills and factories would be
run to suit the convenience of teamsters
and engineers instead of owners. Our
trains and boats would leave to suit cap
tains and conductors, and some days you
would get one meal, and others three. We
must have bosses and stand bossing. Don't
start out with the idea that you can be in
dependent. Don't think you can sit with
folded arms and bring men to you with
fat offers. Don't imagine that you are do
ing anybody a favor by calling Upon them
and limiting around that you could be coax
ed to take a situation. Do as your en-
ployer directs. If he doesn't know his
business, that's none of our affairs.
Make up your mind that the boy who sets
out to earn only three dollars per week
will never get four. If he is determined to
be worth four he will soon be receiving
five.
sat down with half a dozen of you the
other day, and the opinion of the majority
was that employers didn't make any dis
t~inction between a smart, energetic boy
and a drone. Don't be foolish, my lad.
advance a boy than discharge him. A
boy may not be watched as closely as a
man, because we make allowances for his
inexperience and follies and trifing nature.
Dth 0Oh = tOb = tAAht hS 10 SVtA 4NN0
up. If he is respectful and truthful and
honest the employer who doesn't realize il
and reward him is no man to work for.
Now let talk a little further about the
flash literature | referred to a few weeks
ago. | went the other day and bought a
stack of the stuff in order to see just what
it was. When one comes to see the wretch
ed stuff written and published in order to
catch the attention of the boys of America
he must wonder if we have any fathers
among our lawmakers. There is a fellow
in New York publishing a weekly sheet
called the Young Men of America. He
must think them a set of rascals or idiots.
In one story he has a hunter who catches in
his hand the bullets fired at him by a dozen
enemies and put them to fight. We a
such a man on the Detroit police force, but
the Superintendent will have a long hunt
to find him. In another he has a boy whip
seven or eight mountain outlaws. The
boy has probably died since. If this stuff
was held out to you as pure fiction you
would be completely disguised. These
flash publishers know this, and so they
nave these stories founded upon we'll
known facts and events which are matters
of history.
In the paper | have mentioned is a story
of the revolutionary war. 1t purports to
be the adventures of Gen. Marion and his
scouts. The injury here consists in his
toric lying. You are asked to accept ev-
erything as a fact. when not one single
fact is stated. As a specimen of what one
of the scouts did when he wasn't trying his
best will mention that. being pursued by
two British dragons, he let them fire four
bullets into him at close range, before it
occurred to him that it was a cold day.
He then drew his sword and cut a right
arm from the body Of each. He then rode
away in search of root-beer or something
else to cool his tongue, but hadn't cooled
over half of it before six other dragons
pitched nto him. The first move he made
was to draw that same terrible toad-stickeI
and cut off two heads. The other -four fired
at him, but his brass turned the bullets
aside, and he Topped off the head of the third.
The remaining three thereupon rushed into
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