The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-02-20
ANDREw oARNEeIB,s ADVICE.

You are about to start in life, and
| it is well that young men should be-
gin at the beginning. and occupy
the most subordinate positions.
Many of the leading business men
of Pittsburgh had a serious respon-
sibility thrust upon them at the very
threshold Of their career They
were introduced to the broom, and
spent the frst hours of their busi-
ness lives sweeping out the offices.
was sweeper myself, and who
do yon suppose were my fellow
sweepersg David McCargo, now
superin saent of the Allegheny.
Valley Railroad; Robert Pitcairn,
Superintendent ofthe Pennsylvania
Railroad, and Mr.. Moreland, City
Attorney OF Pittsburg.
Begin at the beginning, but aim
high. 1 would not.give a fig for the
young man who does not already
see himself the partner or the head
of an important firm.
There are three dangers in your
path; the first is drinking of liquor,
the second is speculation, and the
third is endorsing"
When 1 was a telegraph operator
III Pittsburgh, knew all the men
who speculated. They were not
our citizens of first repute; they
We're regarded with suspicion. L
have lived to see them all ruined,
bankrupt in money and bankrupt
in character. There is scarcely an
instance of a man who has made a
fortune by speculation and kept it.
The man who grasps the morning
paper to see his speculative ventures
are likely to result units himself
for the calm consideration and prop
er consideration and proper solu-
tions of business problems, with
which he has to deal later in the
day, and saps the sources of that
persistent and concentrated energy
upon which depends the permanent
success, and the very safety of his
main business. The thorough man
of business knows that only by
years of patient unremitting atten-
ton to affairs can he earn his re-
ward, which is the result not of
chance but of well devised means
for the attainment of ends.
Nothing is more essential to young
business men than untarnished cred
it sooner than the knowledge in any
bank board that man engages in
speculation. How can man be
credited whose resources may be
swept away in one hour by panic
among gamesters2 Resolve to be
business men, butspeculators never.
The third danger is the perilous
habit of indorsing notes. Itappeals
to your generous instincts, and you
say. elbow can refuse to lend my
name only, to assist friend2" 1t
is because there is so much that is
true and commendable in that view
that the practice is so dangerous.
If you owe anything, all your capi-
tai and all your effects are in solemn
trust in your hands to be held in
violate for the security of those who
have trusted you. When man in
debt indorses for another, it is not
his own credit or his own capital
that he risks, it is the money of his
own creditors. Therefore; / say that
fyou are evercalled upon TO indorse,
never do it unless you have cash
means not required for your own
debts, and never indorse beyond
those means
Assuming that you are safe in re-
gard to these your gravest dangers
drinking, speculating and indors-
ing-the question is, how to rise2
The rising man must do something
exceptional, and beyond the range
of his special department. He must
attract attention. A shipping clerk
may do SO by discovering in an in
voice an error with which he has
nothing to do, and which has escap-
ed the attention of the proper per-
son. Ifa weighing clerk, he may
save for the firm by doabting the
adjustment of the scales5and having
them corrected. Your employer
must fnd out that he has not got a
mere hireling in his service, but
"a mani not one Ntilo ii contsno to
give so many hours of work for so
many dollars in return, but one who
devotes his spare hours andiconstant
thoughts to the business.
Our young partners in Carnegie
Brothers have won their spurs by
showing that we did not know half
as we'll what was wanted as they
did.