The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-12-03

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every young man can build his life
says the New York Tribune, with per
feet safety and the promise of an hon
orable success
A PROPER EQUIPMENT.
Add to your requirements type
writing and stenography, both o
which will be useful to you as employee
or employer. l believe the time is no.
far distant when both will be an in
tegral part of a business education
just as much as arithmetic
Keep your brain free from fumes O
alcohol, your blood free from its taint
Avoid tobacco as the poison it really
is. Keep yourself clean, physically
and morally. Give your body the
care you would give to any machine
of which you require much good
| work.
CHOICE OF BUSINESS.
Choose carefully the work most con-
genial, and for which you feel best
fitted. If you cannot find it at once
take the best place you can get and
do your best in it, whatever it may
be. You will be forming habits OF
industry which will be invaluable to
you when you do find the right thing
and you will prove to yourself and to
others the capacity for work that is
in you.
Do not wait for the place you want
in an idieness which will fill you with
chimerical ideas of and visionary long
ings for, impossible opportunities to
become rich at bound. Idle waiting
demoralizes the waiter; and nobody
wants the man who is content to wait.
1t is said that "All things come to
him who waits,' but it is the manner
of the waiting which insules the
coming" of "all things.'
If you do your best always for your
employer as much as for yourself, you
will surely find your right vocation
but until you do, take the advice of
the old motto, which was on the fire
place of the Lutterwork rectory of
John Wycliffe " Do the next thynge."
ABILITY INSURES SUCCESS.
When A. T. Stewart was in the first
flush of enthusiasm over his plan of
building model city, he sent for a
skilled architect "a relation of mine),
of whose ability and honesty he had
the highest opinion.
Laying before this man his scheme,
dilating on the beauty and sanitation
of which he proposed to make his
Garden City the incarnation, he ended
by saying: "Now l want you to take
entire charge Of this project and carry
it through; make the contracts; see
that they are correct and carried out
Alright and pay all bills"
The architect heard him through.
Then he said very quietly, g Mr.. Stew
art, the man you want is doing bust
ness for himself"
"Who is he ?" inquired Mr.. Stewart,
with quick curiosity, and the evident
intention of securing him at any price.
"Any man. said the architect,
I" who has the knowledge and ability
to do what you require, is invitably at
the head of an army of subordinates.
Such skill and executive ability never
stay in the ranks
HONESTY THE BEST POLICY.
Make strictest integrity the rule Of
every business act. Do this because
it is right, and solely or chiefly If
your word is always your bond,
if no pressure or persuasion will induce
you to be in the smallest degree dis
honest, you have already within you
one of the main elements of success.
Strict integrity can no more be hid
den than Glove, a cough, smoke or
money" 1t commands a price in
the labor market in proportion to its
excellence and rarity. How rare it is,
is perhaps My realized by large EN-
ployers loo:..ag for trustworthy man
ayers, and rich men seeking reliable
executors. There is no such thing as
a trifing dishonesty; but there may
be dishonesty for a triding gain, and
many a man has sacrificed bis finacial
future by what he felt was a very slight
lapse.
knew of one man who lost lucra-
tive place of trust which he had held
many years when it was found that
he had his private account for coal
incorporated in his employers bill.
l myself discharged valuable assistant
who helped himself to my postage
stamps for his own correspondence.
AT one time l was about to embark
in business venture Of considerable
magnitude with a man who had I'M
pressed me favorably. While our
arrangements were pending, l gave
money to buy for himself and me two
theatre tickets. Using my name, he