The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-02-12

doex ~. 49, pF1hser IN the country Who
deserrss snss such soabnauet IL veil
-, pat ais Kindness to his employees ala
r ~. 80 nere. Il is sesl known tbs eysrv
S.ssanss ere h. spent thoasanffs -
LLs..sn "a providing eiff for everv one =.
49, Evice; ana handsome gins tbev verr
as,, AZ, = .nose Of n Who lived in Pnils.
fs.3s. .en Know. IL seemed to be the
isha. 49,. tnIs iarge-hearted employer OF
ss unisss~hs had the inner eon-
ss.ousnsss that he had done ali that -
.SaAd % make others eniov IL Eor %.
ms r ahi Why are printers an over fhs
49, 70 anxious 20 get into the service Of
az faehe Ledgeyf Simply because Il ID :
80 es.auissned rule Of that Office that NO
ore = discharged except for serious rause
ma that posision there means : po.itior,
Iof ne u ndelity 10 discovered on The rart
~ ne employs. Bus there IL NOR even
tnsa tnat When any one in tire Tedr~x
Employ has become worn ont by the velshr
~ years ne II given IN easier place or ~
~ pens'oned during the remainder OF his
MFR. Chiids, however. .,a..vo,.a a.
preserve the ludepe ndence OF HE arr ,Iovss
~ eiving them some trifiinc service 10
ps1orm, that they mighs not feel thew
we're asiogsther laid aside from active du.
slss. ons illustration of this I well re-
- shoer IN my own neighborhood. An
ga senheman who had been for nearly
ior'y years . printer, and who was no
longer able. by diminishing eyesixht ana
other infirmitiss. to stand AZ the csss and
-. Up type. was told by Mr.. Cnilds that he
couid Just spend his time IN keerins HE
eys on the pastors In certain small dis
trIct In which my own church happened
20 % located. The dear old man would be
s s..s me a. every communion season TO
nna ont nov many members we had re-
ceiveu on profession OF faith and by letter.
mat ne might report them to the religions
coinmn OF the Saturday Ledger. He was
really not required at ali for this woyk
put this was Mr.. Chisds' way Of contain.
Ing bis old and faithful servant In the
harness. You win thus see that while
.nere was an unusual amount Of head in
me methods Of Mr.. Chii1s In the conduct
OF his large concern, that which predomi-
mated was heart a. large and generous
~ ever beat In the bosom Of mortal man.
NO wonder that he proApered and became
grand success. How could IL be other.
wiser The blessing Of God must rest on
such man.
But the Public Ledger itself is an clio.
duent tribute 10 the man who made IL
what u Is today, one Of tho greatest Jour-
nails OF the world. From first TO last Mr..
Chiids carried into his paper the principles
which as Christian man he held and
hrmiy believed. In the first place he re-
solved that the pages Of the paper should
pe scrnpuiously clean, so much 30 that no
iatner or mother would ever be ashamed
TO have every word Of IL read by every
member OF the household. In the second
piace IL was TO DO exact and truthful.
DAG you SEQ that in the LEDGER was Q
com7on question. followed by the signifi-
can't remark, II you did. IL must be true,
Inc greatest care was taken and no ex-
- IN hAx AL L~~s a.
which was actually and literally true enter
into It's columns. Every smploye fully
understood that nothing would 30 much
disgrace him in the estimation Of Mr..
Chiids, whose confidence and esteem every
employs desired to have, as carslessness in
regard to facts. Nothing Of sensa-
lished. Those who have read the
Ledger for years know how strictly
this rule has been carried out. Nothing
was to appear In the paper which reflected
on Christianity. Mr.. Chiids stood out like
Trojan against the publication Of the
paper on Sunday. Although paper after
paper In Philadelphia yielded to the press
IRE from without and the argument that
the city would be flooded with the new
York dailies on the Sabbath IL the Phila-
delphia papers would not fall into line,
Mr.. Chiids would never yield and vowed
he never would. And the grand fact re.
mains that, instead of weakening the
Ledger by what seemed to many his puri-
tanicsl narrowness. the paper increased in
power, influence and wealth with every
passing year. Mr.. Chiids has In nothing
more adorned his beautiful life than in
his apparently stubborn determination to
MAINTAIN intact the sacrsdness Of the Sab
bath and to give his. hard-worked employees
ono day in seven in which they might rest
almost entirely from their daily labor and
20 to church with their families to wor-
ship. l know IL 10 argued that the Mon
day paper requires Sunday work, but only
towards the end of the day, If il 10 q
smaller sheet, as it should be- than the
other issues. The Ledger is the only
paper in Philadelphia not publishing .
Sunday paper.
sand now, what lessons do we learn
from this life as whole, particularly in
the line OF inspiring young men to noble
ambition and TO the pathways Of success
What were the secrets of Mr.. Childs' suc-
cessf He gives the answer In that excel
lent book Of his which he published some
years ago ut the earnest request OF many
friends. entitled. Personal Recolicctions.'
Mr.. Childs says, Industry, Temperance
and Frugality.' This trinity Is one of
tremendous potentiaiity. How many
young men fall to be industrious9 How
many throw away the precious hours of
youth without realizing that with these
tunities they will ever have? Mr.. Childs
set his mind on one day becoming the
proprietor Of the Pablie Ledger. But hav-
ing done so he bent every energy TO achieve
his ambition. The world may call young
man with such ambition conceited, odd.
eccentric cranky. Never mind the world
The world delights 10 honor its heroes,
and the worlds heroes have ever been,
and ever will be, the young men who.
having an aim. have had the courage to
follow il until they reached the summit or
died In the attempt
THE second secret of Mr.. Childs' sue
cess is temperance The young man who
allows himself to become the slave of his
ovn lusts, his own carnal desires, who
does not put himself under the seyerest
discipline by the help Of God secured in
PRAYER, that young man will never make
himself success. He may have flashes oil
prosperity now and then, but in the end
of his career he will candidiy admit that
failure is written inaelibly upon his
earthly record. No wiue-hibber could have
held a position for any length OF time in
the service of the Ledger. Many young
man who Is politely Informed that his
services are no longer required, II ne knew
ali the truth, would discover that some
detective work had been done upon his
habits after night. Perhaps the graneest
,empernnce sermon ever delivered was
thai contained in the advice given ey SIR
Walter Scott TO hts nephew. Scott VAS At
the time about 50 years Of age. he lived
in an age when drinking customs
vere more the rule than the excep-
sicn. He himself had been reared under
the influence of the flowing bowl He WAS.
therefore, quite familiar with the nscena-