The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-11
MINOR FACTS AND EANcIES.

The fate of Washington Waterman,
murdered near Tunkhannock, points anew
to the unwisdom of carrying large sums of
money about on ones person. The bank
Is the true place for cash. Keep your re-
serve fund in safe place and carry a
check book when you want to make pay
ments. Then will the bandit ply his trade
in yain aud the festive highwayman HE
him to the purlieus of the unemployed.
900
II is customary in some places to deride
+. W. Box because it is his business to
write tepid advice to young girls and
mothers. Nevertheless, Box performs this
uneuviable function SO well that, although
he was born in Holland and compelled to
| acquire a working knowledge Of Ian
guage strange to him, he is now able, at
| 29, to command n salary Of $4,000 year.
own a lot of profitable ''side interests"
marry the daughter Of his millionaire en-
| ployer, and look back over a career Of eX-
| truordinarily rapid but steady success.
Shouldn't this be- ample justification for
doing the work he does? 1t may not be
the highest type of literary work, but it's
evidently work that people like to read,
aud it's also just as evidently work that he
excels in. Isn't Box right, then, in stick
ing to it:
| 900
All this suggests itself apropos OF an ar
ticle by Mr.. Box in the January Cosmo.
politan, telling young men how to succeed
in business, Whatever criticisms may be
made concerning Bok's other work, there
is very little ground for excepting to his
advice to beginners IN business life.
Every young man ought to read and mem
orize this article; paste it in his hat and fire.
quently refer to it. 1t has in it the very
essence of wisdom, prudence and genuine
foresight.
The trouble with many young men is
that they don't want to succeed in busi-
ness. They want success to come to them,
some fine morning as it came to Byron.
They want to wake up and find them
selves famous find themselves rich; find
themselves influential. They forget that
Byron, despite his innate genius, had to
scratch gravel" for years before he won
popularity's seemingly sudden smile. They
forget that in the local examples Of emf
nence that they hold before their minds
eye, prosperity has been conquered, not
wooed;wealth has come only after decades
of wrestling with adverse circumstance,
aud popular Difference has been won by
the hardest kind of hard, persistent and
presclent toll.
900
Chance and caprice play much smaller
part in determining success than most per-
sons concede. The successful young men,
take them year in and year out are the
men who deserve success; who dig long
and steadily and patiently for it, and who
make their own way forward just as GER
tainly and as irresistibly as result follows
cause. The laws of nature do not deviate
| from DIV n hau Hpac rho f1nnnfnl nd
the moral law which conditions prosperity
upon honest deserving submit It's opera
tion, for long, to the capricious sway Of
luck, accident or happen-so. No truer
motto has ever been worded than the one
which says that "Merit VIII Win" And
that. by, the way, is the crystal of MIR.
Bok's advice.
900
1t isn't at all likely that the good breth-
rem Of Allentown who have begun moral
crusade against jolly Old Santa Claus can
be persuaded over to the way Of thinking
of those who see no harm, but, instead, an
innocent amusement and happy fire side
cheer, in the annual appearance Of that
venerable Christmas imposter Further
discussion, therefore, is supeliiuous. Let
us hope. however. that those who decide
in future years to ostraciZe Kris kringle
| VIII generously consent TO put something
Just rs jolly, mirth.provoking and enliven-
ing wlthal, in the crude veterans stead.
coo
A Washington Dispatch to the Philadel-
phia Press intimates that Mr.. Hines will
try to get Herring's appointment hung up
in the senate. 1t is pennies TO coal mines
that William is holding out what, among
certain class, is known as a dizzy and crys
taline bluff. There will be no happier man
in Pennsylvania than this same William
Hines when the collectorship load il
wholly removed from his shoulders and
he is left free to enliven things at Wash
ington. without the embarrassing neces-
sity of constantly keeping a windward
eve to the possible loss Of executive favor