San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-06-09

look out for just such a boy will
snap at the chance to get your
services. Business men with the
true business eye will always adj
vance a boy as rapidly as he is Ca
pable Of taking more responsible
position, because it is for his own
interests to do so. Self interest
governs the business world. When
you have made yourself and your
services indispensable to your
house you are as certain of your
position as il you owed the concern
yourself. The Industrious boy is
at a premium.
After 'punctuality" and "indus-
try" come personal interest in the
work punctually begun and in
dustriously conducted. 1t is not
enough to be busy, but that busy
ness must be wisely done. Every
h ouse OF business, every pro-
fesional firm or individual,
every industry has its own
personality. The interests of
the particular n in which you
are employed must be made your
particular business. 1t is this
making the business of your en-
ployer your personal concern,
guarding it at every point in your
power, that renders your personal
service so indispensable to that
employer. 1t is this insight into
what really concerns the prosperity
Of your employer that is valuable,
and it is not possible to have this
insight without studying the real
condition of the business in your
hands. 1t is thus that the real
business habit grows and in time
stamps itself upon the young man
Just forming business habits.
This stamp in in effect a certificate
Of his sterling quality,
These three; punctuality in
service, constant employment Of
EN- ployer's time, real interest in
employers business-are the a b C
Of the business alphabet. Against
the first two there is no law. 1t is
in the case Of the the third Of these,
interest in employers business,
that the need of discrimination
occurs. Here it is that the les
sons Of the business world are as
varied as are those of the home.
With one employer it will be the
strictest honesty and integrity, be-
cause that employer is himself
honest and honorable. With an
other it will be the same honesty,
because "honesty is the best poll
cy." With another it will be the
honesty that does not stand in the
way of gains. Just such as the
renegade quaker had in mind
when he said to his son, as he lay
on his death bed: "John, thee
must get money. Get it honestly,
il thee can, John; but, John, thee
must get money" There is all the
difference between hell and heaven
in the business spirit that prompts
these different methods of conduc-
ting business. The young man
in entering life must chose for
himself.
If a rose by any other name
smells Just as sweet, so a steal by
any other name /. Just as dishon-
est. In this day Of money worship,
when the man with the biggest
pile is the biggest man, it takes no
end Of bed rock character to stand
against temptation to get rich sud-
denly. There is an idea very prev
alent that the only one that is to
be looked out for is number one.
That it is the business Of the other
fellow to see that he is not cheated
and that it is your business to get
the best Of that fellow in every
deal between you, II you can.
Cheat or be cheated, is with too
many business men the rule OF
life, and they act up to it with re-
llgious exactness. This is the bot.
tom fact in the speculative world
Ingram honesty is incompatible
with the man who deals in futures
That man, in the world Of the stock
exchange and the provision mark
ct and the church, expects to run
up a bill with the devil all of his
lifetime and cheat him out Of il