The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-05-26

scale dong their best Tor their EN-
ployes. They have no: forgotten thei
own early struggles. They reinenbe
how they were discouraged, how hun
gry they were and how cold and how
tired they were. and, though they mat
be 60 or 40 years of age, they know
Just how boy feels between 10 and q
and how young man feels between
20 and 30. They have not forgotten it
Those wealthy employers were not
originally let down ont of Heaven with
pulleys of silk in wicker basket satin
lined, famed by cherubic wings. They
started in toughest cradle, on whose
rocker misfortune put her violent foot
and tipped them into the cold world
Those old men are sympathetic with
boys.
But you are not only to be kind to
those who are under you-Christianly
kind-but you are also to see that your
| boss workman and your head clerks
and your agents and your overseers in
stores are kind to those under them.
Sometimes a man will get little brief
authority in store or in factory,
and, while they are very courteous to
you, the capitalist. or to you, the head
man of the firm. they are most brutal
in their treatment of those under them.
God only knows what some of the lads
suffer in the cellars and in the lofts
of some of our great establishments.
They have no one to appeal to. The
time will come when their arm will be
strong and they can defend themselves,
but not now. Alas for some of the cash
boys and the messenger boys and the
boys that sweep the storei Alas for
some of them Now, you capitalist, you
the head man of the firm, must look,
supervise, see those all around you, in.
vestigate all beneath you.
And then charge you not to put I'M
necessary temptation in the way of
your young men. Do not keep large
sums of money lying around unguard-
ed. Know how much money there is in
the till Do not have the account books
loosely kept. There are temptations
of them, without your putting any UNI
necessary temptations in their way. |
Men in Wall street, having 80 years OF
reputation for honesty, have dropped
into Sing Sing and perdition, and you
must be careful how you try lad of
Is. And if he do wrong do not pounce
on him like hyena. If he proves him.
self unworthy of your confidence. do
not call in the police, but take him
home. Tell why you dismissed him to
those who will give him another chance.
Many young man has done wrong
once who will never do wrong again.
All, my friends, | think we can afford
to give everybody another chance when
God knows we should all have been in
perdition if He had not given us 10, 600
chances.
Then, if in moving around your fac
DRY or mill or barn or store, you are
nexorable with young men God will
it, Some day the wheel OF
fortune will turn, and you will be pau
per, and your daughter will go to the
and your son will die on the
'caffold. If in moving among your
Dung men. you see one with an omi-
lous pallor of cheek or you hear him
behind the counter say to
linn: Stay home a day or two and
est or go out and breathe the breath
# the hills" If his mother die, do not
Iemand that on the day after the fu-
eral he be in the store. Give him at
east week to get over that which he
will never get over.
Employers, urge upon your employees,
bove all, religious life. So far from
hat, how is it, young men? Instead of
eing cheered on the road to Heaven
ONE of you are caricatured, and it is
ard thing for you to keep your Chris
ian integrity in that store or factory
where there are so many hostile to re-
gion. Ziethen, grave general under
frederick the Great, was a Christian.
frederick the Great was skeptic. One
ay Ziethen. the venerable, white haired
eneral, asked to be excused from mill
airy duty that he might attend the
oily sacrament. He was excused. A
ew days after Ziethen was dining with
1e king and with many notables of
russia when Frederick the Great in a
'cose way said: "Well, Ziethen, how
i'd the sacrament of last Friday di-
est?" The venerable old warrior
rose and said: For your majesty I
ave risked my life many time on the
attlefeld, and for your majesty
ould be willing at any time to die;
1T you do wrong when you insult the
hristian religion. You will forgive
e if l, your old military servant, can
ot bear in silence any insult to my
ord and my Saviour" Frederick the
reat leaped to his feet, and he put out \
S hand, and he said: Happy lie ,
len! Forgive me, forgive mel"
Oh, there are many being scoffed at
r their religion, and thank God there
e many men as brave as Ziethen!
One summer in California a gentle
an who had just removed from the
lndwich Islands told me this incl
mt: You know that one of the Sand
ich Islands is devoted to lepers. Peo-
e getting sick of the leprosy on the
her islands are sent to the isle of
Ders. They never come off. They are
different stages of disease, but all y
ho die on that island die of leprosy. n
On one of the islands there was phy.
ian who always wore his hand, gloved,
ID it was often discussed why he al
Iys had glove on that hand under all
One day he came to the
thOrities. and he withdrew his glove, +