St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-06-23

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strated. There are others in thie coua
try and in other lands on a smalle
scale doing their best for their em
ployes. They have not forgotten thei
own carly struggles. They remenbe
how they were discouraged, how hun
CRY they were and how cold and hov
tired they were. and, though they ma!
be 60 or 40 years of age. they know
just how a boy feels between 10 and 2
and how a young man feels betweeI
90 and %. They have nat forgotten I,
Those wealthy employers were no
originally let down out CT Heaven will
pulleys of silk in wicker basket satiI
lined, famed by cherubic wings. They
started in toughest cradle, on who's,
rocker misfortune put her violent foo,
and tipped them into the cold world
Those old men are sympathetic with
boys. 7t .&Fs
But you are not only to be kind Il
those who are under you-Christianly
kind-but you are also to see that your
boss workman and your head clerk.
and your agents and your overseers in
stores are kind to those under them
Sometimes q man will get q little briet
authority in store or in a 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 store! 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 I charge you not to put un-
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
inevitable to young men, and enough
of them, without your putting any un.
necessary temptations in their way.
Men in Wall street, having 30 years of
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 10000
chances.
Then, il in moving around your fac
tory or mill or barn or store, you are
with young men God will
remember 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
If in moving among your
roung men you see one with an. omi-
,ous pallor of cheek or you hear him
behind the counter. say to
him: 'Stay home day or two and
,f the hills" If his mother die, do not
demand that on the day after the fu-
ieral he be in the store. Give him at
east a week to get over that which he
will never get over.
Employers, urge upon your employees,
above all, religious life. So far from
hat. how is it. young men? Instead Of
,eing cheered on the road to Heaven
ome of you are caricatured. and it is .
lard thing for you to keep your Chris
ian integrity in that store or factory
where there are SO many hostile to re-
igion. Ziethen. grave general under
Frederick the Great, was a Christian.
the Great was q skeptic. One
lay Ziethen. the venerable. white-haired |
asked to be excused from mill. |
ary duty that he might attend the
loly sacrament. He was excused A
ew days after Ziethen was dining with
he king and with many notables Of
russia when Frederick the Great in q |
ocose way said: "Well, Ziethen, how
lid the sacrament of last Friday di.
.est?" The venerable old warrior
rose and said: For your majesty |
ave risked my life many time on the |
and for your majesty I
vould be willing at any time to die;
ut you do wrong when you insult the |
'hristian religion. You will forgive |
lie if I. your old military servant, can
ot bear in silence any insult to my
ord and my Saviour" Frederick the
treat leaped to his feet. and he put out
is hand, and he said: Happy lie
hen! Forgive me, forgive met"
Oh, there are many being scoffed at
Or their religion, and thank God there
re many men as brave as Ziethen!
One summer in California a gentle
ian who, had just removed from the
andwich Islands told me this incl
ent: You know that one of the Sand
7ich Islands is devoted to lepers. Peo-
lie getting sick of the leprosy ON the
ther islands are sent to the isle of
'pers. They never come off. They are
| different stages of disease, but all
tho die on that island die of leprosy.
On one of the islands there was ply.
clan who always wore his hand gloved,
nd it was often discussed why he al.
ays lad a glove on that hand under all
One day he came to the
and he withdrew his glove,
I'D he said to the officers of the law:
You see on that hand . spot of the
prosy and that am doomed to die.
might hide this for little while and
eep away from the isle of lepers; but
am physician. and can go on that
land and administer to the sufferings
those who arc farther gone in the
sease, and l should like to go now.
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