The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-09-27
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S THE BUSINESS WORLD.


may be wreathed in an amiable scowl
as you enter, you still have the courage
to say: George what has become of
all the old time easy places in business
where fellow could sit down couple
hours in the morning, or step around
to the Club in the afternoon the way 1
am told our grandfathers used to do"
Your friend would look you over with
a pitiful glance and ask: "Do you
remember how much the aforesaid
grandfather was worth" You might
reply "twenty or thirty thousand dol
lars," to which your friend would re-
spond with sarcastic smile. Well,
that will not pay now for keeping up
an ordinary establishment for six
months at the rate we have to live
nowadays to maintain our regulations.
Why man who thinks that a for
tune of twenty thousand dollars is
anything in these progressive days, is
miles behind the time, even if the ma
jority have not half that sum. The
fact is not one man in thousand that
has made the above sum would have
the sense and real, genuine, frst-class
ability to sit comfortably and easily
down and say to himself: swell, let
the world wag on. l have enough"
Instead of that he has become deep
thinking business friend; never rest
ing, never satisfied, and the chances
are he goes to sleep with such thoughts
as these running through his mind: II
wonder if oldGreen will take that offer
L made him today, or 1 wonder if
Jones and Smith will discount that
last bill of theirs that hesitated about
letting them have, and 1 must not for
get the meeting of Blacks creditors
tomorrow" Thus he goes to sleep
spending half the night over the next
days affairs, and in the morning, prob
ably, wonders why he is so tired.
Alas! for the unfortunate tendency
of the wonderful, historic days of our
country, and of the whole world, that
on account of the frightful rush of
modern business affairs, so many men
are being driven to untimely graves,
into suicide, and often insanity.
"Competition is the life of trade" is an
old, old saying, yet competition that
makes demons of mankind, is not the
right kind of competition. Do you
suppose for an instant, that in the
hurry burly of the today business
world there is one man or firm in ten
thousand-yes in ahundred thousand
that tries to excel his or its competi-
tors in business, in which they often
risk life, honor, comfort and health,
for the honor and admiration of COM
ing out ahead in the race, as it might
be called. Not by large majority.
1 wonder will the time ever come
when we will see business men sensi-
BILE enough to stop when they have a
competency, feeling satisfied with a
reasonable amount and so let the rest
of the world have a chance? At the
present era you may hunt where you
will to find this species of mankind
and never discover so much as one.
They are one of the lost arts and
happy is the man who rediscovers
them.
L. believe some of the professionally
wise men have been trying to figure
out how much further the strain upon
human talent, endurance and ability
can be increased and have the present
constituted business man remain able
to stand the strain of ever increasing
demands upon his powers, in the mi
raculous advancement prophesied fol
the Goth century business world.
The fact is even if man does stor
} to ask himself if all this rush anC
} worry, and days and nights of eterna