Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1903-09-19
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Advice the next. Altcr YOU h"'N
accepted the honest position make
your employers interest your interest
"W..at SHALL do that shall benefit my
selffv ia the maxim of failure. What |
shall | do that shall benefit my EN-
nloyer?r Is the ma kim of success. Sue
cess does not always, as bee, ny IN u
straight line for its hive. Success, IKE
an Australians boomerang, nearly al
ways goes in circle. That circle may
widen out and out and out, larger ana
larger, but after awhile the boomerang
may be made to come back 10 the
place where it started. When a man
serves his employer best, then he VIII
find that the best rewards shall be
placed at his own door
True service always brings It's rlght
reward. This fact was well illustrated
In n conversation | had with one OF
the most distinguished ministers OF
the world now living. One DAY ne
placed his hand upon my shoulder ana
said. Frank, the best way to attract
the attention of the world to your
worth is to fill to the best OF your apli-
itv the position to which God has
called YOU" For some years was
worry much dissatisfied with a church
IN which at that time l was laboring.
I felt | could not do myself justice IN
tbat field. | wrote to John l.. With
row the pastor OF the Park Street
church of Boston, asking him IL lie
would help me to another pulpit. Dr.
Witbrow wrote back this letter, when
changed the whole course or my Ire:
"My dear brother, l am very sorry 10
hear that you are not happy amid your
present surroundings, but, to tell the
truth. | never heard Of you before In all
nv life. Perhaps you may be young
man of inestimable genius, but the way
To proye this to the world Is to serve
your present charge so well that your
lipht will shine forth to other locan-
tics Then there will be no need OF
looking for another pulpit. otner
churches will then be seeking you In
stead of you seeking them" Grand
advice that, as grand as any ever CIV
on by noted pastor to struggling
Young clergyman Useful advice also
is il for me to give TO you, young men
starting forth in business career.
When you serve others faithfully, then
In the end you will also serve your
selves well.
Duty to Employers.
Rut a step further: You must not
only serve your employer Alright during
the hours you work for him within the
four walls of the store, but you mus
also consecrate to good service the oth
or fourteen hours when you are away
from his watching eye. He has righ
to expect that you will spend you
| leisure in way that will render yo'
t more efficient in his service ina
I. means your employer does not hire yo'
] for eiqht or ten or twelve hours sery
ice. He hires you for every twenty
{ four hours out Of every twenty-four
= He does not say, "Sell me your TIM
8 from 8 a. III. until @ p. m" but he says
: "Sell me your time from Il ociocl
noon until IL o'clock noon. will the
!. give you fourteen hooss OF every twsl
i ty-frSr r in which to eat and sleep, rec
J, reate and improve your mind and Dod
for the duties Of the following day."
{ Some time ago was talking with
hard headed and yet a clear mihue
!, farmer upon this subject He salo
"You are right. | do not hire my farr
L hands from chores to chores, but
le hire them for twenty-four hours out o
e twenty-four. | expect them at nlgn
II to take eight hours sound Sleep so ina
% they are in a fit condition for my wort
n Some time ago | had young ma
ia working for me who was fine telioN
s. But he would 20 TO town every nlgh
N After tho chores were done he woul
IS ret with the boys and drink and gan
"a BILE until / or o'clock In the morninl
u The result was that | have seen tni
e. young man actually nodding ana sieel
n ing over the plow handle. | had to dl
charge him. Since then he has deter
st GRATED. until he is now nothing Dut
nj drunken loafer." Tell me what you1
Or man eats and drinks, how long |
sleens how much exercise he take
with what companions he associate
la and what are his pleasures and recr
1t ations and | will read that your
G: mans character and future succe
ch more easily than you can interpret
i" by observing what he does from a.
ay 70 {, u. M, when he is at work In Il
TO store.
nd Advice to Young Men.
at Young men, how are you going
re spend your evenings during the col
ne ing winter? What books are you
es ing to read? What night school al
Of course Of lectures are you going to
as tend? How are you going to impro
a YOUR mind? What is that bit OF pas
n board sticking out Of your vest pocke
of Is 4 a policy ticket or an admission
ne- one of the low variety shows that a
ar crowded every night with young III
,v- who are trlfing away the precious II
Ia ments of youth? Is 1t ticket to O
Of great circulating library, filled WI
n0' the noblest thoughts Of the -nool
M writer's who have ever lived! AS
en- poleon Bonaparte once declared Il
,ne a,s every soldier who was recruited In
m ni' French army carried the possibility
a marshaps baton In his knapsacK,
.nu m every young man carries the posi-
us' u. ity Of future success in his makeup
az az he rightly improves his leisure NJ
'u' thew Arnold, the son Of the great
Arnold of Rugby. asserted this WI
he visited America some years a
VI He was standing at the time IN
oh' great Boston library, looking at IL
ner ragged boy, with his bare feet perez
la upon the chair rung, while he was re
der ing and absorbing a Life OF geo
old Washington" Matthew Arnold 81