The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1905-03-09

I'm sorry you ask so many questions
that you haven't II right to ask, be
cause you put yourself in the position
of the inquisltlye bull pup who started
out TO smell the third rail on the troll
ley right of way. You're going to be
full of information in n minute.
In the first place, II looks AZ If bust.
ness might he pretty good this fall,
and I'm afraid yOu'll have your hands
so full In your place as assistant man.
agcr of the lard department that you
won't have time to run my job too.
Then | don't propose to break any
quick promotion records with you just
because you happened to he born into
n job with the house. a fond father
aud fool son hitch mp into bad
team and n good business makes
poor family carryall. out of business
hours | like You better than any one
at the office, but in them there are
about twenty men ahead Of you In my
affections The way for you TO get
first place Is by racing fur and square
aud not by using your old daddy as u
springbonrd from which to jump over
their heads. A mans son is entitled to
chauce In his business, but not to n
cinch.
It's been my experience that when
an office begins TO look like family
tree you'll find worms tucked away
snug and cheerful in most Of the ap.
pies. A fellow with an office full of
relatives is like n SOW with litter OF
pigs-apt TO get little thin and peak.
ed MS the others fat up. A receiver
Is next of kin to n business mans rela-
tives. and after they are all nicely set.
tied in the office they're not long In
finding Job for him there too.
want you to get this firmly fixed in
your mind. because, while you haven't
many relatives to hire. IL You ever get
TO bo the head of the house you'll no
Doubt marry few with your wife.
After you have found ninety nine
sound reasons for hiring II man it's
all right to let his relationship to yOn
be the hundrc1th. TN he the only
bad reason in the bunch.
Some men are like oak leaves they
don't know when they're dead, but still
hang right on, and there are others who
let 20 before anything has really touch.
| ed them. OF course ] may he in the
first class, but you can be dead sure
that | don't propose to get into the
| second, even though | know a lot Of
people say I'm an old hog to keep
| right along working after I've made
more money than know how to spend
and more than | could spend If knew
| how. They believe that money ought
| to loaf; | believe il ought to work
They believe that money ought to 90 to
| the races and drink champagne; | he
| lievc that ii ought to 20 To the office
and keep sober.
don't mind owning up to you,
though, that | don't hang on because
| I'm Indispensable to the business, but
| because business is Indispensable to
me. | don't take much stock in this
| Indispensable man idea anyway. I've
never had one working for me, and II
| | had Id fire him, because the fellow
who's ns smart as that ought to Ire IN
business for himself, and ii he doesn't
|
naturally going to eat up yours. Any
man can feel reasonably well salts.
fed If he's sure that there's going to
be hole to look at when he's pulled
up by the roots.
| l started business in II shanty, and
I've expanded it into half mile of
factories. | began with ten men work
| I'm
l found the American hog in mud
puddle, without beauty spot on him
except the curl in his tail, and I'm
having him nicely packed in fancy
cans and cases, with gold medals hung
al over him. But after I've gone
some other fellow will come along and
add postgraduate course in pork
packing ana make what I've done lool;
like Il country school just after the
teachers been licked. And want you
to he that fellow. For the present |
shall report at the office rs usual, be.
cause | don't know any other place
where | can get ten hours fun day,
year in and year out,
After forty years of close acQuaint'
ance with it I've found that work Is
kind to its friends and harsh to Its
enemies. 1t pays the fellow who dis
likes it his exact wages, and they're
generally pretty small. But it gives
the man who shines up to it all the
money he wants and throws in hear
of fun ana satisfaction for good meas
ure.
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