The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-09-29
THE MEN WHO HAD HONEY BUT LOST IT.

WIZ GAPSAASuCS says LudI, III Ills
opinion, ninety-nine out of every
hundred of those who make money
or inherit 1t lose it sooner or later.
How many thousands of good,
honest men and women there are in
this country who have worked very
hard and made all sorts of sacrifices
OF comfort and luxury in order to lay
up something for the future, and yet
have reached middle life or later
without having anything to show for
It; many of them, indeed, finding
themselves without a home or any
probability of getting one, without
property or cent of money laid by
for sickness. for the inevitable emer-
gency, or for their declining years
For the sake of yoar home, for the
protection of hard earnings, for your
PEACE of mind, your self-respect,
your self-con6dence, whatever else
you DO, do not neglect good, solid
business training, and get it as early
in life as possible. It will save you
from many a fall, from a thousand
embarrassnents, and perhaps from
the humiliation of being compelled to
face your wife and children and con-
fess that you have been a failure.
It may save you from the mortifca-
ton of having to move from good
home to poor one, of seeing your
property slip out of your hands, and
of having to acknowledge your weak
ness and your lack of foresight and
thoughtfulness, OF your being made
the dupe Of sharpers.
Many men who once had good
stores of their own are working as
clerks, floor walkers or superinten-
dents, just because they risked and
lost everything in some venture.
As they now have Others depending
upon them they do not dare to take
the risks which they took in young
manhood, and so they struggle along
in mediocre positions, still Knocked
with ambitions which they have no
chance to crafty.
Thousands of people who were
once in easy circumstances are living
in poverty and wretchedness to-day
because they failed to put an under
standing or an agreement in writing,
or to do business in business way.
Families have been turned out of
house and home, penniless, because
they trusted to relative or friend
to "do what was right" by them,
without making hard and fast,
practical arrangement with them.
1t does not matter how honest peo-
pie are, they forget, and it is so easy
for misunderstanding to arise that it
is never safe to leave anything of i'm
portance to a mere oral statement.
Reduce it to writing. 1t costs but
little, in time or money, and when
all parties interested are agreed, that
is the best time to formulate the
agreement in exact terms. This
viii often save lawsuits, bitterness
and alterations. How many friend
ships have been broken by not put
ting understandings in writing. A
large part of lawyers incomes is de-
rived from the same source.
Business talent is as rare as tai
ent for mathematics. We find boys
and girls turned out of school and
college full Of theories, and of all
sorts of knowledge or smatteriugs of
knowledge, but without the ability
to protect themselves from human
thieves who are trying to get some
thing for nothing. No girl or boy
should be allowed to graduate, es-
pecially from any of the higher in
stitutions, without being well
grounded in practical business meth
dds. Parents who send their chill
dren out in life, without seeing that
they are we'll versed in ordinary
business principles, do them an incal-
culable injustice.-Saecsss Maga-
sine.