The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-08-24
PAYS EVEN IN PIRATES.
Value Of Politeness When on Robbery
Bent and in Ordinary Life.
From the New York Sun,

FROM tNc New lOFk SuI,
AS a general proposition" said Mr.
Sttn!tinton, II should say that II pirate
'ould get away With it easy If he would
observe good 10 be robbed
'udely is distressing to most people
= is The familiar adding insult to In
Jury. and that Is something that al
Nays ankles
1T has always seemed TO me that IL
aver l hou have taken up the piracy
am in any form l should go about II
With the greatest possible considers
ion for the personal feelings of HE
people robbed, FOR people VIII stand
,or Amos anything as long as they
are decently treated: and so with po-
lite treatment piracy is easy and prof
table at least for a long time.
1T is not alone in piracy that good
manner count for profit; good man
ners give great dividends to the prac-
;itioner in the pleasure that arises
rom giving other people pleasure and
sparing other people distress.
Il don find in my eNperiency h a
any one sort of people has a monopoly
Of good manner or that any one sort is
aers. l should say that prosperity be-
gets thoughtfulness, but thoughtless-
ness is not necessarily i'll manners, and
t may be harmless, unless it devel-
ops into indifference, in which form 1t
may hurt us some.
Generally speaking, l don't find my
self n more likely to be disturbed
oy on the part of the rich
han by rudeness on the part OF the
poor. which is to say that l am as like
y to meet i'll manners from one as
rom the other. The man whom l en-
counter in an elevate a sitting
slowed around so that he occupies n
seat and a half and who declines to
straighten around for me may be com
:ortably circumstanced and we'll
dressed or he may be poor and poorly
dressed. In either case the lack OF
courtesy might ] oceed from precise
Y the same cause-from simple boor-
.shness and natural ilI-rnanneredness-
1T is fear that we may impose upon
end. further, that the other fellow will
.htnk that in giving way we are
Snucklfng to him. that is responsible
.or many and many al exhibition of Ill
We meet a man coming
along the sidewalk on a rainy day car
;.ying a n umbrella, while we are doing
he same. 1t would be an asy thing
! little so that 1t would clear the other
mans as we passed. or lit would be
Easy for either of us to tilt his UNI
orelIa a little. with the same result.
I'VE hesitate to do either for fear
he other man will think we are
same thfng holds. though in a. some
what more acutely felt form, as to
.urning out, as between two men
Meeting In a path wide enough only
.or one. beaten down In new-fallen
snow,
II used to know a man up in Tur-
ler's Falls. Mass, who tried habitually
o practice good and he has
! old me that in rainy-day
such as I have cited he invariably
'aises his umbrella or tits it, as in
7ar!ably to, find the other man return
ing his courtesy in manner correspond
ng. He tells me that when he meets
1 man in q narrow snow path he all
Ways steps out with one foot, SO Civ
.ng the other mar half the path, and
~. tells me that rarely does this cou1-
lesy fail Of return in the manner Of
.ered-that lie has seen coming along
determined men who We're evidently
oent on hogsing the Whole path, but
who. when they saw him do this,
stepped out with one foot themselves.
fielding to him what he conceded to
hem.
And he tells me that it is his COM
non experience that people treat him
IS he treats them-that If he shows
good to them they show good
uring good anner in return.
LAS l remarked at the outset, we
will stand to be pirated if the person
S polite to us; but it is in the innu-
nerable little of our daily
life, in our meetings here and there
With various people and over little.
Kings that good manner count. In
.hese things they count for much.
blessed be the man who first tn
S he who makes it the code of his,
]oilr lifa,"