The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-11-07
DO IT NOW.

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off until tomorrow" is bad maxim
for young man to adopt if he wants
to succeed. Time is precious.
Promptness is a recommendation.
Today is the only time we have.
'tDo it now should therefore be our
motto.
Note the sublime precision that
leads the earth over a circuit of 5oo,-
600, 900 miles back to the solstice at
the appointed moment without the
loss of one second-no, not the mil
lionth part of a second-for ages and
ages of which it travelled that impe-
rial road. Edwayd EveveH.
Dispatch is the soul of business
Chesterfield.
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of
an appointment is an act of clear dis
honesty. You may as well borrow
Mann.
By the street of by and by one ar
rives at the house of never. r.-Ce,vGn-
keS.
The greatest thief this world has
ever produced is procrastination, and
he is still at large. ". Shan.
"Oh, how I do appreciate boy
who is always on time l' says H. c.
Bowen. "How quickly you learn to
depend on him, and how soon you
find yourself intrusting him with
weightier matters The boy who
has acquired a reputation for punctu-
atty has made the first contribution
to the capital that in after years makes
his success a certainty"
Nothing commends young man
so much to his employers, /" says John
Stuart Blackie, Gas accuracy and
punctuality in the conduct of his bus
iness. And no wonder. On each
mans exactitude depends the COM
fortableand easy going of his machine.
Ifthe clock goes ftfully nobody knows
the time OF day; and, if your task Is
a link in the chain of another mans
work, you are his clock, and he ought
to be able to rely on you."
"The whole period of youth" said
Ruskin, ''is one essentially OF forma-
tion, edifcation, instruction. There
is not an hour of it but is trembling
with destinies-not moment OF
which, once passed, the appointed
work can never be done again, or the
neglected blow struck on the cold
iron."
Tomorrow didst thou say?" ask
ed Cotton. "Goto-I will not hear of
it. Tomorrow It is sharper who
stakes his penny against thy plenty
who takes thy ready cash and pays
thee naught but wishes, hopes and
promises, the currency of idiots. To
morrow ! it is period nowhere to be
found in all the hoary registers of
time, unless perchance in the FOOLS
calendar. Wisdom disclaims the
word, nor holds society with those
that ovun it '1Nis fancy's child. and
folly is its father wrought of such
stuff as dreams are; and baseless as
the fantastic visions of the evening""
Oh, how many wreck on the road to
success could say: IT have spent all
my life in the pursuit of tomorrow,
being assured that tomorrow, has
some vast benefit or other in store for
me-"
"I give it as my deliberate and SOL
emn conviction, said DR.. Fitch, ''that
the individual who is tardy in meet
ing an appointment will never be re-
spected or successful In life."
eff man has no regard for the
time of other men," said Horace
Greeley, "why should he have for
their money? There are many men,
to whom each hour of the business
day is worth more than five dollars" "
A man who keeps his time will
keep his word in truth, he cannot
keep his word unless he does keep his
time.
When the Duchess of Switzerland
came late, keeping The court waiting,
the queen, who was always vexed by
tardiness, presented her with her own
watch, saying, "I am afraid yours
does not keep good time"
"Then you must get a new watch,
or another secretary" replied Wash
ington, when his secretary excused
the lateness of his attendance by say
ing that his watch was too slow.
"I have generally found that man
who is good at an excuse is good for
nothing else," said Franklin to a ser
want who was always late, but always
ready with an excuse.