Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-02-06

Everyone hPs'all the time theretis,
of course. Although the total amount
allotted to each person may be large
or small, no one is denied the full
twenty-four hours for the accomplish
nont of whatever he may have to do.
To say, then, that you haven't
time to attend to such and such a
matter means that you are more in
ttrested in something else, and have
used your time doing that. Or 1t
means that you are wasteful or en-
trayagant with your time, or that
you are loose or disorderly with 1t,
and are poor economist with what
lis the most valuable asset a man has.
II genius is nothing but assiduity
(hnd | am inclined to think II isl, II
may also be defined as a knowledge
of the proper use OF time. As my
mother often said to me, THE more
you do, the more time you find to
do 1t in; and with the rounding
years this has turned truer and
truer.
Here is man who gives all his
time to his buslness--a matter that
concerns himself alone and has for
an object, not provision against tenn
poral necessities, for that was accom-
plished long ago. but tile accumula-
ton OF more business and more mon
ey. He Is busy. He flies. His book
keepers. clerks, stenograpners ny. He
uses up all his time working on the
intricacies of his business system--
but intrinsically he is doing absolute
ly nothing in the world. ..
| He has a motto In his office which
reads: This Is my busy day. Talk
to the point" And that day Is every
day, including Sundays very often.
lie furnishes his fnmily with n fine
house and equipment; with money
enough to get all they need and more,
but his time-ah, his time! He can
not spare that.
His children scarcely know him,
and when he sees them IL is In Il fit
OF abstraction. While his boy ex-
plains plan of his, the father Is
mentally in his Office perfecting a
business deal" This man has nc
time" and when you call on him
To talk business which is not his bus.
iness he makes you feet as II you
were stealing money from his safe
lie is restless, anxious, looks at the
clock. and you go as quickly as you
can with the feeling that II you had
staid any longer some calamity
might overtake you.
What does this very busy man &C
complish In the world? He give!
employment to some persons who
would be employed anyway for theil
Specific qualifications. because h,
would not employ any but the best
and they work over-hours. He leaves
a fortune at the expense OF a life q
precious hours. which might hav,
been used to some advantage. TIT
man has not been happy even, bu
worried and rushed.
by the way. whenever ] hear I
man say that he is ''rushed"I wan
to catalogue him at once. Those wit
have the least important work to d,
In the world. make the most fuss do
ing 1t, and never have any spare tim
: for things worth while. BY the sid
OF the busy business man. conside
a figure like that of Franklin Web
ster, Emerson, or Gladstone o
Lincoln! They wrote. they spoke
they worked with their hands. the
visited with their friends, had an in
terest in science, medicine, religion
! society, politics, -everything. The
wrote for the newspapers. particular
ly Franklin and Gladstone. on almos
every current subject which came u
and interested them. They made