The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-02-13
DO IT NOW.

"Never do today what can be put
off until tomorrow" is bad maxim
for a young man to adopt if he wants
to succeed. Time is precious. Prompt
ness is recommendation. Today is
the only time we have. "Do it now"
should therefore be our motto.
Note the sublime precision that
leads the earth over circuit of $780,
600, 900 miles back to the solstice at
the appointed moment without the
loss of one second-no, not the mil
lioneth part of a second-for ages and
ages of which it travelled that impe-
rial road. d.-Edwara E0ereH.
Dispatch is the soul of business. =
Chesterfield.
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an
appointment is an act of clear dishon-
esty. You may as we'll borrow
PERSONS money as his time.-Hoyace
Mann.
By the street of by-and- by one ar
rives at the house of never. -Ce,ynn-
ties.
The greatest thief this world has
ever produced is procrastination, and
he is still at large.-H. w. Shan.
"Oh, how Go appreciate a boy
who is always on time !" 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 pune
tuality has made the first contribu-
ton TO the capital that in after years
makes his success certainty.
Nothing commends young man
so much to his employers, says John
Stuart Blackie, "as accuracy and
punctuality in the conduct of his busi-
ness. And no wonder. On each
mans exactitude depends the CON-
Portable and easy going of his ma
chine. If the clock goes ftfully, no.
body knows the time of day and, if
your task is link in the chain of
another mans work, you are his
clock, and he ought to be able to re-
ly on you."
"The whole period of youth, said
Ruskin, 'is one essentially of forma-
tion, edi6cation, instruction. There
is pot an hour of it but is trembling
with destinies-not a moment of
which, once past, the appointed work
can never be done again, or the ne
elected blow struck on the cold iron."
Tomorrow didst thou say1" ask
ed Cotton. "Go to- will not hear
of it. Tomorrow 1t is a 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. Tomorrow it is a period no.,
where to be found in all the hoary
registers Of time, unless perchance in
the fools calendar. Wisdom dis
claims the word, nor holds society
with those that own it. 'Tis fancy's
child, and folly is its father wrought
of such stuff as dreams are and base
less as the fantastic visions of the
evening"" Oh, how many a wreck
on the road to success could say: "I
have spent all my life ID the pursuit
of tomorrow, being assured that to-
morrow has some vast benefit or other
in store for u.s."
"I give it as my deliberate and SOL
emn conviction" said DR.. Fitch,
"that the individual who is tardy in
meeting an appointment will never be
respected or successful in life. +"
''If a 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. "
4 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, ~ am afraid yours
does not keep good time"
"Then you must get new watch
or I another secretary, replied Wash
ington, when his secretary excused
the Iateness of his attendance by say
ing that his watch was too slow.
IT have generally found that man
who is good at an excuse is good for
nothing else, " said Franklin to SER
want who was always late, but always
ready with an excuse.