The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-02
The Hundred-POint Man.

Dlllty or a certain person. The an
swer came back thus: He is a Hun
dred-Point man in everything and
anything he undertakes"
read the telegram, and then pin
ned it up over my desk. where l could
see it. That night it sort of stuck in
my memory 1 dreamed Of it.
The next day showed the message
to fellow 1 know pretty well, and
said. I'D rather have that said Of
me than to be called a great this or
that"
Oliver Wendell Holmes has left Oh
record the statement that you could
not throw a stone on Boston Com
mon without caroming on three poets,
two essayists and a playwright.
Hundred Point men are not SO
plentiful
A Hundred Point man Is one who
Is true to every trust; who keeps his
word; who Is loyal to the firm that
employs him; who does not listen
for insult nor look for sights; who
carries a civil tongue in his head !;
who is polite to strangers, without be-
ing "fresh;" who Is considerate to-
ward servants; who is moderate in his
eating and drinking; who is willing to
learn; who IL cautious and yet cour-
ageous.
Hundred-Point men may vary
much in ability, but this is always
true--they are safe men to deal with,
whether drivers of drays. motormen,
clerks. cashiers. engineers or presi-
dents of railroads.
Paranoiacs are people who are suf-
fering from fatty enlargement of the
ego.
They want the best seats in the
synagogue; they dem nd bouquets,
compliments, obeisance, and, in order
to see what the papers will say next
morning, they sometimes obligingly
commit suicide.
The paraoniac is the antithesis of
the Hundred-Point man. The paran-
oiac imagines he is being wronged,
and that some one has 1t in for him,
and that the world Is down on him.
He is given to that which Is strange,
peculiar, uncertain, eccentric and er-
ratio.
The Hundred-Point man may not
look just like all other men, or dress
like them, or talk like them, but what
he does 1t true to his own nature. He
is himself.
He Is more interested in doing his
work than what other people will say
about it.
He does not consider the gallery.
He acts his thoughts and thinks lit
tie Of the act.
L never knew Hundred Point man
who was not one brought up from
early youth to make himself useful
and to economize in the matter of
time and money.
Necessity Is ballast
The paraonoiacs, almost without
exception, Is one who has been made
exempt from work.
He has been petted, waited upon,
coddled. cared for, laughed at and
chuckled to.
The excellence Of the old fashioned
big family was that no child got an
undue amount Of attention.
The antique idea that the child
must work for his parents until the
day he was twenty-one was a deal
better for the youth than to let him
get it into his head that his parents
must work for him.
Nature intended that we should all
be poor-that we should earn our
bread every day before we eat it.
When you find the Hundred Point
man you will find one who lives like
person in moderate circumstances,
no matter what his finances are.
Every many who thinks he has the
world by the tail, and is about to
snap its demnition head off for the
delectation of mankind, is unsafe, no
matter how great his genius In the
line of specialties.
The Hundred-Point man looks af-
ter just one individual, and that is
the man under his own hat; he is one
who does not spend money until ne
earns it; who pays his way; who
knows that nothing is ever given for
nothing; who keeps his digits off 9TH
er peoples property.
When he does not know what to
say he says nothing; and when he
does not know what to do, does not