| Show A true Bili business siness man you might often have seen driving into bristol a man under the middle middie size verging toward towards sixty wrapped rapped up lu in a coat of deep olne olie with wilh gray hair an open countenance a quick brown eye and an air less expressive of polish than of push ile he drives a ph phealon Eelon with ith a first rate horse at f full ull uil speed he looks as if lie had work to do and had the art of doing it on the way bo he oyer overtakes takes a woman carrying a bundle in an at i instant the tile horse hore is reined up tip ov her side and a i voice of contagious promptitude fells elli her tier to pit put up her bundle and mount the voice commini communicates to the astonished dished pedestrian its own energy j she is forthwith seated and away dashes the phanon in a few minutes the stranger is deposited in bristol with the present of some pretty I 1 little book and the p phaeton I 1 aton hastens on to nelson street there it turns turus into the he archway of an immense warehouse Il hele nele leie heie boy take my horse corsel take my horse it is the voice voce of the head of the firm the boy flies the master passes passel through the he offices as if he lie had bad three days work to do yet bis his eve notes note every thing he reaches his private office he takes from his pocket a bf bok ak on which be has set down in order the duties of the day A boy waits at the door he glances at his big book bo ok and orders the boy to calla calia call cail a clerk the tle clerk fa i there promptly and receives his instructions in a moment now what is the next th thing irig asks the mater master glancing at irb lib again the boy bouw is on the wing and another clerk appears ile he is soon dismissed now what i H 3 the next thing again alkin looking at tha the memorandum at fhe ibe call of the mess messenger ensen euger er a young man now approaches pro aches the office door he ila is a traveler erouches iro Ero but ut notwithstanding the habitual push an and self possession of his class he be eviden evidently evidently tl Y is 19 a approaching his employer emp moyer with reluctance and embarrassment lie he almost pauses at tho the entrance and now ehat that he fie is face to face with the strict man of business he feels much conru ed well the matter I 1 you cant make your cash jnue right no sk 1 how much eight po pounds sir never mind I 1 am quite sure are you have hare done what is right and honorable it is some mistake and you wont mont let it happen again take this thie and awl amke your account straight the yoong man takes the proffered paper ile he sees an order for ten pounds and anti retires as full af admiration as he bad approached full of anxiety now wha i ia tee the ece eee next thing this tris time a porter is summoned he comes forward as if it lie expected rebuke 6 0 1 I have got sueh a complaint reported against you you know that will never do you must not let iet that occur again 2 thus with dispatch matter after matter is settled and all who leave leaie that office go to their as if some one bad oiled all their joints at another time you find the ma matei mates tey tex through the warehouse here his big quick glance decries a man who is moving drow drowsily and he says a sharp word that makes him in a moment nimble there be sees another blundering at his work ile he had no idea that the masters eye was wag upon him till he finds himself suddenly supplanted at the job in a trice it is done and his master leaves him birn to digest the stimulant now a malcomes man comes up to tell him of some plan he has in his mind for improving something in his own department of or the business ye yes thank yon you a good idea and putting pulling haifa half a crown into his hand band he be nass pass OB on in another place he lie finds a man idling you can soon see sec that of all till spectacles this is the one least to his mind gif alf 9 if you aaste aasta five minutes that is not much but probably if you waste five minutes yourself you lead some one ele eie to waste five minutes and that makes ten if it a third follow your example that makes a quarter of an hour now there are about a hundred and eighty of us here and if every orle ore wasted five minutes in a day what would it come to let me see why it would be fifteen hours and fifteen hours a day would be ninety hours about eight days working time in in a week and in a year would be four hundred davs dava da s do you think we could ever stand waste like that the poor loiterer is utterly confounded he had no idea of ea ing up fifteen hours much less four hundred days dass of his good employers time and he lie never saw before how bow fast five minutes could be multiplied cleow tiow frow to do business |
