Show aby n by they breal it is no as its a role the sneak thief md and burglar whom everybody la is on guard against that in in the course of hia his life steals the most money it la is always the trusted employee who has the bonfi dence of everybody about him that makes the great hauls A boy goes into an office fresh and bright from school he ile has hars a frank trustful way ay with him that all properly born men and women have hare in youth auth before they have been cheated so often thit that they learn to hide bide themselves ee within themselves but when in spite of being cheated over and again people can still retain this frank open way through life it constitutes a great part of that mysterious charm we call magnetism the boy wins the hearts of amplo employer y ers by bis his bright frankness his quickness and good nature they in time trust truss him to any extent because good nature and obligingness coupled with a quick brain are not plentiful in this world so it goes on for years the trusted boy li is promoted from post to post of honor and increased wages they predict for him a splendid future which he certainly has brains to attain then suddenly some trivial thing occurs perhaps au an absence from duty for a day no matter what like a thunderclap cornea comes the revelation that the trusted youth has been stealing right and left for a long time robbing his friends and employers of hundreds maybe thousands of dol lars there was nothing the boy could not have aspired to in that business bouse house but all goes in a crash the story fol lows him and his future if not ruined is clouded for years now it is certain that if he be had only had cense sense enough plain common sense and foresight lo 10 1 stick to his work w ork and behave himself in a very i ery short time he would have bad had far more money than he got by stealing he ile stole simply because he had not sense enough to be honest so with the trusted cashier or president those who think they know him hini best would stake their beads heads on his integrity would trust all the savings of their lives in bis his bands hands and do thus trust them then some miserable day it falls out that this respected citizen is a thief a liar ilar and vil lain the few thousands even the hundreds of thousands for which he has bartered both hia his present and future are very paltry compared to what he has lost the most miserable part of this whole wretched business of gentlemanly stealing is is too top that it if the thief would only hold on and remain honest ho he would ere long in in nearly every case have actually more money than he baa has with all his peculations speculations he too steals for want of sense it is is the best policy to be honest even it if one is honest only from policy |