200 REWARDS OF HONESTY. 



the man -wanted the paper. "I'll git ye the charge, Mister," he said. 

 "All right," said the customer, as he went back into the parlor. But 

 when half an hour later no change had been brought he gave up his con- 

 fidence in that boy's honesty. But just as he was about to retire, nearly 

 ten o'clock, there came a ring at the door-bell. Going to the door he 

 found a diminutive youngster who held up a little hand with nine pen- 

 nies in it and a piping voice said: "Here, Mister, is yer cbange. Bob 

 he got run over by de cars, and dey bring him home in der perlice 

 wagon, and he say he was bringing de man his change, and he could 

 not rest and could not stand it till'de money was brung, so I brung it." 

 The gentleman took the change and asked the boy's address. Next 

 day, calling at the dingy back rooms where the little fellow said he 

 lived he found the boy to whom he had given the dime lying in his 

 little cheap bed, out of his head, and moaning now and then, "Tim, 

 Tim, you must git the change for the man ; I said I would, and he'U 

 think I stole it." The gentleman learned that the boy, while on the 

 way back to return the change, was run down by a car unnoticed and 

 found a little later by a policeman. The gentleman sent his own physi- 

 cian to attend the boy, wno finally recovered, and after that paid his 

 poor widowed mother enough to enable her to keep the boy in school 

 and start him in an honorable business career. 



We put honesty first, because it is more important than any other 

 one thing in order to get on in the world. Too much has been said 

 about shrewd traffic about getting the better of your fellows. But 

 there is nothing that stands more in the way of winning success in life 

 than the meanness that comes from dishonest practices and by dis- 

 honest practices we mean not alone taking something that don't belong 

 to you violating the law of the land but any act of unfairness 

 toward others. It is just as dishonest to fail to give what you know 

 you ought to give as it is to steal. It is just as dishonest to live beyc*** 

 your means, .or to speculate with borrowed money, or to keep wnat 

 you find and can find an owner for, as it is to break into a house 

 and rob ; and every dishonest act will make a smaller man of you, 

 less capable, less thought of, less free. There is no misery on earth 

 so painful or so impossible to get away from as a tortured conscience. 

 Money can buy lots of things, but it can never buy happiness, never 

 buy a clear conscience, never can buy that gloriously independent and 

 free feeling that comes from one's own inner satisfaction. 



" And this above all, to thine own self be true, 

 " And it must follow as the night the day 

 " Thou can'st not then be false to any man." 



ADVANTAGES OF Till TH AND VERACITY. 



If you never tell a lie you cannot be dishonest, for the first time you 

 steal an apple or a penny or fail to return what you know belongs to 

 some one else you tell a lie to your own soul and you act a lie by keep- 

 ing the thing "sneaked," even though nobody knows about it but your- 

 self and one other. There is always one other knows besides yourself 

 God knows and you know. Gladstone, when a boy, once took a 



