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a sort of craze to manufacture gold and sil- 

 ver jewelry. I wanted to do this, because 

 then 1 could give honest goods according to 

 my notion. I applied to one of the down- 

 east jewelry factories for a good man who 

 could work solid gold and silver. Some- 

 what to my surprise they agreed to let me 

 have a man who. they said, was capable, 

 and the price he wanted was less than 1 ex- 

 pected. He proved to be all I wisht. and 1 

 often wondered why his employers let him 



go- 

 After he became pretty well acquainted, 

 however, and settled down to a certain 

 routine, I discovered why they were willing 

 to let him go, and why he workt for low 

 wages. First, he would get the daily paper 

 under his bench, and, when no one was 

 around, he would read the war news, get- 

 ting 25 cents an hour for so doing. He had 

 things planned and arranged so he could 

 slip his paper out of sight when anybody 

 came around who might report. Finally I 

 found out he was making work for himself 

 at odd hours. By playing detective a little 

 I was finally able to prove that he received 

 pay for all the time he spent on work of his 

 own. As he was a good sort of man, and 

 had done me quite a favor by leaving his 

 home in the East, I good-naturedly let 

 these things pass. Finally he solicited 

 work from other people at lower prices 

 than my own, doing said work on the sly 

 while he was drawing pay from mr. I felt 

 that something had to be done. But even 

 then for a time I put it off; but when it 

 came to appropriating gold and silver, as 

 well as precious hours of my time, for these 

 outside jobs, I told him I thought we could 

 not give him employment any longer. 



There are several things I want to say 

 right here in regard to cases of this kind. 

 The first is, that investigating and proving 

 charges like the above is, to my m;nd, the 

 most wearing and exhaustive work that 

 any one ever did. If any one thing will 

 break down a person's health, it is being 

 obliged to follow up and prove things of 

 this kind. Again, with a life-long experi- 

 ence, I am not yet prepared to say that it 

 is always the best way, to tell a man 

 plainly and squarely that you have found 

 him out. First, there is a difficulty in 

 proving conclusively things that are clear 

 enough in your own mind; and, finally, 

 you make a man a lifelong enemy by tell- 

 ing him the truth, whereas, if you simply 

 tell him you do not need him any longer, 

 you and he may be on tolerably friendly 

 terms if you happen to be near each other. 

 Sometimes, by the grace of God assisting 

 you, you can tell a man faults of this kind 

 in a way that will make him a better man : 

 but it almost always requires a great 

 amount of grace to say just enough, espe- 

 cially when you are ])rovoked, and not say 

 too much or exaggerate the state of affairs. 

 Dear friends, I started out in this Home 

 Paper today to say something that would 

 help you — at least a great part of you ; and 

 may God give me grace and wisdom to say 

 it as the Holy Spirit shall direct. 



This thing I have spoken about is wide- 

 spread. Men and women are complaining 

 because they are out of employment. Some 

 of them say that they cannot get work be- 

 cause they are "not in the ring." But 

 when I hear such speeches I feel almost 

 sure there is no "ring" about it. More 

 people are out of work because they are 

 not co7tscicntl(nis and Jioitest than for any 

 other reason. Yes, even vxjiruti are dishon- 

 est. God knows how it pains my heart to 

 say it. Even women, mothers of families, 

 those whom we have a right to expect to 

 be all that is good and pure, seem to have 

 either never heard our little text at the 

 head of this talk or else they have such an 

 opinion of their own shrewdness that they 

 think themselves exceptions, and that their 

 peculiar "sins" will never "find them 

 out." Let me say to such, you may tlibik 

 your employer does not know of the things 

 you are concealing; but let me repeat with 

 emphasis the words of our text, " Be surr 

 your sin will find you out." 



No doubt many people think us needlessly 

 particular in our establishment. During 

 these war times everybody wants to see a 

 daily paper, and the newsboys are pushing 



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them everywhpre — that is, when they are 

 allowed. We have forbidden the delivery 

 of papers to our people while at work. I 

 speak of this because I know how strong 

 the temptation is to take "Just a minute or 

 two;" and if u«f does it, another will. We 

 have also been obliged to forbid peddlers, 

 book agents, and agents for everything 

 else, coming on to our premises. Now, it 

 these agents were conscientious and honest, 

 we might, perhaps, permit them to come in 

 before or after working hours ; but I have 

 learned by sad experience that it is not 

 best to do even this. 



Do you say we make a fuss about little 

 things? My friend, this fuss is made for 

 your own good. The person who keeps his 

 mind and his hands busy on the work he is 

 emphyiji'd to do right along through the 

 working hours may be worth 35 cents an 

 hour or more; but if he is stopping his 

 work to notice everything that is going on, 

 to go over to his neighboring workmen to 

 talk about things not pertaining to the 

 business, he will be worth to his employer 

 only 1.5 or 20 cents an hour, or even less. 

 Why, I have had men (and women, too) in 

 my employ who finally became so demoral- 

 ized in this very way that I made up my 

 mind that they hindered business more 

 than they helpt, and that we should get 

 along better if we paid them their wages 

 to have them stay at home and not come 

 near us, and they hdd to stay at home 

 finally without any wages at all. One rea- 

 son why we have had such extreme cases 

 is because we dislike to make a fuss about 

 things that look on the face of them to be 

 small and unimportant, and so we good- 

 naturedly let the things pass until there 

 has to be a sudden reform. 



I want to say a word more about doing 

 work for yourself when you have hired out 

 to somebody else. If I wanted to get good 

 pay in any establishment I would be very 

 careful about small matters. It I wanted 

 to write a letter in regard to my own 

 affairs while in the employ of somebody 

 else, I would speak to my employer about 

 it. and take out the time it occupied, even 

 if it did not take me more than five min- 

 utes. You may say this is a small matter ; 

 but small matters help to make up solid 

 character. The man who is known to be 

 scrupulously honest in details will very 

 soon get to be trusted, and will get large 

 pay accordingly. I can often measure a 

 man's worth the first day he works. A boy 

 may be excused for running to the clock 

 every little while to see what time it is; 

 but a grown-up man should be ashamed to 

 do things of this kind. There are people 

 who are constantly hunting up pretexts 

 and excuses to leave their work and to go 

 off after something. I have had men who 

 always wanted a different tool from the 

 one 1 gave them, and who would spend 

 more time in going after a tool they pre- 

 tended they wanted than it would have 

 taken to finish the work with the tool they 

 had. 



In regard to the old adage, "A new 

 Vjroom sweeps clean," this ought to be 

 exactly the other way when applied to 

 reasonable beings. The man who has 

 charge of a certain line of business for sev- 

 eral years has learned many crooks and 

 turns. He has learned by long experience, 

 and sometimes by sad experience, how to 

 avoid mishaps. There are many depart- 

 ments where it really takes years to be- 

 come proficient in all the details. The old 

 hand at the business should be worth two 

 or three times as much as a new hand. 

 Now, this is all true; but it is too often the 

 case that, instead of trying to keep up with 

 the times, and improve still more in his 

 vocation, he gets to shirking, and finally to 

 cheating; and then the adage becomes 

 true. The old broom must be replaced by 

 a new one, not because the new one is any 

 better, but because the old one absolutely 

 will luit do that which he knows very well 

 how to do. 



During the dull season of the year we 

 have always been more or less annoyed by 

 gossip during working hours. Now, this 

 habit of gossiping with a fellow-workman 

 is one of the diseases that I have learned to 

 fear is incurable. One who is addicted to 



