Noor Ul Hadi

weather sent the market up and down, he nodded and said that that part of it was right, becasue the weather was of the lord.''not on the board of trade it ins t,'' bill answered back; at least, not to any mrked extent; it s from the weather man or some liar in hte corn belt, and as the weather man usually guesses wrong, i reckon there isn t any special inspiration abut it. the game is to guess what s going to happen, not what has happend, and by the time the real weather comes along everybody has guessed wrong and knocked the market off a cent or two.''that made the deacon s chin whiskers droop a little, but he began to ask questions again, and by and by he discovered that away behind-about a hundred miles behind, but that was close enough for the deacon-a deal in futures there were real wheat and pork. said then that he d been misingormed and misled; that speculation was a legitimate business, involving skill and sagacity; that his last scruple was removed, and that he would accept the twohundred.bill brightened right up at that and thanked him for putting it so clear and removing the doubts that had been worrying him. said that he could speculate with a clear conscience after listening to the deacon s able exposition of the subject. was only sorry he hadn t seen him to talk it over vbefore breakfasr, as the two hundred had been lying so heavy on his mind all night that he d got up early and mailed a check for it to the deacon s pastor and told him to spend it on his poor.zeke took the everning train home in order to pry that check out of the elder, but old doc. hoover was a pretty quick wtepper himself and he d blown the whole two hundred as soon as he got it, buying winter coal for poor people.i simply mention the deacon in passing as an example of the fact that it s easy for a man who thinks he s all right ot go all wrong when he sees a couple of hundred dollars lying around loose a little to one side of the straingt and narrow path; and that when he reaches down to pick up the money there s usually a string tied to it and a small boy in the bushes to give it a yank. easy -come money never draws interest; easy -borrowed dollars pay usury.of course, the board of trade adn every other commercial exchange have their legitimate uses, but all you need to know just now is that speculation by a fellow who never owns more park at a time than he sees on his breakfast plate isn t one of them. whenyou become a packer you may go on change as a trader; until then you can go there only as a sucker.dear pierrepont. i judge from yours of the twenty -ninth that you must have the black bass in those parts pretty well terrorized. i never could quite figure it out, but there seems to be something about a fish that makes even a clod-water deacon see double. i reckon it must be that while eve was learning the first principles of dressmaking fram the snake, adam was off bass fishing and keeping his end up by learning how to lie.don t overstock yourself with those fore-pound fish yarns, though, because the boys have been briging them back from their vacations till we ve got enough to last us a year of fridays. and if you re sending them to keep in practice, you might as well quit, because we ve decided to take you off the road when you come back, and make you assistant manager of the lard department. the slary will be fifty dollars a week, and the duties of the position to do your work so well that the manager can t run the department without you, nad that you can urn the department without the manager.to do this you will have to know lard; to know yourself; and to know those under you. to some fellows lard is just hog far, and not always that, if they would rather make a dollar to-day than five to-morrow. but it was a good deal more to jack summers, who held your new job until we had to promote him to canned goods.jack knew lard from the hog to the frying pan; was up on lard in history and religion; originated what he called the ''ham and'' theory, proving that moses injunction against park must have been dissolved by the circuit court, because noah included a couple of shoats in his carga, and called one of his sons ham, out of gratitude, probably, after tasting a slice broiled for the first time; argued that all the great nations lived on fried food, and that america was the greatest of them all, owing to the energy -producing qualities of pie, liberally shortened with lard.it almost broke jack s heart when we decided to manufacture our new cottonseed oil product, seedoiline. but on reflection he saw that it just gave him an extra hold on the heathen that he couldn t convert to lard, and he started right out for the hebrew and vegtarian vote. jack had enthusiasm, and enthusiosm is the best shortening for any job, it makes heavy work light.a good many young fellwos every their boss because the think he makes the rules and can do as he pleases. as a matter of fact, he s the only man in the shop who can t. he s like the fellow on the tight-rope-there s plenty of scenery under him and lots of room around him, but he sgot to keep his feet on the wire all the time and travel straight ahead.a clerk has just one boss to answer to the manager. but the manager has just as many bosses as he has clerks under him. he can make rules, but he s the only man who can t afford ot break them now and then. a fellow is a boss simply because he s a better man than those under him, and there s a heap of responsibility in being better than the next fellow.no man can ask more than he gives.a fellow who can t take orders can t give them. if his rules are too hard for him to mind, you can bet they are too hard for the clerks who don t get half so much for minding them as he does. there s nalarm clock for the sleepy man like an early rising manager. and there s nothing breeds work in an office like a busy boss.of course, setting a good example is just a small part of a manager s duties. it s not enough to settle yourself firm on the box seat-you must have every man under you hitched up right and well in hand. you t work individuals by general rules. every man is a special case and needs a special pill. when you fix up a snug little nest for a plymouth rock hen and encourage her with a nice porcelain egg, it doesn t always follow that she has reached the fricassee age because she doesn t lay right off. sometimes she will respond to a little red pepper in her food.i don t mean by this that you ever want to drive your men, because the lash always leaves its worst soreness under the skin. a hundred men will forgive a blow in the face wher one will a blow to his self-esteem. tell a man the truth about himself and shame the devil if you want to, but you won t shame the man you re tryingto reach, because he won