Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1875 — Courtesy. [ARTICLE]

Courtesy.

If from no other principle, young men would find that it paid best to be civil and polite to customers. Incivility is always a mark of ill-breeding; and a true gentle man could no more be guilty of discourt_ esy than of dishonesty. The following, from the New York correspondent of the Boston Journal, is as good as a whole volume—and even better—on the subject of commercial courtesy: In one of our large hotels a young man has a very large salary as room-clerk. He has faculty of stowing people in all sorts of unmentionable places in his hotel, and making the guests feel happy about it. His stock of politeness and good humor never runs empty. Stout, of the Shoe and Leather Bank, is celebrated for his financial success and for his inexhaustible good nature. He is never so busy but he has a kind word for the humblest. When they are rushing things in the bank Mr. Stout always finds time to say: “Take a seat; I’ll be at leisure in a moment.” A man came into the bank the other day and opened an account. “I came here,” he said, “not simply because I knew my money would be safe with you, but because you are always civil. I have been a depositor in Bank for many years. I went in to-day to see the cashier. I knew him when he had no society to boast of, and hardly money enough to pay for a dinner at a cheap restauiant. I laid my hat on the desk, which I suppose I had no business to do. He waved his hand with an imperious air, and said: ‘ Take this hat off.’ ‘“I removed my hat, when he said, ‘Now I will hear what you have to say.’ “ ‘ I’ve nothing to say to you,’ I replied. “ I went to the book-keeper, ordered my account to be made up, took the bank’s check for $42,000, and this I wish to de pqsit.” ’The President and cashier represent two styles of business common in New York. Sauciness does not bear a high commercial \alue among the financial men of the city.

Up in Moscow, Somerset County, Me., there is a school-house which is built of logs and boasts of a glass window. The cracks between the logs are all open—the hand could be thrust through anywhere. The building has four seats and will seat eight scholars. The teacher has no desk, but a flat stone to sit on. A short school is taught here every summer. Jones (who has walked the length of his lawn to expostulate with his milkman on cruelty to animals)—” Do you know what happened to Balaam ?’ Milkman—- “ Yes.” Jones—“ Well, what was it?” Milkman—“ The same thing that happened to me just now—a donkey spoke to him. Gollang!” How sweet is perfect understanding between man and wife. He was to smoke cigars when he wanted them, but he was to give her ten cents every time he indulged in one. He kept his word, and every time she got fifty cents ahead lie’d borrow It and buy cigars.