Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1876 — Punctuality in All Things. [ARTICLE]

Punctuality in All Things.

It is astonishing how many people there might otherwise rise to fortune; in a word, there is not a profession, nor a station, in life which is not liable to the canker of this destructive habit. In mercantile affairs punctuality- is as important as in military. Many are the instances in which th« neglect to renew an Insurance punctually has led to a serious loss. Hundreds of city merchants are bow suffering ib consequence of the want of punctuality among their Western customers in paying up accounts. With sound policy do the banks insist, u&der the penalty of a protest, on the punctual payment of note 3; for were they to do otherwise commercial transactions would fall into inextricable confusion. Many and many a time has the failure of one man to meet his obligations brought on the ruin of a score of others, just as the toppling down, in a line of bricks, of the master-brick causes the fall of all the rest. Perhaps there is no class of men less punctual than mechanics. Do you want an upholsterer? He rarely comes When he agrees. So with carpenters, painters and nearly all others. Tailors and shoemakers often do not have their articles home in time. The consequence is that thousands remain poor all their lives, who, if they were more faithful to their word, would secure a large run of custom and so make their fortunes. What would become of the Scientific American if it were not punctual in going to press ? or if our paper-makers were sett punctual in delivering paper? or if our compositors were not punctual in coming to work? Be punctual if you would succeed. —Scientific American.