Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1875 — A Good Example for Business Men. [ARTICLE]

A Good Example for Business Men.

In a notice of the death of John Harper—one of the Harper brothers—it was said: “After Mr. Hririper had left his office for the day and retired to his home on Fifth avenue he would give up all thought of business matters and would refuse to converse on business affairs.” That fact should be painted in white letters on a black background, and framed in gilt and hung over the desk of every business man in the land. And over the portals ot every business man’s home should be the warning to those who would thrust business into that house: “No business transacted here.” You cannot throw a stone into a crowded street that you will not hit a man broken in body, if not in mind, early in life through the wear and tear of business, which has been permitted to follow his every step from morning till night, and 'even the hours which should be devoted to sleep. This very day, stopping at the Postofflce, one gentleman could not wait the getting out of the Postoffice corridor before he must begin to open his mail, while another gentleman was passing from the office and in the street was breaking the envelopes and reading the inclosures. Not even the short walk to their place of business of a pleasant morning was permitted free from business cogitations. Two-thirds of our business men reserve until evening the most taxing part of their day’s work, and pass their evenings, even to the small hours, in devising plans for the next day’s operation. Of course they break down before they have reached the meridian of their lives, while Harper, who drives business care from him as he turns from his office, devoting the time not necessary for sleep to recreation, and Vanderbilt, who in the evening calls for his game of whist, reach good old ages sound in body and mind.— Cleveland Herald. '