you cannot afford to owe anybody
else. Keep out of debt.

Fifth--Dishonesty is never an accident. Good men, like good women,
never see temptation when they meet it.

Sixth--Mind your own business, and in time you'll have a business of
your own to mind.

Seventh--Don't do anything here which hurts your self-respect. An
employee who is willing to steal for me is willing to steal from me.

Eighth--It is none of my business what you do at night. But if
dissipation affects what you do the next day, and you do half as much
as I demand, you'll last half as long as you hoped.

Ninth--Don't tell me what I'll like to hear, but what I ought to hear.
I don't want a valet for my pride, but one for my purse.

Tenth--Don't kick if I kick. If you're worth while correcting, you're
worth while keeping. I don't waste time cutting specks out of rotten
apples.

--_The Rotarian_.

One of the bosses at Baldwin's Locomotive Works had to lay off an
argumentative Irishman named Pat, so he saved discussion by putting
the discharge in writing. The next day Pat was missing, but a week
later the boss was passing through the shop and he saw him again at
his lathe. Then, the following colloquy occurred:

"Didn't you get my letter?"

"Yis, sur, Oi did," said Pat.

"Did you read it?"

"Sure, sur, Oi read it inside and Oi read it outside," said Pat,
"and on the inside yez said I was fired and on the outside yez said:
'Return to Baldwin Locomotive Works in five days.'"

"Well, George," said the president of the company to old George, "how
goes it?"

"Fair to middlin', sir," George answered. And he continued to
currycomb a bay horse.

"Me an' this here boss," George said, suddenly, "has worked for your
firm sixteen year."

"Well, well," said the president, thinking a little guiltily of
George's salary. "And I suppose you are both pretty highly valued,
George, eh?"

"H'm," said George, "the both of us was took sick last week, and they
got a doctor for the hoss, but they just docked my pay."

A plumber and a painter were working in the same house. The painter
arrived late and the plumber said to him, "You're late this morning."

"Yes," said the painter, "I had to stop and have my hair cut."

"You didn't do it on your employer's time, did you?" said the plumber.

"Sure, I did," said the painter; "It grew on his time."

POSSIBLE EMPLOYER--"H'm! so you want a job, eh? Do you ever tell
lies?"

APPLICANT--"No, sir, but I k