BUSINESS LIFE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13482, 8 May 1907, Page 9

BUSINESS LIFE.

Shut off all thinking process of every, kind when you retire for the night, relax every muscle, let there be no tension of mind or body, and in a short time you will find that sleep will come to you as easily and naturally as to a little child. The habit of thinking after going to bed is fatal • to", all freshness!. of brain work. These men have not learned to lock then.' business' in their offices or factories when, they quit for the night, so they drag it home, bring it up at the dinner table, ; and depress the whole family. Or, if they do not talk about their problems, their anxiety and absent-mindedness totally unfit them for the pleasant companionship of their families. They arc so absorbed in the problems of their vocations that they do not know what is going on around them. They do 'riot know .how to relax, to unbend, to rest, so they lie down to sleep with all their burden, just as .a. tired : camel lies .down in the ; -dessert with 'its great - burden still ■ on' its back.' '" ;; .'.'," ; It is a great art- to be able to shut the gates in the grea*. mental power-house on retiring, to control oneself, to put oneself in time with, the infinite, to put oneself in; sympathy with those about him, in harmony ' with the world, to expel from the mind ' everything which jars, irrigates, all malice, envy, and jealousy, the enemies of our peace i and happiness, before we go to sleep. :■ The story of the career of the late Dr. James Gale, who died recently in London, reads almost like a fairy tale. When about 17 years of age'he became totally blind. His strength of character was soon conspicuously manifested. -He was a brilliant example of fortitude in the face of disaster, ' and of resource and perseverance imder great difficulties. : When told by the doctors that his sight could not be restored, he set himself to accomplish a career which would have utterly disheartened most young men. He cultivated cheerfulness, and lost no opportunity to acquire knowledge. Labouring under immense difficulties, he, nevertheless, became a scientist and a medical man. As a medical electrician he had a large practice, and succeeded in restoring to activity persons who had lost the powers of locomotion. A voltaic battery of his construction was the means of curing a millionaire. At the end of the course of treatment the millionaire made Dr. Gale a gift of £50,000, a token of gratitude without parallel, perhaps, in the history of medicine. Fiom factory boy at two shillings a week to millionaire slims up the life of a great Scotchman— William —who built the Forth Bridge, rebuilt the Tay Bridge, and is going to widen Blackfriars Bridge for London.. _ Small schooling and hard times were the lot of Sir William's youth. Blacksmith, engineer, in a shipbuilding yard—and then a foreman's job at Glasgow, which he held/ for four years.' He started- business on a. capital of £85, began work,at- five o'clock every morning, and after more hard times secured the contract for a viaduct across the Clyde. When he had finished the Forth Bridge he was presented with the freedom of Ayr. Twenty years before, he said then, he had tramped penniless through. Ayr looking for a job. '. ; l '. _ _ ' . ,':, , .'■',/:.- , He married first on thirty shillings a week. Last year he married again, and travelled all the way from Ayr on his wedding day to, record his vote in the House of Commons on an important question. In his work-crowded life he has done all sorts of jobs, ■ from putting a* fresh hinge on a gate to patching up a weak kitchen range and building his giant bridges that are famous throughout the world. Whatever he has put his hand to do he has thoroughly carried out. He stands among the foremost of the world's self-made men. MAXIMS ON MONEY. A wise, man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.—Dean Swift. Make all you can; save all you can; give all you can.John,: Wesley. Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.Byron. Put not your trust. in money, but put your money in trust.O. W. Holmes. Men are seldom more innocently employed than when they are honestly making money. Samuel Johnson. *He that wants money, means, and content, is without three good friends.—Shakespere. ■ . *..' . ' Money.is a handmaid if you know how to use ita mistress if you do not know how.Horace. : ' Money does all things; for it gives and it takes away. It makes honest men and ! knaves, fools and philosophers.— . The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it. —Benjamin Franklin. Money is like manure—of very little use „ except it be spread.Bacon.