EARNEST YOUNG MAN—"Have you any advice to a struggling young employee?"
FRANK OLD GENTLEMAN—"Yes. Don't work."
EARNEST YOUNG MAN—"Don't work?"
FRANK OLD GENTLEMAN—"No. Become an employer."
General Benjamin F. Butler built a house in Washington on the same plans as his home in Lowell, Mass., and his studies were furnished in exactly the same way. He and his secretary, M. W. Clancy, afterward City Clerk of Washington for many years, were constantly traveling between the two places.
One day a senator called upon General Butler in Lowell and the next day in Washington to find him and his secretary engaged upon the same work that had occupied them in Massachusetts.
"Heavens, Clancy, don't you ever stop?"
"No," interposed General Butler,