"What have you been doing ?" said the stern father.

"Nothing, father." "And what have you been doing, Daniel ?" "Helping Zeke, sir." How many boys, and men, too, waste hours and days "helping Zeke!" "Remember the world was created in six days," said Napoleon to one of his officers.

"Ask for whatever you please except time." Railroads and steamboats have been wonderful educators in promptness.

No matter who is late they leave right on the minute.
It is interesting to watch people at a great railroad station, running, hurrying, trying to make up time, for they well know when the time arrives the train will leave.
Factories, shops, stores, banks, everything opens and closes on the minute.

The higher the state of civilization the prompter is everything done.