Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-03-01

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ssDear Sir: / am q poor boy. I Fofl.e. 1I13 -
to get rich, Now what st7il ,io, - want to re-
main on my fathers farm. a F5SIie-e F5,as
the best advice you can anu a. q. $"
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Ana0er.-The aspiration TO- be rich
--thouqh by no means the highest taat
can iu1Del q careers, in ouT view,
whoIesome and laudable. The youth
rho saws. let ne be rich any hot7, and
before an other considera IONS, IS
very likely to bring up IN some state
Prison; but he who consistently says
"Let me first be just, honest, Eaoraal'
dilligent, useful then rich, II on tne
right road. Every boy ought = aspire
TO be rich, provided he can he TltDout
uufaithfulness to social obligation OF
to moral principle
Rut how shall he set about getting
rich We would cOneisely say:
T. Firmly resoBUe ReUeT 70 OaCe q
debE-Tt is the Fundamental mistake
Of most boys to suppose that they. can
get rich faster on money earned BY
others than on that eaFnea respective
ly By themselves. IF every youth OF
IS to % years were to-day offered slU,-
600 for ten years at seven per cent.
interest. two-thirds of them would ca
Rerly accept it; when the probable
6onseGuenoe Is that three-fOuFths OF
them would die bankrupts and pau
pers. BOYS do not need money half so
much as they need TO know how to
earn it. The boy who, at the close of
his first year Of Independence has
earned and saved 500, and invested or
loaned it where 1t will pay him SIX OF
seven per cent. will almost surely be-
come rich If he lives while he who
closes his Erst 9saF Of resPonsI5lllty
in debt viii probably live and oIe ! m
debt. There is no greater mistake
made BY our American youth than
that of choosing to pay interest rather
than receive SC. Interest deVOuFs us
while We sleep it absorbs our profits
and araraVates our losses. Leta young
man at twenty-five have 81, 900 loaned
on bond and mortgage or fnTesfed IN
public securities. and he viii rarely
want money thereafter in fact, that
$1,000, invested at seven per cent. viii
Of itself make him rich before he Is
sixty. There Is no rule more impOr-
tsnt or wholesome for our boys than
chat which teaches them TO 90 through
life receiving interest rather than pay
ing it. OF the tormenfs which afaict
this mortal sphere, the fiFst rank is
held by Crime the sesond BY Debt.
II 4c9ttire promptly and thorough
Ia 50 nsefafE caIIinq.-Some- pursuits
are ao.e luofstiVes some more rsspec-
table, some more agreeable, than
others; but a chimney sweeps is far
better than none at at all. No matter
how rich his parents may be, boy
should learn a trade ; no matter how
poor he may be, boy may learn some e
trade if he will. This city is fuff TO-
day of young land old) men who have
been clerks, bookkeepers, poFteTs, DC.
&C., yet can find nothing to do, and
are starving be6ause their foolish pa
rents, did not give them trades A
trade is an estate, and almost always a
productive one. "a good efficient farm
laborer can generally find paying work
if he does not insist on looking fer il IN
a city where it cannot well be while
many a college graduate famishes be
cause nobody wants the only work he
knows how to do. Let nothing pre-
vent your acquiring. skill IN some
branch Of productive industry.
III Res0EUs not 10 be q Touer. -" a
rolling stone gathers no mea. but ts
constantly tbumped and a ked, and
often shiYered to pieces aa are
honest and industrious, yen ast be
constantly making reputat19 which,
if you remain in one plae helps you
along the road to fortune. Even a
nod carrier or street sweeper has prov
ed that his promise CO appear 9n q CIV
en- day and hour and e. may
be trusted, has q property IN the con
fidenee thus created. If you cannon
find your work where you LOW are
migrate but do 50 once for. al. W heT
you have stuck your stake, stand oy
i'll
Nv. COMPREHEND that there - a5oyA
0Eps0sS 1nglohere for HIM z1h0 ctEa ~
An italian named BiancOuf set
tied fn Ireland some sixty years ago,
and got very rich there by gFadusIiy
establishing lines of passenger cor
veyances all over that ISLAND. Almost
any man would have said that he who
went to Ireland to make hIs fortune
must be mad He who knows how,
and viii work, can get rteh growing
potatoes in New England, though he
hasn't five cent stamp to hegln with
There is work that viii pay for mi
fioD moro BaoDle on the soil q Con
hecticut alone. There are nzfl 1ons d
unproductive acres within day ride
of this City that might be bought and
rendered largely fruitful at clear
profit of 800 or more per acre. A
man In Niles, Michigan, declined tC
20 gOld-huntIng IN the Rocky Noun
tains because there was more gold IN
Niles than he could get hold Of Che
reason was a good one, and Il applies
almost everywhere. If you can md
nothing to do where you are. It Is gen.
orally because you can do nothing.
". Realize that he l0bO earns q
sis-pence more per day than zlge. spends
must get rich, q0hiIe he lOho spends siE
Pence more than he earns mast become
poor.-This Is a very hackney5d truth
but We shall never be done needing
its repetition. Hundreds of Thousand
are not only poor but Wretched to-day
simply because they fail to comprehend
or will not heed it We American
are not only an extravagant but an os
tentatiOus people. We habituall
spend too much on our own stomach
and our neighbors' eyes. We are con
tinually in hot water, because we can
not live in comfort on our means, bu
because we persist in spending NOR
than we need or can afford. Ou
youth sqUander in extra food AM
drinks, in frolio and dissipation, Whiel
does them harm instead Of good, th
means which should be the nest-egl
of their future competence. WheI
cares and children cluster about them
theV grumble at their hard fortune
forgetful that they wasted the year
and the means which might and shoulC
have saved them from present and flu
tuFe poverty.
Ali these are very trite. homell
truths. All our boys have heard then
again and again but how many haYl
laid them to heart We assure g. @
s., and every other youth, that eacl
may become rich if he will-that ''tC
be or not to be" rests entirely Will
himself; and that his very first lessor
is to distrust and shuu by-paths anC
short cuts, and keep straight along the
broad, obvious, beaten highway.-N
Y. Tribune.
FEMININE LoGIC.-A lady oncl
declared that she could not understand