The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-02-19


and he will rarely want money thereafter IN |
fact, that $1,000, invested at seven per cent,
will of itself make hini rich before he is sixty.
There is no rule more important or wholesome
for our boys than that which teaches them 70
60 through life receiving interest rather than
paving il. OF the torments which attllct TINS
mortal sphere, the first rank is held by crlmei
the second by debt.
II. Acquire promptly and thoroughly some use
tH caHmg-Some pursuits are more lucraCEe'
some more respectable, some more agreeable,
than others; but ehimney-sweep, is tar
better than none at all. No matter how rich
his parents may be, a boy should learn trade;
no matter how poor he may be, boy may
learn some trade if he will. This city IS tull
to-day of young (and old) men who nave neen
clerks, book-keepers, porters, etc. ETC., yeJcah
find nothing to do, and are starving because
their foolish parents did not give them trades
A trade is an estate, and almost always a pro-
ductive one. A good, efficient farm-aborer can
generally find paying work if he Goes not insist
in looking for it in a city where it cannot well
be; while many college graduate tamlshes
because nobody wants the only work ne
knows how to do. Let nothing prevent your
acquiring skill in some branch OF productive
industry.
Ill. ResolUe not to be roUer.-"A rolling
stone gathers no moss, - but is constantly
thumped and knocked, and often shivered to
pieces. If you are honest and industrious you
must be constantly making reputation, which,
if you remain in one place, helps you along the
road to fortune. Even a hOd-carrier, or street
sweeper, who has proved that his promise to
appear on a given day and hour, and go to
work, may be trusted, has a property in the
confidence thus created. If you cannot find
your work where you now are, migrate; but
do it once for all. When you have stuck your
stake, stand by it
~
ecerychere for him ,Cho can do a.--An Italian
named Bianconi settled in Ireland some sixty
years ago, and got very rich there. 10y gradually
establishing lines of passenger c6hveyances 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 will work. can get rich growing potatoes
| in New England, though he hasn't fve-cent
stamp to begin WITH There is work that will
| pay for a million more people on the soil OF
| Connecticut alone. There are millions of un-
| productive acres within a days ride of this
! city that might be bought and rendered largely
| fruitful at clear profit of one hundred dollars
| or more per acre. A man in Niles, Michigan,
declined to go gold hunting in the Rocky
| Mountains because there was more gold in
| Niles than he could get hold of. The reason
was good one, and it applies almost every
where. If you can find nothing to do where
you are, it is generally because you can do
nothing.
Y. Realize that he ,cho earns sirpence per
| day more than he spends must get rlch, '0hile
| he Oho spends Sirpence more than he earns
must become poor.-This is very hackneyed
TRUTH but we shall never be done needing it's
repetition. Hundreds of thousands are not
only poor but wretched to-day, simply because
they fail to comprehend or will not heed it..
| We Americans are not only an extravagant
but an ostentatious people. We habitually
| spend too much on our stomachs and our
neighbours eyes. We are continually in hot
water, not because we cannot live in comfort on
our means, but because we persist in spending
more than we need or can afford Our youth
| squander in extra food and drinks, in frolic
| and dissipation, which does them harm instead
of good, the means which should be the nest
| egg of their future competence. When cares
and children cluster about them, they grum-
ble at their hard fortune forgetful that they
| wasted the years and means which might and
should have saved them from present and fu-
| ture poverty.
All these are very trite, homely truths.
All our boys have heard them again and again;
but how many have laid them to heart We
assure G. G. S., and every other youth, that
each may become rich if he will-that "to be
or not to be'' rests entirely with himself and
that his very first lesson is to dstrust and shun
by-paths and short cuts, and keep straight
along the broad, obvious, beaten highway.