The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-09-11

bad policy to agree to do 1t.
ANY man who Is able TO pay rent can
build IA house. This will strike you as
a bold proposition and hard to believe,
but let as reason together, 1t Is hardly
our interest to discourage renting
houses, but as this is Sunday, we will
waive interest and go for principle.
First, you say you have no lot. : Lease
one, then, or buy on long time. You
have no lumber or materials. You are
paying one hundred or two hundred
dollars for rent. When you pay II, II Is
gone, and at the end of two or three
years you have paid out enough to
build house, but are still renter.
All you need to do is to anticipate these
payments-say for year-bOrrow out
of bank or otherwise. and give your
rising building as security for enough
to bay the lumber-put up frame for
three or four rooms, live In 1t till fall
without plasterinR-plaster- one room
in the fall, and, instead OF paying
monthly rents, finish the rooms one by
one, as you are able, and in two or three
years you can have a home paid for,
and you can begin to pay for your leas-
ed lot and own it yourself.
You are afraid of mortgages, you
say. Why, they are the poor mans
friend. They are the life-boats in the
wreck for the man in debt. They build
HI Oul AtthA lhbtA hAA
provements. They are harmless If you
only understand them, and are a good
tiuancier. They are foreclosed some
times, but then you ERve II year to re-
deem. They will not generally be
foreclosed if you pay the interest
promptly, which you can do easier than
to pay rent Ifyou are sharp you can
play with them like Driesbach with his
lions, and they won't bite. Moreover.
robbing Peter to pay Paul is not rob
berry, ifPeter is willing, and will lend
YOU the money on new mortgage TO
pay the old one; and there are always
Peters who live by doing this kind OF
business. II
The process of knocking an old
mortgage in the head whenever IL
grows ugly and threatens violence, Is q
familiar one to all good fnanciers.
Use your wits. Work with your
head and you need not work az much
with your hands.
The richest men in the world are
those who commenced on nothing, and
have lifted themselves up by the straps
of their boots. They financiered like
our Radical meu-who make colossal
fortunes on their bonds-without mon
ey. Issue your bonds, and give the
road bed and superstructure to your
new house as security.
But here nice young man answers
tnat MS rlCler associates ana ITle0us
will Snub him If he lives in such style
Here Is the great error OF young men,
They wish TO commence life in as ele-
CANT style as their fathers lived in, af'
ter quarter of a century's hard work
II is the great error Of the age-the pro
life source OF celibacy and bachelor.
hood, aud operates as u fraud upon
good looking girls, who are cheated
out OF husbands by such foolishness.
Respect yourself-act independently
take long look at things-snub the
snubbers, and make them sick of it.
and in five years or less you will be
bowed TO and be courted by the same
men. The good will of such men Is
purchased at too dear price. 1t is moi
worth having.
You are willing to sell ont your home
and your Independence for such weak
and unmauly sentimentalism. Dare &c
follow your own line of policy II il Is
honest and for your Interest to do so
and do not allow a weak and Hnobbish
false pride TO consigu you to hard labor
for life as the tenant and vassal OF your
landlord.
BY following this advice, the thou.
sands of dollars you will give away fol-
rent in ten years and have nothing &C
show for, will give you home of conf
fort and elegance, with a wife. and fam
lily and all the Influence of "our most
respected citizens" al his is the way,
walk ye In IT," II leads to lndepend.
ence, respectability and honor.
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