Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-04-15

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20 US 40 fo.loxs-and bis
80 ''ss that Of 50 many Others that We
.'", !, tlus publicly, supITessing bic name:
n,.n SIR ! am a poor boy. would
az. 90 get rich. Now what sball dos /
rould IKE 10 quit this sect On. ! cont
sapt to remain on nv ia,h.r's 'srrp. Please
give ne the best advice you csn. snd
otiige. Yours. 6 y. .
lnsscor. The aspiration TO be rieo'
though by 10 means re biggest .]a' "a"
,m,,I a carer il IN oar view. wholesome
aud l5udaoie lie outn "o' sats
,,s n. ,,ro .t-sshofr. sBd before all o'"t'
eops,s,.ru,ion-. rs very likey 70 oiing up
"a ann. state Prison uut he VINO co'e's-
toni, sa,s. "iri me Dis, be just, honest,
moral uingen,, useiui, thea Iicn, Is On the
right road. Every boy ought to aspire to
be rich, provided he can without uniaith
fulness to social obligation or mcsl rriuci-
pie.
But how shall hs ~ about getting rich
We would conctssly cay:
!. FIRMLY resoics 10 nerer owe a debt
1t ID the fundamental mistake Of boys to
suppose that they can get rich faster on
mseey earned By Others thsn on that earn
ed BY themselves. nsvsry youth Of Is to
IS yesss we're to-day offered $4,000 for
ten years at Z per cent. interest, two thirds
Of them would eagerly accept Il; when the
probable consequence 10 that three fourtbs
| u them would die bank-rupts and paupers.
Boys do not need money half so much a.
they need 10 know how to earn and save
it. The boy who, at the close Of his 6rst
year of independence has earned and saved
800. and invested or loaned 1T where II
| will pay him six or seven per cent, will al
most surely become rich II he lives; while
he who closes his first year Of responsibility
in debt, will probably live and die in debt.
There IS no greater mistake made by our
Amcri. an youth than that OF choosing to
pay interest rather than receive it Inter-
est devours Us While we sleep; it ebscrbs
our profits and az gravates our losses. Let
a young man at twenty-five have $1,000
loaned on real estate mortgage or invested
in public securities, and ne will rarely wan.
money thereafter in fact, that 81 600 in
vested n seven per cent will Of itself maxi
him rich before he 10 sixty. There 10 nc
ruo moro important Of wholesome Tor ouI
boys than tnat which teaches them to e
through life receiving interest rather thar
paying it. or the torments which sfiic
this mortal sphere, the irst rank ID held b.
crime; the second by debt.
IL. Acquire promptly and thom9hly somt
ussful calling = Some pursuits are more lu
crativs, soms more respectable, some NOR
r agreeable than others; but . chimney
sweeps 10 far better than mono At all. M
matter how rich his parents may be, boz
: should learn trade; no matter how poo
he may be, n boy may learn some trade II b
viii. THIS ci y is full to day If young (an
old men who have be- n clerks, book keep
' crs. porters, &c., &C., yet can find nothin
TO do, and are starving because their FOOLS
parents did not give them trades. A trad
h | 10 an estate, and almost aways . produ,
tire one. A good, efficient farm labor
can generally hnd paying work il he doc
. OF ins ct in looking for Il IN a city whcI
J. II cannot we'll be while many . COLES
l. graduss fAnishes because nosone wants III
only work be knows how TO do. Let notl
: ing prevent your acquiring kill in sor
y branch Of productive industry.
- III Re,oirc not 10 be a rerfr.-"A rol
o. ing stone gathers no moss" but is cops'a
" dumped and knocked, and often shiss
ed TO pieces. If you are honest and indus
f,ous you must be constantly making . =
20 putA,ion, which, II you remain in one pla,
IN helps you along the road to fortune. Ev,
Ct a he'd carrier or strect-swecper who hi
"A proved that his promise to appear on
given day and hour aud go to work may
~ trusted, his property In the confident
st thus created. IT you cannot find your wol
B. where you now are, migrate but do it OF
" for all. When you have stuck your stak
stand by i'll
r Nv. Comprehend that there 10 ,csrk a
most ereTyioAere for ham scho can do it-A
10 Italia named Bianconi settled in Irelau
n some sixty years ego. and got very rio
there by gradually establishing lines
passenger convcyances all over that lslan'
' Almost any man would have said that
ID who went to Ireland to make his fortur
must be mad. He who knows how, an
win work, can get rich growing potatoes
"a New England, though he hasn't five Gel
r stamp to begin with. There 10 work thi
will pay for million moro people on Il
soil Of Csnnecticut alone. There are mi
O. lions Of unprodvctivc acres within . day
q, ride of this city that might be bought a.
ID rendered largely fruitful at 4 clear pro-
Of 800 or more per acre. man in Nile
Michigan, declined to go gold hunting
the Rocky Mountains because there ",
more gold in Niles than he could get bo
" Of. The reason was good one, and it a
- plies almost everywhere. II you can fir
nothing to do where you are it is general
,e because you can do nothing.
O. Y. Realize that lc ,cao earias sir enc .,
u day more than he spcads NEST Get iici, wh,
- Re rho spends SIR renee moro hdn hs earn
= NEST become yc0f.-- This i a very hackue'
!. ed thu b 4; but we 81 u never be done need
ing its Repetition. Hundreds Of thonsanc
! are not only poor but wretched to-aa,
L simply because they isil TO comprehend
n will not heed N. We Americans are NJ
only an extrsvagant hat M ostcn,atiou
/ people. We hrbitusllT spend too much o
= our own stomachs and our neighbors' ey e.
j We arc continually in hot water, not b.
n cause We cannot live in comfort on GU
!, means, but because We persist in spcndin
# more than We netd or can afford. Gu
il youth squander in extra food and drinks, /
n irolio aud dissipation, which does then
I harm instead OF good, the means whic
: should be the mes, eggs Of their future CON
, pstence. When cares and children cluste
4 around them, they grumble at their har,
: fortune; forsetful that they wasted tn
| years and the means which might an,
r should have saved them from present an,
future poverty.
All these are very trite, homely truths
9 All our boys have heard them again an,
again but how manv have laid them 4
I heart We assure G. G. s., and ever,
other youth, that each may become rich
, he ~ill-that ITO be or not to be" rests en-
I tirely with himsef; and that his very FRS
lesson 10 10 dish ust and shun by paths an,
, short cuts. and keep straight along N
broad. obvisas, beaten highway.-Ms,
Q T~rk Tribuae.
a Curious Story.