Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-09-23

thing in its time. Do first what presses
most, and having determined what is to
be done, and how it is to be DONE lose no
time in doing it, Without this method, all
is hurry and confusion, little or nothing is
accomplished, and business is attended TO
with neither pleasure nor profit.
A polite, atfable department is recon-
mended Agreeable manners contribute
powerfully to mans success. Take two
men, possessing equal advantages in every
other respect but let one be gentlemanly,
kind, obliging, and concliating in his man.
ners; the other harsh rude, and disobig-
ing, and the one will become rich while
the other will starve.
We are now to consider very impor-
tant principle in the business of money
getting, namely; hdustry-persevering,
indefatigable attention to business. Per
severing diligence is the philosophers
stone, which turns everything to gold.
Constant, regular, habitual and systematic
application to business must, in time, if
properly directed, produce great results.
1t must lead to wealth, with the same
certainty that poverty follows in the train
of idleness and inattention 1t has been
truly remarked that he who follows his
amusemcnts instead Of his business, will
in short time have no business to follow.
The art of money saving is an important
part of the art of money getting With
out frugality no one can become rich; with
it, few would be poor. Those who CON
sumo as fast as they produce, are Oh the
road to ruin. AS most of thepoyerty we
meet with grows out of idlcnesS and eX-
trayagance, so most large fortunes have
been the result of habitual industry and
frugality. The practice of economy is as
necessary in the expenditure Of time as
in money They say that if eve take
care of the pence, the pounds will take
care of themselves SO, if we take care
of the minutes, the days will take care of
themselves.
The acquisition of wealth demands as
much seli-denial, and as many sacrifices of
present qualification, as the practice of
virtue itself. Vice and poverty proceed
in some degree from the same sources,
namely-the disposition to sacrifice the
future to the present; the inability to fore
90 a small present pleasure for great flu
ture advantages. Men fail of fortune in
this world, as they fail of happiness in the
world to come, simply because they are
unwilling to deny themselves momentary
enioyments for the sake ofpermanent tu.
ture happiness
Every large city is filed with persons
who, in order to support the appearance
of wealth, constantly live beyond their in
come, and make up the deficiency by con.
tracing debts which are never paid.
Others there are, the mere drones of So
ciety, who pass their days in idleness, and
subsist by piratmg on the hives of the in
dusJrious. Many who run short-lived
career of splendid beggary, could they but
be persuaded to adopt system of rigid
economy for few years, might pass the
remainder of their days in atfluence But
40! They must keep up appearances, they
must live like other folks.
Their debts accumulate; their credit
fails; they are harassed by duns, and be-
sciged by sheriIs, In this extremity, as a
last resort, they submit to shameful de-
pendence or engage in criminal practices,
which entail hopeless wretchedness and in
fanny on themselves and families. ~
Stick to the business in which you are
regularly employed. Let spectators make
their thousands in year or day mind
your own regular trade, never turning
from it to the right hand or the left. If
you are a merchant, professional man, or
a mechanic never buy lots or stock unless
you have surplus money which you wish
to invest Your own business you under.
stand as well as other men tut other peo-
pies business YOU do not understand. Let
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to the community. All such occupations
POSSESS the elements of profit in them
clyes.-Erchange.