The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-09-30
A Story for Young Men.

lucky, sought for employment among his
enterprsng neighbors a few miles dis
tant; and although wages were low in
those days of gold and silver currency, he
saved from his first years wages $40. He
was then seventeen years old, healthy,
lively looking, aspiring and ambitious to
become useful, noble, and perhaps, great.
He had already learned that money loan
ed at high rates of interest was oppres-
sive TO the borrower, and reacted on the
loaner, and in the falling of prices of near
ly all the articles in the commercial world;
that men sought justification for their de-
linquency and bankruptcy in the fact that
they bad paid large rates of interest,"
Feeling, therefore, that ibcrality as well
rs justice was Rcccssary to every mans
dealing with his fellow men, he loaned his
$40 to an exemplary, enterprishg and
prosperous trading man in his neighbor-
hood, at the lowest rate of interest known
in business in that State, viz. six per cent.
per annum. He worked another year,
clothed himself in Kentucky jeans and
other cheap but neat articles of apparel,
and went to country school three months
in the winter of that year, and learned
the rudiments of Latin and something OF
the higher branches of mathematics,
working for prosperous and liberal far
mer evenings and mornings to pay the
board, and at the end of the second year,
or when he was eighteen years of age, he
had saved 500 more. His character for
industry and integrity besen to be better
known in the neig ghborhood, and his SER
vices wero sought for.
He worked on farm and rode as col.
lector for trading men and the sheriff of
his county; and at the end of his nine
teenth year had saved Sl10 more. With
the interest accumulated on his other two
years wages, he had now $500, was com
foqtably clothed, and had a good business
education, which he improved from one
Winter to another, till he became schol
ar, both literally and scientifically. His
influence and usefulness increasing, he
had, at the age Of twenty years, $780,
At twenty-one he had accumulated $3.50,
and was we'll known for his activity of
life, as young man of intelligence, vir-
tue, and usefulness, as we'll as being a
young man of very attractive manners
and ways. t
he moved tc a Western State where
land was cheap, and entered l6O acres by
a land warrant, which he purchased with
$3.50 of his money. lie made q good Sc
lection of land, in good region of coun-
try; he used portion of the balance of
his money in improving his land, buying
a little stock and a few implements for
farming, and the second year he raiscd-a
small crop
Having gone to hisnew neighborhood
with about s400 in money, and used it
cautiously, he by degrees gained the name
of responsible citizen and good pay
master, and his influence rose gradually
from his appearance among his new and
scattered neighbors. Year after year be
raised crop, continuing to read the best
newspapers, periodicals and books, which
still further improved his mind, till sheep,
cattk, and other stock grew up in focks
around him, more land adjoining him be-
ing purchased from time to time, till now
he finds himself when scarcely arrived at
the middle of life, gentleman farmer of
wealth, surrounded by comfort and many
luxuries. esteemed by neighbors both far
and near, and would receive the suffrage
of those who know-him to any office for
which ho might be nominated, irrespect-
i've OF party politics, so firm is their con-
fidence in both his ability and integrity.
The ETERNAL WoRD-No fragment
of an army ever received half so many
bullets as the Bible; no citadel ever re-
ceivcd 80 many seges; no rock was ever
battered by SO many hurricanes and
swept by storms. And yet it stands. 1t
has seen the rise and downfall of Daniels
four empires. Assyria contributes few
mutilated figures to the inches of the
Nations Museum. Media and Persia,
like Babylon, which they conquered,
have been weighed in the balance and
found long ago wanting. Greece family
survives in its historic NJ; me; "'Tis living
Greece no more," and the iron deme of
the Caesars is held in precarious occupa-
ton by feeble hand. And yet the book
which forctclls all this survives. While
nations, kings, philosophers, systems, in
situations, have died away, the Bible new
engages mems deepest thoughts, is exam
incd by the keenest intellect, stands re-
vercd before the highest tribunals; is
more read, and sifted, and debated, more
devotodly loved and more vehemently
assaicd, more defended and more denied,
more industriousIy translated and freely
given to tho world, moro honorcd and
abused than any book tho world ever
saw. 1t survives all changes, itself un-
changed; it secs all things decay, itself
ncorruptiblc; it sees myriads of other
books engulfed by tho stream of time,
yet it is borne along till the mystic angel
Shall plant his foot upon tho sea, and
swear by Him that liveth forever, that
"timc shall be no longer" For all flesh
is as grass, and all tho glory of man as
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