Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1870-05-06
From the Cincinnati Times.
HOW TO GET RICH.

lot. believe when you start in lie that a
hundred thousand dollars will be joy, and a
half pillicn happiness complete.
ID. Drive sharp bargains.
Sc. Shave the notes Of the needy, and
shave close.
4th. Pinch the faces o: Ike poor, ard
pinch hard.
5th. Fo,ec,ose mortgages On the unfoI-
tunate as often as you can, and bid in the
property yourself It seventy.hre per cent.
below its real value
9th. Wherever end whenever YOU get a
chance to grind for poverty or necessity, al
ways take the grist and leave the toll.
7th. Tug and slave in all The other mean,
large and little ways iha, you can get into,
and, some day, you will have your hundred
thousand-prrhaps your half millioD-and
be rich.
After following my directions thus far, !
suppose you are anxious TO know
HOW TO ENJOY YOUR RICHES.
lst. You have your half million, but you
are sixty. You have load on your .houl
ders, too, much larger and meaner than a
good man can Landily carry. You will have
TO lay that off before you can begin to en-
joy. Say it takes you five years to do it !;
you will then be sixty Eve.
I'd. You discover that nearly every poor
soul who tries 20 find religion on the path
through your church is sure to fni those
old business tricks and ways of yours first,
aud stumble over them
You must let life aud act show commu-
nifty now, that you are permanently located
in higher, nober, better groove.
Eight years more Of doubts trials and
anxieties bef>re you can accomplish that,
and begin to enjoy your wealth seventy.
three.
Sd. All through your business years you
were good, faithful husband, a kind !ath-
er. You neither swore, drank, fought nor
gained. You were law-abiding citizen in
every respect.
But the Devil, in oil those years, never
once lest sight of you. He thought world
of you fer your youh-corruptin purposes.
You were one of his "Old Reliables." More
useful to him as down-hill starter than
any five open, swearing, fighting, street sin
ners in the whole of lha, part Of his earthly
domain.
Why:
They were pirates of society, with black
flag, skull aud crosS-bones nailed to the
masthead.
You were pirate under color of O mer-
chantman.
The devil still sticks to your track. He
has very powerful inclination not TO give
YOU up.
Those old temptations that he got you
with so early in life, you will have to get
rid of them. And the new ones-sprou,s
from the same old roots--how they will woy-
ry You.
Count ten years more on 10 your life be-
fore you begin to enjoy. Only eish,y-three
now.
4th. Yourg men in tho meantime have
been looking up your business history, find
ing out just how you planted, sowed and
reaped- suddenly starting out one after an
other on your old paths, trying to follow and
gain as great riches and responsibility as
you.
Often they have questioned conscience a
little while going along, but otlener not.
with such a lrusty pilot before them. Then
some fine day, years aiterward. stray
breeze has blown the curtain away from the
path little, and YOU have seen their steps
again.
They didn't fit your tracks half 50 well as
they did at first.
Thea dangers began to come thick and
fast. They got in among those sharp,
crooked turns that you made so clten around
law and the common honesties Of business,
years and years ago. Bewildermenis. mis-
takes, temptations, seized them. Then
some Of their footprints sweryed over to the
side little. They began TO 60
that way little oftener, and each time q
little farther. Wider aud wider they stray
ed, until, at length, they could ilnd your
path no more.
Then came detection, disgrace, positive,
outright crime; lives ouilawed suicide, the
gallows.
That crooked path--you have already
shown the world that You are out Of it now.
But you have never covered it, hedged il up,
so that others couldn't get over it.
You viii have TO do that, too, before
YOU can enjoy your riches. And it will
take
But 10 ! his allotted three score and ten,
and thirteen years besides, have already
passed. Times up-cheeks in-books
closed. He, his riches, and that yet uncov.
Grad crooked nath