Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-04-29
How to Get Rich.
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BY JEHJAL STAR

BY JEHIAL SLAB
1sT. Believe, when you start in life,
that hundred thousand dollars will be
Joy, and half million happiness COM
plete. 4 ta#FtB so sA
I'd. Drive sharp bargains.
3D. Shave the notes of the needy, and
shave close
4th. Pinch the faces of the poor, and
pinch hard.
9th. Foreclose mortgages on the unfor-
tunate as often as you can, and bid in the
property yourself, at rs per cent. below
its real value IY
9Th, Wherever and whenever you get
chance to grind for poverty or necessi-
ty, always take the grist and leave the
toll
7th. Tug and slave in all the other mean,
large and little ways that you can get
into, and some day you will have your
hundred thousand-perhaps your half
million-and be rich.
After following my directions thus far,
suppose you are anxious to know how
to enjoy your riches: Ia i'e
LIST. You have your half million, but
you are sixty. You have load on your
shoulders, too, much larger and meaner
than good man can handily carry. You
begin to enjoy. Say it takes you five
years to do it you will then be sixty
. five gt Il LE
I'd. You discover that nearly every poor
soul who tries to find religion on the path
through your church is sure to find those
old business tricks and ways of yours first,
and stumble over them.
You must let life and act show commu-
nifty now, that you are permanently To-
Gated in higher, nobler, better groove.
Eight years more of doubts, trials and
anxieties before you can accomplish that,
and begin to enjoy your wealth-Seventy-
three. =
3D.. All through your business years you
We're good, faithful husband, "a kind
father. You neither swore, drank, fought
nor gained. You were a law abiding citi-
zen in every respect "a
But the Devil, in all those years, never
once lost sight of you. He thought a
world of you for youth -corrupting pur-
poses. You were one of his cold Relia-
bles." More useful to him as down-hill
starter than any five open, swearing, fight
ing, street sinners in the whole of that
part Of his earthly domain.
Why?
They were pirates of society, with black
nag, skull and cross-bones nailed to the
masthead. 81
You were pirate under colors of a
merchantman.
The Devil still sticks to your track.
lie has very powerful inclination not to
give you IN.
Those old temptations that he got you
with SO early in life you will have to get
rid of them. And the new ones-sprouts
from the same old roots-how they will
Count ten years more on to your life
before you begin to enjoy. Only eighty
three now. sst 49,
4th. Young men in the mean time have
been looking up your business history,
finding out just how you planted, sowed
and reaped-suddenly starting out one
after another on your old paths, trying to
follow and gain as great riches and re-
spectability as you.
Often they have questioned conscience
little while going along, but oftener not,
with such trusty pilot before them.
Then some fine day, years afterward, a
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 so well
as they did at first. v IItl 81
Inen Dangers began to come thick and
fast. They got in among those sharp,
e crooked turns that you made SO often
around law and the common honesties of
business, years and years ago. Bewilder-
ments, mistakes, temptations, seized them.
Then some of their footprints swerved
over to the unlawful side little. They
began to go that way little oftener. and
each time. a little farther. Wider and
wider they strayed, until, at length, they
could find your path no more.
Then came detection, disgrace, positive,
outright crime; lives outlawed, suicide,
the gallows. v
That crooked path-you have already
! shown the world that you are out of ii
now. But you have never covered it,
hedged it up, so that others couldn't gel
over into it.
You will have to do that, too, before
You can enjoy your riches. And it will
Butloi hisalletted- threescore and ten,
and thirteen years besides, have already
passed. Times up - checks in - books
closed. He, his riches, and that yet .un.
covered, crooked path -0taeianatt Times.
-Colored newsboys have made their
appearance in the streets of Cincinnati.