Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-04-26
How to Get r ich.
From tho Cincinnati Times

lst. Believe when you start in
life that hundred thousand dollars
will be joy, and half million happi-
ness complete.
I'd. Drive sharp bargains.
Sd. Shave the notes Of the needy,
and shave close.
4th. Pinch the faces OF the poor.
and pinch hard.
9th. Foreclose mortgages on the
unfortunate as often as You can, and
bid in the property yourself at sew
enty-tve cent. below its real value.
9th. Wherever and whenever you
get a chance to grind for poverty or
necessity, always take tho grist and
leave the toll.
9TH. Tug and slave in ell the other
mean, large and little ways that you
can get into, and, some day, you will
have your hundred thousand-per-
haps your half million-and be rich.
After following my directions thus
far, | suppose you are anxious to
know
HOW TO ENJOY YOUR RICHES.
LIST. You have your half million,
but you are sixty. You have a load
on your shoulders, much larger and
meaner than a good man can handily
carry. You will have to lay that
off before before you can begin to
enjoy. Say it takes you five years
to do it, you will then be sixty-fve.
I'd. You discover that nearly ev-
cry poor soul who tries to find religion
on the path through your church is
sure 10 find those old business tricks
and ways Of yours first, and stunt bic
over them.
You must let life and act show
community now, that you are per-
manently located in higher, nobler,
better groove.
Eight years more of doubts, trials
and anxieties before you can accom-
plish that, and begin to enjoy your
wealth-seventy-three.
Sd. All through your business
years you were good, faithful hus-
band, kind father You neither
swore, drank, fought nor gained =
You were a law-ab;ding citizen in ev-
cry respect.
But the devil. in all those years,
never once lost sight of you. He
thought world of you for youth
corrupting purposes. You were one
of his "Old Reliables." More useful
to him as q down-hill starter than
any five open, swearing, fighting,
street sinners in the whole Of that
part of his earthly domain.
Why?
They were pirates Of society. with
black flag, skull and ross-bones nail
ed to the masthead.
You We're pirate under color of
merchantmen.
The devil still sticks to your track
He has very powerful inclination
not to give you M.
Those old temptations that he got
you with so early in life, and sou
will have 10 get rid of them. And
the new ones-sprouts from the same
old roots-how they will worry you.
Count ten years more on to your
life before you begin to enjoy. Only
eighty-three now.
4th. Young men in the meantime
have been looking up your business
history, folding out just how you
planted, sowed and reaped-sudden-
ly starting out one after another on
your old paths, trying to follow and
gain great riches and responsibility
as you.
Often they have questioned con-
science a little while going along,
but oftener not, with such trusty
pilot before them. Then some fine
day years afterwerd, 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
w ell as they did at first.
Then dangers began to come thick
and fast. They got in among those
sharp, crooked turns that you made
so often around law and the common
honesties of business, years and
years ago. Bewilderments, mistakes,
temptations, aelzed them. Then
some Of their footprints swerved over
to the unlawful side little. Wider
and wider they strayed, until, at
length, they could find your path no
more.
Then came detection, digrace, pos
tive outright crime; liz es outlawed,
suitide, the gallows
That crooked path-you have al
ready shown the world that you are
out of it now. But you have never
covered it, hedged it up, so that 9th
ers couldn't get over into it.
You will have to do that, too. be-
fore 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-checks
in-books closed, He, his riches,
aud that yet uncovered, crooked
path.