The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-09-30
A STORY FOR YOUNG MEN.

Several years ago, youth Of
sixteen years ofage, of good sense,
and fair English education, not
having profitable employment at
his fathers home in Kentucky.
sought for employment among his
enterprising neighbors few miles
distant, and although wages were
low in those days Of gold and sill
yer currency, he saved from his
first years wages seventy dollals.
He was then seventeen years Of
age, healthy, lively-looking, aspi.
ring and ambitious to become use
tul, noble, and perhaps great. He
had already learned that money
loaned at high rates of interest
was oppressive to the borrower,
and reacted on the loaner, and in
the falling Of prices Of nearly all
the articles in the commercial
world; that men sought justifica-
tion for their delinquency and
bankruptcy in the fact that they
had paid large rates Of interest.
Feeling, therefore, that liberality
as we'll as justice was necessary in
every mans dealings with his fel-
lowmen, this youth loaned his
seventy dollars to al exemplary,
euterprisiug and prosperous trad,
ing man in his neighborhood, at
the lowest rate Of interest known
in business in that State, viz.
six per cent. per annum. He work.
ed another year, clothed himself in
Kentucky jeans and other cheap
but neat articles of apparel, and
went to q country school three
months in the winter of that year
and learned the rudiments Of Lat.
in, and something Of the higher
branches Of mathematics, workin Q
for prosperous and liberal farmer
evenings and mornings, to pay
the board, and at the end Of the
second year, or whom he was elgh
teen years Of age, he had saved
ninety-six dollars more.
The young mans character fol-
industry and integrity began tc
be better known in the neighbor
hood, and lis services were sought
for. He worked on q farm, anc
rode as collector for trading mer
and the sheriff of his county
and at the end Of his nineteenth
year he had saved one hundred
and ten dollars more.
With the interest accumulated
on his other two years wages, be
had now three hundred dollars.
was comfortably clothed, and had
a good business education, which
he improved from one winter tc
another, till he became scholar
both literary and scientifically
His influence and usefulness in.
creasing, he had at the age Of
twenty years, fonr hundred and
eighty dollars.
At the age of twenty-one, this
young man had accumulated sin
hundred and fifty dollars, and was
we'll known for his activity of life
as a young man Of intelligence ,cir
tue and usefulness, as well as beine
a young man Of very attractive
ways. He moved to a Western
State where land was cheap, anC
entered one hundred and sixty
acres by land warrant, which he
purchased with one hundred an(
fifty dollars Of his money. H
made q good selection of land, il
a good region Of conntry, and uset
portion Of the balance Of hi
money in improving his land, buy
ing Il little stock and a few imple
ments for farming; and the secon'
year he raised a small crop.
After he had gone to his nev
ncighborhood with about fou
hundred dollars in money, am
used it cautiously, he, by degrees
gained the name ofa responsibl
citizen and good paymaster, an
his influence rose gradually fror
his appearance among his me-
and scattered neighbors.
Year after year be raised cro]
read the best newspapers, period
Gals and books, which still furtht
improved his mind, till cattl
sheep, and other stock grew I
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