The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-04-08

We like edisinterestsd benevolence,
it is 50 rarely found in this selfiah
world that when we find it we feel
inclined to stick . pin in it and
examine it with more than ordinary
care. When we look over the
business chances" In the New
York dailies and see how many
brilliant opportunities are offered
for men of small capital, and NO
capital, to make O fortune in q few
days. we wonder how any man or
woman can remain poor an hour.
We have offers where . man, by
inclosing fifty cents to the extensive
firm of .'Greenhorn & Co. can
realize, by active canvassing," from
twenty five to fifty dollars a day.
Some of these benevolent fortune
makers offer still better chances
They don't want money-they want
agents, to whom they will give
all the way from two to 1--WE thous-
and a year. How many young men
have grown rich through these
brilliant offers the late census fails
to tell us. But the latest, and the
most princely offer, comes in the
shape of q lottery scheme. 1t heads
its circulars, .'S25O,OO0 for only
$50" When we first read this
offer our brain reeled at the sud
denness of the fortune that was
thrust upon us, for s'only $50"
We felt half inclined to take
couple, and give one to the poor,
Just to link our name with the As
tors and Peabodys of the age. But
lost the desire to purchare so much
for so little money by reading and
thinking too much of the scheme.
We discovered we we're addressed
as mere fraction of q unit, and
that fortune for the benefit of it's
smallest fraction. In plain English,
about sixty thousand persons put
in $50 each to make one person
rich. The odds were against US.
We tried to figure out the ghost of
a chance, but we abandoned it In
despair. We reduced it to SUM
in proportion. If we always lost in
matching pennies. where all the
chances were equal, how much of n
chance would we have to gain the
fortune promised for ''only $780,"
with fifty nine thousand lucky fel-
lows against us? So we have turn
ed our back on the $25O,0OO which
has been offered-to any one who
can get it for the modest sum of
''only $50" Other young men may
be tempted to part with their
hard earned wages at the instance
of this great temptation. We ad-
wise them to figure up their chances.
If they fail of clear conception by
pencil and paper, let them take
10000 beans, color one black,
throw il among the 5000 in the
barrel, shake them thoroughly, and
then try to pick out the black bean
with their eyes shut If they do
not secure it on the first trial they
should avoid all lottery schemes,
for they are not lucky; if they
should secure it, they have still
greater reason to keep clear, for
such streak of luck would not
occur to the same person moro
than once in a century. A fortune
is good thing to have, but the
only reliable way to secure it is to
work for it. Follow some honest
calling; be sober and industrious; ;
deserve the confidence and patron
age of the community in which you
live; build up your reputation by
the thoronghness of your work;
and spend less than You carr.
! These simple rules will in time
bring the reward due your labors.
The wealth you have thus earned
will be fruitful of happiness and
secure to your declining years that
contentment which sprinys from
honest industry, and the conscious
ness of having done your duty TO
yourself and mankind-The Re
public.