Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-03-28

eeded that the natives are wholly
unfit for the duty of legislation. The
population of the kingdomfifty years
ago was 100000 and now it hardly
exceeds 5000. osa si ts .ea
'FoR ONLY s5O."- like disin-
terested beneyolence. 1t is so rarely
found in this selfish world that when
we find it we feel inclined to stick a
pin in it, and examine it with more
than ordinary care. When we look
over the Cuisines chances" in the
New York dailies and see how many
brilliant opportunities are offered for
men of small capital, and no capitaii,
to make fortune in few days, we
wonder how any man or woman can
remain poor all hour. We have of
fers where man, by inclosing fifty
cents to the extensive firm of "Green-
horn & Co." can realize, by. "actiye
canvassing," from twenty-five to fifty
dollars a day. Some of these beney-
olent 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 five
thousand year. How many young
men have grown rich through these
brilliant offers the late census fails
to tell us. But the latest, and most
priucely offer, comes in the shape of
a lottery scheme. 1t heads its circu-
lars, "s25O,OOO tor only $50" When
we first read this offer our brain reel
ed at the suddenness of the fortune
that was thrust upon US, for s'only
$50" We felt half inclined to take
a couple, and give one to the poor,
just to Ink our name with the Astors
and the Peabodys of the age. But
we lost the desire to purchase so
much fOr SO little money by reading
and thinking too much of the scheme.
We discovered we were addressed as
a mere fraction Of a unit, and that
unit a. big one. II he unit purchased
the 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 the chances were equal, how
much of chance would we have to
gain the fortune promised for "onlv
$780," with fifty,nine thousand lucky
fellows against us9 So we have
turned our back on the $3.50, 900
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 advise
them to figure up their chances. If
they fail of a clear conception by
pencil and paper, let them take so,
900 beans, color one black, throw it
among the 59,999 in the barrel, shake
them thorougly, and then try to pick
out the black bean with their eyes
shut. If they do not secureit it on the
tirSt trial they should avoid all lot
terry 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 oc-
cur to the same person more than
once in a century. A fortune is q
good thing to have, but the only re-
liable way to secure it is to work for
it. Follow some honest calling; be
sober and Industrious; deserve the
confidence and patronage of The COM
munity in which you 1--we; build up
your reputation by the thoroughness
Of your work; and spend less than
you earn. 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 springs from,
honest industry, and the conscious:
ness Of having done yont duty to
yATsaA NAA nANiaa.