The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-08-27
HOW TO GET RICH!
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Ask the men of fortune, and they all
will tell you just the same. Don't go to
poor men for advice and truth on this
subject. What do poor men know about
a land they never Travelled in? II you
ask them, they'll lead you backward to
the depths of lasting error. Look
around you now: are not the rich men
of to-day, the sons of the poor men of
forty years ago? What made them so2
Now, friends, the simple truth is this:
All men know provided they know any
thing that they never can get rich while
spending all they earn. This is a self
evident fact, like twice two is four-and
needs no proof IL a man makes ten
thousand dollars a year, and does not
save a cent, he never will be a rich man.
IL he makes but one thousand dollars,
and saves $500 each year, he will be rich.
Men must be aware of this fact, and yet
with eyes wide open, in the very noon
day flood of light, they make the choice
of pOoerty, and this they do because they
are una0iLLing to delly Themselves some
little present gratit5cdtjon for a great
future good. In other words they show
themselves to be animals, instead of
men, for this is just what hogs and oxen
do. Filling their bellies now, they have
no thought for the future. Is it a won
der, then, that men so often rot in how
els afterwards Notso with the prudent
squirrel, for he lays up winter store of
nuts. But ninety-five men out of every
one hundred, born into this world, ex-
hibit less sagacity here, than the little
squirrel. Squirrels never beg, or rotan
die i'm novels. What a lovely comment
this on God-like man. Bah! Shame O1l
as!
Let us see. Two glasses less of beer a
day, would equal ten cents saved. Two
rides less in a car n day, equals ten cents
saved. Coffee "a muddy slop which God
never made the human kidneys to re-
ceive'O if abstained from, at home, will
be some money saved, and n longer lease
of glorious life obtained.
Indeed, a thousand things, every man
knows of himself, each passing hour, he
abstains from, he will be straight upon
the road to health and envied fortune,
with the sweet refreshing pulse of ele-
waited manhood beating in his veins.
How can a man pause here, in doubt, a
single passing moment, whether he shall
be a man or a bruteg Just Hed1em is
common sense all dead?
/ think the reason why men fail, so
often, in their hopes and purposes of lie,
is that they toll along aOithOIt plan.
Is it not so2 A well-laid plan is just as
needful for success in life, rs is the COM
pass to the mariner at sea. Without the
compass mariners are often lost in mists
and fogs, and know not where they drift
or sail. And so it is with man in life.
For he who works not on a plan, will
drift with fraitless effort all along the
sea of life, in logs and mists.
Now we'll suppose man shall make d
plan to SAGE. He opens his account in
any Savings Bank, and then resolves
within himself, that every week he owes
the bank a doJt that must be paid, like
any other honest debt. A DEBT OF
MANLY RESOLUTION. Goodl Ac-
Drding TO his means what shall it bei
How much a week2 1t matters not, so
long as he sticks TO his plan with honest
perseverance to the last. But let us
name trifiIng sum-One dollar. Now
we'll suppose your life, my friend, to
end at so years. You intend to quit Ia
Dor at 60 years of age, and live in ease
and comfort, after that, for 20 years.
This is your plan. Now let us see how
| it would work, at different ages of your
life. First, then: You start at 20 years OF
age to save dollar every week; at 6C
years, what will you have2 Answer,
SS,413.l9. That amount invested at
per cent. would yield about $50 pei
month.
But say you do not start till 80 year.
of age, to save the same amount; at 6(
how much will you have2 Answer
81, ,23S64. This would yield at pc
cent. about $25 per month.
Or say that you have reached the ag'
Of 40 years, before your eyes are opened
and you then work on this plan. AT 6C
years, how much will you be worth
Answer, 81, 1,937.96. This would yield
you about Sl2 a month.
These figures comprise the savings o
one dollar a week, put in the Saving
Bank, with interest compounded at
per cent.
sIf YOU doubt this, ask your physician
whether the kidneys are not constructed 70
the reception of pure water instead of coffee
whiskey, ales, &c. Ale may be better thar
whiskey, and coffee better than ale, bu
pure water is better than all Otherwis
God would have created springs and river
of liquor.
TO be cOHtinued.)