The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-09-03
HOW TO GET RICH!


BY habit men are often bound with
hoops Of steel. IL grows to be sort of
second nature. So much is this the case
that, even in what they eat, one raee of
men might die, if fed Oh that with which
another race will live and thrive A
habit early formed in life, OF saving just
n little part of what one earns, will grow
by repetition of succeeding years, TO be
n part and parcel of ones self. He can
not help it by-and by. And so it is with
spending money. IL soon will grow to
be habit of great force Parents, then,
should take a note OF this, and early
start their child in Adbits that are sound
and good. The young man, starting
life, should grow by wise direction of
the elder friend, constant saver of a
certain part of what he earns. No mat
ter mot at alb hoI0 small Tie first BEGIN
ming is. Ten cents per month, in early
youth, saved faithfully and well, will
form habit that will make the after
man familiar in the halls of wealth.
Things have eause, and causes have
effect. This is rule of nature, Just as
fixed and permanent rs planets, stars
and SUNS Sapiiiq is a cause Riches the
effect. 10 not deceive yourselves, ye
architects of wealth, ye young begin
ners of life! For here ye read the truth!
And now, at this very moment, you may
start mo matter If you've lived one half
your lifeIyOu eoen nom may start the
sure foundation of fortune, which will
make old age a time OF ease. 1t is said
that Mr.. Peabody, when he had reached
tie age of forty-tive years, was not then
worth as many Thousand dollars as he
was years old.
But let us glance at ligures-truth-
telling figures We know by multitude
nous Instances, thick on every side
around us-how the daily earnings of a
single man supports a family of sic, or
more. Now then, suppose that sly young
men should take this fact to work ON, for
a'period OF ten years. The six are to live
as one family. Their ages, Mt starting,
shall he say, twenty one years. What can
these six accomplish, Oh this plan, by the
time they are thirty one years Old9 Let
us seel Suppose they earn 81 each day.
This is less than the wages of good
mechanic. They live as one family. and
the wages of one Of them Ike the faith
er's wages of any family supports the
whole family. Therefore, the wages oil
the other five are saved, every week, and
deposited in the Savings Bank. At the
end of ten years they divide amongst
the six, the sum total in the bank, which
will have reached the enormous total OF
SG3, 347.g7. What then will each be
worth? Answer, $40, 557. "a. This
amount, invested at { per cent will yield
S15 a week TO the pOssesSor.
II any one thinks that this cannot Le
done with six people, suppose then fhat
only two young men lsay two brothers
or two friends should try the plan, both
living together, on the wages of one,
and dividing each week, the wages OF
the other. 1t is simple Obstinacy which
causes any one to say that this cannot
be done That would be 50 II week for
each one to put in the Bank. What
will each one haYe at the end OF the ten
years? Answer, Sc, 33i62. The inter
est at Z per cent. on this sum would he
about - week
But when a man isprged to lay apart,
eaclI week, a portion of his wages, the
almost universal answer is: ''H takes all
learn 10 support myJamay, and Icannot
SAGE cent" ! ask such aman, suppose
your life depended on putting three
dollars, every week, ia the Savings
Bank, could you do 1t! "0h yeS, then
I could. Of course" Well then don't tell
me again lyon cannot SaCe," but rather
say you aoW not sdce, for that's the sim
pie truth! If it seems so dreadful to go
without some few things 70 save the
three dollars every week, how much
more dreadful will it be to get sick, one
of these days. ana have yonr wages fail,
for then you'll have to starye, or send
your children out 10 beg, perhapsl
Make your choice, fellow men, nO1C, while
there yet is time.
Now, reader, ! ask yop Just 10 watch
those sort of men who tell you and con-
vince themselves tool that they cannot
save a cent. YDu will find them always
spending money for vain and foolish,
useless things. When a man gets rich,
he ought 10 spend his income, maybe,
but no man, living on wages, has any
right to spend all he earns, for it is
tempting Fate.
Humboldt confirms the statement of
Gumilla that the Otomacs of South Ameri-
| ca, during the periods Of the floods, subsist
entirely on fat and ferruginous clay
Lesce's PlysioIogy Of Com. Lite.-Nol. l, page
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1 TO be cOHtinued.)