The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1875-11-11
BARNUM.
A Short Treatise Upon How to
Get Rich.
The Great Snowman ExpOunds
Upon His FavOrlie Text.
When You Get Your Money
Keep 1t.
And be Careful Not to Run in
Debt.


Debt.
Mr.. 2. T. Barnum lectured at the Opera
House last night to a comparatively small
audience, the attendance being not what
was reasonably to be expected. After open
ing with few funny anecdotes, the
lecturer arrived at the real substance Of
his theme. Below We give a synopsis:
The road to wealth is, as Dr. rankin
truly says, "as plain as the road to mill"
Ii consists simply in expanding less than
we earn. That seems to be a very simple
problem. Mr.. Micawber, one of those hap
py creations Of the genial Dickens, puts the
case in strong light when he says that to
have an income of twenty pounds per an
nun and SPEND twenty pounds and sixpence,
is TO be the most miserable of all men
where's, to have an income of only twenty
pounds, and spend but nineteen pounds and
si1pence, is to be the happiest OF all NOR
tails. Many OF my hearers may say, ave
understand this; this is economy, and we
know economy is wealth we know we
know we can't eat our cake and keep it
also" Yet beg to say that perhaps more
cases OF failure arise from mistakes on this
point than almost any other. The fact is,
many people think they understand econo-
my when they really do not.
THE LAWS OF NATURE.
Many persons knowingly violate the laws
OF nature against their better impul-es, for
the sake of fashion. For instance, there is
one thing that nothing living except a vile
worm ever naturally loved, and that is to-
bacco; yet how many persons there are
who deliberately train an unnatural appe-
tie, and overcome this implanted aversion
for tobacco, TO such degree that they get
to love it. They have got hold of pois-
onous, filthy weed, or rather that takes a
firm hold Of them. Here are married men
who run about splitting tobacco juice on the
carpet and floors, and sometimes even upon
their wives besides. They do not kick
their wives out of doors like drunken men,
but their wives, have no doubt, often wish
they were outside of the house. Another
perilous feature is that this artificial appe-
tite, like Jealousy, "grows fat by what it
feeds on )" when you love that which is IN
natural, stronger appetite is created for
the hurtful thing than the natural desire
for what is harmless. There is an old
proverb which says that "habit is second
nature" but an artificial habit is stronger
than nature. Take, for instance, an old
tobacco chewer; his love for the ''auid" is
stronger than his love for any particular
kind OF food. He can give up roast beef
easier than give up the weed.
BE SAVING.
You find good business men who save all
the old envelopes, and scraps, ard would
not tear new sheet Of paper, If they could
avoid it. for the world. This is all very
well they may in this way save five or
ten dollars a year, but being so economical
(onIy in note paper, they think they can
afford TO waste time; 10 have expensive
parties, and TO drive their carriages. This
is an illustration of Dr. Franklin's Saving
at the spigot and wasting at the bung-hole;"
penny wise and pound foolish" Punch in
speaking OF this ''one-idea" class of people
says, they are like the man who bought a
penny herring for his family's dinner and
home never knew a man TO succeed by
practising this kind OF economy.
True economy exists in always making
the income exceed the out-go. Wear the
old clothes little longer if necessary; dis
pense with the new pair of gloves; mend
the old dress; live on palmer food If naed
be; so that under all circumstances, unless
some Unforeseen accident occurs, there will
ha in, - IL
penny here, and a dollar there, placed at
interest goes on accommodating, and in this
way the desired result is attained. 1t re-
quires some training perhaps, to accom-
plish this economy, but when once used to
II, you will find there is more satisfaction
IN rational saving, than in irrational spend
ing. The real comforts of life cost but a
small portion of what most of us can earn
DIR, Franklin says 1T is the eyes of others
and not our own ewes which ruin u.s. Ii
all the world were blind except myself
should not care for fine clothes or furni-
ture." Ii is the fear of what Mrs Grundy
may say that keep the noses of MANY wor-
thy families TO the grindstone. In Ameri-
ca many persons like 10 repeat ''g-e are all
free and equal, but it is great mi take in
more senses than one.
KEEP YOUR HEALTH.
The foundation of success in life is good
health that is the substratum of fortune ::
1t is also the basis of happiness. How I'M
Portant, then, that We should study the
laws OF health, which is but another ex-
preston Tor the laws of nature The closer
We keep 10 the laws of natuIe, the nearer
we are 10 GOO! health and vet how many
persons there are who paw no attention to
natural laws, but absolutely transgress them,
even against their own natural inclination.
We ought 10 know that the ''sin of ignor-
ance" is never winked at in re-
gard to the violation OF natures laws; the
infraction always brings the penalty.
BE TEMPERATE.
These remarks apply with ten-fold force
TO the use of intoxicating drinks. To make
money, requires a clear brain. A man has
got 20 see that two and two make four; he
must lay all his plans with reflection and
forethonght, and closely examine all the
details and the ins and outs of business.
As no man can succeed in business unless
he has a brain to enable him TO Law his
plans, and reason to guide him in their ex-
ecution, so no matter how beautifully a
man may be blessed with intelligence. if
the BRAIN is muddled, and his judgment
warped by intoxicating drinks, il is impos-
sible for him 10 carry on business success
fully. How many good opportunities have
passed, never TO return, while a man was
slipping social glass" with a friend
How many foolish bargains have been
made under the influence of the ''nervine,"
which temporarily makes his victim think
he Is rich. How many important chances
have been put of until tomorrow, and
then forever, because the wine cup has
thrown the system into state of lassitude
neutraiizing the energies 20 essential to
success in business. Verify swine is
mockern
After securing the right vocation, Won
must be careful to select the proper loc.-
tion. IOu may have have been cut ont for
q hotel keeper, and they say it requires a
genius to know how to keep hotel.h You
might conduct a hotel like clock-work. and
provide satisfactorily for five hundred
guests every day; vet, if YOU should locate
your hotel in a small village, where there
is no railroad communication or pnbI;c
travel, the location would be your ruin.
sTICKTorrIvEEs-
When man is in the right path he
must persevere. How many have almost
reached the goal of their am bition, but los