The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-26
A Mans Capital.

EVERY human being possesses more or
less capital. No one is so poor but that
he is to a degree q capitalist. He may
not be q millionaire; he may not be the
holder of q single dollar; he may not
count as his own one cent, yet he must
he capitalist to live. The grades of
capitalists are as numerous as there are
human beings; but, looking at the sew
eral grades in general way-by
grouping many into one-let us pry a lit
tie into the distinctive peculiarities of
each.
The millionaire. He is the man whom
the world is inclined to envy most. He
is the man of vast estates; of stocks in
stacks; of money in heaps, and of an in
come which is wearisome only in the
counting. Measured in the common bal
ance of human kind, he is the most well.
TODD of all creatures. His incOme-and
that is the one desideratum of life, as
sized by cold NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. amounts
to 100000 per year, counting for conve-
nience at the rate of 10 per cent. rate, as
interest on the capital, or only little less
if counted at 8 or 6 per cent. The mill
ionaire has accumulated that which will
always yield him his 800, 900 or there
abOuts per annum, provided, Of course,
he loses not his capital, thing which
in his case being of perishable mate
rial, estates, stocks, money, etc.-is quite
liable to be lost, since material fortune
flies away on wings all the swifter for be.
ing Of gold.
There is another millionaire. He Is
even rarer than the one we have been
contemplating, and he is likewise q
more enviable individual. This other
millionaire has no estates, perchance,
no stocks, no gold or, having these, puts
little trust in them for his income. He is
the millionaire in mind. He is the man
who, by diligence, and study, and coed
judgment, and the exercise of honor, has
risen to 80 high position in his profess
sion, or in the estimation of mankind,
that his capital-made up of ability, in
stead of estates; of diligence, instead of
stocks; of popular esteem, instead of
money-yields him his 500, 900 year in
airc 5 capital yields him a similar sum.
1t is true, as before observed, that mill
iOnaires of this class are few, but among
our great lawyers, legists, statesmen, liter
airy personages, and some others, occa-
siOnally We lind one.
So all through the stages of society are
found the two kinds Of capital-capital
in the pocket, and capital in the head.
The man whose commercial business,
whose profession, whose trade, whose
skill in any line yields him $4,000 q
year, has u capital-either in pocket or
head-which may be estimated at about
100000. In like manner, the man who
can earn half of $40, 600, or one quarter or
One-eighth of that amount, has capital
stock on hand which will bear an esti-
mate of from $50, 1000, to $25, 900, or to
$12 600 in bulk.
The best capital to possess, it must be
acknowledged, is the capital of the brain,
and poor indeed is he who, having noLe
OF the pocket capital. and likewise neither
brain capital, must rely upon relative cap
ital, as does the child; upon friend capt.
tai, as does the really bankrupt person, OF
upon cheek" capital, as does the "dead-
beat" and " tramp"
To increase ones capital, especially the
imperishable capital of the Drain, is ore
of the highest duties man owes to himself,
to his family and to society. 1t is lay
Ing up of treasure which cannot be de.
stroyed so long as life and reason sit en-
thrOned, and it is the furnishing process
which reflects the only light by which
progress pushes her way ON and on. Its
reward is constant, and lis interest never
fails. The pOsscssor of such q capital in
full measure is always in demand, and
this capital of tue mead is the one kind
which will never be drug in the worlds
market. Get all YOU can Of it.-Ch,cago
Journal.