Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-11-25


You must walk before you can safe.
" indulge in any other means of get.
ting over space. You must be content
to accomplish Titles. to be saving of
the Titles. to accumulate by the penny
before you can expect the pounds.
Expenditure for style, for show, for
luxury, to save the use Of your legs,
is a dangerous experiment for the be-
sinners in business. The cost must be
closely estimated, and it must be DEM
onstrated with mathematical precision
shat it will pay before the risk is ia.
ken Pleasure is rarely, if ever, an
institution that returns golden shekels.
1t may be gratifying to pride, may be
convenient, agreeable, lessen labor,
and help to avoid dust and mud, to
keep q carriage; it is 'nice" to see
our wives and daughters keep UP.
with the neighbors; may be in some
cases beneficial to their health; but on
the opposite of the ledger stands the.
paramount consideration Of the drain
upon the cash account, and the inabii-
ity to sustain it without (if not worse)
such sacrifices as will leave the arm of
business paralyzed, and the chance of
riding and lolling upon velvet cushions
very slim when age has come, the step
feeble and the power to accomplish,
greatly weakened, if not entirely
gone.
Better walk when you are young.
aud vigorous than to be forced to creep
on with staff in old age. Better be-
gin at, than come out Of, the little end
of the horn: better be guided by you
'can" than be driven by the tyrant
''must'2 better wear out sole-leather
than credit and independence and
manhood; better be your own master
while young than the slave of another
when your hair is thin and white with
the frosts of many winters.
Of the truth and wisdom of this the
world is so full of striking examples
that you cannot shut your eyes to them
if you would. The ranks of aged
and dependent poverty is so thronged
with those who rode when they should
have walked, that the lesson should
need no further impressing. 1t stands
full-faced before US in every class and
condition of life; is as the light houses
flaming through the stormy darkness
upon rocky coast and bidding all be-
ware of approach. The records OF.
bankruptcy, the imprisonment of the
debtor, the law to collect, the books
filled with mortgages, the closed doors
Of many once fair mart Of trade.
the sacrifice of property under the
hammer Of the auctioneer, ali point to
the same cause-to the rolling in car
riages when one should have walked,
to the squandering Of means Cor lux
ury when it was unjustifed by the re-
sources.
Were the Cabinet asked by any one
entering upon the busy and responsible
| life Of a printer for advice as to the
best means OF success. it would con-
dense all that vas necessary to be said
into the single maxim, "Y GU will have
to walk at some time in your life, and
it is better to do so when you are
young" And that is about the sum
and substance Of all that could be
said; anything more would be but an
off-shoot of the same root
Had many whose ceases" are now
"foul' in business honor, whose ca
reer can never be ''justifed,' whose
expenditures can never be corrected
who gave no ''proof'' of manhood,
whose :'fornS'' have been ''locked
up" whose ''dead matter" will never
be honorod by an imposing stone" in
the graveyard, but early learned and
! followed its wisdom, how much better
for themselves, their families and the
world it would have been.-Rogads'
Cabinet
A large number of workingmen in
the two cities quit work on Thursday