Connecticut western news., 1880-11-17
GETTING READY FOR WEALTH.
A Lesson for the Young who are so
 Anxious to be Rich.


 A Lesson for the Young who are so
 Anxious to be Rich.
 A few nights ago miserable sot in San Francisco undertook to hang him self. His method of doing this defeated his purpose. Having attached himself by noosed rope around his neck to 8 projecting part of the wall of the house in which he lived, the police saw him and cut him down while life was yet in him and fifty thousand dollars worth of United States securities on his person. Without much delay this unfortunate man and his securities were trundled off to the station-house, where his case was investigated. His history proved to be a l little out of the ordinary run. He had in early life been dlstressedly poor, but had been inspired with ambition to be rich. By great thriftiness he had saved enough money to buy some real estate. To this estate he had from time to time | made additions, which in the course of | years gave him a neat bit of property in | the suburbs. All of sudden the price of land in his neighborhood advanced. Somebody came along and bought his property, paying him something over fifty thousand dollars in cash for it. The dreams and hopes of his life of thrifty toll were realized, and he at once felt that he was wealthy man. He celebrated his good luck by getting drunk. Having got drunk once, he got drunk again. He avoided scenes of carousal and conviyiality, for he was toe miserly to ask others to drink with him. He had his private drunk all to himself in the retirement of his own house. Day after day he imbibed all he wanted, and night after night went to bed in a state of wretched inebriation. It takes but short term of this sort of experi- ence to make man @ desperate sot. Delirium seized him, and all his riches availed not to give him comfort. He held on to his package of government bonds to the very last, having them in his pocket when he undertook to hang himself. By this package the police knew that he was man worth saving They sought his friends, who took charge of him and promised to ship hin and his property to Germany, whence he had originally come.
 ] The miserable condition of this ma1 affords suggestive lesson to the thou sands of young men who are hoping tc be rich, but whose tolls have not ye been rewarded by the wealth they seek There is furnishing of the mind, with out which wealth is worthless. The poo old German was no more wealthy afte he came into possession of his treasur than when he was struggling for it. II fact, he was poorer, if misery anc wretchedness are akin to poverty, whicl they surely are. He had given himself soul and body, to the sordid accumula tion of property, without fitting himsel to enjoy his gains. Without education without refinement, without capacity fo enjoying the pleasure which wealtl legitimately brings, the poor fello1 found himself in no respect the gainel His wealth brought no happiness simpl because he had no way of extractin happiness from it. In right hand f money has a mighty purchasing power There are thousand things that it wi
 buy to make the home bright, and ii : inmates happy. Without the knowledg
 of how to apply this purchasing powe ! bonds and greenbacks are as so man
 pounds of waste paper It is the dut
 of every young man who has the worl
 before him to prepare. for possibl
 wealth. This preparation is not til
 putting on of airs and refusing ( = neglecting to be diligent. It is tl 1 storing of the mind with knowledge, u f training of ones self in habits of cou e tesy and generous bearing, the minglin :. with persons of good sense and e praiseworthy ambition, coupled wit
 that observance of the world and u e people who dwell in it which enable 3 him to associate on good terms with pe s pie who will be of advantage to hin t The youth who will thus make reao j. for manhood is prepared for whatev' s may come. If riches are in store f. him, their coming will not cause him :. make fool of himself. If his toll is o be rewarded by nothing beyond a ba d living, he will still be a gentlema IS happy in his own resources and esteemf tt by those who associate with him.