The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-12-22
How to Get. Rich.

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Il How to Get Rich.
There are two ways to. get rich-the
right way and the wrong way; the easy
way and the impossible way; the com.
1 mon way and the rare way. And OF
course the wrong and impossible way is
the common way.sA 'HJ'tSAAaa
Is To be rich is to have all the money
you want, is it not? And the common
way oftrying to get rich is to try to get
money enough for ones wants. The
lneradical and unconquerable difficulty
In. this way is that the wants ALWAYS
grow faster than the money piIeg 4 You
want to be rich enough to hire horse
and buggy; when you begin to hire you
want to own horse; when you drive
your own horse. you want to own a
span; when you have span, gen want
a pony for the children. A hundred
millions ought to be a aconlfortable COM
petence; but Mr., " Vanderbilt, has lately
been large borrower Of money. When
man buys railroads as other men buy
Fhorses. he may be in straitened cir
cHmstanees though he has s4iftysinillions
IN United States bonds. The more
money poor man has the poorer he is,
Il he has not learned to moderate his
desires as well as to Accumulate his SUP.
plies: Barons Muachausen's horse, cut
in in two BY the descending gate as his
| rider wast eseapingT from THE castle,
drank increasingly at the spring by the
roadside to- the ,amazment of bis rider,
till looking back he discovered that the
unfortunate beast was cut of. Just be-
hind the saddle, and that the water he
was taking ms in front, was, ram
ming out behind. An Unsuitable spirit
is worse than Baron. Munchausen's
horse; the more it drinks the thirstier
The only way to, be rich is to keep
ones desires within his income. III.
one wants what five cents can buy. and
he has ten, cents, he is wealthy. "A
brightfdime to a street arab is greater.
wealth than thousand dollars tol d
merchant prince. = The right way to be
rich is never to want what you cannot
buy; then yon always have, as, much,
money as you want. This is the easy.
way. No man can regulate the con-
tents OF his purse; every man can regu-
late the quality Of his desires. Capital
is not within every mans attainments;
contentment is. He is wealthy who
has learned two arts: first, how to be
contehted with what he can get; second:
how to use; what. he hass Abraham
Lincoln had q better library in the
single, eoyeriess book which he read by-,
the light of the pitch-piue knots in the
Kentucky cabin than the man who has
lined che walls OF what he ironically
calls his library, with calfskin bindings
at so much p. square foot. 1t is always
easy to have plenty OF money; spend
less than you earn. sit is always easy.
to have all the money you want; want
less than you have. The cases of
actual suffering from cold, nakedness or,
hunger! are in this country very, rare
In all other cases Paul's prescription
for wealth is the best that was ever
devised; Having food and raiment,
let us be Herewith content, % The
lesson he learned in prison in Rome is
worth all the lessons taught in college
74business or otherwise the
world began; ! II have learned in
whatsoever state Il am. Herewith "a be
cdutent. "-Christian Union. =,