The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-06-27
CAPITAL FOR BUSINESS.
Some simple Facts That Psent an Instrue.
tive Moral

In 1885 the writer knew voting
couple who were married in that year
The man was strong. healthy young
man, who could neither read nor writs.
and who appeared to have but little
nope or aspiration for the future. He
had been for some years hired hand
on farm The woman he married
was hired girl on an adjoining farm.
able and willing TO do any amount of
reasonable hard work They got mar
ried, and got permission to build log
cab n on the corner of farm. to live
in. 1t was cheap and simple concern,
costing probably ten or fifteen days
work of the man and wife. The hotise
hold furniture would cost probably ten
years. he doing such days work as he
could getln the neighborhood which fur
nished them the necessar es of life. He
worked for the writer. and from his
frank and honest character we became
interested in his ca G. 0ns day we
asked him why he did not hu, farm
and become an independent msa. HIS
answer was like those whom We adv sed
to go into fruit raising. '.lie had
nothing to buy WITH
We told him if he would strictly fol-
low directions he would have a farm
in five years. He hooted at the idea.
He was invited to go along with us and
talk with his wife, Nancy She was
asked, if. by the hope of getting farm
for themselves she would not. by taking
in work, and going out to the neigbors
and doing a days work occasionally.
support herself and her husband in
the barest necessities of life for five
years. After studying over it for a
week, she said she could and she would.
Her husband was to get all the work
he could and at the end of each week
hand it over to the writer to be depos-
tied in bank Things moved slowly
at first but before the end of two
months he had twenty-five dollars in
bank. He began to gathernew energy
and new life. He saw daylight. He
was most faithful and energetic
hand. He was more in demand at
higher wages. In three years (not
iive) he had money enough to buy
eighty acres of land in Decatur County,
Ind. He went there full of hope. He
soon improved and stocked it by the
d of his devoted wife. Soon he had
surplus money and bought more land,
which operation was frequently re-
peated, until now he and his wife are
happy and respected old couple,
worth at least one hundred thousand
dollars. They had plenty of capital
to begin with, but did not know it.
About the same time there was man
of wealth living in the neighborhood.
who had by a life of hard work and
economy accumulated about S33. 900.
He died and left it to three children,
two sons and a daughter. Each of them
received 81, 900 as capital to begin
business with. The two sons died
many years ago, drunkards and pau
pers. The daughter married a man
whose father Ca doctorin Philadelphia)
gave him a like sum to balance that of
his wife Since that time he has taken
the benefit of the bankrupt law twice,
his wife is dead, and the man is on the
wane of prosperity again, how long to
stay time must determine. These three
persons also had capital to begin with.
You that have no capital to begin
starting a small fruit farm can write
your own moral to these simple but
positive facts.-Ioa0a State Register.