Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-13
THE WAY TO MAKE MONEY

to DO H.
The Boston Herald, which has been
asking millionaires for there views on
getting rich, has received the following
recipe from Mr.. J. V. Farwell OF CHI
cago:
have been unable to answer your
query sooner, but as am quite sure all
your young men readers have not yet
become rich from reading other answers
than mine, and that many of them are
still in search of the philosophers stone
to turn everything into gold, [ venture
to reply, in hopes of helping some OF
them. I have an intense admiration
for young men determined to become
an honorable part of the framework OF
a prosperous State. Forty-two years
ago-a mere boy-I saw the genial
skies and the unusually rich soil of
Illinois, as vast wilderness, the home
of few Indians and white people, and
multitude OF prairie wolves and prairie
chickens. What did it need to make
the farms, the cities, and the railroads,
which make it now the grand material
lied wealthy State that it is? Simply
an appreciation of untitled natural
wealth, and then the working of it
adding humane intelligence and work
to Gods gifts, making them ours.
Young men endowed with brains
Gods gift so unequally bestowed
are like exceptionally rich lands, under
a genial or ungenial climate, as they
make it. With such men the first
thing requisite is purpose worthy OF
such gift from God. A good brain,
intelligent, honest purpose and per-
sistent work are the rock foundations
Of all honesty acquired wealth, either in
knowledge or in worldly possessions.
But God has left a compensation for
the 'poor of this world" which out
weighs oil of that--viz: to be erich in
faith" toward Him. Most young men
think that kind of riches foolishness.
"True It's pity, and pity It's it's true. ="
Only one thing remains to add-and
that is the genius, the soul, of all
earthly wealth acquisitions, except in
heriting it, which any fool may do, but
usually ribs himself of it without any
unnecessary delay-viz: the power to
see and seize opportunities. The war
did not make Gen. Grant great gem
eral. 1t was in him before: it gave
him the opportunity to show it. Gun
conditional Surrender Grant" was a
real existence before Fort Donelson
was built.
American alone, saying nothing Of
other lands, is too large for any young
man of merit to say, I have no oppor-
tunities. They are not all in the large
cities, as most young men think who
flock there to find fortune in day.
They are nearly all in the rich, unoc-
cupied country we still have only par
TALLY developed. Let Boston young
men who are not afraid to work and
wait, just follow the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe Railroad into the South
west, the richest, prospectively, of any
part of our country, and seize the OPP
portunities which come without the
asking from that soil, richer than Hi
noise, and that climate, more genial
that any know of in conjunction with
such soil, and they will be to that
country what the rich men of Illinois
are to-day to this State, and much
quicker, as railroads, telegraphs, and
all their ightning-like concomitants
are now more potent and ubiquitous
than they were in Illinois forty years
ago.
All who may take this advice and get
rich will please give at least as much to
benevolence as Jacob did to God for
making him rich, by sending him to
just such a country before there were
any railroads to multiply human effort
thousand fold, and we will call the
account square for answering your
query for the benefit of young men
QUEER INDIIE CUsTOMS ~ BHlZIL,
The Indian prayer-meetings in the
country arc rather a singular admix-
ture of superstition and devotion. A
doll is dressed in silk clothes, with
candles on each side, good bit of tim
sci work about it, and ribbon tied
around its waist. 1t rests on the table.
Eight or ten Indian men stand around :;
one has large drum, which he beats
continually. The women sit on the
floor. while the men sing prayers to
the saint, the women responding. They
commence prayer at or S o'clock and
keep it up two or three hours. Then
the women with their little children
kiss the ribbons, asking favors of the
saint The men then go through the
same ceremony. The saint is then
locked up in box and dancing COM
mences and lasts the rest Of the night
Frequent portions Of whisky are i'm
bibed by the men, coffee and wine bv
the women. When the men become
too drunk to dance longer thew ra+;ra