Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1888-01-15
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ere e few ~ tie gH1i8ra 1re nzaF.
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paffna1tisa for mDaaF m xEra IS Il Goes
EloHs sna Sc ees q nail ign9fes. - far
a. Amerfea b eoeeerned Aas Coma 70
s9zT. We haEe H1s 60.eDo0o rsocis.
fsui ws hass 3 eaansFT which msa gag
psEt Co oGo00. We ara Eroginr IS fhe
eats q 1010 GO . yesF. AID ws ars aha
bzezset E1aonla 1rtsa : z aRste1if1Fal
natian Of thls Fines ROAD ssrth. ssill
re ars baf il or iefAneg, nE1 Walls us
are azgwinR to ten kimes orf present.
sizs thsre vii b always work ana naon-
- 70 epeEs- 1ee early bird and It's al
day BIRD viii conlinus - c4ich the
worm q useilh 10 year life tins and
Eains. 80 Is has a1ze ID fnoss CT cuF
falhefs, ea1 he paths % foFsuns VII
be 90 piasn s1ss BE- who runs may read
tbsm.
Don'f zfowI al yonr circumstances
and pfcsD eia Year circumstances are
oeft4r ta8n tae past ones Of maay =
rirh nan Of today ard whatever your
pr1spsess Ers nov Yeu are 70 meks Wh2k
shsy sfli Be in The future.
Ara goa . farmeF'a beyf
y. I. Bsrnas1, ths rniIii0uaire shaw
man, plouahed ezra when he vas yonf
sqe for sec csnfs dag, snd after be
vas tgelys years Of age earned bis own
clothes. Senator Joe BFpwu, Of deof-
uia. the rtahest man IA the ssutb, Was
dad "a make his fiFss m0neS by plough
ing his g siebbaf's fields With = pair %
ball calves, end Hove. the sowing ma
enins 1nsihouairs, sold butter and EGGS
feeEn f4fn3. C0rnelias Vandesbiis ha-
gan bis lie b fsrming. and sbe boys
who ara nov R01kiHR apon farus vii
DO -f0aEths Of tbe work % the next
RsEerzti0u.
Are you eIsrking Ia 3 stoTe7
L3ok 81 tie number OF Fiea men who
hsva rIsan from clefkships 70 riches snd
compare thsir fsrmer salaries With
Years. See Waauamakeg at $l25 q
wsek. psVs slnte1 dishicg Gus sugar
over an 0ni0 counter for "a a month.
and George W. Chiids an Grand b "
for q bookseller at . NO. much higher
salary. You are poor clerk indeed II
you are not making more nov than
these men did az yoaf see, and II you
think your work is not full Of possibili-
ties, | can shoR Yaa other places still
wosse, out OF which hsye blossoned
milii0ns.
How woald yon ilts TO be a bss
tenderf
Welt p. T. Barnum earned a salary
as bar tender ia Niblo's TheateF when
be iirst came 10 New York. Flood, the
California; millionaire, kept saloon on
Washington street Ia San Francisco ia
his earlier experiences Ia the West, and
VsssaF sold bter an1 oysters dhrinR a
Dart 81 his career. BaKnum's early life
vas mixed np ID Bpeculati0ns cf 81
kiads. he vas book agent. and was
once the propEi tor OF patent bear
grease for the hair, and be st one time
owsed q grocery store. He vas twenty
fonr years Of age when he bsRan speed
Iagion 10 shows, aud his first freak vas
the nurse Of ueorge Washington, an
old neersss whom be bought in Phils-
delphia for $1,000 cash. Shs died seven
manths after he bought her, bat by
showing her IL New York be made
enough 10 prove TO himself that there
was millions IL The busineas. Since
then be has spent fortunes is this way,
aod ona OF his best investments was the
Jenny Lind concerts, which brought Ia
$4,000, AID which melted BaEnQm
tnsT8 than half million in nine
months.
George !. Serey's father was a Meth.
odsss .Seacaer, aud Phil. Armour vas
bound out as a boy ana be got his EN-
psoser % reiesss him vhen be went 10
DllifoTnia. Paal Tulane, the million
sits philanthropjst who died a scar OF
90 $50 leaving 3 foFsune TO Dumssf of
colleges, vas years ago merchant ia
Nsw Orleans, and George Las. the
great bridg4-baisder. woo left $40 coo,
Cos wh : bs died ia 1882, spent his life
between eight and swsatg-cle IN miik-
ing COWS aud working On = faEus. tits
father kept him at work Tor himself m.
"a he vas OF sge, and % began sEe
wssh iasi $40 which be ha1 managed 30
save during this time.
The story of Laws fret earnings ia
Interesting, aud shows the sDiEis Dish
afgerwafd made bis foftasa. h VAS
looking for wofk in Troy. n Y, y sen
10 saF q bod carrier Tall from ladder
ua which he was carving q issa ef
hgiska. The msn broke lis leg, end
Lag at once Gppsied fof hls place. hs
sss given i, ERd tse forsman, az &c
gag tim kattef about Eiga 6ls he'd GO
his shoulder, told him be w1nld c. GER
tan to break his neck. Law said he
nj sr feared scch an accident himself
ara his great anxiety vas t0at be migsl
fes before she day vas over asd lSss
biz wages. Re did net, however. aud
received G 6ellar after a hard DAYS
Woss. he KEEPS ca tbs next day sud
next. and vas soon maxine %I.75 dsY.
He continued to ircrdsss. and ng lusky
Investment and card wofk isid the foua.
5atisn for the fortune which be left.
Sfost Of cur riea meu have been hard
workers. and thssa who have sncssfdsd
have, like Law, taken tbs hTss thing
sbat came 70 ha1d and done i we'll.
They hsve adopted Goatb0's motto ef
doing fbe thi1g shst lies nesrest thsm
aud Of d9ira i WITH thsir whole nj 81.
A. Z. Stewart, t5e millionaire agy-g003s
merchant, taught school IS Industrious
iy as - Id goods IN Rfsss iifa, aud 10
ksss his asFd a9Gk ~ uuttl aa ieft his
| isfs for tbs hands Of the beay-snasch
ers. Potter Palmer formerly attended
% bis dry goods store IL Chicago e.
closely - he aoS does lis grand holel.
AID rLnekgn BALDWIN worked hsfe.
I yCass ago, on bis fathers fIsFa il 10
q aus. Jlaa he eaee drove e milk
Nseau 10 Califor8iia toTa. D .
4 ius kapt green EfooeTy, All, / q
| lol3, horrs@ed the nlo1ey wisA which
| b. went 81 llaliiegsi3, sssd Cyrus FIsld,
tee founder Of tee Atlantic cable, BE-.
| gan life rs n CLERK in q Ne~ En9land
tsFe. He w0rSad Ter A. Z. Stewart for
$50 a year, oree eisfked Ia w1fer
street., Mes York. et 81 q week. taongh
/ Il fore be esd Be hss ar income Of
| 1900 a day. aud G4Giel EFew, making
/ his dfst E.ousy "a farm, addsd 10 TITS
| b. sairpiaS cattle from SOS cogasgy q
| Nsz YcFk eitg for : Submission. He
| xAs she first maa & bEiRg drove 81
| cstfla neross the Aileghsniss and s,ns
| 81 his fsss m3Sey vas msde q q df0s.
er's hossl, whieh be founded in tas
Ehothaod u lis b0slass.
Janss q. Pair DEG il tbe mines WITH
rex aud Shovel. Mark Hapkins, waose
wife has q hoass IL Asssash asetts
| which hiss cost eae foFtaae, AID who
59Es snalbeF Ia San Francisco Shich
/ 1ss snstsef, Esd 3 nafdEerz store t.
s ,cEauaegfs. aud o. z. hantiagton sold
tastsf SD eeesf for vhst ks oonld est q
pSund and 4 Esn. fnese tniilionairss
lhaxs al had tseis downs issaeh they
ara nos bnwine shsis ngs. fhsg have
vaxked for tEeiF Esslth. sud hsss
! crashed tue whesi OF f,Etuus Uith thsis