Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-12-04
Advice to Young Men.

MT. Nj. II. I0Sdlls, prceiucut Vi tHc
Chesapeake and Ohio, delivered an
address before the Queen City Rail
road Clerks Association, Cincinnati,
recently. 1t contains pithy advice,
which is as applicable to one class OF
clerks or wageworkers as another
We reproduce the greater portion Of
it. After graceful introduction, Mr.
Ingalls, said;
Il was asked TO give few words
OF advice-to say something OF what
constitutes success, of what will give
success. 1t is easy to give advice al
ways. Everybody is willing TO do
that and charge nothing for il, and
cannot resist the temptation TO give a
little. The first thing that | would
say TO these young men who work on
salaries in this city, is TO live within
their incomes. Ii you are getting $50
per month, do not spend over S45 or
$40. You remember the story of Sid
ney Smith, who said that two and
sixpence earnings and two shillings
expenses made happiness, but that
two shillings earnings and two and
six pence expenses made unhappiness.
There is nothing truer than that, and
everybody should resolve TO live with
-, H., NJ p,atfar xn-hat ynnr
salary, spend less and put by little
every month. II you will put some in
a savings bank or building associa-
ton you will be surprised to see how
fast it grows. There is nothing like
it. 1t earns interest days, nights
holidays, Sundays and every day in
the year, and long before you ever
dream Of it, with II little money put
by, you become a capitalist.
1T would be much better for you if
instead of taking Il glass OF beer or
smoking cigar, you would take the
money that you would spend in that
way and save il. | have made lit
tie calculation on how much you
would save. Suppose one of you
took three glasses Of beer day and
that you are twenty years of age, and
will take the money that you would
pay for beer and save it up for thirty
years, keeping ii up each month until
you are fifty years old, you would
have 5000 accumulated. Now, gen
tlemen, you must judge whether the
three glasses OF beer n day for thirty
years will be better than $4,000. be-
lieve that S5, 900 will give you more real
pleasure than all the beer you would
drink in the thirty years. IL you will
take and add to this the price OF
three cigars every day-and II you
take the cheapest kind they will cost
not less than a nickle apiece-at the
end OF thirty years you will have
$4,000 out at interest and the princi-
pal.
This is a pretty good temperance
lecture. Don't you think it isH In
any event my advice to these young
men is to avoid all intoxicating bev-
erages or use OF tobacco. 1t Is a
you do not need when
young, and II you do use 1t while
young when you get old it will not do
you any good.
Furthermore, the best thing for
every one OF you to do is to make up
your mind that you will be the best
clerk in Cincinnati, and that
you will attain the highest place there
is. There Is nothing SO pItitable as a
young man or boy who starts out
without any future in view. The
first thing for you to do is - make
up your mind to do something In the
end and outline your future. Do not
for one moment imagine that you are
going to remain at the same routine
work all your days. Put your mark
high, then work every hour and day
OF your life to get to that mark.
''There are hardly any OF us get
where we expect, but the fact that
you have your mind made up TO
reach further will help you to get
nearer your goal than the man who
has no fixed purposes, and by the
resolutions OF your own will carry
yourselves to higher places"
Mr.. Ingalls, next gave some interest
ing narratives from the lives of Dis
raeli and Warren Hastings to show
how each had overcome tremendous
obstacles and attained the goal OF
their ambitions, and then continued:
Therefore, say TO these young
men when they start in TO make up
their minds what they are going to
be. These railroad clerks to-day are
engaged in the best paying business
there is for brains and talent. There
Is no business that grows like the
business-every ten years Ii
doa bles itself-and they need more
men and more brains all the time.
Do not start in as a railroad clerk
except with the resolution that you
are going to have the highest place
in the railroad. You may say this Is
all very well for man in my position
to say to you. started in as clerk
on a salary Of $3.50 per month (and
IL any Of you have gone in any lower
you must have taken the sub-ceIlar),
yet out ofs37.50 / laid up money. i
give you that instance, and | hope
you will make up your minds what
you are going to do and stick to IL.
The fact that / worked for so small a
salary, / believe, has broadened my
love for humanity, and it was this
that led me here tonight. IL the few
words have said shall add strength
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