The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1895-06-29
RUSSELL SAGE's, ADVICE.
The Multimnlionaire Tells Young Men
the Secret of Succes..

The Multimiliionaire Tells Young Men
the Secret of Success.
New York. June 24.-In the CONNER.
ella Advertiser Russell Sage a
signed article on advice to young men.
The summing up is as.follows: Take
for example some, struggling western
city. Nothing moves in it except the
people. They are working early arI
late for a pittance. Their horses are
drawn to he bone Inc their animals
are thin from poor feeding and weather
hardships. 1t is walk. walk, walk,
work, work, work. drive. drive, drive.
In the same city lives one real
man. He says to himself: we should
have steam power here. We should
have cars that run themselves. We
thould have mills to grind our corn
We should have power for little fac
tories to keep u girls n women
busy. Their money now goes away
from us when they val dresses. 1t is
pay out and pay out. Nobody buy.
anything of us. o, Providence. show
me a way With all his saved capital
not very much-with all the money he
can borrow-and oh! what interest
they make him pay. He gets a few
thousand together. He builds a little
railroad. He puts up a small factory
He starts numberless little industries
The hum of the wheel is heard in the
town and there are people going quick.
ly and cheerfully from one place tG
another to their business in this town
But the man who planned 1t has worked
and worried. He has seen the sun rise
over the hills many a night before he
has sought sleep. He has seen himsel.
beggared and dishonored a thousand
times. But now success is his. His
little investments are bringing hin
money. He has paid what he owed
He has drawn others into the business
with him. He has made Capitalists OF
men who never thought to own a dollar
unhampered by the thoughts of the
morrow. He is the rich man of the
town.
Now who. of all those who has
watched him, will %begrudge him one
iota of his rest? But back OF all this
the ma himself sees e providence. He
sees providence as certainly as he sees
the fruit of his works. Without having
had this providence to guide him, he
would have f!oundered at some point o1
she race. The temptation to step aside
srom the right path when dollars ir
plenty lay to the left of it. would have
been too great for him without provi.
dence. This, then, is providence In
business. ,
IF had to lake my choice of begin,
hing again either with a million dol.
lars or with providence, / should hoose
the latter. The million would last not
much longer than a 10 cent piece. but
with providence to look out for me and
suggest ways and means, / should Soon
be able to look around and look money
squarely in the face. Honesty is q
business coin, not often in great de-
mand among those who are starting
out. I'll get success by hook or crook,
Is the too frequent remark, but when II
comes by crook 1t goes by magiC-the
same crook magic that brought it.
with all this honesty there must go
wonderful sagacity. Many an honest
man looks for employment today. He
contents himself with walking the
street and saying to his friends: }
never stole a dollar in my life instead
Of laying himself down apo a park
bench to do five minutes of the hardest
thinking he ever did in his life. Their
q year of the hardest work he ever die
in his life. Honesty Is not worth much
without something back of it. 1t is The
cannon ball of trade and business o.!
all kinds. but it must be sent forth with
might and precision. Without these L
is a great, useless hulk.
Russell Sage