Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-12-22
Copyright, 1881

lagg1rd pace will do. \ little farther
on anu counsel will be of no advantage
Swift footed must be the practical and
important suggestions. ~ thtN might
Is well never be made at all. Run at the
pace of five miles the hour and speak
TO that yCurg man. Run. b, fore this
year of lS9S is ended. Run. before this
century is closed. Run, before his
character is ircNorahly decided for two
works, this world and the next. How
many of us have found out by long
and bitter experience things that we
ought to have been TOLD before we were
Is Years of age. Now propose tn tell
you SOM" things which if you will scri-
ously and praycrfully observe will
make you master of every situation in
which you ever will he placed.
Now, ii you would he master of the
situation do not cNpcrd money before
you get it. How many yourg men ir-
retrierably mortgage their future be-
cause of resources that are quite sure
TO be theirs. Have the money either
in your hand or in a safety deposit or in
bank ar in a United States bond be-
fore you make purchases or 80 into cx-
pensivc enterprises or hitch a spank
ing team Ia glittering turnout or con-
tract for the building of a mansion on
the Potomac or the Hudson. Do not
deycnd on an Inheritance from YOUR ia
Their or uncle. The old man may live
on a good deal longer than you exp, ct g,
and the day OF your enforced payment
may come before the day of his de-
cease. You cannot depend upon rheu-
matism or heart failure or scnility to
do lis work. Longevity is So wonder
fully improved that you cannot depend
upon people dying when you think
they ought TO. They live to he sep
tuageTariaEs or octogcnariaHs or mona
genaIians or even centenariaus, and
meanwhile their heirs so into bank
ruptcy. or. tempted 10 forgery or mis-
appropriation of trust funds or water
ing of Railroad or mining stock, go into
the penitentiary. Neither had you bet
ter spread yourself cut because Of the
Is or 20 per cent. you expect from IN
investment. Most of the Is or % yer
cent. investments ere apt to Fay moth
ing save the privilege Of being assessed
TO meet the obligations of the company
in the affairs of which you get involved.
Better get three and one-half per cent.
from n government bend than he prom
Used Is per cent. from n dividend which
will never be declared or paid only once
or twice. so as to tempr-you deeper in
before the grand smash mp and you re-
ceive, instead Of payment Of Givi-
Gends. n letter from the president and
secretary of the company saying they
are very sorry.
IT you have TO wait year or five
rcars or ten years or most of your life
:imc. then you had better wait rather
Then after you get il DO not spend il
all. Never spend n dollar until you
have 50 cents that you do not spend.
In the government service in this city
Low many splendid women who are the
daughters of men who spent all they
] cot and then sncaked out of life to
| leave their daughters penniless. 10 be
looked after by some kind senator OF
other friend who might solicit for them
| position on small salary. but enough
| to keep them from starvation and the
roorhouse. Such men DO rot die; they
abscond cannot understand how
| such spendthrift and reckless and i'm
proviLcnt men dare at their decease
| appear at the door of Heaven seeking
/, admission when they have left their
! families in the Tophet of want and
mendicancy. Such men 60 not deserve
throne and harp ard mansion. but
an everlasting pooIhouse. From no dis
appointed or disgruntled state of mind
do ! give this counsel, for life has been
to me glad surprise. as it has been
10 most people disappointment.
expected nothing of advantage or op
portunity. and SO everything has beer
10 me matter of pleased amaZcment
but have seen so many men ruined foI
time ard eternity ty going into eN'
penditure. with nothing TO depe nd upon
except anticipation, that if had power
10 put all warnings into one clap of
thunder I would with that startling
,ehemence say 10 all young tlen what
John Randolph said in yonder senate
chamber rs he stretched his long finger
out toward some senatorial opponent
and with shrill voice cried out: Gen
t;cmen. pay as You co."
DO not say YOU have no chance. bu'
remember Isaac Newton. the greatest
astronomer of his day. once pcddlinf
cabbages in the street, and Martin
Luther singing on the public squar,
for any pennies that he might Pick up
and John lIunyan mending kettles. and
The late Judge Bradley. of the United
States supreme court. who was the sor
Of charcoal burner. and Turner. tn,
painter. who was the son Of a barber
and Lord Give. who saved India Il
England, shipped by lis fn'her t.
Madras as a useless boy whom he want
cd TO get rid of. and Pride aux. TIT
world-renowncd scholar and theolo
eian. securing pots and pans 10 work hi
way through college. and the mother o
the late William L. Dodge. the rhilan
ihropist and magnificent man. kecpin:
n thread ard needle store. ard Pete
Cooper. who worked on small wages
IN a glue factory. living to give s500oo'
for the founding of an institute tina
has already educated thousands of tn,
poor sons and daughters of America
and Bowditch. the scientist. beginning
his useful learning and aflluent caree
by reading the books that had beel
driven ashore from n shipwreck a
Salem. There is. young man. grea
financial or literary or moral or re
ligious success awaiting you IL you onl.
know how 10 go up and take il. The
take il or get ready TO take it. Tn
mightier the opposition the erande
the triumph when yon have conquered
There Is flower in Siberia that bloom
only In January, the seyerest montl