Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-12-30

have earned In the past nVe or zen
years can you not ere that It would
have bean possible, without sui-
lerlng, for you 10 have saved such
3 ann Is wOuld make you feel H.
dependent newt
The difference between 9 man
With 81, 900 or e3, 900 in cash say.
ed and the man With nothing is
the difference between independ-
ence and dependence, between
strength and weakness.
We laugh at the old story about
the man who gave up cigars or
cocktails or seine tride and with
the money saved established in
dependence.
But we ought 20 laugh. The
late GeOrge NJ. Pullman, talking
one night to q number Of men, in
GLIDING Marshall Field, John w.
DOane and others, said TO a very
young man who vas with them:
"When I was Of your age / was
doing fairly we'll and earning q
pretty good salary. But l had
my sleeping car In mind. 1 want
ed to build the car and I made up
my mind to succeed / must have
some money. The cigars that I
smoked cost FIVE cents each. /
gave them up and gave up other
things, too. The total didn't
amount to much, but the habit
was valuable"
The determination needed to
make a young man give up his
pleasures and small extravaganees
is the kind Of determination that
gives real success. +.
George M. Pullman possessed
determination, he gave to this
country a sleeping car system Of
inestimable value, besides making
himself enormously rich. II he
hadn't had the courage to save on
a salary and to give up what most
young men consider absolutely
essential, the great Pullman sleep
ing car enterprise might have gone
up into the air In the smoke of
cheap cigars.
Millions Of men in the United
States have had good ideas and
taken them into the grave with
them, because they hadn't the de-
termination to save the money
necessary for carrying out an idea.
Millions Of men have the capac-
ty to go into business on their own
account, to have a salary list Of
their own, instead OF figuring on
some n else's list-but they lack
the one quality. They cannot re-
sist the temptations which make
the salaried man extravaganza.
To the man travelling through
this world of fierce competition
money is like quinine to the ex-
plOrer in an African fever swamp.
The man who sells his life week
by week and spends the money as
1t comes is spending whatever
chance he might have of independ-
ence.
The worst of it is that, besides
making men extravsgant, the sal
airy system makes a great majority
Of them Indifferent and careless. It
kills imagination and special eff.
fort. It keeps a man in the rut
and prevents his ever doing the
best that is in him.
One word of urgent advice.
If, reading this, you should
make up your mind to save, save
on yourself.
Cut down your own expendi-
lures. Cut off your self pleasure
aud self. Indulgence. Don't cut
down on your family, your wife
and children, or on others who
have a right to look to you for
support. The average extrava-
giant salaried man can easily re-
form and make the necessary
change without affecting any one
but himself. He need not ecOnO-
mize at the expense Of others.
Don't forget this. The mind
that controls itself is made strong
er through self. control. When
you control yourself and limit
yourself, you not only save money
but add to your own effectiveness.
Try it.
You Know WAT You Are Taklnn