The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-11
ny .sIsrEsret F. sans.ter.

lblackberrfes in August their training in boyhood was of the simplest and N severest kind. Most Of them began In poverty. The fathers and grand fathers Of the present holders of great wealth started on farms or in log cabins or in little shops, and were early inured to privation and taught the value of nioney, by it's absence. They were accustomed to self denial and to rigid economy. Little by little they saved and with extreme care they turned over their First earnings and I made their first Investments They | knew nothing of the lavish expendi1 ture and splendid luxury that are mat ! ters of course in the bringing up of thousands of young people in our time T The chief virtue to them was thrift II and the chief vice wastefulness. Attention has peen sharply called II 10 the difference between past and present methods of growing rich, by the story of Russell Sage, whose bee ginnfngs were so limited and who lived nearly nEnety years without changing his original point of view. from a farm, From the age ox twelve 4 he was self supp 'TtlnE. His first II wages amounted % eostr dollars a month, and he died ieaving ,an estate I various1y estimated to he tfom s101,- 1 100000 to 3IBo.000.o00. He always paid
  but throughout his life he continued to do without much. that might have I made life beautiful, and he was never l a large gfvor.
 The multi-millionaires of the future | in America will not have the advan- tage. if such It be. of sn9rtap sim | plicity Tn boyhooJ. They are sur rounded by all taat makes ease, from their cradles Yet # :iaV be taken for granted that many of them havo parents with common sense abd fore sight. and these parents will not com init the idiotic folly os Tvining their | sons by allowing them to become spendthrifts before they reach ma turity.
 l Where this cardinal error in train- | ing has Nbeen committed as in some instances 1t haspthe results have been precisely what might have been ex- | pected. You SOW q seed. You reap half educated undiseiplined. almost unlimited control of money. and he falls into the hands nf the un5crupu- ious and the profifkato, and speedily his downfall is assufed.
 \ Not merely Is the rich young man In peril of dissipation and recklessness through contact wlth older men, who iprey upon his inexp6Yience. but he is | at the age to peeoIsA the~ victim or what Solomon called, in the long ago, by the picturesque name of The strange woman" Listen to the words 'l of the sage, who has described char acter that has not faded out Of mod ern civilizations:
 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an hOneycomb, and her mouth '1 is smoother than oil.
 But her end is bitter as WoTmwoOd. sharp as two edged sword.
 Her feet go down 70 death; her | Sfana fake h0In an
 The youth in the university or f1 early manhood ShS has not been strong enough to resist lte-nptataon. who gambles, drinks and has' parted with his oirthrights of Viituo, is ail the worse in liis shipwrpck if he Is master of thousands or of a million. Sometimes he loses his money, which l flows out of his hand as water runs Through a sieve. Sometimes he makes a miserable marriage, unworthy of his class and his education. Sometimes in an excess of jealous fury he kills a rival and finds himself behind prison bars. Occasionally he commits suicide I and his memory Is buried In oblivion, lwhile he leaves broken hearts of ten der women 10 grievc over the calamity l that casts its shadow over blighted homes.
 ceptiopal. They are frequent enough liGs,
 How shall the men who are to man age great interests and magnificent fortunes in coming days be mado ready for then kingdom?
 First, they need wise nstHeTs In the nursery are laid the foundations of future conduct. Before a boy has reached the age of ten the \stamp of his life has been put upon him. A fashionable mother devoted to bridge, whist and vanity, mother who leaves her children to others while shs Is forever on ths ring, Is not the right kind of mothsr for n man who is 10 inherit wealth.
 1 Second, the future millionaire should be trained to responsibility by having an allowance from the beginning Of his school days This while he Is at school. ought to be placed in the hands of the princpal and the boy should draw upon 1t with his personal check book, as if it were on deposit in a bank He should be obliged to keep his accounts strictly and to have his book balanced at stated intervals. The allowance should be graded according to the boys age, and with reference to what 1t must procure.
 Third. the rich boy. like the poor boy, in a Republican country, must as- sociate with his fellows. To segreEate him in childhood and keep him wholly apart from boys whose fathers are salesmen. mechanics and day laborers, Is fatal error. If he shall fulfill his legitimate destiny, he will one day have to work as hard as any laborer in the land. He should know the mass es and there is no better way to make a boy truly democratic than to give him friends and companions among boys in general during his early school days.
 ? Fourth. the future millionaire would well be definitely trained for business or a profession. This country has no use for idle men of leisure. His train ing should be as thorough and as sim cere for whatever he chooses to be his vocation as that of the, poorest lad who must earn his bread by the sweat of his brow. If. on leaving college. he is to manage a railroad or be at the head of great projects, he must know details and learn to influence men. He should become broad and liberal through study and travel, but most important of all, he must be taught that to shirk is ignoble and that no matter how ceHspieuous a mans position is. he cannot fulfill its obligations in any other way than by doing the days task conscientious ] ly and well,
 
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