Evening star., 1909-06-06

= wealth he would be driven the conclusion that
the only way to achieve fortune to a traC
ton of his weekly stipend (be the pay envelop never
tenuous), put it into savings bank at three and
half four per cent, and watch it grow Theoret1c-
ally it process: but its quite useless for
practical application One would have to live three
or four times mans allotted span to win a com
petence by the painful process of saving then
the bank might break sickness, the loss OF ones
job or marriage and the arrival of children, and
thousand other mlschances are reasonably sure TO
intervene.
Save save save!' is a safe text for the dis
pensers of advice to preach from. but it S method
of acquiring wealth that has rarely been tried by men
who afterward attained the dignity of automobiles
steam yachts chorus girl wives, seat in the
United States Senate Even if practicable. the
method is not likely to make strong appeal to
a normal man If to acquire wealth requires a life
time of self denial surely the game not worth the
candle. Rather let us live happy and die poor than
spend days in scrimpng and then depart, at the
last amenting that there are no pockets IN shroud
There is plenty of money in the world If you
want some go out and get it, So spake the mser
to his spendthrift 1t sounds easy-Just as easy
as to save" But to get it ''-ah. there's the rub,
One man invests two cents in postage stamp to
convey the Secretary of the United States Treas
ury his bid on a bond issue, and stralghtway wins
fortune Another sinks the accumulatlons of years
in thing, and loses his last dollar. One man
bends a piece of tin into pencil holding device and
sells his idea for more than he could have earned IN
fifty years of labor at his trade Another tolls from
youth to middle age building up great industry,
and then goes to the wall in the universal disaster of
panic
So it appears that the chase after wealth IS the
issue of which depends upon chance, luck or the
divinity that shapes ends, rather than upon
brains industry, good judgment, honesty, thrift, or
the observance of the virtuous maxims of odtlme
copybooks the inane and insincere advice OF re-
formed but unregenerated plutocrats
This being the case, why should not dreams,
ghosts presentiments, and other manifestations of
occult forces be regarded constituting guides as
safe and sane as any others available to the
run of grubbers' To accept guidance from the
seen world hardly be more hazardous than to at
tempt to follow the devious ways OF high finance, or
to play the part of the beating lamb in Wall Street,
or to invest in mines that show gold from the grass
roots put faith in straight tips. blind pools, in
side information, and other time dishonored but
perennally successful devices for prying fool loose
from his pocketbook. Spooks and dreams no doubt
have their faings and if they happen to deceive
there's way of getting even. The same might be
said of most advisers in the art of getting something
for nothing
Nevertheless, it does sometimes happen that
dreams come true. and there record,
we'll authenticated most facts in human history, of
spooks that have spoken truly.
Dream Gulch Davis -
DREAM GULCH in the Murray mining -
- district of the Coeur Aene noun
tains of Idaho. name to in
point Along In 1882. F NJ Davis, hard
working but poverty stricken farmer of