The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-04-15
A THRIFTY MAN.
Acquire First the Habit of Saving If
You Would Become a Successful
Investor.

ly had some money I'd soon be rich,
We frequently hear people say. And
in passing l might remark that the
people who say this are the ones who
seldom get rich.
Hundreds of opportunities are of
fered to the right people every day.
There is always some new tract be-
ing opened up where farming can pre-
fitably be carried on. Profitable
real estate is waiting to be grabbed
up every day. Every town and ham
let in the land is waiting for the
right man to open up the right bus
mess. The right man and the right
opportunity are sometimes a long
time. meeting. But they eventually
get together and then there is an
other astounding success and the
foundations for another fortune are
laid. And every time this happens
countless hundreds say, chow wonder
full and so many others say: "If
only had happened to have had the
money / could have done the same
thing"
And the moral of it all is-have
the money Thrift is the foundation
of every fortune A study of the
facts prove beyond doubt that the
most successful investors are the
rich men. This is principally be-
cause they are also the most careful
the most conservative investors
They started their fortune by thrift
by careful saving. The careful hab-
its acquired when pennies look like
dollars stick all throughlife and prove
of inestimable value when the pen
MES have become dollars OF course,
it is true, that not every thrifty man
becomes rich. There is not enough
money to go around, but it is equally
true that the thrifty man makes the
best investor because he is a careful
man. No careless man ever makes
a good investor. Hundreds have made
tidy fortunes by buying land borrow
ing money to build, and selling at a.
profit. Hundreds have also lost their
succeeded; the others did not. The
thrifty bought land at the right place
and at the right time and at the
right price. The others bought out
of the path of the city's growth, or
else they allowed their purchase to
cost so much that they never we're
able to get out of it all they put in
it.
| knew a farmer in my younger
days-two of them in fact The first
one bought a farm near a good mar
ket. He paid a good price for it,
made substantial payment and pro-
vided for the balance with mortgage
He never succeeded. Things went
from bad to worse and his farm was
finally sold to satisfy his creditors.
He lost his all.
"Why are you going to lose your
farm?'' asked the second farmer of
the first.
Because the lands no good, said
number one. Then followed a long
list of his woes. The soil was
too wet for potatoes, too rich for rad
isles, too this for one thing and tool
that for another Now | am not al
farmer and am not up on the details
of vegetable raising, so any technical
errors must be excused This gist oil
his complaint, however, was that heI
could raise nothing but cabbages.
Here am" he said, fright at-the
doors of market where the people
are just hungry for beets and corn
and lettuce, carrots, and all l maHagel
to raise is a few heads of csGbages u
We'll, can't you sell the cabbages? |
asked the farmer No. 2.
Sure, can" said No. 1, ''but Il
don't have enough of them to make
a profit Everything else fails and
what | get for the cabbages won't
pay the interest. /"
II think I'll buy that farm" said
farmer No. 2 to his wife, that might.
SO he bid it in at the foreclosure
sale and got it for almost nothing.
He planted every inch of it with cab
bages and made fair profit the first
year. In three years his cabbages|
were famous in parts of two States.
In five years he was rich and was
known for miles around as Shocks.
the Cabbage King
And here again we have moral.
No matter in what line you are in
vesting be careful to spend your mon
ey right II you are in the retail