The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1912-07-13
The Road To Wealth

"The shortest road to wealth. p repeated the Business Doctor.
smiling at the clerk who asked the question ITS an odd fact, son.,
but you asked me a question which you don't want me to answer
You and / and every other man knows the shortest and only road
to wealth. What YOU want to know is some different road to-
wealth besides the one that leads straight between the two points
as plain IS the main street through a country town But L am
sorry there lis no other road
1.-THE road to which 1 refer is the great road of economy. Any
M "a who saves a certain percentage of what he earns will grow
wealthy in time Itmatters not what he earns, for the reason that
the man o n Al extremely low salary has a different standard of what
constitutes wealth, and if each saves 20 per cent of what he earns at
the end of twenty years. each will feel wealthy. and feeling wealthy
is being wealthy.
at is not an easy thing to practice economy these days, for
there was never a time in the worlds history when there were SO
many things designed expressly to separate a man from his money
NOT foolish things. but nice things, desirable things. but things
which must be sidestepped if a man hopes to pile up his dollars
The things which now seem necessities to us were Injuries enjoyed
only by the rich a decade ago. If you doubt this, pick up that
magazine over there and spend five minutes over its advertising
pages, and if you do not find some article which you want, some ar
ticle which would be of real service to you and which you could af
ford to buy, I shall consider you a wonder.
1.-THE great difficulty is that we don't do as well as we know
There is one great law which permeates all nature: where there is
a flow there must be an ebb; the higher the pendulum rises on one
side of the re the higher it must swing in the opposite direction,
and when the children at play toss a handful of pebbles in the air
and shout, All that goes up has got to come down! they are voic-
ing one of the fundamental laws of nature and of finance. AS surely
IS a man has had ten years of prosperity and success, SO much more
is he likely to have adversely and misfortune in the next ten.
1.-The inevitable rainy day is what wipes out a mans chances
for acquiring wealth. The man who has economical and made
PREPARATIONS 10 bmS 10 bO iohOM II WILD sO love Nt "OoAeh'
A slip on the ice, a draught of cold air, an automobile ~skidding
a tiny germ taken into the system or a brick dropped from a root
arr only a few of the mishaps that may put an unprepared man out
of the running.
"Money saving alone does not constitute economy. 1t is one
of the biggest phases of the game, but the economy of health, Of
nerves, of physical strength and of our mental resources are just as
much needed as the economy of our finances. The man who allows
himself to worry, to take his business home at night with him, who
works overtime to save the hire of a cheap clerk, who refuses to
take a regular vacation, is just as much of a spendthrift as the fellow
who opens wine or bets his money on a horse race.
"Its so simple to get rich in theory, but so hard to do it in
practice, that very, very few ever accomplish it. Growing rich con-
snts in simply saving a certain amount of what you earn, say, &c
per cent, and refusing to take it out of the savings bank after it is
once in there; denying ones self those little indulgences that seem
necessities, but which are simply Injuries, cultivated into a habit
"But, ass said to you at the outset, boy, this was not what you
wanted to know, for in your heart you knew this before: what you
wanted to know in reality was how you could make money without
doing these things, and I regret to say there is no way. One can
not eat ones cake and have it, too, or spend ones money and still
save it"