Year: 1866

1t is safe to assert positively that the


majority Of mankind want to be rich.-


Individual wealth is national wealth and


some philosophers contend that political
| economy or the science of national


wealth is cupidity, dignifed with high


sounding title. So all men are the deVo-


tees of Cupid, if the double satsrdre may


be permitted. There are innumerable


ways of accumulating a snug fortune,


but they may all be boiled down into two


classes-the legitimate and the illegiti.


mate. Perhaps, though, this is an un-


necessary splitting of hairs. for the


history of the world shows that people


generally who are punctilious enough IN


their respects-as for instance, in their


dress, in their language, and in their


manners-don't bother their heads with


these specific class distinctions All they


care for is to reach the goal they don't
care how they get there, so that the path


be short and free from ruggedness.-


The dell take the hindermost." in the


grand race for Mammon's shrine.


There are men who make a good living


by advertising in in sundry county pap.
ers "a fortune for twenty-five cents


Information by which any young man of
energy can make thirty dollars day and
all expenses paid. Address, enclosing
stamp" and so forth. In George Angus.
tus Sala's fascinating romance. 1.-The
Seven Sons of Mammon, - there is a gen.
tleman in this line of the name of "Filoe
& Co." He anassed so much wealth that
he could afford to shave notes for the he
roine, and ultimately got her in a pretty
tight corner by his sharp fnanciering
abilities. The men in this and other cit
les who make fortune for themselves by
promising one to others, are vastly sue
eessful. They sport purple and fine lin
en- and eat reed birds in season. They
engage in an illegitimate pursuit, but
bring to bear upon it two qualities never
illegitimate in business point of view
tact and enterprise. So they reap har-
vest of success.


That everybody wants to be rich could
be proven by argument if necessary, and
the correlatiye truth might be demon
strated in the same way that everybody
can be rich, It isn't so much of an accom-
plishment. The stupidest men in crea-
ton have encompassed 1t by dumb luck,
or intuitiveness, or mulish goaheaditive-
ness. There are some men who are born
to riches, some achieve riches, and some
who have riches thrust upon them. The
Rothschilds are an illustration of the first
class; young Ketchum was an illustrious
example of the second class; and for the
third we have the traditional hero of the
play, who is boor or serf in the first
act, and turns out a prince in the last,
with immense Rnnuities.


It is to be presumed of the man Of
business that he wants to be included in
the second class referred to-that is, he
desires to achieve riches for if he al
ready possessed them there would be no
occasion for him to tie himself down to
his ledger, and accounts current, and in
stead thereof ne might spend his days in
pleasant drives to Point Breeze and Fair.
mount Park.


Well, the ambition of this man is laud-
able, and it may be grati6ed.l With any
thing like legitimate business at his back,
he may accumulate fortune more honest
ly than the " FilOes do, and almost as
easily. But there's an art about it; and
because men don't appreciate this fact,
it so happens that all men do not attain
the coveted competency. Examples are
not unfrequent CT honest, industrious,
energetic men, plcdding along in the
same old business for a lifetime, with |
and the same queer old customers COM |
ing in at the door, and never able to
do more than to make both ends meet"
While examples are innumerable of 9TH
or men, not so industrious, not so stead
fast in business habits, making more for
tunes in year or two, and not By the
sale of lottery tickets or Government
contracts, but in scrupulous buying and
selling. Good and bad management "
IRE the general explanations invariably
to account for these diverse
,ases. But they are so general as to
make little impression on the mind


1t is very we'll and very comfortable
or a man to know that he conducts his
business squarely, that he sells the prime
Irticle, and sells it cheaper than the
nan across the street. But that is not
uficient. He must let the world know
t. The world is noisy world, and it is


necessary to make noise to get along
n it. There is no great harm in blowing
our own trumpet so that you blow it
lard enough to silence the clamor of op- {
.osition and detraction. Let the blasts s
e heavy, let the peals be ringing, and h
he whole community will tumble out !
cape, and come rushing into your shop
S the populace of court turn out when {
ne fisherman's horn is blown. 1t was
nee sagely observed by an author, that
! is not he who first makes an invention,
ut he who first introduces it to the pub (
ic notice, that is entitled to be called the
INVENTOR; for if he had not with his bra I
en- voice ding-donged at the world until
70 succeeded in getting for himself
earring, the invention, perhaps Of vast 1
alue to society, would have mouldered 4
way to pieces in some dusty garrett, and
he genius that conceived It would have
ieen "baFren ag tree" II