A LONG HARD ROW

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 178, 23 April 1919, Page 7

A LONG HARD ROW

TO REACH THE MILLION MARK. I have the secret from cue of the riqhest: and most successful men in America (says a writer in tho "Daily Mail"). He lived and died long ago, eo I am not betraying a confidence in repeating" what he said to me. The maxim which guided his life was much on it par with thnt about genius. 'To liecome rich you must practise thrift from earliest, days. Yon must have the force nf will to deny yourself in everything. You must stick at it day and night, never forgetting. I'ou must never relax, but save up each penny as if it were a pound." He had begun as a poor newsboy selling papers ft Hie.street. I'rora that to the first iliflO is a tale cf long struggle and self-denial and many lonely and abstemious years. X'o marriage for him, nu drink, no tobacco; poor living and poor lodging. This man worked all day, and, if lie could find a job, ha worked til night. Ho 6aved and painfully accumulated that first little sura. lie bought shares hero and there, J'lo worth at a time. I don't propose to follow the ramifications of his fortune, but in it he always denied the dement of luck, "I was not more lucky than other men," he said, ''Sut I was more persevering." Thrift und porseverance mid again thrift. These qualities accomplish anything/ I know another wan, scarcely less wealthy, who began life in the 6ame humble way. His <,dvice did not differ from the other. "Hard work," he said, "there is UP other fecrot to success." A •aillionaire is perhaps, not an object of • popular adopatran, but there are few of us who would not he glad to share liis particular form of unpopularity. Wc have been told how to gut rich. Work; work in piny hours; work overtime; work half through the night. ".N'nl w;-'rli. it." -''-nieDjic says, "by the time you have got the wmiey yon won't know how to enjoy it. You' will be a mere machine, never getting away from business." Perhaps that is (rue. Our friend was a most vnliappy inan. He looked unutterably veary. Ilia money brought him little that interested him. He bad not time to cultivate sports or artistic tastes. However, our question is not "Do you wish to be happy?" but, "Do you wish I to be a millionaire?" If you do, follow in this man's footsteps. Cut aside recreation, aiatrjmony, tobacco, drink, outings, all the relaxations of life, and devote yourself to the one causQ. Save every penny except what goes on bare subsistence. You may not ho hnppy, but you will be a millionaire.