MONEY FOR BOYS.
Seven Ways to Get a Place--The Way a Boy Should Advertise--Openings
Everywhere for the Right Kind of Boys--Beating the
Booksellers--Stories About Smart Boys--Twenty-five Hints to Hang
Your Fortune On--How a Towheaded Country Boy Became a Great
Editor--A Barrel Full of Postage Stamps--How a Poor Boy Became the
Richest Man in the Country--The Journey from Nothing to Forty
Millions--The Best School in the World--The Beginnings of Great
Fortunes.
Boys, you can do it! What! get rich? attain to fame? Yes, both. “But I
have no chance.” Neither had Humphry Davy, nor Jay Gould, nor Henry
Wilson. But the first became one of the greatest of scientists; the
second, the richest man in the country; and the third, vice-president of
the United States.
“The best school is the school of adversity,” said Rousseau, who, from a
waiter in a restaurant, became the most noted man of his age. The boy,
Horace Greeley, wandered up and down the streets of New York, asking of
printers if they “wanted a hand,” and was everywhere laughed at and
turned away; and the boy, George W. Childs, worked for $2 a week as a
clerk in a book store, saved money, bought the Philadelphia _Ledger_,
and became a millionaire.
“I have no capital,” you say. But you have ten servants (fingers) to
work for you. Daniel Manning, ex-President Cleveland’s Secretary of
Treasury, started as a newsboy. John Wanamaker, the great merchant,
commenced in a book store at $1.25 a week. Fred Douglass, the colored
orator, began life as a slave without a cent. And P. T. Barnum, the
world-famed showman, rode a horse for ten cents a day. No chances! You
have _five_ on each hand. No capital! It is the _blood_ that fights and
wins. If you have no opportunity, make it. Do not wait for something to
turn up; _turn_ something up. Be a match for events. The world’s great
and rich men have forced their way to success at the bayonet points of
their fingers, and with the iron pry of an unconquerable will. Boys,
here are a few hints for you:
_Section 1. How a Boy can Get a Place._
SEVEN WAYS TO GET A POSITION.