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Show riches a hand::;; ; v BETTER FOR DOYS TO STA'.T , THE FOOT. 1 Wealthy Man Troubled fir Futi'i; 1 His Sons Because Ylic,y Ha.e No Heed to Rely on ' Themselves. X. "Do jou know what's bothering me now7" said a man who haa made himself him-self rich and Is fast getting richer. "It's wondering what Is golit? to becomo be-como of my boys. "I (5ave four sons, all young, and all wholesome, natural joungstors. but If 1 keep on making money tho way I'm doing now 1 don't Know what's going to happen to them when they grow up. There's nothing Hko being bora poor to give a man n teal slart In life, with his feet firmly planted on the ground, where they ought to be, and he learn-l.ig learn-l.ig to relj on himself. "I was born that way and I've nl-was nl-was been grateful for It. It I had been born rich I think I should have boon mote or less of a no account. I had to get out and hustle and work to get along, and the habit of work has never left me since, as I hope It never will. "But how Is It going to be about ray boys? They may come to think that they, don't have to work, which would be the ruination of them, or would at least put them out of the mnnlns with self-telljnt, able men. "I'm sendlni! them to public school, of cours, and there they learn a heap of thing b-'slilcs what they get out of their boot. . They learn for one very valuable lesson that there are other people In the world besides themselves and that there may be plenty of people peo-ple smarter than they are, and that they've got to work. If they expect to keep their end up. "Boys are democrats. Yotf can't put on any lu;s or airs If you expect to get along with the boys In a public school; If you want friends you've got to be friendly. A good all around start In life. It Is for boys to go to a public school, and I hope my boys will profit by It. "But I suppose In time they'll go to a private school, and then It they want to they'll go ttf"colege, and there, what with their money, unless they Bhould turn out to be very hardheaded young men, they wjll come to train with other young men with money', and so get separated from the bulk of their fellow students and begin to'llve sort of by themselves; and I can't Imagine anything happening to a young man worse than that, his getting away from the mass of his fellow men. "My boys have never known what It Is to be poor. They have always had what they wanted, and unless I should fall or bust up or something, which I don't expect to do, I don't Bee why they shouldn't always have things, because be-cause as long as I had anything I should be sure to keep them. That's human nature. "And, yqu see, there's tho trouble. They've got somebody to lean on, .and a man that doesn't have to Isn't apt to put out his own strength. The only way In which a man can ever amount to anything Is by work, hard work. "The man that doesn't work dwindles dwin-dles and comes to be of no account. And I do hope my liojs will want to work. 1 don't care what they do If they'll only work at It, and work haid and faithfully. I think they're handicapped handi-capped as It Is; honest Injun, I think it would have been better for them to have been born poor, but I .hope they'll turn out to be men." |