Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1875 — How to Prosper. [ARTICLE]

How to Prosper.

It is all important to start right, whatever line of life we may attempt to pursue, whether it be agriculture, mechanical art or trade. A man must not only be industrious and attentive to business, but he must have a method of doing business which will surely bring certain results. *The growing of crops and cattle does not constitute the whole of the business of farming; the erection of buildings and other structures does not make a man a business mechanic; selling goods and tying them up does not make a merchant o'L any man. Anybody can do this labor. There is something back of all these details which is the mainspring to success in any pursuit—and that is system. Well, what is system ? In a limited view it consists of a set of rules in business which, if strictly obeyed and lived up to, will enable a man to lay by a surplus every year. Starting in life with few wants every young man may frame for himself and adhere to a system which will enable him to do this. Courage and self denial he must have at the beginning, to carry him through for a few years; after that the course will be easy and freed from ■ms and obstructions which, it difficult to pursue steadiyoung farmer near Quincy, p, in this State, who began a young wife, ■five or six e refrain from giving his isually picked up these facts from a friend of the young man. He begap_pn a farm belonging to his father, but he was to have all he could raise. He procured three good cows, and he and his young wife agreed that they would make the cows furnish the groceries and supply her personal wants. That was rule first. This has been strictly lived up to, and the cows have, by good management and care, furnished the groceries, supplied the wants of the wife, and she has loaned the husband S4O cash besides. In the arrangement the wife was to have any surplus that accrued from this source. Then it was established that the hogs, the fruit, potatoes and other spring crops must run the tarm, buy tools, etc., etc. This was rule second. Then the proceeds of the sale of wool and wheat must go into the bank. This was rule third. And these three rules constitute the system under which this young man is prospering in his business. They are adhered to With the strictest integrity, being a sacred compact entered into with himself at the outset of his business life. He is very industrious and avoids needless expenses. Last year he purchased a farm near him, paying SI,OOO down and another $1 ,000 within a few months. The balance is to be paid in easy installments. Here is an illustration of the working of system in business, a system easily adopted at the beginning of a business life, when the wants of the family are few and there are no encumbering debts and no palsying interest to pay. Nearly alj, workingmen can adopt some such system as this and be prosperous. — Detroit Tribune. —A fashion writer says: For light carriage wear crepe de chine shawls are much worn, and are exceedingly pretty, cream, white and delicate shades "of blue and pink being the favorite colors. A new bine, called bluebell, is distingue , having a silvery appearance in the evening that is charming. _ —Fitchburg, Mass., is suffering from an irruption of tramps, and the Mayor has issued a proclamation' calling upon citizens to refuse thgm food and to have them arrested as vagrants.