THE ONLY DICE THAT WIN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10638, 14 April 1906, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE ONLY DICE THAT WIN.

So .many people have a secret leaning towards speculation; are dazzled every day by the sight of a few men made immensely rich by chance : and lose sight of the. many, many more thousands who have made not only nothing, but who have lost all they had.

As you look at the shower of gold in the world it all seems like a gamble, like a game of chance. You do not. think of the . days and nights of work and toil that went to the gathering up of all this wealth. You see only the gold, the money in rivers and streams. But there is only one road to success in life — the road of industry, energy, thrift. Industry, energy, thrift. These are the only dice that win. The lesson is hard to learn for Hhe young. It seems so easy to throw the five little cubes out of the box, so much* easier to get the coin without working. The finish is always as in the picture above. x You become- an old' nun, with trembling limbs and white hair, without friends, without resources, without hope. Nature teaches that comfort and success in this life is due to thrift; that the days when nature was bountiful and showered its riches on ns with open hands and asked little exertion from us in return have passed away for ever. Sometimes it may. seem, when you hear that stocks have gone up, that men have bought them cheap and sold them dear, as though they were the way to fortune. Then you rush in by the thousand, and behold! you are the victims of the get-rich-quick swindlers. >

There is no such thing as an honest gambler.

Every gamble is a dishonest scheme. You seek to get the other man's money without giving him anything in return. You are not entitled to one penny in this world unless you have given value in return. If you are in business you know that every promissory note, to be valid, must bear on its . face the two words, "value received."

You must give to get. Tliere is an old-fashioned book, not much read nowadays, Smiles' "Self Help." It points the road to success,' to comfort, although if its maxims were too carefully followed by everyone this would indeed become a sordid world.

Everyone cannot become rich. Do not think that industry, energy, thrift, and all the other wise maxims of themselves will bring you fortune. If that were true and everybody in the world hoarded their earnings and denied themselves not only luxuries, but necessities, this, indeed, would be a miserable world, and its progress would be at an end. But energy, industry, and thrift can bring you something better than wealth or fortune. They bring you success. Learn what real success is.. Success is not the mere piling up of riches. Real success- is the development of yourself/ of your life, of all that is best in you. It means the development of every side of your being. Success means character. Success is character. Success means growth along right lines. It is the building up of your intelligence, of your reverence for all that is good and true, the cultivation of your mind, the surrounding of yourself with a real home, with happy wife, and smiling children. There is no home, no life,*- no success for the gambler. Even though he is not a professional, even though he only devotes some of his time, some of his earnings, in worship at the altar of Chance, that partial gambler is a total failure. He has anxious jdays and feverish nights who risks what should be devoted to the nobler ends of life, to making himself complete; who throws it on the green cloth, who watches the snake-like tape coming from the "ticker," who gazes at a bunch. of horses running round a ring.

Give it all up ! . Give yourself an object in life"! Read books, learn what great men have done. Learn even what has been done by men who never became great. There is none of us, however poorly equipped by Nature, who cannot make his life all a success. It does not need the intellect of a Napoleon or the persistent energy of an Edison to have real success. — New York American.