"i Wish I Had Capital"

We do not know the imtluir of the followiug, but he preaeheíi ono pf thn best practical business sermona to young men that we have re.:id this many a day: "I wish I had capital. " So we heard a great stopping young man oxolaim the other day in our office. We did want to teil him a piece of our mind so bad, and ■we'll just write to him. You want capital, do you ? And suppose you had what you cali capital, what would you do with it? Haven't you got hands and feet and musole and bones and braina ; and don't you cali them capital ? What more did God give to anybody? "Oh, they are not money," say you. But they are more than money, and no one can take them from you. Don't you know how to use them ? If you don't it is time you were learning. Take hold of the first plow or hoe or jack-plane or broad-ax you can find and go to work. Your capital will soon yield you a large interest. Ay, there's the rub. You don't want to work ; you want money or credit that you may play gentleman and speculate, and end by playing the vagabond. Or you want a plantation and negroes that you may hire an overseer to attend to them, while you run over the country and dissipate ; or want to marry some rich girl, who may be foolish enongh to marry you for your good looks that she may support you. Shame upon you, young man ! Go to work with the capital you have, and you'll soon make interest enough upon it and with it to give you as much money as you want and make yon feel like a man. If you can't make money upon what capital you have, you couldn't make it if you had a million dollars in money. If you don't know how to use bone and muscle and brains, you would not know how to use gold. If you let the capital you have lie idle and waste and rust out, it would be the same thing with you if you had gold ; you would only know how to waste it. Then don't stand about like a great helpless child, waiting for some one to come in and feed you, but go to work. Take the first work you can find, no matter what it is, so that you may be surë to do it as Billy Gray did his drumming - well. Yes, what you undertuke, do it well ; always do your beRt. If you manage the capital you already have, you will soon have plenty more to manage ; but if you can't or won't manage the capital God has given you, you will never have any more to manage.