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COMMENCING BUSINESS roo EARLY. Let one thousand young men at the age of 30 years, enter into business with given amount of capital, all ac- eured by beir own hard earnings, ,and let them pur- sue their business thirty years faithfully that is till they are sixty years of age. Let one thousand more commence at the age of twenty, with three times the amount of capital possessed by the former, but at the same time inherited or loaned by their friends and let them pursue their calling till they are sixty years of age or a period of forty years. We will suppose the natural talents, capacity for dong busi ness, and outgoes-in fact every thing, the same in both cases Now it requires no gift of prophecy to forete with certainty, that at 50 years of age, far greater proportion of the one thousand who began at thirty and depended solely upon their own exer- tions, will be men of greater wealth, than those who began at 20 with three times thelr capital.

 The reason of these results are found in the very nature of things. But am sustained by facts. Go into any city in the United States, and learn the history of the men who are engaged in active and profitable bcsiness and my word for it, you will find the far greater part began life with nothing, have had no resource whatever, but their own head and hands and in no city IS the fact more strknTly yer flied than in Boston. On the othel hand, If you make list of those who fall in business from year to year, and learn their history you will find that very large proportion of their nuWber relied on in- heritances credit, or some kind of foreign aid in early life; and not a few began very young Young yNan'S Guide.