Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1849-06-23

81 2600I 1900 30s00I $4,000
S22 " $1,000 105O0i iG20OI $1,000
l 10 520OI I4l00I GlG0OI 10000
1877 G50OI I80OOI 770OOII45OOO
From this it will be seen that if man,
woman, or chIId-merchaht, mechanic, or
laborlng man, unnecessarily eXpenGs o,dy
p cents per day, the aggregate, with in.
terest, amounts in fifty years 10 $4,000 and
a daily expenditure of 272 cents, amounts
to the important sum of 5000. 4 SIX
cent piece saved daily, would provide
fund of nearly $4,000. sufficient to pur:
chase fine farm. There are few me.
chanics who cannot save daily, by abstain
ing even in part from the use of tobacco
and cigars, ardent spirits, cakes, candies,
ice creams, oysters, and dozen other
things, twice or thrice the above stated
amount of six cent piece. The man in
trade, who can lay by about one dollar per
day, will find himself possessed in that
time of one hundred and sixteen thousand
dollars, and numbered among the wealthy
OF the land.
Few people estimate the large sums 10
which the yearly saving in personal and
household expenses will accumulate -
Four thousand dollars a year is not an un
common expenditure for merchants in cI-
ties. Half century ago, five hundred
dollars would have been regarded as a
sufficient expenditure The difference be-
tween these two sums for fifty years, with
the accumulation of compound interest,
reaches the enormous amount of over one
million of dollars Extend the time elev
en- years, and this sum, grea. as it is, be.
comes doubled
"The preceding calculations are sufii
cient TO encourage hope of eventual sue.
cess and independence 10 the bosom Of ev-
ry young man, who, on commencing bust,
ness, will maintain determined resolu
ton TO combine industry with economy,
and also TO warn him, that without econo.
my, the opposite result of bankruptcy il
irighttuly certain,
With this plain statement Of actual re-
suits before US, 1t cannot therefore be a
matter of surprise that the present general
prevalence OF an unrestricted indulgence IN
SNOWY HABITS OF DKEss AND OF LIVING,
should cause the failure of nine tenths of
the men who embark in business, aud in
vove also the prudent and careful, on
whom must fall The losses caused by reck-
/ IessneSs and extravaganza in every form.
" The true value of money consists in
the rational use of it. Economy becomes
a vice in the miser, whilst extravaganza
becomes on the other extreme, vice in
the spendihrift. The golden mean lies be-
tween these extremes. BY applying avail.
able gains for the procurement OF rational
comforts and EN- yments, and for advance
ment in moral and intellectual culture, we
fulfill the highest destinies Of our nature"
commend this subject TO the young
and glddy, especially, who seem TO ina
giue tha, unless something is spent daily
for their qualification, they are deprived
OF one pleasure less in life. Let them look
for moment into the future aud calculate
what amount of money it will take to sup
port them IN such a career, and then ask
themselves " Where is tie money TO come
from 2" If young man, just arriving at
years of maturity, he knows what he earns
and can therefore readily tell, not perhaps
what he has made, but what he has Saped
during the past year. Though enjoying a
situation worth from twelve dollars a month
10 S25 or $50, nine out of ten fnd thev
are not worth a copper more at the end of
the moOth than another who does not re-
celve one half that pay, bu, who wisely
lays up part Of his slender means for
rainy day." Again, if young lady in
duiges IN Jackdaw vanity and peacock
pride, how does she expect TO get along
when unIted to some young man who has
to make living by mechanical or other
labor Unless she lays aside fashionable
dresses and otl.repeated uXuriea, she will
prove anything but helpmate to the man
who has chosen her. probably without
a knowledge that she was thus inclaned-
But am not disposed to scoId the girls
with a long homily on their precadiiloes
in these maIters--lor though thew number
among them perfect devils 10 temper, pride,
ana sell conceit, the majority are ever rea.
dy TO devote themselves, heart and soul
III minIsierlng to the comforts of those
around them, and need but the restraining
hahu oiparents or warning voice of a friend, |
" 'orh them from an unproftable and dan.
gerous path.