The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1861-11-07
A cold watch in a nag nag,


Fortunes do not always spring from great
investments of ten-thousand-dollar capitals
Small savings are oftentmes the germs of
wealth and independence--ceLt upon cent,
half-dimo upon half-dime dollar upon dollar
these are the foundation that most fire.
quently uphold golden structures. Never
suffer yourself to say, 1t is only a cent or
two--not worth savingW Only a cent or
two Put il back into your pocket---keep
i there, and it will be q great deal easier
for you to say No to yourself when the i'm
pulse comes to squonder dollar or two, OF
even hundred dollars or two. ~
Not even pin---not even stray piece of
twne--uot even scrap of white cloth, is
too worthless to save. Younever will grow
rich BY piling money together, as long az
you do not understand the practical meaning
Of the good old pr6verb Waste not want
not t y
Perhaps little anecdote-a simple relat-
ing of facts that really happened---may
serve to illustrate our subject better than
aught else.
A lady in the vicinity of Bridgeport,
Conn, was in the habit of putting out shirts
to make for q large clothing establishment,
y to number of women in the neighborhood,
In the cutting of these there were great
mai y littlo odds and ends of cloth left over
--piecos too small TO be of ttse, and the fret
thought was, of course, to toss them into
the hre, No, she reflected 1 will save
them as they accumulate, and perhaps eau
get enough to exchange with the tinman for
some kitchen article or other So she lie:
| them lie, ,house-wife-lke, and in few weeks
thora was quite pile.
! One day a neighbor came in, and on hear
| ing the destination of the scraps, advised
! that they should be sent to paper mill at
some little distance. They will give you
! three or four cents pound said she, and
that is better than exchanging them for tin
She asked her husbands advice. To him
q few rags more or less, seemed trivial
affair. .... G.,..tt
'po as you like said he laughingly, you
may have all the money you can make out
of the rags!
She took him at his word, and in two or
three months some half-dozen barrels of rags
were sent by some one who was going in the
direction of the paper mill. To her surprise
new, rustline FIVE dollar bill came back.
D Again tho impulse to spend it for some
little ornament was checked No. she re.
solved, all my rag.money shall go into the
Savings Bank
And into the Saving's Bank it went accord
ingly, Years rolled by-more rags were
saved aud sold-rnterest and principal ac-
cumulated, At length an unusual oppnrtu-
nifty presented itself for the purchase of
beautiful gold watch. Forty dollars was tho
J price.
i VII not ask my husband to withdraw
any necessary funds from his business, shs
thought, '5ut now is the time to make my
rag-money useful
The gold watch was urchased--literally
with rags. We will not pause to chronicle
the envy and astonishmcnt Of those ladies'
Of the vicinity, to whom gold watch was
as unattainable as the Kohnoor diamond,
yet who thought 1T was not worth while I'll
save the clippings from their work tables 7
Yet this was not the eud of it. The bank
imd of which the bundle of rags was the
origin, now amounts to over ',rey'ty;fpe hnu-
6,'dd dollars
Il do not know how it has accumulated,
said the lady to us. "A few cuttings and
scraps laid aside whenever cut out shirts
"a few dollars carried to the bank when I
went to the city---a little interest added on
from time to tmoit has grown up almost
without thought or care on my part
Reader, is not this an example worth fol-
lowingg Our moral is simple one: Save
the triHes if you would be rich