St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1870-02-04

"t several small sums deposited week.
and quarterly, W re arranged in a tabl,
Fifty dollars deposited every quartz
: VIII net. in five years, one thousand on
- hundred and forty-une dollars twcnty-fv
cents continued she, reading from tn
circular.
bah" added Mr.. Converse
That sum would build a very com
Iortapie house ; and wien your salary il
4 thousand dollars year YOU can say,
! more than fifty dollars quarter
~ five per cent. institution. isn't it &?
asked the young man
II But lie was much impressed bv tho
reasoning of his wife. and in the course
8 OF the evening he carefully read the cir
cular of the "'rhc Peoples Savings
, Bank
Certainly he had every inlucem ,nt for
beng saving and economical. lie bad
ilvod very cheaply in small house Ge.
longing to his iIther-in-law. for which
he paid a merely nominal rem.
His witc'S father WAS Il wealthy far
ncr, or rather he had been 1t farmer. be-
lore his domaiu wa- invaded 10y the
march OF improvement, and ms pastures
and nowin@ lots laid out into house lots
As 1t WAS, Inc still, from the force OF
habit. improved q few acres, kept a cou-
pie OF cows, Il hencry, and half dozen
pigs.
Charles Converse found tLi' proximity
t" the ''oli folks 1t home" rather sui--
factory, III pccunitry as we'll Us "a So
."rai point OF view, for his larlcr WIS
parity stocked from the firm; and Of
course no account was ever made of h;,lt
pig, Il barrel ot apples or potatoes, or !,
pair Of chickens. Mix and eggS were
80 much better and tr,>hcr from pa
thai u: oour-c the young couple never de-
'irrl to obtain thcm tr,m any oihyr
=ourrc.
They lived cheap'y and lived in clover
besides. Charles never liked 10 talk
about tinanci'l matters with pa" be-
cau-e the worthy OH gentleman used to
II how lac lived on hundred and fifty
dollars Il year after he was mtrri,d-
laouLht hr had Il tat SALARY, aud sup
posed "t course iIe saved four Hundred
dollars 4 wear out ot it-aud always
wound uP by saying that lie wonld giv,.
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''''''N q ~ vi ''''i !" '"''.!'
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~
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Charles read over AMI over the circn-
Iar 80, ,hn S..,.;"c.' H,ul- ~ Il, ~..,..:.,..
inquired up the statistics AMI wondered
"nI. had become "t that two hundrc |
AMI siNiy-ri4ht dollars.
Before he went 10 bel ne l!l,i maturcd
4 resolution, though h" dbl not sly Il
WORT 10 his wlIe about 1t.
Ihe next day Charle- Converse re-
reNed lnar'eF s."ary AMI his first
step. hiter RECEIVING l.. W"> to Nl>is the
Peoples Navln@' Bank, where he depo,-
'ird htty dollars.
But the hundred and titf,. dnIl,r.
which lac had left. burned in In, nocke :