Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-07-15
Small Savings.

The president Of great company whose
work required the employment Of sixteen
hundred horses, said that the saving in
particular way Of shoeing their horses made
tho whole profits Of the concern. A young
firm started in the goldsmith's business.
The partners were skilful in their business,
economical in their conduct, and had good
run Of custom yet at the end Of the year,
they had made nothing 1t was a puzzle
where the profits had gone. y skilled work
man employed by them had long hair In
chasing and otherwise cutting gold, he
wiped his tool upon his well-oiled hair, and
at night, when at home, he washed out the
gold dust, and thus was carrying off all the
profits Of the concern.
In the government mint and in the assay
Office the floor is covered by open lattice
frames, through the interstices of which the
dust and gold waste falls, and the sweep
ings afterward yield gold like a gold mine.
In California the Chinese used to follow
after tho original miners, and worked over
their tailings or refuse soil and sand and
grew rich out Of their leavings
These small wastes or savings must al.
ways determine the condition of the great
mass Of men. BY close economy by fru-
gal living; by patient and wel-ordered iu-
dustry, and by the application not only Of
intelligence, skill but of the moral ele-
ments, good work and honest dealing,)
men can rise slowly to competence and even
to afiuence Haste to be rich is an immo.
rality Of the most dangerous kind. 1t is
an attempt to get property without having
given a fair equivalent for it. But, earn
ing property is a Divine economic school,
The best uses Of wealth arc in the earn
ing Of it, if one earns rightly. To earn is
to plan, to labor, to combine, to foresee, to
be patient, to be solf.denying, to make ev-
cry element available If a man makes
money rightly, then, he makes man Of
himself in doing it.
One reason why the boys brought up on
New England farms are apt to turn out
well is, they are brought up to work-to
hard work-under circumstances that re-
quire them to take care of every particle
Of value. They spend nothing, waste moth
ing, turn to use things which careless folk
would throw away, and so are from early
life disciplined to the most rigid economy,
industry and patience. Along this path
men can still succeed.
The importation from the unnatural con-
ditions Of the corrupt capitals of the old
world Of rolormers, who fill workmen with
discomfort, inspire them to do not as much,
but as little as they can, stuff them with
crude theories, teach them to live on q
sense Of the wrongs which society does to
them is doing a mischief to workingmen
beyond calculation More work, better
work, more frugality and economy, and
patience to build up slowly a sure compe.
tence, is the real wisdom.
Meanwhile men waste little things enough
to make good profits. The tobacco smoked
away, the beer and whiskey drank, the bad
cooking by which quantities of food are
wasted, or made indigestible, the lettering
and expensive side-pleasures Of life, these
consume the profits, and leave tens of thou
sands Of men at the end of the year Just
where they were at the beginning. More
work and fewer wastes Better work and
less cheating Longer patience and less
grumbling 4 manly reliance on a man Is
own self, and less whining about society
Aud, above all, liberty for every man to do
what he can DO best, and TO sell his labor
or product where he can sell to best advant-
age Avoid the three LIS: Liquor, Lii
conse, Laziness Cherish the three LIS: La.
Dor, Liberty, Love IN. y. Ledger.