Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-08-19
Chr Samily Girele,
Small Savings.

The President of great company,
whose work required the employment Of
sixteen hundred horses, said that the say
ing in q particular way of shoeing their
horses made the whole profits of the con-
Germ. A young firm started in the gold
smiths business. The partners We're skill
full 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 puzzle where the prof
its had gone. \ Skilled workmen en-
ployed by them had long hair. In chasing
and otherwise cutting gold, he wiped his
tool upon his well-oiled hair. and 1t night.
when at home, he washed out the gold dusl
and thus carried off all the profits Of the
concern.
In the Government mint and in the as
say Office the floor is covered by open lar
tice frames, through the interstjces OF
which the dust and gold waste falls. and
the sweepings afterwards yield gold Ike
gold mines. In California the Chinese
used to follow after the original min r..
and worked over their tailings or refusr
soil and sand, and grew rich out Of their
leavings.
These wastes OF savings must always
=
of men. BY close economy, by frugal liv-
ing, by patience and well-ordered indus
try, 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 affluence. HtStc to be rich is an
immortality of the most dangerous kind.
1t is an attempt to get property without
having given fair equivalent for it. Blu
earning property is divine economic
school,
The best uses of wealth are in the earn
ngs of it, if one earns rightly. TO earn
is to plan, to labor to combine, to furc,eo.
to be patient, to be sc1-denying, to max,
every element available. II "a man make
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 t.un ont
well is, they are brought up to work-ta
hard work-under circumstances which
require 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 50 are from early
life disciplined to rigorous economy, indus
Try and patience. Along this p.Uh men
can still succeed.
The importation from the unnatural con
ditions OF the corrupt capitals of The Old
world reformtrs. who fill Worhmrn with
discomfort, inspire them to do not as much
but rs little as they can. stuff them will
crude theories, teach them to lice ON 90
sense Of the wrongs which society dac~
to them, is doing Il mischief to working
men beyond calcalation. More work, bet
ter work. more frugality ani economy.
and patience to lid up slowly. a sur.
competence in the real wisdom.
Meanwhile, men waste enough it'll
things to make good profits The tobacco
smoked away, the beer and whi-key drank,
the bad cooking by which quantities %.
food are wasted, or made indigesgib.c, thu
lettering and expensive side-plea-urrS of
life, these consume the profits. ana leave
tens Of thousands Of men at the end o.
the year Just where they were at the be-
ginning. More work and fewer wastes
Better work and less cheating, Longer
patience and less grumhliny, \ manly
reliance on man own self, and less Whia-
Ing about society And above ALL liberty
for every man t. 10 what ha can do best.
and to sell his labor OF product where hc
can sell t. best advantage. Avoid the
three Is: Liquor, License, Iazinc--
Cherish the three l.: Labor. Liberty.
ve,-Henry Ward Btecher.