Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-06-29
saving Against starving.
New York Post.


A young man, a clerk in one of the
Wall street meneyed institutions, applied
to one of our distinguished merchants,
whe is director, and asked him for his
influence to get his salary raised.
Inc merchant said to him, Chow much
is your salary now?'
Twelve hundred dollars - was the an
swer. - - ~ = -
QuestiOn-HOw much do you save
Answer-Not one dollar; with wife
and two children can only make both
ends meet.
Q.-What! don't save anything?
A.-NO, sir; can but exist.
Q.-l make it a rule to assist no one who
does not save something every year. No
matter how small his pay, something
should be saved. How many cigars do
you smoke and their cost?
A.-WeIl, some three a day, costing,
together, about twenty cents.
Q.-Do you go to the theaters, and how
OFTEN; and how many persons with YOU :?
Al go some half a dozen times dur
ing the winter, with my wife and sister,
eosung, including railroad fare, say $50.
Q.-Do you drink ardent spirits-wine,
| Al generally take two glasses of
whisky daily, and sometimes a glass of
ale with my wife at the gardens in the
evening.
Q.-Do you say you cannot save any
| thing! while your unnecessary yearly
| expenses for cigars, drinks and amuse-
ments, by your own showing, cannot cost
less than two hundred dollars. Until YOU
begin to save, raising your salary would
do you do good. Begin to-day to save, if
only i've cents day. Try saving for six
months and report to me the result.
At the end of the time the Young man
| Drought the merchant his -boO
showing clear saving of $40 20. This
induced the merchant to take him cor
daily by the hand down to the institu-
ton and urge the President to increase
his salary from 81 200 to 81, 500. In an
other six months his savings amounted to
almost $500. The merchant on this show
ing said to him: "Young man you are
now on the road to wealth and position
Go down to my brokers and ask them tC
buy $50, 600 of such and such stocks, anG
L will pay for them and give you thC
profits" This young man is now worth
the saving of the first. 800. The mer
chant, no doubt, is now daily made hap
) Py every time he sees the institution b.
the delightful reflection of having saved
f this man as well as his family.
There are now hundreds of families il
this city who are highly cultivated tha
do not know where their next meal Ii
advice of this old merchant, and follow.
ed it, they would now be in affluence, no
beggary. Only yesterday highly res
| pectable lady, with three young daugh.
ters, applied for immediate assistance t.
buy bread. Her husband had recently
} died, after enjoyed a salary for SOM
twenty years of from $4,000 to So, 600
without having saved anything. The
| practical result of this case il, that this la
r dy for 20years secured every 1uuxry with
/ in her reach, while am indebted for al
2 l now have to the denial of luxuries 70
myself and family, and am now asked t.
help to support her, out of my savings
3 such as she would not make for herself
t With her present views of economy sh
e sees how she could have lived on hal
? his salary. Had she done SO it WOul
: amount to some $50, 600, the interest o
i which would have made her and he
. children independent for life. Such case
e do not warmly commend themselves t
f my charity; such people must be taught
!, by natural laws, that they must save c
d bo liable to starYe.
I'll AnoTher case occnrs to me- A youn
h man, recently married, has put UP h
: carriage with livery on a salary of 81, ,GC
d year. One of the three things will /
h laid down, or defalcation will come mex
It and ruin and beggary follow. All tn
n reminds me of the old maxim that min
p teen persons out of every twenty who a
Of now respectable would not be so if the
20 could get the means to make them othe
y wise. The man with his carriage on 81 on
. is one of the nineteen.