The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-12-18
ONE CENT.
TO Alleviate the Purse Of the Poor.


"a Penny Saved il . Penny
Earned"
Some time ago the penny movement waa
introduced into this CITY. Many OF the
large stores in St. Louis have adopted it.
rnd the introduction Of pennies in the
great Western metropolis, seems to have
been attended with good results. When
ever certain articles that are Indispensable
to every day life are brought within the
means of all clases, the consumption is in.
creased in corresponding or even greater
ratio.
Take. for instance, box of matches, for
~hich We paw Eve cents; under the penny
system the price would be three or four
cents; the same with apples, cigan or nuts,
and thousand little necessaries or luxu.
ries of life. Some may say the matter OF
saving two cents or one cent in five il
of small matters, and to the man who has to
support family on Sl5O or $500 day,
the saying of even one cent IN five isan inn
portant matter in the aggregate Of . weeks
cost of living.
Five cents each morning. mere trife.
Thirty-6ve cents per week-not much; yet
it would buy coffee and sugar for whole
family. SlS Is year-and this amount in
vested in . savings bank At the end Of .
year and the interest thereon at six per
cent. computed annually, would in twelve
years amount to more than S6S9-enough
to buy good farm.
Five cents before each breakfast dinner
and supper; you'd hardly riss it; YET it is
fifteen cents . day-$i 05 cents . week
enough to buy . small library of books. In
vest this - before, and in twenty yeas you
have over 5000. Quite enough to buy q
good house and lot.
Ten cents each morning-hardly worth .
second thought; YET with it you can buy .
paper of pins or . spool Of thread. Seventy
cents per week-it would buy several yards
of muslin, S35 50 in one year; deposit this
money as before, and you would have 81 $40
in twenty years.
Ten cents before each breakfast, dinner
and supper--thirty cents day. 1t would
buy book for the children 81 10 cents
each week--more than enough to pay q
years subscription to good newspaper I;
Sl05.50 = year-with it you could buy a
good meIodeon. from which you could pro-
duce good music, pleasantly while the even
ing hours away. And this amount invested
a. before would in forty yesrs produce the
desirable amount of $4,000
Anxious to see how the penny system
worked in Sedalia, We dropped in at Doc
Aliens store yesterday to interview him in
regard to it.
He informed Gs that il succeeded admir-
ably, and thoaght it only matter of time
to be generally adopted by all the stores in
the city. A man makes purchase, and he
pays for the exact amount that he gets and
no more. If he gets 81 cents worth Of but
ter and lays down quarter Of dollar, he
receives cents in return. And there Is .
certain satisfaction the average exact man
feels in being able to be exact, that will ul-
timately bring the penny System into gen.
eral use throughout the Western States.
An Eastern paper in speaking of the
cent movement in the West, says that
it is glad to zee it and hopes that it will be
successful. We have great reapect for the
cent-not on account of the material from
which il is made, nor yet because it repre-
sents any great amount of value. But il
teaches the value of money. The child
should not grown up to mans estate sup
posing that nothing can be bought for
less than . nickel, and that . Eve cent
piece is the most insignificant of all de
nominations because it is the smallest
with which he is acquainted. DR.. Frank
Inns economy could never apply to him.
How could he take care of the pennies If
there were no pennies, and no grow up with
notions formed upon an extravagant prin-
ciple that is positively injurious to true
economy. The Western boy, deprived of
his coppers, grows up to the western
man. Five cents to him are one
A dollar is twenty cents, and FIVE dollers
are no more than one dollar. Money
looks small in his eyes. He wants great
deal of it. and he wants it cheap Of course.
He wants it of paper and he wants it of
silver. With cheap money he can carry
out cheap ideas. He can cut canals, tun-
mel mountains, build railroads that nobody
wants or needs, and crafty his reckless
spendthrift notions generally. The trouble
IL, he started too far along. He was edu-
Gated with q contempt for little things
An atmosphere inimical to healthy econ
omy was thrown around him. Therefore
save the rising generation BY giving them
the pennies again, and If they will save
those, the pounds will take care of them
selves
Babies cry because they suffer; and the
most reliable remedy for the relief of their
discomfort is DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup. Only
Is cents per bottle.
Warlike News from the Border.
The Kansas City Times of yesterday had
the following special:
AUSTIN. TEX, Dec. H-lG35 p. NJ
Governor Hubbard has just received . dis
patch from the Sheriff OF Ell Paao county,
stating that 6ghting between the State
troops and Mexicans from the other side Of
the Rio Grande progressed all day yester-
day Commi-sary Ellis was taken prisoner.
Governor Hubbard telegraphed the Presi-
dent to send the nearest q. S. troops to the
scene.