Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-10-31
SAVE YOUR EARNINGS.

WAS n time for all things, and although
from his list of specially designated uses Of
time he omitted that OF saving money, the
omn7ssion was, doubtless, unlntentional,
and quite natural TO q y gentleman who, on
the one hand, had the public purse at his
d;snosal. and on the other his hundreds of
wives. who would neutralize any attempts
.t saving. But in the United States the
time for saving is always at hand, for their
il no other country in which there are SO
MANY temptations to spend money, or in
which SO large a proportion OF the inhabi-
tants have tastes which apparently nothing
but an expenditure of money can satisfy.
What is true OF the United States applies
with still greater force to the metropolis and
its immediate surroundings. Thousands
we believe we are within the bounds Of
probability when we say hundreds of thou
sands-of the residents Of this city and in it's
vicinity are as competent as more fortunate
ones to enjoy good plays and operas, ad-
mire fine pictures, read appreclatively the
best novels and poems, build elegant houses
and furnish them tastetully, adorn and be
adorned by fine raiment, give good dinners,
drive fine horses and gravitate between
America and Europe. Some peculiarities of
American society intensity the tastes of
which the enjoyments alluded to are the
outward expressions, for good birth and
breeding admit to good society everyone
who can appear in respectable attire, no
matter how poor they may be. Numerous
men and women, therefore, re-enact the
part of Tantalus, while more and stronger
people strain ambitiously after desirable
pleasures and positions, and ruin their own
business prospects and those of their chill
dren by the rashness which always waits
upon Impotence.
The present is just the time in which
such persons need to exercise patience and
selt-control, The American tendency to
spend two dollars as soonssas there appears
a prospect OF earning one is sure to be slim
ula'ed by the revival of trade and the better
feeling that is exhibited in business circles.
anu also by the many attractions always
presented to taste and pocketbook during
the autumn and winter months. Besides
eXlSlng amusements, which are almost
iuilDerleSs, and courtesies which one would
ll"e 10 return in u style at least as good as
'naV IN which they were given and stores
containing garments and materials particu-
lafly becoming to the individual or thef fam
ny, mere Is the house which can always ae-
.oni'Hoaate more and better furniture and
''ere Is always some where a house more
s"''e'i 70 the requirements of the family and
'he ialnlly'sh head. and which is somewhat
''o'e costly than the Old one, besides s,lu-
ISSUING tue expense OF moving. which latter
~ Always beyond the power of man Tor wo-
'laul TO estimate. A better school for the
S"l'uieh Is always TO be desired but what
superior teachers are there that do not cost
pioy?
."efe IS one u%nvarying bit of advice
NV ~ Always appropriate to people who
e'npiate onch indulgences, without an
usu'ea increase of Income, and it consists
single word, Don't. Money must be
rs wei us earned before any can hon
~ nv oe spent, except for mere necessities.
..;... '9il'ss outlook is cheering in point of
"'.'Vity, but it promises no i,cra.so N
"es' either for stocks in trade or for pro-
enorts. Most of the desired ex-