Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1878-11-27
HONE.
,SA WING AGAINST STAR VING.

Tho New York Euening Post says :
A young man, clerk in one Of the
Wall street moneyed institutions, ap
piled to one of our distinguished mer-
chants, who is a director and asked
Tor his influence to get his salary
raised.
The merchant said to him "How
much is your salary now2"
Twelve hundred dollars" was the
answer.
Question-How much do you save a
year2
Answer-Noto one dollar; with a wife
and two children | can only make
4 both ends meet.
Q-.Wbat Don't save anything?
A.-No, sir; | can but Just exist.
Q.-I make il 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
cost2
A.-Well, some three day; cost
ing, together, about twenty cents.
Q.-Do you go to the theatres, and
how often, and how many persons
with your
Al go some half dozen times dur
ing the winter with wife and sister,
costing, including railroad fare, say
$50.
Q.--Do you drink ardent spirits,
wine, beer, etc.Y
Al generally take two glasses of
whisky daily, and sometimes a glass
of ale with my wife at the gardens in
the evening.
"Do you say you cannot save any.
thing, while your unnecessary yearly
expense for cigars, drinks, and amuse.
ments, by your own showing, cannot
cost less than s2002 Unit! you begin
to save, raising your salary would do
no good. Begin to day to save, il only
FIVE cents day. Try saving for six
months, and report to me the result"
An the end of the time the young
man brought the merchant his ex-
pense book, showing clear saving Of
sl0f.2O This induced the merchant
to take him cordially by the hand
down to the institution, and urge the
President TO increase his salary from
$1,000 to $500. In another six
months bis savings amounted to al.
most 5000. The merchant, on this
showing, said to him: Young man,
you are now on the road to wealth
aud position. Go down to my brokers
and ask them TO buy $50 900 worth OF
such and such stock, and | will pay
for them and give you the profits.
This young man is now worth some
$50, ,000-all due to the saving Of the
first 800. The merchant, no doubt,
is now daily made happy every time
he sees the institution, by the delight
iul reflection OF having saved this man
as well as bis family.
There are now hundreds of families
in this city who are highly cultivated
that do not know whore the next mea
Is coming from. Could they have had
the advice of this old merchant, anc
followed it, they would now be in al
fluence, not beggary. Only yesterday
! highly respectable lady, with thre,
young daughters, applied for assistance
to buy bread.
Her husband had recently died, Of
ter enjoying a salary for twenty year
of from s2500 TO SO 900. without hav
ing saved anything. Tho practlca
result Of this case is, that this lady TO
twenty years has secured every luxu
y ry within her reach, while ] am in
debted for all ! have now to the dc
nial OF luxuries Tor myself and family
and am now asked to help support he
out Of my saving, such as she woul,
not make for herself. With her pres
ent views Of economy, she sees boy
she could have lived on hall Of bis sal
ary. Had she done 30, it wonl
amount to some fifty thousand dollar
the interest of which would have mad
/ her and her children independent 70
lie. Such cases do not commend them
selves to my charity; such peopl
must be taught, by natural laws, tina
they must save, or be liable to starv,