The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-10-23
SAVING AGAINST STARVING.

The Nep York EUeaiag Post says A
young man, a clerk in one of the Wall
street moneyed institutions, applied to ono
of our distinguished merchants, who is a
director, and asked him for his influence to
get his salary raised.
The merchant said to him: How much
is your salary now /"
Twelve hundred dollars" was the an
swer.
Question-How much do you save a wear ,
Answer-Not one dollar with a wife and
two children l can only make both ends
meet.
Q-Whatl Don't save anything
A-No, sir; 1 can but Just exist.
OIL mako it n 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.-Wel, some three a day costing. to-
gether, about twenty cents.
o. Do you go to the theatres, and how
often, and how many persons with youp
A. go some half dozen times during
the winter with wife and sister, costing, in
Guiding railroad fare, say $50.
o.-Do you drink ardent spirits, wine,
beer, etc. ?
Al generally take two glasses of whis-
ky daily, and sometimes a glass of ale with
my wife at the gardens in the evening.
DO you say you cannot save anything,
while your unnecessary yearly expense for
cigars, drinks, and amusements, by your
own showing, cannot cost less than 5000?
Until you begin to save, raising your salary
would do you no good. Begin to day to
save, If only five cents a day. Try saving
Tor SIX months, and report to me the RESULT
At the end of the time the young mar
brought the merchant his expense book.
showing a clear saving of $1O4.2o This in
duced the merchant to take him cordially
by the hand down to yle institution, and
urge the President to increase his salary
from $1,000 to 81 500. In another six
months his savings amounted to almost
D The merchant, on this showing, said
to him: Young man you are now on the
road to wealth and position. Go down to
my brokers and ask them to buy 500, COO
worth of such and such stocks, and 1 will
pay for them and give you the profits"
This young man is now worth some $780,
COOEall 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 delightful reflection of having saved
this man as well as his family.
There are now hundreds of families in
this city who are highly cultivated, that do
not know where'their next meal is coming
from. Could they nave had the advice Of
this old merchant, and followed it, they
would now be in affiuence, not beggary.
Only yesterday a highly respectable lady,
with three young daughters, applied for as
sistancc to buy bread.
Her husband had recently died, after en-
loying a salary for twenty years of from
$1,000 TO $1,000, without having saved
anything, The practical result of this case
is, that this lady for twenty years has se-
cured every luxury within her reach, while
am indebted for all 1 have now to the de-
NAL of Injuries for myself and family, and
am now asked to help to supportIher out Of my
savings, such as she would not make for
herself. With her present views of econo-
my, she sees how she could have lived ON
half of his salary. Had she lone SO, it
would oun to some fifty Thousand dollars,
the interest of which would hnve made her
and her children independent for life. Such
cases do not commend themselves to my
charity; such people must be taught, by
natural laws, that they must save, or be liza
BILE to starve.