The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-12-03
LITTLE SAVINGS.


Suggestions for Roth Young and Old.
Often we fail to take note of how
much can be accomplished through the
| accumulation of pecuniary trities saved.
Wealth comes from careful savings.
more than from large earnings. A little
laid by every year and put at interest
soon counts up. A single deposit even
grows to handsome proportions, A
gentleman at Taunton, Massachusetts,,
has shown us a savings bank book
which teaches a lesson TO those who
despise the day of small things. A
deposit of twenty dollars, placed for
him by his grandfather in a savings
bank at Newport, Rhode Island in
! 1S27-and afterward increased to thirty
dollars, by the addition of ten dollars,
in lS32-amounted in 1874 to over four
! hundred dollars.
Our rising generation should be re-
minded that there is no virtue so easy
of practice, and yet so recklesslv disre-
garded, as economy in little things.
Steady. small savings grow into indie
! pendence so easily that it is more than
wonderful to hear persons who have
| power to make them complain of how
| hard the world goes with them. A
| young fellow with a ten-cent cigar in
his mouth-some three of which he
will smoke in a day-will unblushingly
say he cannot make both ends meet,
any way he can manage, the while he
is putting off in smoke the very means
| through which he could be rich in this
worlds goods.
| Samuel Lee, Professor of Hebrew at
the University of Cambridge, England,
was seventeen years of age before he
| conceived the idea of learning a foreign
! language; out of the scanty pittance of
! his weekly earnings as a carpenter he
! purchased a book, and when this was
read he exchanged it for another, and
thus he advanced in knowledge He
| had not even the privilege of balancing
between reading and relaxation, but
was obliged to pass directly from bodily
fatigue to mental eXertion. During the
six years previous to his twenty fifth
! year he omitted none of the hours usu-
ally appropriated to manual labor, and
he retired to rest regularly at ten o. clock
in the evening; and yet, at the age of
thirty-one years, he had actually learned
seventeen languages!
This illustrates the value of spare
minutes. Many careless people waste
more time every day than is needed to
make them masters of a science, if well
used. Some great works have been
written in intervals of ten or fifteen
minutes from regular employments.
Any young person who will find an
hour a day for reading can easily ac-
quire large learning. Try what you
can do. Begin now. In after years
you will look back upon the task as the
most pleasant and profitable you ever
performed.
Sir Ashley Cooper had, perhaps, the
largest income ever received by sur
geon in England. 1t amounted in some
years to about $3.50, 900. But only
through great hardships did he reach
this wonderful success. When stu
dent i'll the Edinburgh University, he
lived in a very modest way in a third
story room, at an expense of about a
dollar and Il half week. The first wear
after he settled in London his whole
income amounted to only tOenty-fUe
| dollars!
We are told that a well-known Ameri-
can professor once entertained Prof.
| AgaSsiz on dinner consisting of pota-
toes and salt. Three times a week. for
many years, this custom had been kept
up, whoever CHANGED to be present; and
the saving thus made had been Judi
ciously invested in books, till the Pro-
lessor owned a magnificent library.
The late Empress of Germany was
one of the most simply dressed of
women, except on occasions of cere-
mony. Her dry goods bills are said to
have been less than those of the wives
OF many merchants. She often drove
out in a calico dress. And vet she was
very liberal in her gifts. The Princess
Bismarck, fresh and comely, though
nearly seventy, superintends her farm
work, goes about the house with a great
bunch of keys at her girdle, watchful
OF the family expenditures, and her
house filled with knitted quilts and such
like, the evidence of her skill and i'm
dustry.
At Client, in Belgium, an experiment
has been made, which has been at.
tended, it is said, with very good re-
suits. A gentleman who felt deeply
concerned at the large amount of money
wasted by children, and the careless,
improvident habits thus early acquired
by them went round to all the public
schools, and, after talking to the
scholars on the subject, made arrange.
ments with the teachers to receive all
the money which the children might be
willing to intrust to them.
When this reached a certain amount
it was deposited in one of the CITY
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