Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-02-14

FIVE CENTS y .-1Hc
power of money is fact very generally
There are few men living to-day of the age
of siXty-five hanging on to existence by
some slender employment or pensioners, 1t
may be, on the bounty of kindred or friends,
but who might by exercising the smallest
particle of thrift rigidly adhered to in the
past, have set aside respectable sum which
would materially help them to maintain
their independence in their old age. Let
us take the small and insignificant sum of
five cents, which we daily pay to have our
boots blackened, to ride in a car distance
we are we'll able to walk, or to procure
bad cigar we are better without, and see
what its value is in the course of years.
We will suppose a boy of fifteen, by black
ing his own boots, or saving his car fare or
going without his cherished cigarette, puts
by five cents u day, in one year he saves
SlS.25, which being banked bears interest
at the rate Of five per cent. per annum, COM
pounded bi-yearly. On this basis, when
our thrifty youth reaches the age Of sixty
five, having set his five cents per day re-
ligiously aside during fifty years, the result
is truly surprising. He has accumulated
no less sum than S3,S93.17. a scrutiny OF
the progress of this result is interesting.
At the age of thirty our hero has 1895; at
forty, SS77; ut fifty, 81 ,667 at sixty, S2,9G2.
After fifteen years saving his annual in
terest more than equals his original princi-
pal; in twenty-five years it is more than
double; in thirty-five years it is four times
as much; in forty-fve years it is eight times
as much, and the last years interest is $50,
or ten and half times as much as the annual
amount he puts by. The actual cash amount
saved in fifty years is $9l2.j0, the difference
between that amount and the grand total
of S3,S93.17, viz, S2,9SO.69, is accumulated
interest What magnificent premium
for the minimum of thrift that can we'll be
represented by figures. 1t is now easy to
understand the old adage: "Take care of
the pence and the pounds will take care of
themselves, which being AmericaniZed
means: "Take care Of the cents and the
dollars will take care OF themselves. p
Brooklyn Edgle.
TEXAS NOT A LAND OF FLowERs.-The
following is from the Spartanburg Spartan
Of a recent date:
Captain Blassingame has just returned
from Paris, Texas, where he saw many Car
olinians. He spent several hours pleasantly
with Captain J. B. Lyle, who is at the head
of most tlourishing school. Captain b.
says he could not be hired to live in Il coun-
try where every farm is for sale. In Lamar
county, it seemed that every man was ready
to sell out and move further on. On his
way home he fell in with Il white man, by
the name of Ragin, from Newberry, who
had sold his plantation and gone to Arkan-
s;ls to buy new home, to which he intend
ed to move his family. He was returning a
sadder and wiser man, about $50 out OF
pocket but with cords of experience. lie
was going to settle in old NeWberry, there
to live and die. He also saw colored fam
lily that had moved from York county two
years ago. The old man was doing so well
that he wanted to 60 West and do better.
He sold out everything and carried away
$50 to begin life in his new home. He has
never had half that much money at one
time since he left. In this family there was
a little girl. Captain B. handed her an ap-
ple and then gave one to each of the family,
saying, 81 give you these, because I'm glad
to see YOU coming back hOme.' The old
woman frightened up and replied: BLESS
de Lord, mlassa, yOu's not half as glad as |
is, and we would never 60 back nudder, if
it had not been for Mas Thad. l.. Carroll,
who lives near Yorkville, and sent us 500
to come home On.'
THE MYSTERY OF DREAMs.-A man fell
asleep as the clock tOlled the first stroke of
Twelve. ClC tiiS wv VII IL ''.i'i>S
had died away, having in the interval
dreamed that he had committed crime,
was detected after five years, tried and con-
demned; the shock Of finding the halter
around his neck aroused him to conscious
ness, when he discovered that all these
events had happened in an intinitlslmal
fragment of time. Mohamed, wishing to
illustrate the wonders Of sleep, told how a
certain man, being Il shiek, found himself,
for his pride, made poor fisherman that
he lived as one for sixty years, bringing up
IL family and working hard, and how, upon
waking up from his long dream, so short
time had he been asleep, that the narrow
necked gourd bottle, filled with water,
which he knew he overturned as he fell
asleep, had not time to empty itself. How
fast the soul travels when the body isasleep
Often when weawake we shrink from going
in the dull routine of sOrdid existence, re-
GREETING the pleasanter life of dreamland.
How is it that sometimes when we 60 to a
strange place, we fancy that we have seen
it before? Is it possible that when one has
been asleep, the soul has tioated away, seen
the place, and has that memory of it which
so surprises us? In a word, how far dual is
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