The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-20

BEGAN SAVING YOUNG.
ONLY 81 t-2 CENTS A DAY AMOUNT
ED TO $685. w SO YEARS.

Familiar Seseies Of the Value Of Heard
Ing Triaes-A Case That overtops In
Results Any Historic Account Of Self
Denial and Regularity Ia Saving.
Nothing seems newer than an old famil
lar subject IN strange guise. That is this
sort Of novelty that viii be found in what
follows The old. familiar subject Of thrift
Is the text. Its morals have bssn pointed
by everybody, from the negro minstrel up
ward. 1t vas the MINISTRIES, you remern-
Der, who used to tell Of the msn who heard
that another man procured situation be-
cause be was seen 70 pick up . pin and
who therefore dropped two pins as he went
into a store to ask for work and picked
them mp when work was refused to him.
SO that, the feat being witnessed, he goa
two situations
Everybody in London points the moral
OF saving pennies by calling attention TO
the magnificent Thames embankment,
which was bulls with the penny tax on
each ton Of coal brought into the city.
Then there is the picturesque domestic
tale Of the lady who never allowed her hus-
band to kiss her good morning. good-by or
good night without paying for the priv
lege When he was . bankrupt, a, he
naturally became, she took him up To
Madison avenue and showed him . splen-
did mansion, furnished throughout, which
she said she had purchased with the dimes
he had paid her. And" said she-so the
story goes-''we might have had whole
block il you had been an sffeetionate
spouse
There was man of Paterson, y. j.. who
became obtrusively wealthy by picking up
bits of iron along the Erie railroad-mere
bolts and spikes and car couplers-but, on
second thought, his is not precisely case
in point. because the railroad company had
him arrested and proved that he picked up
things which were not lost, a form of thrift
which shows that even coed thing may
De overdone.
AN OLD MAID STORY.
One of the New York correspondents Of
out of town papers, who gid New York
life with the brush of fantasy. told a very
interesting tale OF a maiden lady in re-
duced circumstances who had to be content
with the gift Of board and lodging in the
mansion OF q very wealthy brotherin-lsw
She saved everything that was wasted in
the family. everything that was thrown
away, the old novels and old chairs and
waste paper and old clothes and rags and
bottles and out Of style cruet stands, and
heaven only knows what ali. When the
family went into the country in the sum-
mer time she had this fotsam and jetsam
carried away in trucks from her boarding
place, the garrett
After ten or a dozen years at this prac-
tice she had SO 90 in bank, for of course
such a saver never spent penny, and now
she lives In fine villa of her own in the
country, bought with her bank account A
merchant, whose store in Forty -secoIM
street every New Yorker knows, told me
once that when he came here, slightly in
advance of the rest of the population o;
Hanover, in Germany. he had a trunk full
of clothes, and he hired out TO Hanover
ian grocer in Mulberry street.
He got g a week for two years, and that
was S3l2, and then he got 81 q week for one
year, and that was SOS, or, altogether, $50
He had to spend money for shoes. but the
presents and tips he got just paid for the
leather, and so he kept his wages intact
With this $3.50 he started a store of his own.
There is no end to such stories. But all
that ] have set down are old ones, while
here is a new one,
Mr. HUBBARp'S STORY.
This is the story told by Mr. L. p. Hubbard,
the secretary of the New England society,
an elderly gentleman known to and adj
mired by thousands of New Workers. His
office is at 70 Wall street. he says he 10
gan to chew tobacco at IL years of age and
a few years later to smoke. Then he be-
came protesting Christian and abandoned
the habit Of chewing, which he rightly de-
clares to be filthy. Becoming convinced
that as q Christian he had no hnsirfsa to