Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-04-17
BEGAN SAVING YOUNG.
ONLY 81 10 CENTS A DAY AMOUNT
ED TO $4,000 IN So YEARS.

ing Triles-A Case That Overtops in
Results Any Historic Account of Self
Denial and Regularity in Saving.
Nothing seems newer than an old famil-
lar subject in strange guise. That is the
sort of novelty that will be found in what
follows. The old, familiar subject of thrift
is the text. Its morals have been pointed
by everybody, from the negro minstrel up
ward. 1t Was the MINISTRIES, you remem-
Der, who used to tell of the man who heard
that another man procured q situation be-
cause he was seen to pick up a pin and
who therefore dropped two pins as he went
into Il store to ask for work and picked
them up when work was refused to him,
so that, the f.; being witnessed, he got
two >it unlinMi
Everybody it London points the moral
of saving pennies by calling attention to
the magnificent Thames embankment,
which was built with the penny tax on
cal tC.. &C tNtl ;'"",:s'!G into the city.
Then there is the picturesque domestic
tale "f tho lad Who never allowed her hus-
band i" KISS her good morning, good-by or
good ii-iit Without paying for the privi-
le$ge. When lie w;s Il bankrupt, as he
naturally became, she took him up to
Madison avenue and showed him u SPLEEN
did mansion, furnished throughout, which
she said she had purchased with the dimes
he had paid her. "And," said she-so the
story goes--'wc might have had II whole
block il you had been an afIcctionate
,, spouse"
There was Il man OF Paterson, N. j., who
became nbarusivcly wealthy by picking up
bits of iron along the Erie railroad-mere
bolts and spikes and car couplcrs-but, on
second Thought, his is not precisely a case
in point. because the railroad had
him arrested and proved that he picked up
things which were not lost, Il form of thrift
which shows that even IL good thing may
be OvcrtlOEr.
M OLD MAID STORY.
One of the New York correspondents of
out of town papers, who gild New York
life with the brush Of fantasy, told II very
interesting tale Of Il maiden lady in re
, duced circumstances who had to be content
. with the gift of board and lodging in the
mansion of Il very wealthy brothcrin-law
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 all. When the
family went into the country in the sum
mer time she had this flotSam and jctsam
carried away in trucks from her boarding
place, the garnet.
After ten or IL dozen years ut this prac-
tice she had $50, 600 in bank, for OF course
such Il saver never spent a penny and now
sIn Etas in :, fyn will. IF l,n, wv, -, IT,,
country, bought with her bank account. A
merchant, whose store in Forty-second
street every New Yorker knows, told he
once that when he came here, slightly in
advance of the rest of the population of
Hanover, i'll Germany, he had a trunk full
of clothes, and he hired out to IA Hanover
ian grocer in Mulberry street.
He got 81 a week for two years, and that
was S3lao. and then he got 81 II week for one
year, and that was s20S, or, altogether, $500.
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 his 500 he started a storcO his own.
There is no end to such stories. But all
that | have set down are old ones, while
here Is /: new one:
MIR IuBBARD'S SToEY.
This isthc storytold by Mr.. l.. p. Hubbard,
the secretary of the New England society,
an elderly gentleman known to and ad.
nlired by thousands Of New Workers. His
office IS at Is Wall street. lie says he be,
gan to chew tobacco at IL years of age and
Il few years later to smoke. Then he be,
came Il protesting Christian and abandoned
the habit of chewing, which he rightly de.
clares to he filthy. Becoming convinced
that as a Christian he had no business to
surrender to tobacco in any form, be threw
AWAY his cigar and never bought another,
lie had been n moderate smoker. and it
was in the old days when cigars were cheap,
so that six cigars a day cost only thirty
seven and Il half cents, for they were six
and a quarter cents apiece. That sum of
thirty-seven and a half cents he put aside
every day, and at intervals deposited it in
the Seaman's Bank for Savings. He dis.
covered that in round numbers it amount
ed to $136. so a year.
He never abandoned the habit Of LAYING
this money aside, and it brought him Z per
cent. interest. At the end of fifty.eiyht
years it amounted to s9G, 7l9. 49. With that
money, he says, he purchased his fine estate
! at Greenwich, consisting of two acres and
Il home. With it he has educated his chill
dren and spent occasional sums for benev.
Olent purposes. tie tells OF fruit and shade
trees, of a horse and COW and calf and
chickens, and of merry days beside the
beautiful sound, so that there are hints
upon which Il duller fancy than mine can
rear IL picture Of a splendid property and
home.
table which he has prepared is prefaced
with the statement that friends have OK
pressed doubts in regard to the correctness
of his assertion" He admits that it seems
incredible, and therefore he gives the exact
figures of each years saving. Onc hun
dred thirty-six dollars and fifty cents was
saved the first year, and that sum should
be added each succeeding year, besides the
interest.
A little girl once said that pins saved a
great many lives "by not being swallow
ed" but who ever dreamed that cigars
would make SGT, 600 by not being smoked.
MI. Hubbard has taken an unfair advant-
age of us of this generation by performing
his remarkable feat at Z per cent. interest,
whereas we cannot get above 3 or 4 per
cent. in a savings bank. But surely a mere
difference in the interest obtainable will