The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-05-24

ately. I must get upon a firm financial
basis first. Don't laugh at me; the richest
men are those who began without a cent
Gin the last three years." said ], You
have lost no opportunity of putting your
self into that condition so favorable to the
accumulation of wealth."
He did not heed my sarcasm. and I re-
pented it Immediately.
tsyour Uncle David ought to help you along.
He could give You 100000 and never miss
it,"
miss it!' exclaimed Jack, you don't
know him. If he dropped a penny into
the Atlantic ocean he would go down to
bottom in a thousand fathoms of water to
get it."
"Well, let us hope that he may" l said,
cheerfully; II believe you are his heir"
Eyes; 60 he says. But while he lives I
can expect nothing. He believes that spare
diet, thin clothes and his own shining ex-
ample are all that l can possibly require in
the struggle for wealth. Did you ever know
a man whom blind. laundering luck had
made rich, who wasn't always preaching
patience and frugality to the young? Look
at me- says Uncle Dave. i started at the
foot of the ladder So he did, and he'd
have been there yet If fate hadn't turned
the ladder upside down.
n OldtlV AClO AASio AUf ~ ~
wild land in Indiana in the old days. Dave
tried to sell it for nine shillings ant
couldn't. BY and by somebody came along
and wanted to found a town there. Dave
tried to drive him away. He would't go
A lot more men came, and before loni
Dawes land. He didn't DO anothing abou
it, but one day a lawyer got hold of hi
claim and offered to push it. lie did 81
and won over half n million, though Dav
nearly ruined the case by his testimony
OF course the lawyer expected to steal j
all, but just as he was ready to do 1T, he go
converted at a camp meeting in New Jerse
and turned over tho whole Doodle to 1t
rightful possessor. Industry and frugal
ity,' says Uncle David, those are all 20
need, my boy. Look at me-
Jack was beginning to look downheartet
80 l asked him about that system OF ecor
omy of which he had spoken in such glow
ing terms. Fie frightened up at once.
1T was her idea." he said. Il c~onfesse
to her that l had never learned to say
money, so she said that she would teac
me. She bought one of those toy bank
and every time l call she makes me put a
my small change into it except a nickel
get home with. We're going to open it in
year, and she says that it will surprise Il
to find how much | have saved"
told Jack how glad | was that he had
last found somebody whose wise precep
he would obey. ] pointed out to him tn
Miss Leigh's ideas were exactly in line wi
the advice which l had always given hir
! said that she must be a very sensible ri
showed him that if he la ollowed 4
advice earlier he mightnow have somethil
in the bank. ! have nothing there mys'
but it was not necessary to say SO to JAG
In short, while endeavoring to avoid an a
pearance of egotism. | called his attenti
to the fact that primarily, he had to tina
me for everything which would result fro
his present course, unless it turned c
badly. ! believe that l understand I
duties and responsibilities of friendship.
But after he had gone, / began to ha
doubts whether he could ever be trained
walk in the way of frugality. 1t is pre-
nearly a lost art in New York. Exporter
has shown the old way of accommodating
fortune by fasting and the NORTH