The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-06-12
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A Moral From Which Young Men
May Draw a Lesson.

"A 4AV4 ui a AOAi UhtOh OuhS1 NAAOA
May Draw a Lesson.
aTwenty-five years ago two young
men were graduated from a High
School. Each was seventeen years
old, the only son of parents in mod
crate circumstances, and both are
living today, married and with in
teresting families.
at happened that one of them got
employment as a clerk at salary of
$3.50 year, which was raised by
successive steps within five years to
$500 year. Ten years after his
graduation he was earning ST 200 a
year, and durlng the past fifteen
years his earnings have averaged
over 81 800 year. He was bright
young man and is a good fellow, to-
day-married TO charming lady,
and has four children. He dresses
well, lives well and has enjoyed life
hugely. Before his marriage he
was favorite in social circles, was
much sought after by all his asso-
ciates, and no event was complete
unless he was in it. Since his mar
riage be has entertained freely, and
of late years has kept a horse and
buggy for the pleasure of his family.
He has always lived within his in
come, owes no man a dollar, and is
in good health, yet to day he is
troubled by visions of an unhappy
future. But more of that later.
"The other of the young men to
whom we refer was not SO bright as
the ore whose career we have just
sketched. He also was employed
as clerk after his school days were
over, but he received the first year
only $3.50, and today is earning
81 200 a year. But the future looks
very comfortable to him and his
family, although his twenty five
years have been years of denial,
and he has not enjoyed many of the
good things his old school mate can
remember. 1t is just at this point
that the moral of this comparison
comes in. The first mentioned man,
now forty two years of age, spends,
and all his life has spent, every dol
lar he has earned, and now realizes
that it is impossible for him to save
any money on 81, 500 salary,while
his family is becoming more expen-
sive every year. he lives in a
handsome house, but it is a rented
one, and the prospect for owning a
home is poor indeed.
"On the other hand, the second
man, whose earnings have averaged
over $500 a year less than the first,
during the past quarter of cen
fury, today lives on his own prop
erty that cost $4,000, and has $4,000
cash, to which he adds its interest
and about s40O additional every
year. If he has his health he will
have his home and $4,000 in cash
when he is ffty-a very comfortable
sum on which to lean during his
latter days. This state of affairs he
brought about by saving. AS a
young man he learned that every
dollar he saved was his servant,
always prepared TO work and earn
other dollars for him. His savings
during the first ten years never ex,
ceeded $3.50 year, and since then
never more than S4OO annually, not
counting interest.
"This is an Illustration of the fact
that it is not what a man earns, but
what he saves, that counts as the
years roll by"
We hope the above article which
is clipped from the Gallipolis Tri
bune, will impress our young men
here in Point Pleasant, who are now
spending their earnings in reck
less manner without reference to
the future. They ought to see that
they are making mistake, while
they follow in the course they are
pursuing, they will not realize until
they get too old to remedy the evil.
ED.
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