Arizona silver belt., 1899-12-21
EARNING OF A MILLION.
Some Calculations That May Prove
 Very interesting.

very interesting.
 Our era begins with the berth of the Carpenter of Gallilee. Let us suppose that he was able to begin work on the day of his birth and that each working day he was able to save Sl above his living expenses, says the Philadelphia Medical World. Let us suppose that he never loses day by sickness or bad weather, and that his life and health and strength are miraculously pro- longed until he shall earn S1 ,00O,00 by saving sl for every working day. Then we will be able to realize what an honest million is.
 We will trace our workman who be- gan work on the day of his birth. At the historic time of his death, at the age of B, what would he be worthy The calculation is easy: S65 days mi nus 52 Sundays equals 3l3 working days in each year. Multiply that by B years and we have l0,329 days; but we must add eight days for eight leap years. This would make l0,337 and sl per day saved would equal as many dollars Sl0,337. Far from a million yet labor begins at birth and never holiday nor day lost by sickness, Let us suppose that he had lived the allotted seventy years; then how would the account standY Only S2l, ,927. 1 task before him to earn SD large an amount as a million dollars. Our hero must trudge along through summers heat and winters storms. Years and decades come and go until they grow into centuries, and still he works on for his task is only begun. He sees kingdoms and empires rise and fall, and still he labors on, for the greater part of his task is still before him.
 Christians are persecuted in various places; the Roman empire disappears; the dark ages come, and still he labors on, his task not yet completed. The crusades are fought, America is dis covered, modern science awakens the world from its shroud of darkness and still he labOrs on. The stirring events of modern history transpire and bring us down to the present moment, and would you believe it?-our Carpenter is still laboring on, not yet having saved million dollars, yet not having missed a single working day from sick ness or any other cause in all these centuries. Let us see how his task would stand at this time. We are not counting interest, but purely the earn ingS of labor. We have seen that his saving would be S3l3 per year; this would be s3l, 300 per century but add ing twenty-five days for twenty-five leap years per century, it would be S3l, ,325 per century. To determine how his account would stand at the beginning of the present century multiply s3l,32j by eighteen, and the result is S56l $50, and add S2D,04s for the ninety-nine years of the present century, and the amount is s592, ,S3I. So the task at the present time would be little more than half done. Let us in imagination bring him before us. Here he comes. time scared, storm scared, labor scared. We ask him questions. He tells us interesting stories of how he has builded homes for princes and peasants of many
 I. l,n nn colosseum, the Alhambra and St. Peters. He mentions familiarly such masters as Michael Angelo. lie praises his good fortune Tn having steady employment during all these centuries, and that his wages were all ways promptly paid and that he was allowed to make up the time lost py going from one job to the other by night workout suddenly he says: Il must not tarry. 1 am the drudge oi the ages, with the task of earning d million dollars. must get It hohest- ly, therefore l must earn it. My tasR will require many, many, even cehlu- ries. yet. so adieu." With this he leaves us. But what about those who obtain not only one million, but many millions in the few years Of the aoul' period of single fife? It is plain that no man can earn million dollars Ill brief human lie, however hard ne may work. This shows that men have been enabled to do this only by the many advantages of tie institutions of socie ty and aided by ilie protection of the law. Is it mol just ana la'' that a percentage should go to the government?