The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-09-06

and we have 10, 800 days but we must
add eight days for eight leap years
This would make 10, 837-and one dol
lar per day saved would equal as many
dollars-$l0, 837 Far from million
yet labor began at birth and never
holiday nor a day lost by sickness
Let us suppose that he had lived the
allotted 10 years then how would the
account stand1 Only $21, 927 Our
workman has long and weary task
before HIM to earn so large an amount
as a million dollars Our hero must
trudge along through summers heat
and winter storms Years and dec
AIDES come and go, until they grow into
centuries, and still he works ON, for
his task is only begun. He sees king
doms and empires rise and fall, but
still he labors on, for the greater part
of his task is still before him.
Christians are prosecuted in various
countries the Roman empire disap-
pears, the dark age come, and still he
labors on, his task is not yet completed
The crusades are fought, America is
discovered, modern science awakens
the world from its shroud of darkness
L
events OF modern history transpire and
bring us down to the present moment
and-would you believe it2-Our
Carpenter is still laboring on, not yet
having saved a million dollars, yet not
having missed a single working day
from sickness 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
earnings of labor We have seen that
his savings would be 1918 per year
this would be S3l 300 per century, but
adding % days for % leap years per
century it would be $31, 1926 per cen
tury. To determine how this account
would stand at the beginning of the
present century multiply 1926 by IL,
and the result is $561, $50 and add
$50, 04S for the 96 years of the present
century, and the amount is 1891, S9S.
So the task at the present time would
be only little more than half done.
Let us in imagination bring him be-
fore us. Here he comes, time SCARED,
storm SCARED, labor-scarred We ask
him questions. He tells us interesting
stories of how he worked on the Colos-
scum, the Alhambra and St.. Peters.
He mentions Familiarity such masters
as Michael Angelo. He praises his
good fortune in having steady employ
ment during all the centuries, and
that his wages are always promptly
paid, and that he was allowed to make
up the time lost by going from one job
to another by night workout sud
denly he says must not tarry | am
the drudge of the ages with the task
of earning million dollars. | must
get it honestly. therefore l must earn
it. Ny task will require many, many
years even centuries, yet, so adieu -
With this he leaves us. But does he
not leave many reflections concerning
our millionalres and their millions
What shall we say to those who obtain
not only one million, but many mil
lions in the few years of the adult
period of d single life?
| 1t is plain that no man can earn a
million dollars in brief human life,
however hard he may work But many
have become millionaires and while
it is impossible to do so honestly, in
a strictly ethical sense, we will admit
| that some have done 50 legally. This
shows that these men have been ena
J bled to do this only by the many ad-
vantages of the institutions of this
country, and aided by the protection
of the law. DR. c. F. Taylor, in the
Medical World.