Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1877 — The Value of a Dollar. [ARTICLE]

The Value of a Dollar.

A silver dollar represents a day’s work for a laborer. It is given to a boy ; lie has no idea of what it lias cost or what it is worth. Tie would be as likely to give a dollar as a dime for a top or any other toy. But if the l>oy has learned to earn the dimes and dollars by the sweat of his face ho knows the difference. Hard work is to him a measure of values that can never be rubbed out of his mind. Let him learn by experience that a hundred dollars represents a hundred weary days’ labor, and it seems a great sum of money; a thousand dollars is a fortune, and ten thousand is almost inconceivable, for it is far more than lie ever expects to possess. When he has earned a dollar, he thinks twice before he spends it. He wants to invest it so as to get the full value of a day's work for it.. It is a great wrong to society and to a boy to bring him up to man’s estate without this knowledge. A fortune at 21 without it is almost inevitably thrown away. With it and a little capital to start on, he will make his own fortune better than anyone can make it for him. —7/ unt's Merchants' Magazine.