Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1895 — His Savings. [ARTICLE]

His Savings.

A horny-handed workingman in Meriden, whose wages have never been over $2 a day, has saved $9,000 from them, which he keeps at interest in the savings bank. He must surely have lived very closely; he must have been mean toward his four children, three girls and one boy; he must have cut down his family supplies to a low notch during the forty years in which he has been laying by his riches. It is time for us to say that we cannot hold him up as an example to be followed by all other workingmen. It would not be well for them to live as he must have lived all his life, never enjoying half a pint of peanuts or a saucer of ice cream, never giving any of his children a stick of candy or a doll, hardly ever buying a new dress for his wife or a suit of clothes for himself, or a copy of • a Meriden newspaper. The word in that household from morning till night, at breakfast, dinner and supper, must have been scrimpi. He is surely a stingy man, something like a skinflint, or how could he have saved so much out of his small wages? We can’t say that we admire his style. It is good for a man to live pretty ’well, If he can afford It, and to get the best out of his money as he goes alpng, always, of course, avoiding anything like wastefulness, always practicing economy. It is good for him to put some money in the bank, If he can; but not much more than he can spare. It is right for one to feather his nest, but wrong to stuff it so full of feathers that its occupant cannot breathe freely. Certainly, oh, certainly, you should lay up something against a rainy day, but still you need not squeeze all the juice out of life, like the stjngy $2-a-day man of Meriden.—New York Sun.