Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1880 — Grain by Grain. [ARTICLE]

Grain by Grain.

flm an mwraat I do*wflT want?* Yet if vvu can got a!i trie into this wav most foeWmes hevta bwu laid <aa very small fouDdationa. A great merabant wweaeuafomed to teu hh many ekatta tlMct be laid the foupdadop of Ma proporty when be Need to chop wood at twenty-five cents a cord. Whenever he was teiqpted to squander a quarter, he would any, “There goes a cord of wood.” He learned in very early years a lesson in practical economy. An old woman had been seen for many years hanging about the wharves where vessels were loaded and unloaded In New York harbor, intent on picking up grains of coffee, com, rice, etc, that a chance scattered on the piers. Tbe er day she was badly hurt by some heavy bags of grain foiling on her. Tbe kind merchants took up a purse .for old Rosa, aad sent her to her home in Hoboken, in charge of an officer. What was his surprise to find that the neat and handsome famished cottage was the property of tbe old grain picker. She had literally built and famished it, aa the coral workers do their grain by grain. <-y Do not bo discouraged tbooch your profits are small. If you cannot increase the income, the only way out of the difficulty is to cut down tbe wants. Turn every claim to the best account, and as prices go, you will bo able to get a vast amount or comfort out of even a small income. The habits that you are forming are also of tbe greatest importance, and may be made the foundation stones of high prosperity.