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Show ; ,; a Mystery of, arithmetic. 1 it was interesting to read about the-gentleman who, at a Sunday-school Sunday-school meeting last Sunday, told the children that' in the thirty-three thirty-three years during which he had abstained from tobacco, he had saved by that means $8,882.61- It would also be interesting to know whether any bright boy', in the room asked if he had" all that money in the bank. It is one of the curious things about economies of this sort that they never seem to make any difference with one's budget at the ; end of the year. Theoretically, arithmetically, they must of course, but - practically they don't What .lots of saving, thrifty, get-ahead fellows there are who smoke, and what lots' of total abstainers from tobacco who can't lay up a cent to save their lives! It really seems as if the matter : of saving money were presided over by unaeen imps, who. spirit away dimes t and .dollars r from . some pe6ple by night and :put them in the pockets of other people. . Cash accounts don't altogether ' explain tho mystery. A man who doesn't use; tobacco may often wonder whero he would get the money to buv it if he did use it; but if he did use' it, probably his accounts would somehow come to the same thin-g. Bosfon Transcripi. |