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Show A USEFUL LESSON. - Teach your boy to save a part of his earnings, if it be ever so small a sum. It he can lay by only twenty-five cents a week, let him save that. It doesn't amount to much, it is true, but it is worth saving; it is better saved than wasted - better saved than thrown away for tobacco, or beer, or any other worthless article or object. But the best thing about it is that the boy who saves twelve dollars a year on a very meager salary acquires a habit of taking care of his money which will be of the utmost value to him. The reason why workmen, as a class, do not get ahead faster, are not more independent, is that they have never learned to save their earnings. Young people who desire to retain their own independence under all circumstances must learn to save. So surely as they do this, so surely will they be in a situation to ask no special favors. Every man needs to feel that he is the peer of other men; and he cannot do it if he is penniless. Money is power; and those who have it exert a wider influence than the destitute. Hence, it should be the ambition of all to acquire it - honestly, of course. This is a lesson in life which should be early learned. |