Show TIRE THE POVERTY OF RICHES A millionaires SMALL SO bottled LED SCHEME TO SAVE A tew t EW PENKIE 9 A financial man valls some interesting stories of a venerable boston capitalist whose name it if be well known and widely recognized nize cill as the interviewers of anonymous persons always say and which for that very reason will not be given here the capitalist in 4 a country district where ideas of thrift aej instilled into peoples minds in their ultimate new england minuteness and n this mans mails case the seeds of instruct instruction ion in economy fell upon friendly ground to what extent he improved upon his education lu in that direction one story will illustrate lie once visited a dentist wbk filed dowid a tooth that had been giving him trouble not os long after another tooth began to give him pain in somewhat tile me same way the capitalist wen went t to ta hardware store bought a cheap file took it home and aad had h bis i s son in law file longani lon gand patiently upon the tooth but there is la another sairy that illustrates perhaps even more strikingly the old gent lemans thrift he used to drive his own n carriage a two horse top buggy one day just before thanksgiving he be drove aown to the faneuil hall market try to bargain tor for an and d att his turkey the frugal but traditional feast at his house As he drove up a boy started out ont as if to affer affer to lo hold his team at the same moment lie he saw his cashier arriving on foot well smith said the capitalist to the cashier where wre are you going going to market to get a turkey for thanksgiving said paid the cashier yes well ill tell you what aliat well do I 1 know lem em in here and if hold my horse I 1 think I 1 can go in and buy two turkeys so that come cheaper to us than if we bought them separately all right said the cashier he took up his station at the horses heads beads while the old man went into the market As he stood there kicking his feet against the curbstone to keep them warm a horrible suspicion came over him that his employer had no idea of buying two turkeys but had simply adopted the plan as a ruse to get him to hold the horses and save the live five cents that would oe expected by a small boy as the minimum bompensa tian tam for boldin holding the horses the old man was gone tor lor a long time looking tor for a bargain no doubt alter After a while awhile he hove in sight through tile the door and with but a single turkey done up in in brown paper under his arm no use smith said he 1 I make it go we can do just as well to buy on our account seem that that was the caseb case I 1 thought I ably want to buy your luikey yourself he got into the carriage and drove away leaving the cashier the happy consciousness that ne badat the sacrifice of his time and comfort saved a millionaire five cents |