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Show Tins FIRST THOUS-VND. "The thing that counts," said a man of independently largo means accumulated accumu-lated by hard work, saving and wiso Investments, "is the flrBt thousand dol-. dol-. larn; when you've got that amount to-' to-' gether you are beginning to get somewhere, some-where, and with that start ou will want to keep on. The red-ink interest entries that you see put down in your savings bank book twlco a year will strike you very pleasantly indeed. As lntorest on your thousand dollars you'll get thirty-five or forty dollars In a. year, your money has begun earning money for you. "You've got an Income now and you'll want to add to It. You will leave that Interest In. the book to be added to your principal and now your Intel est will begin to draw Interest, and to be sure you will keop right on adding to your principal, too, and every six months you'll see thOBO red Hgurcs growing bigger and bigger, pretty figures to contemplate; and you'll keep right along saving. But the thing that really counts is the first thousand dolhirs. Get that and you're all right. And you'll alwayii be glad you saved it." |