It Is Saying That Tells

"They say these are hard times," remarked a prominent citizen, a day or two since. "I believe it is more in the people than anything else. Here is an instante. About two years ago I loaned a man $550 with whieh to complete his liouse. Since then he has paid me not only tlie interest, but $275 on the principal, and has just informed me that he has $100 more ready to pay me. "ïliis man," oontinued the p. c, has earned every cent of thia money and saved it out of a salary of $1.50 a day, ór $468 a year, and 1 cannot sec hou he doos it." "Perhaps lie has no family," was suggested. "Yes he has," was the reply, and "two children have been born to them since they moved into the house. And they seem to live comfortably and dress respectably, also. You see it isn't what a man earns, but it a what he saves. I know of another family, with the same number in it. tba( costs the man of the house over $'3,000 a year. Thai 's the difference in people, you The pencil pusher nodded assent to the proposition atid the prominent citizimi moved on, wondering where lie could put that coming $100 so that it wonld bring him in something and be perfectly safe. The newspaper man moved on also, thinking what u good item the p. c. had unconsciously given him.