150 THE FREEDMEN’S SAVINGS BANK 
putting small sums in the savings bank. Take this good 
word then: Avoid bad habits, and put your savings in the 
bank. 
7. (BookLET, 1869, p. 13) 
How a Man Saves Money by Leaving Off Tobacco.—A 
man once found, on examining his expenses at the end of 
the year, that he had spent in the year— 
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YViAnd for his familys bread. ine ail 2E 
He said to himself, “I have wronged my family out of 
this $52. I will never touch the weed again.” Up to this 
day he has not touched it. That was ten years ago. Now 
how much has this man saved? 
Inone year. ..... uc oveencnvvonmerntnn i352 
I ten Years. ot eae nn eh 520 
which with interest at the rate paid by the National Sav- 
ings Bank, makes $678.09. 
How to Get Rich—If a boy at 15 years of age lays by 
ten cents a day in our Bank, when he is 21 years old he 
will be worth $257.01. 
If a young girl should save one dollar a week, and put 
it in our Bank and keep on doing it for a year, she would 
have $53.70. In five years she would be worth, in cash, 
$297.20. 
If a laboring man should put in the bank $10 a month, 
In one year he would have...........$ 124.00 
Infivewears, 00 0 at 2) 
Intenyears...s...  .covinv arisen... 1,565.93 
A young man at the age of 17 determined to lay by 
and put in the National Savings Bank at interest One 
Dollar every week till he should reach the age of 27. At 
the age of 27 he married a wife and set up housekeeping. 
He had in clear cash $678.09. His wife then commenced 
to aid him. They determined to save one dollar a week. 
They did this for three years, when they were worth in 
cash, $1,123.74.