280 LECTURE XXIII. 



During the Crimean war the Army Works 

 Corps sent home 35,OOOZ. of their savings. 



The celebrated George Stephenson, who laid 

 out so many miles of railroad, told me one day 

 that he began life as a poor labouring boy, and 

 that it was a source of great joy to him when his 

 wages were raised to 12s. a-week, and he said 

 that he was then a made man. He not only 

 maintained himself upon his 12s., but helped his 

 poor parents, and paid for his own education. 

 When his wages were advanced to 20s. a-week, 

 he immediately began, like a thoughtful, intel- 

 ligent workman, to lay by his surplus money, 

 and when he had saved his first guinea he 

 proudly declared to one of his brother-workmen 

 that he was now a rich man ; and he was right. 

 For a man who, after satisfying his own wants, 

 had something to spare, is no longer poor ; and 

 a person of great experience has declared that 

 he never knew amongst the labouring class of a 

 man who, having out of his small earnings laid 

 by a pound, had in the end become a pauper. 

 In order to show what diligence and intelligence 

 will do, I may mention that Mr. Stephenson 

 told me some years ago that he had lived to lay 

 out forty millions of money in railroads and 



