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Results of Saving Small Amounts of Money. 



The followiiii*" shows how easv it is to aecuiinilate a 

 fortune, provided proper steps are taken. The table 

 shows what would be the result at the end of fifty years 

 by saving a certain amount each day and putting it at 

 interest at the rate of six per cent. : 



Daily Savings The Result Daily Savings The Resu 



One cent $950 Sixty cents 57,02.4 



Ten cents 9,504 Seventy cents 06,528 



Twenty cents 19,006 Eighty cents 76,032 



Thirty cents 28,512 Ninety cents 85,537 



Forty cents 38,015 One dollar 95,041 



Fifty cents 47,520 Five dollars 465,208 



Nearly every person wastes enough in twenty or thirty 

 years, which, if saved and carefully invested, would 

 make a family quite independent; but the principle of 

 small savings has been lost sight of in the general desire 

 to become wealthy. 



Time at Which Money Doubles at Interest. 



Rate .Simple Interest - '^Compound 'interest 



Two per cent 50 years 35 years, 1 day 



Two and one-luill per ceiit. . 40 years 28 years, 26 days 



Three per cent 33 years, 4 months. 23 years, 164 days 



Tlirce and one-halt' per cent. . 28 years, 208 days. 20 years, 54 days 



I'our per cent 25 years 17 years, 246 days 



Four and one-half per cent. . 22 years, 81 days.. 15 years, 273 days 



Five per cent 20 years 15 years, 75 days 



Six per cent 16 years, 8 months. 11 years, 327 days 



One dollar loaned one hundred years at compound 

 interest at three per cent, would amount to $19.25, at six 

 per cent, to $340.00. 



