The banker, knowing he was a stayer, lent him the cash he needed, and so he became a property owner.

He no longer slept in the haymow but had a room of his own and other rooms to rent to the "high-toned traveling men." From this I learned that laborers became capitalists when they saved their money.

Right then I made up my mind that some day mother would own a home.

If father couldn't save the money to buy it, I would.

Years afterward a wealthy Pittsburgh man who had just built a fine residence in the fashionable section of that town found himself in difficulties and unable to occupy the house.