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FROM TIN WORKER TO SMALL CAPITALIST.
During my term as county recorder at Anderson, Indiana, I saved money.

I was unmarried and had no dissipations but books, and books cost little.
I had lent money to several fellows who wanted to get a business education.

By the year 1906, or ten years after I quit the mill, the money I had lent to men for their education in business colleges had all come back to me with interest.

All my brothers had grown up and left home, and mother wrote that I ought not to send so much money to her as she had no use for it.