“Each worker was given a penny, no more.  Four thousand were given out at one service.  One man put his penny in a neat box, took it to his office, and exhibited his ‘talent’ at a nickel a ‘peep.’  He gained $1.70 the first day of his ‘show,’ A woman bought a ‘job lot’ of molasses with her penny, made it into molasses candy, sold it in square inch cakes, after telling the customer her story; payments were generous and she netted $1.80.  Then the man who sold her the molasses returned her penny.  Another sister established a ‘cooky’ business, which grew rapidly.  One boy kept his penny and went to work, earned 50 cents, the first money he ever earned in his life.  It was a big penny, but he was bubbling over with enthusiasm and in it all went; he brought it straight to his pastor.  One worker collected autographs and sold them.  A boy sold toothpicks.  One young man made silver buttonhooks and a young lady sold them.  A woman traded her penny up to a dollar, made aprons from that time on until she earned $10.  One class of seven girls in the Sunday-school united its capital and gave a supper at the Park and netted $50.  The Young Men’s Bible Class constructed a model of the College building, which they exhibited.  The children gave a supper in the Lower Temple, which added $100 to the College fund.  There came into the treasury $1.00 ‘saved on carfares’; ‘whitewashing a cellar’ brought $3.  Thrice, somebody walked from Germantown to The Temple and back, saving 75 cents; a wife saved $20 from household allowances.  A little girl of seven years went into a lively brokerage business with her penny, and took several ‘flyers’ that netted her handsome margins.  Here is her report—­

“’Sold the “talent penny” to Aunt Libby for seven cents; sold the seven cents to Mamma for 25 cents; sold the 25 cents to Papa for 50 cents.  Aunt Caddie, 10 cents; Uncle Gilman, 5 cents; Cousin Walter, 4 cents; cash, 25 cents,—­$1.04 and the penny talent returned.’

“‘Pinching the market-basket’ sent in $2.50; ’all the pennies and nickels received in four months, $12.70’; ’walking instead of riding, $6.50’; ‘singing and making plaster plaques, $7.’  A dentist bought of a fellow dentist one cent’s worth of cement filling-material; this he used, giving his labor, and earned 50 cents; with this he bought 50 cents’ worth of better filling, part of which he used, again giving his labor, and the College gained $3.00.  A boy sold his penny to a physician for a dollar.  The physician sold the ‘talent penny’ for 10 cents, which he exchanged at the Mint for bright new pennies.  These he took to business friends and got a dollar apiece for them; added $5.00 of his own and turned in $15.00.  Donations of one cent each were received through Mr. William P. Harding, from Governor Tillman of South Carolina, Governor McKinley of Ohio, Governor Russell of Massachusetts.  From Governor Fuller of Vermont—­a rare old copper cent, 1782, coined by Vermont before she was admitted to the Union;