Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-05-29

Hoehandle should owe man thousand dol
lars-hillo! Don't sigh so man what's the
matter Pay, Tape, Yardstick and Co.
There you are, sir, here is the check
! Thank you, Hoehandle, here is our note !;
had it ready before we left home, kney you
would oblige me-
AS was observing, Yardstick you city
merchants do have an easy time of it. Go
to New York, buy your stock, sell at profit,
buy again, sell again, roll up your hundred
thousands in few years and poor John
Hoehandle works like a slave six months out
OF twelve, up in the morning at daylight, and
works at least four hours before dinner, and
sometimes two after dinner, and in harvest
time from sunrise to sun set. Yes sir, it is
fact, and what have we to show for it! Why,
after thirty years toll, sir, have only this
farm of three hundred acres, worth, perhaps,
thirty dollars an acre, and perhaps little
bank stock, purchased with its yearly prof
! its
And pray, my good friend, what have you
averaged per year, clear profits, over all ex-
penditures, for all this terrible labor for thir-
ty years.
Not over two thousand dollars year,
Yardstick, while you make ten
Let me see, farm worth nine thousand
thirty years proft-sixty-nine thousand, and
a large yearly income beside; poor fellow
why you are to be pitied.
Il know it, | know it-all in luck, all in
luck. All, if had only been a merchant
! Let me ask Hoehandle, your products
are all sold for cash down, | think. Never
credit out do you!'
! Credit! What, credit grain, wheat! Gre
dit my wool Credit my live stock! Ex-
cuse me, ha! ha! You do not know what
farming is, | see. o, no sir, our produce is
cash. All we raise is cash at the door, Why,
| am plagued to death by produce buyers and
purchasers of live stock, wool buyers, and all
the rest of them, who will gladly advance
me eighty per cent, on my produce here, and
pay me the other twenty in thirty days Gre
use it. But Yardstick, they tell me you are
getting rich.
'Hoehandle, how will you exchange prop
erty with me, insight, unseen, as the boys
say; you know how-how stand-do you
HoehaEdle 2
'Stand, yes sir; why the firm of Tape
Yardstick & Co., are good for two hundred
thousand at any moment. They say that you
sold that amount last year alone
True, so we did, on paper, and we are
worth something handsome, too, on paper
but sir, we cannot feed ourselves OH paper
not build houses with paper.
well, we'll, see-all CANNON, you dog
you. You are rich, you know you are.
am sorry that thirty-fve years ago, did no
make myself dry goods clerk; but here
|; am, toiling, year after year, and show bu
little for it, while you sit at your desk ant
, count up your weekly receipts as they rain
, down-yes, fairly rain down upon you. Al
me, nothing but farmer, and not wortl
much at that Yardstick, I'll give my farm
and the balance of my property, for your share
in your firm. For all your property, at (;
venture, there
My good friend, you are really envious o
my luck as you call it; be frank now arr
you!
, Yes, am, Yardstick. / can't help it.
, Here, it is only dig-dig-dig. want, be
t fore die, to be merchant
, And before | die, want to be a farmer
: so if we do not exchange property, mind yol
| nv good friend, it will be your own fault
/ Nay don't stare So
what! what Yardstick, you astonisl
me. You want to be farmer ha! ha! a maj
t rood for a hundred thousand before he dies
= in splendid business, rolling up his pile, t
D throw away his prospects and take hold OF tn
dirty plow-handle- joke, ha! ha! Yo'
| take my offer then, do you?'
HoehandIe, my friend, a sober word o
: two with you. have done business thlrt
1 wears. Have sold millions of dollars wort
: of roods. Have made and lost much money
: Have credited large stocks ofgoods out, whlc
myself bought on credit, and have stoo
It wear after year, over the brink of pent-u
h volcano, expecting that those who owed m
!; would explode and blow me INTO atoms
/. Sleepless nights-weary days. Headache
f. ond boartaches. Constant fear that | coul
not keep my chin above water. Obliged
raise money at high, exorbitant rates of int
c rest, to take up my paper with, because m
n debtors were so long winded in their pay
e ments to me. Stocks depreCiating in value
Fashions changing. Dishonest clerks specr
9 lating from my money drawer. All, my frien