The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1852-03-17
Have a Place for your Tools.

been hunting long enough to do my work
twice over, and can't find the shovel" /
The farmer was wroth.
81 don't know where It's, father; summers
about l suppose"
The two joined in the search.
"Nathan, you have left the shovel where
you have worked, l know. Why don't you
ever put the tools in their places?" !
"Where is the place for the shovel, l
should like to know, father?"
He couldn't tell. 1t had no place. Some
times it was laid in the wagon, and occasion
ally accompanied that vehicle when harnes'
sed in hurry. Sometimes it was hung up
with the harness, to fall down when not
wanted, or get covered up when it was. A
great deal of shoe leather had come to nought
by that shovel 1t had at times more than
the obliviousness of Sir John Franklin, and
defed discovery. So it was with all the other
tools. They would seem to vanish at times,
and then come to light, rusty as old nnchors
The farmers barn was crowded. He had
no "spare ROOM there. There were sever
al in his dwelling. But the barn was always
crammed-it was kind of mammoth sas-
sauge-stutfed every year. So there was no
room for special apartment for the tools.
In his imagination he never saw his hoes
hung on long cheat, his chains all regular
in row, his rakes and his long forks over
head; certainly he was never anxious for
such convenient room.
Why?
4 His father never had tool house, and his
father was called good farmer.
So he was then--in his day-but there
are better husbandmen now, let me say, and
f | desire to shock no ones veneration.
Did they find the shovel? No! they might
as well have searched for the philosophers
stone, seemingly. Nathan started for Mr.
Goodman's to borrow one, Their work
must be done, and borrow he must.
~ don't know as you can Jfnd one in my
tool house." replied Mr.. Goodman.
Nathan noticed that he bore down on some
of his words like man on a plou ghbeam
Didn't he mean something? Nathan wen
to the tool-room thoughtfully. A wide dool
on wheels opened with slight push, anc
there were Goodman's tools-enough, Ma
than thought, to equip company ofsapper'
and miners! Hatchets, axes, saws, tree
scrapers, grating tools, hoes, diggers, shov'
els, spades, pick-axes, crow bars, ploughs
Iharrows, cultivators, seedsowers, sieves
trowels, ptchforks, rakes, fails, chains, ,yoke'
muzzles, crow-twine, baskets, measures-al
were there, neatly ard compactly arranged
E 1t was Goodman s ark to save him from the
delugc of unthrift. Here every night the
tools were brought in and wiped clean, and
hung up in their places. The next morning
: a job could be commenced at once. Good
man knew. lie partioned off large room
: in his new barn for tools. 1t was centra
and easy of access. ltwas a pleasant plac'
S for visitor; the tools were the best of thei
kind Every new shovel, or rake, or fork
a before used, was well oiled with linseed oil
which left the wood smooth and imperviou
1 to water. Goodman frequently says, "lha'
: rather have the few hundred dollars / hav
e spent for tools so invested than the same il
0 rail1oa stock. 1t pays BETTER
e Now there is no patent on Goodman's pal
and l hope many will go into it: the NOR
= successful limitations" the better Com
monuedith.