The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1852-07-01

WHERE IS THE SHOVEL. where
is the shovel! Here I've been hunting long
enough to do my work twice over, and can't
find the shovel"
The farmer vas wroth. -
81 don't know where It's, father; summers
about, suppose"
The two joined in the search.
Nathan, you have left the shovel where
you have worked, know. Why don't you
always put the tools in their places"
"Where is the place for the shovel, should
like to know, father!"
He couldn't tell. 1t hadrsplace. Some
times it was laid in the wagon, and occa-
sioHally accompanied the. vehicle when
harnessed in a 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 tor
nought by that shovel 1t had at times more
than the oblviousness of Sir John Franklin,
and defied discovery. So it was with all the
other tools. They would seem to vanish at
times, and then come to light, rusty as old
anchors.
The farmers barn was crowded. He had
no 'spare room" there. There were several
in his dwelling. But the barn was always
crammed-it was a kind of mammoth sau-
sage-stuffed every year. So there was no
room for special apartment for the tools.
In his imagination he never saw his hoes
hung on long cleat, his chains all regular
in row, his rakes and his long forks over
head; certainly he was never anxious for
such convenient room.
Why! ..j
His fatier neusr had tOol-hoHSe, and his
father was called good farmer.
So he was, then-in his days-but there
are better husbandmen now, let me say, and
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
81 don't know as you can find one in my
tool house" replied Mr.. Goodman.
Nathan noticed that he bore down on
some of his words like man on a plowbeam.
Didn't he mean something! Nathan went
to the tool room thoughtfully. A door on
wheels opened with q slight push, and there
were Goodmdh's tools-ehongh, Nathan
JuOugHt; W Suulp COiupdiiI vi rdpptIo anu
miners! Hatchets, axes, saws, tree-scra-
pers, grating tools, hoes, diggers, shovels,
spades, pick-axes, crow-bars, plows, harrows,
cultivators, seed-sowers, sieves, trowels.
rakes, pitchforks, fails, chains, yokes, muz-
zles, ropes, crowtwine, baskets, measures
all were there, neatly and compactly ar
ranged. 1t was Goodman's Grk-to save
him from the deluqe of unthrift! Here every
night the tools were brought in and wiped
clean, and hung up in their places. The
next morning job could be commenced at
once Goodman knew. He partitioned off
a large room in his new barn for tools. II was
central and easy of access. 1t was pleas
ant place for a visitor; the tools were the
best of their kind. Every new shovel or
rake, or fork, before used, was we'll oiled
with linseed oil, which lift the wood smooth
and impervious to water. Goodman fire..
quently says, "I had rather have the few
hundred dollars have spent for tools 30 in.
vested than the same in railroad stock. Il
pays better" .
Now there is no patent on Goodman'i
plan, and hope many will go into it--thI
more successful limitations" the better
West JERSEY Pioneer.