The Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1852-1853, 1853-07-13

liv and hnds a more ready market"
Certainly, because have grated in the
best species. My trees were the same as
yours we're twelve years ago; and with re-
gard t. other matters, think if you will
look about the two places, you will find
that in many respects mine Is the most pro
dusdse. My cows give more milk than
yours de through the winter, because they
have better shed room, and warmer barn.
| raise move pork than you DO, because my
pens and pis-housss are tt ght and comfort
able; and then am Inclined 10 think that
my bees make rather more honey than yours
do, ior my hives are in better order. l
may lot raise more than you dc. but l
guess the rats and squirrels dou't have such
an easy entrance 10 my grain chamber as
they do to yours"
Perhaps you are right" muttered
Holmes, with crest-falen loook; land /
suppose you are laying up money"
Certainly l am--oue or two hundred
dollars every rear"
80 much as thatv' uttered Holmes, with
IA look Of surprise. "Why, l can't lay up
a cent"
"Let me give you bit of a secret" said
Thompson; IN kind, neighborly tone, as
he laid his plane upon the bench. Last
summer you bought four new rakes and a
ptchtork. Now how much did they cost
you.
Lets see; the rakes were twenty-five
cents apiece, and the fork cane.to adollar."
We'll, now my fork handle got broken
accidentally last winter,and SO did some OF
the TakeS; but immediately took such parts
us were good aud brought them up here,
and then at my first opportunity L liked
them up. There are two dollars save1.-
Now you have nothing 10 do to-day"
"No, it rains too hard
"Aud vet you see | am at work. Now
how are you going to get your apple box
es."
"Marston is going to make them for me,
and am going him barrel OF appl, s."
"rhere are two dollars more. Now if
you hire sled made as good as mine, it
viii cost you twelve dollars. That will be
sixteen dollars that | have laid up, while
you have been able to do nothing. Now
lei us see now that sixteen dollars will null
tiply itself. You sold your wool last spring
as soon as YOU sheared your sheep"
Eyes, | did to, for needed the money"
"And how much did you get?"
Thirty cents pomnd."
"If you had had sixteen dollars by you
in ready cash, you wouldn't have been obh-
ged 70 have Sold them"
"No," returned Holmes, whose eyes were
beginning to open. Il could have squee-
zed along with that sum-"
Now continued Thompson, al sold
my wool yesterday, and they sent to my
door and took it, | got forty-two cents a
pound forit. had one hundred and sew
nty-hve pounds, and by reckoning it over
after had sold it, found that had made
just twenty-one dollars; that is, | had ob-
taided twe!ve cents more on pound than
| should if had sold when you did. So
you see how these little things multiply
themselves"
'And all this comes Of your having tools
to work with" said Holmes, in Il SORT Of
subdued tone.
"Mostty," returned Thompson.
"Weli if had tools might save a good
many small sums in the course of a year,
bnt never had the money TO spare for
them. Why, the tools you have here in the
house, over and above your farming uten-
sis, must be worth fifty collars"
"Just about that sum"
"rhen | fear | shall have to scrape along
with borrowed tools. can never spare any
such sun, as thas."
"You don't understand the secret, Mr.
Holmes. Let me explain. | never should
have gone with fifty dollar bill, and
bought tools; but have collected them
gradually. l have bought every tool |
have on my premises with my greg mon
ey."
"Groq money" reiterated Holmes, in
blank surprise.
"Yes," returned Thompson, with slight
smie-,"with my gros money. Now, l. am
not going TO give You y temperance lecture,
for you are as well able to Judge for your
self as | am; but am going to give you a
litte principle of economy, and show you
its consequent comfort, content and happl-
ness. The first year ! was on this farm l
used occasionally to take little spirit, and
whenever would go to :he village, which
was usually twice week, would drink
two or three times. knew not that l ex-
perienced any bad effect from from it; but
am confident it did me no good, and that
it was habit that might grow into a big
evil. AS near as | could calculate, the
spirit had used cost me on an average
twenty five cents week. suppose it costs
you that now"
eyes, every cent Of it."
"Well, | commenced on the FIRST day of
January to lay up my grog money, AMI
with that disposition came peculiar desire
to save in other ways, and soon found the
means of stopping up many more gaps in
my financial affairs"
81 saw how much might be saved if l
could only do some OF the work that J. was
then obliged to pay for, and TO this en1
commenced buying such tools as thought
would come most handy AT the end OF
the first year | found myself the owner of
thirteen dollars worth Of tools, and it all
come from the money that | might have
Otherwise drank up. | felt stronger and
htartier than did before, apd felt much
happier, for [ new that was laying the
foundation for future good. Time passed
on, and my twenty-five cents a week kept
coming in. Ii was now IA saw, then ham
mer, then another plane, then new auger;
then bit-stock and bits, until in eleven
years have not only collected an excel