M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1855-03-02


have not read the papers, in yain.-I
They have learned how to set out a
tree, and how to take care of it after
it was set out. Everything showed il
received the right kind of food aud
care, and straightway began to bring
forth fruit meet for good cultivation
In short time the wants of the family
were more than supplied, and the sur
Iplus found ready market with the
lneighbors al good prices. -
Those early apples,so rich and tempt
ing, when all other apples were so
lgreen and hard; and then such pears;
they went as fast as the sun and house
could ripen them, at three, four, and
five cents apiece. Then, such rich,
ripe grapes--too tempting for the colds
est to pass without watering mouth.
! Mr.. Chapman's family were among the
best customers Tor the tempting fruit
frst having learned their excellence by
the liberality. Of MIR. Briggs, who nev.
er failed to send specimen of his best
to all his neighbors.
4 The filth season came. II was a
fruitful year. Apple, e,peat, peach, plum,
and all other trees were loaded with
fruit, Keeping in mind his converse
tion with Mr.. Chapman, MIR. Briggs
had directed his family to set down
every CENTS worth of fruit sold to Mr..
Chapman or his family. This year,
: as it happened, was a year OF 'extreme
hard tines The boot business was
at its lowest ebb; little work and very
low wsges-and yet the price Of every
bind oil provisions was up to the high
: est notch, and money extremely tight.
But there was one family that did
not seem to be in the least affected by
. the herd times, low prices OF labor,
! high prices Of provisions, or the scar.
: city OF money: MIR. Briggs and his two
) oldcsi sens, all Of them had little
, spare change to let on short time with
interest to their needy neighbors.
!, One cay Mr.. Chapman, who wa,
sho,t applied to blr. briggs for a half
for a quarter meaning fifty dollarsf fo
! three months. '.l
yes said Mr.. Briggs, q have
half or whole, just as you like
What hundred dollars by you
> .heco lard times? | don't see how i
!, comes. You and your boys don't v orl
|, any harder than ! and my boys do ans
!, = We can hardly get along; we are as sa,
wing shd pinehing as can be, too; time,
> are SO dreadful hard, everything a fam
lily Las to buy is SO dreadful high, art
wages SO low; potatoes dollar d bush
ell, beef fifteen cents a pound, pork
> sixteen cents eggs twenty-five cents 9
dozen, and flour ten ortwelve dollars {
= barrel. llcy c@u man liveP 70
'lt won't be hardly fair Tor me TO asl
> Iyou for that twenty-five dollars now
willit?' ~. .'' '.' 70 Fl. '
twenty-five dollars! What do yov
meanY | don't understand you'll
: Don't you recollect we have be
/ between Us about tie price Of some
; $ fruit trees ! bought Eve years ago mex
: springT" I,
, 'Ah! / do remember something
about i, You were to give me twenty
FIVE dollars If you didn't get your twen
J Ity five dollars back from ME for tn
! products Of those trees and things?
will come very handy just how!'
:, Don't be too fast, neighbcr. an
rafraid it won't come very handy jus
now. That was what was dunnln!
you Tor, that twenty-five dollarsp =.
'What? you don't pretend TO say
s we have had twenty-five dollars wortl
" oil, stuGsfrom your gardenP' .si
'More than that from that verl
, twenty-five dollars worth Of trees ant
! things! Here is an account OF every
:, thing you have bought and paid iorj o
course it don't include what sent yoI
!, gratis. s'.' .,.
y 'And you have certainly not bee
= Estingy.' Why, this bill amounts t
thirty>seven dollars! 1t is not pos 81
,, Lblep' ! 5isidl s.i5,aats.aI
Its just.soj you have had over TWEEN
:, ty bushels OF apples, and three bush
els Of pears, aud thvse alone amount L
= twenty-five dollars .itL .a -
? Il ownup the corn; draw up the not
. Tor sevehty-fye.'aaaL a.Gi ~ Lr"
mo, j guess we will let the twenty
! five 60, Ionly mention il to show yov
! that there may be good sense in new
things sometimes, How win bet tn,
; elty-fye dollars over again that MI
store bill has not been, the past season
. half as large as yours, though have
one more in my family sl
II If I had not been SO badly taken il
before, Iwould stand you; but guess
! it won't be safe. 'f.' ''-" 'F 80
@sWe have raised our own potatoes
: corn, peas, DEANS, and other garden veg
etables. Our eggs are always fresh
, , and abundant from tie nest; and foI
more than two years we have not beer
without ripe, fresh truit. '.l'. W ~
!, How Can that be?",s ~ 7'' .. ..,. 2,.'" 'i
.Eo, by the cultivation Of different vari'
i lelies, and putting them away accord
d ing to- the most approved manner rec
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