The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-02-02

let on short time, with interest," to their needy
ueighbors.
One day Mr. Chapman, who was short, aPpli-
ed to Mr.. Briggs for half for a quarter;
meaning fiftv dollars for three months.
Yes said Mr.. Briggs. i have half or a
whole just as you like
What, hundred dollars by you these hard
times? | don't see how it comes. lou and your
bows don't work any harder than | and my boys
do, and We can hardly get along we are as saV-
ing and pinching can be, too; times are so
dreadful hard, and every thing q family has to
buv is 50 dreadful high and wages 50 low; pota-
toes dollar bushel, beef, fifteen cents pound,
pork sixteen cents, eggs twenty-five cents doz-
zen, and flour ten or twelve dollars a barrel
How can man liye?'
1t won't be hardly fair for me to ask you for
that twenty five dollars now, will i.?'
'Twenty-fi dollars What DO You mean? l
don't understand you?'
Don't YOU recollect we had a BET between US
about the price Of some fruit trees bought five
years ago next spring?'
"Ah | do remember something about it
You were to give me twenty five dollars if You
didn't get your twenty five dollars back from me
for the products ofthesc trees and things. 1t will
come very handy just now
Don't be too fast, neighboro am afraid it
won't come very handy just now. That was
what l was dunning you for, that twenty five
dollars
What, you don't pretend to say we have had
twenty five dollars worth of stuff from your
gardeu?'
More than that from that very twenty five dol
lars worth Of trees and other things, Here is
an account of every thing that YOU have bought
and paid for of course, 1t don't include what l
have sent you gratis
And you have certainly not been stingy.-
Why the bill amounts to thrty-seyen dollars
is it possible,'
1T is just so; you have had over twenty bushels
of apples, and three bushels of pears, and these
alone come to twenty five dollars
Il own up the corn draw the note for seven
ty-fve.'
NO | guess we will let the twenty-five go; l
only mentioned it to show You that there may be
good sense in new things sometimes. Now, l
will bet the twenty-five dollars over again, that
my store bill has not been half as large the past
season as yours, though | have had one more in
nv family
If had not been so badly taken in before.
| would stand you; but guess it won't be safe. >
I'VE have raised our own potatoes, corn, peas,
beans, and all other garden vegetables Our eggs
are always fsosh and in abundance from the nest;
and for more than two years, have not been
without ripe, fresh fruit
+ Well, | declare, that is something | never
thought of hut it takes much tirno and he.ha-
to get these things sarted-then it is everlast-
ing Job to take care of them
1t needs no more time and money than you
throw away on things that amount to nothing at
all, and an abundance of fruit will save the ex-
pense of heavy meat bill, which is not healthy
in hot weather. No doctor has been called to set
foot in my door for over four years past. Fresh,
ripe fruits remedies for all ailments, and
they are not hard to take
Mr.. Chapman put the fifty into his 'weazel
skin, and left with a flea in his ear. -NeU Eng
land Farmer.