The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1855-03-01

ntighbors at good pficces.
Those early apples, 50 rich and tempt
ing. when all olher apples were so green
aud hard; and then such pears; they went
as last ss the sun and house could riPen
Them, at three. tour and five cents piece.
Then such Gich, ripe graPes--ioo tempt
ing for the coolest to pass without wa
terng mouth. Mr.. Chapman's family
we're among their best customers tor the
tempting fruit-frst having learned their
excellence by the liberality OF Mr. Briggs,
who never failed to send a specimen Of
his best TO bis neighbor.
The fifth season came. Ii was fruit.
ful year. Apple, pear, peach. plum aud
all other trees were loaded with ilult.-
Keeping in mind his conversation with
Mr.. Chapman, Mr.. Briggs had directed
his family to set down every cents worth
of fruit sold to Mr.. Chapman or his fami.
~. This year, as it happened. was a
wear of extreme hard tines The boot
business was at its lowest ebb; little work
and very low wages-and yet the price
of every kind of provisions was up to the
highest notch, and money extremely
light. .as.a ,.,
But there was one family that did not
seem to be in the least affected by me
hard times, low Prces 0. labor, high Prl,
ces Of provisions, or the scarcity ot mon
ey: MIR. Briggs nd his two oldest sons,
all of them had alitle spare change to
let on short time with interest 10 their
needy neighbors. .a,J a ,aE
One day Mr.. Chapman, who was short
applied 10 Mr.. Btiggs for half for
quarter,' meaning fifty dollars for three
months. s. -.s, >,
Yes said Mr., Briggs, i have hall
or whole just as you like .-s
What. hundred dollars by you, these
times! don't see how it CONES You
and your boys don't work any harder
than | and my boys do and we can hardly
get along; we are as saving and Pinch'ng
as can be, too; times are so hard, and
everything family has to buy is SO
dreadful high, and wages so low; potatoes
dollar a bushel, beef, fifteen cents
pound, pork. sixteen cents, eggs twenty
1--WE cent, dozen, and flour, ten OF twelve
dollars a barrel How can man lVei
1T won't be hardly fair for me to ask
YOU for that twenty five dollars now, will
iP rs' ar-..-
Twenty five dollars! What do you
mean! don't understand you'll
Don't you recollect we have bet be-
tween US about the price OF some iruI
trees bought five years ago next SPRING
.Ah! do remember something about
) it. You were to give me twenty-five dol
lars if you didn't gel your twenty-five
dollars back from me for the products oil
those treest and things! Il will come
very handy just now
Don't be too fast, neighbor. an
: afraid it won't come very handy just now
l That was what was dunning you for
Y that twenty five dollars?
e What! you don't pretend to say W
9 have had twenty-five dollars worth OF stul
d from your garden .
0 More than that from that very twenty
l five dollars worth OF trees and thlngs!-
e Here is an account Of everything yo
have bought and paid for; of course
y don't include what have sent you gra
It's
n And yeu have certainly not been stir
h cy. Why, this bill amounts 10 thirty
n seven dollars! 1t is not possible!'
a .Itis just SO; you have had over twent
r. bushels OF apples, and three bushels
re pears, and those alone amount to twent.
is five dollars.
= i own up the corn; draw the note f
y, seventy FIVE :
I'd NO. guess we will let the twenty fl
I'll 90. | only mention it to show you IN
ie there may be good sense in new thu
- some times. Now will bet the twent
ne five dollars over again that my store b
or has not been, the past season, hall
lis large as yours, though | have had Oh
L. more in my family. :,
BY III | had not been so badly taken
g. before; would stand you; but | guess
ne won't be safe .-....r. ........ ~
gs we have raised our own potatoe
Is. corn, peas, leans. and all other gard
nd vegetables. Our eggs are always tre
- and abundant from the nest; and for mo
he ,hsn two wears we have not been wltho
he ripe. fresh fruit .... ... u.
ch 'How can that beF ...
IN well, | declare that is something
Of never thought of; but it takes so mu
nd lime and bother to get these things s''
| led-then it is an everlasting job TO Ia
nd care of them . +,
ier III needs no more time and money III
MT YOU throw away on things that amo'
ore 10 nothing at all, and with abundance
ex- fruit. you save the expense OF hea
meat bill, which is not healthy IN
vas weather. No doctor has been called
,ed slep foot within my door for four ye
as past! Fresh ripe fruits are sure remeG
TO ior all ailments, and they are not bao
ide take
i'm Mr.. Chapman put the 'hlty INTO
me weasel skin, and.leh with flea in
ws ear ....
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the How 1T WoRKs.--As those who
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10 those who read the most have not alw
oc,h the most knowledge; they sink und'