The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-08-18

which she stated that she could NO
think of uniting her destinies with a ma
who could only delve in the earth for
living Peter shed few tears over th
unexpected note, and he reasoned o
the subject, and finally blessed his fate
for he was sure such girl was not wha
he needed for wife,
i = When the first of July came, Pete
reckoned up his accounts, and be foun,
that Mr.. Stevens was owing him jus
two dollars, and all he owed in the worlt
was the seventy-five dollars for manure
On the third day of July he carried t,
the hotel, ten dollars worth of greer
peas, beans and radishes and in thre,
days afterwards he carried to the city
twenty eight dollars worth. Toward
the end of the month he had sold on,
hundred and thirty dollars worth o
early potatoes, beans, peas, etc. Their
he had early corn enough to bring him
fifteen dollars more Ere lopg his mel
ons were ripe, n dealer in the city hat
engaged them all lie had six hundred
fair melons, for which he received four
teen cents piece by the lot, making
eighty four dollars for the whole.
During the whole summer Peter was
kept busy in attending to the gathering
and selling of the products of his hill
side. He helped Mr.. Stevens in haying
and about some other matters-enough
SO that he could have some help when be
wanted it. When the last harvesting
came, he gathered in seventy-eight bush.
els af corn, and four hundred bushels Of
potatoes, besides turnips, squashes
pumpkins, etc, and eighteen bushels oi
white b. ans
On the first day of November, Peter
White sat down and rcckoned up the
proceeds of his land, and he found that
the piece was yielding him just five hun.
dred and FIVE dollars; besides this he
had corn, potatoes, beans, aud vegeta-
bles sufficient for his own use That
winter he worked for Mr.. Stevens, at
getting out lumber for twenty five dol
lars per month; and when spring came,
he was ready to 60 at his land again.
In the meantime, Waiter Sturgis had
worked year at fashionable calling
for three hundred dollars, and at the
end of the term he was the absolute
owner of just two dollars.
Say, Peter, you aren't going to work
on that land another season, are you ?"
asked Walter, as the two met in the
street one evening.
ITO be sure l am" was the response
"But here's Sironds wants clerk,
and 1 told him 1 guessed you would be
glad to come"
"W hat will he pay ?''
''Three hundred"
"Ah, Walter, can make more than
that from my land"
Sturgis opened his eyes in astonish-
ment.
"i our'e joking" said he.
"No, sir. l received FIVE hundred
and five dollars in money last season
Seventy five of that went for manure !;
but some of that manure is now on
hand, as I found the land so rich last
year as not to need much over half of it.
This season 1 shall have two hundred
dollars worth of strawb berries, if moth.
ing happens unusual"
'And you don't have to work any
winters to do this ?''
mo, four months labcr is about all l
can lay out to advantage on it,"
Walter went to his store, and during
the rest Of the evening he wondered
how it was that some folks had such
luck.
During the second season Peter had
experience for guide, and he filled up
many gaps that he left open the year be:
fore. His strawberries turned out bet,
ter than he anticipated, and he made
better arrangement for his melons.-
Aud then from all that land whereon
he planted his early, vegetables, etc, he
obtained asecond crop of much value
1t was but one half hours drive in the
city, and he always obtained the bighes:
prices, for he brought the earliest vege-
tables in the market.
On the first of the next November be
had cleared seven hundred dollars for
the season over aud above all expenses.
Que morning, after the crops were all
in, Peter found a man walking about
over the land. and as the young man
came up the stranger asked him who
owned the hillside.
1T is mine, SIR" replied Peter.
The man looked about, and then
went away, and on the next day he
came again with two others. They
looked over the place, and they seemed
to be dividing it off into small lots
They remained about an hour and then
went away. Peter suspected this land
was wanted for something. That even
ing he stepped in at the post Office. and
there he beard that a railroad was going
to be put through the village as soon as
workmen could be set at it.
On the next morning Peter went out
upon his land, and as he reached the up
er boundary and turned and looked
down the truth flashed upon him. His
hillside had gentle, easy slope, and the
view from any part of it was delightful.
A brook ran down through it, from an
exhaustless spring up 10 the ledge,
and the locality would be cool and
agreeable in summersand warm in win
ter. At the foot of the hill, to the left,
lay small lake, while the river, ran in
sight for several miles.
"Of course" soliloquised Peter, "they
think this would make beautiful build
ing spots. And wouldn't it :? Curious
that l never thought of it before. Aud
then when the railroad comes here, peo- |
pie from the city will want their dwell
ing here But this land is valuable
It Is worth-let me see-say six hun |
ired dolara year can easily get eight or
nine hundred for what can raise here, !
and l know that two hundred dollars
will pay me good round price for all
the labor I perform on it. And then
when my peach trees grow up and my
,trawberry beds increase-Ho-itsm more