Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1858-01-15

II 'llWanteus 10 borroWt a. dollars toi
lEsix months. or for raay year,if he could. Mss
What ye going to do with it'a asked
itLymans >al24Ss5 S9E .st.ssH Il NV !.
If Il want to make some improvements
in my barn cellarst and also, enlarge the
building by putting on a. tiesups thus
throwing tie catelsFont ofsmy main barn.
- l. deolare.p p Polahd. .gitssitoo badal. said
Lyman, pityingly. Here. we laid ,up
over two hundred dollars clear cash. and
you arc, worse off than n6thing--im debt,
By the Jihgo. John. Iidon't want to see
you foolipg away money so.l Your. barn
is large enough-as large ssmine is with
double your land to empty into it. If 1
lend you a hundred dollars whatsass
rance have i that Ishall ever see it
again !? I'd rather, let it GO where I
kuowiit is safe. / tshouldn'tlw ant to sue
you, and 1 might not get It, without.
Your farm is as good as mine. snduyou
have no more need to be borrowing than
have, you shouldn't have9 ~
John Poland didn't saylanything about
the two animals he had boughtsar year
and half before, and the calf they had
yielded him. for which he had been offer:
ed, within the week, four hundred doll
lars. 8 He owned that amount of stock
over and above the stock owned by Ly-
man. He turned the subject of conversa-
ton as quickly as possible, for he wanted
to hear no reason from his friend for not
lending him the money! tGama1t-.i "a
That afternoon .heiwent to see thernian
of whom he had bought this new stock.
who readily lent himo the money he need
ed.l9 tg...,st -! n, ns5', l5'..s f,,z
What fool II said Ly man, as he saw
the carpenters at work tearing away one
side Of his neighbours barn. preparatory
to adding an apartment capable Of aci
commodsting forty>five mead of cattle. ,
However, Poland worked onland tried in
vain. to get his neighbor to listen to some
of his advice. ID y-d ,a ns1sH1 .3.i
Don't talk to me- cried Lyman. at the
end of the secondyear. Pyeigotl four
hundred dollars at interest. How much
have you got?
"a thousand or SO, returned the 9TH
er. 10
'Eh What do you mean 2.i ,.iii
Why, all the money have laid out
on this place is on interest, .asei
'Oho, aha, ha, ha,--and how much ih-
terest have you realized 2 ,5a.9Cii -
So far I've let it run at compound in
terest-put the interest rightiin with the
principal and there it lies.''. as CT
Yea, and there it will lie. I DOM.
believe you canlraise fifty dollars now in
cash -
You are are right Lyman--I could
not raise it without selling something
whichI do not lat: present wish to part
with ss,o9 !susli ~ BOZ
'Iuhought SO. But. take your own
way
Eredong AnsonLyman was astopished
to find that bis neighbor had subscribed
for third newspaper. besides buying o.
lot ofbooks for his childrent
What's the, use 2 hersaid, as he, sat
in his Heighbor's front room. and saw
large ipilelof books on the ,shells,It LIDO
not want my tchildPenltb be spending
their time over books.ii They get SCHOOL,
ing enough when our. school is open.sviia
itSo Imean that my children Shalbleatn
to'work, returned Poland, but thstIshall
not prevent them from becoming we'll edq
ucated. would NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. with
good health. good characters hndjwell eds
ucaLed, than with thousands of dollars
each; minus, the. Led ucaLion.'
l'Oho, that 8 dth e,1way you imsant to
lay,iup a Thousand dollars; 70 have in
books and paperspi.and neB,4iehps, and
such like.iSGsH 10 ssiisuos ai moIi nci
lyon shallsee W hen! ther time is npIou,
1--WE shall,p retuTbed 1yuid1p aa he
turned toward 8, homea 5iiai lhisuss 1sdiia
Mr. Lyman hadnot!fullyi realized how
m ucL corn Poland had received from the
land be had manured so care fully : and
so heavily |; snd5,on sthe,a seepnd1syear
he only noticed that~his ineighbor had
extiaordinsry good, lack @iih2his wheat,
getting about 80 bushels from three
scrss. Bot he had occasion to open his
eyes on the thirdtyear.a. - !G Hoagoh
One evening just at sundoRn, ,hetRept
over intoaPoland'sa field. where 4he, men
we're, just finishing making up al thfee
acre piece where the grain bad beenlthe
the year before-th6 first piece the pr6b>
entowner had oploged up and dfessedH
I Beenrpoling some hay on hetegashid
Lyman as he saw the huge tbunehes. Of
hay nearly ssthiek as they could stand
Moths was all cut from three aeresI'
returned Poland; se5 .qiJise qoiq sshR
Lyman counted the bundles and there
estimated tbeirsaVefage weight. and npoh
reckoning up.he found the land had yield
ed not far from Al tons sper. 9aereil He
had just got in theatWo acres Hhiehs he
had first dressed upon the farm, and be
had obtained short!of two tons per iacFs
He knew that Poland had gotatenDbnsh.
els per acre of wheat more than he had
done .land also more Of corn. He; ;begSn
to think, buthe ,sonld not letthis money
coupon sheH 'ezpsrimentf upon hisplaee.
The five years came. around and Anson
Lyman went on that day = aud sold II
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