The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-05-13

feed me. We haven't got land here like
those rich alluvial bottoms in the west
My land needs nursing now"
But Anson Lyman couldn't see the
use of wasting money in that way. He
thought the man who would FIRST cut his
tillage land down one-half and then 60
off and buy such a quantity Of manure,
must be little better than foolish. he
WASH such fool, at all events
During the following winter, while
Lyman was cutting and hauling wood TO
the village for two dollars and q half per
cord, "poor" Poland was hauling his to
the tavern to pay for manure which he
hadn't got yeti
It was on the first day Of April that
Poland came to see his neighbor He
wanted to borrow a hundred dollars for
six months, or for a year if he could
"What yo going to do with it?' asked
Lyman
"I want to make some improvements
in my barn cellar and also enlarge the
building by putting on a tie-up, thus
throwing the cattle out Of my main
barn"
"I declare Poland. It's too bad, said
Lyman, pityingly. "Here I've laid up
over two hundred dollars clear cash, and
you are worse off than nothing--in debt.
BY the jingo, John, I don't want to see
you fooling away money so. Your barn
| is large enough-as large as mine is with
double your land to empty into it. lfl
lend you a hundred dollars what assur-
anoe have I that I shall ever see it2 ia
rather let it go where 1 know it is safe.
l shouldn't want to sue you, and / might
not get it without. Your farm is as
good as mine, and you have no more
need to be borrowing than 1 have,
you shouldn'thave"
John Poland didn't say anything
about the two animals he had bought a
year and half before, and the calf they
/ had yielded him, for which he had been
offered within the week four hundred
/ dollars. He owned that amount of
stock over and above the stock owned
! by Lyman. He turned the subject of
conversation as quickly as possible, for
| he wanted to hear no more reasons from
his friend for not lending him the
money.
That afternoon he went over to see
the man of whom he had bought this
new stock, who lent him the money he
needed readily.
"What fool" said Lyman, as he saw
the carpenters at work tearing away one
whole side of his neighbors barn, pre-
paratory to adding an apartment capa-
! BILE of accommodating fOrty-hve "head
of cattle" However, Poland worked
on, and tried in vain to get his neighbor
to listen to some of his advice.
"Don't talk to me, cried Lyman, at
the end Of the second year. "Ive got
four hundred dollars at interest. How
much have you got?'
"a thousand OR so,' returned the
other
"Ah? What do you mean?"
"Why, all the money I have laid out
on this place is on interest"
"Oho-ah, ha ha, ha,-and now how
much interest have you realized?'
$50 far I've let it all run at compound
interest--put the interest right in with
the principal, and there it lies"
eyes, and there it will lie. / don't
believe you can raise fifty dollars now in
cash"
"You are right, Lyman could not
raise it without selling something which
I do not wish at present to part with"
81 thought SO. But take your own
way"
Ere long Anson Lyman was astonish,
ed to find that his neighbor had sub
scribed for a third paper, besides buying
lot Of books for his children.
"Whats the use2" he said, as he sat
in his neighbors front room, and saw a
large pile of books on the shelf. 81
want my children to learn to work-not
to be spending their time over books
They get schooling enough when our
school is open" =,
$50 [ mean that my children shall
learn to work, returned Poland; "but
that shall not prevent them from becom.
ing well educated / would rather leave
them with good health good characters
and we'll educated than with thousands
of dollars each, minus the education"
soho! That's the way you meant tC
Law up a thousand dollars; to have it in
books, and papers, and new tie-ups, anc
such like D."
"You shall see when the time is up. "
awe shall, returned Lyman, as he
turned towards homo.
Mr. Lyman had not fully realized
how much corn Poland had received
from the land he had manured so heavi
Inv and so carefully. and on the seconC
year he only noticed that his neighbo'
had extraordinary good hscb' with BIZ
wheat, getting about ninety bushels from
three acres. But he had occasion t,
open his eyes on the third year.
One evening just at tsundown, he wen
over into Polands field, where the meI
we're just finishing raking up the three
acre'piece where the grain had been CHI
year before--the first piece the presen
owner had plowed up and dressed.
"Been polling some hay on here, SAT-
| Lyman, as he saw the huge bunches Of
hay nearly as thick as they could stand
uNo--tbis was all cut from thes
three acres, returned Poland.
Lyman counted the bundles, and thel
estimated their average weight, and up
on reckoning up he found that the LAM
had yielded not far from tour tons 70 @