Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-01-21
Ggs family Girfle.
TWO WAYS TO
MAKE MONEY
BY sYLvANUs COBB JE.

JOHN Poland didn't say anything about
the two animals he had bought a year and
. halfbefore. and the calf they had yielded
him for which he had been offered within
the week, four hundred dollars. He own.
ed that amount of stock over and above
the stock owned by Lyman. He turned
the subject of conversation as quick 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 whom he had bought this new stock.
who lent him the money he needed read
lily.
"Wha a fooll" said Lyman, as he saw
the carpenters at work tearing away one
whole side Of his neighbours barn. pre-
p~aratory to adding an apartment capable
of accommodating forty-fye head of cat
tie. 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. "I've got
four hundred dollars at interest. How
much have you got?''
IA thousand or SOL" returned the 9TH
er.
"Eh? What do you mean?n
"Why. all the money | have laid out on
this nlace is on interest,"
"Oho-ah, ha, 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."
ayes and there it will lie. don't be-
lieve 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"
/" thought SO. But take your own
Ere long Arson LYMAN was astonished
to End that his neighbor had subscribed
for a third paper. besides buying a lot Of
books for his children.
What's the use?" he said as he sat in
his neighbours front room. and saw a large
pile of books on the shelf. I want my
children TO learn to work-not to be spend
ing their time over books. They get
schooling enough when osr school is
$50 I mean that nv children shall learn
to work" returned Poland; but that shall
not prevent them from becoming we'll ed
ucated. | would rather leave them with
good health, good characters, and good
education. than with thousands of dollars
each. MINIS. the edncation."
"Ohoi That's the way you meant to
lay MP a thousand dollars; to have it in
books and papers, and new tie ups and
sncA like"
"You shall see when the time is up"
eve SHALL" returned Lyman, as he
turred towards home.
Mr.. Lyman had not fully realized how
much corn Poland had received from the
land he had MANFRED so heavily and so
carefully: and on the second year he only
noticed that his neighbor had "extraor-
binary good luck" with his wheat, getting
about ninety bushels from three acres
But he had occasion to open his eyes on
the third year.
One evening, just at shutdown, he went
over into Poland's field, where the men
were just finishing raking up the three
acre piece where the grain had been the
year before-the FIRST piece the owner had
plowed and dressed.
- Been polling some hay on here?' said
Lyman as he saw the huge lunches Of hay
nearly as thick as they could stand.
"No-this was all cut from these three
acres" returned Poland.
Lyman counted the bundles, and then
estimated their average weight, and upon
reckoning up, he found that the land had
yielded not far from four tons to the acre.
He had just got in two acres which he
had first dressed upon the new farm, and
he had obtained short of two tons per
acre. He knew that Poland had got ten
bushels more of wheat per acre than he
had done, and also more corn. He began
to think but yet he would not let his
money go for any such improvements"
upon his place.
The FIVE years came around, and Anson
Lyman went on that day and sold four
teen bushels of corn in order to get four
teen dollars to put with nine hundred and
eighty-six dollars which he had home.
Well, Poland, I've got the prize I
said Lyman, entering the formers barn in
the afternoon. Tt was early spring. just
FIVE years from the day on which they
bought. 1--WE got the thousand dollars,
now what have you got 2"
Well have moi far from four hun.
bred dollars in money"
"Aha-I thought So"
"But. Arson Lyman" said Poland al
most sternly, fare your eyes not opened
jet 2"
Opened what do you mean 2"
Well, | mean that my farm to-day
will sell for one thousand dollars more
than yoars will. Look at my hay NOW.
There is nearly twenty tons Of hay /; you
have not ten. And, mind you, / have five
head Of cattle more than you have. Next
season | shall cut more hay from twelve
acres, which have now regenerated, than
you will cut upon your whole forty acres;
and yon know my hay is worth far more
a pound than your hay is. | told you |
had five more cattle than you had. For
these five creatures I can, within six hours
take seven hundred dollars cash but no