Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-07-15

But 1 am to work, making my apple bo,
es how are you going to get yours? -
Grandson makes them for me, and I am
give him a barrel of apples"
Which is as good as two dollars Now,
| you hire as good a sled as mine made, it wi
cost you at least twelve dollars You see ho,
these little things count up
And all this comes of your having tools t
work with, returned Jones, whose eyes wer
beginning to open.
Yes, neighbor."
=" Well, if I had tools, might save a goo,
many sums in the course of the year, but nev
er have the money TO spare for them. Why
these ere tools of yourn must have cost more'l
fifty dollars"
" Just about that"
'sThen I'm mighty afraid I shall have t.
scrape along with borrowed tools. l shal
never have that sum to spare"
d" You don't understand. Let me explain
the secret. l should never have gone with {
fifty dollar bill and bought these things.
have procured one at a time with my s5rog anc
to hacco money"
Grog and tobacco money repeated ones
with look of blank surprise.
Yes" said johnson, with a smile. !" Now
[ am not going. to give you lecture am 90
ing to give you the benefit of my experience
The first year / begun on The farm, l used to
keep spirits by me and every now and then
take drink to keep up my strength, as | said
to myself. In the long warm days, in llaylng
and harvesting, the bottle was patronized iiib-
orally. But l finally began to see that it was
growing upon me to resist /; and so after dehb-
Grating upon the subject l came to the conclu-
sion that rum and tobacco did me no good and
might do much evil, and | would leave them
off, and l did. So | commenced laying up the
money they cost me. ! saw how much might
be saved if | could only do the work myself |
had been obliged to pay for, and so | began
buying such tools as | thought would come
handy. AT the end of the first year found
had quite little collection and it had all come
from money / might otherwise have drunk and
smoked up, and 1 felt healthier and happier
than the year before. [ knew I had laid the
foundation for future good. Time passed on ;
my grog and tobacco money kept coming in.
1t was now a hammer than a saw, then new
augur, another plane, bit stock, &c, till l
have now an excellent stock of tools, and they
are not only a source of great profit, out solid
comfort into the bargain. l believe, friend
Jones, that in giving up my grog and tobacco,
/ have been great gamer. Now, do y0u not
think you would feel full as VIII without it? "
Johnson, said Jones at length, after pro
tracted silence, | wish you had told me this
long ago
4 was afraid it might offend you; it is
delicate matter at best"
" I know it, but Edwin Jones is not the man
to be offended with a neighbor for friendly ad-
vice"
Well" said johnson, with look Of ex-
treme qualification, =" it's never too late to
mend, and if you get in a pinch where fifty OF
a hundred dollars. wilahe Of use to you, come
to me.
Mr. Jones thanked his friend with sus-
picious moisture shining in his eye, and shortly
after took his leave. The very next day he
went into town, and, instead of refing the
brown jug and empty box, he brought home
new auger, and proud and happy man was he
to be at work with his oan tools. Time pas
sed away, and he soon found himself the owner
of quite little lot of implements. This thing
operated in many ways for good. Now that
he had the ability to fix up this buildings
without borrowing tools, he began to take a
certain pride in doing it. He reset his win
dows, rooted his bee-house, built new pig-pens,
tightened his barn, and in rainy weather was
never without pleasant and profitable employ
ment His cows do not break through the
barn floor now and they give as much milk,
1
as good apples as his neighbor .Johnson's do,
and all this is because he stopped his grog and
tobacco expenditure, bought his tools, and left
off depending upon his neighbots, and so he is
now happy, thriving and contented farmer.