The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1869-06-23
Ansha arw.
From the Prairie Farmer.
Where did the Thousand Dollars Go?


Ny neighbor lives in the country. He
owns house and two acres of land. He
has a COW, horse and poultry. His income
from various sources amounts to one thous-
and dollars year. He has wife and two
little children. He is always hard up for
money. He neither drinks, CANDLES, smokes,
nor chews tobacco. His wife and children
are healthy. He is able to eat his allowance.
"Where does the money CO."
1t is not laid out on fine carriages or fast
horses. He does not give or attend fashion
able parties. He seems to have no follies,
no vices that call for expenditure of money.
Neither the tax-gatherer, rents, nor sickness,
eat at his substance
Then "where does the money GOT"
Let US make him visit We rap at the
door; (the door bell is broken.) Ushered
in. The carpet--new only three months
before-covered about the stove with ashes
we'll ground in. The shovel in the middle
of the room. A mashed fried cake by the
window A piece of bread and butter
wrong side up, of course-on the cushion of
the rocking chair. The fire is stirred up,
and wood put in the stove. A stick is re-
fractory and persists in sticking out at the
end. A vigorous shove against the door
with another stick, breaks it from its hinges.
The room is full of smoke. Up goes the
window, with jerk, and an inkstand on top
of bottom sash, comes tumbling down, de-
molishing a glass, and scattering its contents
over the wall and carpet
The little boy has just been filling the
kerosene can with apple sauce. A new pair
of boots, costing eight dollars, were left
under the stove to dry. Boots got more
than dry. The heat made them brittle, and
they went in many pieces on their owner
trying to pull them on. Last night was Sc
verely cold. The plug was not taken from
the pump, and as the water could not leak
out, it burst out, freezing up solid
The last magazine was laid upon the
breakfast table, and an accidental discharge
of a gravy spoon, added another to its en-
bellishments.
On going out, back of the house, we saw
lying on the ground scattered about, no
less than fourteen grain bags, that we knew
were purchased the year before, at five York
shillings EACH One bag had few rotten
apples, another some mouldy meal, and still
another few bones for soap-grease. They
were on the straight road to ruin-that is,
all those that had not already got there
At the barn we found part of the harness
in the cutter, with the hens roosting around
and above it. The balance of the harness
was hung up on the ground. The stable
bore no evidence of having been cleaned for
weeks. The COW and calf, the horse and
hens, all had free access to the hay NOW
and helped themselves, making their own
BEDS
The proprietor informed me that he paid
out sixty dollars per year for boots. | did
not wander at it-after what | had seem
especially as the heels of his boots were then
scorching upon the stove.
We saw him at one time fill an oil lamp,
standing on an open costly blank book, and
prick it up with his knife, and then wipe it
on the tail of a new coat, for which he had
Just paid twenty dollars.
He broke off the blade of new knife to
use for screw-driver in turning screw,
and then went and bought another, at the
cost of one dollar, and that was broken in
less than two weeks.
Reader, where thinkest thou, went the
thousand dollar income? F.