Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-02-19
Pretty Good Advice.

Inc following ADVICE WIN IcicICHCt w
keeping out Of debt is taken from the
Teros Faym and H0me, and is so good and
so applicable to all localities modified,
Of course, according to circumstances
that we commend its perusal to our
readers:
Let each man who proposes to live by
farming pre-empt, or buy II little piece Of
land before he promises to take care of
any mans daughter When this home is
provided, it is always soon enough to pop
the question. Build a shanty, open a lit
tie field, plant fruit trees; they grow best
on fresh land. They grow as rapidly and
yield as heavily around a small log cabin
as on the sunny side of ten thousand
dollar mansion.
If you are short Of funds, make you a
be6stcad OF boards and pine scantiings.
Do not promise your merchant ten dol.
lars for one of those Yankee patent pop,
lar-sided bedsteads. Just wait two yearse
and be able to hand him the cash, and he
will Just say 81 so is enough, Make you
a diningtable Of pine lumber. Don't buy
a Sl5 washing-machine, unless you pay
cash; if cash. $3.50 will buy it, sure.
Don't buy a stove the first year. Tell
Mrs Jerusha Ann you cannot go in debt,
and to wait one year, and $40 cash VIII
buy that splendid new America which
Squire johnson, your village merchant,
now offers you at 500, on twelve months
credit. tSaUe that ten d0tLdrS, it will buy
barrel OF elegant flour. Buy Just as
little as possible the first year, and live
on bread and milk, or even on bread and
water, rather than buy bacon on credit at
1S cents which, for cash, can be bought
at 1215 cents.
After using the utmost economy in this
direction comes another road that points
to success. Make everything at home that
the soil and climate, or your skill, or
Jcrusha AIMS skill, can possibly make.
Through the center of your tiv acre
cotton field plant one row of broom corn.
Make your wife about half-a-dozen
brooms some rainy day. In this you
save 50, and are out say only 80 cents
Plant one-quarter of an acre of Chinese
cane, or say one acre. Grind itneXt sum
mer, when other work is slack, Sell YOU
neghbor ten dollars worth, which really
has cost You about So. Plant you one-fourth
acre of tobacco; cultivate and manulac
ture it of mornings while Jerusha get:
! breakfast. Sell old Aunt Dinah a few
! ppuIuS W pay iol HtlpIAS soui " li'
scour, wash, or weed the garden Plan
at least half or all your land in corn Sci
some to a new conner, and buy you bed
stead Sell the old one to Uncle Ned fol
! helping you clear new turnip patch
Gather all your corn fodder while YOU
credit-system neighbors are tanning them
selves, or talking about paying 10 cent:
for calico which your own cash viii
buy for 1919 cents per yard. Sell a stack
of fodder to Smith for that SOW and pil
of his Put her pigs up; give them tur
nps, Stops, potatoes-anything you dc
not need; and you will find in January
next they will net you at least 100 pound:
| each.
Do all this, and you will be more loved
and respected by good men and good
women than he whose Jerusha Ann
wears 81 balmorals and IS bonnets
which stand on the merchants books
! thus / pair balmorals, 81 1 lady,
hat, S. Besides this, by the time little
| Minnie and little Johnny are of proper
! age, you can buy them good saddle
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