Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-05-07

maps tOey laQ SCafLGu WITH Tue loSS VI
| few teeth or the breaking OF bow, or
perhaps even the head might have gol
| broken, and thus, instead OF saving q
good handle, ETC., and making the other
parts that were needed, for the want OF
tools he was obliged to buy new rakes
entire. So in all the departments of his
| business he was constantly meeting OBJ
stacles that retarded his progress, and
all for the want of few simple tools.
One rainy day in the fall, after the
harvest was completed, Mr.. Thompson
was in his tool-chamber making some
apple boxes when his neighbor Holmes
entered.
"Thompson," said the after how
much did that ox-sled OF yours cost?
have got to have me one this winter"
"Oh, that cost me nothing. l made 1t
myself during some OF those rainy days
that we had just before harvesting.
cot the timber out when l hauled my
| wood last winter, so the job came quite
easy"
"'Well, Neighbor Thompson" said
Holmes. after some little time spent in
hard study, 81 don't see how it is that
you get along so. Your farm don't pro-
duce any more than mine does, and I'm
sure you don't work so hard as | do.
Your wife don't make better butter or
cheese than mine does, your sheep don't
bear better wool, your bees don't make
better honey. You raise more fruit than
l do, to be sure"
Thompson.
"No-but your fruit is OF better quail
ity, and finds more ready market"
osx-1r / GRO q
the best species. My trees were the
same as yours twelve years ago; and
with regard to other matters, think II
you will look about the two places you
will find that in many respects mine is
the most productive. My cows give
more milk than yours do through the
winter because they have better shed
room and a warmer barn. l raise more
pork than you do because my pens and
pig-houses are tight and comfortable;
and then am inclined to think that my
bees make rather more honey than yours
do, for my hives are in better order. L
may not raise more corn than you do,
but / guess the rats and squirrels don't
have such an easy entrance to my grain
chambers as they do to yours"
"Perhapss you are right" muttered
Holmes, with a crest-fallen look; land
l suppose you are laying by money"
"Certainly | am--one or two hundred
dollars every year"
$50 much as that?" uttered Holmes,
with look of surprise. Why, can't
lay up cent" :,
i'Let me give you bit of a secret"
said Thompson, in kind, neighborly
tone, as he laid his plane upon the bench.
"Last summer you bought four new
rakes and pitchfork. Now how much
did they cost your"
"Let's see: The rakes were twenty-five
cents apiece, and the fork came to dol
lar"
"Well, now my fork handle got broken
accidentally last winter, and so did some
of the rakes; but l Immediately took
such darts as were good and brought
them up here, and then at my first leis-
ure opportunity I fixed them up. There
are two dollars saved. Now you have
nothing to do to-day"
"No, it rains too hard"
"And you see / am at work. Now, how
are you going to get your apple boxes?"
"Marston is going to make them for
me, and / am to give him a barrel of
good apples"
"There are two dollars more. Now If
you hire a sled made as good as mine it
will cost you twelve dollars. That will
be sixteen dollars that have laid up,
while you have been able to do nothing
Now let us see how that sixteen dollars
will multiply itself. You sold your wool
last spring as soon as you had sheared
your sheep?"
"Yes-f had to, for / needed the
money"
"And how much did you get?"
"Thirty cents pound"
eff you had had sixteen dollars by
you in ready cash you wouldn't have
been obliged to have sold then?"
"No," returned Holmes, whose eyes
were beginning TO open. 81 could have
squeezed along with that sum-"
"Now," continued Thompson, II sold
my wool yesterday, and they sent to my
door and took it. I got forty-two cents
pound for it. / had 175 pounds, and by
reckoning it over after l had sold it l
found that I had made just tweDty-one
dollars; that is, / had obtained twelve
cents more on pound than / should if
| had been obliged to have sold when
you did. So you see how these little
things multiply themselves"
"And all this comes of your having
tools to work WITH" said Holmes, in a
sort of subdued tone.
"Mostly," returned Thompson.
"Well, if I had tools | might save a
good many small sums in the course OF
the year, but / never have the moneyGo
spare for them. Why, the tools you
have here and IN the house, over and
above your farming utensils, must be
worth fifty dollars"
"Just about that sum-"
"Then fear [ shall have to scrape
along with borrowed tools. can never
spare any such su as that"
"You don't understand the secret, Mr.
Holmes. Let me explain. | never
should have gone with a fifty-dolar bill
and bought tools, but I have collected
them gradually. / have bought every
tool l have on the premises with my
| grog-money."
g Groq-naoneyl" reiterated Holmes, in
blank surprise.
eyes, )" returned Thompson with 8
slight smile, with my grog-money. Now
/ am not going to give you a temperance
| lecture, for you are as well able to judge
for yourself as / am; but am going tc
give you little principle of economy, anc
show you its consequent comfort, content
and happiness. The first year was on
the farm I used occasionally to take 8
little spirit, and whenever would go te
the village, which was usually twice
week, would drink two or three times
know not that / experienced any bao
effects from it, but l am confident it die
me no good, and that it was a habit thai
might grow to big evil. AS near as
could calculate the spirit had used cos
me on an average twenty-five cents
week. l suppose it costs you that now
"Yes, every cent of it."
"Well, commenced on the first dav