Nevada County picayune., 1889-01-09

If 1t had been secured, and many a time when l went home al night have l brushed the snow from the cover lids in handfuls, or woke up in the morning and found it in little lines and heaps like snow breastworks. We just made up our minds-my wife and I-that some day we would have new house on that lot. We managed to keep up the payments, though, and when spring tune came we began saving money.'
 To understand Joyner' S story, you must know John Joyner He was a patrolman then, and was until the house was finished, and patrolmen worked then, as now, for g. day. That was S60 month, and out of that amount $40 went to pay for the lot That left S20 to live on-Gve children, and all ill school. Il drew up my own plans,' said Joyner, and made all the calcula- tiono.
 Did you ever do anything like that before:'
 70, no. There's nothing stylish ,,r or,I,i4..t,,,l ..L.,,+ :, Inc. n plain, eommonsense house. We saved up a.little at a time and early in the summer of '84 1 bought the first material. It was Sl5 worth of sills and 1 paid cash for them. Then, just as fast as l could save the money, 1 bought a saw and square and chisel and hatchet. Then 1 be- gan shaping my material. Every day or every night, if It happened to be . moonlight night, measured and sawed and cut until the stills were all ready to be placed together. ''
 That was when policemen worked twelve hours day, wasn't Y"
 Yes, but made it rule to work at least. at hour every day, and l stuck to it pretty well.
 Then l bought the studding, and plating, and rafters, and fitted them, too. During the autumn l had two or three hours of spare time every day, so l bought $500 of lumber on credit, and by winter 1 had the fram- ing complete and all my lumber slowed away in press. In the winter time of course l couldn't put in much time, and hen, besides, it was about all 1 could do to live and keep up ! those payments.
 II had already sorter patched up the roof, but l couldn't spare the money for roof, and it was leaky and sloppy, but not so bad as it was the winter before,
 We managed to keep up the pay ments, though, and early in the sum mer of S5. began building. The pillars and chimneys l was afraid to try to make, so l hired that done. That's the only thing about the house 1 from top to bottom that l didn' t build with my own hands.
 As soon as the pillars were laid l began building. You see the tim bers had already been sawed, and the house went uptn q hurry-con- sidering that there was only one man at work on it, and that he could work but an hour or so every day. By the end of April the whole frame was up and the sheeting for the shlngles was on.
 The house stood that way for two months.
 n was out of money and had to catch up.
 Tn June, though l bought the flooring and weather boarding and ceiling and mouiding-all on credit --or rather l borrowed money and paid cash for the lumber Mir. Charles E. Boynton loaned me $500.
 By the middle of August the house was shelled up and coating of paint-=the first priming-had been put on.
 Then we moved oyer into the new house.
 vThere vast a lath in it. There were neither doors nor windows, nothing but rough plank shutters. v
 Before winter came, though, we had put in the doors and windows. l have thought lots of times that il was the hardest work of all--putting locks and hings on the doors and window panes and catches on the windows and hinges an the blinds. Then we-my boys helping me-he, ,r,n tho lathin0 and by winter inc