Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-01-03

S' "1 ground, Tor the use Of
wh-cl We pay forty dollars, must be
p.ai5ei with corn, and have alread,
se.ected the seed. As the land is partic.
u'aF-y c.ean and OF uncommon good soil.
the yle'd should be not less than sew.
enty five bushels to the acre, which. if
corn comes down to an unprecedentedIv
low figure, will still pay all expenses for
seed, rent, tillage, and leave US enough
20 fatteu our hogs after all"
The deacon was silent from astonish
neut.
~ shall raise as many chickens az
possible through the heat Of tie comiuy
summer; so that the next spring shall
have eggs by the quantity, when the
market reports quote q good price, With
upp,y less than tds demand"
"fuu talk like farmer, Priss,r oilc.
ulotcd the dazed deacon. ''When did You
earn 50 much, wonder?"
Dom t ask me iestions, bu. promise
ne, v g:v.n hin tight squeeze.
Il promise
She shook herself loose from him,
and poured out for herself cup of hoi
Tea.
"Ver5 3Al; go to work and make me
some chicSen coops and hen house,
and fetch home my hens tomorrow, aud
this fall l viii show square accounts
with some fo:ls know Of"
In the course of time the cows were
driven home, the chickens roasted in the
deacon's hen house, and the .'female
hog. with her seven children, occupied
the attention of the deacon's daughter.
OF a morning Prissy went into the cellar
and skinned, aud strained and churned,
and outside the deacon himself, with
the sfaic and ak made good time among
the sJumDs, thereby saving hired hcir
md the additional cost of a wood pile.
The deacon hal lived all his life under
a lHzy cloud. lie Iuldu't cut wood, he
said, because It ma ie him 50 tired. lie
couldn't work at farming, because the
weather was either too hot or too cold,
or too wet or too dry. He couldn't stay
all the while at his place OF business (nt
was q photogrl lpher) and wait for Gus
toners, because he wanted to get ont
and stretch his legs" Bat suggest the
idea of an impossible enterprise to MIN,
Or ask him to invest in lottery ticket,
oy talk travel, and directly the daacJa
vas your man.
He was utterly aud abominably lag
and selfish. lie forced Frissy to pinch
ard save a dollar, while he would
:quander fifty, and have nothing to snow
for what he had paid out. Such is man
that is, so mucl of it as went by the
name OF Deacon Dodge.
On> Of the things the strong-minded
girl got him to do was to make fence,
which she insisted should be hedge. A
hawthorne hedge, she declared, was
both beautiful and attractive, besides
just as useful as any other.
81, under her vigilant generalship, he
delivered some trees tor the nursery
men aud took his pay in hedge plants,
which size made him set out and atten6
-.
Little by little she put the deacon on
his mettle, until at last she herself was
surprised to md how much she had made
him accomplish. At the eui of the first
year nc had gruobed their one and s
half acres, put the first coat OF paint on
the house, made the fence, dug the cell
lar, built outhouses, cut all the fire wood
and made five dollars a week besides.
At the end OF their first year Prlssy
found she has sold six dozen chickens a,
four dollars per dozen, and had as many
more to winter over. She had sold six
hundred pounds of butter, at an average
of thirty cents pound. The two calves
retche 1 twelve dollars readily, and the
falted hog twenty-seven more. Their
household ex ler ses had been just one
hundred dollars, aside from what she
had raised in the garden, and the butter
and eg were of home manufacture,
ais. Size spent not a penny for cloth
ng.
Together they checked Of account;
one evening, and to his intense surprise
the deacon found q little matter OF four
hundred aud fifty dollars to his credit,
besides having a much better start TOY
:he next year.
lie paid the balance due on his lum
Der, and thankfully took up three other
notes, after which he breathed more
freely. The next year the invincIb!e
Prissy sold two hundred dollars worth
Of hogs, sixty dollars worth of eggs, and
ten dozen chickens, still keeping house
hold and personal expenses at the lowest
possible point.
The deacon, too, had better luck, or
perhaps attended more strictly to his
business, and the end of the second year
was also the death krell of the lusatla5h
mortgage.
As this is no fancy sketch, but, on the
contrary. is a veritab!e ''leaf from life, ="
I cannot state what the result was for
The third year OF Miss Prissy's manage
ment.
But I saw the deacon the othe, day
trimming his hedge, which was all white
and sweet with bloom, and he tells me
that the carpenters are busy at his house,
and that he shall have enough produce
70 dispose of In the fall to take him com
,lefeIv out of debt. He certainly has
the handsomest place in the country, and
nv far the most stylish house. As Tor
Prissv. her face is tanned light brown,
and her hands are not quite so white ana
synalI as they once were-not $50 useless
by half" she says, turning them over
carefully, and showing the little CAL
loused Jumps on the palms.
"But we are out of debt anyway, she
added. triumyhantly. This thing O.
being duaued by every other person ont
sees is ANYTHING but funny"
Nav Forrest Hill long outshine its
re.chbors, and stand as striking me-
rcento OF one wou1ans will.-NeS AorS
Seekis.