Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-08-21

until next year. when they will fetch u
something over hundred dollars. The
eight acres Of ground, for tho use OF
which We pay forty dollars, must bs
planted with corn, and have already
selected the seed. As the land il partic-
ularly clean and OF uncommon good soil,
the yield should be not less than sew.
enty five bushels to the acre, which, II
corn comes down to an unprecedentedly
low figure, will still pay all expenses for
seed, rent, tillage, and leave US enough
20 fatten our hogs after ALL"
The deacon was silent from astonish
uent.
81 shall raise as many chickens q.
possible through the heat Of the coming
summer; SO that the next spring I shall
have eggs by the quantity, when the
market reports quote good price, with
'upply less than the demand"
''You talk like farmer, Priss, ejac.
ulated the dazed deacon. "When did yor
earn so much, wonderl"
s.Don'e ask me questions, but promise
me-" giving him q tight squeeze.
81 PROMISE"
She shook herself loose from him,
and poured out for herself cup of hot
ga.
"Very we'll; 60 to work and make m,
some chicken coops and hen house,
snd fetch homo my hens Tomorrow, and
this fall I will show square accounts
with some folks know Of"
In the course of time the cows were
driven home, the chickens roasted in the
deacon's hen house, and the "femals
hog, with her seven children, occupied
the attention of the deacon's daughter.
OF morning Prissy went into the cellar
and skinned, and strained, and churned,
and outside the deacon himself, with
the spade and AZ made good time among
the stumps, thereby saving hired help
and the additional cost Of wood pile.
The deacon had lived all his life under
lazy cloud. He couldn't cut wood, he
said, because it made him 50 tired. He
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 tho while at his place Of business (he
was a photographer and wait for Gus
toners, because he "wanted to get out
and stretch his legs" But suggest the
idea of an impossible enterprise to him,
or ask him to invest in . lottery ticket,
Or talk travel, and directly the deacon
vas your man.
he was utterly and abominably lazy
and selfish. He forced Prissy to pinch
and save . dollar. while he would
squander Atty, and have nothing TO show
for what he had paid out. Such is man
that Is, so much Of It as went by the
aame of Deacon Dodge.
One Of tho things the strong g-miudea
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 a. any other.
So, under her vigifant generalship, b,
delivered some trees for the nursery
men and took his pay in hedge plants,
which she made him set out and attend
to.
Little by little she put the deacon o.
his mettle, until at last she herself wa,
surprised to find how much she had mad.
him accomplish. At the end of the first
year he had gruobed their one and q
half acres, put the first coat OF paint on
the house, made the fence, dug the eel.
ar, built outhouses, cut all the fire wooG
aud made five dollars a week besides.
At the end Of their first year Prissy
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
fetched twelve dollars readily, and the
fatted hog twenty-seven more. Their
household expenses had been just one
hundred dollars, aside from what she
had raised in the garden, and the butter
and eggs we're of home manufacture,
also. She spent not penny for cloth
ng.
Together they checked of account.
one evening, and to his intense surprise
the deacon found little matter OF -four
hundred and fifty dollars to his credit,
besides having a much better start tor
he next year.
He paid the balance due on his lum
Der, and thankfully took up three otha
notes, after which he bresthed inort
freely. The next year the invircib!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, o,
perhaps attended more strictly to his
business, and the end Of the second year
was also the death knell OF the Unsuitable
mortgage.
As this is no fancy sketch, but, on tn.
I cannot state what the result was fol
The third year Of Miss Prissy's manage
nent.
But I saw the deacon the other ds.
trimming his hedge, which was all white
and sweet with bloom, and he tells me
hat the carpenters are busy at his house,
md that he shall have enough produce
20 dispose of In the fall to take him COM
pletely out OF debt. He certainly has
The handsomest place in the country, and
by far the most stylish house. As for
Prissy, her face Is tanned light brown,
and her hands are not quite SO white and
small as they once were-not $50 useless
by half" she says, turning them over
carefully, and showing the little cal
'oused Jumps on the palms.
"But we are out of debt anyway" sh.
added, trlumphantly. "This thing OF
being dunned by every other person one
ices is anything but funny"
May Forrest Hill long outshine it.
eeighbors, and stand as a striking me.
mento of one woman's will.-New Yort
Weekly.