Year: 1868

the place, the horse was put in the barn,
and they entered the house lie said a:
they took seats before the lirr. "Amy.
thee may put on another plate: Daniel
will stay with US II few days and then he
will 90 TO California "


The benevolent Quaker was confident
that Daniel Akin would keep his resolve.


At length when everything was in read.
iness the old horse was harncssed, and be.
fore daylight Daniel Akin WAS on his
way to Il railway station. He had moi
been in the village since the night when
the words, Not drop more, Daniel .
were uttered. lie was missed from his
customary bauuts, but it was supposed
he had gone off ON spree, ana SO not H.
in, was thought of his absence. His
wife's father lived in the adjoining town,
and sCme thought he had gone there


No inquiries were made, for all were
rcioiced that he was missing, and cared
not for his return.


lie had been gore somewhat more than
n year when the Quaker was in the store
of lla,kins and remarked that he wished
to hire Il pasture the coming season. 81
have got one | will let you have free Of
rent il yon will put up the fences on the
place. said liaskins.


"Whcrc is ," said the Quaker.


con the Akin farm"


"lf thee will lei it at that rate thee
must have let it get out OF repair"


1T is indeed; cannot leave the store
to see 10 it. The house is poor, and the
family that lived in it last were to shift
less to bay wood, and burnt up the rails.
| had rather sell it than rent it,"


"What will thee take for it ;"


at cost me some sixteen hundred dol
lars"


~"Yes, but thee paid in goods and
charged thine own price on them


10 b. sure did; Akin could not
get trusted anywhere else, and | felt |
was running great risk in letting him
have goods and | charged accordingly.
Just as everybody else would under the
circumstances.


"Ihee has not toll me what thee
would take for the place. ] viii cl7e
thee eight huodred for it, if that is any
object to thee "


IIa.kins thought long enough to con-
clu C that the tcrcst of eight hundred
dollars was far better for him than the
firm, for the use of which he realized
scarcely anything, and said, "You can
have it."


"Thee can make ont the deed to NOR.
row, and t.:cc shall have the money -
by the way. does thee know what has
become of Daniel Akin =


"No. lie has not been in the village
for more than a year, At any rate, |
have not seen him"


We may tell the reader what Haskins
did not know. The Quaker had that
day received letter from Daniel Akin
stating that he was ut the mines hard at
work, and was sticking to his motto, sNot
drop more, Daniel" and that he had
laid up few hundred dollars, and de
sired him to inquire what the place he
once owned coul be bought for Mr..
Edgcrton had taken the method above
mentioned to find out IIaskins' views. -
SO conf lent was he that Daniel Akin
would come home sober man with
money in his pocket, that he venturcd to
purchase it, for the purpose of keeping it
for him.


He wrote to Akin what he had done,
and about three months after received q
letter stating tha; by express he had sent
five hundred dollars in gold to barker
in New York, with orders TO sell it and
remit proceeds to him, to 20 towards the
farm. Gold commanded large premium
and the five hundred became more thar
eight hundred before it reached Friend
Edgerton' hands. Akin requested him tt
draw deed giving the whole property
to his wife, Mary, and have it duly re
corded and left with the Register of leeds


In his letter: If perchance | shoulC
ever break my resolution, shall have Sc
cured home for my wife and children
| prefer, however, that they should no
know anything Of this for the present.
1t | live to come homo, will give Mar,
the deed with my owr hands-rif not yot
can do it. Now that the farm is bough
you had better stock it, for still stick t.
my motto, "Not another drop, Daniel


Another year past. by this tint
Friend Edgerton had stocked the farm
with young cattle and sheep. The fence
were put in repair, and everything bu
the house wore a tidy appearance.
Another remittance came which paiC
for all the stock. and will an overplu
with which to repair the house,


Carpenters were busy, and the villa
| gers who chanced to pass that way founC
that extensive repairs were going on
still no one presumed to question tn
! Quaker with respect to his plans


These repairs all completed-furnitur
found its way to the house A yoke 4
oxen were seen on the farm. The villa
gers were astonished to see The Quake
driving an elegant horse, and riding in
new buggy.


lie received this short note one day


81 have arrived, all safe and sound. G.
and get Mary and tho children"


lie rode over to the adjoining tow
and called at Mary fathers and invite
her and the children to go home wit
him, and make him and his wife visit
They accepted the invitation aud he too
them home.