He said he didn't care much about going to Ashland anyway.
COMFORTING COMPENSATIONS.
If a farmer's wheat is killed by rain, he is consoled by the fact that
rain is just what his corn needs. If his cattle die of disease, his
consolation lies in the hope that pork will bring a good price. If boys
steal his watermelons, he knows by experience that they will have the
cholera morbus. So everything that is unpleasant has its compensation.
LAY UP APPLES IN HEAVEN.
[Illustration: NO MORE APPLES FOR THE MINISTER.]
They tell a good story at Portage City, at the expense of Senator Barden,
or a minister, we don't know which. Barden had a lot of apples sent him
last fall, and he was anxious to sell them, before winter set in. One day
he thought of a new minister that had settled in Portage, so he made up
his mind to take him up a couple of barrels, supposing that when he went
to heaven and saw the big ledger opened, there would be a credit about as
follows:
L.W. BARDEN,
in acc't with Providence,
1876.
Oct. 21. By two bbls. apples, @ $3 $6.00
" " " drayage .30
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Total $6.30
Barden loaded them on a dray, and got on it, with his pants in
his boots, and went up to deliver them himself.
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