A Bad Habit

A farmer cmi get iuto no habit worse thau tliat of borrowiug tools, aiul for this reason: First, ouo wlio owiis tools doss riot like to lend them, and tliinks loss of tli!' man who borrowfi. Wñ'coud, Olie iu Ver comes to learu how to use borrowed tools, nor to keep thcm in order ; and tbird, lie who borrows nevor ctfri be a good farmer. It i true that a youiif man, just Ktarting, muy be illowed to borrow some, but lie should not eBtablisb the hábil ; qt asain, a mm may boïrow a new implemeBt to see how it works. A man who borr'ówá ís not as likely to use a, tool as earei'ully as if it were liia owii, and consequently cióos uot do caxeful, nioo work. What can a nutn be thinking about when he boirons á stcel plov, keépa it Bevèral days or a week, and bringat home as will be most likely the case, so dull as to bc unñt use 1 The owiiit can only take it to thr shop, and at bis oivn expense get iteharpened. If a man léñete tools to onr, (tere are Heveral neigíibors who will want to borrow ; and tlniH it ib, a Ikutow, fat instance,.may be going the rounds throngh the neighb'orhood all the utaeoir. It ia every way desirable to cultívate what ia cíilled "good neighborhood," but this can not be done whero borroviing is praotiseil. Two brothers, one of whom fought on the federal and the, othev on the rebel fiilc dui-ing the war, met at Cohimbia, Tcini. othei' claj , nfti ■ Qfteen yoar's f- paral ion. but miM "■■'. recoguize eacli other, md Beparatsd again without speaking.