Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-02-02
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INTEREsTINe DIALOGUE.

Wheat-Meat- Cabbage Potatoes s-AP-
pies - Grapes = Beets - Tomatoes -
Bread -Cake-And some other Things
And the Boys and Girls Besides.
ScENE-Joha Smith's Country Store
TINE, EDetillg-SPEAKERs Smdry V1-
layers, and Fa5nters ,oko hare 'happeaed
"a, as usuaI
.Hr. Smdh Trade is very dullnowadays;
| don't sell half as much a. | did FIVE years
ago.
lH'. Jones-Good reason. Things're so
high, we can t afford to buy. You charge
such awful prices, Smith.
Kr. SpeM.-Can't help it | have to
pan so much more. When I sold sugar at
10 cents pound. | made cent pound,
and only make a cent now on 20 cents and
this cent profit don go so far to keep my
family.
III. BrolcR. Il buy Just as much as ever.
| don't see as there Is much change | used
to sell my GOO bushels of wheat for IS cents
a bushel or $3.50 OF this, $3.50 went for
family store bills, and 5000 to pay off my
farm debt. Now, when [ sell for 81 so per
bushel, or 5000, it takes about $500 for
store bills, and leaves S400 to pay off the
debt. In fact, these high prices suit me. /
wish Mr.. McCulloch had kept ous of the
Treasury, for he threatens to make Green
backs par, and knock down prices.
-lir. PIfce. II don t see as it makes much
difference. If there is twice as much mon
ey going, and everybody gets twice as much
for everything he raises, and pays twice as
much for everything he buys, it all comes
out square at the end; aud there is this gain
in the operation: those who save money, or
make . profit, make double, as neighbor
Brown explains about paying his farm debt
.Ir Bmler That so.
III. Greene. SO / think
4Hr. Moore.-So do l.
Nr. Baker There is a little drawback. |
keep the accounts of Widow Robert, who
has the mortgage on Mr. Browns farm, and
the $400 he pays, don't go only half so far
in supporting her. and educating her chill
dren
III. Trans the School Teacher) Yes it
does, for | only get $50 month for teach
ing Mrs Robert S and others children, and
| used to get $25, with wheat at 75c.
Rev Mr. Corey And | only get 5000 a
year, while | always had $500 with wheat
at 75 cents and sugar at 10 cents.
Sererdt Potces.-That AMI quite square.
Hr. Kaon, Editor And you only pay
me 50 year for my newspaper, which you
thought cheap at $3.50 five years ago,
though have now to pay three times as
much for every thing | use in making a
newspaper.
Dc. Greene Why don't you raise your
prices, too?
Mr.. Knor People won't stand it. I
must keep along with no profit, or even at
loss, hoping for better times, or else lose
my subscribers, and let the paper go down.
Why, when raised the price from ST. so to
81 year, good many stopped the paper
among them Mr.. Brown himself, though
| paid him double for his wheat
M, Broaon II didn't stop it SO much
for the price; | went in for paying for my
farm by extra economy.
lHr. Knox. es, he followed my advice
for people to economic and pay their
debts now But let US see if Mr.. Brown
began at the-right place On one Saturday
l. published IN my paper that wheat had adj
yanced Is cents bushel. On Monday Mr.
Brown went to market with his wheat and
sold 90 bushels at one cent advance over
the old price, and thought he did well. He
came home boasting about it, until he met
nelghbor johnson, who got the Is cents ad
vance, because he read my paper, and was
wide awake Mr. Brown loss on 90 BUSH
els would pay four whole years subscrip-
tion.
4Hr Bfoaoa Don't say anything more
about that, Mr.. Knox, and put me down a
subscriber for life.
.Hr. Knon.-I have heard Of several 9TH
er such losses by those who stopped my pa
per Not to be COO personal, as some Of
them are here, viii cali them A, b, G, etc.
Mr- A. paid 4 per cent more fees on S7l
taxes, because he did nor see the collector