Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-01-31

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Boys and Girls Besides.
ScENE-John Smiths Country .Store-TIuE
Erening-SPEAkERs, SiHdry Varage.
and Farmers who hare Happened in a
usual"
Mr. Snih-Trade is very dull nova.
days | don't sell half as much as l did
five years ago.
Mr.. JoneS.-Good reason. Things are
so high. we can't afford to buy. You
charge such awful prices, Smith.
Mr. Smih.-Can'J help it. l have to
pay so much more. When l sold sugar
ct ten cents a pound, | made a cent a
pound, and l only make a cent now on
twenty cents, and this cent profit don't
go so far to keep my family.
Nr. BroUn.-I buy just as much as ev
er. | don't see as there is much change.
l used to sell nv 600 bushels of wheat for
IS cents a bushel, or $50. Of this $3.50
went for family store bills, and $500 to
pay off my farm debt. Now, when | sell
for 81 so per bushel, or 5000, it takes
about $500 to pay store bills, and S400
to pay off my farm debt In fact, these
high prices suit me. l wish Mr.. McCul
4OCA hCpE ONb y TIC LAC4cuA1 v
he threatens to make g~reenbacks par,
and knock down prices.
Nr. Price-I don't see as it makes
much difference. If there is twice as
much money 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 ;
and there is this gain in the operation :
those who save money, or make a profit,
make double. as neighbor Brown explains
about paying his farm debit
Mr. BUtier.-Thst's so.
Nr. Green.-So l think. Mr. Moore
So do l..
Mr. Bakr-There is a little drawback.
I keep the accounts Of Widow Roberts,
who has the mortgage on Mr.. Browns
farm, and the 800 he pays her don't 60
half as far in supporting her family and
educating her children.
Mr.. Travis, ,ths School Teacher l-Hes
it does, for l only get $50 a month for
teaching Mrs. Roberts and others chill
dren. and i used to get S25, with wheat
at IS cents.
Rsv. Mr. Corey.-And 1 only get 5000
a year, while | always had five hundred,
with wheat IS cents and sugar 10 cents
Several VoiceS.-That amt quite square.
Mr. Rnor, (Editor.) And you only pay
me 81 q year for nv newspaper, which
you thought cheap at 81. so five years sgo.
though have now to pay three times as
much for everything l use in making a
newspaper.
Mr.. Green-Why don't you raise your
prices, too?
Mr. Rnor-People won't stand it. |
must keep along with 10 profit, or even
at a loss, hoping for better times, or else
lose my subscribers and let the paper 60
down. Why, when l raised the price
from $3.50 to s. a year. a good many
stopped the paper-Mr. Brown himself.
though l paid him double for his wheat.
Mr.. BroUn.-I didn't stop it so much
for the price l went in for paying for
my farm by extra economy.
Mr.. Knox-Yes, he followed nv ad
vice for people to economic now and
pay their debts" But let US see if Mr.
Brown began at the right place. On one
Saturday l published that wheat had adj
vanced Is cents a bushel. On Monday
Nj. Brown went TO market with his
wheat, and sold 60 bushels at one cent
advance over the old price. and thought
he did well. He came home b0asting
about il, until he met neighbor
johnson, who got the 10 cents advance.
because he read my paper and was VIDE
awake. Mr.. Browns loss on 60 bushels
of wheat would pay for four whole years
subscription.
Mr.. Brown.-Don't say anything more
about that, Mr.. Knox, and put me down
q subscriber for life.
Mr.. Knox i have heard of several
other such losses by those who stopped
my paper. Not to be too personal, as
some of them are here. ] will call them A.
B. C, etc. Mr.. a. paid four per centum
more fees on 81 taxes. because he didn't
see the collectors notice in my paper.
and thus lost 1874, to save 8. Mr.. B
paid S3,6 the same way. Mr.. G. failed
to bring in his claim against an estate.
because he did not see in my paper the
legal notice limiting the time. That
cost him S34 to save 81 subscription. Mr.
D, sold 200 pounds of wool at 90 cents.
because he did not see the advertisement
of Mr. Smith, right here at home, offer
ing 20 cents. That cost him SIG to save
81. Mr.. F's BOYS went down to the vii
lage every night or two to get the news
and local gossip, because they had no pa
20 q AOA-Nr aA& Oho vi
bad and IS ruined. l know
cases where people lost money by not
learning what was going on. / gather up
all that is going on in business and socle
ty, and condense 1t into my columns. II
is important for every man to know all
about home matters, and l doubt If
there is a man in this whole town who
would not, insthe course of a year, get
.z Fo--.,E1, it, uror,1l nov him
back more than 81 a year. And then
think of a household sitting down to
gether three hundred and sixty-hve DAYS
in a year, and having nothing TO talk
about except their own affairs, and a few
items of gossip gathered up by their oc-
c~asienal contact with other Ieople.
Mr.. Taylor-Let me help Editor Knox
argument, Wife read to me an item he
published about a humbug, which he
copied from the american AgricuLtariSt,
of New York City. Next day n of
those same humbugs came round with
his article, and was so plausible that
he almost persuaded me into paying him
s. dollars for his swindling recipe; but
the editors caution kept me back.
Nh. Knox-Yes. and do you know
that the fellow sold more than fifty of
the humbug recipes ~hereaoout, at three
dollars a piece? but not to any one of my
subscribers.
Mr.. Potts-Put me down a subscriber,
Mr.. Knox.
Nj. Shaw.-And me too.
Mr.. Knox-Thank you, gentlemen.
In try to make a better paper han ever.
Every dollar helps; anew subscriber only
adds to my expense the cost of paper. If
everybody took the paper, and thus di
Vided the cost of getting news, set
ting type, Office rent. etc, l could double
the value of the paper 10 each. Please
talk the matter over with your neighbors
and see if it cannot be done.
Several Voices We will
Mr.. Smith-And now while you are
about it, 1 want to make up a club for q
good New York paper.
Mr.. Brown.-We can't afford to take so
many papers.
Mr.. Smith. You have just seen that
you could o afford to stop your home