The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-01-30

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Boys and Girls Besides. EssH '-r
ScENE--Jokn Smiths Country Store-TIME,
| EUening-SrEAKERs, Sundry Villagers, and
Farmers wto haze "haPpened in as usual,
Mr.. Smith. Trade is very dull Dowa-
days l don't sell half as much as did
five years ago. sa& si
Mr.. Jones.-Good reason. Things re
so high we can't afford to buy. You
charge such awful prices, Smith.
Nr. Snih.-Can't help it, Ihave to
pay so much more. When | sold sugar
at 10 cents pound, made cent a
pound, and I only makea cent now on 20
cents, and this cent profit don't go SO far
to keep my family. - aF ~ z2e..
Mr.. Bromn.-I buy just as much as
ever | don'tsee as there is much change
[ used to sell my 600 bushels of wheat
for IS cents bushel, or $3.50. Of this,
$3.50 went for family store bills. and 5000
to pay off my farm debt. Now, when l
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 out of the Treasury, for he
threatens to make Greenbacks par, and
knock down prices.
Mr.. Pyfce.-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 gain in the operation;
those who save money, or make profit,
make donble, as ncighbor Brown explains
about paying his farm debt.
Mr. BuHer.--That's so.
INr. Greene.-So think.
INr. Moore $50 do I.
1H'. Baker.-There is little draw
back. l keep the accounts of Widow
Roberts, who has the mortgage on Mr.
Browns farm, and the 500 he pays, dom.
go only half so far in supporting her, and
educating er children.
Mr.. 1raris (ths School Teacher) -.
Yes it does, for | only get $50 month
for teaching Mrs. Roberts aud others
children, and [ used to get S25, with
wheat at Is cts.
goYo~al I-:es.- Tk~t ~:..'t quite
square.
Eaitor.--And you only pay me ST. so
year for my newspaper, which you thot
cheap at Sl25, five years ago, though |
have to pay three times as much for every
thing [ use in making newspaper.
ur. Grcene.--Why don't you raise
your prices, too?
Editer.--People won't stand it. /
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 Sl.25 to S1.50 year, good many
stopped the paper-among them Mr..
Brown himself, though paid him double
for his wheat.
Dir. Bropn Il didn't stop it so much
for the price | went in for paying for my
farm by extra economy.
Editor. Yes, he followed my advice
for people ''to economize aud pay their
debts now" But let US see if Mr. Brown
began at the right place. On one Satur-
day [ published that wheat had advanced
Is cents bushel. On Monday Mr.
Brown went to market with his wheat,
and sold sixty bushels at one cent advance
over the old price, and thought he did
we'll He came home boasting about 1t,
until he met neighbor johnson, who got
the Is cents advance, because he read
my paper, and was wide-awake. Mr..
Browns loss on 60 bushels would pay
four whole years subscription. +.
Mr. Broacn.-Don't say anything more
about that, Mr.. Knox, and put me down
subscriber for life.
Editor.--I have heard Of several other
such losses by those who stopped my pa
per. Not to be too personal, as some of
them are here, | will call them A, B, G,
etc. Mr.. A. paid 4 per cent more fees on
ST. taxes, because he did not see the col
lector's notice in my paper, and thus lost
S284, to save $3.50. Mr.. B paid S3 60
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 80 subscription. Mr.. d. sold
200 pounds of wool at 62 cents, because he
did not see an advertisement of MI. Smith,
right here at home, offering 70 cents.
That cost him SIG, to save 81 so. Mr..
F.'s boys went down to the village every
night or two, to get the news and local
gossip, because they had no paper at
home, aud one of them fell into bad com
pany, and is ruined. | know twenty
cases where people lost money for not
learning what is going on. / gather up
all that is going on in business and society,
and condense 1t into my columns. 1t is
Important for every man to know all about