Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1866-01-31
INTERESTING DIALOGUE.

Wheat -Meat-Cabbage-p Apples-Grapes-
Beets-T Tomatoes-B s-Bread-Gake-And Some Other
Things-And The Boys and Girls Besides
ScENE-Joh'a Smiths Cou'itry Stors-TMs. Even
iHg-SrEAKERs .Sandry Villagers sad Farmers
aoito h@gc raappelea iM As sss@at.'
Mr. Snsith. h.-Trade is very dull nova
days; [ don t sell half as much as | did five
years ago.
III. Jones.-Good reason, Things re SO
high, We can't afford TO buy. You charge
such awful prices, Smith.
1Nr. SnitA. CANT help it. have TO
pay so much more. When [ sold sugar AT
10 cents pound, [ made cent a pound,
and | only make cent now on 20 cents,
and this cent profit don't go 80 Iar to keep
my family.
lur. Bro,on- buy just as much, as ev-
er [ don't see as there is much change.
| used to sell my six hundred bushels Of
wheat for IS cents bushel, or $3.50 OF
this, $3.50 went tor family store bills, and
5000 to pay of my farm debt. Now, when
[ sell for 81. so per pushed, or $500, 1t takes
about $500 fox store bills, and leaves $4O0
to pay of the debt. Ia fact, these high
prices suit ne | wish Mr. Mccullough
had kept out OF the Treasury, for he threat
ems to make Green6acks par, and knock
down prices.
Nr PRICE don't see as it makes much
difference. Ii there is twice as much mon
ey going, and everybody gets 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 profit, make double as neighbor
Brown explains about paying his farm debt.
lHr Bntier.-fhat' so.
Mr. Grease | think.-Mr. Noore.-
So do l.
l8r. Buker.-There is little drawback
[ keep the accounts OF Widow Roberts,
who has the mortgage on Mr.. Brown 5
farm, and the 500 he pays, don't go only
bali so far in supporting her, and educating
her children.
III. Ttdrts (the School Teacher ii
does. for only get $50 month for teach
ing Mrs. Robert and others children, and
| used to get S25, with wheat at 75 cents.
ReU. lW-. Corey And | only get $500 a
year, while [ always had $500 with wheat
at IS cents and sugar at 10 cents.
iSereydI Voices. That ain quite square.
M Knor, EDITOR And you only pay
me 81 year for my newspaper, which you
thought cheap at Sl.50, five years ago,
| though have now to pay three times as
much for everything 1 use in making q
1H- Greene-Why don't you raise youl
prices too?
1Hr. KaoD-People won't stand it.
must keep along with no profit, or even al
a loss, hoping for better times, or else lose
my subscribers, and let the paper go down
| Why. when [ raised the price from 81. so
to 81 a year, a good many stopped the pa
rer- among them Mr.. Brown himself
though paid him double for his wheat.
ur. Bro1n.-T didn't stop it so mucf
| for the price; | went in for paying for my
| farm by extra economy.
IHr. Kpoc-Yes, he followed my. advice
| for peonie to economic and pay their debt
now +" But let us see If Mr.. Brown begal
| at the right place On one Saturday pub
lished in my paper that wheat had advan
ced Is cents a bushel On Monday, DIR
| Brown went to market with his wheat, an'
sold 60 bushel at one cent advance over th'
old price, and thought he did well ID
came home boasting about it, until be me
neighbor johnson, who got the ID cents al
vance, because he read my paper and W.
wide-awake. Mr. Brown $ loss on 60 bush
els would pay four whole years subscription
llG. Bro,on. say anything. mor'
about that. Mr. Knox, and put me down
subscriber for life.
Mr.. Kaor.-I have heard of several 9th
er such losses by those who stopped my pa
per- Not to be too personal, as some Q
| them are here, | viii call them A, b, Z
etc. Mr.. a. paid 4 per cent more fees O
81 taxes. because he did not see the col
I.lector's notice 10 ing paper, and thus los
81. "a, to save 50. Mr. B paid SO. so tn,
same way. Mr.. c. failed to bring IN hi