The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-01-27

/ .llr! SmuA-Trade is very dull nowadays /
don't sell hal. as much as did FIVE years ago.
Mr.. Jones. Good reason. Things re so high;
we CAM afford to buy. You charge such awful
prices, Smith.
Mr. Smah. Can't help it. | have to pay so
much more When | sold sugar at 10 cents lb.
made cent pound, and | only make cent
now on 20 cents, and this cent profit don go so
far to keep my family
Wr. Brown.--I buy just as much as ever. |
don't see as there is much change. used to sell
my 600 bushels of wheat for 70 cents a bushe
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 $500 to pay
off the debt. In fact, these high prices suit me-
wish Mr.. McCuoch had kept ont of the Treas
ury, forhe threatens to make Greenbacks par, and
knock down prices
,Ilrl Price.--I dont see as it makes much DIFF
ference Ii 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 ont 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
debt s.e ~
Mr.. Batlr.--Thats so.
Mr.. .Greene.--So think --.Mr. Moore. SO
dol. ,rfiN}Ef8 hHl bs
Mr. Baker-There is little drawback. keep
dhe accounts of Widow Roberts, who has the
mortgage on Mr.. Browns farm, and the $500 he
pays, don't go only half SO far in supporting her
and educating her children.
Mr. Trqcis the School Teacher. )-Yes itdoes
for / only get $50 month for teaching Mrs. Rob
erts and others children, and used to get $25,
with wheat at Sl.50. M
Rev Mr.. Corey And only get $500 a year,
while always had $500 with wheat at $l.50
and sugar 10 cents
.SeueraI Vosces. That amt quite square
NJ. -, Editor. )--And you only pay me
So year for my newspaper, which you thought
cheap at 81 so, five years ago, though have now
to pay three times as much for everything use
in making newspaper
Dr. Greene.-Why don't you raise your prices,
Mr.. A--. People won stand it. mustkeep
along with no profit, or even at a loss hoping
for better times, or else lose my subscribers, and
let the paper go down. Why, when raised the
price from 81 80 to So year, good many stop
ped the paper-among them Mr. Brown himself,
though | paid him double for his wheat.
lff Brown.-I didn't stop it SO mach for the
price ! went in for paying for my farm by ex-
ira economy. @ anl.
Mr. -. Yes he followed my advice for peo-
pie 9 to economize aud pay their debts now -
But let US see if Mr.. Brown began at the right
place. On one Saturday published in my pa
per that wheat had advanced 10 cents Il bushe.
On Monday Mr.. Brown went to market with his
wheat, and sold 60 bushels at one cent advance
over theold price, and thought he did we'll He
came home boasting about it, until he met neigh
Dor Johnson, who got'l5 cents advance because
he read my paper and was wde-awake. Mr
4 u loce huc fOur whole
years subscription.
Mr. Brosc8.-Dont say anything more about
that, Mr.. -, and put me down subscriber
for life.
Mr.. 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. G, &c. Mr.. A. paid per cent.
more fees on S7l taxes, because he did not see
the collector notice in my paper, and thus lost
1884, TO save $2. Mr.. \. paid $3.50 the same
way. Mr.. G. failed to bHng 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 So subscription Mr.. ID. sold 200 pounds
ofwool at 6o cents, because he did not see an adj
yertisement of Mr.. Smith, right here at home,
Offering 70 cents. That cost him SIG, TO save
50. Mr. F's boys went down to the village ey-
cry night or two, TO get the news and local gos-
sip, because they had no paper at home, and one
Of them fell into bad company, and is ruined
know twenty cases where peopleloSt money for
not learning what is. going on. gather up all
that is going on in business and society, and con-
dense it into my columns. 1t is important for
every man to know all about home matters, and
| doubt if there is q man in this whole town who
would not, in the course Of year, get some in
formation, that would pay him back more than
| So year. And then think of a household sit
ting down together 365 days in a year, and hay-
| ing nothing 10 talk about except their own at-
fairs and a few items Of gossip, gathered up by
occasional contact with other people.
Jy. Tdytor.-Iet me help Editor -' argu-
| ment. Wife read to me an item he published
about ahumbug, which he copied from the amer
icdnI Agficultstristy OF New York city. Next day
one of those same humbugs came round with his
article, and was SO plausible that he almost per-
suaded her into paying him So, for his swindling
| recipe; but the editor caution kept her back.
mr.. .----. Yes, and do you know that the feI-
low sold more than fifty Of the humbug recipes
hereabout, at So apiece but not to any one Of
my subscribers.