Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1866-01-25
INTERESTING DIALOGUE.

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INTERESTING DIALOGUE.
wHEAr--MRAr-CABsAsr -PoTATons-APPLEs
-GsAPEs - BETS TOMATOES - BREAD-
CAKE-Asp SoME OTHER THISos-ANp The
BOYS AND GIRLS BESIDES.
SoEsR-John Smiths Country Store--TiMB
Evening-SPBAKaRs, Sundry Villagers, and
Farmers who have happened in as usual
Mr.. Smith<Trade is very dull nowadays, l
don't sell half as mnch as did Eve years ago.
Mr.. Jones-Good reason. Things're so high
We can't afford 20 bay. You charge such aw-
fu prices, Smith
Mr.. Smith-CsI help it, have to pay so
much more. When sold sugsr at 10 cents q
pound, made a cest pound, and only make |
cent now on 40 cents, aud this cent profit |
don't go SO far TO keep my family,
Mr.. Brown-l buy just as much as ever.
dent see as there Is much change. | used to
sell my 600 bushels of wheat for rs cents a
bush , or $3.50. OF this, $3.50 went for fam
lily store bills, and $500 to pay of my farm
debt. New, when sell tor ST. 50 per bushel
or $500, ittakes about $500 for store bills,
snd leaves $500 to pay off the debt. In fact
these hign prices suit me. ! wish Mr.. McCul'
Tough had kept out OF tho Treasury, for he
threatens to make grsenbacks par, and knock
down prices
Mr.. Price-l don't see as it makes much dit
ference. II there is twice as much money GO
insi and everybody gets twice as mucb for
everything he raises and pays twice as much
Tor everything he buye, it all comes out square
at the end; and there is this much gain 10 the
operation those who save money, or make n
pref, make double, as neghbor Brown ex
plains about paying his farm debt.
Mr.. DItter-That's SO.
Me- Grsepe-So think.
Mr.. Moore--So do !.
Mr.. Baker-There is :little drawback. I
keep the accounts OF Widow Roberts, who has
the mortgage on Mr.. Browns farm and the
500 be pays. don't go only half SO far 10 sup
porting her, and educating her children.
Mr.. Travis 1.-THE School Teacher.)- it
does, for only get $50 a month for teaching
Mrs. Roberts and otbers' children, and used
10 get S26, with wheat at rs cents.
Rev. Mr.. Corsy-And only get 5000 year
while always had $500 with wheat at 76 cts.
and sugar | o cent?.
Several Voices-Thst AIM quite square,
Mr.. KaoI, editor. )--And you only pay me
~ year for my newspaper, wi ioh you thought
cheap at 81 30, five years ago, though have
now to pay three times as much for everything
use in making newspaper.
Mr. Greene-Why don't you raise your pri-
ces, too
Mr.. Knox-People won't stand ii. I must
keep along with no profit or even at q loas
hoping for better tlmes or else lose my sub
scribers; and let the paper 60 down. Why,
when raised the price from 81 so 20 Q a year,
good many stepped the paper, among them
Mr. Brown himself, though paid him double
for his wheat.
Mr., Brown-I didn't stop it so much for the
price, went in for paying for my farm by ex
ira economy.
Mr.. Kuox-Yes, he followed my advice for
people "to economic and pay their debts now. f"
But let us see if Mr.. Brown began at the right
rlsce On one Saturday published 10 my
paper that wheat had advanced Is cents DER
bus Ell. On Monday Mr.. Brown went to mar
ket with his wheat, and sold 60 bushels at one
cent advance over the old price, and thought
he did we'll. He came home Boosting about it.,
until be met neighbor johnson, who got the
10 cents advance, because he read my paper
and was wide awake. Mr.. Browns loss on GO
bushels would pay four whole years. sub
scrption.
Mr.. Brown-Don't say anything more about
that, Mr.. Knox, and put me down subscriber
for life.
Mr., Kuox-I have heard of several other
such losses by those who stopped my paper
Not to be too personel, as some of them arc
here, will call them a, b, g, etc. Mr.. A
paid per cent more foes en- S7l taxes; because
he did lat see the collectors notice in my pa
por, thus lost % "a, to save 81 Mr.. B, paid
50 50 the same way. MIR Q, failed TO brinl
in mis- claim against an estate, because he die
Ect see in my laper the legal notice limittpS
the time. That cost him Sal, TO save 50 sub
scriptiop. Mr.. d, sold 200 pounds of wool Il
81 c-nts, because he did not see IN advertise
ment OF Mr.. Smith, right here At home, Offer
ing 20 cents. That cost him SIS, to save S:
Mr.. F's boya went down 10 the village ever,
nigh, or two, TO get the news and local gossip
because they had no paper at home and one o
item fell into tad company and was ruined
know twenty cases where people lost none,
for mol learning what is gong on. gsth,I
mp all that is going Gu : business and society
and condense It into Ily columns II is impor
tant for every Aan TO know all about hon.,
matters, and | 1oubt If there is q nan in TIL.
whole own WHO would not, in the course OF
year, get SINE Information, that would pa
him back more thar 50 year. Ana the u thin
of q household stti-.. down together s6o day
in a year, and having nothing to talk about
except their own affairs, and few items O
gossip, gathered up by occssional contact wit
o,ber people.
NJ Faylor-Eet me help Editor Knox's ar
guu@s' Wife read to me an item pubiishe
RboU humbug. which he copied from III
American ASrieVhurist, OF New York CITY
Next day one Of those same humbugs cam
round with his article, and was so pausibl,
that he almost persuaded her into payiog In
So, for bis svindiing reCipe but the editor
caution kept ler back.
Mr.. KnoI-Yes, and do you know that III
fellow sold more than fifty OF the hunbug re-
oipes hercabout, at So apiece ? but not to an
OF my subscribers.
Mr.. Potts-Put me down as a subscriber
Mr.. Knox, here is your two dollars.
Mr.. Shaw-And me too.
Mr.. Knox-1hank you gentlemen, I'll tr
to make better paper than ever. A new sub
scribeF only adds to my expense the cost o
paper. If everybody took the paper, and thu
divided the cost OF getting news, setting type
ONCE reut, etc., ] could double the value Of ID,
paper to each. PleFss talk the matter evsl
with other uoighbors and see if it cannot be
dsne.
Several Voices-We will
Mr.. Smith--And now Whils you are about
IL, wont o make up club Tor q good New
York paper.
Mr.. Bruwn-Ws Can afford to take 30 many
bspers