The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-02-01
INTERESTING DIALOGUE.

Wheat eat-Cabbage-P o a . es-
Apples-Grapes-B o naRtoes-
Bread-Cakes-And g mn OF h c r
tAiags-And the Beys and Girls Re
sides
Scene John Snaaths Country Store -TIkx.
Eventmg-SPEAKERs, Sundry Villagers, and
Farmers who hare "happened in as usual"
Mr.. Smith-Trade is very dull nowadays; !
don't sell half as much as did FIVE or six YEAR,
ago.
Mr.. Jones-Good reason. Things're so high
we can't afford to buy. You charge such aw-
full prices, Smith.
Mr.. Sm,th.-Can't help it. l have to pay so
much more. When l sold sugar at 10 cents q
pound, l made cent pound, and only mako
a cent now on 20 cents, and this cent profit DOM
go 80 far to keep my family.
Mr.. Broa0n.-I buy just as much as ever /
don't see as there is much change. l used 10
sell my 600 bushels of wheat for IS cents bush.
ell, or $3.50. OF this, $3.50 went for family store
bill, 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 eff the debt. In fact, these high price,
suit me- wish Mr. McCulloch had kept out of
the Treasury, tor he threatens TO make Green
backs par, and knock down prices.
Mr.. PRICE, don't see it makes much diff.
ference. If there is twice as much money going,
and everybody gets twice as much for every
thing he raises, and pays twice as much for ev,
erything he buys, it all comes out square at th.
end and there is little gain in the operation
those who save money, or make profit, make
double az nelghbor Brown explains about pay
ing his farm debt
Mr.. Butier.-rhat's SO.
Mr.. Greeae-So ! think
Mr.. Moore.-So do l.
Mr.. Bake. There is little drawback.
keep accounts of Widow Roberts, who has the
mortgage on Mr.. Browns farm, and the $500 h,
pays don't go only half as far in supporting he
and educating her children.
Mr. Iravis(the School Teacher Yes it Goes
for only get $50 month for teaching Mrs
Roberts and others children, and l uesed I,
get SIS, with wheat at rs C.
Rer. Mr. Corey.-I only get $500 year, Will,
l always had $500. with wheat at rs cents anC
sugar 10 @.
Several Toices.-That amt quite square,
Mr.. Knor tEditorl.-And you only pay m,
81 year for my newspaper, which you though
cheap at 81 so, five years ago, though hsv'
now to pay three times as much for every thins
| use in making newspaper.
Green.-Why don't you raise your price too
KnOG People won't stand il. / must keel
along with no profit, or evan at loss, hoping
for better times, or else loose my subscribers
and let the paper go down. Why, when rails
ed the price from 81 SO to g. year, gooc
many stopped the paper-among them MI, Browr
himself. though paid him double for his wheat
Brown.-I didn't stop it SO much for the price
went into paying for my farm by extra eoono
my.
Knoc.-Yes, he followed my advice for peo
pie to "economize and pay their debts now. Bu
let US see if Mr. Brown began at the right place
On one Saturday published in my paper that
wheat had advanced Is cents busheI. On Mon,
day Mr.. Brown went to market with his whea
and sold 60 bushels at one cent advance over ths
old price, and thought he did well. He came
home boasting about it, until he met neighbol
johnson, VINO got the Is cents advance, because
he read my paper and was wide awake. Mr.
Br OWNS loss on 60 bushels would pay fou,
whole years subscription.
Brow@.-Don't say anything more about tina
Mr.. Knox, and put me down subscriber fo
life
Knor.-I have heard of several other such
losses by those who stopped my paper. Not t,
be too personal, as some of them are here, will
call them A, B, c, etc. Mr.. A paid per cent
more fees on $7l taxes because he did not SO,
the collectors notice in my paper, and thus los
way. Mr.. Z. failed TO bring in his claim sgains
an estate, because he did not see in my paper tn,
legal notice limiting the time That cost hin
1874, to save So description Mr.. d sold 300 pound
of wool at 81 cents, because he did not zee al
advertisement of Mr.. Smith, right here at home
offering 70 cents. That cost him $I6 to save 81
Mr.. F's boys went down to the village ever,
night or two, to get the news and local gossip
because they had no paper at home, and one
hem fell into bad company, and is ruined.
know twenty cases where people have lost mon
ey tor not learning what is going on. gathe
up all that is going on in business and society
| aud condense it into my columns. 1t is importan
tor every man to know all about home matters
and doubt if there is man in this whole tow
who would not, in the course of year, get som
information, thai would pay him back more tina
81 year. And then think of a household sii
ting down together 365 days in year, and hav
ing nothing to talk about, except their own a
fairs, and few items OF gossip, gathered up b
occasi nal contact with other people.
Mr. Taylor. Let me help Editor Knox's
gument. " ife read to me an item he publish
about humbug, which he copied from the Anae,
| ican Agraguiturist, OF New York City. Next da
one OF those same humbugs came round with h
article, and was so plausible that he smot
persuaded her into paying him s., for his swir
ding recipe; but the editors caution kept he
| back.
| Kno1-Yes, and do you know that the felIo,
sold more than fifty of the humbng recipes here
about, at 81 piece2 but not to any one of m
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