The weekly Shasta courier., 1872-12-28
Integrity in Business.

Vlses that honey should be put up IN
glass cans. He might well have said
that it is not safe to use any other kind
for the preservation of fruits and vege-
tables. 1t is best to put in nice white
piece of honeycomb first, and pour the
pure honey upon it. This convinces the
purchaser that it is the real article. The
honey should be first strained, then
warmed and properly sealed. Quar-
cans are the most convenient size, and
are packed in sawdust, in a box, selling
at thirteen dollars per dozen, with de-
mand very greatly in advance of the
supply, because in the course of few
years every purchaser becomes a living
advertisement, the article being always
pure and good, and of full weight and
measure. There are two points here
which merit the attention of both citi-
zens and farmers. This correspondents
brand is known to be always good. He
can sell more than he can supply, and at
his own price.
PURE MLK.-New Yorkers pay ten
cents a quart for their milk; the farmer
delivers it at the railroad station for
three; one cent for railroad freight, and
the remainder of the ten cents goes into
IL,
purchase from the farmer to sell to the
citizen-many of these middle men add
ing a quart of water or more to each
gallon of milk. If it was swill milk, the
more water the better. 1t seems great
shame that the farmer does not get more
for his milk, but it is his own fault; any
dozen or twenty of them could combine,
appoint one of their number to sell in
New York, direct to his own customers,
the pure article with all its cream. 1t
would not be long before he could sell
more than he could procure. Mr.. Can
field acted on this principle some years
ago, and has made the plan handsomely
profitable.
The same thing might be done in ref
erence to other kinds of provisions of
large consumption. A man could make
a fortune by keeping an apple store or
potato store, sorting them out as Nos. l.
2, B, 4, selling them at corresponding
prices letting it be understood that.
every apple in No. l is of the best, and
each layer down to the bottom being as
good as the first one visible, with prices
corresponding to the number. In a very
short time two results would be inevita-
BILE: he would be able to sell more than
any other man, and at higher prices.
1t was precisely on this principle that A.
Il. Stewart laid the foundation stones of
his colossal business, in his little one
room store on Broadway, many years
ago. 1t was soon found out that when
he sold an article of dry goods as the best
article IN the market, it was always the
best; not generally so, but infallibly the
best. If q second or third rate article
was wanted, he had it on hand, but sold
it as such, and at correspondingly low
er price. Thus he was able to fix his
own prices, and get them, too. The
people will find their way to the places
where they get what they purchase al
ways, and pay good price willingly,
counting their well-placed confidence as
worth something.
WHITE PAINT.-A few years ago it was
essential in some parts of machinery to
have pure article of white lead no in
telligent workman ever thought for a
moment of purchasing white lead made
In the United States perhaps it is the
same now-because not pure pound
could be had nearer than England So
the knowing ones always stipulated that
their houses should be painted with En-
glish white lead, which always sold at a
higher price than the American made
Whenever you see building painted
white ON the outside, with darkish color
in many places, you may be sure that it
is American white lead, selling, perhaps,
at ten cents per pound, but adulterated
ten, fifty, eighty per cent. with barytes,
which costs less than cent pound
Ask the maker of the article about it,
and he will tell you, without any hesi-
tation, that barytes improves the white
lead; but ask him three questions:
1st. How does barytes improve the
quality of white lead?
I'd. If little improves it, more would
he better; why not, then, make your
white paint out of barytes altogether?
Sd. If pure white lead is worth ten
cents a pound, and barytes but one cent,
and is just as good, what is the use of
making white lead at all?
Examine the professions The lawyer
too often encourages his client to bring
suit or defend suit, when, if it had
been his own, he would have compro-
missed. And
The DoCToR-That is, the irregu-
lar, the number ten among them-will,
in a large majority of cases, assume a
knowing look, and tell his trusting appli-
cant he will certainly cure him. He re-
ceives his fee, and the patient his physic.
Well, he doctors on for a while, and
there being no perceptible change ex
cept in the weight of the purse, he finds
that a new symptom just developed
makes it necessary to go South.
Two gentlemen not long ago were Of
fered very valuable property; but not
being willing to trust their own judg
ment, they called upon their mutual
friend, Mr.. L., No. y Fifth Avenue,
stated the object of their visit and the
full particulars. Mr.. l.. said it required
some reflection, as it involved large
amount of money but if they would
call at twelve next day, at his Office, he
would give his views. Next morning,
before breakfast, he walked around to
see the property, and was very much
pleased with it; in fact, so much so, that
he purchased it himself, and cleared, by
that operation" sixty thousand
dollars.
We are not worse in morals in our day
and generation than in the time of our
fathers but we are, however, not. so
good but that there is room for improve
ment, and the foundation must be laid
on the Bible and by the mothers of the
land. They must by their holy teach
ings, begun as soon as the infant lips
can whisper ''Our Father who art in
Heaven, impress on the young heart, in
earnestness of spirit, to be repeated
every day, that there is an all-seeing
eye, and that all ong-doing makes the
angels weep.