Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-10-11
Selling by Weight.

Every consumer Of food in the land
ought to unite in a movement to compel
by law the sale Of vegetables, fruits.
andneally every edible article, 10y sold
by measures, by weight There ought to
be no abandonment Of the effort until
the result is accomplished. It is the
only honest way Of buying and selling
The swindling p~racticed now upon those
who buy fruits, especially by measane,
is something horrible to Contemplate,
in viewof the possibility O: future pun,
ishment The boxes IN which Fruits are
sent are all sizes aEi shapes, They sr
filed il all sorts ot wayS Gases @. Size
same number a boxes from different
prcducers, viii differ from three 10 SX
pounds in weigh. Of fruit though The
quality thereof rlsv be the same Tie
family who buys hou = A2uSl1uueG'
gets more from the money paid than
those who buy from smother the Pro
Queer who is most homes, gets least. A
premium IS thus paid for deception. 10
call it by no worse name; and the wors;
of It is, ths consumer, in nine GU of
tea instances, does not know tina, he has
been cheated.
Apple and pear barrels are as varied
in size as clover leaves. A man who
buys a barrel Of apples does not know
whether be is getting two or three
bushels, Few people stop to think
about il. There is no law fixing the
standard of a barrel of apples or other
fruit that We know of. If a producer
is honest enough to send his apples in
barrels containing two bushels and a
half to three bushels, there are plenty
Of dealers dishonest enough to transfer
them to barrels that contain but two
bushels and barrel OF apples is a
barrel of apples, 10 matter what size.
Either there should be a standard fixed, |
or the fruit should be sold by weight.
THE BASIS OF INTELLECTUAL GREAT.
NESS. There is Il great deal of inteliec-
tual labor, undergone simply for dis
cipline, which shows no present
result that is appreciate, and which
therefore requires, in addition to
patience and humility, one of the no.
blest Of the moral virtues, faith. ORAL
the tolls in which men engage, none are
nobler in their origin Of their aim than
those by which they endeaver TO be-
come more wise. Pray observe that,
whenever the desire for greater wisdom
is earnest enough to sustain men in
these high ~endeavors, there must be
both humility and faith-the humility
which acknowledges present insuflc-
iency, the faith that relies upon the
mysterious laws ich govern our in
tellectual being. BE sure that there has
been great moral strength in all who
have come to intellectual greatness.
During some brief moments of insight
the mist has rolled away, and they have
beheld, like a celestial city, the home
Of their highest aspirations but the
cloud has gathered round them again,
and still in the gloon they have gone
steadily forward, stumbling often, yet
maintaining their unconquerable reso-
luton. It is to this sublime persistence
Of the intellectual in other ages that the
world owes the treasures which they
won it is by like persistence that we
may hope to hand them down, areumen.
ted, to the future. Their intellectual
purposes did not weaken their moral ma
ture, but exercised and exalted it.
HdmmertOn.