The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-10-09
Selling by Weight,

| Every consumer OF food in the land
| ought 10 unite in n movement TO compel
by law the sale Of vegetables, fruits,
and neatly every edible article, now sold
by measures, by weight. There ought to
be no abandonment of the effort until
the result is accomplished. 1t is the
only honest way Of buying and selling.
The swindling practiced now upon those
who buy fruits, especially by measure,
something horrible to contemplate,
in viewof the possibility Of future pun
ishment. The boxes in which fruits are
sent are all sizes and shapes, They are
filled in all sorts of ways. Gases of the
same number Of boxes, from different
producers, will differ from three to six
pounds in weight Of fruit, though the
quality thereof may be the same. The
family who buys from one consignment
gets more from the money paid than
| those who buy from another the pro-
duccr who is most honest gets least. A
premium is thus paid for deception, to
call it by no worse name; and the worst
Of it is, the consumer, in nine out Of
ten instances, does not know that he has
been cheated.
Apple and pear barrels are as varied
in size rs clover leaves. A mar who
buys n barrel of apples does not know
whether he is getting two or three
bushels. Few people stop to think
about it.. There is no law fixing the
standard of n 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 a barrel Of apples is II
barrel Of apples, no matter what size.
Either there should be a standard fixed,
or the fruit should be sold by weight.
The BASIS or INTELLECTUAL GREAT.
ss.-There is a great deal Of i%nteIlec-
tual labor, undergone simply for dis
ciplinc, which shows no present
result that is a.ppreciable, and which
therefore requires, in addition to
patience and humility, one of the no
blGst of the moral virtues, faith. Of all
the tolls in which men engage, none are
nobler in their origin of their aim than
those by which they cndeavcr 10 be
come more wise. Pray observe that,
whenever the desire for greater wisdom
is earnest enough to sustain men in
these high endcavOrs, there must be
both humility and faith-the humility
which acknowledges present insuhic-
icncy, the faith that relies upon the
| mysterious laws wi ich govern our in
tcllectual being. BE sure that there has
been great moral strength in all who
have come "a intellectual greatness.
During some brief moments of insight
the mist has rolled away, and they have
beheld, like u celestial city, the homo
Of their highest aspirations but the
cloud has gathered round them again,
and still in the gloom they have zone
steadily forward, stumbling often, yet
maintaining their mconquerable reso-
luton. 1t is to this sublime persistence
Of the intellectual in other ages that the
world owes the treasures which they
won it is by a like persistence that We
may hope to hand them down, argumen-
ted, to the future. Their intellectual
purposes did not weaken their moral M
ture, but exercised and exalted it.
W0mmGrtOn.
fpAIN Enp pnITTHV U1hnrn T., 81,