The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-05-01

NEW York, April p, ISIS.
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week 40 ADlHA AAE ANA- -
cherry orchards are white for Easter
This removes fear Of such a blight as
visited the peach trees about Boston
this wear. which without any frost TO
account for IL. withered without open
ing leaving the leaves to come out at
leisure. From appearances, the
Weld Of fruit next season will be SIM
plv enormous about New York, il be-
log the bearing year
urAnrvG orr Potato uues
Farmers about town have TO he
lively to compete with the Bermudas
and Southern supplies Of vegetables,
and they are planting potatoes Tor an
early crop. before the Colorado beetle
comes along. To this end, the new
SIX weeks potato, the Alpha, was
sprou,ed 10 hoibeds aud is now sci
out. the size Of well grown Tomato
plauts. Don't mention IL in bearing
of the potato bug, for 1t would be ike
that enierprising insoc. to take BIS
family 20 the seaside before 1t Is
warm enough 20 bsihe. We hope 70
give him q welcome that viii siarve
him 10 death when be does get along
BUSINESS FRIGHTENING.
Trade Is reaching a steady. safe
and bealtbv STATE, Dol a. al eompar-
able 20 he old rushing times, bat
showing quite ss much real prospsri-
~ Thee are times which lest he
worth of every ~inveatiou, however
ard projects aud fancy patents meet
no clc1ursremeut. Merchants are
d8ise d ici-k business. aud make %
c3mplsias b1i 90 Is 90 profits which
would not satisfy a c0uaLrF store
keeper. Eight and ten cents on a
dollar Is tho margin Of profits With
which fashionable dealers content
themselves. IN many lines Of goods
from which they used 10 reap their
richest profits.
ATACr WORTH CONSIDERING
I'VE are not advertising in out Of
town papers, said The manager Of
one of The most fashionable dry-goods
firms on Broadway, noted for its Gle
giant specialties, TO the.wri;er to-day
Not that IL would not pay as, Tor
we have received az many as 500
letters 10 response to one weeks ad-
vertisemen, in country papers, which
Is O large return. But the ladies
write for samples Of handsome goods,
and instead Of sendiag back to Us for
chem. they e 70 dealers in their own
town and say, this is from s%o-and-so,
in New York. who asks such a price.
Now II you eau get il for nj I hsd
gust as soon buy it Of you Then lie
sends on 10 our jobbiag department
for the goods, aud wants big dis
counts. For instance. We had a line
Of silks Of Sl00 Of which We bought
200 pieces at % cents a gard, which
the country merchants wanted to buy
for at least - cents. They couldn't
believe we made so little profit on
them, and clamored for more. Why
they said, Don't you allow us more
margin than that 2 we had no end Of
trouble with them
Some Of our Lyons specialties
which we sold al retail FOR 81 90 cost
rs 3 -, and We couldn't make our
wholesale customers believe ~. SO
We concluded to let country advertis-
ing drop. aad Arnold and Constable
have had TO do the same. Business
Is done on too small profits to suit
country trade"
So the women, who have very lit
lie sense Of business obligations must
answer the charge Of depriying mer
chants Of business and the country
press Of q go0dly amount Of advertis-
ing. The merchants were al ready
20 advertise out Of New York, last
year, and not a few tried it, bat they
sent out thousands Of dollars worth
% samples, and mostly got an in
crease Of trouble with their wholesale
customers to pay for il.
POLITICAL
Senator Conkling's u%tterances as
reported in the World, excited very
little interest in the city. The Re
pubiicans Of New York have very
iiiile interest in the struggle between
the Senator and the President. 1t
makes very little difference to a mer
chant or business man whether Conk
ling beats the President, or the Pres
ident beats Conkling. But it is q
matter Of interest 4 them to maintain
The ascendency Of the best interests J
and to keep the Government from
passing into the hands of the unre-
generate Democracy. Ii is Of inter
est TO the owners Of real estate rent
ing az half prices or less. and mer-
chants who are doing half the trade
they ought TO. that there should be a
settled, stable Government, that they
may calculate with some degree Of
certainty to-day what is TO happen
tomorrow. The interests of business
are OF q thousand times more import
ance than struggles ior political as
tendency, OF fights over the dead
bodies OF personal interests. Wheth-
er Conkling dies or Conkling lives
makes mighty little difference 10 toe
average Republican Of this city, but
.he question Of paying debts, and do.
Jag business successfully is a very
i'm portant matter. The SIGHT % the I
Senator ana President for supremacy J
rs g very small matter TO them. They {
say with the wounded Mercutio, "a
plague O. both your houses" And
10 would be well 10 initiate their ex
ample all over the country The +.
next Congress should be Republican, ]
and the ambitions Of q Senator aud ,
the notions Ola President ought not
to be allowed TO stand ia the way Of
that consummatiOn.
THE TfLToN RECONCILIATION
Friends Of Mr.. Tilton say that al
though be has indirectly supported
bis wife FOR some tine. as was his
duty, indeed there being no divorce,
Il Is impossible be should bring his
girls TO live with their mother and
sulIer from her reputation. The OBJ
iect Of their going 10 Europe was to
detach them from her. Her recent
confession is held as resulting partly f,