Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-10-31
ARP PULLING FODDER.
A Rural Task for q Modern Philos.
ospher.
He Dives Down Into the Tricks Of
Trades and shows How One
Class Gouses the
Other.
ATLANTA Constitution.

lAuanla COnsttution-l
We are pulling fodder now. I've hired two
men to pull by the day and two TO pull by
the hundred bundles. want to see which is
the cheapest. But they get me anyhow, and
! can't help it. II they pull by the day they
don't make $50 good bundles apiece, which
they ought to make at IS cents day, and if
they pull by the hundred they make over 200
bundles, and some Of them are mighty light.
But it is all right reckon. They are watch
ing me and am watching them 1t is the
same old story-capital against labor. There
are tricks in all trades You can count the
hands in bundle, but you can't count the
blades in hand, and 50 they can make them
heavy o. make them light according to pay
I've hired cord wood cut by the cord and
they can pile it 50 loose that a pack of hounds
can follow a fox right through it and never
touch hair. But it is no deep laid scheme
! to cheat you. They are just sloshing along
and you can settle with darkey easier than
with any creature upon the earth A mean
man can pay them in bacon at 10 cents a
pound and -four at when the cash would
bug one at 10 and the other at 3. and he can
cheat them p per cent. in the weights and
they viii never know any better and naver
care.
The Lord never made such an easy unsus-
pecting creature as a free niger There are
white men who take advantage of them and
cheat them and get their labor for their Wit
ties and clothes, but the darkey is sure of a
living anyhow, for if he can't earn it he can
steal IT, so it is all right anyhow and the races
keep about even. Some farmers are tricky
too, when they take chickens to town the
sickly ones are sure TO go, and the best po-
tatoes are put on top Of the basket The
richest pine is on the outside of the load.
and some rotten corn will get iii the shelter
when the meal is for market. The
merchant has his tricks too. He will
bait you with something for less than
cost and make it up on something else at %
per cent. To keep up with hard competition
he will sell You shoes with pasteboard soles
and nails that break in two under the ham
mer, and shoddy goods of all sorts for his
customers want everything ut the lowest
price whether il is good or bad, and it is
buckle and tongue whether the merchant can
get ahead of his customers or they get ahead
Of him. One thing is certain, when the ner-
chant forsets to charge anything it is lost,
forever lost If he makes mistake in change
or weight or measure he hears of it if it is in
his favor, and if it is the other way nayEe
D.
The miller mixes corn meal with his flour
nowadays. They all do it up north and our
millers say they have to do it too to keep I'D.
and they comfort themselves with the idea
that it is healthier and better, even though it
is a fraud upon the consumer The baker
gives six loaves for quarter instead Of five,
and that satisfies his customers, though the
five weighed just as much as the six do now.
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and serene. There is power Of comfort in
going home and showing up their bargains.
1t proves that you are smart in trade, OF
popular with the merchant, and that shows
how smart good merchant is for he can I
make ninety out of one hundred customers
believe he likes them better than anybody. |
Civility and a little pleasant fiattery is |
splendid capitol for merchant If my wife |
was to hear accidentally that a merchant in |
town told somebody that she had the prettiest |
and best hammered daughter in the commun-
ity she would go right there to trade ami |
wouldn't jew him down on anything
But the biggest fraud of all is in the mar I
rying business, and the man is guilty of it |
heap oftener than the woman I'm not talk
ing about the regular society woman in a |
t own or a city for | don't think that any
berg in a passed. Of fine clothes and she don't |
know how TO do anything but read novels
and visit, but the average girl who marries
for love is oftener fooled than the average
man. The time used to be when a man
didn't begin to forget his wife until he had
been married ten or fifteen years. but now
he forgets her in a few months and won't
stay home of nights if he can help it. Some
nice sweet-tempered young married
women may be seen nowadays walking TO
the end OF the piazza about ten times Ill fifteen
minutes looking up the street for her husband,
but he don't hardly ever come according to
time. Folks didn't do that way in my days.
and my sort Of folks don't do it yet Mrs.
Arp don't have to look up the road for me
No. sir. I'm on hand before she wants me-
raining, and SO | am obliged to advise the
young women to break in their husbands as
soon as possible. You can manage colt
mighty easy with care and kindness, but it
is almost impossible to reform halky horse
There are the tricks of the lawyers that
would fill book and are too tedious to men
ton, and the tricks Of the doctors and the
politicians and the patent medicine men
The editors help them last fellers out and di-
vide the profits. They don't certify to the
lies, but they keep them spread out before the
people and scare them mighty nigh to death
with their awful pictures of snakes and hor-
rible things. Well, it is wonder that any,
body has got anything, for it looks like most
is trying to get what everybody
has got, and they take the highest cut to do