The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-01-24
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proposes to make 1t a nisdemeanor to sell
the bogus for the genuine thing said
to the grocer that 1 wouldn't have tho
imitation at any price or eat it could
get It for nothing. mo, l suppose not, "
ss;d The grocer, 7'I suppose not-that IS,
Vol, wouldn't II you knew it." III knew
I ayes sir, il you knew it. I've been
deceived by the bogus article anu hou iiii
keepers are caught every uAy' ,n1
tell you a little story. ! h nHu
a customer who bought good country Dat,
ter from ME twice a week. shG sooppeu
buying my butter, and asked her NM.
wasthe matter. She said she had iound put,
Ter she liked better-it was more sotl9 auo
more slightly. 1t was OF uniform ana pe eau
tiiul color, whereas the country pnttet
lacked the rich yellow hue ana was oiten
streaked. had my suspicious 10 make
n long story short, ] discovered that bogus
butter had taken my customer from me.
No. don't sell It, but there is plenty @! IL
sold in Wheeling. 1t is made here anu II
is brought here from the great actorles
that produce ii by the ton."
X
This reminds me Of q conversation !
overheard not long since in a railroad car
1t wasn't my fault that overheard. The
takers were two commercial travellers,
and commercial travellers as class are
loud takers. couldn't help being i'll
terested in their talk. for among other
thingS il showed "what fools these NOR.
tails be- Sud how easily they are fooled.
II also showed that a good salesman is
often to be preferred before good article:
This from the sellers point OF view, and
in which case the good salesman starts
with being u good liar. Perhaps this
salesman was above all things talented
liar. Here is his story after being put
through the condenser;
"Csn sellit? should smile! work
ed a Western Pennsylvania county for SIX
months, and drove out all the real butter
Mine looked so pretty and tasted so nice
that the dealers couldn't sell anything
else-the people would have it. l sold
stacks OF it, and only left there for big.
ger field. Get ontoit2 Not much. There
isn't man or a woman in thousand who
can tell It by the look or by the taste. II
ouvhtn't TO cost more than eleven cents q
pound to make it, and smart salesman
can sell it right along for whate;TyeIr, the
best creamery butter is bringing: Tel the
storekeepers what it is? What for? You
don't want TO make them deceive thelr
customers, do you7 No, the racket is to
sell it for the real thing and stand up to
what you say. I'll bet hundred dollars
on it any time. That's sale enough. No
F. body will take you up. They are al! afraid
10 trust their own judgement. It's the
softest snap in the business, can tell you
that"
This commercial traveller had what the
women call 80 good face" Still, don't
like the idea Of having wheel grease snug:
gled into my stomach under an alias. II
the Legislature can protect my stomach
want protection. This is why am bur
railing for Delegate Jacobs butterine bill.
Y
Some good stories are atloat about the
tactics Of the beer.strikers' brigade in the
recentlocal election. Aparty broke in ona
candidate and wanted the price OF a key
OF beer Beer! the candidate couldn't
think OF It. Well, maybe he would do as
Blank did, "set up the oysters" The oys.
ters caught the candidate, and he came
"down, way down, terribly down." with
a dollar. Then the strikers went OF and
denounced him Us mean man. Two TO
one they voted against him, II they voted
at all.
A nominee of another party, run
ming as the other was for an office with no
salary attached, found man at his place
OF business early in the morning. The
visitor said he was suffering agony from a
tooth-it had frozen up the night before,
or burst its boiler, or something OF that
sort. The sufferer said he was going to
vote for the nominee, and wanted fifty
cents 10 pay for pulling his tooth. Gust
step around here" said the nominee,
"and I'll knock 1t out with hatchet"
Poor man. Long.headed nominee!
The Chairman Of one the city commit
tees was called on for beer money. In.
stead Of beer money he gave the young
fellows lecture as long as your leg. 1t
was good and timely lecture. But tho
sense OF the meeting was strongly in IA
yor OF beer. One Of the strikers showed
faint indication OF sense OF shame, but
they all concluded to go oifand try their
luck elsewhere. understand they found
bad Samaritan who "set EN- up"
There is nothing new in all this. The
grave feature of It is that it is very old.
Being also shameful, it is a scandal on our
elections. Men ask money for beer or
oysters who wouldn't stand on the street
corners holding out q lineup for pennies.
Votes are cheap at their price, but they
sell the same vote TO both sides with nom
partisan indifference. There is no occa-
sion to waste sympathy on the candidate
whom they trick. The sympathy belongs
to the men who have fallen so low, and
TO the community which they atlllct.
The Southern brigadiers" and the rest
Of the Democratic majority in Congress
having refused to admit Dakota into the
Union Of the States, it is but reasonable
to suppose that under the coming admin
tration her broad lands and progressive
people, although largely Republican, will
be ruled over by q Democratic Territorial
Governor. The people out there appear
TO realize that such will be the case, and
Judging from tho political press OF both
parties are we'll nigh unanimously in
favor OF John Il. Wilson, former West
Virginian, Democrat, but a pretty good
one. Sixteen years ago, John X. Wilson
was smooth.iaced, gawky school teacher
nj Oak Grove school house, Tyler county,
and he will be remembered by number
Of TYLER county residents. All trace was
lost ii him after he left Tyler county until
about seven years ago, when he began
the practice Of law in Deadwood, and
since then he has been abundantly
blessed with prosperity and honors,
having represented the people in the Leg
islature Of the Territory. THE NHisPERgR
is glad to notice the progress Of this West
Nirginiau.
There is altogether too much slang used