The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-08-22

snce OF \ furniture warehouse. A peter
,vav Ia 10 begin within more than is re-
nnired Tor actual comfort, and TO select
mat much with some eye TO effect then
M ada gradually. THERE'S as much pleas
M, IN Inc putchase OF an easy chair that
inst 'fiB the back and fills the whole bill
a In pufcl,asipg q " hole aett OF furniture
ri, the uniform plan. So with the whole
Furnishing Of ths home, which ought 70
be- the work Of time, like growth In grace.
Ii is scarcely less in taste obuy pictures
in bulk for tue mere sake OF covering tne
wall, or filling the cases at once WITH BOOKS
because they are all bound in red. NO,
nv Young friends, this is not the way 70
furnish a home, and don't you so about 1t
that way.
.'G expect you newspaper men have al
most a hard q time as we do in our BUSH
ness" said young man who delivers
I,ooks for a subscription house. People
come in TO blow you up, or they waylay
Won on the street." he went on to say,
Ihnt we 90 to their homes or their places
AZ business and then they have US. It is
M nncommoa thing to have all the hard
words in the dictionary thrown ut us, TO
he ordered out Of the house, to be threat
genea to be thrown out. to have the door
slammed on us;with a bang that sounds
like the explosion Of magazine Of oaths.
You see, people subscribe for the BOOK,
get "a few parts, the novelty wears Oh or
times ret hard land there you are. Ihey
have signed contract, but 1t won't
nav TO sue. You run and run after
it and don't get your money. The
AGENT who took the subscription has got
3his commission on the whole work, aud
the firm that employees him is out OF
poeket. This happens. ottener with low
priced works divided into many numbers,
j have been dozen times to woman
who was to psy twenty-five cents month,
and she hasn't paid ime yet. | have other
customers who pay so q month on a very
expensive work. When Igo III they draw
a check or hand ont the money-thats
tie end Of 1t until come again. Yes,
sometimes the fcanyasser Tools the mrm,
gets his commission and lights out. Then
Il isyery hot for them when l go on that
circuit. Some people take 0 tine
book because they Like TO have tine
books in the house and they can get 1t
in parts. Plenty don't know q
good thing from q bad one. But we must
nave books that are worth the money or
the business wonld stop. Right here In
Wheeling there are ladies and gentlemen
az taste who buy nearly every good thing
we have. aud we don't waste time offering
them any other. We regard thena as
regular customers and there is never any
trouble between US. Like the busin ess
No, Pm not inloye with my end oil 1t. l
get the hard knocks and the canvasser gets
the good commissions"
sSo'we sound the lower depths. II has
been insisted by many that the lot Of the
book canvasser Is the least desirable that
falls TO man. Yet hereis the CLEANER who
comes after the canyasser, and must take a
double dose Of misery. And some one
else Is less happy still. The Joy Of life Is
In the contented mind. vs.
*
Talking with q dealer about water
melons, he said, .We have had trouble
ithisyear with the eastern melons. They
have not given satisfaction. think the
trouble is that in the east they grow their
melons with pumpkins. This Is done to
give the melons q tough rlnd for ship
ment, but the pumpkin taste seems to get
into the melon and that hurts the fruit.
Oar Marietta melons are very tender
there's a lot that broke in the handling,
and We must sell them cheap TO the boys.
This year the Marietta melons are very
fine. Ihaye heard no complaints. Yes,
II costs about aa much 10 get them here by
river asitd0es to bring the eastern melons
byrail. And what doyou think OF this
IT costs us more TO ship melons fifty
miles from here than It does to bring them
from BaldmoCe, We pay Is cents a hun
dfed from Baltimore aud 2S cents to send
them the forty miles. Cheap enough
from Baltimore, isn't II? We can bring
any quantity, large or small, for that" l
wonder whether there Is anything better
than watermelon Of good flavor, very
cold, taken alter q comfortable meal !
don't wonder that certain oftmy fellow
citizens can't help ri1ing melon patch
when they can get the chance. Itcomes
very near being a case Of justifable lar
csny.
wi VFKt0 kNHAl
Wen, ! SAD tue uninsured manager, we
get new recruits mostly from the small
towns. Young fellows get the fever, can
a.. ~ aarca nv thev have finn In them
BUS :. 4. n, ,1,a. o,d M III, a.,
Or iu T'pa bis c;tSssS Not mnch sood f for
M, nj The fellows who are taught BY the
private instructors You read about are
generally Of no use az all. They are stiff
and STACEY and initiate somebody. II
they have any origlnallty II IS al knocked
out o. them. 20, SUI, = lnan must nave II
m nun ar saSsI Y towns ara M r' y,
ing 49, Ny te Va VS. set a " esos many
fro .ns splsces the size Of Wheeling. We've
inst engaged your man, Harry sturm, for
our band heres telegram Just come.
And there's oriswell, who used 70 play at
Charley shay'sTne, i. cat sns inc mouse
with hs Sosn st sI ss ms All sn tg SSs o.