The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-10-17
A CUTE YANKEE TRICK.
How a Traveller Got American Honey
on the Queens Table.

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Among the products Of this pro
ductive country is honey. It be-
came advisable to seek a market
abroad. To accomplish this large
grocery house in this city sent a
travelling agent to London. At that
time there was a strong prejudice
against anything American. Wood
en- nutmegs and other nefarious
schemes had destroyed confidence
in American products except those
which had already been tested and
approved. The travelling agent found
himself obstructed by this want of
confidence. No one would buy the
honey, and storekeepers refused to
deal in it.
In order to secure a trade it was
necessary to break down this OBJ
struction. But how to do it? That
was the momentous question. No
one would try the honey, and the
visit abroad seemed likely to end
in failure.
While cogitating over this matter
the travelling agent entered a coffee
house to obtain a meal. He selected
a beefsteak. 1t was placed before
him with the usual condiments.
Among the latter was a bottle of
sauce, furnished from a well-known
English house. The travelling agent
read the label. 1t stated that the
sauce was prepared from the receipt
of certain person who was author
lied to afix to his name the title of
/" Purveyor to the Queen" This
caught the travelling agents eye.
"That's my man." he thought. eff
| can only get the honey approved
by the Queen" that will create a
trade at once"
But how to do it was the question.
The travelling agent did not know
and was not known to the privileged
purveyor.
After some delay and repeated
calls on the head of the firm the
meeting took place. The travelling
agent told the purveyor that he rep
resented the largest grocery house
in America; that he had tried the
sauce, found it good, and believed
that large trade for it might be
built up in the United States
through the house in question, re-
sulting in profit to himself, his Lon
don representatives and the Ameri-
can house. The purveyor was
pleased and gratifed.
Zone good turn deserves another"
said the travelling agent. ~ have
some American honey in the comb
which I would like the Queen to
taste. | have no means of reaching
her. You have. Now, will you con-
trive to have it placed quietly on
the Queens table? l will first send
you case, so that you may try it.
Then, if you approve of it-as l
know you cannot help doing-can
you have it so placed that her maj
esty may try it?"
"Why, certainly; nothing easier.
Send the honey to me, and | will
attend to the rest"
The purveyor gave the travelling
agent his address, and the comb
honey was sent. True to his prom
lse the purveyor had it placed on the
Queens table. The young grand
children of the British monarch |
we're residing with her at the time,
and, tasting the honey, were so
pleased with it that the Queens at
,ention was drawn to the sweet
product. After inquiring how it
came to be on the table, she was
Informed that Sir --, her pur-
yeyor, had selected it. The Queen
promptly ordered a supply to be
jurisdiction she was SO fond of
Ter dead daughter Alice's children
hat she could deny them nothing.
The order was sent to the purveyor,
Who transmitted it to the travelling
lgent, who, ''of course, kept the Sc
cret." But somehow it got into
he London papers that the Queen
lad approved of and ordered a sup
,ly Of American comb honey, and
II a few days every one in the fash
enable world wanted some of it for