Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-03-01
7sN CENTS A oUAar ron Apples.
A sample oF Prices That People Who
Live in City FIrts Nave go Pay.

| Live IN City ftrts wave 20 Pay.
How much for The applesT asked
Harlem woman OF the grocer.
Ten cents n quart answered the
] grocer.
Jehoshaphatf' exclaimed the
wOman's aunt, who had come on
from Maine to viit her. Ten cents
. quart Why. that's 1920 a btishel.
an that's nigh ont, eight dollars a
barrel. Whewr'
But they arr very nice apples,
inaI1n every ore sound and big. =
pleaded the grocer.
"They's just a. good apples as them
selliD at dollar barrel down in
Maine this very minute. barrel
ihrowel in. rejUined the down east
amt I'D like to know what bust
noss you've got charging eight dol
lars a barrel for apples that you can
buy for one dollar a barrel
But that's down in Maine. marm.
replied the grocer. "a long ways off
from here.
But it don't cost no seven dollars
barrel to get EN- on here from
Maine. does it2"
mo. marm. but we don't git no
apples here for one dollar barrel.
nor nothin like it. If we get 'em for
80. so a barrel we do well.
We'll. call it $3.50 a barrel that
you pay, amt it little bit bar
barous in you to charge morn u hun
dred per cent. profitg'
The grocers hadn't thought about
that. he said Everybody else was
selling at the same price and mo
body was ltickin." Then he went on
to explain that people couldn't ex
pect to buy their groceries 10 cheap
ly. getting their supplies in dliblets,
and that grocers couldn't afford to
put 80 small percentage of profits into
their prices when selling minute
quantities as would be an be in the
ease of large transactions.
We'll. what do they want to buy
such small quantities forT demanded
the down east aunt. For my part
never heard Of such a thing as a
quart of apples fore ! come here
visiting. There's nobody down where
live that ever buys less.n peek of
apples at time. A quart OF applesr
wonder what Jothan'd say to that1"
Who's JOthamY' asked the grocer.
why, he's my husband that's
who lothian is, and we've got an
orchard with over 500 trees in it. |
wish had about a quarter Of it right
here in New York. Think of picking
three barrels Of apples otf'n one tree
and sellin 'em at ten cents q quart.
Come, Sairey." said the down east
aunt, moving out of the store, don't
buy none of them apples Just go
without apples till | can write down
to your Uncle lothian to send you a
barrel.
But what could do with barrel
of apples2" answered the niece.
Positively there's no room for them
in the fiat. and then if there was,
they'd spoil, It isn't Ike living in a
house with cellar and lots og stor
age room. The only place where we
can keep anything IL the ice chest
and that's really the reason why we
have to buy driblets, quart Of ap
pies, a quart Of potatoes, n couple Of
pounds of onions. one cabbage, two
turnips, and so on at a time; just
about days supply each morning"
Regular hand to mouth business
unused the aunt,
That's just it, auntie, and hate
it, but what can do2 People who
live in fats have to take on eat ways
They may try to do something else
ut first. but they soon set over il and
become slaves to their surroundings
| could buy more apples at time,
hut I'd have 60 put them in the bath
tub, and the potatoes onions and
iabbages would have to go along
with them, | hope some time we
may have whole house of our own
and live like Christians again,
The down east aunt said nothing.
She was thinking how nice il would
be if she could buy house and pre-
sent it to her niece, "Sairey,' a
house with cellar to it, in which
tho niece could each fall lay in a
stock of vegetables large enough to
carry her through till tho next |
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