The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-01-29

- Brewer Whose Efforts at Che penina
Only iiaiSed the Price.

Y ut once cost me just one thousan
dollars, besides the price of three DO
ties OF champagne, to learn a Vernon
farmer was smarter than I was, = sal
the old fellow with a weli-fed air as b
d lighted a fresh cigar.
,, The speaker had been a brewer in hi
earlier days, but he had retired ate
he had put by a comfortable sum-, an,
I at the age of seventy-two he was still
enjoying life.
!, One season." he continued, shop
were scarce and all the brewers wer,
keeping a sharp lookout for any goot
ones which were put On the market
Our agents in Boston telegraphed tx
me that a man down in Vermont haC
one hundred bales of just the kind tina
L wanted, and I started Immediately t.
buy them. Now, if l do say it myself
| do not take a back seat from any one
when it comes to Judging the quality Of
hops. Well, l arrived at the place
where the owner of these hops lived,
and [ suspected what he had for sale.
They were the best hops that I had
seen that season. The price which he
asked for them, sixty cents a pound,
was reasonable for hops of that
quality; in fact it was a little less thar
the market price. Not to let the old
fellow see that I was too anxious to get
them, began to try and beat him down
q little on the price. The thought
struck me that perhaps I might beat
him down % if 1 could induce him
to go to town and get him little incl
low" over a bottle Of champagne. The
town was not far away, and I suggested
hat he go back with me, as nv time
was limited, and if we struck a bargain
on the way l would pay him the cash
for the hops before leaving him.
HE consented and to town we went.
We stopped at the hotel. I ordered a
bottle OF champagne and some good
cigars. Wedrank the wine and smoked
the cigars. I kept his glass full and he
did not seem at all bashful about taking
all that 1 gave to him. He began to
warm up and 1 thought I was going to
save the price of three or four cases of
wine at least. I suggested that he
ought to let me have those hops for
about ffty-fve cents a pound. I de-
clare he raised the price instead of low
ering it, and said he thought they were
were worth sixty-one cents. I laughed,
but it was no go and he insisted on
~slxty-one cents as the price. I ordered
another bottle of wine. Again he drank
all l gave to him, and I poured nearly
all Of it in his glass. When this bottle
was finished the price of hops had gone
up to sixty-two cents a pound. Things
were getting interesting. The wine
had flushed the face of the old fellow,
u he would not come down a quarter
of a cent. In desperation I tried an
other bottle Of wine and more cigars. .
The sparkling fluid went down hi.
throat like water down a rat hole. He
became more and more talkative. and 7
gained courage once more. .
"'Wel1,' said !, we'd better close the
bargain on your first offer of sixty
cents .
"'Well, I think them hops are worth
bout sixty-fve cents he replied.
II argued and threatened not to take
them at all, but it was no use. He was
sharp enough to detect the fact that T
wanted those hops and wanted them
badly. He would not bulge a bit, and
L had to pay sixty-ive cents for them.
The additional five cents a pound made
d difference of ten dollars on every bale
and one thousand dollars on the hum
dred bales, besides my wine and cigar
bill Of nearly twenty dollars."-N. Y.
Tribune.
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E. Genseuleiter, liveryman, Pittsburg,
"a, cured a valuable horse of influenza
y using Salvation Oil on him for a few
lays
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