The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-23

and he concluded to hold the order for
day or two. -
That night he talked the matter. all
over with his Wife, Selunbia WASH d
new woman but she was one of sense
and judgment and when ever her nus
band got into a tight place they were
very apt to have a conference. SO after
the older children had gone out for the
evening and the little folks got OF to bed
Brother Jonathan lit his pipe and they
canvassed the question thorot gnly.-Amer7
lea said you know, Columbia, refused
to give up the peck measure when 1t was
first suggested and never consented TO IL.
But the boys did it without my knowledge
and l didn't find it out until all our Gus
toners had been told about It: Ihen
thought L would let it go awhile ana see
how it worked | don't like 1t and never
shall but it will be pretty awkward to go
back TO the old way just at TINS Time;
In the first place it will take a soo1
the peck measures we need 'Oh, that
easy" broke in Columbia, have some TN
ones made for temporary use and retire,
them as fast as the others come out:
Yes, | could do that, but | owe Uncle
Bull some rent money yet and he VIII DE
sure to call for It If go back on MN IN III
lumbia, Il have some money laid away
and the children have their little DOCKS.
We will scrape up the money in the
family some way and get out of the ola
renting from him anyway This is the
third or fourth time he has called Tor
them just when you needed them most.
That's so, this isn't the first time he
has played me that trick. suppose
we could pay the old sinner off, but l
hate to take your money ana that OF t the
children ''Oh, | guess could get lhe
money in other ways if it really is best
to go back to the double standard, pu5
some of the boys are very much opposed
to it. Mass and York are golr@ Win
couple of the old mans girls, you know;
and want to keep on his good slde
They say we have more dea lngs with MN
and Germania than any other two men
in town, and while they continue TO use
bushels, and nothing else it Will make II
inconvenient for us to use pecks: Ihose
boys seem to care about as mucn 1or Ou-
Gle Bulls interests as for ours, sald Co
lumbia, but their argument isn't Strohe:
You must remember that you DO not
throw away your bushels. You Keep
them, too, and in transactions with Ger
mania of Uncle Bull they can be used"
Then there is Coin said America.
Hes afrid if we get in lot OF new
pecks the clerks will all go to using the EN-
in preference to bushels and the olu
measures will get neglected and sent over
to the east side with stuff and we II LOT
get where they are until the hrst Ihliis
"Stuff and nonsense said Columbia,
Coin is little fool. You are not likely
to forget where your bushel measures
are if you need them very badly; II you !,
did YOU could get along W thout un IL n
come back Four pecks make bushel
and if you had to YOU could get along
without any bushels N1 at At all all: he hasn't
and as you told me yourself
that he was getting rich hand ever nst.
But there IS no earthly need OF your
doing without either. You nave pleIltS
of bushels for all your business Win the
eastern stores and for the great pulk OF
your customers the PICK Is py dH ot'uS
the more convenient
by looking after your affairs properly
it is easy enough to keep supply OF both
We'll" America said II don't take
any stock in Coins idea, but after all II
would make it rather awkward 10 use
picks unless all the big stores do 1t
seems to me if the matter was put to
them right they would see that 1t is much
easier to 10 business with plenty OF
measures of both kinds than with only
about half enough of one, and that the
most expensive in the market. l am not
sure but it would be better to wait a
little ana try and bring Uncle Bull and
Germania around
Columbia sat knitting a state for young
Utah awhile in silence and then sald;
wouldn't Uait on anybody, Jonathan.
Uncle Bull knows as well as you that 1t
is more convenient to do business with
both measures, but he has bushels to
rent and makes as much money in that
way as he does in his store. Germanta
will think just as Uncle Bull tells him.
II would 20 ahead and have lot of
picks made up cut of my own timber and
would have enough so the clerks needn
wait around in each others way and
then ] would tell everybody that | was
going to use both pec1s and bushels in
my business whether airy of the other big
stores did or not, and my word for ii
before six months our good old Uncle
Bull and his 'fidus Achetes will find you
are getting their trade and will be glad
enough ~ come in out of the rain.
I'll do il old girl. / never submitted
a thing to YOU vet without coming out all
right. l think we are the best team in the
world and will pull through this all right.
Some of the boys will kick but let them
kick. You and 1 will boss the business
yet awhile anyway.
The very next day America sent men to
his timber with instructions to get out
material for a thousand peck measures,
and told the cooper to make them up as
fast as possible. He then sent to all
storekeepers in town. little or big, and
arranged for a meeting. When they got
said that as r matter of general con-
venience he would be glad if all would
join him.
OF course John Bull opposed the change
and said he would never agree to it. and
Germania, as in duty bound, said the
same, but the other houses, with few
unlmportant exceptions, were glad enough
to go back to the old way and said thew
had only been waiting for some of the
big houses to lead the Way
Inside of month Uncle Jonathan had
TO increase his clerical force and before
six months old Bull and Cermania were
buying peck timber from him to try and
get back their trade.
1t has now been some five wears since
Brother Jonathan declared his independ-
ence. nv
The business of the World is ROARING
as 1t never did before and the long legged
Yankee with the striped pants is mayor.