Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1883 — A Down-Easter’s Trade Philosophy. [ARTICLE]

A Down-Easter’s Trade Philosophy.

‘"Let me tell you, a fellow’s got to have a poor thing to sell a good one by, ” moralizes a Lewiston trader. “I always try to sell the poor stuff first. I always show it to a customer first. When I show him the good thing I’m sure to put a darn good price on it, so he will be liable to take the cheaper article. When a man comes into my shop and asks for a good barrel of apples, for instance, I show him some of those small ones which I can sell for $2.50 a batrel. If he says he wants a fancy, bang-up article, I ask him if he means .business, and shew him that handsome fruit over there that I’m getting $3.50 for. There's just as much ‘chaw’ in the $2.50 barrel as in the other; but when it comes to settin’ ’em on the table before company, they’re no good."— Lewiston (Me.) Journal.