Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1874 — Best Organs on Most Favorable Terms. [ARTICLE]

Best Organs on Most Favorable Terms.

Cabinet or Parlor Organs are capital things for peddlers to work with, because very poor ones can be made at half the co st of good ones, and few people are competent to tell the difference from a first examination. Manufacturers print in their catalogues prices which are three or four times as high as the value of such cheap work. Then the peddler starts out and puts them on tfee people in various ways. He sells at an enormous discount, if he can get cash; takes part trade if necessary, or leaves the organ awhile on trial, ana sells it on long time at “manufacturer’s price,” exhibiting the catalogue to show that it is such, or even at a discount from this, which he can well afford. The Mason & Hamlin Organ Co. have recently announced a plan which is likely to interfere with this business. This company, as is well known, makes only the best work, which, by its uniform excellence, has obtained the highest reputation for their organs. They proved the best, and obtained the highest awards at the recent Vienna and Paris World’s Expositions, as they have uniformly done in American industrial competitions. The fact that these organs are the best in the world is indeed too well established to need further indorsement. The company have now added a large new factory to their former extensive works, and design to greatly increase their business. This they propose to do by offering organs for time payments, or for rent with privilege of purchase, at barely sufficient advance on the cash prices to afford a reasonable interest for the time. An organ may be hired by the quarter with privilege of purchase at any time in one year or longer. If purchased within the year, the whole cost, including rent paid, is only 5 to 10 per cent, more than if the cash had been paid down at the beginning. Persons having any idea of purchasing will be wise to send a note to the Mason & Hamlin Co., at either Boston, New York or Chicago, and obtain their new circulars, before purchasing. Washington Cake. —One-half cup butter, two cups sugar, four eggs, one cup sweet milk, two teaspoons baking powder, three and one-half cups flour. This cake is baked in three or four jelly tins, with the following dressing put between when cold: One lemon, grate the rind, put it with the juice; add one egg and one cup sugar, one tablespoon cold water, stir until it boils. An Englishman has figured it out that there will be no total eclipse of the sun visible in London until July 21, 2381. —A. T. Stewart’s advertising bill aggregates about $500,000 a year.