GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Jan. 



coin in the box, and taking the ariicle. In fact, 

 if you choose, you can go into one of these 

 stores pick out a five cent basket, and fill it 

 with five cent articles, leaving the coin in the 

 box in p'aceofeach, without the store keeper's 

 touching a tning. After you are gone, he gath- 

 ers up his coins, and replenishes his counters. 

 At the very low prices goods are sold, there 

 can be no trusting, and no deviation in prices, 

 so the time ordinarily spent in bartering and 

 dickering is saved. If you have got a poor ar 

 tide on your counters, put it into the next 

 grade low^r, and if it gets to the five cent 

 counter and won't, sell then, give it away. 



In the following table, I have discarded 

 dozens and gross, and adopted tens and hun- 

 dreds, that there m ty be no time wasted or 

 mistakes made in figuring the cost. For an il- 

 lustration : if au article cosis 85c. for 10. point 

 off one figure and you have the price of each 

 right before your eye, 8 l <r:. If the price i* 

 $6 50 per hundred, move the decimal point two 

 places to the left, and the price is written out 

 without a mistake 6c. and 50-100, or 6)^ n. Of 

 course, you only move the point in your mind. 

 You cm hang out a sign if you like, aud I 

 would suggest for it, the words I have as the 

 heading of this article,— "Useful Goods at Very 

 Low Prices;'' but I shall depend mon foi your 

 success on your doing busitiess ( with the fear of 

 God in your heart, than on all the signs in the 

 world. This honesty of heart will win a place 

 for you in spite of all the opposition and com- 

 petition the world can bring to bear, for it is a 

 quality so rare in business, thai it is sought 

 for far and wide Of course, you cannot sell 

 tobacco or pipes or anything that is useless, to 

 say nothing of being harmful. You may pos- 

 sibiy make m >ney by so doing, but you cannot 

 get that happy contentment that the world is 

 always trying to buy with money, but never 

 gets for money alone. 



By the way, in regard to pipes and cigar 

 bolder*; I saw them off red as premiums by 

 the American AgricuUnriitt, and wrote them in 

 regard to it. I received a reply from Orange 

 Judd himself, thanking me for the solicitude I 

 had expressed for the morals of their paper, 

 and, after saying that I was right, he promised 

 that they should uever be ottered in their col- 

 umns again. 



The very low prices at which these goods 

 are sold, and the rapidity with which the bus- 

 iness can be done, is to be their principal ad- 

 vertisement. 1 shall merely give an nut'iue of 

 the list this month and expect it to grow as 

 new things present themselves. You are to 

 make it grow, my friends. Any one of you 

 who will furnish a better article than I offer, 

 or the same thing at less figures, will be al- 

 lowed a one line advertisement ol it free. You 

 are to send me a sample of the article by ma'l, 

 aud I will decide whether I think it sufficienily 

 meritorious to deserve a place in the list. 

 Some one must discriminate, and I hope you 

 will not get cross if my opinion does not agree 

 with yours. 



I know the profits on some of the goods 

 are very close, my friends; but, should you 

 put the greater part of them on the counter, 

 higher, they would be lower than your friends 

 have gmerallv been in the habit of paying. It is 

 not you duty to sell any thing at; less than cost. 



USEFUL ARTICLES 



THAT CAN BE SOLD FOR 



FIVE CENTS EACH, 



TERMS OF PAYMENT— Stricthi Cash i th Order, 



All Prices Subject to Cliauge without Notice 



S3 WO »S 



■" » «H ,J° 



CJho O a< 



2 I Awls, Scratch, Wood Handle 1 45 | 4 00 



2 I Awls, All Metal Handle | 35 | 3 00 



3 I Awls, Brad, AIL Metal Handle, Assort- 



ed Sizes I 45 | 4 00 



Baskets to be sold for 5c., Wanted. 



1 | brushes, Paint, Paste, or Sash | 35 | 3 00 



Brooms, \\ hisk | 45 i 4 25 



Coal Shovels, Wrought Iron | 48 J 1 75 



Cups, Tin. 1 Pint I i 3 50 



Dippers, Tin '. 45 14 00 



Disti Covers, Blue Wire Cloth 45 4 40 



I >ust Pans 45 4 25 



Drawer Pulls I 25 | 2 25 



Foot Scrapers I 45 | 4 



Funnels, '/•> Pint 



Garden Trowels 



Gimlets, All Steel 



Glass Cutters 



ink. Best Black, in B >ttles 



Kitchen Knives | 35 | 3 00 



2j Knives and Forks for Table Use (a 



Knife and a Fork Are Two) | 45 I 4 00 



1 | Knivi s. Pocket, 1 Blade, fur Children. | 45 | 4 25 

 | Magnets, Horse Shoe I 48 | 4 50 



5 I Mullets, Wood I 45 | 4 25 



5 | M irking Gauges I 45 ! 4 25 



3 | M.itcta B >xes I 45 | 4 25 



5 I M<>las-es Cups, Tin, Nice for Honey.. I 4s I 4 15 



Mucilage aud Brush I 45 ] 4 00 



I Nest Eggs 'I 40|350 



2 | Oilers, Zinc, Neat, Pretty, and Just 



Right to Keep Ail the 'Machinery" 

 Well Oil d I 48 



1 | Pencils. Lead, The Kind 1 Prefer (Am. 



Phonographic) I 45 



2 I Rules. 1 Foot, for School Children j 45 



2 | Scissors | -.5 



3 Scoops, Tin. forGetiing Honey out of 



a arrel 1 45 | 4 00 



2 i Screw-divers, >ewing Machine, Neat, 



wood Handle I 25 12 00 



3 | Screw-drivers, Metal H-mdle | 45 | 4 00 



| Seeds, per Package | 35 | 3 00 



5 | Soap, Good, aud Good sized Cakes.... | 4u I 3 75 



I Spoons, Table, Tinned Iron | 88 | 3 «0 



« Tea, " (Two for 5c.).. | 20 | 1 75 



I -tands, ilvered Wire, for Hot Dishes | 5 j 4 00 



| stove Polish | 35 | 3 0J 



Tin Plates, for Honey, Set of 3, As- 



R..rted I 40|35) 



■ 3 00 

 3 50 



3 (0 



4 5 

 4 25 



4 50 



4 00 

 4 00 

 4 25 



2 | Tacks, Tinned, 3 wzes of papers | 35 



6 | Tack Hammer, oppered Iron Handle j 40 



41 " " Wood Handles | 35 



5 | Tin Pails. 1 Pint, no i overs j 45 



1 | Touth Brushes I 45 



1 I Views for -tt-reoscopes . . | 45 j 4 25 



2 | Wax i all. for Work Box, in Shape of 



Egg, Pear, Plum, eic | 48 | 4 75 



w bet -stones, Sm ill, v\ anced 



W ire Nails, per Paper I 35 I 3 00 



1 I Yard -tick I -2 i 4 00 



TXSEIFTXIL ARTICLES 



THAT CAN BE SOLD FOR 



TEN CENTS EACH. 



Awls, Scratch, Tempered Steel, Iron 

 Handle 



Balances, Spring, 24ft>., Accurate 



Brooms, Whisk, Wed Handles 



Butcher Knives, Good Steel and Tem- 

 per 



Chamois Skins f .»r Cleaning Cutl'y, &c 

 I Chisels with Handles 



