Show w. w i r Ar A- A tI r l r v p Y t 1 y ij f i Trai Traveling un Salesman I he Att Atlanta nt Co Constitution st ut U has hub epee j-een en tl the people peopled ef of its it ci city V taken in hy the fakir and the die passing auctioneer auctioneer just as ns wo we have seen been the same lUW class eIas of roaming tradesmen and mountebanks play their 1 trickery trickery trick trick- ery ID in Ephraim and the I tion tion it readers leaders some whole wholesome wholesome f some some advice that has bas application to local conditions hIt it is always in order v v high bieh ha has hasI for a u newspaper nd w s respect for the of Qt o the community com coin I wh ch it Inanity in iq is published says that able contemporary to Uto sound a note of warning against t an nn evil which may way do du harm to the be th people of that community Ever Every Y I city city and town and town of the South is vi vie from timp time to time by bv a lot of f irresponsible persons without apparent apparent up- up ap ap- parent habitation o or home w wilt who lJ swoop down to catch the gullible and unthinking with their the ire e sales their sales their r damaged goo goos gools is sales sale and schemes at which something it offered r fir r 1 nothing or thereabouts thereabout The expel terse e of of the past has hass shown own that usually there is is nothing so dear as th the character of stuff sold at these sales Here in Atlanta we have had several such experiences th the o vendors holding hodin out the tho most at- at to those thos who take then them at their word wOld only to disappear r before the real character of their r wares have hav been dis discovered They I may Ulay sell shoes or crockery or clothing or dry goods but the result result re re- sult suit is almost invariably the same Most lost fulsome assurance of the worth of their wares are areen given en there is much loud lond talk about guarantees but when the time for forthe forthe forthe the show down show down comes it is discovered discovered dis dis- covered that the vendor like his I l rah rab predecessor has quietly Added t his tent and has stolen way away between suns The Tho public i look out ont for such sales Atlanta has as fine merchants merchants' as there are in the world and a comparison comparison com com- parison Jurison of their prices with those of the same sane character of goods elsewhere demonstrates that the I home prices are al always ayl most reasonable reasonable reasonable rea rea- The A Atlanta merchant is y tl member of the community the money he takes in exchange for his bis wares remains here to aid aidin aidin aidin in t the e of the h city and contribute to the general prosper prosper- ity He does his part in bearing t the e public burden by paying taxes s upon his property of all kinds an and he deserves the o of f his bis fellow citizens citizen It is due the people who might be gulled into buying at t these se so called fire fir or damaged goods' goods sales sules to war warn I them against such purchases I From every possible standpoint the stores of the local merchants merchant I should be patronized rather tha than thun n the temporary headquarters of pf ir irresponsible responsible l vendors who have n no place in the com community |