The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-11

rare chances for persons Of small means to acquire
an independence" To show how the thing is
managed, we quote the following calculation with
regard to the profits on an article OF salve:-
"Let us for a moment glance at real figures and
see what can be made on the sale Of this salve.
Supposing the towns in all parts Of the country
average about one hundred and fifty families, which
is about right Now II you sold each family four
boxes per year. the amount you would receive would
be $3.50 Now deduct the cost OF manufacturing, at
three cents per box H1S), and you have profit OF
t132 Now an average county contains about thirty
five towns, and the above stated amount sold In
every town would give profit Of t462o for the
county, and man with good team II he attends
to his business will easily Keep two counties or more
supplied. But now let us put things down to low
year to one-half OF the families. The profit per
township would be $3.50. The profit per county
would be S5775O. The pront for two counties would
be f1155, which is good pay. But you are going to
sell much larger quantity than these last figures
Indicate, though perhaps not as much as the first
figures indicate or at least not as much until the
article is firmly established 1t is not by any means
necessary for an agent to C0nfne himself TO any
one article, but 1t is best TO make specially OF some
such as the agent may think will sell best Now
suppose you give your principal attention TO the
as much or more from a few other articles COM
bned, made from the recipes, as you do from the
real specially itself. Now If you have good judg-
ment and common sense, what shall deter you from
engaging in this branch OF the business, and making
your way to success and fortune? II they are an
real Obstacles then we are blind"
The Writer makes mistake about his own blind
ness, but he calculates very sharply on shutting up
somebody's eyes with the above array OF figures and
a few pages further the following business-like
advice is given to those who anxious to start in
trade but who lack the means to Begin
"Many say on receiving our circulars well, If |
had the money would go right into the business.
All we can say to such is II you have not the money
raise 1t by selling property of some kind; borrow it,
get friend TO sign note Uith yOu but II cannot
obtain It IN any of these ways, go to work at
thing and earn it. IL will pay to get at almost any
sacrifice. Ten dollars will set you fairly in the bus-
ness, and then you will soon have money enough TO
push the business to almost any extent The busi-
once introduced, and trade once established,
Will prove source OF constant remuneration will
require further labor than to keep your customers
supplied and even this can be done through sub
agent"
AS the fools are not all dead yet, it is scarcely
necessary for to proner any advice against being
lured into spending money in such schemes OF wealth
as are here presented but at the risk OF having
good intentions unappreciated, we recommend to
those who feel disposed to answer such advertise
ments the one quoted at the head OF this article
that the wisest thing they can do is
to let well enough alone. The men
VINO make money without workingIfor it are gene
rally thieves and swindlers, and not one man out Of
ten millions ever made a fortune except by hard
work, combined with irst-rate business abilities
There is royal road to riches except the good old
way that has been known since the days Of
Adam and Eve; and those who invest their savings
in reliance upon any of the fine sounding and plausj
BILE schemes that are devised by gudgeon-catchers
will be toleraby certain be disappointed in their
expectations, and to get nothing more solid than eX-
perience for their money.