The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-04-21
A Successful Life.


ing no extraneous advantages, have by
innate merit alone, advanced from the
ranks of the people to
positions of honor, wealth and power
in this great Republic. 1t is the crown
ing glory of republican institutions,t that
the highest places, not only in military
or naval ranks, requiring that peculiar
characteristic known as brute courage,
but in politics, law, commerce and the
social scale, are equally known to all
alike; and while 1t was the boast Of the
first Napoleon, that every private sol.
dier In the French army marched with
the baton CT a marshal in his knapsack,
1t is our higher privilege to know, that
caste, long lines of ancestry, and the
other arbitrary distinctions known in /
monarchial countries are not requisite
here to secure that position in public or
private life which depends upon honor.
able trading, sound judgment, moral
excellence and decision of character.
Every American citizen is born or en-
dowed, with the power and right of
occupying the most exalted positions in
the commonwealth, dependent alone
upon the acquisition of his hereditary
privilege.
AS contribution to the hitherto un-
written history of the order of merit we
would give slight sketch of Phila-
delphian, who has by unwcaried, and
answering continuance in a pathway
of industry and rectitude, attached to
position, equally honorable, whether
we examine the means by which at
tanned, the course marked QUO and fol-
lowed, the reputation secured among
his fellow citizens, or the reward in
worldly wealth, which has been the
result of life spent in honorable appli-
cation to the first sound principles Of
successful trade. 1t is Chas. M. Evans,
whom we would mention as an exam
pie of what has been and may be accom-
plished in steady continuance in the
line already foreshadowed in this article.
Born in the city of broaherly love, son
of a m echanic, who was able merely to
secure for his child the rudiments of a
common education, but formerly had
given him what is of much higher con-
sequence, sound mind and a healthy
body. He was essentially one of the
masses, a poor boy, with all the world
before him, in which either to make or
mar his fortune.
His first start on the road to that for
tune and position which he ultimately
secured was as errand boy in drug
store; then a practical initiation into
, the mysteries of that trade as an assis
tant, which by earnest, thorough study
, he made his own, and which was doubt
less the grand foundation upon which
= all his future successes were reared
= and which fitted him for the battle o
life in that most speculative of all pro
y fessions, the proprietary medicine bust
iness. With sound, fundamental
knowledge of drugs and combinations
he was in a position to analyze and de
termine practically and personally thu
merits of any preparations which nigh
como under his notice. And after {
careful and scientific investigation o
the ingredients, occult virtues aud es
sentials necessary to a wide spread pop
=, ularity of Hoofland's German Bittors
!, he ten years ago became one-half pro
prietor. From that hour their success
was insured. Based, as they were upor
true hygienic principles, and entirel,
free from that alcoholic base whicl
renders other tonics SO injurious physi
| Ilv in mo oh
jectionable in others, they only required
!. master hand to mako their virtue.
known, to compel surrender on thu
part of mankind. Up to this time
= although the German Bitters had beer
! in the worlds market for thirty years
they were comparatively unknown. HI
saw that the only course was thorough
, systemized and profusely liberal plal
of advertising, and at once became on
of the mammoth advertisers of tn
| New World. With consummate tact
and judgment almost intuitive, h
Y managed the gigantic scheme of letting
i the world know what he had got, an,
: on becoming, few years later, the sol
: proprietor of the Bitters, he was a
h well known throughout the length an,
# breadth of the land as many proprie
2 tors of inferior articles which have ex
s listed for century. The rapidity wit
S which he gave them their reputation
: cost him an immense sum of money
Q There was certainty and precision il
all he undertook to do, which thos
y who fold their hands and wonder, cal
! ed "a rare streak of luck )" but he wa
o watching the results and reaping tn
d harvest of an annual expenditure {
r Sl25,000 in the public prints beside
It keeping fifteen gentlemanly traveller
;, always upon the road, and a large corr
q OF assistants besides. With an eye eve
o to see and courage ever ready to tax
= hold of really meritorious article, /
It became successfully the sole prophet,
/. Of the "German Tonic,' preparatic
d of milder form and adapted to const
II tutions requiring slight alcoholic stin
n ulus; the "Podophyllin Pill," a val
If able vegetable substitute for the dead
st mineral preparations of mercury cor
At mon to the Pharmacopiea, and Il
% "Greek OIL"
A. The man who has doneall this is no
A. in the prime of life-one of the prom
N nent leading men Of his own cit.
Il, known for his unquestionable integrit
NJ and nobleness of heart he is symp
o thetic and unceasing in his applicable
N to business; holding social position
N which he may we'll be proud ; appi
A. ciating both the physical and ment
"a, luxuries which his success enables hi
ts to gather about him and enjoying L
m with a gusto born only of industry,
20 his beautiful residence on Spring Gil
10 den street, in the bosom of an int,
- esting family. Here, then, is sC
d, made man, who, without any advs
~ tages beyond those possessed by the r.
va of mankind, has proved himself one
III the very few who have by a success