Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-05-18
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Win the OatOn OF q marSnal III
his k%napsack, it is our higher pri-
vilege to know, that caste, long
lines Of ancestry, and the other
arbitrary distinction known in
mouarchial countries are not re-
QUESTION in public or private life
which depends upon honorable
trading, sound Judgment, moral
excellence and decision of charac-
ter. Every American citizen is
born, or endowed, with the right
of occupying the most exalted
positions in the common wealth
dependent alone upon the person
al efforts he brings to bear upon
the acquisition OF his hereditary
privilege.
AS a contribution to the hitI -
erto unwritten history of the OF
der of merit we would give O
slight sketch of a Philadelphia,
who has by un wearied, and un-
swerving continuance in a paths
way OF industry and rectitude, at
tached to aposition, equally Eon,
orable, whether we examine the
means by which attained, the
course marked out and follow cit
liens, or the reward in worldly
wealth, which has been the re-
suit of a lite spent in honorable
application to the first sound
ofprinciples and successful trade.
It ls Chas NJ. Evans, whom we
would mention as an example of
what has been and may be &C
complished in a steady contiHu-
ancei in the line already foreshad-
owed in this article. Born in the
city. of orotherly love, son of a
mechanic, who was able merely
to secure for his child the rudi-
ments of q common education,
but formerly had given him what
is of much higher consequence,
a sound mud and a healthy body. He
was essentially n of the masses, a poor
boy, with all the world before him, in
which either to make OF mar his fortune
His first start on the road to that
fortune and position which he ulti mate y
secured was as errand boy in u
drug store; then apractical initia-
ton into the mysteies of that
trade as an assistant, which by
earnest, thorough study he made
his own, and which was doubtless
the grand foundation upon which
all his future successes were rear
ed, and which fitted him for the
battle of life in that most specu-
lative OF all professions, the pros
prietary medicine business. With
a sound, fundamental knowledge
Of drugs and combinations, he
was in a position to analyze and
determine practically and person.
ally the merits of any prepara-
tons which might come under
his notice. And after a careful
and scientific investigation Of the
ingredients, occult virtues aud es
sentials necessary to a wide
spead popularity of Hollands
German Bitters, he ten years ago
became one half proprietor.
From that hour their success
was insured. Based, as they were
upon true hygienic principles,
and entirely free from that alco-
holic base which renders other
tonics SO injurious physically, in
many cases and morally objec-
tiouble in others, they only re-
quired a master hand to make
their virtues known, to compel a
surrender on the part of man
kind.-Up to this time, although
the German Bitters had been in
the worlds market for thirty
years, they were comparatively
unknown. He saw that the only
course was a thorough systemic
ed and profusely liberal plan Of
advertising, and at once became
one of the mammoth advertisers
of the new world. With col.
summate tact, and judgment al
most intutive, he managed the
gigantic scheme of letting the
world know what he had got and
On becoming, q few years later, the
sole proprietor of the Bitters, he
was as well, known thorou ghout
the length and [breadth] Of the
land as many proprietors of in>
ferior articles which have existed
for a century The rapidity with
which he gave them their reputa-
ton, cost him an immese sum of
money.
There was a certainty AMI precision
in all he undertook to do, which those
who fold their hands and wonder, called
~ rare streak of luck : bat he was watch
ing the results and reaping the harvest
of an annual expenditure of 1925 600 in
the public prints besides keeping fifteen
gentlemanly travellers always upon the
road, and a large corps of assistants be-
sides. With an eye ever ready to see and
a courage ever ready to take hold ia re
ally meritorious article,
x \ he became success-
fully the sole proprietor of the German
Tonic a preparation Of a milder form
and adapted to constitutions requiring
slight aicohhlic stimulus; the Podophy-
Hin Pill, a valuable vegetable substitute