Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-11-27
MODERN UMBUGG gerry.
American Farmers Advocate.

Strange every young mau 10 the United
States isn't millionaire, might be the excla-
nation of au unsuspecting person on reading
the extravagant offers of many advertisers.
Immense salaries are offered through newspa
per advertisements, and in response to iuquir-
les circulars are sent explaining how the wages
are to be earned Here are few samples:
YOU are offered IS to $50 per day by Ssinsou
Il Co., $40 per day by Bowen 4 Co., Sl2 day
by Has!iDgs & Co., $40 per day by Stackpole,
SO per day by Murray Hill Publishing Com
pany, $50 per day by G. Thornton, &c. Nearly
ali want agents Tor some worthless little paeot
or recipe, and your salary" is only paid after
you have sold certain amount OF goods Un
der no circumstances is au ageut promised less
than So day, and from that up, up, up, till
we reach the 'strictly'' sub rosa" proposal of
the counterfeit (saw dust) operator to pay ST.
800 day TO any shrewd man who is up to
stuff, &C., i. e., who Is, to use ''Sut Luven-
goods" pet phrase, "a Dat raj born durn fool. )"
Au exception among advertisers is one who
guarantees so to SIS per day, sure That's
fair. but rather indefinite.
Aud still they come"-those Michigan
swInd!cr<. The last is g. w. Bodine Il Co.,
and they II pay everybody "s35 per week and
,xrcp>~>" If We had to order jewsharp
from Maine or Michigan, we'd have it sent e.
d. and subject to be returned if we cheated.
Several bogus advertising agents have been
reported lately, and publishers should be care.
iuI who they trust. 1t is generally the adver-
tiScr himself who wishing to get trusted,
sends his orders in the name of some hcticlous
agency.
j. Wright & Co., New York, now advertise
the Geneva Watch,' the whole works Of
which being made OF machinery, whicn turns
out 5000 day, the manufacturers are enabled
to offer them at four dollars cash. Of course
there never was Geneva" Partisan" or
auy other watch made for four dollars, bu,
evidently great many people accept the state
meut that it had been accomplished at last
This Wright is certainly genius but very
evil one He seems to be identified with as
many swlndleS as the notorious Elias.
Cheap sewing machines are still offered by
parties in New York and Newark. Never in
vest in sewing machine costing less than $40,
and there is oDly one ofany value sold at that
price.
And now these mothers-in-law are at it. Her
daughter, supposed to be dying with consump-
ton, she appears to her distressed son-ln law
in a dream, bids him go to the mountains OF
Scotland 10 search of a mysterious "yerb, which
being found is administered to the dying wife,
and Instantly restores health by its magic pow
crs, and of course it IS at once placed IN the
reach of suffering humanity by q dear old
philauthropst. THIS business seems to be
destined to take the place of the decllnlng
counterfeit game.
We have been asked, if patent medicines
are all more or less frauds, how 1t is that they
report so many wonderful cures First, be.
cause it would be difficult to compound amed-
cine which, administered 10 thousands OF cases,
al IF
the patient, while taking medicine, RECEIVERS
from any other cause, he is sure to attribute it
TO the medicine; and, third, many of the certl-
ticates are forgerics.
Books. proposing to teach how to get rich,
are usually sterotyped lectures ou the virtue
aud value oil economy, or collection OF OLD re-
cipes Such notices as K. l.. W Woodcotts, II
samples seat postpaid for 50 cents which retail
readily for SO" should read, 'l2 recipes stolen
fro;u an old book.
We hear OF rascal travelling through Ten
nessee, under various aliases, and SwlDdllng
Odd Fellows lodges at lively rate. Watch
for him, friends of the |. 0. 0. f., and if he
CONES prowng around, expecting charities be-
cause he knows how to squeeze your hand and
make signs, treat him to free excursion on
your biggest and most odorous billy goat
Hubbard Il Co., of New York, exposed last
month, are sending out autographed letters
showing how railroad stocks fuctuate, and how
easily a fortune may be made by specuatiug
through their agency. Only one or two pro-
mncnt stocks on the New York market, or
Hubbard & Go. s list, have varied enough in
the last thirty days to pay the cost OF call,
put or 'straddle,' aud, Consequently, not
one dollar in ten invested through them fluids
its way back to the pockets whence it was e1-
tracted by the honeyed arguments of the swlnd-
lcrs. About the same as Investing your money
in a lottery or a game Of keno:
The set Of cheats having their headquarters
at Garre,tsvilIe Ohio are not driving such
business as formerly. Probably haIchlng some
new fraud for the fall and winter campaign
Goldsmith said he would not think OF bringing
out book in the dog days, and the swlndlcrs
seem to think it bad policy to ris X their precl-
Gus schemes Oh the summer market.