The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-02-25
Enterprise and Advertising.

enterprise and Advertising,
Everybody remembers that blessed
woman, Mrs. Ssirey Camp, and the
charming, comforting ways she had at
the bedside of the dying and the dead.
"Said Mrs. Harris to me-" quoth Ssirey,
60 If ever there was q sober creetur to be
got ct eighteen pence day for working
people and three and six pence for gen
tlefolks might watching, being q extra
charge), you are that invaluable person
Mrs. Harris I says to her, don't name
the charge, for if could afford to lay all
my feller-creeteurs out for nothink l
would gladly do it; SIGH is the love I
bears 'em.'" ..,.,
There is class of male Sairey Camps
springing up in some of our large cities
who deserve the admiration of society
equally with the sweet model above
named. Mention is made of this class
in a late number of the New York Com-
nsercial Advertiser, and they are described
as being in the business of preserving
funeral wreaths and flowers by patent
process which they are careful to adver-
tise in the nick of time. Says the Conn.,
nercial:
A gentleman, whose wife now lies dead at his
house, was the recipient yesterday Of three letters
from parties advertising their abilities to preserve
lies Before u.s. Il Is printed . on paper heavily
bordered with black, and is lugubrous in style as
were the verbal Advertisements Of Mold, the un-
highly respected gentiewoman and nurse known
In literature - Ssirey Camp. Says the lattcr-day
ghoul, by way of Introduction to his wares:
flowers associated with the memories 81 the dead
"a {, win give entire satisfaction in this branch
Positively, 1t does not occur to him that he il
committing dissertation. Then, with still rarer
impertinence. he proceeds to make his apologies:
ne 70, addressing you IN the hour Of
Into the presence Of the dead with an advertising
placard! But let us hear his reasons: "As in
competent psr,ons 81 have claimed The right Of
thought it best" Could impertinence 20 fur
thers Over the white face Of the dead he waves
his banner ard cries aloud
too severe for such wretchl
This practice, which is denounced so
strongly, is not confined to New York,
| by any means, but is known in Chicago
and other cities; nor is this disposition
to earn an honest penny confined to this
class alone. We vouch for the following
as fact: A life insurance agent had
been trying to prevail upon a German
mechanic to take out q small policy
The German thought he would do so,
but kept postponing it until the agent
became well-nigh discouraged. Sudden
ly an intimate friend of the young nan
died. His acquaintance were very much
grieved, and collected at the house on
the evening of his death to console his
family and express their sorrow. Quiet
ly and unostentatiously there appeared
among them the insurance agent. He
had a handkerchief to his face. and
was quite bowed with grief. While
the body was surrounded by weeping
relatives and sorrowing friends the
agent stepped to the side of his German
friend and gazed mournfully on the face
of the dead. "Alas!" he murmured,
lin the midst of life we are in death.
If Hans had taken out policy, now sec
where his family would bel Let this be
q warning to you, John, and he shook
his forefinger in awful solemnity under
the young mechanics nose. "Think
where you may he, even in a day." he
added, "and do not delay your applica.
ton"
II know it," answered the other, and
am going to look out"
"Now?" asked the agent.
Eyes, just as soon as you can fix the
papers" said the German.
No quicker said than done. The agent
pulled the application from his pocket,
and there upon the table which con-
tanned the remains of their departed
friend made out the preliminary docu-
ment and had it signed. A moment az
ter, the agent who had entered mourn
er left the house conqueror. He re-
lated the circumstance to his acquaint-
| ances and to the officers Of the company,
and was soon promoted for his excessive
keenness. Surely the hower-preserving
business hardly equals this in what is so
aptly denominated cheek"
But the fact that it is deemed essen
tial to advertise this business in the very
midst of dissolution is q striking COM
mentary on our thoughtless mode of life.
Hand q man the card of an undertaken
serving funeral wreaths, while the form
er and his family are in the full blush
OF health, and the act would be regarded
as insolent, absurd, or of evil omen.
These tradesmen understand this, and
know that their name and location would,
under such circumstances, be forgotten
in an hour. They must call the atten-
ton of the people to the matter at an
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embraces similar occasion to impress
upon his hearers the necessity of prepa-
ration to meet the King of Terrors. The
way to avoid the objections raised by the
Commercial Advertiser, and at the same
time convey the needed information to
those in need of It, is to keep standing
advertisements in the newspapers, which,
while addressed to the public generally,
and therefore not Objectionable because
pointedly aimed at one individual, new
ertheless contain all that is necessary to
be know by parties desiring such serv.
ices.-Inter Ocean. Esi:ai ~
| III A Lunatic In Pulpit. d..
A correspondent of the London DAILY
News writes to that journal, Jan. 20:
On Sunday morning the service at the
lIrvingite Cathedral, at Albury, near
Guilford-a building which was erected
alta cost Of 100000 by the late Mr..
Henry Drummond-wasi Interrupted in .
somewhat alarming manner. The service
had proceeded to the reading of the
prayers, when Capt. Symes, member
of the congregation, was observed to