Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-02-22
" BUYING SOAP"
Some Information for me Boys.

"You see, gentlemen, that l place
this so bill in this envelope, this SIS
greenback in this cover, and this 50 note,
issued by the United States Govern
ment, in this third and last Enclosure.
Thus spake q partially red-haired
young man who wore stove-pipe hat
and checkered pants, cut tight, with
large "spreads at the bottom, as he
stood in mud an inch deep at the APP
proach of the Charleston bridge. He
was surrounded by quite large crowd
of men and boys, but there was not
policeman in sight
You see, gentlemen" he continued,
"this is the manner in which I intro
duce the famous soap manufactured by
the 'Multum in Parvo Works, and
which is guaranteed to eradicate from
clothing anything of dirt that the gar
ments may contain-such as grease,
dust, oil, ink, pitch, paint, tar or var
nish. have now right before your eyes
placed in three envelopes a sum of good,
sound currency of the United States,
aggregating III value SIT. In each of
those envelopes beside there is cake of
the celebrated Multum in Parvo' soap
worth at any retail drug store fifty
cents cake. Now has any gentleman
in this crowd the nerve to offer me 81. so
for the three envelopes? Remember,
this IS done simply to advertise the arti-
Gle of which [ am agent"
There was no immediate response
made by any one in the crowd to this
eloquent appeal. People are naturally
suspicious and q man hates to be the
ffrct To off hot he
knows at his heart must be conducted
on "skin" basis. AT last a tall, hun
cry, far-away-eyed-looking specimen
fished around, and got out a trade dol
lar and a fifty-cent piece and handed it
up.
"There you are, my friend open
your envelope and see how you have
been rewarded for your nerve"
The crowd pushed eagerly around the
gawky-looking fellow, and could have
kicked themselves with rage when they
saw him calmly fold and put away in his
capacious cowhide pocket-book seven
teen easily earned dollars.
1t was at this juncture that the World
young man came on the scene. An &C.
quaintance in the crowd told him what
had occurred
"Never mind, friends" said the
spread bottom pants young man, rapidly
producing another roll Of greenbacks
from his pocket, "you shall have an
other chance; the company by whom
/ am employed is not mean-so here
goes again
And he put up another three envelopes
supposed to contain another SIT. But
although the young man was very ely"
and would make tolerably fair presti-
digitateur his hands were not as quick
rs the eagle eye of the Worlds repre-.
sentative. The dizzy young fellow this
time instead of placing the bills in the
envelopes with the soap, adroitly palmed
them-that is, crushed them in the palm
OF his right hand, after he had made be.
leve to place them in the envelopes.
"Ill give You another chance, gentle.
men, but not on quite as easy terms as
before Now who'll give me $40 for this
SIT and the three cakes of 'Multum in
ParvoY Immediately three or four
persons signiied their willingness to
negotiate. The tight-pantalooned young
man grabbed the first ten dollars he
could reach, and handed over the en-.
velopes.
"That closes the sales for TODAY,
gents; thank you" and he moved of.
The man who had invested opened his
envelopes. There was nothing in them
but the Multum in Parvo." The man
swore. Where was the hungry looking
wretch who had drawn the first prize p
He was also gone-he was "capper. :"
Let the fool killer come this way and
operate on all those gentlemen who wish
to buy SIT for $l0.-N Y World.