Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-10-16
some Book Peddlers.

ELllalel pL1a Evening Telegraph
1t may be a surprise to the public at
large to know that among the corps and
class Of men bearing the business name
of book agents BOnaparte, when a lieu
tenant, unemployed, at the capital, and
too honorable to duplicate his pay &C
cOuuts-tOok the agency for BOulanger
ct Gle, the noted publishers Of the Pom
Neuf, for a work entitled al Historic
de Ia Revolution" BOnaparts tried to
secure from the publishing company the
whole department OF La Vendee, but he
was only given a suburban Partisan
ACCOMPLISHMENT In the foyer of the
great palace OF the Louvre, amid count
less bric-a-brRc OF the reign Of Louis,
the great monarch, can be seen to-day,
under a glass case, the little canv8ssers
outfit of the great emperor, and within
It the long list Of names which his ASST
duty secured.
George Washington, while surveying
Fairfax county IN his yOuth-PriOr to
the fateful Braddock expedition a
book 9gent. The work ne canYassed for
"a copy OF which is now among the
relics Of the patent Ofice-Was Bydelps
"Ihe London Of StOke-On-Trent Square,
American Savagei how He May be
/ Tanned by the Weapons Of Civilization. q"
Washington sold over 200 copies in and
around Alexandria, Va.
Jay Gould sold books as agent. Mark
Twain sold books as an agent. Long
/ fellow sold books as an agent. Daniel
/ Webster paid his second terms tuition
at Datmovth By acting as local agent In
| AIerrimac county, n. H., for De TOcque-
viLe's America" Bret Harte was q
book agent in the fall Of 1849 or spring
of 1850.
! Gen. Grant, subsequent to his Eesigna-
/ ton from the army, before his venture
on the Dent farm, took part Of the ter
ritOry Of a general agent Of Putnam's tC
/ dispose Of IrVing's Columbus" Elk
| president Hayes footed it all over Ohio
when mere lad, getting subscriptions
; for Bakers ''Lives Of the Saints" Blaine
began life as an humble canvasser il
/ Washington county Pa, selling a "Iife
OF Henry Clay, the 1Lill-boy OF the
/ Slashes." Bismarck, when at Heidsl
berg during the winter vacation, having
had his allowance cut short by his father
the baron, canVassed for one Of Blumen
. bach's handbOOks.
James Lackington, q Methodist
preacher, commenced to canvass the
works OF John Bunyan, published by
the RivingtOn's, of London, in 1870, anc
subsequently became one Of the Iarges
booksellers and publishers iu England
Thomas Kelly, who was a cgnvasser il
/ London, afterWard became the pIOprie
tor Of the house for which he was work
ing and accumulated a fortune. He be
came Lord Mayor OF London IN 1884 snC
died worth nearly 100000
Thomas Guy, the celebrated phlOso
4 pher, canYassed for bibles. AT his death
besides endowing one Of the most mag
|ni6cent charities in EuroPe-Guy's hos
pital-he left large fortune to his heirs
James Blaclzie, Of the house Of BlacHl
/ & Sons, Glasgow, was a canvasser, ani
was very successful. 1t has been relateJ
Of him that after he had made a laTg,
fortune and was Lord Provost OF elias
\ gov, incog. he would test the merits o
his new publications by a personal can
vass Of the leading men OF his city, ate
which he would turn the list over to hi
uganha