The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-08-09

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the next six months you would still g.
on trusting me and feeling that you
money was safe. 1t is needless to ado
that / am grateful-that your conf
dence in me has touched tende
chord"
Look here now, but I'm after my
remit" exclaimed the landlord, with {
threat in his tones"
Yes, touched tender chord re-
sumed the Major as he wiped his LEFT
eye with his handkerchief. Il like t.
be trusted, I like men to have conf
dence in me. When you called here g
few weeks ago | explained to you thai
| had gone out Of law and real estate
and insurance, and had become pro-
motor of enterprises, but you We're In
| a hurry and I had to cut it short
| Indeed, it was only an experiment then
but to-day you look upon Napoleon
of finance. Your hand, sir Shake!
| Congratulate me- and at the same mo-
| ment permit me to say that it does me
a world Of good to be able TO repay you
for your untiring confidence in Major
| Crofoot'
| Then you can pay the rent?" queried
the landlord as his face frightened.
| my dear man, / did not take you in
| on my first five or six schemes, because
| there was one chance in thousand OF
| failure, and I was determined that you
| should not lose a dollar through me-
l waited for safer and better thing
| I've got it at last. and when you walk
down stairs you will have a positive
contempt for corner lots worth less than
$4,000 a piece Treasurer and general
manager of the great American Rat
and Nose Trap Trust, greet thee!"
But where's my rent? | did not
come up here for dose of wind"
1T was the incest, slickest job OF
them ALL" chuckled the Major as he
paced the floor with beaming face
THE idea was my own-strictly origi-
nal. There isn't a house In America
without its rats and mice. OF late
years competition has forced prices
down till no manufacturer has been
able to make cent. To catch rats and
mice you must have a trap. Owing to
the low price, only one trap turned out
for every five hundred rodents. The
uncaught rodents do $4,000, 600 damages
a year. There was the situation, sir
THERE 1t was, and was Major Crofoot
equal to it? am proud to say he was
proud to say 1t. The first step was"-
DO you want me to sue you for this
account?' interrupted the impatient
landlord
THE first step was to perfect the
manufacturers" calmly continued the
Major. 'Forty-two rat and mouse trap
makers in America cutting prices till
you could buy a trap for five cents and
get pound Of tea thrown in, Forty
two circular letters from Major Crofoot,
grand promoter, brings about combine
and prices jumped 50 per cent. No more
throat cutting. Every trap goes at a
profit of five cents or no sale.
Public must have trans or be over
run. Number of traps to be sold in the
next year 100000. 1t won't take You
a minute to figure out the profit. But
Major Crofoot does not stop at the
traps, sir, at 100000 rat and mouse
traps paying profit of five cents each,
but he pushes onward and upward to
the cheese with which they are baited
No use for a trap unless you've got
cheese In the house. Cheesemakers
were trying to do each other IN, and
the price was down to six cents. Dead
loss Of a cent q pound to every maker |
Major Crofoot steps in and there is a
cheese trust and prices go up until |
there is four cents profit on every
pound. Sale Of cheese for batting rat
and mouse traps 1.450000 pounds an
nually. And so, my dear man, there
you are, and THERE you are and let |
us shake hands again"
9TH be hanged If | do IF you don't |
pay this rent I'll have you out of this |
office inside of three daysn'
Do you know the present number of |
rats and mice in America? What is
the rate Of their increase? How much |
damage per capita? And while on the |
subject study the cat She Is supposed |
to catch mice, but one of our 10 cent |
traps will catch twenty to her one and
costs nothing to keep Arouse public |
excitement by getting out circular
death to cats as a public
safeguard against the spread of dis
ease, No germs or microbes about our
traps. We turn out four kinds of rat
traps and five kinds of mouse trap" =
Hang your rats and cats and mice
and cheese!' interrupted the landlord
as he was gently led to the door: but
/ want to know about this rent! If you
are not going to pay 7 shall take steps
at once
"And there YOU are-there you are"
blandly replied the Major, articles of
will be fled tomorrow
and within week you can enter upon
your duties. IF you want to leave $40
with me I'll secure you S250,00 worth
of preferred stock as soon as issued
You'd better run up In four or five days,
as / want you to keep track OF things,
and If you happen to know a good sign
painter get him to work on your sign.
1t is "The Great American
Rat and Mouse Trap Trust, Goodby
10 you-goodby, and you owe me no
hanks. You trusted in my integrity"-
you haven't got any integrity"
shouted the landlord, as he was pushed
tut.
land the man who trusts in Major
9rofoots integrity may be sure Of his
'eward. Bring the bill for rent when
you come again, and goodby-and
oodby!"-Chicago News.