Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-06-11

consolidator, loses nothing by It. Here
is bill for $3.50. 1t has run for weeks
| and months. Instead of wearing out
the stairs and pounding on my door,
| you have been content 10 let time slip
along. You felt that your money was
safe. You believed that would pay
on presentation. All. sir but love to
witness such exhibitions of confidence
Il love to do It! Let us shake hands
again"
I'm in bit Of hurry this morn
ing" remarked the printer as doubt
suddenly entered his mind and sent n
chill UP his back.
"Ah, yes, Of course you are--of
course--and my time Is also limited,
but do you know what ! am going to-
| do? Instead of debating about a bill
for $3.50, am going to talk to you OF
thousands and hundreds of thousands
and millions. My dear man, you have
arrived at an opportune moment. II
almost seems as if the hand of Provi.
| dence was in it. Having displayed
your confidence in the financial In.
tegrity Of Major Crofoot and arrived
at an opportune moment, what fol-
lows?"
"You pay the bill for $4.5O," replied
the printer.
ut follows, sir-it follows as natu,
rally as night follows day, but with n
heap more cash in it-that take you
| in on the ground floor. Behold those
papers on my desk. I had Just ceased
| to figure when you came in. l had
finished the last line of my prospectus
Behold, sir-behold the organization Of
the Wide World Chicken and Infant
Raising company with capital Of
$20,O00O0O!'
"Major, I called
you called, sir-you called at an op-
perfume moment. BY calling you put
it in my power to prove my gratitude
in something besides words. What is
the Wide World Chicken and Infant
Raising company? AS its name i'm
plies, the object Is TO raise chickens
and infants. How, sir how? All, that
is Major Crofoots great discovery,
which has enabled him to organize a
company on a basis Of $4,000, 600.
The discovery is not original, but we
apply it as 1t has never been applied
before. We incubate chickens, but by
the million instead of the score. Take
your pencil and figure little"
But / came up for my $4.50" said
the printer in ugly tones.
Take your pencil and figure. Eggs
can be bought for 20 cents a dozen.
For . cents additional one dozen chick
ems can be produced. -Four cents more
and you have dozen spring chickens
worth 80 cents apiece at the incubator;
total for eggs, incubating and feeding,
80 cents; total for chickens, SO; clear
profit to divide up on every dozen,
$5.Io Can Cripple Greek or the dia-
mond mines beat 1t? We produce 90
100000 dozen chickens per year. Fig
ure 1t out, man, figure it out. Do you
want greater dividends than 20 per
cent on your capital? If you do
"What about this bill?' demanded
the printer as he lifted it off the desk
and laid 1t back again.
"If you do" continued the major as
he walked about the room with hands
crossed under his coattails, then you
shall have it. We incubate infants in
the same machines, with only thin
partition between. We take infants
after they are "A hours old--white,
black or any other color and without
! reference to sex--and we bring them
up until they are IL year old at so mHch
per week. Terms are strictly cash in
advance every Monday morning, and
every kid is marked on the right heel
with our stamp and can't get lost or
mixed up in the shuttle. While we are
matching 1,000,00O dozen eggs we are
bringing up 100000 infants. put
ahe number at that, but it may be a
few dozen more or less. Two dollars a
week for 100000 infants is over S10,-
100000 per year. Call the expense for
milk, paregoric and toast S1,O0O,000,
and what profit do you have left?"
But I have come here to collect a
bill"
"The $9,000,000 profit ON the infants
added to the profits on the chickens
gives us a dividend of $l.20 on the dol
lar, and can you ask for more, sir--can
you do itf Why, man, the wealth of
Golconda is not in it! The De Beers
diamond bonds are waste paper in com
parison! And You are to share in 1t.
You are no longer "A struggling printer
on the seventh floor back, but mil
lionaire on the first floor front. take
you In. l allot you 100000 worth of
stock at 80 cents on the dollar, and in
two weeks, il you care to sell out.
buy it at par. That's your reward for
your confidence in Major Crofoot; that's
what comes
But l have no confidence in you"
shouted the creditor. PAY this bill,
and you can incubate and be hanged
and keep all the profits!
You have simply to rest easy" con.
tinued the major as he began to walk
on the mans toes and drive him to.
ward the door. Just keep quiet for a
couple of weeks until the stock is is
sued. If anything was said at the
present time
what you pushing me for?"
''lf anything was said at the present
time, some one might cut in on US. Just
60 right back TO your shop
II want that money"
-"and keep mum, and the stock will
be sent to you in due time. That's it,