The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-17

The caller failed to see any tears.
as the Major turned his back to her,
but she excused them just the same.
A long minute passed, and then he
got the better of his emotions and
briskly said
We'll well. but let us not dwell on
the sOrrowful side too long 1 will
take five copies at four dollars each
That being disposed of, let me say
that your call here this morning seems
almost like q matter of Providence
Did you have a feeling when you en-
tered the door that your whole future
was to undergo change before you
left the room2"
why, no.
Then I have still another happy
surprise for you. I don't suppose YOU
have heard of The Great American
Pink Horseradish company"
mo, I haven't"
Because it is just being organized
and won't be Incorporated for couple
of days yet. The papers are all there
on the desk Yes, madam, the G. A. p.
H Co. as we shall call it for short, is
to be launched on the market to create
greater excitement than the discovery
of a new gold mine. Its shares will
be put out for the first week at rs
cents, but within a fortnight people
will be crying for them at $3.50 OF
the twenty-five different gigantic cor
porations I have organized and put in
working order, this viii lay over ev-
crything as money-maker. I shall
make $40, 600. 900 out of it inside of five
years, and my friends will share in the
prosperity"
Il congratulate you" replied the
caller. but what about the books ?"
Il may buy the whole edition before
I am through, as Our Mothers and
horseradish go together. You know
what horseradish is. of course?"
"Oh, yes"
What is the color?"
And there you have the key to the
whole thing. White horseradish is
common, plebeisn, unaristocrat1c. 1t
bites the tongue without appealing to
the aesthetic. White never appeals as
a color. Pink is typical of blue blood
of money-of high breeding Give
the world pink horseradish and the
world viii have no further use for any
other sort of condiment. Do you
follow me. MADAME
She said she did, but at the same
time it was easy to see that she was
wondering what pink horseradish had
to do with subscription books.
VERY Well. Major CrOfoot invents
pink horsera dish. He organizes the
Great American Pink HOrseradish
company with a capital of $5,000,000
one year from today we shall be sup
plying the tables of every crowned
head in the world, and no man earn
ing a salary of SIS per week will be
seen eating any other color. Our
sales will be $4,000 a year from the
start, and between you and me the
clear profit will be $25,0O0,00O. MY
dear woman. consider that Providence
guided your footsteps into this Office,
and consider that you have a million
dollars in bank"
"But I don't see-can't make out, !"
EASIEST thing in the world. We
want a secretary, whose salary will
be $4,000 a year. You shall have
The place. All you'll have to do viii
be to send out circulars to kings,
queens, emperors. princes, presidents
and governors. I not only viii let you
in on the ground floor as to stock but
carry a block for you free of charge
until you can pay for it In one year
Won win be worth $4,000. In two
Years YOU have your million and are
known as one of the handsomest
heiresses in America A thousand
men will be seeking your hand I
would be seeking it myself if were
not already engaged to a countess
There is the whole thing in a nutshell