Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-06-16
THEY ARE %BIQUITOUs
And Also Irresistible and IRE
preSsible.

~preSsible.
DEAR ARGUS
This writer has, up to this week,
been confined for the past II or IA
years exclusively to Office work, in
almost a secluded spot, unmolested
and unterrifed by book agents, in
surance men, and the like, simply
because we were hardly known
only when seen-and could net
easily be found.
This week we have been doing a
different work that -necessitated our
being on the streets a great deal of
the time. Up to this time we did
not even dream of what the public at
large had to contend with.
We started out yesterday morning
on our regular rounds and before we
had gotten a square from the Office
we were ''tackled' by no less than
three different gentlemen who want
ed to "write us up" each one claim
ing to represent an old line COM
pany and explaining in detail the
merits of their respective companies.
We did not want to be disc0urteous
SO we stood and F'took our medicine''
like a little tin soldier, and finally
got off by promising each one to
take a thousand the first of next
month. We then started for home
and before we got half way, met an
other that could out talk a threshing
machine. We "shook him off" and
when we reached home we found
another sitting on our store door step
with a policy in his hand, already
written up. When we got rid of
him we went to bed to get a much
needed rest and told our wife if any
one called for us to tell them we
were dead.
You have no doubt heard the old
saying: "The woods are full of
them" Well, we think we are pre-
pared to change the ~phraseology of
that sentence. The woods have been
secured, so to speak, and the city is
full of them.
We don't blame these fellows to
get all the business they can, for in
%surance is a good thing and a safe
Investment, and, besides, pays them
well-hut they ought to know better
than to try to insure a newspaper
man. Who ever heard of a newspa-
per man having any money any
way?
They have to take old hides, fur,
beeswax, and the like in exchange
for subscription, and then su APP it of
o the merchants at a big discount,
and frequently "pay off, with ducks,
patent medicines, etc.
The paper we represent has for its
motto:
.'Tnis ARGUS DER the peoples
rights
Doth an eternal vigil keep"
w 1c0l (IldU We IIdFS oOulc IlSut
that ought to be protected. We are
a new fellow and have not yet had
time to prepare a defense, and we
think they ought to "let up' on u;
until we become arclim ated to the
prevailing circumstances.
Now these fellows are all clever
energetic business men-such as any
city might justly be proud of but they
have simply run up "agin the wrong
thing"
Since we started to write this VIZ
have thought of a great scheme. w
: have decided to arm ourselves will
a rate book and when we e n O
these fellows coming begin to asl
Z him how old he is and tell him how
{ caeap we "a carry him fer a year
P. S. We have tried it and i
works well. They appear to get dis
gusted and turn and walk away.
If there is anything about you
company that is not exactly to you
liking, call around to e us, gentle
men, we represent nothing but col
line" companies ane guarantee salts
faction.