The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-28
ODD WAYS TO MAKE MONEY
OTHER MEANS OF GETTING RICH
 THAN OWNING 4 BANK.

PeOple--A Fortune in the Ripe Olive
 Business.
 Tn the whole history of the world there has neer been country where 1t is so easy to make money as in the United States, and this is the most prosperous time the people of our na- tion have ever been known. That there are many ways of making a living beside a life insurance presi- dent, prizefghter or hodearrier, is shown by the following collection of unusual occupations.
 Of the whole list of unique calings that have come to my attention none is more peculiar than the busisness of "Dr. Cockroach" of Louisville. For a stipulated annual consideration the Doctors" contracts to keep one's pre- misses rid of cockroaches. He does not wI1istle them away like the Pied Piper of Hamelin, but at regular intervals he comes around With queer looking tools and mysterious powders by means of which he persuades the cock reaches to go.
 Bird Doctor and Specialist" is the sign on the shingle which hangs in front of an establishment on Broadway A in New York. The proprietor is a young woman who takes mammals pet canary to board while the family is away at the seashore or absent from home at other times. She also has a hospital for sick birds and teaches backward songsters their mission in the world. While it might seem that this young woman is making small use of her time, she really knows all about birds and their troubles and is able to make a competence from her work.
 An Englishman possessed of small annuity and in bad health went to El Paso, Tex. The expenses of living were so great in the Southern city that ne soon found his income inadequate. He invested all the ready money he had i'll eight gilt and gaudy popcorn stands, with little engines to run the peppers. The idea worked and before long he branobed out to San Antonio. He soon worked up a baby trust which brought him an income of $S,0OO a year
 A woman in Boston makes busi- ness of taking inventories of houses which are rented furnished. She comes to the house and makes complete lists in duplicate of every article with a des- cription of it's condition. When the house is given she comes again and checked over the household goods and appraises the loss or damange. She has been so successful in this kind of { work that her services are much in s demand.
 An Italian in New York takes over The rubbish from the garbage collec tions of the great Eastern metropolis at astated annual price and makes from $20,00O to $30,0OO a year from the businessS He employs hundreds of sorters and pickers, who go over the rubbish to get old bottles, rags, rubber, leather and other junk. It is said that he realizes from $2000 to $S,000 year on old rubber shoes alone
 A Memphis newspaper woman boldly advertised in the newspapers that for consideration she would prepare papers to be read at women's clubs, write speeches for banquets. or trace pedi- grees back of forgotten grandmothers to the Colonial Danes. Her advertis- ing was persistent until commissions began to come in, and many a woman leader of club life in this or that par ticular town has shone in the reflected glory of this Southern girls hard work ing genius.
 Several years ago a shoe buyer for one of the Chicago department stores concesived the idea of buying up slightly damaged or blemished shoes from the manufacturers and retailing the same at a sacrifice price, He opened up with one clerk in a single room near the roof of a skyscraping office building. To get good pair of five dollar shoes with nothing more than a little scratch on them for $2 was such bargain that customers came fast. The business increased so rapidly that the original store has been enlarged to fifteen rooms, and forty clerks are employed instead of one The capita learned from the original store has been reinvested, until now the concern owns eight large stores in other places.
 A New Jersey girl broke down with LedCuIliS anu OIltC6 WOIhI WetS Ol Q6l Gu by her doctor to get some occupation which would keep her out of doors. She followed the physicians advice by acquiring a boggy farm in New Jersey, where she began the culture of bull frogs. Persons who heard of the new venture smiled, until they learned that she was making 8 lot of money selling frogs legs at big prices to New York hotels and restaurants. In order to get the fresh air she does Ller own killing, Attired in rubber boots she tramps about the marhses and shoots the frogs with a small rifle.
 An enterprising New Yorker makes a business of matcling buttons. But this man is no relation to the famous Bim the Button Man, who makes cam paign buttons and bages. Bim makes speciality of forecasting the action of political conventions. Time and again this enterprising man has successfully defed all the political prophets. In 1900 he staked his reputation on the belief that Roosevelt would be nomi- mated vice president and made a big cleanup from the sale of buttons at the door of the convention hall.
 The United States consumes millions of olives every year, but they are near ly all unripe. About eight years ago a California woman while travelling abroad learned the secret of DfcJ<liner