The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-06-03
WAYS TO MAKE MONEY.
Some Unusual Callings Which Yield
an Income to Workers.

In, the whole history of the world
there has never been country
where it is so easy to make money
as in the United States. That there
are many ways of making living
besides being a life insurance presl-
dent, a prize fighter or hodcarrier
is shown by the following collection
of unusual occupations:
Of the list of unique callings none
is more peculiar than the business Of
DIR. Cockroach," of Louisville. For
a stipulated annual consideration
the doctor" contracts to keep ones
premises rid of cockroaches. At
regular intervals he comes around
with queer looking tools, and mystic
rious powders, by means of which he
persuades the cockroaches to go.
Bird doctor and specialist is the
sign on the shingle which hangs in
front of an establishment on Broad
way in New York. The proprietor is
a Young woman who takes mammals
pet canary to board while the fam
lily 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 and is able to
make a competence from her work.
An Englishman possessed OF a
small annuity and in bad health went
to Ell Paso, Texas. The expenses OF
living were so great in the South
western city that he soon found his
income inadequate. He invested all
the ready money he had in eight gilt
and gaudy popcorn stands, with little
engines to run the peppers. The idea
worked and before long he branched
out to San Antonio. He soon work
ed up a baby trust which brought
him an income of $4,000 a year.
A woman in Boston makes a busi-
ness of taking inventories of houses
which are rented furnished. She
comes to the house and makes COM
pIete lists in triplicate Of every arti-
Gle, with a description Of it's condf-
tion. When the house is given up
she comes again and checks over the
household goods and appralses the
loss or damage. She has been so
successful in this kind Of work that
her services are much in demand. An
Italian in New York takes over the
rubbish from the garbage collections
of the great Eastern metropolis at
stated annual price and makes from
$4,000 to 100000 a year from the
business. He employs hundreds OF
sorters and pickers, who go over the
rubbish to get out old bottles, rags,
rubber, leather and other junk. 1t is
said that he realizes from $4,000 to
$4,000 q year on old rubber shoes
alone.
Several years ago a shoe buyer for
one of the Chicago department stores
conceived the idea of buying up
slightly damaged or blemished shoes
from the manufacturers and retail
ing the same at sacrifice price. He
opened up with one clerk in a single
room near the roof Of skyscraping
Office building. To get good pair
of IS shoes with nothing more than
a little scratch on them for 81 was:
such a bargain that customers came
fast. The business increased so rap
idly that the original has been en-
larged to fifteen rooms, and forty
clerks are employed instead of one.
The capital earned from the original
store has been reinvested until now
the concern owns eight large stores
in other places.
A New Jersey girl, broke down by
teaching and Office work, was order
ed by her doctor to get some occupa-
ton which would keep her out OF
doors. She followed the physicians
advice by acquiring boggy farm In
New Jersey, where she began the
culture Of bull-frogs. Persons who
heard of the new venture smiled un-
til they learned that she was making
a lot of money selling frogs legs at
big prices to New York hotels and
restaurants. In order to get the fresh
air she does her own killing. Attir-
ed in rubber boots, she tramps about
the marshes and shoots the frogs
with a small rife.-Kansas City
Journal.
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