Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, February 24, 1911 Page: 3 of 8
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shall take it for granted
that
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natural ability as a salesman; but this
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opportunity to try his hand
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Scott's Rebecca in “Ivanhoe.”
The character of Rebecca, in Scott’s |
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such a tremendous printing of books,
and, as practically all of them are
made to sell, and their publication
A trial package usually
establishes it as a favorite
breakfast cereal.
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boy be a book agent for his
Mr B. W.
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c,s 52, crruna 0
infants and children, and see that it
Bears the ? _u
Signature of 4.z2a,
In Use For Over 30 "Years."""
The Kind You Have Always Bought.
your boy may !
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when"kges"aya “ goIng under
Now, we
picking them up and piling
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give a series of first lessons in book
Two negro men
miss Rebecca Grata of Phila-
delphla. Her steadfastness to Juda-
ism, when related by Washington Ir
ving to Scott, won his admiration ana
caused the creation of one of his fin-
cat characters.
His Head Was Hard, f
it is a common belief that the ne?
ET0 s head is hard, capable of with-
standing almost any blow.
The following story told of a promt \
nent young deupst of Danville, IU.
upon it, and there is much more than
an even chance that your boy does
have this ability.
It is easy enough for him to find an
them do. is anxious to get good agents,
and will respond instantly to an in
agent is nothing put a ped-
dler! Who ever heard of a
book agent that amounted to anything
or had any money ?"
for every publishing house
any canvassing, and most of
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This might be called the book age;
; for never in history has there been
This Idea is quite general through-
out the country among people that
haven't had opportunity to know much
about the publishing business; who,
immediately the subject is mentioned,
think of a comic picture they saw
that fact, it
are sold by direct canvassing that
this gives employment to an army of
book agents, who are seen in all the
highways and byways of the country.
The latest figures show that 150,000
volumes are published in the world
; every year, of which 10 000 are turned
sufferer from female
trouble la ail its
dreadful forms -
shooting pains all
our]Beysifs\Work
What Shall If Be,?,
rests primarily upon
commonest trails in
American character, particularly as
nearly every material success is based
The Test of Intellect.
"wonder why Mrs. Flimgnt regards
her husband as stupid. Ho has been
Very successful In business."
"Perhaps." replied Mr. Meekton, /
nes like so many of the rest of us i
who can t possibly learn to keep the /
score of a bridge game." /
Munyon’s. Bheumatfem Remedy -T^STSS
PSja- It nsutrsllsss tbs nja ndErt
2ut allrbeumatis poisons from the w5
tem. Wnite Prof. Munson, 534 and Jeff-
erzon.f, .Pans, F• "”2-
vice, absolutely free.
When the Al G Field musical band
stopped in front of the Neil bouse a
ew days ago, and played a concert, a
hetcotsover a year's standing between
Al G. Field and Ben Harmon, manager
of the hotel, was paid.
The bet was made in a hotel in Hot
Springs, Ark., when Harmon and Field
met there by chance. It was in the
summer, and the weather was as dry
as a bone. The farmers near Hot
Springs were being burned out, and
all of them were hanging around the
hotel in the little town cussing fate
and the weather.
Fresh Air and Milk.
possible. Light dumbbells should be
used for exercise and he should be
-iven a generous milk diet
When this latter negro was ntoop
ing over to pick up a brick, the former
accidentally let one fall. striking him
directly on the head.
Instead of its killing him, he
looked up, without rising, and nat:
What you doin’ thar, nigger, you
Tade me bite my tongue."—Th* Cip
states, but Lydia E.
' Pinkham's Vegeta.
Jble Compound has
of Warren
County,
me any
Revised Version.
Scribbles—Let me see, what's that
old saying about taking care of th*
pennfes? •
Dribdles—Take care of your pen.
nfes and your helm will fight •7.
your dollars. * o“
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Still other canvassers make a „n. 1
clalt of handling only rare and de
luxe editions, which retail from $100
upward .building up a following among
rich book collectors. ।
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Of course this haa established him
“ his own business, and he will in all
likellhood remain in it -as the achieve,
ment of such success before he is
thirty or thirty five will be Bumelent
MX
confidential, and always helpful.
__To cure costiveness the medicine must .
more then a pergative; it ms contain tonh:
•Iterative and cathartic properties."
Tutt’s Pills
Poisens.these.quniities, end speeany restore
Sothehosi: their natural peristaltic motion,
" 5sentin to regularity._a —
ery day, my teacher each day using
the part of a probable customer- one
day a housewife, the next a busy law-
yer. then a merchant, then a farmer,
then a workingman, etc.—until I was
'equipped, so far as technique was con-
cerned, to sell a book to anybody on
earth.
In the meantime I was trying my
hand among real people, with the re-
sult that, soon after the general agent
had departed, I was able tp average
selling three or four books any after-
noon I went out As this particular
book was sold for $3 50, and my com-
mission was 50 per cent.. I was able
to make from over $5.50 to $7 50 each
day. This was not, and is not, at all
unusual, even soon after the begin-
nfng, and I do not know another occu-
pation that offers such large early
financial returns.
pertence as that or one at all like it.
No, the proportion of successful
men who have made their place in the
world through the medium of selling
books, particularly during the present
day. Is probably as great as in most
other lines, and if your boy has it in
him to be a good salesman, and takes
up the selling of books seriously as
a calling as he would other lines, he
has a fine and promising field all his
own.
arrange with ! Minnvle
... Ten ncanee.
From Another Angle.
Jonah was explaining the affair
it was just luck," he said.
know they cast lots, and the iot rei
upon me rvereally no right tokick
No. Indeed, Jonah. Few men la
istory have acquired as much fame
without doing anything to earh 7
you have. " **
itration, it
note, will
ttitude ne
to keep m. at it=tnatea oan * Hochbetm
C hare -•- • "For a number of years I aumerea
whenever I took cold, with severe at.
Eack' of asthma, which usuanly yielded
to.1he common home remedien
.“Iat Year, however, I suffered fog
eight months without tnterruption Mo
that I could not do any work at au.
The various medicines that were pre.
“eribed brought me no relief.
“After taking six bottles of Po-m.
two of Lacupla Brl(1 two ot Manalln, |
on every. I om freo.of my trouble so that I can ao
I i. r! I nil y farm work agaln. I can heart-
I recommend this medicine to an»
who suffers with this annoyina
they wu
Packs of Hound* In Grent Brira!n.
Leonard Willoughby tells us that a.
together there are son* 456 packs or
hounds in the United Kingdom, divid-
ed up at follows England and Wales
364, of which 173 ar* foxhounds, 88 E
% narrow wooden
This opportunity, in the present dav f
[ " nty ' ear late 1 is stin open to an
| ambitious boy, and he can figure on
an income of 40 to 50 per cent, on
Che Eross amount of his sales No
money whatever is needed at the
start,except enough to pay his board
sUR he an take up his work while
still living at home until he accumu-
A tes.su mcient ‘° take him elsewhere.
A Publisher will give him a limited
terri ory exclusively, or be can go all
over the country if he wishes. sel
ery.man and family are prospective
customers, and there are some 20,000,-
000 such in the United States
wAfter succeeding as canvasser,
whsch your boy can demonstrate
within a comparatively short time,
ay a year or so, he will probably wish
an answer to any on.- of which would I
bring an instant reply,
• boy maystanta book to"takouupohbsworkenerstuan.‛ntands
, informs his prospective employer, the {
. latter will arrange a meeting with ona ’
of the experienced general agents to ■
wnites:
"I had
* h r • * t
troubie
and had
three doc-
somewhere depicting an Irate house-
keeper emptying the contents of a
dishpan over the head of an offend-
ing book canvasser. It is doubtful
if a book agent ever had such an ex-
[ charge of the sales department of * I
large publishing house at a salary I
. If’your boy should choose to remafn
>n direct canvassing himself, he will
soon grow beyond any mere $2 or $4
book, and will take to selling entire
ets, or anything or everything that
the publishing house he is connected ’
with turns out. Or he will make him. j
Hee roy ing canvasser with conneo- ।
tions with a number of leading pub- 1 ,
Ushers, to get a commission c- --------
thing he sells. The writer I* ac. .
guainted with one such who thought I one
coming afastpsar. seanernna opmptammt ana belleve dhat
order on which hts i
amounted to anywhere trom $25 t--
2100., Indeed, this particular agent
had built up a following among rich
clients who took practically anything
he recommended that they could
to their libraries. and in many in.
stances he actually selected and
shipped to persons suddenly become
rieh thesentire.contents of thelr Ibra l
ward " cosi ihem from 120,000 up- I
I would seem to indicate
the h , I the kind, anyhow.
i were employed on tearing down a
three-story brick building One nt.
cipitation for August. 1909. in Colum.
Nus "as12:53 inches. Mr. Field Imme-
diately bet Harmon that the following
Apgust. would see at least four Inches
eLr here. He bet a public con-
cert to twenty ticket, to his minstrel
snow.
Consider This Advice,
v.g^r^7£t^ i y•..............
This famous medicine, made oni i WA-79
Erom roots ald herbs, has for thir‛ ' AZ
Fears proved to be the most valuable -------
tonic and Inyigorator of the female
organism. W omen residing in almost
every city and town in the United
States bear willing testimony to the
wonderul virtue of Lydia E. Fink,
ham s Vegetable Compound
ness carefully, have overcome your
[ opposition to it, and that your son is
i willing to give it a trial, It is impor-
tant. as already said, that he possess
s36 stgshoundna 1 drag
packs; Scotland has 11 foxhounds,;
harrier, 2 beagles and 2 otter packs
These altogether make up an approx!-’
mate total of some 456 pX of
hounds. In round bguren the packs
which hunt the fox Aud "ing ordes
number.some 9.000 couples ot hounds,
while the harriers and beagles there
are some 3,506 couples of hounds.—
Pall Mall Magazine.
A agent, how he will be trained,
X and how he may go up the
f ladder of success rung by rung__ .
X Possible Income at different pe- 1
♦ Hods In hit development as an ' '
, expert seller of books, either < '
■ over my body, sick
I headache, spinal
V m weakness, dizzin
8d epression, I
' ' everything that was
, horrid. I tried many
-I doctors in different
...................
' > BOOK AGENT?
In all probability the next step tak-
j en by your boy will be to (
■ a publishing house to take care of the
canvassing in a large specined terr,
tory -such aa two or three north-
•». for example for < ne
| or more books, on the bMU or recetv.
I 65. t0,70 per cent of retnn price.
Qut ofghts he has to pay his agents
their 40 to 50 per cent and all ex- i m
pensen Incident to the agency His m.o. .
I eamings, depending entirely upon his to do
, ability to find good salesmen and the
I popularity of the book
largely upon the ability of these sales,
men, may amount to thousands of dol-
lars a year.
struction in the business of selling. I
spent a couple of hours with him ev-
salesmanship.
I had almost exactly this experience
when working my way at college. My
name was handed to a general agent
seeking a likely representative at the
I college to handle a somewhat popular
book, and the agent thereupon ar-
ranged to give me three weeks' in-
tyy Peruna, and after using four bot.
«• can say I was entirely curd
qulry. All you have to do is to pick
out the book and the house and write
a letter to the publisher or selling |
agent. In all probability von or th* i nuen az
boy will already bat.- reed dozens of western state,
advertisements asking for canvassers, " "
riday morning, a* soon as Flela
aiose. he telephoned to the newspa-
pers to find out how matter* stood in
the rainfall department
"It 8 been the drlest August in thir-
ty-two rears," he was told.
Holy smoke," shouted Mr. Field,
is that on the level?"
"Pretty near." said the reporter.
"There was • fall of only 42-100ths of
an inch.
"Gosh." said Mr. Field. "Com* on
down and Hsten to a concert la front
the Neu house. Maybe there'll be
it, too. 'cause it
thirty feet
Paradoxical Ruin
nT"r.."" one funny thing In bus}-
meWhieh particular thing do ron
,guf
16251952
.She—Do you expect me to believe
that ?
He—I do. I swear it is true.
.SheThen I believe you. Any man
who would expect a woman to believe
that cannot have been much in the
company of women.
>lv»d ar*
extra ter-
In China
- Russlan
lia
cently of
to bring
• because
e Rueso-
situation
n denied
oard and
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relation ot
ined to th,
ias notified
t Brtain
ir intention
stration on
' owing t*
of ths &L
। Whichever specialty
t choose, be could not find a more
! spectable business, nor one In Whch j
he will deserve and receive greater
welcome more times than otherwise.
Many.m ilonatres have given orders
to their employees to admit their fa-
vorite book agent without announce-
ment, in this way they know they
Wi l not miss the opportunity to an.
quire the best works in
market. And at the same time
book agent fa absolutely hls , wn boe,
and can increase or decrease hts )n,
come at will. of riie brir
‘ ute to the ground,
below, where the
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dons more for me than al11 edoctors. I
#.reel w my duty 10 tell y°u these
facta My heart is full of gratitude to
you for my cur*.”—Mrs. HAREIET E.
Ott^^iow^ Ralzsom street, ।
; What? Yet, why notr Es >>
, , peclally since an ambitions boy, < •
1 ; With selling anility in him, : ;
, stands the chance of making a « ’
j ■ mighty good Incom* as a can I
an occupation! A book
latter or a manager of canvass
-uwis xu uizereny ers, °r fieid selling agent for a
% parts of the United '> Publisher, and tn other ways-
WStates, but Lydia E. Hew r --
is Cured
sis.
en ar*
inounce-
million-
>f twen-
s and
d what
J1 be • sort of generat or speefal
Aet th* man that zets other agnate
Abd pm* them to work. In which case
I " ‘ recetve ten per cent, commis.
* 000 all the books these azenta of I
his dispose of Suppose he has the
ability to find and keep in the neld I
an average of twenty canvassers sell- !
mg a book that retails at $2 and that
these agents average four sales a day
each. OU which they ciear 50 per cent.
Your boys commtr=ten of 10 per cent ■
or 20 cents a volume, brings bim
income of $1G a day, or 196 . we
Out of this he has to pay his hotel
and traveling expenses, but even so _
he is getting what many would think Tennessee,
a very fine income . In
A Fairly Wet World.
The Pacific ocean covers 68,000,000
mles, the Atlantic 30,000,000 and the
Indian, Arctic and Antarctic 42,000,000.
To stow away the contents of the Pa
cific it would be necessary to fill *
tank one mile long, one mile wide and
one mile deep every day for 440 yeara 1
Put in figures, the Pacific bolds in
"elsht »x0,000,000,000,000,000,000 tona '
The Atlantic averages a depth ol ।
not quite three miles. Its water weighs I
325,000.000,000,000,000,000 tons, ana l
tank to contain it would have each of ?
1s sides 430 miles long. 1110 figures I
. the other oceans are in the same
startling proportions. It would take
“1 the sea water in the wo i 2,000 000
-ears to flow over Niagara.
By Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound
Ottumwa. Iowa.—“For war* I wan
my heaith uMd
Eilalant- Mn »- D. Baren
liswerk? Why, that isn't
Post
Toasties
FOOD
is fully cooked, ready to serve
direct from the package with
cream or milk, and is a
deliciously good part of any
meal.
But I was not content with these re-
suits and my success soon attracted
the attention of other students who
were tired of taking care of horses
and furnaces and sawing wood to
pay their board bills while attending
college. I gave a number of these the
same training I had received and sent
them out during the summer vacation
as canvassers, keeping 2G cents on
every volume they sold. The result
was that the next year, as several of
the students remained out to accu-
mulate enough money to pay their way
without work on the’side while study-
ing. I had an independent income of
several dollars a day without doing
more than to cash these subagents’
money orders and send them the
books And then the publishing house
offered me a salary of $125 a month
and expenses to go out as establisher
and trainer of other agents
A. .. -1
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(Copyright, 1910, by the Asaoclated U|,
erary Press i
.I never k fall, satd Mr Plela, something following
tnat when one August was bad, that certatnly has been Dwart a— .. ,
the one following wasn't great Next Powerful dry around
August if we had a dry month in Co- I
, lumbus. this year will be a wet on*."
Ben Harmon took exception to the
statement, and the two men got hold
of Section Director Alcaltore In Lit
“ Rock, Ark., and found that th* pre
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