2 Iloaks and Suits • -ABE DA OAr new ,i 5 6 to *2 s£& Style Book and r h'a Sam P ,e# F R E E .J' Don\ oe worried with H ~£*% I chopping formatem!*. • 'US? * drebsmaking dlsap *&, k^GyTi/ polntmcnts, and tlre- M auiue personal fitting*. X ♦- Leave *ll your dress /r? 'iiiii»o»i making troubles to us V After we have tilled VtW * our flrsl you " V ji\ t can appreciate what we '•'4/ vSB Bave > °u In time, money fj a . . eOTI unnoyauce. in rl Ml A request brings the ,11 1 j; •" jEw* style Hook, and with if! i'i if£vk 11 samples from lli rj..' I«9k\a our »*tock of over Hi ■[- • A IGO different //> • varieties of the j, ' i'-'j t mler *~ ' *lw| I kl>t ' l> ' ,lf ' t ' uu 1,,1ku >" u gPjmf j| 1 can tit* yoi us ijjfffjW gflfl | others—thousands who wny, or prtuuj,t lj rotund your m 0... j. Our Style Book ill unt rates and de scribe H: VISITING COSTUMES - $<MK> to S2O TAILOK-MADE SUITS - #7./>0 to SBS STYLISH SKIRTS - - $3.50 to sls WINTER COATS - - - $0.50 to $25 LLSTEItS aiul ItAIN COATS $8.75 to S2O Weprtpay express charges on th ' garment* tetany part qf the I . S., 't hick meant* a big saving to you. We Send Free showing the l«Mi • yl** and containing our Cop»righted >1 •• as 11 rt in«■ i)t cbnrtt also a large assortment of s»mp|p« of the newest materials. H KM K 'KMIAV i you will rrerim Ihnu br rrturn malt. NATIONAL CLOAK & SUIT CO. ll'J West *44 th St., New York, Mall Oril>-r*,Oiily. .\o Ag«*at« or ttrunrh.-i. tl«l. 1M ¥rtu Getting Into America Contir-ied from First 'Page English, with an occasional lapse into his beloved Yiddish, what Congress is and what it does. "Now, tell me," said the teacher, when Isaac had ended, all breathless, "why we have a Congress and why it can do all these things?" "Because we are free and have no Czar over us." "Free? What do you mean by that? You can't do as you please; you have to obey the laws, don't you?" "Yes; we obey the laws, but we make the laws, and so we are free." "Is that right?" "Yes; we do not have to do what a Czar says." "But, how about the policeman?" "He is made by the people. Tht people make the laws. We are the people, and we are free." At a labor camp school for Italians great interest was recer'.ly developed in the discussion of citizenship. Here are some of the written reasons given for desiring citizenship, and conceptions of citizenship: "Because I mean to live here." "I want to make friends of good men." "I want to take part in public affairs." "I will not live in this country like stranger, but I want stay here just the same of American people." "I want honor the laws because I love it." "To love the people like themselves and never oppress them." Not without fault of grammar in places, but with the true ring, neverthe less. To protect immigrants newly landed and give them their first lessons in Americanism is big and important work, vet these are only two lines of activity of the immigrant societies. Employ ment bureaus are maintained by many The Baron de Hirsch Fund and several other organizations endeavor to induce the immigrants they deal with to settle in the less crowded portions of the coun try by pointing out to them the special advantages to be enjoyed there. There are lodging houses for men, homes for women and children, hospitals for both sexes, bureaus of information and ad vice, fatherly, business and legal. Money is sent through the societies to relative waiting to sail for America. Cases of detained immigrants are investigated, and frequently appeals are taken tc Washington that secure the release of the detained. Orphan children are cared for. The father of two children died in Italy; th;' mother sailed for America with then'; she drowned herself in mid-ocean; the children would have been sent back had not an Italian society found homes for m. Recently the Baron de Ilirsch html people secured homes for about forty children made orphans by Russia!' mi'.--acres and brought here to escape a fat like that of their parents. The immigration authorities were not goiii" 1 let the children land. At this junc -1 tin Baron de Hirsch Fund guaran : 1 that they would not become pub iic charges, and they were admitted. Uncle Sam has great faith in the im migrant aociet'Ov lie and they work ( together right along for the good of the ' immigrants. And incidentally, because they take such good care of an ever in creasing number of new arrivals, Uncle Sam and Father Knickerbocker find thei Sam and Father Knickerbocker find their migration materially lessened from time to time. FADS AND FANCIES. It would be difficult to stale wlii li 1 illl< maid will Ik - the happiest on ("hri>t tn.'is mOrnmg, the one who receives her doll) already dressed, or the one who lias the enjoyment of planning and making her dolly'.-, clothes to suit her own ideas and taste. eßoth methods have much to commend them. The dressing of the doll is a part of the Christmas pleasure of prepar ation. and it i- a pleasure that may be divided up among any number of relatives and •I '1 K\ //'I lllh\ friends, one contributing I I" " 112 (f ii I l) dolly's frock, another her un oc W VHe WM dcrwear. another l;er shoes. \ ■ I\\ M jJirf another her coat of furs, and UL £ 112. If \ij so on all through the range of lIH/i 1 \ r\\ i > '\ her dainty wardrobe. m if «I \ I A •' l,l " ,luT hand, the cut lw M I I /ill i\\ li i ,t A ting out and making of dolls' F-TLTJ tT /« I'lift f't '\ 1 clothes often awakens an in m aftrH ' jft r i i\\\ . ', \\ t«-r.- tin sewing which proves film w r\\" ' , l| / iV\ valuable to a uirl in after life J, -y T*-i< ' '\ Most little girls take great • pride : n making pretty clothes for their dolls, and this joy in the neatness of their handiwork, wisely encouraged, lays the foundation for future achievements of value to themselves and others. Paper patterns for doll clothes are of prime importance just now, for the young lady's attire must be ?*nart, or she would feel old fashioned, and her ~T~ little mistress made * (s unhappy thereby. ops? VxjjT,!,/^ stunning outfit for a lady doll consists • R I U of a shirtwaist with , &•£% /// (j \ \ \ stylish three-quarter fiL /'I I U\ / \\ sleeves Peter I three-quarter length /I I I W coat for outdoor /vf/' ||' i;A\\ y(®gK / | r, Im\ wear. This entire f/t\ i|\u\ \ J ' lljlk M set is included in I / ; V\\ / . \ . 7 /•' ' ''■[ \V\ Pattern No. t S 7«. /iJ ',l \A / \/ / I \1 and is cut in sizes /7 / \sj !jjl fa} Jr for dolls from four- / / \ fl teen to twenty-four / \ inches high, meas- l'| I J (/=• ' ■A) WW uring from crown / | /_Vj] jj to sole. Price 10 cents. fNo. ifioß. An extremely dressy out fit. consisting of a beautiful little Sut.day dress with full gathered skirt, elbo\y sleeves, and star-pointed bertha collar, and a real Red Riding Hood cloak that will cover and protect all of dolly's finery when she goes out. The hood of the cloak may be worn over the head or fall ing over the cloak, as preferred. The dress may be made up in organdie, mull, batiste, china -.ilk, or other soft material, and trimmed with lace and insertion as pictured, or with flowered ribbon. The set is cut in sizes for dolls from four teen to twenty-four inches high, meas uring from crown to sole. Price 10 No, 1715- A dainty set of underwear i- here shown, and one that will delight the little doll mother's heart if it be made to button and unbutton, just like her own. It consists of a simple che mise, drawers and a pretty little petti coat gathered to a sleeveless, low-necked underwaist. Sizes are n^TSV twenty-four inches high. Price xo cents. f| |J IM H doll's set consists of a |jjg - petticoat with comfort- i outings, and a charm- |.f Js.h IK In ing little sack for wear / //>/ !■ 1, mm P— in the house on chilly 112 ;.|0 II Uj days. This set is made // h7\ / ' 11® &Q. / AA, Mil iJJ ffff% only in one size for 4-jig/ / I IHI y I'J high from crown to J\X ||l II sole. Price 10 cents. mlaf (1 112) 11$ jI 'W g / 9 To secure these pat- 112" J I \'<\ 11/ II l \ V f/W\\ terns promptly, send | | IV\M | A iiiunication- p, I'an \ // j ''\lk ION CORKESI'ONDENT, ffljj-M fi' M Room 307. 2QO Broad- Heaven and Vesuvius. Prof. Mattucci, Superintendent of the Vesuvius observatory, was dining with «>me Americans at the Royal hotel in Naples. The dining-room fronted the sea. The waves crashed against the rossive embankment of stone and hoyr rs of white spray rose high in the sun lit air. "This is heavenly. But what is it like in your observatory when Vesuvius is active?" some one asked. "It is not lil.e heaven," said Prof. Matteucci. "It reminds me of a story about a Neapolitan widow whose hus band had been dead snme years. One night she was persuaded to eo to 1 spiritualists' seance, and there the spirit of her dead husband appeared and spoke with her. " 'My dear Agostino.' said the widow to the shade, 'are you happy now?' . "'I am very happy,' Agostino an swered. " 'Happier than you were on earth with me?' asked the widow. " 'Yes,' replied the shade. 'I am far, far happier now than I was on earth with you.' The widow was silent a moment; then she said: " 'Tell me, Agostino, what is it like : n heaven ?' "'Heaven?' said Agostino. 'I never said that I am in heaven.'" Sea of Galilee invaded by a M ern Steamer. The Lake of Gennesaret, in Palestine, railed also the Sea of Galilee and the Sea of Tiberias, famed for the miracles Christ performed there. ha e just been profaned by the appearance of a ni dern steamer, which will take passenger*; to the little villages on its shores. Vast Store of Wealth. Beit's vast wealth came from mines— diamonds, gold and copper—like the im mense fortune of Senator William A. Clark of Montana: like the 000,000 or more . ;cuim:by Cecil Rhodes. The earth • rr ih > the source of the wealth of both John I) Rockefeller and his broth. T YVViam. ihe same thing is true of Carnegie's <rent st Tp of wealth. It was really dug from iron mines—iron and coal. Krupp oiled tip the largest estate in Germany in like manner. He made his money ! v manufacturing the product of iron mines. The earth i a magnificent storehouse of wealth. It has proved more fruitful if immense fortunes than the vast trans portation business which made the for •nnes of the Vand hilts and the Goulds, Hill, Harriman and the rest of the rail road kings. It has Iv.-.ten the mere own ership and use of the surface of the ground, Astor fashion. And the great center of the earth's storehouse is the South. Think of its coal area, nearly three times as great ■is the combined coal fields of Great Pritain, Germany, and Pennsylvania; of :ts iron ore. far surpassing in quantity that which made the fortunes of Car negie and Krupp; of its oil, promising to exceed in yield all that went to make the Rockefeller fortunes; of its sulphur, which dominates the world's sulphur trade; of its phosphate, which holds the same unique position in the world's fer tilizer industry; of its vast stores of ce ment making materials, the industry which promises to rival iron and steel: of its copper and other higher forms of minerals, and then let vonr imagination attempt to force ist the vastness of the wealth which this mineral storehouse of the world is to turn loose in the South. PICTORIAL MAGAZINE AND COMIC SECTION A Corner in Cats By WILL S. GIDI.EY. (Copyrighted.) The one hundred thousand inhabitants, more or le-s, of the bustling Western city which we shall immortalize as I'.oomopolis, woke up one morning to 'iiul staring them in the face from every • lead wall and billboard within the city limits, and from the want columns of the half dozen local dailies the fol lowing cabalistic sentence in the biggest ami blackest job type: CATS! CATS! CASH FOR CATS! No signature, no address, nothing to indicate who wanted the felines nor where they were to be delivered and the cash collected. Simply the tanta lizing and indefinite announcement above quoted. The public curiosity was aroused at once, and for several days thereafter the weather, politics, society gossip, the Schley-Sampson controversy, our duty in the Philippines, the question as to the identity of the party who struck the late William Pr terson, all were rele gated to the background by something of far more vital and immediate im portance—the burning question as to who was responsible for the cat adver tisement, and whether it would turn out to be a bona fide business proposition or only the work of some practical and irresponsible joker of the vicinity. If the advertisement was a joke, it was certainly an expensive one, and the point of the intended witticism was so effectually concealed that no one, except perhaps the joker himself, was able to guess what it was. Hut then the question arose, if the advertiser meant business and was really anxious to acquire a stock of cats in ex change for cash, why had he neglected to give his name and the location of his office? Inquiries made at the offices of the various journals in which the announce ment had been printed failed to elicit any information regarding the person or persons who had procured its in sertion. The advertisement in question had been received, paid for and published in the regular order of business, said the newspaper managers curtly, but the name of the advertiser concerned him self chiefly at present. If he wished his name and whereabouts to become public property, he would doubMess use his own methods and choose his own time for making them known. The parties who had printed and dis tributed the posters were equally non communicative. And so, right on the threshold of the investigation, the curi ositv mongers were foiled. For one whole week they fumed and fretted, wearing out their stock of gray matter in vain surmisings regarding the au thorship and hidden meaning of the anonymous advertisements. Then, just as the public curiosity began to show signs of flagging, fresh fuel was added to the flames by the following announce ment, which appeared just as mysteri ously as its predecessor, one morning, in the newspaper advertising columns and scattered far and wide on billboards and blank walls throughout the city and suburbs: CASH! CASH I! CASH FOR CATS!! N. B.—Don't drown your cats or give them away. Wait for the cash! The puzzle was still as far from a solution as ever. The joke—if joke it was—was evidently a serial, "To be con tinued in our next.'' I here are very few people, however, who admire that sort of humor, and the anonymous instigator of the cat "ails" and posters was called some decidedly uncomplimentary names during the next few days after the second series of his aggravating announcements appeared. Some set him down as a pestiferous crank, others as a harmless idiot with more money than brains, and wondered why his friends didn't have him placed in some reliable asylum, while still others sized him up as a shrewd, wideawake schemer, with some skilfully laid money •naking plot under way which would be developed indue time. Perhaps, some said, his plan was to boom the circulation of the papers in which his peculiar "ads" appeared. Others argued that the advertiser was probably a wealthy victim of insomnia, caused by backyard prowlers, and he was shrewdly endeavoring to spread abroad the idea that cats were valuable, so that people would keep them at home nights and allow him to get some sleep. For two weeks the public was kept guessing, and then the cat was let out of the bag at last! The notices already quoted appeared once more in advertis ing columns and on trees, fences and buildings—everywhere that the law al lowed, and in some places that it didn't —with an important addition. The "ad" in its completed form read as follows: CATS! CATS!! CASH FOR CATS!!! 50 cents each paid for cats deliv ered to our place of business in the old skating rink building. Main and Franklin streets, Boomopolis. Office hours, 7:30 A. M.to P. M. Bring on your cats ' The more the merrier! "Cash for Cats" is our trade-mark and motto, and we are absolutely the only firm on earth that is doing business on that basis. D >n't forget that we pay cash 011 delivery. Cats! Cats! Cash for Cats! ORIENTAL CAT COMPANY (Limited). John 0 Hubbs, President. P. Jackson Tubhs, Secretary and Treasurer. One of the first of the citizens of Boomopolis to call at the old rink build ing (with a half-starved feline under his arm) to ascertain if the good news could tru" that cats and half dollars "ere interchangeable commodities was Stumpy Jones, and he came flying back almost out of breath and reported to"de as follows: "Yep! 'Tain't no fairv story, fellers! Dev're buy in' de cats, all ri«rhl. an' here's de chink to prove it! DeyVe got de hull plaguey rink covered with big signs savin' to bring on yc-r cats an' git de rocks Bet yer boots I'll do it, too, fast 14* A MONTHI a S "I'cTA S |4 A MONTH Paid on the First GOVERNMENT Paid on the First of Each Month BONDS PAY of Each Month AS SAFE AS REAL ESTATE AND VASTLY MORE PROFITABLE You do not wait a year for a crop—the 4 per cent a month COMES EVERY MONTH. It comes from earnings. It, comes under normal, natural conditions. It will keep on coming. There are 110 dull seasons. There are no times of depression. So long as human nature remains as now, so long as men and women delight in harmonies and admire the beautiful, so long us music continues to have charm, just so long will there be an insistent demand for the exquisite melodies and the masterful measures of MUSICAL MARVEL THE MULTIPHONE MUSICKARVEL and just so long will the steady inflow of profits continue. The success and permanence of this company is based on civilization itself—on the home, on the family, on daintiness, polish and progress, on the inspiration and uplift that MUSIC gives. MEN WHO KNOW THE BUSINESS ARK THE (INKS MOST ANXIOUS TO INVEST Ml:x WHO HAVE BOUGHT STOCK AUK KKTVKXIKd AGAIN AMI AGAIN FOR MORE THE BETTER ONE UNDERSTANDS THE FACTS THE MORE CERTAIN IS HE TO BUY If you are a close figurer.—Here is an opportunity to offset our statement. If you are wise in business ways.— We need you in the company. If you are quick to nose out a fraud. —lnvestigate in your own way. If you dare trust your own eyes.— Send in your subscription right away. If you have friends you'd rather trust. —Send them to investigate for you. The Multiphone is to-day the greatest and grandest monument of simplified music producing mechanical contrivan ces. Nothing ever made can come any where near approaching its magnifi cence, either in simplified mechanical structure, beauty of design or apparent costliness of delineation. It is at once a superb production of the mechanic's skill, the artisan's patience, the sculp tor's chisel and the designer's handicraft, reflecting the intention of the makers orders for the best possible without re gard to expense. The design is of the harpsichord of the Elizabetnian period. Standing over six feet in height, and three feet wide, the front and sides are of French beveled plate glass, ex posing the mechanism to full view. A large Magazine wheel carries twenty four phonographic records, anyone of which may be reproduced at the will of the operator. A nickel starts it. The power is derived from a spring motor. One winding is sufficient to reproduce eighteen records. The public does the winding, so there is no expense for power. ITS FIELD. is practically unlimited. Wherever people may gather or pass is the natural location for a Multiphone. In railroad stations, in ferry houses, in hotels or restaurants, in theatre lobbies, on steam ships, in stores it serves the double purpose of pleasing the eye and delight ing the ear. EARNING CAPACITY. A little over a year ago, a handful of men, realizing after mathematical re- . search that if such an instrument could - be made the returns would be enor mous, started out to make it. A verv crude model was the result of the first undertaking, which was placed invar- $25 buys 20 shares, par value, S2OO, which will pay dividends of $1 a month. SSO " 40 " " " S4OO, " '• «« «• "$2 » SIOO " 80 " " " SBOO, " " " " « jji7 » S~OO " too " '• " SI6OO, " " •' •' •• t. SSOO " 400 " " " S4OOO, " " «' •' « S2O " SIOOO " 800 " " •' SHOOO, " " «« •' •' S4O Checks, money orders or drafts should be made out to Multiphone Operating Co. Telephone, 410!)Cortiaudt. Telegram Building, 23 Park Row, New York City Next door to Ilerald Downtown Branch. President, EDWIN -I. SEUET, Secretary, WIIXIAM H. PRITCHARO. Treasurer IS\AC THORIWAN Vice President., PETER .J. COLLISON. WARREN H. HUTCHINSON, Patent Attorney 141 Broadway N V ' ' Bankers:—Oriental Bank, 181 Broadway, X. Y. Counsellors:—Bushby & Berkeley. 220 Broadway V Y I HOSPIX TI S I'liK.K O.V APPLICATION, SEND POSTAL FOB 7 ' as I capture one of 'em. Cats at fifty cents apiece beats sellin' papers or black in' boots all holler." From that time on Stumpy devoted his waking moments chiefly to the cat in dustry, deriving quite a revenue there from, as did many other future business men and capitalists of Boomopils. In loss than a fortnight every vagrant fe line within the city limits had been rounded up and turned into cash at the receiving department of the Oriental Cat Company, in the sprawling edifice which formerly did duty as a skating rink. And the cats that came in were not all vagrants, either. Many a servant girl was not above adding a casual dol lar or so to her income by disposing of the family pets, or pests, as she con sidered them, which were continually snooping into things or lying around under her feet. 1 louseholders, too, in many instances brought in their own cats or the neighbor's, just as it chanced to happen, and furtively exchanged them for current coin of the realm. Men drove in from the suburbs and nearby villages with whole wagon loads of cats, crated up and ready for delivery at fifty cents a head. In fact, for two weeks it simply rained cats around that old-time skating rink, now the headquarters of the Oriental Tat Company (Limited). All they had to do was to hand in their four-legged, fur-clad voucher and the money was promptly forthcoming. And the cashier of the Oriental Cat Company (Limited) was not at all particular, either. Any thing in the shape of a cat would do. \ll he insisted on was that the cat must be alive. He drew the line at dead ones. When questioned as to what they were foing to do with so many cats, the af fable president and the equally obliging i secretary and treasurer of the company replied that they expected to find a mar ket for them in China, hence the title Or- i iental Cat Company. In certain sections of i the Flowery Kingdom felines were very scarce and would command high prices | —especially if they were good mousers ■ and rat catchers. An active, able-bodied ; cat would almost bring its weight in silver in some parts of China, and as i millions of people there required the cats ; the market was practically unlimited. < The Oriental Cat Company (Limited), had organized for the purpose of supply- 1 ing that market and they proposed do i ing so. I Three weeks rolled by—three busy, ■ ious sections of Greater New York as a test, the results showed One Hundred Forty-five per cent, a Year. These figures tempted the present managers of the company to embark upon the making of numbers of Multi phones tu be operated in the same profit able way for its stockholders. OVER $50,000 has been spent in perpecting the Multi phone that is making it experimenting with parts and simplifying the whole. Not one dollar of this have they charged to the Company. COST OF THE MULTIPHONE Multiphones cost $250 to S3OO each, according to the cabinet desired to meet the requirements of the varied loca tions, if in mahogany the former price, if in bronze the latter. IS IT SECURE? We answer it is, absolutely, positively and certain. You again ask": Won't the novelty wear off? We answer this by stating that music is as old as the universe, and each instrument is supplied with twenty-four new records weekly. Demand for this music may be measured bv the fact that a company, only one of many, is 1,100,000 records behind the requirements of the public's orders. Again you may query: Won't the mechanism wear out? To this we say yes, but not soon, probably fifty years or so will see some parts worn, which are easily replaced. We want all who read to know there are no "if's," no "but's," and there will be none. As emphatic as we are able to state it, we want everyone to believe this investment is thoroughly bona-fide, and up-to-date new fashioned in that it ives each investor his true share of the earnings, old fashioned in all that honor implies. SKIO invested in our stock is equal to 'Si<>oo in a savings bank. A man having Siooo worth of our stock in liis pos session is as well off as a another hav ing sio t ooo in a savings bank. He nets as much in dividends from us in one year as the other gets from the savings bank in twelve years. This stock fays us much in one year as a government bond pays in twenty-four years, there bustling weeks for the Oriental Cat Company and its officers and hired as sistants. Boomopolis and the country round about had been pumped dry of cats. You couldn't have found another one of ths animals with a fine-toothed comb—not a solitary cat. All had been swept into the remorseless maw of the Oriental Cat Company (Limited). Some days passed without any move being made on the part of the Cat Com pany, and then just as they had begun talking of getting the animals ready for shipment a plague of rats suddenly broke out in IJoomopolis. Nobody seemed to know where they all came from, but they were there as thick as beaux around a pretty girl, or mosquitoes in a Jersey swamp. And they were about the fiercest and hungriest rodents that ever pestered a community at that. Nothing, apparently, was safe from their attacks. They invaded cellars, stores, warehouses, public buildings, private buildings, the mansions of the rich and the tenements of the poor; every place, in fact, where they could find anything worth eating or worth de stroying. In the midst of the inundation the people suddenly bethought themselves of cats. Cats were what was needed, and they were needed at once. But where were they to be had, unless perchance the Oriental Cat Company (Limited) could be induced to sacrifice their stock after taking such trouble to get it together? It seemed almost providential that the rat epidemic happened to break out while the cats were yet within reach, in stead of being en route to China, as they might have been a few days later. The cats were still in the city, and their assistance was urgently needed in the present crisis. With one accord the populace began storming the doors of the Oriental Cat I Company (Limited), and demanding cats. "Cats! cats ! We must have cats !'* was the cry, and the public-spirited president of the cat company aforesaid, sitting in his snug office, heard the call and rose to the occasion. "Cats? Certainly," said Mr. H'ibhs, in the blandest of accents. "Sell 'em if anybody wants 'em. Mr. Tubbs, hang out a sinri. "May look a little steep, gentlemen, but that is what they would bring in China. Tlr>te to disappoint our custom ers there, but have to do it, I suppose, seeing the cats are badly needed here in 5 maining portion of the average man's life time. 1 Here is a corporation composed of business men, men of integrity and fi t uancial standing, offering to the public ■ one of life's financial opportunities. Capitalised at $r,000,000. Par value of each share, SIO.OO. All stock is full paid and non-assessable. The price of one share to-day is $1.25. Let us figure ' an example. If you invest say SSO ' It buys stock to the value of S4OO. This ■ stock is paying now 6 per cent, a year on its par value, that is to say $6 on every hundred dollars worth of stock yearly. Now as you have S4OO worth, , your dividends are $24. You invested but SSO, hence the rate is 48 per cent, a year or 4 per cent, monthly, which is . the way we prefer to pay it. This is our ground floor offer to the public. IVithm 60 days this same stock will be raised to $1.75 a share, after which a decided jump must take place. Not less than S2O will be accepted for stock purchases. No salaries to officers. Practically every penny earned is available for dividends, there are no salaries, there are 110 expenses, there are 110 leaks. _ The officers and managers get their pay in dividends instead of salaries. They have agreed to take as much stock as is earning dividends for cash investors in full payment for all their services, and all expenses of advertising, office rent, clerk hire and general ex penses of the Company. Practically all the net earnings with out any deductions are paid as divi dends. Every dollar received from cash in vestors goes to make more Multiphones. The managers are satisfied with what they are getting, and are pleased to pay you your four per cent, a month and pay it monthly—twelve times a vear. Please remember that this offer will not again be made. You must speak quickly or miss this great opportunity Only a small block of stock is for sale at the above price. If you care to get in 011 the ground floor of an unequalled money maker and on an absolutely square dual, this offer is for you. t the present emergency. Got that sign, - Mr. Tubbs? All right; hang 'er out." ¥ And the sign in question was promptly 112 swung to the breeze: j . FOR SALE. i Choice Cats $lO , Common Cats 5 Precisely one week later Messrs. .» IJubbs & Tubbs, the obliging officials of - the Oriental Cat Company (Limited), 1 closed up their now catless and deserted - place of business in the old rink at the ; corner of Main and Franklin streets, > Boomopolis, and bade farewell forever ' to that growing western city, taking 1 their departure via the night express for the East. : Snugly ensconced in a quiet corner of • the smoker, the erstwhile president of the Oriental Cat Company (Limited)— 1 now gone out of business—bit off the , end of a fifteen-cent cigar, handed its , mate to his companion and, after light ■ ing tip, said between puffs: "Didn't forget (puff) anything in your [ hurry to-night, did you, Tubbs?" "Guess not," was the laconic reply. "Got the satchel with the (puff) col ■ lateral in it all right, have you ?" "Betcher life! Shan't lose my grip on i that." "Tear up the freight bill from Chicago for the two cars of (puff) live stock in crates? They may (puff) smell a rat' if you didn't.'* "Did better than that. Burned it." t "That's good (puff). Er—l (puff)— I've just been thinking that we've made pretty (puff) fair day's wages for the past two months, eh?" "Well, yes," frankly admitted the worthy Mr. Tubbs, with a knowing wink. I have seen the time that I've worked for less." This seems to be the proper place to drop the curtain, but before doing so we cannot refrain from recording the wit tily expressed opinion of Michael O'Shaughnessy, ex-employe of the Ori ental Cat Company, in regard to its founders. "Well, byes," he remarked calmly, "Oi don't want to say anythin' against me old employers—they always used me well an' Oi got me pay, all right—but beclume you an' me an' the lamppost thim two lads, Hubbs an' Tubbs, wuz jest about the slickest pair that ever kern down the pike. Mighty lucky thing for Boomopolis 'twasn't beef critters on the hoof or elephants they cornered' stid of cats."
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