| Show EASIER THAN A scamp in cohig iule money in aa lacea loii way let me tell you a very strange troa story ahrea years ago a young man in the middle of his sophomore year found himself in debt to his landlady to his tailor to aba college and in act to every cne of whom be could borrow or bay iio had no parents on whom be could call and his future jaent very roseate to gay the least but he was a genius he had come to college to graduate and intend to drop out just because be lacked money there was plenty of unemployed capital in the country he was bure and ho was equally sure hb could get hold of some of it BO this is what he did in some way he learned the names of ten women in one of the email western towns and wrote them the following letter mr DEAR una I 1 am a student n I 1 college and am absolutely without cent unless I 1 receive aid I 1 be compelled to abandon the ambition of my life to enter tho ministry I 1 am an orphea and am solely dependent on myself will you kindly send me tan cents and mall a copy of thia letter to ten friends numbering each copy st please request them to do the game numbering their copies 3 and BO on atop pine at number 10 ten centa ia very little but ten dimes maike a dollar and a hundred dollars would be godsend to me very TC he figured that about three or four in the first ten would respond and that the same ratio would be kept up some donld be ignored some would miscarry and in bome cases several copies would be cent to the same person it is easy to count that if every letter and copy brought in ten cents h would receive millions if four in the first ten responded he would still be a millionaire the plot succeeded he re ceils u million of course but be did get a very large sum of money not one person in a hundred would stop and figure up the actual amount which the thing would bring to the letter writer in some cases ministers read the letter in the pulpit and recommended the echeme to their congregation the letters which he received were studies some contained stamps some dimes wrapped in paper some motherly old coula wrote long letters with volumes of good advice and some more philanthropic people sent fifty cents a dollar and few even filc E J barnes in new york press |
