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Show INVEST AT HOME. The recent failures of three or four "get rich-quick" concerns in St. Louis and Chicago, by which people all over the country wcro swindled out of sums ranging from $5 to $5,000, only show show plainly people with money can be gulled into divesting it in such concerns. These aro not the only methods by which the Investor Is robbed. rob-bed. There are any number of schemes that with an oily-tongucd "piker" can be made to look like a bonanza. Gold mines, silver and copper mines, distilling companies and stock companies com-panies of various kinds furnish splendid splen-did bait for the gullible public. People with money to invest arc to be found in every community and these concerns, that pay enormous profits, on paper, Is what catches them. How many men who have, say $5,000, to Invest would take $1,000 stock in a legitimate enterprise that paid 0 per cerrt on the Investment, annually? If some responsible man, one who en-Jo)ed en-Jo)ed the confidence of the community wcro to take a paper and solicit subscriptions sub-scriptions for stock to establish in our midst a factory of any kind, to be operated by our people and In tho management of which he would have a oicc, how many $1,000 subscriptions would ho get? Not many. Yet thero arc those who will Invest money In copper mines, lotteries, horse-racing schemes and other "gct-rlch-qulck" concerns with no possible assurance that they will ever see a penny of their Investment. If they prove alright, al-right, jou win, If all wrong j ou lose. The difference Is this: In an enterprise enter-prise of the kind mentioned, when you invest jour money in, wc will say, a condensed milk factory, or knitting factory to be located In jour town, you become a stockholder to tho amount of jour Investments. You have a voice In the management of its affairs. You can at any time Inspect tho working of it and sec how it ls run, and if any dissatisfaction or doubt exists relative to it jouhavc some recourse. Again jou have assisted In adding an lmpiovcment to jour town, tho benefits of which are far-reaching. You have helped to furnish employment employ-ment to some laboring man and have sent a ray of sunlight and happiness into some humble homo that was otherwlso cheerless. Clearly jour conscience would be easier, joureje brighter and jour step more elastic In the consciousness of having done good. How about the 'get-rich-quick' scheme? When jou Invest jour money In any of them jou lose con-tiol con-tiol of that Investment. You have no voice in tho management of the vast funds that arc gathered from Its ami) of Investors; they are all strangers stran-gers to)on and all of )ou arc perhaps Ignorant of the State laws under which It is opeiated. From the time )ou place )our Investment jou are a slave to worry and excitement. You pass sleepless nights and )our waking hours aio hours of restlessness and when tho bottom falls out and )ou leallze the utter falluie )ou are first amazed and then glad tho strain Is over. Surely tho compailson between tho two would make a rrnn with money and a conscience seek u safo conservative conserva-tive Investment if for no other reason than tho plcasuio and enjojment derived therefioin. Try the condensed milk factory. |