A Novel Advertising Scheme

An ingenieus Germán bicycle rnanufacturerkas invented tho follo'sving devico as an aávertisiiig scheine : He has published a rotiee in the duily press, accerding tü which he proruises to give a -high grade machine :u:d a bioycliug suit to any eme who pays 1 cent spot cash:but, accordiug to tiie agreement, the purohaser must pay for two weeks the doublé of the amount that had beeu paid the precediag ctay. It is but a simple problem iu arithmetic to discover that at the end of two weeks the bioycle and suit will have cost something over $160. Ingenious advertisements, as will be seen, are not oonflned exolusively to the United