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About Knives. A eheap Pocket-knife can be bought at every Store, but it is not the kinö you want. One dollar is the lowest priee tfaaJ a really good knife can be sold for. This ïiloumn is placed in this paper to adveyi e the very best Pocket-knife eve?sold. ItisJ. C Tidmarsh'S Sheffield Steel Knife. Never buy a knife only because tl looks well. if blades are not the best Sheffield steel they will soon bend, ncmatter how they will look. Stil!, yovr want a fine-lookïng knife. The United States law provides tbat only samples to agents and to the trade will be admitted free of duty. You can, therefore, see the advantage thafc I have in sending B: nip Si to agents? over those who deal in oheffield goodsin America. I am an advertising agent J I ia trusted with a certain amount tj 3X' advertising these knives (ti3 a: value ever seen in America at t Dollar each). Now, the koita iï own best advertisement. Imagine a Pocket-knife {'Si ïnches long) with the most beautifully-grained vory handle - genuine A frican ivory mand with two blades of the very best Sheffield steel that will last a lifetime and cut like a ra.or. The tips of the. handles are heavily plated with sterling silver. And then a very nietchamois leather case goes with eacL. knife. Xow, .vould it not be easy v. Belling this knife at One Dollar ea I know it would, for it looks as if it were wörth two dollar-s. And so it is if you compare it witïi the value offeretl in the ordinary Store. Is not this knife its own best advcjr tisement. You can make $4 per day Bell these knives. This is a genuir.e am Btraigtforward statement. 'Jhis counting that you show it to om;, twelve buyers every day. Ar.d 1 one that "sees it will say it is goooi value for 81. The knives are sold to you at $8 per dozen; you sell them a1 ench. I determined to use large suro 0 advertising money entrusted to me in sending out free samples to those who promise to act as agents for the sa! these knives I will send you a free sample, you must sign the promise at the footof this column, and make a deposit to show that in asking for the knife yov. are aeting in good faith. The deposit that I ask of you ie 44 c!iits about half the wholesale cost of the knife. and less than one-third wh&i you would have to pay (pr a 'u'.'.'i h, if you bought one. Send the money by a Posttl Orde one-cent stamps for 44ct. , and pui I ftve-cent stamp on the lettmust not weigh more than oneounce. # The depoMT of 4 i rr.nts will be pla 10 your credit, and will ba deducted from your flrat order at the do.en rate. I am an advertising ayent, oontraci and puhliaher with one of the lai:_ Advertising businesses in the w absolutely guarantee tosend, po?1. paid and duty free, the knifo ■ Iabove free 'to anyone who signs thf premiso below, and send8 it with tt, i.U f it as stated. # Let me advise you not to part your sample, even if you ehould lo Bale at U by refusing, as it will tal time to replace it. I could not sent you another even if you sent the full$lAfter the sample they can only be snpplied to you by the dozen as then duty on them to be paid. # Any English Banker can :i-e information about my high standicc write to the publisher of this pj who knows that f do a lao gtraightforward advertising busii and that I do cxactly as I say. I have taken this ace in this paper for three vean ! The flrat one answering this advertisement after this muaber of the paper has come out wi he likts. hava nis name printed in ■ as agent for these kni The Editor of the Springfield (Ol .' ir Era v. rites, in his jmper of Ji 28, is;i4:- "t have received a san 1 !r. Sriu-s. anO am iscd with it. He is the tv of a i e advertising bu&i n London, ;:::'i ;-. i belii responslble and straightforward." Sirn your name and addr■efollowing, mt it out and send it v Postal Order or stamps for 44 c] .m will reccive by return of ! tiio beautiful knife as described aba P. V. SKAIIS, Adtertisinq Agent ano CONTRACTOK, Wiioi.ks I.K K a.dvehtisinq üepaktmemt, 138 Pleet strekt, Londc: Deak Sik, - I faithfully promise 00 my and nonour to show the Sample Knife yon have promised to send me to one more if my friends, thereby consti' tntlng myself an agent. This make me "in the trade'' a far txn! Pocket-outlery is oonoerned. Bj promise I am entitled to a saiipit vour beautiful Dollar Pockst-knife with ehamois leatber case, to be se ! me post-paid and duty free. I a!so close 44 cents Postal Order oir stamt which please hold for me untíl I Bfeii' you an order at the dozen rate. Name. . . Addreas - Address "'' leift rs to F. W. SEARS, Wholesale Knile Adivertisement Dept, 1 128 FLEET ST., LONDON El