How 'Tis Done: A Thorough Ventilation of the Numerous Schemes Conducted by Wandering Canvassers; Together with the Various Advertising Dodges for the Swindling of the Public

Excerpt from How 'Tis Done: A Thorough Ventilation of the Numerous Schemes Conducted by Wandering Canvassers; Together With the Various Advertising Dodges for the Swindling of the Public The methods of catching victims by these individuals have only been told, heretofore, in detached and valueless form in current newspaper literature. We have now for the first time, in this book, a condensed, truthful and reliable expose of the many dodges constantly being practiced upon the public, together with the glaring swindles with which the farmer finds himself constantly beset. In these pages is told the story of the origin and development of the county history, atlas and map scheme, which has taken millions of dollars from the farming communi ties; together with the lightning-rod, patent-right, cloth, mining stock, patent-medicine, and the thousand other plans resorted to for the purpose of squeezing money from innocent victims. We tell how these things are done, by whom, for what purpose, and the profits realized and there isn't a farmer or other, who reads these pages carefully, but may in the future defy any glib agent or book canvasser to worm a dollar out of his pocket.