WE WILL MAKE YOU PROSPEROUS If you are honest and ambitious write us today. No matter where you live or what your occupation, we will teach you the Real Estate business by mail; appoint you Special Representative of our Company in your town; start you in a profitable business of your own, and help you make big money at once. Can arrange for spare time only if desired. Unusual opportunity for men without capital to become independent for life. Valuable Book and full particulars free. Write today. NATIONAL CO-OPERATIVE REALTY CO. J-182 Marden Building, Washington, D. C. 10 DAYS' FREE TRIAL We ship on approval without a cent deposit, freight prepaid. DON'T PAY A CENT if you are not satis. fied after using the bicycle 10 days. DO NOT BUY a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone at any price until you receive our latest art catalogs illustrating every kind of bicycle, and have learned our unheard of prices and marvelous new offers. ONE CENT is all it will cost you to write a postal and everything will be sent you free postpaid by return mail. You will get much valuable information. Do not wait, write it now. TIRES, Coaster-Brake rear wheels, lamps, sundries at half usual prices. MEAD CYCLE CO. Dept. 29 CHICAGO way makes that fact so clear that nothing further is heard of the matter. After a man has been in her employ long enough to know something about Miss Durkin and her ways, he generally puts an extra dash of ginger in his work just to please the little brown-eyed woman who is so amiably willing to play the game fair. Consequently work goes along day in and day out so smoothly and rapidly that Miss Durkin, on her weekly rounds, can see her bank account swelling visibly before her very eyes. Miss Durkin did not become a builder deliberately and with malice aforethought. Instead, she attended Normal College in New York City for two years with a view to teaching, which is not even remotely associated with building. But her desire to teach waned, so she turned to stenography. It just happened that the first position that offered was with a builder who had an office in a shanty, and who seemingly had just about as much need for a stenographer as a hen has for fins. But he was shrewd enough to think Miss Durkin could make money for him; and as the salary was fair for a beginner Miss Durkin took it. The builder was quite right about his new stenographer's money making possibilities. She did make money for him: she made him rich, in fact. That was because she was not at all interested in the clock but was very much interested in the building business. In explaining how it happened Miss Durkin said: "The trouble with most women is that they will not assume responsibility, but shirk everything of the kind consistently. I was not only willing to assume responsibility, but I hunted for responsibilities to assume. When plans came in I took them and studied them until I knew all about them. I read up on building laws until I mastered them, too." For seven years Miss Durkin not only did her own work as stenographer, but she did other people's work when they were not looking until she made herself indispensable. Incidentally she learned every angle of the building business most thoroughly. When she stopped working on salary, she was getting $50 a week, which is rather high for a stenographer. Her last employer had promised to allow 2 Postal Life, My Insurance Economy Non-agency savings Anyone now desiring sound protection can walk into the office of the Postal Life Insurance Company, or write a letter to it and deal direct, thus becom ing his own agent and saving for himself the agent's commissions each year. 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Figures closely, often working until ten or eleven o'clock at night, and thus contrives to land all the contracts she can take care of. Indeed, things are coming her way so fast that a year ago she took her former superintendent into partnership, the press of work necessitating this step. Pursuant to her settled policy of finding out all there is to know about her business, Miss Durkin early discovered that the New York Board of Education's building plans were always prepared with absolute accuracy and completeness; that the Board's inspectors really knew their business and attended to it; and that payments were made promptly; that altogether Board of Education contracts were highly desirable. Therefore she decided to pay particular attention to school buildings. She has paid attention to such good purpose that she has built no fewer than fifteen schools for the City of New York. At the present time she is putting up Public School No. 39 in the Borough of the Bronx to cost $250,000. Her other work now in hand includes St. John's Guild House for Sea View Hospital at New Dorp, Staten Island, to cost $150,000, and St. Peter's rectory to cost $35,000. All these are fireproof, up-to-the-minute buildings. Altogether she has six hundred men in her employ. Except for a weekly tour of inspection, her time is spent at her office in a handsome modern building right in the heart of things in New York. Perhaps another exception should be added, for Miss Durkin is an ardent automobilist. Her week ends are spent on the fine roads within reach of the city where she drives her own car. No, her sex is no handicap in the building business. Have You A Camera? $5,000 a Year If so, like all other photographers, you must have had all kinds of troubles and tribulations in working it. It is extremely unsatisfactory, when you have tried to take a photograph of some scene or object that is never likely to come within the range of your vision again, to get a failure. 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Send the subscription with money order, express order, bills, check, coin, or stamps to POPULAR PHOTOGRAPHY 1201 Pope Building BOSTON, MASS. from Ten Acres With Six Months Vacation Independence and a Competence for Life Five Thousand Dollars a Year net income from ten acres of matured apple and cherry orchard in the frostless and wormless Bitter Root Valley with a home and six months vacation annually in one of the most magnificiently endowed natural environments on the Creator's footstool, with go f links, hunting, fishing and mountain climbing and with neighbors of culture, education and refinement-is the opportunity we offer you. We believe you will investigate this opportunity because this appeal for investigation is directed to broad-minded and sensible readers, living in an age of scientific progress which has made the impossible of yesterday the reality of today. This is not an offer of something for nothing. It is an opportunity for you to make an immensely profitable compact based on mankind's partnership with Nature. We are now growing more than three thousand acres of fruit trees, one to three years old, for satisfied customers who would not consider selling their orchards at a large advance over their cost. $5,000 Yearly For Life From Ten Acres A Bitter Root Valley apple orchard bears commercially in its fifth year. Ten acres, fully developed, should be capable of returning you during early maturity, strictly net, a profit of $2,000 to $5,000 yearly. Beginning with the 10th year from planting, judged by experience of others, 10 acres should net you an income of $5,000 yearly and employ only half your time. If you have a fair-sized income now and are willing to improve your condition, you do not need much capital to possess one of these big-paying orchards. Our Proposition and Plan briefly stated is this: We will sell you a CHOICE 10-ACRE ORCHARD HOME TRACT (spring of 1913 planting) best standard varieties apples and cherries-with the Company's definite written contract to care for and develop your orchard under expert horticultural supervision for five full growing seasons from date of planting, including all land taxes and irrigation charges. You may, if desired, assume personal charge of your orchard at any time and secure a refund. The land should easily become worth, conservatively stated, in fair comparison with other improved land, $1,000 an acre. There is a clean profit to you of 100 per cent on a 5-year investment to count on at the outset. Only a $300 cash pay. ment required now to secure your orchard tract-balance in easy payments divided over a ten-year period. Your payments for the first few years are practically ALL the cash outlay you will have, as your orchard tract should meet all payments falling due while in commercial bearing period and yield you a handsome profit besides. Our reservation plan provides for inspection of the land by you, and your money back if dissatisfied. INVESTIGATE by using this coupon TODAY. BITTER ROOT VALLEY IRRIGATION CO. 840-848 First National Bank Building, Chicago, U. S. A. Robert S. Lemon, General Sales Manager |