article  he  is  entitled  to,  wMoli  he  can  obtain  upon  the  return
of  the  certificate  and  one  dollar  to  the  office  of  the  Associa-
tion.'

"  Not  wishing,  however,  to  encourage  too  sanguine  hopes,
we  would  add  an  account  of  the  success  of  an  experiment
made  last  year  by  an  incredulous  individual,  who  was  so
curious  as  to  find  out  how  it  was  these  people  made  money
by  selling  gold  watches  for  a  dollar.  He  spent  a  hundred
dollars  for  the  'certificates'  above  referred  to,  and  found
himself  the  lucky  possessor  of  a  lot  of  paper  tickets  pur-
porting to  represent  property  to  the  value  of  two  thousand
one  hundred  and  fifty-three  dollars,  and  this  property  he  was
entitled  to  receive  on  the  further  payment  of  four  hundred
and  fifty-eight  dollars.  Not  wishing,  however,  to  impoverish
these  rashly-benevolent  Samaritans,  and  reflecting,  perhaps,
that  he  had  already  spent  one  hundred  dollars,  for  which  he
had  as  yet  received  nothing  but  'certificates,'  he  selected  a
hundred  of  those  that  promised  the  most  valuable  articles,
and  sent  them  for  redemption — paying  another  one  hundred
dollars  for  the  articles.  He  received  a  lot  of  watches,  jewelry^
gold  pens,  etc.,  of  which  the  nominal  value  was  five  hundred
and  ninety-nine  dollars.
