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The Sham and the ltcal.— Every 
good thing has its host of imitators ; every genuine 
article its counterfeits. Bad manners and wicked 
habits have theirs also ; but he who shams the bad 
never boasts of it, while those who ape the virtues 
of the good or simulate the genuine never hesitate 
to place the counterfeit before the public in their 
most alluring tones. When these people imitate 
they always choose a pronounced type or popular 
subject to copy from : and when they claim to be 
as good as “So-and-So,” or to sell an article equal 
to “ So-aud-So,” the public may depend upon it 
that Mr. “So-and-So” and his article are always 
the best of the kind. Thus the sham is always 
proving the genuine merit of the thing it copies. 
A firm of enterprising gentlemen produce and 
popularize an article of household use, such as the 
Eoyal Baking Powder, whose convenience, useful¬ 
ness and real merit make for itself an immense and 
universal sale. A hundred imitators arise on every 
hand, and as they hold out their sham articles to 
the public, yelp in chorus, “ Buy this ; it’s just as 
good as Royal, and much cheaper!” The Royal 
Baking Powder is the standard the world over, and 
its imitators in their cry that theirs is “as good as 
Royal ” are all the time emphasizing this fact. In 
their laborious attempts to show by analysis and 
■otherwise that the “ Snowball ” brand has as much 
raising power “ as the Royal;” or that the “Re¬ 
surrection ” powder is as wholesome “ as Royal 
or that the “ Earthquake ” brand is “as pure as the 
Royal,” as well as by their contortive twistings of 
■chemical certificates and labored efforts to obtain 
recognition from the Government chemists and 
prominent scientists who have certified the superi¬ 
ority of Royal over all others, they all admit the 
“ Royal ” to be the acme of perfection, which it is 
their highest ambition to imitate. But the difference 
between the real and these imitations, which copy 
only its general appearance, is as wide as that be¬ 
tween the paste and the true diamond. The shams 
all pay homage to the “Royal !”—From the Phila¬ 
delphia Times. 
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