THE mails are loaded down with circulars sent out to persons all over the country, containing glowing accounts of gift enterprises, in which the recipient is told that if he will invest one dollar, he will receive for certain, an article of value worth more than his money, and in addition, a gift varying in value from $100, to $1,500, or $2,000. Or a lottery scheme will be sent with a confidential letter promising select tickets sure to draw $1,100, $1,500, $2,000, or $5,000. Don't believe them. Men are not thus benevolent. No one sure of drawing a prize of $2,000 for ten dollars, would be fool enough to send it to you. Beware of all such pretensions; they are illegal and bogus concerns, of which the country is full, and from which their conductors are realizing a golden harvest from their thousands of dupes, some of them thousands of dollars per day.