, 1873-05-22
A PlTHY STORY,
1kcntltctkfnn Who Went Tor nil tho
Snssafrns Q1o Could Eiad-.A sltuht

4 Kcntucikfnn Who Went Tor NIL thu
snssnfrns Q1o Gould E'ilat--A slight
Misunderstanding md Piayaic.
mr. E,ah hi pst2i:f e; 'is''satt e Es2st,sr
tnae;SkWooas of Eaatorn Kontnoky, .v1oso business
isis to snpply druggists with horbs ugod in 1ndd.
roM1as E nn,ons his o,atornord in thih 'cify; 10
Wholesale si1se hessE ia wesE 41a % si4so +
w. r@ dsess !feient foos aSss saps oto e.
aa thoy eamo to tho noadod artiolo tho word
"osnaaon,lle ilo1ofo pounds ."Poui,y,:. 'Hsn, !:
fgoyn,, g2, pounds, !" nna So on: Whom thoy got
~, who was oighe-yosta younger, said :(ao-
~oording to Mr. Iatrick's Btntomont), HGcE na
"soa sso. OF that % you can And.",
tor Ritn a. Y a woll know ls the spongy
R,ant easaafras modulia. It is used, whom soaked
u ,water, as waHh for diseased oyca. and az
Ak trm rr IN uyeohtery, catarrh, eto. An eighth Of
WASH tho tbahpnns.o IL p,ns Of boiling water w mako
t1o!o has herctofore como almost c,t;reiy rom
down south. nnd It was gcneIsliy oeve' tint ,st
pcod . tic whoeane n'1e NJ me rste county high
ovor 60 pound. Mr. pGrio&k, - u1erstsna. des smo
1iig that he vas to get as much Of easBnfrss
pith as he could find, pocketod tho llat and wont
home. He ut once hired about two hundred
.ap"t hDAt48It a4A CuuuIou, anu BGt tU9m 10 UlGi-
Ing sassafras atoms and, stripping them of tho
bark. When ho had got largo Pile ho wrote on
to Messra. Morrill, to send him two hundred bacg:
They denied ever getting this lottor. :no went
S fe Sx s e. lee sEs Paa Pns Of IL Es n @ sn
boasa, and loaded two Of thom with pitb.
Enough was loft to hll third bont Ono day
the druggists on. Third atroet woro astoundod
With tho announcemont, that there wore
with. .sasaafras pith subject to thoir ORDER
and IN day or two In walked h1r. Elijah
P.trick with hls little bill Of s5,001. AS
might be supposed, thoro was scouo. Messra.
iitng wherein to #torc 1T. 1t aas boon calculated
TINT nt tho rato Of . drachm to case Of dyson
tory or OF 'catarrh thoro vsa mora than enough:
for the whole ,of tho United atstau. Fiatly,
Patrick walked to Judge Hanoyors oillco. ani
ongagod him to bring suit. Tho caao camo up
In tho Superior Court, and Patrick lost. Ho con-
tinued proceodings,, and tho case was tried six
tlmcs. Meantime the pith had hard time Of Il.
Piled up in Stacks, Il grow mou1dy and rottod.
Tho rats got ut 1t. Twice tho warehouse burned
down.. Tho first timo half Of tho heap WAS
turned to ashos, and tho second hmo tho other
half went up.
Novcr sas . case that looked cloaror. to out.
aiders than pastick's claim, but mover did any
thing 30 bother tho Judges ns did that mountain
Of aassafras pith. Toward Tho Inst, frosh proof
and Il Bossn ooI Is ousR 1fGB Be Ts 1orwas
would got tho worso of tho suit. Judge Iaft,
who Ind been down to look at tho pfth, was
nightly pllzz1ed. and finally deolarod that ho
could not doclde the caao, aud Il muat go to q
jury. Mr.. Patrick hore grew discouraged. He
had pushed the thing through lilo courts for
seven years, and just WHOM ho could almost
hear tho judgment in his favor 1t was proposed
upon Cue yordict. Of d jury. Why" aaia be, ns
ho mournfully listened to tho proposition OF
compromise, "yer: can bettor toll aforohand
whore lghtnin Is gofn to strike as to tell what
decision thom fellors would como to-" So ho
concluded that ho had had enough Of low, and
agreed with Meesra. Morrill, to Gull the who1o
matter square for thousand dollars.