The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1876-12-14
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They arc II lhc midst 81 4 be lawsuit
iu = peighhoung village between Dr.
Smi.sr and the rect of the popalatiou q
The town. Tic p6egcr, il secms, bad =
large tank placed on lhe.top of bis house,
IRON which 10 supply bis bath room, and
50 forth with water. The water had 70
be pumped up about G0y feet from TIC
cistern in lhe yard, aud The Doc,er found
ito be pretty gpod.sIEed JOB, which
would cause him constant expense, So,
after thinking the matter over carefully
one day an idea struck him. lie built IS
room over The eisteru and PIT The word
"Saui,uium over The dour. Then he
concealed the pump machinery beneath
the aoor AMI be rugged up q kiud Of
complicated apparatus With handles aud
hinges and actank, so that man by
standing in the middle Of the machine
and pulling the handle up and down
would operate that pump.
Then the Doeier got out circulars and
published advertisements about tsmilei's
Patent Aealtb.Lift,n aud he secured ,es-
timonals from thousand or SO people
who agreed that the Health,Lift was the
only hope for the physical salvation of
the human race. Pretty soon people be-
gan TO call to see about Il, aud Smiler
would rush them out to the Ssnilarium
and set them 10 jerking the handles. Aud
when customer had pumped up fifty
gallons or so, SmiIer would charge him
quarter, and tell him that three months
of that Kind of a thing would give him
muscles like pfize.fghter.
And be would push the project among
his patients. II man was bilious, or
bad the toothaebe, or was afflicted with
rheumatism, or Group, or measles, or
yellow fever. or cholera morbus, Smiier
would put him In at the Hoalth.Lift, aud
get quarter each time. The thing be-
came so popular that he bad TO enlarge
his tank aud put in a smaller pump; and
he not only got all his pumping done .or
nothing, but the people who did It paid
him about fifteen hundred dollars year
for the privilege, II began TO look like
an uucomonly soft thing, and everybody
was contented aud happy,
One day, however, old Mr.. Maginnis,
who had been pracliciug at the Health
Lift every day for months In order TO
cure himself Of indigestion, jammed the
handles down little too hard, and broke
the board upon which he was standing.
As the board gave way it plunged Mr..
Maginnis into the clstern, and just as he
was sinking for the third time Smler
tished him out with crooked nail in the
end ofa clothes prop. As soon as the
water was drained out OF him, Maginnis
said
didn't know you had cistcrn under
that floor, What did you do that for'
Why, to keep the air moist. It's health
Ter than dry air.
II looked to me as if there was some
kind of a pump under there.
Oh no, said Smiler, those are only the
levers Of the Lift.
Mighty queer, said Maginnis thought
fully, If that isn't pump, then don't
know one when see it,
So few days later Maginnis came
around with lot Of other patients and
found the Doctor out, They determined
to investigate. They pulled up a couple
of boards and ascertaned the facts about
that pump. Then they cross-examined
Smiler's servant girl, and learned about
the truth, and then they went home mad.
a consultation was held, at which every
bilious aud rheumatic individual who
had been working the Docter's pump
used violent language, and talked about
murder aud sudden death. Finally they
resolved to prosecute Smiler for damages
and for obtaining money under false pee
teases. II is thought by good judges
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