Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-03-27

cure for boils. II applied for two or
three days according TO directions and
at the proper stage the boil is sure to
disappear. As a proof OF its merit l
have sold seven hundred and forty eight
thousand bottles this year.
"sAt dollar bottle? said /.
"'That is the retail price, said he.
"'Now then, Mr.. Spotkirk,' said /, 1T
will not be easy to convince Timothy
Barker that one-eighth Of one per cent.
is enough for him. suppose he hauls
his gravel to your factory?'
"'Hauling's got nothing TO do with 1t,
said he; gravel is only ten cents a load
anywhere, and If choose / could put
my factory right in the middle OF
gravel pit Timothy Barker has moth
ing to complain Of
"'But he knows you are making lot
of money, said i, and 1t will DO hard
lob to talk him over. Mr.. Spotkirk, it's
worth every cent of fifty dollars
"'Now. look here, said he, If you got
Barker to sign paper that will suit me
I'll give you fifty dollars. I'd rather do
that than have him bring suit. II the
matter comes up in the courts those ras-
cally lawyers will be trying to find out
what l put into my Boiline, and that
sort of thing would be sure to hurt my
business. 1t won't be so hard to get q
hold on Barker if you go to work the
right way. You can just let him under
stand that you know all about that rob
berry at Bonsall's clothing store; where
he kept the stolen goods in his barn COW
cred up with hay for nearly week. 1t
would be good thing for Timothy
Barker to understand that somebody
else besides me knows about that bust
ness, and if you bring it in right it will
fetch him around sure
81 kept quiet for minute or two, and
then l said:
Mr.. Spotlkirk, this is an important
business. can't touch it under hun
dred dollars He looked hard at me,
and then he said:
"'Do it right, and hundred dollars
is yours
"After that I went to see Timothy
Barker, and had talk with him. Tim
othy was boiling over, and considered
himself the worst-cheated man in the
world. He had only lately found out
how Spotkirk made his Boiline, and
what big sale he had for it, and he was
determined to have more of the profits
"sJust look at it., he shouted, 'wher
Spotkirk has washed out my gravel it:
worth more than it was before, and he
sells it for twenty-five cents load to pu
on gentlemen's places. Even out OF tina
he makes a hundred and fifty per cent
profit
81 talked good deal more with Tim
othy Barker, and found out good man,
things about Spotkirk's dealings will
him, and then in an off-hand manner
mentioned the matter of the stolel
goods in his barn, just as II I had know
all about it from the very first. At thi
Timothy stopped shouting and became a
meek as mouse. he said nobody wa
as sorry as he was when he found th'
goods concealed in his barn had beer
} stolen, and that If he had known it be
fore the thieves took them away b
should have informed the authorities
: and then he went on to tell me how b
) got SO poor and so hard up, by giving hi
: whole time to digging and hauling grave
for Spotlxirk and neglecting his littl
| farm; that he did not know what wa
going to become of him and his famil.
If he couldn't make better terms witt
: Spotkirk for the future, and he aske'
/ me very earnestly to help him in thi
business if l could.
''Now, then, set myself to work t
> consider this business. Here was rio
man expressing poor one, and her
; was this rich man offering me one hur
: bred dollars, which in my eyes was
D regular fortune, to help him get thing
: so fixed that he could keep on oppressin
t the poor one. Now, then, here was
: chanoa ter me to show ny principles