The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-03

DRIVING OFF A FAKIR.
A DOCTOR CLEARS HIS TERRITORY
OF A SHARP QUAcK.

Been Deludins the People of the County
for Many Months-The Doctor Exposes
the Game and the sharp Leaves.
81 had not been week in the county
settled upon" said the doctor. before
heard accounts Of clever vender OF pat
/ ent medicine VINO was going through the
I state selling his Wanted remedy az an as
tonishing rate, and making money hand
over fist. Everybody he got hold of he
I pUrsuaded to buy. He seemed TO meet with
hardly any rebufs, and, moreover, he sue
| ceeded in thoroughly frightening his vic
/ Tins about the state OF their health. There
was good deal of fever and ague in the
/ state then, and there is some yet, as you
/ may have heard.
II had often tried to see the ouack. but
Z had never succeeded, till one day at the
! county fair came across a crowd OF gap
Z ing farmers surroundings glib fakir, whom
1 recognized by the first few sentences to
/ be the agent for the famous ague remedy
that had been so long looking for. This
was about the way in which ne harangued
I the crowd:
Now, ladies and gentlemen, attend TO
I me. / am going to demonstrate TO YOU be
derful ague cure can do all claim for il;
that it, and it alone, can save you from
this deadly ague which fastens on your
systems, as it has saved thousands OF
others. In order 10 prove this TO you ]
will make a perfectly painless. but never
theless startling experiment upon any ague
stricken man, woman or child whom |
now have the honor TO address. Step up,
ladies and gentlemen, each and every one
of you, who wishes to be cured of this ter
rible disorder. Now, whoever has the
worst case of shakes in the crowd let him
be the first TO stand upon this platform be-
side me
''No one stepped forward, but all hung
back, the men looking sheepish and the
women beginning to giggle. Now don't
be backward in coming forward. continued
the fakir. Remember this experiment is
perfectly painless, and will give the man
who first comes forward box Of my ague
cure free gratis for nothing
SELLING THE NosTRUNL
AT length "A tottering old fellow was
helped up on the platform by his sons, and
the fakir set him down on a chair felt his
pulse, looked at his tongue, tapped his
chest, listened 10 his heart beats and then
said solemnly, turning 20 the crowd This
unhappy man, my friends, If he had not
had the good fortune TO be present today
and hear my invitation would soon have
been beneath the sod. His case is indeed
an advanced one, and his days are almost
numbered. His only hope, but am happy
TO be able to say that ne will not he disap-
pointed, lies in a close attention to the di-
rections put on each box OF my sure ague
cure, Of which ! shall give him one.
My friend, be cried 20 the agitated
victim, your disease has reached such "a
stage that you can actually see it. Now,
watch and obey me and / viii show it TO
you and 10 all the good cor pany here as
sembled.' Then he handed an empty glass
to the patient, who feebly passed il in his
shaking hand. The fakir then poured out
some clear and colorless liquid, which be
loudly proclaimed was water, from bot
tie he carried with him, into the glass.
Next be took glass tube. and putting
one end of it into the liquid in the glass,
told the old man to put the other end be
tween his teeth and breathe repeatedly into
the water. The old man obeyed orders,
and as he breathed the water grew cloudy,
turbid, pale and at last as white as milk
"Oh's and abs Of wonder came from the
crowd, and the old man himself grew as
white as it was possible for his yellow skin
10 do, while the fakir looked on with
grave and oracular air. Taking the glass
IN his own hands, he held il up between
his eye and the sun and exclaimed:
TIE TRICK EXPOSED.
Il repeat, my friends, that the unhappy
man would not have lived many DAYS long
or If he had not met me here today. The
disColOrations which you see in the water
in the glass are the miasmatic exhalstiOns
from his fevered and ague stricken body
The water you see Is full Of these humor-,
though you see he has breathed in IL for
only moment. | have had him do this
10 show you that my ague cure kills these
poisonous humors in the system the mo
ment it comes in contact with them. Watch
me closely-there is no deception here.
Then he dropped little powder taken
from one of the boxes in which his alsue
cure WAS put up into the glass Of whilened
water, and told the man on whom be was
experimenting to stir the mixture and see
how quickly the cure would Kill his mias-
matte humors. The old man stirred. the
water became clear again. and for the next
quarter Of an hour the iaaIr had both
simple pumpkins and shOyeDng out his
worthless cure.
81 tumb.ed 20 the trick ut once, but ad-
mired the scamp's cOnsumuate gall 30
much that l had not the heart 70 expose
him. Waiting until the crowd mad dis
persed, ! tapped him On the shoulder and
said. Look here, my good fellow. ] IN
derstaud your little game perfectly. Your
co.orles, liquid is lime water and the
mans breath, containing carbonic acid.
naturally made the water milky. The
ague healer you put in 10 was citric acid
and sugar. and THIS instantly redissolyed
the carbonate Of lime aud made the water
clear again
Now, don't argue with me or Interrupt
me- I continued, a. be was about 20 pro-
test something I'm regular physician
come % practice ia these parts. aud I'll ex-
pose you % the people if you do not keep
az least llly miles away from where have
located. IL you viii promise 70 10 - once
and for good / viii not say one word
IT e iakir looked az me for moment.
aud then. evidently convinced that / wa
not 70 be tuhed with. he said, tea 70.
doctor. there's fools enough and 70 spare
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