Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1893-01-28
DRIVING OFF A FAK1R.
a DOCTOR CLEARS HIS TERRITORY
or A SHARP ouAck.

The Fellow Was . Keen One. and Had
Been Deludipg the People of the County
for Many Months-The Doctor Exposes
the Game and the sharp Leaves.
81 had not been a week In the county
settled upon said the doctor, before
heard accounts of clever vender of pat
ent medicine who was going through the
state selling his Wanted remedy ut an as
tonishing rate, and making money hand
over fist. Everybody he got hold Of he
pursuaded TO buy. He seemed to meet with
hardly any rebuffs 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, aud there Is some yet, as you
may have heard.
~ had often tried TO see the quack, but
had never succeeded. till one day at the
, county fair ! came across crowd OF gap
ing farmers surrounding glib fakir, whom
/ 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 he harangued
y the crowd:
"'Now, ladies and gentlemen. attend to
/ me- am going to demonstrate TO you be-
= yond the shadow Of doubt that my won
derful ague cure can do all claim for 1t;
= that It, and II alone, can save you from
this deadly ague which fastens on your
n systems, as 1t has saved thousands of
others In order TO prove this TO you ]
, will make perfectly painless. but never
theless startling experiment upon any ague
stricken man, woman or child whom i
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
mo one stepped forward, but all hung
back. the men looking sheepish and the
women beginning To giggle. Now don't
II be back ward in coming forward, continued
= the faxr Remember this experiment Is
y perfectly painless, and will give the man
who first COMES forward u box of my agus
cure free gratis for nothing
u SELLING THE NosTRUM.
~ AT length lettering old fellow was
n helped up on the platform by his sons, and
=, the fakir set him down on chair, felt hi.
III pulse looked at his tongue tapped hi,
IL chest, listened to his heart beats and ther
" said solemnly. turning to the crowd: 'Thii
" unhappy man, my friends, II he had mo-
had the good fortune to be present toda,
% and hear my invitation would soon hav,
70 been beneath the sod. His case is indeet
a. an advanced one, and his days are almos
~ numb red His only hope. but | am happ.
on To be able to say that he will not be disap
IL. pointed, lies in a close attention to the di
nd rections put on each box Of my sure agu
n cure Of which shall give him one
H. "'My friend he cried TO the agitate'
er victim, your disease has reached such
stage that you can actually see II. Now
er watch and obey me and | will show IL /
ng you and to all the good company here as
- sembled' Then he handed an empty glas
20 the patient, who feebly passed IL In hi
sinking hand. The fakir then poured on
lnt some clear and colorless liquid, which b
er' loudly proclaimed was water, from a boi
ms tie he carried with him, into the glass.
be Next he took glass tube, and putin
on one end of IL into the liquid in the glass
p. told the old man to put the other end b.
Mt. tween his teeth and breathe repeatedly int
lat the water The old man obeyed order,
vs. and as he breathed the water grew cloudy
1m turbid, pale and at lust as white Us milk.
a "Oh's and abs OF wonder came from tn
JUS crowd, and the old man himself grew
ity white AS 1t was possible for his yellow ski
in TO do, while the fakir looked on with
To grave and oracnlar air. Taking the gla,
ago In his own hands, he held 1t up betwee
his eye and the sun and exclaimed
THE TRICK EXPOSED.
40 repeat my friends, that the unhapI
s." man would not have lived many days lon
10 er IL he had not met me here today. TT
ing discolorations which you see in the wat
Ugh In the glass are the miasmatic exhalatiol
rk. from his fevered aud ague stricken bod
Ioi- The water you see is full OF these humor
inc though you see he has breathed IN 1t 4
do only moment. | have had him do tn
ing 10 show you that my ague cure kills the
OF poisonous humors in the system the III
nlent il comes in contact with them. Watt
no me closely-there is no deception here
eep "Theu he dropped little powder tax,
ing from one of the boxes in which his ag
rid cure was put up into the glass of whiten'
IRA water, and told the man on whom he W
etic experimenting to stir the mixture and S
or how quickly the cure would kill his mia
lie matte humors The old man stirred, &
in water became clear again. and for the ne
'ent quarter OF an hour the faklr had DO
iful hands busy taking in the money Of i
lth- simple pumpkins and shoveling out
lore worthless cure
and 81 tumbled to the trick at once, but q
lnired the scamp's consummate gall
was much that | had not the heart to expo
: OF him. Waiting until the crowd had d
the persed, tapped him on the shoulder "a
pell said: Look here, my good fellow. l u
act derstand your little game perfectly fo
the eolorlcss liquid is lime water. and I
/ to mans breath, containing carbonic &C
n OF naturally made the water milky. I
G as ngue healer you put in 1t was citrie AZ
> to and sugar, and this instantly redissoly
, OF the carbonate OF lime and made the wal
It'll clear again.
can Now, don't argue with me or interru
can me- | continued. as he was about to p
lille test something I'm IA regular physici
With come 10 practice in these parts, and I'll I
ston pose you to the people II you do not Ike
at least fifty miles away from where ha
located. II you will promise TO go at OF
and for good will not say one word
alb THE fakir looked at me for n nome
bear and then, evidently convinced that ! v
igh. not to lie trifiei with. he said, It's a
. in doctor; there's fools enough and 10 spI
tiers for both of us New York Tribune.
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are The CauHN of hp Gulf stream,