Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-01-06
DRIVING OFF A FAKIR.
4 DOCTOR CLEARS HIS TERRITORY
or a SHARP oUAck.

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The Fellow Was Keen One, and HAD
Bsen Deiadins the People Of the County
for Many Months The Doctor Exposes
this Game and the sharp Leaves
Il had not been q week In the county I
settled upon, said the doctor. before
heard accounts of a clever vender Of q pat-
ent medicine who was going through the
state selling his yaunted remedy at an ~
toDishing rate, and making money hand
over fist. Everybody he got hold Of be
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, and there is some yet, - you
may have heard.
II had often tried to zee the quack, but
had never succeeded, till one day at the
county fair ! came across q crowd OF gan
ing farmers surrounding 4 glib fakir, whom
recognized by the frat few sentences to
lie the agent for the falnous ague remedy
that had been SO long looking for. This
| was about The way In which be harspgued
the crowd:
Now, ladies and gentlemen, attend TO
me. ] am going to demonstrate to you BE-
! yond the shadow Of q doubt that my won
derful ague cure can do all claim for ii:
that IL, and It alone, can save you from
this deadly ague which fastens on your
systems, as 1t has saved thousands Of
others. In order TO prove this to you
will make q 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
| wo 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 Ia
perfectly painless. and will give the man
who first comes forward a box of my agua
cure free gratis for nothing.
SELLING THE NosTRUM.
AT length 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 to his heart beats and then
said solemnly, turning to the crowd: This
unhappy man, my friends, il 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 he will not be disap-
pointed, lies in close attention to the di-
rections put on each box OF my sure ague
cure, of which shall give him one
my friend, he cried to the agitated
victim, your disease has reached such q
stage that you can actually see it. Now,
watch and obey me and l will show it to
you and to all the good company here as
sembled.' Then he handed an empty glass
to the patient, who feebly passed it in his
shaking hand. The fakir then poured out
some clear and colorIess liquid, which he
loudly proclaimed was water from a bot
tie he carried with him, into the glass.
Next he took u 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
to do, while the fakir looked on with a
grave and oracular air. Taking the glass
in his own hands, he held it up between
his eye and the sun and exclaimed:
THE TRICK EXPOSED.
I repeat, my friends, that the unhappy
man would not have lived many days long
er If he had not met me here today. The
discolorations which you see in the water
In the glass are the miasmatic exhalations
from his fevered and ague stricken body
The water you see is full of these humors
though you see he has breathed in it fol-
only moment. l have had him do this
to show you that my ague cure kills these
poisonous humors in the system the mo-
nient it comes in contact with them. Watch
me closely-there is no deception here
Then he dropped a little powder taken
from one of the boxes in which his agus
cure was put up into the glass of whitened
water, and told the man on whom he was
experimenting to stir the mixture and see
how quickly the cure would kill his MAS
matte humors. The old man stirred, the
water became clear again, and for the next
Quarter of an hnur tba faEiP had hot
hands busy taking in the money Of the
simple pumpkins and shovel1ng out his
worthless cure
u tumDleu TO the trick at once, but al