Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-05-07
REVENGE ON A sNOB.
GETTING EVEN WITH A NeieHeoR
WHO PUT ON AIRS.

GETTING EVEN WITH A NEiGHeoR
WHO PUT ON AIRS.
The Man WHO Made Eis Money Had q
Grudge Against the One Who Inherited
wealth-A Patent Medicine .nti tho BILL
poster Did the Trick.
This time the drummer was a travel
ing salesman for large drug firm in
Philadelphia, and he was, as he put it,
merely knocking around New York to
see if his goods were a drug in the mar
ket or not.
''The meanest, low down kind Of re-
venge ever heard Of one man taking
on another, :" he was saying when the
conversation had got around to the an
ecdotal stage, twas told me the other
day. won't mention names of persons
or places, for the parties are still living,
but a dozen years ago there was hurled
at the great American public through
the newspapers from every dead dwall in
the city and every fence and barnside
in the country, in millions of pamphlets
and pictures, and by every means known
to the skilled advertiser with unlimited
capital, the name and virtues of q med
icine that would cure all the ills that
flesh is heir to, and this valuable truth
wus heralde1 forth with all painful and
realistic details until it actually made
the reader feel as if he needed some Of
the cure all as soon as he could get to it.
"In some sections Of the country the
Landscape was alive with the glittering
and glaring advertising of this wonder
full medicament, and in one particular
city and state it seemed as if every
available inch Of unoccupied territory
was covered with notices of it. Bigger,
too than the name of this medicine was
the name of this Napoleon of public
benefactors, this healer Of mankind, the
great discoverer and Blanks Whatever
it-was, and Blanks Whatever-it-was
was far more in evidence as Blanks
than as Whatever-it-was.
In the meantime one man in the city
referred to above was gnashing his teeth
and pulling his hair out by the follicles,
and another man was laughing his lungs
out. And why? Because one was the
revenger, and the other was the re-
vengee.
"And the nub of it is herein. Blank
was wealthy man in the city of Name
less, where the ads. showed up the thick
est, and he was ultra swell and un-
American and looked down upon earned
wealth as compared with the inherited
kind-he being an inheritor. He snub-
bed most of his fellow citizens when he
had the chance, but he was particularly
ready to down the man who was the ar
chitect Of his own fortunes. He who
made money was too utterly vulgar for
anything. Across the street from him
lived one of the kind he disliked so heart
lily, and this man was millionaire and
gentleman. He had made every cent he
possessed ard made it honestly, and Il
snob was one Of the objects i'll life he
was cunning for pcrpetually.
"And Blank was one he had it in for
more than all The others, for Blank he
had with him always. He didn't know
just how he was going to obtain his OBJ
ject i'll life, but he waited and trusted
i'll Providence, and one day it came to
him i'll the shape Of formula offered to
him by prominent physician who rec
commended it as very nearly an infalli-
BILE remedy i'll certain cases. He listened
quietly, sait. nothing, took the formula,
made up his mind and one Sunday morn
ing every Sunday newspaper in the city
Of Nameless and in all the cities in the
United States fairly blossomed with the
circus bill posters of Blanks Wonderful
Whatever-it-was, and Blank woke up to
find himself famous. He tore the car
pets up in his vain pawings to assuage
his wrath, but that did no good, for be-
fore the week was out there wasn't
spot on earth within reach of Blanks
eye that didn't carry the hateful thing
to glare at him and make his life a
mockery and bitterness.
His was proud name to be thus
dragged through the mire of vulgar
printers ink, but he had no recourse,
for the other man had found another
Blank, one who wasn't SO aristocratic
and was willing to sell his good name
at fair price to decorate apatent med
icine. 1t was the same name, yet in law
it wasn't, and Blank couldn't do one
earthly thing except groan in spirit and
curse the day that the man across the
street had been born. Once he threat
ened to challenge his tormentor, but on
second thought concluded that it would
further advertise himself and the medi-
cine, SO he settled down finally to accept
ing the situation and preserving digni-
fed silence, which he has done to this
day.
''Now, just to show how Providence
is always on the side of the right, "con-
cluded the drummer, "I may say that
the man who risked his money to make
Blanks name burden to him made
$500, 900 out of the patent medicine,
and to add somewhat to the romance Of
it he gave $4,000 of his earnings to a
widowed sister of Blank, who had sew
eral children dependent upon her and
had but small income. New York
Sun.