Evening journal., 1897-02-24
REVENGE ON A SN0B.
GETTING EVEN WITH a EEleHEoR
WHO PUT ON AIRS.

The Man WHO Made His Money Had
Grudee Against the One who Inherited
Wealth. Patent Medicine and the Ell
poster Did the Trick.
This time the drummer was a travel
ing salesman for a large drug firm in
Philadelphia, and he was as he put il,
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, ne was saying when The
conversation had got around TO the am
ecdotal stage, twas told me the other
day I wen mention names Of persons
OF places, for the parties are still living,
but dozen years ago there wns hurled
at the great American public through
the newspapers from every dead wall in
the city and every fence and harnside
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 n med
icine that would cure all the ills that
flesh Is heir to, and this valuable truth
was heralded forth with all painful and
realistic d.tails until it actually made
the reader feel as if he needed some Of
tho cure all us soon as he could get TO it.
In some sections Of the country tho
landscape was alive with the glittcring
and glaring advertising of this wordcr-
full medicamont, and in one particular
city and state it seemed as if every
available inch Of unoccupied territory
was covered with notices of ii. Bigger,
too, than the name Of this medicine was
the name of this Napoleon OF public
benefactors, this healer Of mankind. the
great discoyeror ans Blanks Whatever
it-was, aud Blanks Whatever-it-was
was far more in evidence as Blanks
than rs Whatevcr-it-yas
''ln 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
ont And why? Because one was the
revenger, and the other was the re-
vengee.
"And the nub Of it is herein Blank
was a 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 inhoritor. He snub-
bed most of his fellow citizens when he
had the chance, hut 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 - heart
/ ily, and this man was a millionaire and
gentleman He had made every cent he
/ possessed and made it honestly, and a
snob was one Of the objects in life he
was cunning for pcrpetually.
And Blank was one he had it in foI
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
iect in life, but he waited ard trusted
in Providence, and one day it came to
him in the shape cf formula offered to
him by a prominent physician who rec
/ commended st as Very nearly an infalh-
bic REMEDY iIi certain cases He listened
/ quietly, said 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
cilcus bill posters of Blank Wonderful
/ Whatever-it-was, and Blank woke up TO
find himself famous He tore the car
/ pets up in his vain pawings TO assuaga
his wrath, bat that did no good, for be-
fore the week was out there wasn't a
spot On cmthNyithin reach of Blank s
eye that didn't carry the hateful thing
to glare at him ard make his life a
mockery and a bitterness.
His was q proud name TO be thus
dragged through the mire Of vulgar
printers ink, but be 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 a fair price 10 decorate patent med
iciic. 10 Ygas the same name, yet i'm law
it wasn't, and Blank couldn't DO one
earthly thing except groan in spirit and
curse he day that the man across tic
street had been horn. Once ho threat.
oned TO challenge his tormontor lut on
second Thought concluded that it would
further advertise himself ard the modi.
/ cine. SD lc settled down finally toacccut.
ing the situation and preserving digni-
fed iciog, which he has done to this
day.
"Now, just to show how Providence
is always on the side of the right. cen
cluded the drummer, II may say that
the man who riskcd his money 20 max,
Blanks name a burden to him made
$500, 600 out of the patent medicine
and to add somewhat TO the romance O.
il he gave $25, GOO Of his earnings to
widowed sister of Blank, who had SOW
Cral children dependent upon her ant
had but a small income. New Yorl
sun.
Looking Forward.
"Whcn ! am rich. he said haughti