The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-25
A Mean Revenge.

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This time the drummer was a travel
ing salesman for large drug firm in Phil
adelphia and he was, as ne put it, merely
knocking around New York to see if his
goods were a drug in the market or not,
says the New York Sun.
The meanest, Iow-down kind of revenge
I ever heard of one man taking on an
other, he was saying when the converse
ton had got around to the anecdo al
stage, was 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 news
papers from every dead wall in the city
and every fence and barnside in the coJn-
try, in millions of pamphlets and pictures,
and by every means known to the skilled
| advertiser with unlimited capital, the
name ana virtues of a medicine that would
cure all the ills that flesh is heir to, and
this valuable truth was heralded forth
with all painful and realistic details I'M
til 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 glitterng
and glazing advertising Of this wonderful
medicament, and in one particular city
and state it seemed as If every available
I
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 Blank s Whatere-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 crashing his teeth
and pulling his hair out by the follcles
and another man was laughing his lungs
out. And why? Because one was the
| revenger and the other was the revenged.
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-Amcrl-
can and looked down upon earned wealth
! as compared with the inherited kind
| he being an inheritor. He snubbed most
| of his fellow citizens when he had the
| chance, but he was particularly ready ia
| down the man who was the architect 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 heartily, and this
| man was a millionaire and a gentleman
| He had made every cent he possessed
and made it honestly, and a snob was
| one of the objects in life he was gun
| ming for perpetually.
| 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 in life. but he waited and trusted in
| Providence, and one day it came to him
| in the shape of a formula offered to him
| by a prominent physician who recon-.
mended it as very nearly an infallihle
| remedy in 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
| circus-bill posters of Blanks Wonderful
! Whatever-it-WaS, and Blank woke up tC
find himself famous. He tore the car
| pets up in his vain pawings to assuagt
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 t.
| glare at him and make his life a mock
! cry and a bitterness.
His was a proud name to be thus drag
ged through the mire of vulgar printer
| ink. but he had no recourse, for the othe
man had found another Blank, one VIII,
wasn't so aristocratic and was willing t.
sell his good name at fair price to dec
crate a patent medicine 1t was the sam
| name, yet in law it wasn't, and Blanl
couldn't do one earthly thing except groal
in spirit and curse the day that the MAJ
| across the street had been born. Once h
threatened to challenge his tormentor
but on second thought concluded tina
would further advertise himself and tn
medicine, so settled down finally to ac
cepting the situation and preserving
digniied silence, which he has done t
this day.
Now, just to show how Providence
always on the side of the right" con
cluded the drummer, Il may say tina
the man who risked his money to max
Blank S name a burden to him, made hal
a million dollars out of the patent medi
cine and to add somewhat to the romano
of it, he gave $4,000 of his earnings t
a widowed sister of Blank, who had sew
eral children dependent upon her and bu
a small income"