The Red Cloud chief., 1901-07-05
'D0c"Hartman'S Start

Talk about your self-made men, said
an old-timer among a party OF horsemen
gathered In one OF the Speedway inns.
II don't think any of 'em can equal the
early experiences OF Tim Hartman, who
died in st. Louis about ten eyars ago,
leaving nearly a million dollars to be
fought over by his heirs. He made his
first good-sized pile on patent medicines;
then he picked up a great deal more on
real estate, and at last he rounded out
with speculation in Montana copper. but
he was known as Doc Hartman to the
time of his death by his few intimate
friends.
But the story that I'm going to tell,
and the one which he often told himself,
concerns his very earliest experiences in
the accumulation IF money. Tim Hart
man started life with 81. He kicked
around as a barefooted boy-and a pretty
mean one. too-in a little town I'm Con-
n~ecticut until he was eighteen years
old. and at that time he had become SO
fresh and so full Of wind and general cuss-
edness that his father one day told him
he was no good. never had been. and
never would amount to a %picayunc. The
old gentleman. just to carry out the blum,
told Tim that he had a good mind to
cut him of with q dollar and make him
earn his own living. Tim Strengthened
up and called the BLUM. lie told the old
man that he would take the dollar and
get out then and there and hustle for
himself. The old man handed him a
crisp one-dollar bill and told him that
he'd be glad to see him make a fortune
with 1t.
The first thing that cuss did was to
go sbout in a few back yards that he
knew of n gather together a lot Of
empty bottles which were OF no use to
anybody. Then, for 10 cents he bought a
large cake Of a kind Of white soap that
was then, and still Is. on the market. He
melted this soap. and. after borrowing an
ancient pair Of candle molds from an old
granny In the neighborhood, made two
beautiful-looking candles of soap. He
next filed his bottles full OF choice rain
water. Then he made for himself one of
those little three-legged tables like the
chuck-a-luck and shell game men use
outside the circus. and struck out on foot
for a county fair that was being held
about forty miles away.
when he got there he put up his little
table outside the grounds. where the
CrOWu was pretty tnlck, Ignteu one or
his soap candles, and began to extol the
virtues Of DR.. Hartman's Famous Grease
Eradicator.' contained In the bottles set
before him.
Now. ladies and gentlemen he
would shout In a stentorian but plausible
voice, this marvellous liquid. 80 harm
less that II can be drunk with impunity
by the smallest infant. and yet so pene-
trating that It will seek out and destroy
stains and discolorations from the most
refractory substance, was discovered by
accident by the famous scientist, DIR.
Hartman, the eminent scholor, while he
was wandering DER the wllds of Pata-
gonia. 1t was colorless, you see. as the
waters from heaven and yet observe the
effects of It's startling properties!"
AT this point Tim would reach for
his soap candle and inverting 1t, wou
smear a lot of the grease over the sleeve
of his coat,
Nov every one of you knows, adde's
and gentlemen he would continue,
reaching over and unlocking a bottle of
his rain water. that there is nothing so
penetrating and ineffaceable as the grease
from a candle. and yet 1t Is a stain that