Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1901-08-16
HIS, START IN LIFE.

i1lD D1Ahl LIN IL ~.
sDoCn HARTMAN AND HIS WONDER
Full GREASE ERADlCAToR.
with Soap Candles and Bottles Of
Rainwater He Fooled the Public
and Laid the Foundations of .
Substantial FNsstune.
''Talk about your self made men,"
said an old timer among a party Of
horsemen gathered in one of the speed.
way inns, 81 don't think any of EN-
car equal the early experiences Of Tim
Hartman. who died in st. Louis many
years ago, leaving nearly a million dol
lars to be fought over by his heirs. He
made his first good sized pile on pat
ent medicines, then he picked up a
great deal more or 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 Pm going to tell,
and the one which he often told him
self. concerns his very earliest expert
ences in the accumulation Of money.
Tim Hartman started life WITH 81. He
kicked around as a barefooted boy
and a pretty mean one, too-in a little
town in Connecticut until he was 10
years old. and at that time he had be-
come SO fresh and so full of wind and
general c~ussedness that his father one
day told him he was no good, never
had been and never would amount to
Q picayune. The old gentleman. just
to carry out the bluff, told Tim that he
had a good mind to cut him off with a
dollar and make him earn his own liv-
ing. Tim Strengthened up and called
the bluff. He 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 81 bill and
told him that he'd be glad to see him
make a fortune with it.
"The first thing that cuss did was to
go about in q few back yards that he
knew of and gather together a lot of
empty bottles which were of no use to
anybody. Then. for 10 cents, he bought
q large cake Of a kind Of white soap
that was then, and still is, on the mar
ket. He melted this soap and, after
borrowing an ancient pair Of candle
molds from an old granny in the neigh
borhood, made two beautiful looking
candles of soap. He next filled his bot
fIOo fun af ah0io0 no inuUofor arg FNI1~ h.
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
40 miles away.
when he got there, he put up his lit
tie table outside the grounds, where
the crowd was pretty thick, lighted one
of his soap candles and began to eKtol
the virtues Of DR.. Hartman's Famous
Grease E%radicator,' contained in the
bottles set before him.
"'Now, ladies and gentlemen he
would shout in a stentorian but plausi-
BILE voice, this marvellous liquid, so
harmless that it can be drunk with i'm
punity by the smallest infant and yet
SO penetrating that it will seek out and
destroy stains and discolorations from
the most refractory substance. was dis
covered by accident by the famous sci
enlist, DR.. Hartman, the eminent schol-
ar, while he was wandering Ger the
wilds of Patagonia. 1t is 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 it, would
smear a lot of the grease over the
sleeve of his coat.
Now. every n Of you knows, la
dies and gentlemen he would continue,
reaching yer and uncorking a bottle
Of his rainwater, that there is nothing
so penetrating and ineffaceable as the
grease from a candle. and yet it is a
stain that we are all likely to suffer al
most every evening Of our lives while
toying with that common article of the
household, the candle. You will OBJ.
serve that my sleeve is smeared with
the annoying substance. Behold
TfW IH
Here that country bred fakir would
spill a couple of drops of his rainwate,
on the soap and with a rub or two
would produce a beautiful iather. An.
other swipe and the soap would have
entirely disappeared from the sleeve
leaving not a trace.
snow, we make this famous eradi
Gator in such enormous quantities. Tin
would continue, that in order to intro.
duce it into every home in this broad
land we will dispense with it at the
absurdly low price of 5 cents, a nickel
a bottle. Step right up! Step right
upr
'"Then, when the public was surgina
forward to purchase the rainwater
Tim would pause occasionally to drink
a bottle of it, just to show that it wa.
absolutely harmless.
We'll, the stuff went like hot cakes
When Tins bottles were all exhausted
he bought more, and when the fair wa
W. he went to another and anothe
until he had travelled all over the coun
try. Then, in some way or other,
don't know how. he got hold Of som
old M font mo6ioino ond hofnp a nor