Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1901-08-22
HIS START IN LIFE.
"Docp HARTMAN AND HIS WONDER
Full GREASE ERAOlcATOR.


ana Laid the Foundations of a
Substantial Fortune.
Talk about your self made men"
said ali old timer among a party Of
horsemeu gathered in one Of the speed
way inns. Il don't think any OF em
can equal the early experiences Of Tim
Har>man, who died IL s.. Louis many
years ago, leaving nearly million dol
lars 10 be fought over BY his heirs. lie
made HIS first good sized pile On pat
ent medicines. then he picked up a
great deal more on real estate, and nj
last he rounded out with speculation I'D
Montana copper. but he was known as
Doc Hartman to the time Of his death
by his few intimate friends.
'l}ut the story that I'm going to tel.
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. lie
kicked around rs a barefooted boy
and pretty mean one, too-in a little
town in Connecticut until he was IS
years old. and NJ that time he had be-
general cussedness that his father one
day told him he was no good, never
had been and never would amount 10
picayune. The old gentleman. Just
10 carry ont 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
tie bluff. lie told the old man that he
woCld 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 a few back yards that he
knew of and gather together a lot of
empty bottles which We're 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 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
ties full Of choice rainwater Then he
made for himself one of those little
three legged tables like the chuck-a-
luck and shell game Elen use outside
the circus, and struck out on foot for
county fair that was being held about
80 miles away.
when lie got there. he put up his lit
tie table outside the grounds. whore
tile crowd was pretty thick, lighted one
Of his soap candles and began to extol
the virtues of DIR. Hartmans Famous
Grease Eradicator,' contained in the
bottles set before him
Now. ladies ana gentlemen be
would shout III a stentoran but plausi-
BILE voice, this marvellous liquid, so
harmless that it can be drunk with im-
punity by the smallest infant and yet
50 penetrating that il Will seek out and
destroy stains and discolarations from
the most refractory substance, was dis
covered by accident by the famous sci
enlist, Dir. Hartman. the eminent schol-
ar. while he was wandering Ger the
wilds of Patagonia. 1t is colorless, you
see, rs the waters from heaven. and
yet observe the effects OF its 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 one Of you knows. la
dies and gentlemen. lie would continue.
reaching over and uncorking bottle
Of his rainwater. 'that there is nothing
So penetrating and inefacoable rs the
grease from candle and Vet il is a
stain that we are all likely to suffer al
most every evening If Our lives while
toying with that common article 81 the
household the candle. You will OBJ
serve that ms sleeve is smeared with
the annoy ins substance. Behold
Here that country bred fakir would
spill couple OF drops Of Us rainwater
en- the SOAP and with rub or two
would produce a beautiful lather. An
other swipe and the soap would have
entirely disappeared from the sleeve,
leaving not a trace.
Now. we make this famous eradi-
Gator in such enormous quantities, Tim
would continue, that in order 10 intro
duce it into every home ia this broad
land we VIII dispense with Il at the
absurdly low price Of cents. a nickel
a bottle. step right up. Step right
up"
''Then, when the public was sursing
forward To purchase the ranwater
Tim would pause occasionally 10 drink
a bottle II il, just e. show that il was
absolutely harmless
"Wen. tie stuff went ike hot cakes.
When Tins bottles We're all exhausted.
he bought more and when the fairwas
over he went 70 another anl another
untl he had travelled all over the coun-
try Then. ID some way Or other.
don't know how. he cot hold Of some
old patent medicine, ana being d gen
ius. 1T course He made a big go 81 it.
So that's the way Tim Hartman almost
became u miluoua lre. ~ New York
Times