Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-10-09

Surely such a man commands respect
And the citizens of Solitude wee
courteous people.
AS Silas stood on the corner watch
ing the man the latter stopped his
talk a moment, looked at him, and
beckoned for him to join the crowd
Silas failed to understand at first, but
when the people who had already col
Iected also turned and called to him
he walked across the street.
| Now I'VE got something here you
want-just the thing you need" be
gan the man on the box, leaning over
so far as to directly address Silas
Gust the thing you want, sir. Just
the thing"
How'd you know ! wanted some
thing7" asked Siias, hesitating, yet be,
! lieving.
Merely by looking at you, replied
the man without pause. Can tell IT
by your face. You're in trouble and
| warrant you | have something here
that will cure you in day. Nay, in
minute-a second. Here, take this
bottle Look at it. Smell it. Taste it.
And if you don't say it is the best
medicine you ever saw then my names
not DR.. Orsephus Jefferson"
Whether it was the doctors" elo-
quence or the weight of his name that
cast a spell over him Silas never knew.
But he did know a moment later that
he had handed the man a fve-dollar
bill and received in exchange six bot
ties of 'Heartsease, the Greatest Rem
edy Ever Known to Science. War
ranted to Cure all Aches, Pains, Corns.
Bunions, Coughs, Colds And Stands
Without Parallel in Making the Old
Folks Young and Their Hearts Glad
How the Medicine Worked.
Silas looked at his purchase, at the
crowd about him, at the doctor" He
started as II to hand the medicine back
to him. But that fine gentleman,
without seeming to notice Silas,
stepped into a carriage that had just
drawn up, announced to the crowd
he had sold out his entire stock, but
hoped to be with them again next
year, made a profound bow; bestowed
upon them smile and drove away
down the street, leaving his late Gus
toners to stare after him with envy
at his command of the English Ian
guage and hypnotized by his dash of
manner.
Silas stood there for moment
with the others. still holding his six
bottles of "heartsease." He then
walked back to the large house that
had sheltered him and Sarah since, as
young lovers, they had moved into it.
With flrmer step than that with
which he had left it earlier in the even
ing he went through the hallway. up
stairs. and tapped--for the third time
ON the door of the spare bedroom
before voice said;
"Well?"
IT'S me-Silas,' replied Silas. timid.
ly.
"Silas! Silas!" questioned Mrs. Cow
gill. But you aint Silas. He went
away two hours ago"
But I'm Silas, tell you. And I've
got somethin' you need And mighty
good bargain it was, I tell you. / give
only IS for it,
Five dollars," came from within
In a loud exclamation Five dollars,
Land sakes alive What did you
buy?''
II can't tell until you open the
door"
Silas knew the weakness of women.
He had aroused Sarah's curiosity, and
the rustic Of a skirt told that she was
living up to the traditions of her sex,
except that she was hurrying, which
is altogether an unprecedented thing.
In moment she stood before him.
"Silas," she said. and tender al that
, the old way, in fact-"Silas. here
| | am"
Silas looked into his wife's eyes
and started toward her as il to EN-.
brace her Then he remembered that
| his arms were piled high with thesiS
bottles of "Heartsease" The same
realization came to Mrs. Cowgirl ant
with 1t the ridiculous situation of Il
all. And she burst out laughing.
My dear man, what's in them bot
tles?"
Them? Them" repeated Silas
Them,
But he could go no further Hi
laugh joined with that of his wife
and so hard did he shake that two o
the bottles of his precious purchas
fell to the floor and their fragment
scattered in every direction. And a
he grabbed at the third the res
slipped from his arms and met a Xix
fate. their contents soaking the re-
carpet.
The Real Heartsease.
Mirth had seized upon these tive
Nor could such trivial thing as III
destruction of six bottles of Hear
sease' couse dignity to take its place
) Still. Mrs Cowgirl, with the instinct
of true housewife. thought of tn
damage that might be dopa ~ he