Connecticut western news., 1902-02-27

"BowsER's ONE DAY COUGH CURE" of exaggerating things, and I wish you would correct it. If a man made such statements, he would be called liar"
 Well, there are no less than three escapes up in the garret. was look ing at them yesterday"
 Then you put them there for some purpose of your own. l am no dodder- ing idiot"
 Mrs. Bowser had no more to say, and he was in a sulky mood during the din- ner hour. When they were seated for the evening, she sought to smooth things over little by repeating some neighborhood gossip she had heard, and after time be melted and said:
 Mrs. Bowser, do you know that what might be called the cough season of the year is now with us?"
 Yes; most everybody has a cough along about now," she replied.
 And most everybody must doctor for it. If it wasn't for colds, coughs and Sore throats, the druggists wouldn't do half the business they do. Would you say that 100000 people out of our population of S0,000,OOo had coughs to be cured during the winter 1"
 "Why, shouldn't wonder"
 And 1t costs all of 50 cents to cure a cough, doesn't itP'
 T should say it did"
 "very we'll" continued MT. Bowser as he got out pencil. wen say that 20,OO0,0O0 people have coughs and the cost of curing them is $10,0O0,000. You must remember, however, that a cough Is a pernicious thing. It frequently means death. I estimate that s,000,0o of the 20,OO0,OO0 die after paying out their money to be cured. Suppose that these people could be saved from death."
 But how?" asked the puzzled Mrs. Bowser.
 'The average cough cannot now be cured under ten days. Suppose 1t could be cured in one. That would save nine days of suffering, wouldn't it?"
 "Yes, of course, but
 Hold on a little," he interrupted. Suppose, again, that 1t only costs 10 instead of 50 cents to cure a cough. That's $S,0OO,0O0 a year saved to the people. as I make it, while the other $2,OO0,000 goes to the inventor of the cough sirup. Can anything be plainer than that"
 "W-what scheme have you got nowp she faltered.
 q am not in the scheme business, Mrs. Bowser," he stiff1y replied. 'I have an idea now and then, as other business men have, but there's no scheming about it. Let me show you something"
 He went down the hall to the hat rack and got the package, and, return ing to her, he opened 1t and displayed q quart bottle full of some sort of liquid.
 There, my friend" he said as he paced the bottle before her. ''Let me introduce to you Bowser's One Day Cough Cure"
 You've gone into cough sirup" she exclaimed.
 'Well, there 1t is. found the recipe among a lot of old papers, and I've had 1t compounded. A ten cent bottle will cure a cold in one day. I'm going to order bottles and labels and put ii on the market. Bowser's One Day Cough Cure will be a household word in three months, and Bowser himself will be known as a greater philan- thropist than Carnegie. What do you think of the ideaF'
 T-I wish you hadn't" she replied.
 'Oh, of course! It's another of my !, fads, I suppose. I was an ass to say anything to you about it.''
 But how do you know 1t will cure a cold in one dayr
 How do I know that Jonah was swallowed by the whaleT' he hotly ex- claimed. "Of course 1t will. It's war ranted to-. The druggist who put 1t up said I'd struck a gold mine. Please understand that this Is no squllls and honey affair that you've got to drink 8 quart of to have any effect. It's what x,;-; Ir1ipht cpll four plv and ono dose