The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-11-25
Picked up by aSwindler.

am ss:;sGed that my experience, il
published, will at least serve as kind
Of warning TO some Of che more pru-
dent, am going to tell you the whole
story as to how was done out Of e3
by slick sharper few weeks ago."
The speaker was Mr. j. d. Land, o
well.known citizen OF the Beersheba
neigIborhond. Il was thus That hs bs-
gan an interesting recital to the repor-
ter On Wednesday morning. The
laugh was against him and he knew
it; but in order thst the moral of the
story may net be lost, 1t is proper to
remark, he is not the man to hold hack
important facts on account Of little
ftbing like that. Mr.. Land is one OF
che representative citizens Of his
neighborhood, and in point OF intelli-
gence, or otherwise compares favor
ably with the best citizens of any other
portion of tho county.
eyes," Mr Land continued, 81 was
picked up just as nice as yea please,
and as the saying goes, while I was
looking right at him."
cit was about three weeks ago. He
was nice looking fellow and came
around By my house, representing him
self as the agent of big medicine
house il Galveston, Texas. could
not begin to tell you all he said, for
| there was too much &C It; but boiled
down, his concern had found an abso-
lutte cure for indigestion, and he was
| engaged in spreading the news. The
consulting corps at the home Office in
cluded the finest medical talent il The
| world, and with knowledge Of the pc
culiar condition Of q given patient,
this staff could give advice which,
taken in connection with little pow
der he bad along, would certainly do
che business within short time-six
months at the very longest. The treat
ment had never been known to foil,
! and che agent was safe in not only Of
fering return Of the money, but
binding himself to big forfeiture in
the event an absolute cure wes not ef-
fected.
"The VIC weAderful remedy was too good
o thing TO give out to everybody at o
nominal price; but iu order to intro
duce it, agents had been sent out to
hunt up and cure ten csses in each
county in the United States. He had
already found eight subjects in York
county aud needed only two more. He
showed me the names of several Of my
neighbors, and went on to explain that
in addition to the cure the company
was making present Of dress pat
tern to every female patient and q
maokintosh coat to every male patient.
If Mrs. Land and myself were suffer-
ing from indigestion, and were willing
| 20 submit to cure, all we had TO do
was to take box OF che re==aaeF, Eli out
the snswers on question blank for
tho doctors at the home Office, and pay
three dollars to cover certain expenses
and We would be admitted on the
ground floor.
"Well, it happened that Mrs. Land
had long been q sufferer from indiges-
tion, and I would pay any reasonable
/ amount for relief. Although the fell
low WAS very plausible, woaderffuiiy
slick I would like you to believe that
I was at least little suspicious. but
anyhow I told him he could put Mrs.
Land on his list. I vent OF &c say,
| too, that as Mrs. Land was to get the
benefit Of the medicine, he eonld eend
me the coat. That was all right, he
said, so gave him the three dollars
and my breaot measure, and he turn
ed over q box Of his powder together
with question blank, and o receipt
for my money.
"And that receiptl Why it was
just as good receipt as you ever saw.
He had q whole book OF 'em, printed
with stubs, so there could not be any
mistake as to the amnnnt paid or as
20 who paid. NY receipt shows how
I have paid the far away Galveston
medicine house, three dollars Of good
money, and tho agent has the record
80 be can never forget that am the
very same man who paid him.
The whole transaction was busi-
ness like and deliberate, and il I was
not impressed with the fact thatI had
been the recipient Of an unusual bsne-
factiop. twas certainly not the fault Of
tine fellow who sold me the powder and
things.
But after the man was gone, got