The San Francisco call., 1907-06-09


~ money as there are recipes for
cooking rice In Charleston, S. C.
Best OF all like to hear him tell
OF his earlier days when he sold Iini-
rneats and cough cures on street cor
ners. living hand to mouth. heart TO
heart with the people. throwing heads
or tails with fortune for his last coin.
Il struck Fisher Hill, Ark" said he,
'in buckslin suit. moccasins. long
hair and 80 carat diamond ring that
] traded an actor out Of in Texarkana.
don't know what he ever did with the
pocket knife.
4 was Dr. waugh-hoo. the cele-
brated Indian medicine man. 1 carried
only enc best bet just then. and that
was Resurrection bitters. 1t was made
OF life giving plants and herbs acci-
dentaIIy discovered by Ta-qua-Ia, the
beautiful wife Of the chief OF the Choc-
taw nation. while gathering truck to
gsrnish platter Of boiled dog for the
annual corn dance
Business hadn't been good at the
last town, so only had s5. I went 10
the Fisher Hill druggist and he credited
ne for half a gross OF eight ounce bot
ties and corks. I had the labels and
ingredients in my valise. left over from
the last town. Life began to look rosy
again after got in my hotel room with
the water running from the tap, and
the Resurrection bitters lining up or
the table by the dozen.
Fake? No. sir. There was so cents
worth OF fluid extract OF cinchona ard
a dimes worth OF aniline in that half
gross Of bitters. I've gone through
towns years afterward and had folks
ask for EN- again.
7 hired a wagon that night and
commenced selling the bitters on Main
street. Fisher Hill was a low, ma
lariai town; and a compound hypo-
thetical pneumocardiac antiscorbutic
tonic was Just what I diagnosed the
crowd as needing. The bitters started
Of like sweetbreads on toast at vege-
tartan dinner. I had sold two dozen
at so cents apiece when felt some
body pull my coattaiI I knew what
that meant: so I climbed down and
snesked a s5 bin into the hand OF a
man with German silver star on his
lapel
Constable says l. It's fine night
Have you got a city license he
asks. TO sell this iIlegitimate essence OF
spoo5u that you hatter by the name OF
medicineg
az have not says !. Z didn't know
you had city. II can find It tomor-
row I'll take one out Il it's necessary
"Fn have to close you UP till you
do says the constable
Il quit selling and went back to the
hotel. was talking to the landlord
about st.
"'oh. you won't stand no show in
Fisher HiT.' says he. DR.. Hoskins, the
only doctor there. is a brother in law OF
the mayor and they won't allow no
fake doctor to practice in town
II don't practice medicine says I.
I've got state peddier's license. and I
take out q city one whenever they de-
,nand -
Il went TO the mayors Office the next
morning and they told me he hadn't
showed up yet They didn't know when
he'd be Down. So Doc Waugh-hoo
lunches down again IN a hotel chair
and lights g. jimpson weed regalia and
waits.
by and by young man in a blue
necktie slips into the chair next to me
aud asks the time.
"HaIf-past TO- says and you are
Andy Tucker. I've seen you work.
Wasn't il you that put UP the Great
Cupid Combination package on the
southern states? Let's see, it was a
Chilean diamond engagement ring. =
wedding ring, q potato naasher, bottle