New-York tribune., 1909-02-21
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CHAPTER VIII.

had named it Springvale because there
was a Springfield IN the same county. f.
and in some places people seem to be IA
more or less particular about such NM 4
things They don't. QuIntIus Cog III Z
liostro put it. like to have their Spring w. "a
fields lOp on one another. " -
We had started for Springvale rather kT
hurriedly and without letting 1t be ~
known that intended to stop there,
the Doc being n favor of secrecy con
cerning our move ementS. because a dis IN
agreeable person living IN a town about k
ten miles back had a warrant out charg- M
ing the head OF combination with ha
having obtained money under false pre- M4
lenses The Doc had done thriving ~
business with the harmless little pow IT
ders that he had made up of flour, y
soda, and boraN and druggist who
had a large supply of stuff that was ..
warranted to cure everything under the \
sun didn't like II. rs
NV friends" the Doc would say as
he stood on a drygoods box and handed
out the packages, ' the virtues of these
powders are as varied the phases of
human nature itself. If Your shoes
pinch. sprinkle of the powders
lightly over your toes, and relief Will be Henr
almost instantaneous. They cure Ian
guidness add - the excellence of piecrust, pre-
vent seascknes-, and are highly beneficial when
used to offset the effects of unrequited love One
of these powders, if taken at bed time. Will cause
YOU to get up in a cheerful mood the next morning.
They are good for COCkroacheS. and can be safely
recommended for mice Yet they may be given
to a child without serious results. If the girl you
love cold toward YOU get her to take of these
Remember that offer them for the small sum of fifty
cents package more. less. each package being
warranted to contain one dozen powders. They are
small, my friends. they small but remember the
words of the poet who says.
In mems affairs the little things be despsed:
Napoleon who toyed with Kings, rather under sized
The druggist didn't like the way the people stocked
up with powders and as he had brother who was
a deputy sheriff the two OF them started to put the
Doc out of business. We didn't have any time to
hang around taking part in lawsuits so we got out
before the warrant served.
TEN minutes after Clytie and the Doc and I had
stepped from the train at Sprlngvale nearly
everybody in the town knew that something out OF
the ordinary had happened. 1t must have been the
wizards OVercOat. He'd seen d chance to get
weather still pretty warm he insisted on wear
ing it right along The fur collar and his plug hat
left no reason for us to explain our business any
where As walking up from the station to
the main part OF town, we passed the far ground
and saw that a number of people inside get
ting ready for business. man with whiskers that
streamed back in two long swirls, from each
side of his face, was bumped up on a sulky driving
a bOny looking horse around the track, and several
farmers were unloading livestock
This looks promising, said the Doc. Let
step inside and find out about it
The fair to begin the next day, and the wiz
ard immediately decided that would have a
hand in 1t.
We found what there was of the town not far
away, and got accommodations at a hotel that
looked If the landlord must have inherited 1t
from his great grandfather The building had been
three stories high once; but it had sagged down to
about two and quarter, and looked If 1t might
90 farther at almost any time. Along toward the
middle of the afternoon things began to hven up.
People IN from all directions bringing prize
fruit, fancy pigs crates of chickens and sheep that
looked out over the sides of wagons and every
little while somebody would 90 past leading a fat
steer or coaXing calf Still we got good deal more