Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-21
CHAPTER VIII.

IT getting pretty we'll into the
I fall season when we arrived one day
in the town of Springvae. They
had named it Springvale because there
was Springfield in the same county, :,
and in some places people seem to be Lk(
more less particular about such Al) A
things. They don't, Quintius Cog Nx ,
liostro put it, like to have their Spring ~
fields lop over on one another. N
We had started for Springvale rather r.
hurriedly and without letting it be :
known that intended to stop there
the Doc being in favor of secrecy con-
corning movements, because dis
agreeable person living IN town about III
ten miles back had warrant out charg- &
ing the head of our combination with
having obtained money under false pre-
lenses The Doc had done thriving wv
business with the harmless little pow TT
ders that he had made up of flour, y N
soda, and boraX, and druggist who
had a large supply of stuff that was ~
warranted to cure everything under the "
sun didn't like it. rs
INV friends" the Doc would say as
he stood on drygoods box and handed
out the packages, 1.-THE virtues of these
powders are varied as the phases of
human nature itself. If your shoes
pinch, sprinkle of the powders
lightly over your toes, and relief will be Henri
almost instantaneous They cure Ian
guidneSS, add to the excellence of piecrust, pre-
Vent seasickness 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 g ven
to child without serious results. If the girl you
love cold toward you get her to take of these
powders, and you will be surprised at the result.
Remember that offer them for the small sum of fifty
cents package no more no less each package being
warranted to contain 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 despised
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
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 we got out
before the warrant served
TEN minutes after Clytie and the Doc and had
stepped from the train at Springvale, nearly
everybody in the town knew that something out of
the ordinary had happened. 1t must have been the
wizards overcoat He'd seen chance to get one
with fur collar at big bargain, and, although the
weather still pretty warm, he insisted
ing it right along. The fur collar and his plug hat
where AS we walking up from the station to
the main part of town, we passed the fair ground
and that number of people inside were get
ting ready for business man with whiskers that
streamed back in two long swirls from each
side of his face, was bumped up a suky. driving
a bony looking horse around the track and several
farmers unloading livestock.
This looks promising" said the Doc g Let us
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 it.
We found what there was of the town not far
away and got accommodations at a hotel that
looked as if the landlord must have inherited it
from his great grandfather The building had been
three stories high once; but it had sagged down to
about two and quarter, and looked as if it might
go farther at almost any time Along toward the
middle of the afternoon things began to Hven up
People came in from all directions, bringing prize
fruit fancy pigs crates of chickens, and sheep that
looked out the sides of wagons. and every
little while somebody would 90 past leading fat
steer or coaxing calf Still we got good deal more