Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1910-05-27
THE ACME
ERADICATOR
By CORNELIUS BARRY
Copyright. 1910. by American Press
Association.

George" said Mr. Skinner. you're
an excellent young man. but you have
no business shrewdness about you.
When my girl marries don't wish
her to marry a man who is liable to |
slip up on providing. wish her to
have husband who can make mon
ey. When was your age my father
gave me a thousand and told the to
use 1t aud my wits together. Out of
that thousand I've made $4,000. No;
l can't give you Grace. You're not
sharp enough"
but I haven't father to give me
$1,000" said George. Il haven't ia
Their at all"
"Well, George" said the other. I'LL
tell sou what I'll do. Ill lend you n
dollar. Come and see me at the end
Of q year, and If l find you've done
we'll With it Ill lend you thousand.
The dollar is only to try you without
making any serious loss. The thou
| sand will be to set you up. Then If
after another year you have made
your thousand grow Ill throw in
Grace don't mean that you must
make something out of nothing. but
you must come pretty near it,
George took the dollar and his de-
parture without making any further
remark.
Grace" said MIR. Skinner one day
some months after this. "a man came
into the office the other day and sold
me a bottle of some stuff for getting
grease out of clothes. I've spilled
some gravy OH my coat. You'll find
the extractor in my bedroom closet. !
wish you'd bring it and take out the
gravy"
Grace brought box containing a
white paste and Il small bottle. After
reading the directions for application
on the label she scrapcd some of the
paste OH to the grease spot OH her
fathers coat, poured some of the
liquid from the bottle on to the paste
and rubbed it With cloth. The mix
ture formed a frothy substance. which.
on further application of the liquid.
was easily rubbed away. But the
grease spot remained.
1t occurred to Mr.. Skinner that he
had been done by the man who had
sold him the grease eradicator. Moth
ing in the world irritated the old
gentleman so much as to find a man
sharper than himself. "Acme Grease
Eradicator!" he exclaimed contemptu-
ously, reading from the label. I'LL bet
it is a swindle, and if it is I'll go
for the company that sells it. Ill have
Ben Humiston analyze it," Humiston
was a young chemist and Mr.. Skin
ner's nephew.
a few days later the analysis came
in. 1t was this: Soap and water"
j Soap and water. eh. | reckon
can get Il few thousand for Keeping
still anyway" remarked the old gentle
man. and. sending for his lawyer. he
Grease Eradicator people and find out
! what they We're willing to give for
keeping their secret The attorney
did so and reported that the company
were now using a different eradicator
that they would pay nothing for Sc
crecy and were too rich for Mr.. Skin.
ner to punish. They were turning out
tons of their eradicators daily, and il
was sold in every city. town and ham
let in the country.
A few weeks after this his daughter
reminded him that the year he had
accorded her lover to make the dollar
he had given him sprout was about tc
expire. Mr. Skinner remarked con
temptuously that the dollar had doubt
less long ago gone for cigarettes
That evening George called and ten
dered the loaned dollar.
well. George" remarked the lender
II confess never expected to see i
d again"
. You said. Mr. Skinner that if
4 made 1t grow you'd lend me a thou
sand and if made that grow yo,'t
. give me Grace"
z $50 did. boy. Well. what have 20,
. done with it,"
"Made million"
j "a million grains Of SANDY
"a million dollars
Without regarding Mr.. SINNERS puz
n zled look George told his story. Wit!
the dollar lie had received he bOuyll
two cakes Of white soap fer ) cent
each. The soap he cut into candle
and ran Il wick through each candle
Five cents more he invested in 4 bot
tie and filled it With pure wafer. Fiit.
cents more went for 81 table. Then h
went to Il circus and began to tax
grease spots Off the clothes Of the pee
pie outside he show The spots b.
made himself by spii!ing his "candi
grease" on the clothes. and on the AZ
plication of water resulting soapSud
washed it out. Such q demand wa
made for the grease eradicator tina
dozens Ct boxes could have been sol
If they had been on hand to sell. Bu
George took a partner and the mex