The Topeka state journal., 1913-05-29

Other counties woke up. A full page ad
In the local papers woke the editors up
cent in real estatei Why, here was a gold
mine, and everybody owning an acre of
Sround was going to become a millionaire
inside OF two years.
In the case of pumpkins vo, n1ap+ +ba
SEEDS and nature does the rest Except
IN n case of long-continued drought YOU
uoh nave to even water them Just sif
on the veranda with pipe in mouth and
the the pumpkins will carry the job through
hoifad eHiIl5isSives- si- 1t was as easy as eating
ciIin Ia the conf1d1nS public send away to
ttln' nlcdSo so, 1or the Lybian seeds? You bet
he tbey ola! They got 'em by the hundred,
@ tle pint the quart. and the peck some
men men made the trip there and back. Thai
en'ay omey Hllght plead in person for a larger
ie4ad iHCdnIlty than the circular allotted The
frelters gong west aVera ged go Der dav
Ior months. Business was so good tbat
Ine salary of the. postmaster was in
s'd NTr F1Eery order was promptly filled,
ana Mr white pointed to the fact to show
that there was nothing snide about tbe
enterprise. the
The. The editor said that Mr.. White was an
honest man, and the crying need of the
country was more like him
Mr. White himself didn't say much. He
was TOO busy signing contracts to do much
gabbfng- What he did say, and with
much feeling was that he hoped the peo-
parted. o ii1u ue-
They haven't yet. and probably never
The village of Grafton had four pretty
Ialr doctors At the beginning of things
they called Mr.. White a liar. a fakir and
fraud His reply was that when Harvey
discovered the circulation of the blood
men wanted to mob him for a charlatan
The doctors denied the curative proper
tles OF his Lybian pumpkin seeds. He re-
Plleo P.nel mat Tor years and years the medical
fraternity had fought shy of quinine
NO, they didn't get anything on Mr..
Whlte to scare him out of town between
Two Two days He was right on the job all
tne time, and the doctors suffered in
prestige instead of gaining. 1t was prob
ably one of the four that wrote a letter to
w ash1ngton that brought an inspector to
GRAFTON to see if the postal laws were
being broken. He came and saw and went
away He said that somebody had to get
the money of the Uncle Rubes of the
country. and he could see no difference
between Mr.. White and the brokers of
Wall street.
As spring approached and the snow be-
gan to go and the people to get ready for
pumpkin seed planting, there came to
Grafton one day professor from the
State Agricultural college. He had heard
of the seeds and wanted to see them
They We're shown him, and he promptly
identified them as the seeds of American
But they are not a yellow-white" was
protested.
That's because they have not heen
dyed"
But these surely came from a desert"
How do you make that out?''
'"fhey feel sandy"
COuIuI SdId De SlIteO over then
''Sir!" said Mr. White to the professor
in quiet and even voice, "are you pre-
pared to subStantiate your allegations in
a court of 1aw?''
But 1 say they are American pumpkin
Seeds
You must prove them to be such or
pay me heavy damages,''
The professor wiIted and when he had
been notified by several parties that he
would better move on, he moved.
On the day that the first seeds went
| into the ground Mr.. White took a trip.
He hasn't returned yet
More than 800 acres of land were pre-
pared and planted, and the yield was
! tens of thousands of American pumpkins
Hundreds of people chewed up the Lybian
seeds, but no one was bettered Straight
! fake and pure fraud from beginning 10
j end, and yet there were many who felt
! about it as Deacon johnson did when he
/ said:
| Wv ell, that saves us the trouble of in
vesting our money in mOrtga ges r''-(Copy-
4 right 1872 by Associated Literary Press }