"Quad's odds"; . THE AWFUL FATE OF THE MAN WHOADVERTISED. fil :Vpf IS name was Ilippoflam. His uncle left rt: #1\ \_r liim some money, and lie started in the X^!^S^^;)S-) grocery and provision business. The |;B canvassers came around there from the ?^M^y^ daily papers and said he had the best ssp/^location in town, the nicest stock, and all that, and then went bang at him for an advertisement. He had read in the papers that John Jacob Astor, A. T. Stewart, John Smith, Daniel Pratt, and hosts of others, had once been poor, and had made their start by advertising. He believed. It Never Did Pay.
"Quad's odds"; . THE AWFUL FATE OF THE MAN WHOADVERTISED. fil :Vpf IS name was Ilippoflam. His uncle left rt: #1\ \_r liim some money, and lie started in the X^!^S^^;)S-) grocery and provision business. The |;B canvassers came around there from the ?^M^y^ daily papers and said he had the best ssp/^location in town, the nicest stock, and all that, and then went bang at him for an advertisement. He had read in the papers that John Jacob Astor, A. T. Stewart, John Smith, Daniel Pratt, and hosts of others, had once been poor, and had made their start by advertising. He believed. It Never Did Pay. it all, dough-bead that he was, and he advertised foursquares in the Torchlight, six squares in the Badger, half a 77 78 WAS ELECTED MAYOR. column in the Moonshine, and slipped a five-dollar bill tothe reporters and told em to say a good word for him. The reporters did, and when people saw from the adver-tisements that Hippoflam had started in business with afresh, large stock, they rushed for his store. Then histroubles commenced. He had to hire an extra clerk and acash-boy. He couldnt find time to sit down on a candle-box, thrust his feet upon the stove, and gossip about poli-tics and the Louisiana question. Every day or two he hadto write or telegraph for new goods, ordering more coffee,tea, sugar or spices, and when the goods came he had toopen them and retail them out. As day after day went by people began to notice thatHippoflam was growing thin and pale. He looked care-worn and harassed, as if driven. He kept advertising,and people kept patronizing him. Other
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