Show A RICH purr A manufacturer and vender of patent medicines recently wrote to a fr friend 1 bend out west for a good recommendation of his the manufacturers g rs balsam balm in a few days das he received the following Z which we call pretty strong I IDEAR DEAR SIR rhe fhe land composing my farm had hitherto been so poor that a scotchman could not get a living hung off it and so stony that we w e had to slice our potatoes and plant them edgewise but hearing rearing of your I 1 balsam I 1 put some on a ten ten acre lot surrounded by a rail fence ence and in in the morning I 1 found that the rocks had entirely disappeared a neat stone wall nall encircled the held field and the rails were split into oven wood and piled ailed up systematically in in my back yard ard I 1 put half on ounce in m the middle of a blackberry hackberry lack berry swamp in in two days das it was cleared planted with corn and pump kins ans and a row of peach trees in in full blossom through the middle As an evidence of its tremendous strength 11 I 1 would sa ay y that it drew drei a striking likeness of my eldest son out of a mill pon poni drew a blister all over oer his stomach drew four miles to market a i load of potatoes ind and eventually drew a prize of ninety seven eien dollars in in a lottery loiter |