Arizona Republican

They Revived an Old Game and Made It Work.

The Quaker doctors have been working this town systematically for several weeks. The word working is used advisedly, for they have been working, working hard and to successful ends.

But until yesterday their methods were confined to the good, old American idea of bargain and sale. If a sucker chose to take their bait there was no one to say him nay, for this is a free country. and a man may spend his money as he likes.

If he would rather put his money into Brother Paul's pocket than to buy whiskey, poker chips or shoes for the baby. that was his business. But there is a sort of unwritten law that a man should get what he pays for, whether it be poker chips. whiskey or Quaker medicine.

The Quakers have done a thriving business and now that the carnival is well spent they seem to have chosen a still shorter cut to wealth.

Yesterday afternoon they sold medicine for a time as usual, then sprung the old game of giving the money back with the purchase. This was a good bait, though it has been well chewed, and a big crowd took the hook.

Those getting their money back became circulating advertisers.

Then the Quakers went them one better

They said. "Friends, everyone of you that buys a package of medicine now we will lay it here to one side with the money and when the sale is over we will return it with a like amount of cash."

They said they had all the money they wanted, more in fact, and proposed to give it back to advertise the wonderful remedies of the brethren.

It was an old scheme. but it worked, and after a liberal patronage the aggregation drove away.

They got all they could and kept all they got

Constable McClintock had been watching the proceedings and promptly put the doctors under arrest.

He went to Justice Gray's office to swear out a warrant. but that official was out. The doctors then made a big talk for themselves. They said the law could not touch them. as it had been tested time and again. They offered to go before the district attorney with the officer. as they said they knew he would turn them loose. The constable thought he had a good case and met them half way. The district attorney listened patiently and then told the officer that he had no case and they were therefore released. The district attorney told them, however, that they hadn't better do it again.

The suckers are entitled to no sympathy.

They went open-eyed into a venerable and whiskered game and got skinned.