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Toundings when they so thoroughly accord with the 

 tastes and sympathies. 



I at that time suppHed the Austin people with my 

 medicine free of charge, first for fun, perhaps not realiz- 

 ing the value of my discovery. But the news leaked 

 out. People began to talk about my medicine, and some 

 of them came to my garden and begged with tears in 

 their eyes to have some of the water. The wonders it 

 had done were common gossip, and people were telling 

 each other how this or that lady had been cured. I felt 

 for these people, for my heart beats for my neighbors as 

 brothers, and I had to neglect my garden and my flowers 

 to manufacture the medicine for those around me. Thus 

 the work of eighteen years was thrown away, for I am 

 sorry to say that my garden is gone. I turned over my 

 treasures to people who knew the value of money, and 

 by whom the higher merit of such things is not under- 

 stood. It was, however, a painful necessity. The con- 

 tinuous demand for ray preparation forced me to leave 

 the business that I had learned from my father, and it 

 has led me into so much worry and excitement that I 

 have many times regretted ever having made a business 

 of it. Under my groves of vines and fruit trees, in the 

 companionship of my flowers, and amid the delightfully 

 congenial surroundings of my Texan home I had enjoy- 

 ments which nothing since has compensated me for. 



My success with the medicine of course satisfies me 

 that I must inflict a lasting injury upon medical science 

 as it now is, and as a consequence thousands of physi- 

 cians and others will become my enemies. Possibly I 

 may be regarded as a very bad man, not because I have 

 done any evil, but rather, I think, the reverse, but be- 

 cause I have done something different from others, 

 something that must interfere with their pursuits and 

 prejudices, and with their present means of livelihood. 

 That is the way of the world, and I will yet show the 

 reader something of the kind of people there are about, 

 s,nd of the meannesses of which they will be guilty to put, 

 by the devil's help, a few dollars into their own pockets. 



