The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-10-20
an produce a bushel of certificates, yet


 will not introduce them as evidence, for, my friends, seeing, and seeing alone, enforces conviction. Now propose to take the baldest man in the crowd and apply my medicine on his head. will remain here for two weeks, compelling him to wear his hat during the entire time, and when publicly remove the hat at the end of the time, why, then, if thick growth of healthful hair is not visi- ble, then will leave your town disap- pointed and heartbroken man. Tut on the other hand, if the hair is there, shall remain with you and sell my medicine until every man in this town shall find hair so thick on the summit of his cra- nium tha, he will look back with pleasant recollections to the days of his badness. Come up here, you gentleman. Take of your hat
 The man addressed advanced reluct- an,ly and removed his hat. The crowd shouted. There was not sign, not even a suggestion, of hair on his head.
 Where do you live" asked the pro fcssor.'
 About two miles from town on the Mt. Ida road"
 " How long have you been bald v
 'Eish, years. had spell of fever and my hair came out. 1 have tried ev- erythIng and nothing has yet done any good. Physicians tell me that will al ways be bald
 '' Let me try my remedy"
 |" I don't think |, will do any good, and besides haven't time to wait here to test the experiment.
 ." will pay you for the time. want you for you are the blldest man l esey saw"
 The man finally agreed, and the pro- lessor rubbed his head with the remedy The man put on his hat and walked around, ridicuhng the professor, and at last became so personal that policeman came forward and told him that if he did not create less merriment at the expense of man who had paid for the right to sell his wares on the street, that he would be arrested. The man apologized to the professor. and the lecture proceeded with out interruption. The professor was so confident that his experiment. would be successful, that the bald-headed men be- gan to have faith in him, yet no one was willing to pay forty dollars for the remedy until d tangible result was produced. Every day during the two weeks the pro- lessor took his place on the box and amused the crowd, and a, last when he announced that at an early hour <on the morrow the ha: would be removed and the result announced, the excitement, vas great. The next day when the professor arrived on the grounds, an immense crowd had assembled. The man on whose head the medicine had been applied, and who had been walking around from day to day, carrying out his par, of the contract, arrived and was greeted with loud cheers.
 Now. gentlemen" said the professor, "l will remove the hat. This remedy never fails, therefore l have all along been confident. An, what have we here As fine a growth of hair as ever saw"
 There it was, sure enough. Every one 1 looked on Tn astonishment, and the bald headed men rushed forward and pur- chased the remedy. Little Rock has more bald-headcd men than any city of its size in the United States, which is thought to be an outgrowth-if lack of hair can be an outgrowth-of reconstruc- ton days. Well, in two days time the professor had sold nine hundred and seventy-three bottles to private individ- uals, and had sold about twice as many to the druggists. Nothing was talked of but the wonderful hair restorer and the professor was declared to be the most wonderful man in the world. The professor did not remain very long after the favorable result" bu, left, no one knew when. After a while the bald-headed men began to feel uneasy, and when after a week not sprig of new hair could be discovered, some pretty elaborate swearing was done A committee of bald heads was appointed  by kind of hairless mass meeting to call on Major Harks, the man who lived on the Mt. Ida road, and see if his hair was sull growing. No one on the Mt. Ida road knew of such a man. and ,hickly coated with disgust the bold committee came back to the city. Shortly after wards il was discovered that the Mt. Ida man travelled with the professor, tha, he was always shaved closely jus, before en-