Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1885-10-27
A WOMAN'S HAIR.
A REPORTER FINDS A R0AAgcz ~
REAL LIFE.
A SthTying Woman Sells Her Tres.es aul
~ Regains Her Husband
LucS MAY Lie In "A Lac, ~
Hair.
IPhnalalnhil TIm,..l


81 had "A strange experience pnc5 In human
hair, sail member of a well'known firm
OF human hair importers the other day. "A
French lady Of nobl. blool, who has been
my friend Tor year., wrote ms few months
ago, enclo,ing iock Ut har which was
peculiar shade OF drab ami OF silky iinene's
Sue wantst me to match it and / set about
doing 80. ldispatchsl my agents all over
Europe, but nowhere could they find a
thread Of hair that " ,uld match the sample.
81 then IA ertel an ulvertisem' nt in the
principal Phila lclrha, New York AMI
Boston paIers y.fsrus a liberal reward for
n sw.trn OF the 4e,.ral quality and color.
One day a wvru1u ui nDolt 20 years Of ago,
shabby dressed. buI vita n form and tacs
that Venus night Iaye envied, entered my
Cflirs
Il came IN an Esr t. your advertise
mant,' sue sal lml rtmDvlug her hat un.
bound n lENurmui col OF hair, Tat callel
from NE au 90, mntary cry ys admiration
'WIll tn, j. q ,as ksi.
al extu,mrI r hair anI compared it
with the 7nIie sent me 10y the countess.
Tue tWr.w.r, go similar that wlsu lmixsd
tusIu * .usr could not 1ittusut,u Ole
from tUt nther
Twr ll,%UE - DOLLARS AN OCNrE.
atm iutr is rNIvtiy what want, sal |,
'ani 0all .ly' you $40 AN ounce Tor it.
"'Take II ,,r she said, with ntrvOu,
tremLlS y, her vvics that at once at
tract.l any aiteItion 4 am ,iarvllg. All
my BABY. lui what yyu are Wiling = pay
Is a fortune To US
81 Drcam, interested an quas iuusl her.
After l..ts hesitation she toll nus h,r
story Hrr hu banl had bssn sea cap
tam ami shortly after they w,re married
Lnl sailed Tor the west coast OF africa. His
wee was never heard of after leaving
port AMI i was Presumed that she hal
fuuulrrsi at sea and all had been lost Inc
rsum.l widow had struggled to maintain
herself m infant enid, but with indilfsr-
ent success Finally, when suffering from
the plngs Uf hunger, she had read my adj
vertIsement an hastenel to my place Of
business. praying inwardly that her hair,
waici had been her hu ,6auIs prl 10, night
be Of tie required shade.
swell, TO make a long story short,
bou ght her hair, which weighed four
ounces AMI paid her $50 for IT, | sent the
switch to my customer the cJunte', and
wrote her tue hI,tIry OF tine hair. She is u
woman of great wealth and goodness OF
heart The Toturn mad brought me a let.
ter authorizing me to pay the poor little
sailors willow a. 900 extra. ] did 20 and
wrote an account OF the affair to our official
journal, which is published in New York.
The story was 50 romantic that the dali y
papers copied it and received several let.
tiers from charitable people offering pecuu-
larry assistance to the sailors willow Sac
VA, rrlu AMI refused 10 receive any help
THE HUSBANDS RETURN.
One day, about three week after the pub
lica ion If the story. man, wn0 was
Lronzsd AMI bearded, cana into my Office
very much ex rited. He hell in his hand a
copy Of New York paper ami unfolding it
pointed to my story.
"Cau you give Inc the address IL thit
woman Ia asksl eagerly. she i, my WIFI.
/ thought her i@al'"
"Whie | ~rp'e down the liresS he toll
me his story His vessel had been ship.
wrecked on the African coast AMI he aud
two other, Of tue crew alone manage
TO reach the shore 1t was several months
befor, they managed To reach a
CIVILIZED port H. Immediately sent word
u the disaster TO the owners OF the foun l.
cred vessel anl wrote 10 his young wife.
From tue formsr be received reply, but
lie hearl no w,ri from his wife, aud when
he reached Philadelphia he discovered that
sine hal mystsriously disappeared.
"One day in looking over a paper he came
across my story and had hurried b my
Office ~ learn fuller particulars | sent him
10 bis wife IN my carriage, AMI you can
imagine what occurred at the meeting, for
each believed the other dad | wrote to
tue countess, giving the sequel to tie story,
and the re.ult WAS that the shIpwreck FL
captain now cammad' her yacht, aud the
wife who sacrificed her hair to buy bread