The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-17
CLOSE CALL OF A BALD MAN.
TIRE RATHER DIDN'T LIKE HIS
SURE-CURE HAIR REsTORER.

Proving Panther-HOyv a Bear
and "A Greek Came to he Set on
Fire by Fisherman.
From the New York Sun.
I'm trying to make hair grow on his
bald head" said Asa Bushnell. an early
operator in the Venango county oil fields
of Pennsylvania, Dan Mitchell was saw
ed from the most horrible death that a
man can die. I suppose. He was prospect
ing for oil. He had a bald spot on ton
of his head and 1t worried him good
deal. A native told him that if he would
keep the spot well anointed with crude
petroleum 1t would restore the lost hair
to the spot, and cited many cases to prove
it, The native didn't lie to Dan, either,
about those cases. I knew of many bald
heads myself to which the hair had been
brought back by persistent use of crude
OIL. The treatment was by no means
pleasant, and I don't suppose It could
well be used anywhere outside of the oil
camps and towns of that day, where ev-
erything was saturated with crude oil;
but 1t will knock badness just the same.
Dan began the treatment and used the
odoriferous ointment literally. One day
he had to make trip over the mountains.
The journey was through the woods and
a rough one. When Dan got ready 10
start he found that some one had stolen
his horse, so he went on foot The wealth
er was warm, and long before he got
10 the place he was headed for he was
pretty we'll tuckered out. He had smear
ed his bald spot generously with crude
OIL before leaving, and the heat of the
nara journey had caused II to take on a
more penetrating and far-reaching odor
than common and had distributed the
grease pretty generally over his head. and
face.
Dan hadn't gone far when he overlook
pack peddler trudging along. He walk
ed along with the peddler short distance.
but the peddler's pace was too slow. and
ne pulled on ahead. He had gone per
haps, a hundred yards when he came
TO a little rivulet that ran across the
road, and he saw that 1t came from a
spring at the roadside the spring being
almost hidden by overhanging bushes. He
was parched with thirst, and he got down
on ms knees. took off his hat, and SHOW
ed MS head through a small opening in
the bushes to get a drink The sprina
was deep and about two feet In diameter.
He quenched his thirst, cooled his face
~ tAN NdAEAs anu proceeded on his Jour-
ney. lie had gone only few paces
though, when he heard a yell behind him.
lie turned quickly and saw the peddler
lying in the road In front of the spring
writing in agony. Dan hurried back
The writing pedder was livid and with
one hand was clutching his neck His
eyes We're staring and bloodshot, and with
look of horror in them. He pointed to-
ward the spring and cried:
There he isl Keen hac-r for Coa,.
sake! He struck me in the neckp
Dan looked where the peddler was
pointing and saw an enormous rattlesnalxe
coiled at the edge of the bushes. It's bic
head raised above the coil, its eyes blaz-
ing with fury, and its rattles sounding
Before Dan could make any move to-
ward killing the snake the peddler threw
himself forward, and with an oath seized
the snake. AS he did so the RATHER
struck him again, sinking its fangs into
his wrist. The peddler tore the reptile
In two, threw the parts on the ground
and rising to his feet stamped the ugly
and still defiant head of the snake deem
into the ground. This was all done so
quickly that Dan had no time to interfere.
uhe peddler's neck and face and arm had
swollen frightfully. Stil stamping the
snake, he fell to the ground in paroxysms.
Dan forced the contents of the whisky
flask down the unfortunate mans throat
The peddler was able to say that he had
stopped TO drink al the spring, but had
no sooner put his head through the OMEN
ing in the bushes than the rattlesnake.
which lay coied in the ferns on the OPP
posIte side of the spring, struck him. The
fangs had sunk so deep in his neck that
when he threw himself back into the road
he drew the snake out of it's ambush with
him. 1t had instantly coled, ready for
another attack. The man died IN a short
time suffering farriblv 10 ba iao
placed the body in the bushes and hurried
on to get help to bury 1t. He found an
oil shanty two miles frutheF along, where
some drillers were putting down a we'll
He told the story of the peddler's fate.
Mighty lucky for me that the RATHER
wasn't there when l stuck my head in the
spring, wasn't it?' said Dan, shuddering to
think of it.
That snake was there, all right" said
one Of the drillers. see you're doctoring
for bald head. There's where your luck
comes in, young mani If it hadn't been
for the smell Of that bald head cure the
peddler would have been here now asking
US to go back and help plant you instead
of you doing that favor for him. Rattle
snakes just squat and lay low when they
get a Whit of crude grease
They are gentle, timid creatures, the
Indian women of Yucatan, and very good
and modest. The men hold women in the
highest esteem. 1t Is really beautiful 70
see such a spirit It seems that, years
ago before the white people invaded Yu-
catan, the native Indians had stern laws
IN regard to the treatment of women. The
slightest disrespect was heavily punished
and the man who insulted a woman suf-
fered death by hanging or disemboweling
The traditions have been handed down
and are in the blood Of the Maya Indians
to this day, although the laws no longer
exist was not afraid to say to an In
dian Take your rifle and come with me-
and TO go anywhere in the forest with
him; but / would not have dared to do that
with one of the whites or half-breeds. The
latter are particularly untrustworthy, as
I discovered one evening in a little In
land town, when Sonora L.. a Spanish
lady, and / went for a drive. Our cochero
drove out OF the village, and when we
suggested turning back paid no attention
to us. We stormed and threatened, but he
only whipped his horse and plunged fur
Their into the country. 1t was an unpleas-
ant situation; but suddenly I remembered
that I had tucked my door key under the
seat. Those keys are about a foot long.
ord ueuaIlv "a greut Nuisance. huf I r,uI1ed