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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

member Of the party struggled in
ASK him. How about that gun, Joe p
| Why" answered Joe promptly, af
ter a casual inspection, 1T shoots {
blue flame"
You fellers can go to bed when yo,
git ready" Zeb said abruptly. I'm go.
in to take a walk"
That night in the middle of sound
slumber all the members of the party
We're awakened by a vigorous shaking
Zeb stood in the middle of the floor.
Gentlemen" he said, I've been sit
tin out in the moonlight on a rock
thinkn' it over ever since l left you.
An thar's one question l want to ask
you all. S'posen this gun do shoot a
blue flame. What the blazes difference
do that make?"
A merchant, finding himself in need
of the services of boy in his estab-
lishment, put up a card in his window
bearing the usual inscription, and
though many had called in responce
to it, none had been chosen up to
o clock in the afternoon. At that hour
a little, wiry chap of II summers. with
sharp eyes, a foxy nose with freckles
on it and a sandy suit of hair. came
in and asked about the sign in the
window. He was shown to the mer-
chant.
We want boy" said the merchant,
licking him over critically.
I'm a boy" the youngster explain
ed briefly.
What can you do?" inquired the
merchant.
Most anything. l guess, that boy
can do around. l have been working
for more than year now"
Where"
In Mr.. Blanks place. You know
he's broke up"
We'll. we want a boy, but so far we
haven't been able to nnd what we are
looking for
What is it you are looking for?"
We want boy that is honest. in
dustrious and diligent. He must always
te on time. and must not run on the
streets. nor play marbles for keeps. nor
tell stories. nor smoke cigarettes. nor
fight other boys, nor play ball on Sun
day. nor use bad language. nor play
tricks on the other boys in the store,
nor get in any kind of mischief dur
ing working hours. He must be neat
In his appearance, his clothes must be
kept tidy at all times. his face and
hands be clean and his shoes be well
hi.4.I III Idu!tion"-
Hold on, mister" interrupted the
youthful applicant; you amt looking
for a boy; you're lookin' for Sunday
School song and / guess l won't suit.
so long" And the boy went out
whistlins Break the News to Mother.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

latter occupation for the former which
Is more profitable and less laborious
me result mas been to curtail greatly
the supply of ipecacuanha: in fact
practically none is gathered. In view
of the great increase in price the
Brazilian gatherers might. for a time
find the gathering of ipecac a more
profitable employment than the collec-
ton of rubber.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05
Free Hair Food To Our Readers

1t has been positively demonstrated
that the disease known as 'scurf' or
''dandruf' is contagious. First by the
experiments of Messrs. Lassar Il Bis
hop, and these confirmed and perfected
by the eminent DR.. Fahrig, of Paris,
who has succeeded in isolating the
microbe, photograph of. which is here
shown - W
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05
FREE HAIR FOOD

All who wish to save their hair and
grow more. can get bottle free, by
mail prepaid, with full directions for
use, and free report on the condition
of their hair, after scientific micro
scopical examination has been made.
by enclosing 10 cents in stamps or sill
yer, sending name, age and address,
with small lock of hair, and full de-
scliption of the present condition OF the
hair and scalp, to the Cranitonic HAIR
Food Co, 377 Temple Court, New York
aug5, eosat,tf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05
PICKED UP.
Some Of the Stories That Augusta
Men Tell.
One Is About an Augusta Girl-The Others
Are Assorted.

out for an afternoon of calls-formal
calls. She is noted for her bright re-
marks and ever ready anecdotes, all OF
which seem ever to be new. But this
look on her countenance. She was
thinking and talking to a friend of the
troubles of the afternoon This friend
was her closest one SO she could con-
fide in her to the utmost. They were
walking down State street and this is
what she said:
Seven visits to make in one after
noon. well, / think l can manage it.
Some of them may not be at home, and
can make an early start. Let me see
There's that anecdote about Ethel's fox
terrier and the cute speech of little
Bob and that awfully clever thing that
Dexter told the other night about the
Goddess of Liberty. Is that all l have
in stock? Oh. dear. no. There's that
quotation from The Pneumatic Wo-
man that struck me so. / haven't got
it off to anyone yet, and l dare say it
will go as original. Not one person in
10 has heard of The Pneumatic Woman.
Is that enough for seven calls? I'm
afraid not. Well, there's always the
weather. Really. if it came to the point
I'd rather talk Interestingly about any
old subject than stupidity about a
brand new one. There's more art in it.
l wonder if l dare risk that joke about
Clara again? I've told it so many times
some of the times We're not at the very
places I'm going. How mean it is that
Maude made me promise not to repeat
| that lovely bit of gossip she gave me
this morning, l haven't heard anything
so delicious for a long time. Well.
with a sigh, Il promised on my word
of honor l wouldn't tell, and" an
other sigh. why, here we are at Mrs.
Somebody's l wonder if l have enough
some of them may be out-and-oh,
dear, if l only hadn't promised Maude."
Henderson is in love. OF course that
is nothing unusual. The object of his
affections is a pretty girl in one of the
stores, She is extremely coquettish.
and, to use Henderson's own express
sion, she could not be sincere even if
she saw him marry another.
He has taken her out as often as his
little salary would permit. and many
larly twice a week he is at the corner.
rugged up with at least IS cents worth
of clean laundry, waiting patiently for
the store to ''let out" For months he
has thus escorted her to her home, and
every time he has asked her to tell him
something encouraging. She always
| evaded his questions. but the other day
she promised to write to him.
The next morning he received the let
ever read. and he was just on the point
| of despair when he saw the following
words in one corner of the last page:
Il wrote something on the back of the
stamp"
| Carefully, and very curious, he labor
ed for almost an hour. before he could
losen the stamp of the envelope.
Finally he succeeded.
| Upon the back of it was written:
Was it hard to remover"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

boiling and put in the berries; boil fast
about three minutes. Do not stir them.
Skim them out into the sterilized Jars;
iii to overlooking with syrup and seal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

The rugged old fellow who always
goes as guide and companion to a par
ty of young men on their hunting ex-
| petitions was very proud of new
gun which he had just purchased.
He had boosted of it many times before
| they got to his home, and lost no time
in bringing it out for inspection.
Thar" he said, as he held it out.
Amt she a beauty"
Why, yes" answered his friend as
he took the weapon; lit looks all right.
Say. you've never fired this. have
you?'
mot yet i were waitin' fur you fell
| lers all to come along SO as to gin it
| its fust trial"
why, it's a handsome piece OF work
and no mistake, but, Zeb, this gun
| shoots a blue flame"
You don't say So"
Yes, sir
| He took the gun back gingerly and
| was about to put it away, when an
other of the party came in.
Now, Zeb" he said, Tets see the
gun you were talking so much about.
| He handed it over and the newcomer
returned it hastily with the exclama-
| ton:
why. Zeb, this gun shoots blue
| hame."
The old fellows simple nature never
permitted a suspicion that so small a
matter as a joke could be made the
subject of an organized conspiracy
He meekly took the gun back and said
nothing
A third hunter came in and said
cheerily. Lets have look at the
gun"
"Oh | guess mebbe faint so much Of
gum" he said glumly.
Nonsense Don't be modest-why
Zeb!"
That's all right. You needn't tel
me. l know it already. That gur
shoots a blue flame"
"As sure as you're born 1t does
Here comes joe he added az anotne
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

Your hair de-
rives nourishment
from various blood
vessels which end
in a long sheath in
which the hair
grows. The real
root of the hair is
at the bottom of
this sheath and
the hair rests on
it. The sheath
surrounding the
hair is the abode
of the microbe.
Nearly all the
different diseases
of the human hair
are caused by the
microhe.
1t gr q duaHy
mines away the vi
tally OF the hair.
When the root
is destroyed the
hair falls ont, ana
when all the roots
of your hair are
dead you become
bald.
1t is just this
microbe that we
are now able to
destroy with the
aid of the formula
originated by DIR.
Fahrig. after all
exhaustive study
of the microbe he
discovered.
Cranitonic Hail
Food will do it.
1t not only de-
stroys the microbt
nut it furnishe::
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

THE DANDRUFF MICROBE
which causes Dandruff, followed by Fall
ing Hair and Finally Badness
From Photo Micrograph by DIR. Fahrig
tCopyrlght 1881
The Importance of this discovery
cannot be over-estimated.
It's results upon modern methods of
hair treatment are little short of revo-
lutionary.
1t is an explanation of why ordinary
tonics, pomades. oils, etc, are Of abso-
lutely no practical use in the cure of
dandruff and prevention of badness.
because nothing but scientific mi
crobicide specific for the hair microbe
will destroy the real cause of this dan
gerous disease.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

The second city of the British Empire
In size is Calcutta
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05
The miCTohiCide and Hair Food

How to Destroy the Microbe Of Dand
run, Stop Falling Hair, Prevent
Badness and Premature Gray
Hair by Scientific Means.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

brittle hair, fallii
gray hair.c can all be
cured with Grant
tonic = Hair Food.
The scalp Is
cleansed from dan
druff and made
etmdHeatiy clean
and well by it.
The itching and
irritation can De
instantly relieved
a n d o sitively
cured.
All by killing
the microbe and
with Cranitonic
Hair Food feeding
the hair back to
health.
Unlike o t h @ I
pre- p a r a t | o n S
Cranitonic Hair
Food contains no
Oil. grease. or
heavy poisonous
mineral inGredi-
entS.
1t is not sticky,
will rot clog the
scalp or stain the
clothing. but is
perfectly free from
dye matter or any
deletefioUs ingre-
dents.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05
Danger Of Race Becoming Bald

One or Two Generations Of Dandruff
Weakened Policies Win Cause
Badness to Become Hereditary
IL the Family
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

nd nourishment to the hair root
ned by the attack of the microbe.
nus feeds the root back to perfect
hair. harsh hair, lustreless hair.
hair. falling hair, premature
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05
Dandruff is Contagious

The Experiments of Dr. Fahrig, of
Paris. Conclusively Prove that
Dandruff is Caused by a Mi
crobe Which Can Be Trans
ferred from One Person
to Another
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

A-The Hair.
B-The Scalp.
C-Microbes.
D-Food Gland.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-14
CHAPTER XXXIV.
The Homeward Voyage.


My heart beat happily; I was no
high road to home and Old England.
We were rescued by ship hailed by
Hislop and the others.
We had several days of the finest
tropical weather, and they passed I'M
marked by a greater incident than
seeing a shoal of dolphins, sparkling
as they surged through the brine; the
silvery flying fish leap from one green
watery slope to another, while the
dark, crooked fin of the stealthy shark
glided as usual in the trough of the
sea between; a piece Of weedy drift
wood with Mother Cary's chickens or
albatrosses, floating near it, or perhaps
at the horizon the topsails of a vessel
midtown, appearing for time like
white or dusky specks.according to the
position of the sun.
The captain of the San Ildefonso per-
ceiving that Marc Hislop and I were
great friends kindly placed us in the
same watch.
AS for Antonio the Cubano, we never
went near him if we could help it.
He was placed in the cable tier. and
for more complete security, in the bill
boes, which are iron shackles that con-
fine the feet. However. we daily
heard from the surgeon and from Fra
Anselmo, who was somewhat skilled in
surgery, and who undertook his cure
bodily and mentally, that the wound
under the right armpit had proved
slight, through the lungs had escaped
narrowly, but that the other in the
breast had Denetrated the f1eshy DOR
ton of the heart, and was a very dan
gerous one. The friar added that 1.-THE
Cubano was not one Of those men who
are easily killed, and thus he won
recover rapidly
We also heard that Antonio was all
cared for, as he had discovered one or
two friends among the crew, such as
the seaman Benito Ojeda, a most vii
famous looking, beetle proved and
squat little Catalonian, who seemed to
be the worst character on board, and
was engaged in perpetual ouarrels.
few days after crossing the tropic
of Cancer, on a lovely afternoon, we
again saw the peak of Teneriffe light
ed up by the western sunshine and
rising like a cone of red flame from the
blue sea.
The clouds seemed to rise with it,
and ere long we saw its base spread
ing out beneath them.
''Tennyreef aga'n!" heard old Tom
Lambourne muttering, as he leaned
over the lee bow, with a short pipe in
his mouth. Dash my wig! l have
had spell enough of Tennyreef before
thjs!''
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-14
CHAPTER XXXVI.
Conclusion

I have but little more to add, for
with this last episode the course OF
| wild adventures upon which I had
been so strangely hurried, nearly
| closes.
A few hours after the death of An
| tonic, when Hislop and I, with Lam
bourne, Carlton and other survivors OF
the Eugene were waiting in the office
of the British consul, to make some ar
| rangements for rewarding Jose Estre-
mera for his great kindness to us all,
we met Captain the Hon. Egerton B.
of her majesty's ship Active. who was
so struck with our story that he offer
ed US all a passage to England. an Of
fer we accepted with gratitude.
His ship was leaving the African
squadron, and returning home to be
repaired.
"Rodney-Rodney," said he, ponder
ingly, when the consul introduced me,
you ought to have been a sailor, for
your name is well known in the ser
vice." and his words brought the mem
DRY of my poor mothers ambition
back to me, and I. thought of the old
picture which hung in the dining room
at home.
After d DT1oI conference Will his
shipmates, Tattooed Tom now came
forward, and twirling his fragment of
a hat, said that eff the noble captain
had no objection, as he, Ned Carlton
Probart and the other poor fellows of
the Eugene were out of a berth, and
at uncommon low water, they would
gladly ship aboard the Active and en-
ter her majestys service.
Capt b, who saw at a glance that
they were all first-class seamen, read
fly accepted the offer and promised
them the usual bounty. for which they
gave three loud cheers for the queen,
and it came from their Threats not the
less heartily that they were far away
from her and in a foreign land, all tat
tered as they were, with scarcely a
shirt to their backs.
Heaven bless you, my lads" said
Hislop; this is the best thing you can
do; and believe me, Capt. b, you
will find my old shipmates neither
waisters nor green hands, but thorough
A. BIS"
AS they all loved him, another cheer
for Hislop followed, and while the
captain went off to the Active in his
gig, we all adjourned to a posado to
have a friendly gla>S together.
Soon after, as the war steamer was
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-14
Or. The Adver
An Elton Boy.
BY JAMES GRANT.

| bound to kill you.
He had the revolver in his hand, and
while he cast a glance at the caps on
| the breach, as If to see that they were
all right, and sheathed his knife,
made a bound aside and placed
banana tree between us. The bastard
fred, and the ball, as it whistled past,
stripped of q piece OF bark.
In the same manner I escaped a Sec
ond shot, so Antonio, finding that his
much-prized ammunition was likely to
be expended fruitlessly, rushed for
ward to use his knife.
The tendril of pumpkin caught his
left foot, he fell heavily and hurt him
self severely. Then, darting past,
secured my Ratchet, and rendered furi-
GUS by all that had occurred, and by
the imminent danger which menaced
me, a light seemed to flash before my
eyes, I trembled with rage, and felt as
If imbued with supernatural strength
I was about to spring upon Antoio
with hands, feet and teeth, to hew him
with the Ratchet as would have hewn
a tree, when a new object suddenly
caught my eye.
It was a ship-but ship ashore.
Gu banO, exclaimed IN husky
voice, look there!"
Antonio looked in the direction in
dicated, and, pausing in his murderous
intention, uttered fierce laugh Of sat
isfaction.
In the rocky channel which opened
between the inaccessible island and
ours there lay the wave-beaten hull of
a dismasted vessel, which might have
drifted in over night, as It was certain
ly not there yesterday, and it was now
tammed hard and fast upon a reef OF
rock that connected them.
This new object changed at once the
terrible current OF the Cuban's ideas.
A grim smile passed over his olive
countenance, he shook back the e1f-like
masses of coal-black hair, which, in
Skye-terrier fashion, overhung his wild
dark eyes, and sheathing his knife,
said:
milo muchacho-come; I was only
Joking. Yonder we will find food, per-
haps, and who knows what more?
Come, it is a bargain, and if you don't
desert me, 1 shall not modest you
again"
He proceeded at once toward the
beach, and I was hungry enough, and
perhaps reckless enough now, to be
glad Of a truce, and to follow him, in
the hope of finding something eatable
on board.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-14
A CHINESE HOSPITAL.
CAN CHOOSE NATIVE OR EURO
PEAN METHODS.
Queer Institution in the British Colony
OF Hong Kong Which Is Considered
Rather 8 Reproach-POisOning with
Criminal Intent q Prevalent Evil.

In the report of the Hongkong Med
1ca1 Department for 1897, which the
London Lancet summarizes, several
pages are devoted to the Tung Wah
hospital. DR.. J. M. Atkinson, the prin-
cipal civilian medical officer of the col
ony, considers that the existence OF
this institut On, in. which more than
four-ffths of the inmates are treated
by so-called Chinese methods, is some
what anomalous in a British colony.
without discussing the expediency OF
humor1ng the prejudices of the Chinese
population, who outnumber the Euro
peans by twenty to one, he is of opin-
lon that from a medical point of view
the hospital ought to be abolished, al
though he admits that it serves a use
1uI purpose as an asylum for desti-
tutes and a resting place for the dying.
The medical staff have no knowledge
OF surgical treatment and no instru-
ments; p1tch-plaster is their panacea
1or all surgical injuries and diseases,
and they never administer ch1oroform.
once, In 1895. when DR.. Atkinson
showed them the relief which a cathe-
ter gave to patient suffering agonies,
they smiled and seemed highly
amused, but it did not occur to them
that such knowledge would be useful
The patients are mostly poor people of
the artisan class, coolies, ETC., all of
whom have a dread of the foreigner
and his methods. Treatment of Euro
pean principles carried out by China
man, DR.. Chung, may be had ty those
who desire it, and it is the practice for
the head coolie to ask the patients at
the time Of admission which system
they prefer. DR.. Atkinson considers
that the INDECENT Chinese should be
treated according to European methods
in a hospital under the direct super
vision of the colonial surgeon in
charge, the Asiatic medical staff being
employed only as dressers, a course
for which there is a precedent in the
Taa Took Seng hospital at Singapore,
where the AT majority of the pa
tients are Chinese. There were five
cases OF datura poisoning investigated
during 1897, all of them being with
criminal intent. All the patients re-
covered.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-14
THIS AND THAT.

Free Russia, published in London,
says that Nihilst paper, called Ra-
botschaya Myssl, has existed in ST.
Petersburg for year without the DO
lice having succeeded in discovering
the place where it is printed, although
from 500 to 5000 copies of each issue
have been attributed
Senator Clark, OF Montana, recently
laid an asphaltum walk before his
Western home, and the composition
being not yet dry, caused a temporary
boardwalk to be erected with the sign,
Take the Boardwalk" Some local
wags noted this and the day after its
appearance carried of the walk and
wrote under the sign the words, I'VE
Have"
"I guess that, I'm making some
| headway," said the persistent lover,
| who is not in favor with her father
But 1 thought the old gentleman
kicked you out whenever he found You
at the house?" HE does; but 1 have
noticed that he is not kicking nearly
| as hard of late. 1 feel sure that he
is gradually relenting. Free
Press.
At Wallasey, England, three boys
from Holylake were ordered to be
birched by the court for stealing four
pounds of nails and placing them on
bridge over which hundreds of BIZ
cyclists passed. Dozens of punctures
occurred, and the boys, who confessed
their guilt, were found behind a hedge
near the bridge, whence they com
manded good view of their victims
A shell fish known as the pianna in
the Mediterranean has the curious
power of spinning a viscid silk, which
is made in Italy into a regular fabric.
The silk is spun by the shell fish in
the first place for the purpose of at
taching itself to the rocks. 1t is able
to guide the delicate filaments to the
proper place and then glue them fast.
and if they are cut away it can repro-
duce them.
Out on one of the boulevards a new
1y arrived Slav applied for work. The
foreman looked him over. Manner"
he said. ''What name2" The stranger
smiled and drew a long breath. my
name is Ignatz Prysbzyl-" Hold
onv' roared the foreman "What's the
matter with you? That isn't YOUR
name Your name is Kelley" And
Kelly it was thereafter.-Clevelan
Plain Dealer.
Flossie, city miss Of four, was visit
Ing in the country. One day she &C
companied her grandmother to the
barnyard, where she was very much
frightened at sight of a big gobler
strutting about. ''Why, F'lossie," said
the old lady, ''is 1t possible that you
are afraid of a turkey when you helped
to eat one yesterday" Eyes, but
grandma" replied the little miss, but
this one amt cooked '-Chicago News.