The Portland daily press., 1899-12-13
SURE CURE FOR BADNESS.


(From the New York SUM-
"Talk Of hair rsstorers." said the CAP
tain OF Sound steamboat. who was Q
whaler onos, snons Of them IL In 10 wi tn
the air Of ths Arctic regions. A man
with thin hair who fails to get nsw
crop II he goes within the Arctic circle
is . hopeless Gaze. have seen whaisrs
who got bald whom they stayed Mt home
for q year or two and got a new crop of
hair every time they went toward the
North pole on q whaling expedition.
"How do I account for IL? Ask me
somethiug harder. The farther you 60
north the land animals get shaggier. IL
10 provision Of nature against the cold.
When the Arctic winter approachs, the
reindeer, the bears, and other animals
take on q thicker COAT Ct hair CT fur.
Similarly tie hair on the human head
tsickens when you go far north, especial
Iy On the approach Of winter. 1t 10 q
fact. Now 1 don't want you TO think
that.onoe tie rollicies OF the hair are dead,
new hair slways comes. even In northern
regions. Sometimes when a man Is ap-
psrently as bald as billiard ball the
follicles are not dead and there Ii hope
for him.
'I remem DER remarkable case whom
WI mate Of the whaler Sea Foam In the
latter part Of the '59's. The boatswa In
was q man named James Rogers, but he
wa, genera ly known as Badly. bee ause
he had not single hair on his scalp. he
vas good whaler and an all.around
good seaman, ana In spite OF the fact that
he had tried it for years, with no result
apparent to the eye, he had firm belief
Ia wha'e oil as q hair restorer. He mrss
have uzed gallons Of It In bis u ne. AZ
the time I syeak OF we were In the neigh
torhood of Behring's straits and IL was
meln noholy to see us all with thick, MAJ
TED locks, including some who vera
bald when they came away, while poor
Badly was ns ,mooth on the soap a. ever.
Well, we killed the quserest-looking
specimen of a whale l ever saw, Badly
throwing the first tarpcon. It's tall
tnpered of lor ger than that OF any OF the
whales we bad ever met with tefore, and
the oil tfat came from 10 was OF pecu'
liar color and had q muskv s,ent baidy
u q n nttsr Of course plastered his scalp
with the oil until 1t was running down
| his face and n6ok. One does not ne to
Jllow hyglenio rules regarding olean.i-
ness In ttos3 lRtitudts where II is too cold
fer disease germs. Within two days it
grew cclder. and We were forzsn IN
Among ice fi)ps. l never felt such Geld
bsfors or since, and nearly every one OF
the crew was more or less frosthitten.
We used the Ice saw industriot J, and
In 4s hours more got clear Ct the loo and
into smooth wafer and sailed southwark.
A week later Badly came running out Of
the ioo'sie With his eyes bullying, shout
ing, It's growin'l It's growth
What's gIowingr sys l, thinking
hs was getting nutiy. my ha-ha-ha -bair,
'saJs he. waving his fur cap. which hs
h I'd taken of, and pointing to hts had.
,rs enoush, there was . growth OF down
h ir like that of a baby ali over his Fad.
az 4 " h It was remarkable. the hair had
come to stay. Before tbs voyage was
over h, h I'D fatty thick naturally h sad
covering, and II h, didn't care for 10
after ward. no one was to blame for 10
but himself. be said that 1t was tn, nav
brand OF " hale oil that stsrted his h air
growing again but l say IL was ths ex.
t~me cold hat did The trick. After that
concluded that no one could give me any
rolnis on hair restorers. II you want
thick hair 60 north. "