The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-06-01


10" E,,.iness stretch Of Yuma, his
oI... .gss Drecipitously, and then with
No'-. .-,,,1eratcd. sudden fan, declined
OF mild intOnatiOn. He seemed TO
iNlO a.. that by these contrasting
- or delivery he could drive home
letter the salient points Of his dis
course. ....-,,,.. ,,,i,,o,.s t,,. ode
.,Fe of the town, had gathered
Uni him His talk, however, was
To-. u homily on the necessity of
lection nor a political diatribe.
.,7,,-. him on a little tray balanced
amin portable iron trestle rows Of
o- gIistened in the sun. Folded
'oa-.r+a fiousIv between the fingers of
~ left hand were layers of green
backs. ,.,-
.-,taI uuon their superiority Their
IN, merits were told forth i'm a long
NE, With q cutting dispars cement
r. snufed away mention of rival
-rskoe. Icpreciating them as merely
brfrrr.s. tools.
n, The unread eye, ne seemed 70 be
,g.rq "a fine improvisation, but the
,hgar,.ut could easily detect a certain
fsvifr f1 his manner and a far-off OK
..-essf9r indicating that even when i'm
IA. musr perferyid flights ne was think
+rs af something else-perhaps his
tofsr bin. or casting up what town ne
,r,r.d descend upon next His speech
by repetition had become a matter of
r,tr which did not interfere with "A
imuff7ncous process of different
thought
Rrf what most interested his hearers
mas the faISirs head They gazed at
IL with "a curious contraction of eyes
and brow. as if trying TO decipher its
moaning. Some scruuniZed II with
soIsrtr sense Of humor. others could
rof f1rhcar grinning. So fantastic
crown they had not yet seen.
ono hemisphere was as bald as a
billiard baU..a passablc growth Of hair
matted the other The two inCOngru-
Gus parts reminded one of a fertile
Garden and a desert side by side, but
divided by "a sharp. arbitrary line. The
crowd clearly was immersed in various
spocurations as to the wherefore. The
faEir soon satisfied curiosity.
81 observe" ne commented. that you
regard my head as new mystery and
that YOU can't make up your minds
whether I'm crank or monstrosity.
Now. 70 amt anything but standing
government mission. and I amt
preaching the golden rule. I woUldn't
do t0 you what ! have done to myself
Here the rakir passed his hand over his
head.
Amen" responded a unit of the
crowd i'm a mock -reverentiaI tone.
I'm out here on business proceeded
the iakir. I've told you all about these
patent razOrs. Now I'm going 70 DEM
1nstrate just what they can do. You
can use them almost while running.
You don't even need looking glass.
Look at this for evideuce!"
he now deftly swept a razor over his
head and the bald area had widened.
He bent You viii all notice" he
said that ] shaved my head as
would white a stick, without any care
whatsoever. and yet. if any one of you
can find the slightest suspicion of a
cut. III give him half d dozen razors
free. If that doesn't prove all that
claim. ] don't know what WILL
A ''capper of those secret con-
federates that ostensibly belong to the
aforementioned forward and after a
little show of hesitation bought a ra-
sor The eNampie set, miner after
miner transferred his dollar, and soon
The fakir's stock was exhausted.
-Four days later 7 met this same fakiI
n Phoenix His head was now desti-
tute OF visible hair and he was vending
puzzle games. 1t appeared that the
trick Of shaving his head was sc
uniquely freakish that il was a system
attic inality of his spiel But tins
simple defect of material prevented thu
exhibition an the time Hence. wher
the last tuft had gone. he took 10 sell
iuE puzzles until a new crop of hail
came forth. Then he resumed razOrs.
We'll" said he. upon learning that
was a. New Yorker. too. "this section il
paradise Of graft / order those ra-
z0rs from a New York jObbing house
in any eastern city they wouldn't sci
for a quarter apiece You can't foo
the people here on a sailed mine. bu
there's a heap of spelling they mus
make the acquaintance Of yet
a week later there came to Tucson &
party OF three celebrated Quaker doc
tors Purporting to hail from Phila
de.phia, their dress was tho cOnven
uona Quaker garb Their expression
suggested the most benign OF DISPOSE
lions. An amiable lustrc radiated from
their eyes: their invariable smiles were
tndprIy winning, They seemed apos
teS come to- modern life. for they ad
dressed one another as Brother John.
Brother Peter" Brother Paul" an,
ifeir talk was freely intcrspersed Will
thees and thous.
PretenSe that their mission was al
attempt at conversion or salvation
Trey did not seek to make money Thei
GRAND was To- confer on the TuCsOl
loik a certain boon to humanity.
which was corked i'm plain bottles la
oeled Genuine old Quaker Medicine
Made From Herbs Used by William
te1n- This preparation. 10 was frank
lY set forth. with an evident sheer a
various hoastful nostrumS. was no
guaranteed TO yanuuish every malad
on the lists But disingenOusly on IN
reverse level of the bottle was a print
'd enumeration of diseases which
would cure Gt not money refunded
ana after scanning this category On
olH4 was hard pushed 10 recall VIVA
o'oer forms Of ailment there pOssibl
hight he with which frail mortal
afflicted. For every variety frOi
"hoopIug cough 60 lOcomOtor ataXi
'1t Genuine old Quaker Medicine
was recommended as sure relief.
Holding forth from carriages. th
celebrated Quaker doctors" woul
make this formula Of announcement
th.r medicine was not the poisonous
SNWaInS stuff which unsCUupUiOu
'naF.atans were continually imposiu
upon the people ] was a beneiiCi
composition tested by generations
conservative Quakers. The brother
IN their great good will towards q
men would like nothing better than
present Co every sufferer quantities
free. But this was an age of bus
u'ss the herbs had to be gathered
much expense, the bottles were 90 }
sala for. and the huge plant I'm Phil'
urIphla necessarily could not be ope
aied without funds.
with proper investigation The re
SldN'r communities might get son
interesting information about this Or