Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1913-01-12
By M. QUAD
Copyright. 1912. by Associated Lit
erary Press.

lack of them. No man can look digni-
fed without 'em. Your character is all
that n woman could ask for, but where
is the hair? Where the whiskers?"
John Stone turned away In chagrin
and despair, and there was no sleep
for him for the next three nights. He
was still in the dumps when tin ped
dler came along and invited him TO
open his heart. He did so.
Say, John. 1t was mean Of the wild
ow." said the peddler when he had
listened to all.
Yes, kinder
kinder? Why, man, she has wreck
ed your life"
Has she?"
"You want to turn around and wreck
the widow"
But how can do it," asked John.
First of ALL get mad at her. Say
to yourself that you don't care durn
for her."
well. I'm feeling that way. She
can go to Te1as!'
Bully for you. Now, then, you know
that we peddlers take all kinds OF
things in trade. The other day raked
in an Egyptian mummy for "a worth
of milk pans. You know what a num-
my is, don't you:"
Some one that's been dead thou
sand years"
Exactly. When I ripped him open
| found this paper"
by George" gasped John.
1T Is writ in Egyptian, but ! can
read it right off. Its recipe for max
ing hair grow on bald heads"
You don't say"
"And for forcing whiskers to grow
on the smoothest flce. 1t says that
one months use Of it will grow side
whiskers on boy of ten"
You can't mean It"
| You can have the preparation put
up at drug store and begin to use it.
and In month what happens? Why.
| you have luxuriant crop of curly
hair on your bald head and chin whisk-
ers that fall down to your waist and
are blown to port and starboard by the
breezes. You can walk NJ md down
the road in front OF the widow holise
From the window she sees you and
knows she has made the mistake of her
| life. She calls to you to admit that
she was in the wrong and that you can
bring the preacher as soon as you
please. but you wave her aside
And WHAT"
"And you wave her aside and go
along to the Wilder Stevens and pro-
pose marriage to her and hustle things
along. She dotes ON curly hair and
chin whiskers, and viii say yes at
once"
by George. but it vii. be great.'
TT will for sure"
"And you'll do this out Of the good
ness of your hearth"
'.Pll Go 1t for one-half goodness and
the other half cash. The cash half Is
$25. Those chin whiskers alone are
worth 500 to any living man.
No farmer is ready to pay out money
unless he can see return for 1t.
Farmer Stone asked for a week to con-
slider the matter and then closed the
deal. 1t wasn't humanely possible for
a baldheaded, whiskerless man to hold
out The formula was copied OF for
him. and he deposited It in safe place
until he could spare a day to so to the
village. That day never came. He
was killed by accident in his own field.
Then came an interval of seven years
during which time nothing was said In
his late community about baldheaded
men. One day stranger appeared
who had heard from the peddler that
John Stone had the Egyptian recipe.
and he offered So for It, One Of the
widower's heirs found it in an old
trunk and took the money.
The next heard of the recipe was by
advertisement. A coffee and tea house,
instead Of giving out trading stamps.
advertised to grow hair and whiskers
for the buyer Of every pound Of tea or
coffee.
They sent a lot of wagons through
the country to herald the news BY
word of mouth, and the highways were
pastered with posters, and the weekly
papers reaped whole pages OF adver.
tisfhg. The campaign was brief, but
vigorous.
All those who got the recipes were
directed to certain druggist to have
them filed. The druggist was hus.
tier and sent the stuff away by the
scores and hundreds OF bottles aud
made 400 per cent profits At the end
OF ten or twelve weeks there were coo
baldheads In one county alone. and the
number of burned and blistered chlns
and cheeks was a full thousand.
The headstone marking John Stone.s
grave was a rather stingy affair. Aft.
er the exposure it was replaced by
better one. and the obituary was add.
ed to as follows:
HE had neither hafr mr. w,,,sr.-