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The Cartersville Courant-American.
VOL- VIII.
gStrOW LEAPS IS FARMING.
What Has Been Accomplished by
V The Pettit's Creek Club.
T]n ot Co-Operation—Result of
flie lru
Diverslflort Crop*—lMvemlfled Farm
lug tle Secret of Succes*.
lljirt()W county is not only the richest
minty in Georgia in mineral deposits,
Co ',l tl'ie richest in agricultural advanta
,)Ut H he takes the lead in good farm
f” l\, p Home time past the Constitu
j|| < f M M m
| l)lH been devoting especial attention
t!) „ farmers and farming interests, and
I,' I ,* broiißht out many interesting facta
iii relation thereto. In last Sunday’a
i y given a history of one of our
f famous farmers’ clubs. Although
f | |( , ( ockant-Ameiucan has from time to
time given the main facts contained in
j t WP are sure it will prow interesting to
our home renders and profitable to many
others.
'Hie Pettit’s Cn'ok Club was first heard
of when Dr. Felton, who was one of the
members, began to publish the monthly
proceedings in the Cartersville Courant
j^ r ,i the club was organized four years
■o'
I-It is a s]lories of rural co-operation
which in its local way has been more suc-
L. srt f„| than the average local farmers’
alliance. It started in this way :
A bout four years ago Mr. Hollingshed,
\lr Zimri Jackson and*one or two other
Lrmors living near Rogers’ station in
lliirtow county, clubbed together and
Ordered a carload of fertilizer. They
L lV ed two dollars a ton, and that put
them to thinking, if one or two could
save two dollars a ton on a carload, why
could not a dozen save a larger amount
L six or seven carloads. They talked
M, idea over among their neighbors, and
[when fourteen had agreed to join together
ibr having purposes, they met at one of
ft In* farm houses and organized.
The fourteen were all responsible men.
They would not admit any one who was
[not, for they were |p be all bound for the
joint purchase and could not afford to
[guarantee the payment of any man’s
[share in the purchase money il he was
jnot sure to pay the club. They were
Ivorth My $200,000 and their credit
Ivas too good to stake on Torn, Dick and
■lam 's promise to pay.
I When the next order was made for fr
pfcw/ers each man told the club how much
mated, and the total was about fifty
Kis. The presklent and secretary cor
•esponded with manufacturers in Georgia
and South Carolina, but as the club was
new, it had to go through the usual in
vestigiition as to responsibility. That
ivas short work, however, and the man
ufacturers soon informed the club that
they would be pleased to sell them fertil
izers on their joint note at a price several
dollars less than usual.
The president and secretary signed a
dub note for the whole amount of the
xirchase, and each farmer made a note
lor his own share. These individual
I notes, amounting to the same as the
I flub ante, were placed in a Cartersville
luank its collateral. Thus each man was
I xnnul primarily for his own share and
I i>y the terms of his membership and the
I flub contract with the manufacturer, for
■'wv other man’s share. The notes were
waivers of homesteads and the SI,OOO
■lab note was secured by $200,000 worth
W property. It did not take a credit
Burn long to decide on the advisability
I selling such a concern, and the goods
Were shipped.
Ihe farmers saved about $250 on fer
-lls that year. Year before last they
avt d nearly S4OO. The same arrange
was made in buying hardware,
ana the like, except that all these
™des were bought for cash. They
'°ught only fertilizers oil credit.
kince we have been organized,” said
F r * biekson, ‘‘the notes have always
" !i raid promptly. Not a man has
day behind, and l will venture the
>Hert iori that not one of the fourteen
" ! ‘d ten dollars last Christmas. I think
1,1 plan is better than thatof the Farm
-1 8 Alliance. They are not particular
A*out the men they take in; with them
1 N numbers rather than responsibility
!I<l l don't see how they can combine
‘■' A' on that plan for buying goods.
don't center on any particular
ohant, but buy wherever we can do
'm | "T
, ' 1 think there ought to be mer
liUllls as well as farmers and I don’t
Il!| k n ' s l ight to build one up and pull
iiotlierdown. I think every one ought
his share.
1,1 social feature of the club is very
AVe meet once a month at the
■ Osos °f the members, taking them in
■LI * in each month, and
BMj-'ote the whole of the afternoon to
£ , " UK of farming methods. It is
1 ‘Of the president to appoint for
a subject suitable to the time
' ' u ’ u,| d then we have an experience
jf any man makes a test crop
, !l l>x P a rimental acre he is required to
' a detailed report to the club. One
year, for instance, we took an acre apiece
to see how much cotton we could make.
One man blade 1.000 pounds of seed
cotton, and I came second with 1,560.
“I had six acres of clover last year and
hauled eighteen of the largest loads I
ever saw and sold them for five dollars
each. I cut the second crop and threshed
out nine bushels of seed that sold for $5
a bushel. Altogether the six acres brought
me $lO5, and I did not put more than
five dollars’ worth of work on them.”
Mr. George Jackson, a son of the gen
tleman just quoted, raised four bales of
cotton on four acres in 1887. He kept
account, day by day, of every cent's
worth of work, plowing and fertilizer put
on the land. lie gave me the account as
follows, from his farm journal:
1,000 pounds of acid $ 0 35
100 bushels cotton seed 10 00
Work in making the crop 12 7714
IMckhiK 25 07
Olnxilmtr, bagging and ties 10 50
Sundries 1 20
$ 09 5514
Proceeds of 4 bales $193 50
Net profit on 4 acres $124 COVfc
“That includes every day’s work from
the beginning,” said he, “even picking up
tin* stalks off the land.”
In this crop iK) stable manure was
used, but the usual method of fertilizing
here is to make a compost with barnyard
manure, cotton seed and acid.
“I bought two tons of acid this year,”
said Mr. Zimri Jackson, “and it cost me
SJB. I have just put up my compost
heap and I am satisfied that it will make
me twelve tons of fertilizer every whit as
good ns guano. In fact I like it better.
I would not even use the acid but for the
fact that it makes fhecotton ripen earlier.
When the compost is put on the land
two months from now it will be as fine as
the acid. I put it on with this simple
distributer, which cost eleven dollars.
With a mule I can distribute the compost
ns fast as a plow can lay off the laud.”
Mr. George Jackson described the
planting of corn as follows: “We open
a furrow with an Oliver chilled plow and
then follow in it with a scooter as deep
as two mules can pull it —sometimes
fifteen inches deep. That is a great pro
tection against drouth and it is given up
that you must subsoil where you fertilize.
The dirt falls back and partially fills the
furrow. Then we drill in the compost
with the distributer and afterwards run
a turn plow on each side of the furrow
covering it up and leaving a furrow on
each side. Then we put compost in these
other furrows just as we did in the first.
We plant the corn on these furrows five
feet apart and thin it out to thirty inches
1n the row.”
“We raise all we use on the farm,”
said Mr. Jackson, the elder, “except our
groceries. We raise our corn and wheat
and our own bacon. I don't think there
is a farmer in our club who has bought
any corn in the last four years.”
“Dr. Felton bought some corn the first
year,” said Mr. George Jackson, “but we
can’t count that on him, for he had been
renting his place and had to start anew.
He has never bought any since. He
seems to enjoy the meetings very much,
and I think the club has done him a
great deal of good; he watches things
very closely.”
The inspection of crops is an impor
tant feature of the club.
“In August committees are appoin
ted to inspect the crops of the different
members,” said Mr. Jackson. “They
usually go three together and take a day
to look at crops. Some other members
of the club may be appointed to inspect
my crop and I might be on a committee
to inspect some of their crops. At the
next meeting the committees report and
if there is anything especially good it is
mentioned as worthy of example; if there
is any evidence of carelessness or any
tools lying about they touch the owner
up a little.
“At the monthly meetings the owner
of the farm tries to have his crop in
good shape when we get there, and that
has a good effect. I am satisfied that
we have had far better results by going
from one house to another than we could
have had by meeting at one place all the
time. We could not have done so well
by meeting in town. We have found the
club profitable to all of us. I have been
asked to join the alliance, and some of
thorn think a little hard of me for not
doing so, but I don’t think I shall join
them ; I think this is better.”
“They say farming don’t pay,” con
tinued Mr. Jackson, “but it does pay; it
pays us. It is a slow way of making
money, but it is sure, and it is the most
independent life on earth. I think this
section is more prosperous than it was
before the war. Then we had some very
rich people —worth two or three hundred
thousand dollars—and some very poor
people, worth nothing at all. Now our
wealth is diffused. The wealthiest man
in the county pays tax on $75,000, but
there are more men worth from ten to
twenty thousand. I think the people, as
a whole, are more prosperous now than
they were then.”
MR, ROGER’S VIEW OF FARMING.
At the station I met Mr. Rogers, a
CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1889.
substantial farmer, for whom the place
was named.
“I have read the articles on farming
with a great deal of interest,” said In*,
“but the secret of the trouble has not
been touched on, It is the control of
labor. *
“Before the war the negroes were ac
customed to be shown how to do every
thing. Asa consequence, when they
tried to farm after the war, they did not
know anything about it. He was rented
land and furnished stock, but how was
the poor negro, who had never been
taught, to succeed with farming when he
didn’t know how to go about it? That
has been the great cause of failure;a
great many of them don’t know yet.
“Now r they say it don’t pay to farm.
Farming does pay. I believe in cotton
as a money crop, but the farmer must
raise everything he uses. Those men
who raise their corn and oats and hay
and hogs, and raise cotton as a money
cron are prosperous.
“Mr. Blaine in a speech at a fair in
Maine four years ago, complimented
those people on the wonderful develop
ments with which they had subdued that
rugged country, and then spoke of the
great grain crops of the Vest. Then he
paused and said: “But where do you
suppose the money ot the country comes
from? It comes from the cotton raised
in the Southern States. Four milion,
five hundred thousand bales are shipped
to Europe every year and money comes
back into this country from Europe to
pay for it. The wheat crop brings some
money, but the great bulk of it comes
over to pay for cotton. But, my friends,
when it comes back to the South they
send it up here to us forgoods.” That is
the truth; the farmers send off their cot
ton money to pay for goods and provis
ions. That is the reason it don't pay.”
Sam Jones in California.
We have before us the Los Angeles
(Cal.) Christian Advocate, which devotes
several columns to Rev. Sam Jones and
his meetings. After giving a graphic pen
picture of the evangelist, the editor says:
Bro. Jones uses the Southern vernacu
lar, with the addition ot some slang
phrases which are not sectional. His
quaint sayings, odd in verbiage, yet each
one loaded with a precious gospel truth,
sticks in a man’s memory, far above or
dinary sermons. A man, listening to
Jones’ sermon, can easily repeat whole
sentences, while if he were attending the
ordinary service of the gospel, he could
recall only a faint outline of what was
said.
Another remarkable thing about Jones
is his droll humor. He is perhaps the
most witty man in the American pulpit,
and has been much criticised for preach
ing a gospel that makes people laugh.
At one of his meetings, a preacher sitting
beside him was red in the face from laugh
ing for nearly an hour, while Jones was
pursuing his discourse. He doti’u believe
in solemn preaching according to his own
words. “If you people could have been
saved by solemn preaching.you would all
have your wings now." “If you want to
laugh in these meetings and have sense
enough to know when to laugh, do so.
Fun is the next best tiling to religion,
and money is the next best thing to fun.
If you’ve got all three you’re fixed for
two worlds.”
His manner of speaking is deliberate.
He utters one of his terse meaty sentences
then pauses seemingly to give you time
to digest it. Occasionally he stops a mo
ment, passing his hand over his face as if
to collect his thoughts. His smile is pe
culiar —we have never seen a smile just
like his when he gets off a good thing on
the preachers, and turns ’round to see
how they take their medicine. His eyes
are keen and piercing when fully aroused
with some great subject, when his whole
face assumes an expression fit for the
study of an artist.
As our readers are aware, Sam Jones
has held successful meetings throughout
thirty States and in many large cities,
Chicago, Kansas City, Nashville, St.
Louis, etc. His methods are peculiar
and different from any other evangelist.
But shall we criticise and find fault when
God owns and blesses his work with mul
titudes of converts? If God’s Holy
Spirit attends his rude and uncouth
words that offend our polite ears, can
we not bear with them—yes rejoice in
them because of their wonderful power?
We apply the Saviour’s test to him, “By
their fruits ye shall know them,” and
Sam Jones comes from the erucible, pure
gold.
The meetings of the week have been
thronged, the evening meetings usually
being packed so close that it is estimated
that some thousand people were standing.
The way the evangelist sways this vast
audience of 5000 people is something
wonderful. They laugh and applaud un
til the very rafters ring, and again, un
bidden tears well up from many eyes
when touching pathetic incidents fall
from the lips of the evangelist. May God
grant Los Angeles a gracious revival
through His honored instrument- —Sam
J ones.
COMING SOUTH.
Horace Oreeley’s Famous Advice Now
Changed.
St. Loots Lumberman.
Some years ago there was heard in all
parts of the North winch talk about
“going AYr,i. Jyu *ome sections the
panacea for jtll financial ills to men not
past two s(i#re was, in common parlance,
to “go West, and grow up with the coun
try.” Everybody has heard of Horace
Greeley’s repeated advice of “Go West,
young man, go West.” New England
was too much overpopulated to give
profitable employment or favorable
chances for fin uncial success to the hosts
of young men just ready to begin the
battle of life. Visions ot immense plains
that might be transformed into pro
ductive fields floated before the eyes of
very many ambitious youths. There
were new, grow in g cities on theboundary
line between established States and civil
ization and the boundless prairies abound
ing with which gave assurance of
freedom to adventurers, and was pecu
liarly fascinating to thousands who were
restless underdose, exacting laws, and
wished to sniff theair of absolute liberty,
Mm,
Through thiputho West has been popu
late*! ; wilds have been turned into gar
dens, large cities have sprung and pros
pered, railroads have been built, and now
the East can not boast of a better civili
zation than the West. From the crest of
the wave of adventure a light appeared,
whose rays shone back upon the rugged
and austere civilization of the old Puri
tanic school, that has had a mellowing
influence. Compare the old blue laws
that banished people who dared to utter
a word of difference in theological belief
to the sublime, whole-souled utterance of
that giant of the prairies, the martyred
Lincoln, who can never be forgotten:
“With charity for all and malice toward
none.”
During the favorable development of
the great West, no tide turned toward
the South. Everyone knows why. True,
there were isolated cases, but no general
move was made in a Southerly direction.
Tt was acknowledged to be a sunny land,
replete with richness, and. 111 the lan
guage of old, “flowing with milk and
honey.” The least said about the reasons
why men did not move in that direction
the better, but everyone can now see
that a wonderful change has taken place,
and that migration from the North to
the South, if it has not been as large as
it was formerly to the West, has been
considerable, and is productive of some
startling results. The emigrant does
not meet with ferocious animals and
hostile Indians, but. with friendly men,
who will clasp hands and join in every
good enterprise for mutual benefit. The
soil is now cultivated so that the product
is greater than ever before. The precious
are being taken irom their long
hiumg places in the rocks and mountains,
and the forests are rapidly swaying
before the manufacturers who have es
tablished large saw mills in different
parts of the country. And development
is only yet in its infancy. The possibil
ities of the future no one can doubt, and
the probabilities are that the new coining
years will see all sorts of improvements
pushed to the fullest extent.
To a well-meaning man with ordinary
capital the South is a good place for all
kinds of business. If some object to yel
low fever, which will sometimes appear,
they must remember that catastrophes
equally disastrous to human life occur in
the North. The tide, mountain torrent,
inundation, cyclone and cholera have
fully equaled the devastations of the
dreadful scourge of the South.
Men of enterprise and tact have gone
from the North to the South, and, enter
ing into the manufacture of lumber, have
been very successful. With the aid of
the South the ventures have proved very
profitable to all parties. There is room
for more, and the condition of the whole
sale markets generally shows that there
is as yet no danger of the business being
overdone. The demand for consumption
will increase and more Southern woods
will be used in the North. All invest
ments promise well. The investor will
not have to glean from harvested fields,
but there are mines, fields and forests in
all their primitive richness, from which
the skilled and willing hand can gather a
golden harvest.
To honest enterprise the South is ever
ready to extend the hand of friendship
and welcome with a cordial greeting, but
some pranks have from time to time been
played by sharpers from the North, which
have been discouraging, and the effects
of which make it sometimes a little more
difficult for truly worthy men to find the
advantages which they honestly seek.
Northern men have visited the South
looking tor a site for a saw mill when
they had but little or no cash, expecting
to get a foothold and start by gaining
the sympathy and aid of the real inhabi
tants, which would enable them to pro
cure mnehinery and an equipment on
trust. These cases are followed by a
total failure; and the start made is a
total loss. It takes heat to make a pot
boil, no matter whether it is North or
South, and trying to run a saw mill
without financial fuel is as foolish as
trying to broil a beefsteak on a Canadian
snowbank. The South is not responsible
for such failures, neither is it amenable
for the crimes of the swindlers who hang
around some good timber locality, for a
while representing themselves os a factor
in some solid concern North, merely to
gain enough confidence to allow them to
obtain a few dollars and then vanish
from sight, leaving unpaid board bills
and perhaps heavy uncanceled obliga
tions to manufacturers of machinery in
the North.
It is impossible to avoid duplicity alto
gether, and people anywhere may be de
ceived. but all this does not hide the fact
that there is an excellent, chance for
honest men to go South and do business.
tleorgia.
Morris (Minnesota) Tribune.
We consider the great State of Geor
gia as the foremost commonwealth of
all the States of the South. Since the
close of the terrible war she has made
gigantic stride* in everything tending to
develop her immense resources. Where
at tin* termination of tin!, war .were de
*v{tsted and ruined villages, now may be
seen populous cities, teeming with manu
factures and busy, industrious, go-ahead
people; and the sparsely settled country
at the outbreak of the war, is now
thickly occupied by industrious and
prosperous planters and farmers. New
life and new blood seem to have been
infused into the people of that State,
and with her great water-power, mineral
deposits, cotton factories, foundries,
machine shops and other manufactures,
at Augusta, Atlanta, Cartersville, and
at numerous other places scattered over
the State, we can see no reason why
Georgia is not bound to become at no
distant day one of the great manufac
turing States of the Union. But in no
part of the State have more marked
changes taken place than along the his
toric route of the Western &* Atlantic
Railroad, extending from Chattanooga
to Atlanta. All along this line are some
of the most beautiful and thriving towns
and villages to be seen on any route.
Some of these villages are delightful re
sorts, blessed as they are with pure cold
water, refreshing shade and beautiful
scenery. Cartersville, we remember when
we passed through it during the war,
was mere nothing, is now a very pros
perous manufacturing town, we are told
by those who have been there; and Mari-
etta, delightful Marietta, situated almost
in the shadow of old Kennesaw, from
whose summit a view of unsurpassed
beauty is had, is now one of the most
charming pleasure resorts in the South.
We have a strong liking for Georgia,
and it is our intention to visit the places
along the line of the above named rail
road, and also Augusta, if possible, next
season.
All Important New Fnterprlsp.
Among Cartersville's new enterprises
few stand higher in importance than the
oil refinery of the Kennesaw Refining
Company. ThU company is headed as
president by that sagacious citizen of
Bartow, Hon. C. H. Smith. Mr. W. S.
Crosby, the urbane manager, showed us
through the place the other day.
“We are not fairly started yet,” said he,
“have been getting our stock tooperateon,
and we have to take pains to get only the
best. These barrels here contain ingre
dients for our various products*” and he
showed us about fifty.
“ What are to be your products?” we
ventured.
“Well, railroad and mill lubricating oils
and greases, signal and coach oils are our
prominent specialties, but we will under
take to make some other goods, too; in
fact, we could with ease put up bear's oi
and pomade or ‘logmoetum or what else,’
for the hair, insect exterminators or soaps,
lip salves, or eve# itch remedies, Our
field is broad,” said he, with mock serious
ness.
Mr. Crosby’s celebrated Cylinder Oil
will run on locomotives 150 miles
to the pint, when other greases tun only
about 50 miles.
Their goods, while they are to be 3o]d
cheap, will be put upon the market abso
lutely on their merits.
The refinery is now in the old mill
building last used by Mr. Hackctt, but a
new building in a more eligible place, will
likely soon be erected.
An Apt Illustration.
Rev, W. A. Dodge preached to good
congregations last Sunday notwith
standing the inclement weather. In the
morning sermon he dwelt mainly upon
the importance of the Christian’s perfect
submission to the will ol God. He de
monstrated the manner of some in pray
ing for the aid of the Lor.d tolie done
with the following timely anecdote: An
almost despairing bachelor prayed for a
wife: “Good Lord, give me a wife—let
her be such an one as pleases Thee—but
Lord, do let it be Susan,” The idea is,
we are too prone to lav out our own
plans, and rray the Loid to suit His will
o ours. HsSi
MISSiNG LINKS.
The Railroad '* > ♦ rri.
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Augusta Chronicle.
The proposition to link together the
scattered lines of railroad into ft new sys
tem stretching from Chattanooga to the
sea and reaching most of the cities in the
State, is attracting considerable atten
tion. There is a road finished from
Chattanooga through Home to Carroll
ton, and which is to be extended to Grif
fin, Albany and Atlanta. It is said that
the .owners of this line are interested in
the Cincinnati Southern, and that they
are in fair way to secure connection with
the Plant system of roads to Florida and
the sea. This system, it is said, will
connect at Montieello wit h the now Macon
& Athens railroad, and at Sandersville
with the narrow gauge, which they pro
pose to broaden to Augusta. In fact, by
building three hundred miles of connect
ing links here and there it is designed to
patch up anew Georgia system which,
shall in some way compete at the main
business points with the Georgia Central
system.
There is another line now seeking de
velopment which is not mentioned in the
system above outlined by the Atlanta
Constitution.
We refer to the Augusta & Chattanooga.
Grading on this road Imd commenced *
when work was stopped a year ago, and
it is now understood that anew company
controls the enterprise, which is likely in
a short time to commence work on differ
ent points of the road between Gaines
ville and Augusta. This is by all odds
the most important railroad enterprise
projected in Oooilor twenty years.
It opens the richest and commands the
most varied section in the South. At
Gainesville, too, the Augusta & Chatta
nooga railroad wiii be tapped by anew
and ambitious enterprise seeking its way
from Cartersville through the iron, 11*111-
ganese and talc beds of Bartow and HaU
counties. This road would*connect at
Cartersviiie with the Last A West road
now running from Cartersville to Birm
ingham.
Those who think the railroad map in
Georgia is complete* fail to take in the
independent links in'Georgia, already
fighting for freight and new feeders, and
fail to appreciate tlifi growing greatness
of the State.
A Pitiful Case.
A negro tramp giving his name as Ed.
Clark, from Chattanooga, was put off
the South-bound W. A A. accommoda
tion, which he had boarded at Cass Sta
tion, Monday. Mayor Wofford, who is
also agent of the W. & A. Railroad, says,
from all he could learn, the unfortunate
negro had been put on a train above
Cass Station somewhere, and sent to that
place, and reshipped to this point, He
thinks he was dying when he got here, as
he had evidently been suffering from
fever, and had lain out without attention
during Sunday night, which was very
cold.
After some effort, the mayor succeeded
in inducing Pritchett A Robinson, color*
ed men, to take him into their store, and
he also secured clean clothing for him,
but the poor negro died before he could
be properly cared for. He was reeking
with filth, and literally covered with lice
It is a remarkable fact that the colored
people generally hold themselves aloof
from the suffering and needy of their own
race, and unless the whites cared for
them, many more would die for want of
attention.
Lee Durham’s Death.
Jt is our sad duty to record the death,
last Friday night of Lee Durham, son of
Mr. F. M. Durham, of this city. He had
contracted disease while attending school
in Kentucky, which necessitated his re
turn home, and had been in fjeble health
ever since, until, after a long season of
confinement, liis spirit departed at the
time named. He was a bright, promising
boy of some seventeen years—noted for
bis generous impulses and manly traits.
The funeral was conducted by Rev. W.
H. Cooper, and there were not many dry
eyes in tlie large assembly, as the preacher
told of his happy conversion shortly be
fore liis death. While all hearts go out
in sympathy to the bereaved family, there
is the sweetest assurance that all is well
with our noble beorted young friend.
Death of Miss Evvie Loveless.
For a long-time the relatives and friends
of this sweet-spirited lady had watched
by her bedside, as she approached nearer
and nearer to rbe unknown shore. On
the 2?th, herspiiit winged its flight to the
realms of bliss.
For many days she seemed to know
that her end was nigh, and it was com
forting, indeed, to witness the calm resig
nation with which she awaited the great
change.
The deceased w T as a daughter of the
late Milton Loveless, one of the best men
who ever lived in our community.
To turn gray hair to its natural color
and beauty, use Hall's Vegetable Sicilian
Hair Ren ewer, the best and most reliable
1 reparation science has given us.
NO. 34.