"The Old Scratch" (Antique Advertisement)

1905

How the Evil One Came to be Popularly Known as "The Old Scratch"

One of the many familiar names of his satanic majesty is "The Old Scratch." It is undoubtedly due to the fact that scratching is so disagreeable that people thought it no worse than the evil one.

A scalp full of dandruff keeps one scratching all the time: not only disagreeable but considered very inelegant in polite society — as it should be — because one ought to keep the scalp so clean that it would not itch.

To cure the scalp of dandruff effectively, use Newbro's Herpicide. It kills the germs that creates the dandruff, which is preliminary to falling hair, and finally baldness. No other hair preparation kills the dandruff germ. Herpicide also is a very delightful and effective hair dressing.

Sold by leading druggists. Send 10c in stamps for sample to The Herpicide Co., Detroit, Mich. H. Goodman, druggist, special agent.

The Gods are Hungry — A Reason For War

1874

Never did war, among either savage or civilized peoples, assume so sinister an aspect, as when it was carried on under the guise of religion, to furnish those human banquets which some peoples have thought it necessary to lay before their gods.

That "the gods were hungry," was the cause of wars among many ancient races, but notably so among the Mexicans. The object of wars among the Aztecs was far less territorial or personal aggrandizement, than the procuring of human victims to place before their deities.

More than two thousand of such victims, upon a moderate estimate, were annually sacrificed in the Mexican temples, and in some years more than a hundred thousand human beings are believed to have perished in this manner.

They also had a yearly sacrifice to one of their idols, in which the victim was a beautiful youth, who was worshiped as a god for a whole year before he was killed. — Scribner's Magazine.



Seraphinnis is a Russian monk who latterly founded a society to which women were admitted on condition that they cut off their hair. The beautiful appropriateness of this will be perceived when it is stated that his brother was an enterprising hair-dresser.



What wine is both food and drink? Port wine with a crust.

Eccentric Farmer Deeds Property to Lord, Wouldn't Die

Ohio, 1901

ECCENTRIC

Farmer Didn't Have His Hair Cut for 35 Years—Deeded Property To The Lord.

Clyde, 0., Jan. 30.—David Wyant, an eccentric farmer who was buried at Five Points a few days ago, deeded his property to the Lord, but his children will get it. The deed was made several years ago, but Wyant's brother paid the taxes on the place until Wyant's son was old enough to take care of it. It has been decided that the deed to the Lord is not valid.

Excepting his peculiar religious notions Wyant was like other men. He was a successful farmer and had considerable money. For 35 years he let his hair grow. He believed that he had power over death and would not pass away like other people but would go straight up to heaven in the flesh. He was 73 years of age.

—Newark Daily Advocate, Newark, Ohio, January 30, 1901, page 1.