Show I MEN BARBERS I And n Became Statesmen Writers e and n Mn Men of Affairs f Pittsburg Dispatch J It has beet n he delight of of the thc bio cr era to how the printers devil the dJ I pour farm lad tb the Street and th the mechanics lad hid have han struggled onward a and upward to distinction ApParently th h have yc ignored the bar br her boys a bie n Suva says the tit Mern AI aL Nevertheless s there are numerous in Ilan stances If t bombers who ho haw have celebrities in in various fields of human varius field endeavor In former times th the harbors craft was dignified J with ith th the title of craf WIS b it known It wa was conjoined with the art rt of surgery In the time or of henry VII of it wa wa enacted td that the VII b bar I b bees should teuk confine themselves s to the minor Operations of bloodlettIng and h teth teeth while the surgeons eons w were re prohibited from barbery or shaving La th the middle of the eighteenth L nth two e were entirely separate Th The strip striped pl poLe il in front of shops to da day is symbolic of former tiDe timer sug gesting eing th the period when the bar barber r was s al aba a and indicatIng the ribbon for bandaging ng the arts arm In bleeding I It was as long after th the vocations became b dIstinct that Edward w Su Sug den r rout to eminence Sug Sugden en was th 8 son of a 2 hairdresser in Duke street Westminster and was assistant in iii the shop When hen II In WAS 41 years er o of a age he was mad made kin kings counsel and ChOn a bencher of Inn an ruder the firt first of Lord Derby h he was ri d to the Peerage as Lord St Leon Leonards arse ards It g goes without saying that there l rf n net lacking laking persons to twit him with ih his form former occupation ad and this story tor Is 8 told Once when addressing tol a crowd in ti the interest of his own on andi tisey datY to parliament a sian cU called f out to know what was worth and how lath Jath er em was made mae maer r 1 a am particularly obliged to that gen for br tue me of my origin in said Sir Ear Edward I It is true that or r 1 am a s son was S once myself a Ht br barber r I If the thc entman who ho so politely mf me of Ul these fads facts had s been a ben barber he shows here that lie hl would have remained one to the end of hi lila life Then there was as Charl Charles Abbott lff a bar hers son on a scrubby little ld lad who used to walt on h his father with 1701 razors and a I pewter bowl wl als also made a per peer o of England An English writer has said of a Sd thin inventive Englishman tan While hUe lila his inv have han conferred infinitely more real on his own country than 81 have hae df derived rived from the absolute dominion of Mexico xio and Peru they have ben been universally productive of wealth an and enjoyment enjoyment genius va was Sir Richard Arkwright and lila his Inventions were In the cotton spinning spinning industry lt He was vs bor born in l 1732 turn turned from wig making when the trade f fel fell of off became enormously wealthy was made a peer and died in the pr year ar of Irs his age ae literature has ben made rich er en b by at Jest least thre three barbers rih Jeremy Taylor aas brought up in his fathers shop at Cambridge England lie Ip is perhaps the mt most famous of an all the br barbers rs hi his bk books remaining popular at af te O years year A critic says truthfully that his work is especially literary Weighty with argument his sermons and argument books of devotion are sti still rEad among us for th their r sw sweet t an and deEp devotion and thir their rapidly and poetic clo do q nef Hi Ills mot most important work Is The Liberty of Prophesying The greatest English naval Poet Carle Charles Dibdin taking rank as S second was William lt Falconer lie He wa was a barber in his poem The Ship Teck n not oly only made him famous hut but won him 8 a crr career In the thc royal navy This pem poem b by th the way ws was bd based on his own fx experience When y yet t young he had a han e to tae take a voyage o on an English ag v vessel 1 bund bound for VenIce Vence Tle The ship Was overtaken by 8 a dreadful storm off Cape Colonn and was wr wrecked Ked only three cf f the crew bin being sved saved On One of th these was waR I Falconer and the incidents of r the VOy age and it Its disastrous tru termination formed the subject of hi his oem Strangely enough the terrors of the sea which hr ho hoso s so eloquently derbe describes did not deter him I from following f It and he wa was lost in the wreck of Another ship a few years ears later Allan Anan Ramsay the Scottish et who died the year fr before the birth of Burns il is justy justly celebrated in the literature of England Tle The Gentle Shepherd is espe daily of ep worthy remembrance being a apure apure pure tend tender r and genuine picture of Scot tish life and Jve love among th por poor in th the countr country He c carried m n th of rural life and love Jov and humor which Burs Burns per fete Alan Allan Ramsey was at one thue a prosperous wigmaker wigmaker Benjamin Franklin made more than a national reputation with th his Por Poor Rich Richards Richards a ards AlamanaC Alamanac t No doubt Franklin got o the name for lila almanac from William the barber who issued the Poor Ruin Roin almanacs from 16 1662 onward I It was time the sm same barber who set th the ox ex example ample of publishing the almanac joke Carle Charles Day who made a In blacking was as a barber before bere he invented his famous she shoe polish Cg Craggs who was wan secretary of the South Sea bubble WAS a barter turned At one Ume he be was enormously wealthy Being a fearless erl plunger he went a as far as the most tar dar ng mg In his sula speculatIons Uon s and when the crash came camf his went wih with i It and he committed suicide Giovanni who leared learned the br bar barbers bers bers trade in Padua a varied career ending in his enrichment He remove removed to toRme toRome Rome when R a young man but went to h 15 is zater he be beg gait traveling in time becoming one of the g mot most gifted Egyptian explorers He r me move moved Memnon from Thebes to England wa was the first to Int into the second great great pyramid of and up seve several l splendid tombs tomb Few barbers however have beer as successful as the penurious and miserly speculator of London John o Courtois He Heid cid id not hesitate to pocket a str stray penlY when in his best I It Is iR re related re that Lord Gage at a a meeting n n the Est East Indian comp company once fOn fount Courtois preen present Ah Ab Courtois what are arc you ou doing hee borer b he asked IT II am here to vote Yote my lord was as the answEr vh t Yo Yot a a And wih with how many vot votes I am a proprietor an and heye have four r vote votes Sl salt t the t kb Ah Wel Well we go o t to suppose O fb fix my c chrIs abi abit COur And the wealthy art d Ute the pOcketing lyal al although tho though gh at his deth death shorty shortly after he Jef left of 00 |