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Show WAS IT A SCHEME ? The Barber "Shorty," and His Aiioiiiiiious Letter. The local jotting we made the other day, relating I ho" fact that -'Suorty." the barber on J street received an j anoniiiuuis letter, threatening him wilh j a nose ol tar and leatheis, has resulted j i:i the other barbels of this city handing hand-ing us the I olio w inu let ler. w it Ii an urgent ur-gent icqut st for its publication. Thc set in to ti ink it was a scheme of his to g t some fiee advertising: Puoo. AtU'.ist (1, 1891. j Editoi: Disi'atcm : f u.i Dispatch, jot .ugl.st hth, spt aks ol Shorty,' tie barber, as l av ing received a leiwrwiti I tar and feathers in h, and a warning 1 word added to its address. lhb i "Miorty" las to the other barbers, as I having taken this means to get bun lo charge the tegular going pi ices. I r m i which he lias deyia.e t. .s none ol the joiher loliS"! iali.-ts knew anyihing of the letter, and the ungeiitleman iy ami untrue charge ni.ide, we thou. lit it. a Scheme ot his own. and ii s way of saying say-ing something of i ho.se of h's own pro fession ; also a cheap way of advertising advertis-ing for 1 in fell'. It seems, though, that ''shorty" expected soim-thing from some other source, bouncing hint lor lower deeds than cutting prices on hs own and others' labor. He has no cause lo be frightened of his friends, the barbers, for whom he has wcrked :n several shops. We would not stoop so low as to resort to tar ami feathers, for vve consider t hat the honest vvork-ni' vvork-ni' n f this country honor honest pay and despise a scab. (Signed.) K. 0. Sutton", Alheut M annexing, A. Ii. Bennett. W. II. Hemming, G. A. Cluff. Lo.x McLaffeuty, John II. Ciiadwicic. |