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Show j Tlie barber's p jliiics vary usually in accordance wilh his complexion, the colored hein' Republican, the pan f moie or leis Dem icr.iic;there at! a feu Indepen.'.ii.ls, ai.d I have lieaitl f oi.e or two W&i umps; but the la'ler never e t into ur in 01 1 1 ; .1 ; ti a:m s;!u te, oi il tllV d d.ttley slirivelled up and di sap- ! I ea e l at tn-s irl c :ract with the lie c mdit'oii, like the late suiplus ii: tile j ! treasury. In re i.;i n he is inclined !o lit j liberal, cos iii'p .lnan. unie:sal. He is l much taken uo w.th snapins; through j tiiis hle-sjcessfiillvtiiat he (I es n. t have j ! as nvich time as some other pe ple who ; ale alrealv "tixeii" r , bestow up ai the J ' mvlfiioii sujirl,-iiilv; a!be t he is not ! : Sabbath bre kei; especia ly wh i- ! olh is ot bis cal ii. stand in w.'n li ni ill ; not b eakun it 1 sjuieiimes won ler ! whether tile a lluttnt f salvati. n ac-ijui.ed ac-ijui.ed tnri uh t.'is po c ss eiua!s in ex (tent Hie coiid jinn it on visited upon j otlitis wao tau'l rt shaved and theie-j theie-j lore can't 40 u c lutcn 011 Sun av, ami j Hose v nces 'ii c n.sf( it-i.e.- are ufi-! ufi-! t.lllcs I fled up in palil c pi at es, lul not ill the lauaae ot p .ai i: I h pe ii : d-..-s. liaibeis aie Sometimes I ke carpeuten in ui.e ie-pecl and 11 t I ke them 111 an , otnci. iiulli use d.d txols, but you ' couldn't Man a tile w..h atiaibei 's.Miav-ihi;s 's.Miav-ihi;s any more iliao vou co.nd harness a sice of .iimosuliere and ill ke It obey j Van will. AiSo Siimenliat like unto 1 aniieis, 111 (lie iletlness With which they ; handle the biush. Likewise, icsemblint; latlii is I .t ubviotis teasons. Jiesules, .decdedly an 11 1 , eailv seiilers 111 on t : they iinpiiAe ihe face of natiiie. I Tiiere is s me quest, un as to tiie : otiyai at the bather's pole. One account I (I have read inauy),s to the e fleet that it grew out of a c rcuuistance wli.c.i occur-ed occur-ed tn a noble Venetian l.imily Count 1 Micsy O'Dowd, He was a confeclioi.ei Barbers & Barbering A Ph astini Subject Plea antly Discussed. The haiber Imsiuess is very old and C irieNOondiiiiilv lespect ible one I forget for-get whether or not l'liny"Fiieside Tales," and am in si me little doubt as to what if anv reference to the sin ject under cmi sidetatioii is made m the v- iks ot Holace (surname ii"t stveii) but eel am it is that it i.' Veiv aiitiuue, and Some oi its devotees ate quite aulic also. One conspicuous instance ol baiberii g in anc ent tunes yve liud duly lecoided in Holy vV'r.t. It als serves as a wau.-in wau.-in to tnose wli i i.ccast naliv indulge in homemade iMir-.'iittnijj, shaving Ac , when there ar men in the community who make a living by such means and Sometimes pay license lot the pnvile.e The instance lefeiied lo was in the case of a man proud ol Ins Iconic locks I by trade, als 1 chief po s met to the Ooe j and U. gess; whenever thev suspected i any one ol designs against the state.such peitoti leceived, w till Compliments of O'l'owd, a package of choice candy, I Which Soon lestoied seieuitv to the government. gov-ernment. O'Doud kept a huge stick of j candy suspended in front ol his stole as I a s gn, Due day by 111 siake he 'asted a piice of candy designed lor the Dodge's suspects, and suddenly darted thiongli the opaque veil which seperates us fiont the shadowy hence, llis son, who was ! a barber, succeeded hitu.and discontinued I the confectionery business but lett the j sign standing; so that in tune a big sink of candy got to be the emblem of the barbe, 's crafl. I have closed this article without once resonii g to the cjstotnaiy aliliction of making a p'ay oil the work "batbarous." This fact alone should entitle tne chapter chap-ter to thou,; htful and respectful considei -abort. F.ssav Caioh and exultant 111 h.s exubetant stienglh. His family name was Sams. m but il 1 lie ffiiks ever gave him another, it has not decended to us. 1 le was the champion heavy weight ptigil st of his day. It is said of him that on one occasion oc-casion he dispersed a whole brigade ol fi'ht .lg'pet pie called Philistines w ith 110 other weapon than the jawbone of an ass. The same weapon is still used extensively ex-tensively in Congress. but with lesseiiect. Hut let me not distress. Samson got in to an entangling alliance with the Maria Halpin of that epoch, and whose full name was Deliah O'l'oolti (the latter of it being apochrvphal J Under the influence tf her blandishments blandish-ments he consented to have a cheap domestic hair-cut, and feaiing he might back out, she reached fur her scissors and went for his locks 011 the spot. The result was that Samson's head soon looked like a patch ol grass in which a mule with thiee front teeth out had been grazing. And when the tresses culled up in a huge muss 011 the il ior, the atheist's ath-eist's strength departed from him also, and so he '.-ailed unto M.ss O'l'oole to live him back his prowess, but she only answered "Ha, ha!" So much for home cuied tonsorialism. It has ntvei been popular since. Tne childiencf Isiael once realized the benefits of a barber's procedure. They were getting hence with consider-ablecaler.iy. consider-ablecaler.iy. King Ptiaroah was after them in hot haste anil had gained several sev-eral laps when the "ch Idieu" who ranged rang-ed in age onn 25 to ioo yeais ran tight upng.ni s: the Red (bended) sea. Tins looked bail, and II d d s' til as lliotigh j the puisiiei.s wi-ie desta.ed to calch on, j but just ,11 this jiinctute the water p. ut i ud . nthe left s de and the fugitives j .vei 1 lhioilg:i sately; but It yv as a cl..se ! il'.ave. liatbers ei j y a raie distinction, theii pr feSMnii lien.g Hie .:atlii'g point ol alloiiigie.it in -i.'s caieeis; tntse weie ill once luile sliavets. A tiatiiei 111 ikes a good witness me-times. me-times. 1 renieinin r a c is-j in tlie I'IhkI D.stiict Coin 1. in w h ii h one of the ha-tel ha-tel 11 IV wno v as tnipeifi-cl.y ltlt a'bed, was in lue cil air. IJ :cs!i nol .1- lo h:s exoeiience Kenerallv, ie deflated that he had shaved s tine ol ,,iiat:iie,s noble men"in this netgiiboiho md. (Ju be being asked to tell a few of them, he leeled off a lot of names with the gteatest celerity, among them Doc Spragne, P H. Lau nan, Captain Stover and Peler Jackson! The average Salt Lake barber, like his brethren elsewhere I expect is disposed to ariab lity strongly tinctured Willi loquacity, loqua-city, llis range of discussion tuns all the way Irtm excusable expletives legarding Hies and dast, to expositions ol and dis-s dis-s rtalions upon the problems of Euclid. It is not so 'bad when he tins the machine ma-chine himself; but when he engages in a r,i inniK s at tments of such a nature that you have to answer null now ana tlien or check the verbal tluod abruptly and rudely, it is atiothei nuttier entirely. This invariably happens when the polished blade is llyiiij" around your chin and lo move it the least bit is lo court disaster if not death. This is about Ihe way it goes with such a custouiei: "oood in oruiii, sir, good morion;;. Your turn next. Sit njjlit down, sir, and read the p.ipcr lor just one minute Veiy iiitetestioy paper this morniiii;, sir, There you are sir." And you lead and re.id till that one minute lakes seed and giows into mat y Alter a half-hour ol your tune lias gone to join the silent and int cl.iiniadie measure meas-ure of the past, the volume of lantia.je is diverted from the latest victim to you "Ah! your turn now, sir. Hair cut, sit? No? Shampoo? No? Only a shave, veiv well, very well, beitililtil day, isn't il? Much nicer then yesterday. (Juile a runaway run-away that, yesterday." "Fraid somebody would he hurt, p'raps killed, and it was mightv fottunate nobody wasn't, sure's you're botn. Know the lady that was in the bugKy-iiicefam-ily-fine girl, tine girl. Acquainted with her, sit?" (He is just getting down to Setting down to the broadest part of your jaw now, and you make haste lo say "uo" before the danger becomes more pronounced.) "No? Well, well. Do you know the O'Looneys?" (you give a negative grunt, and the Iuq iisttori.il in two senses perforniance.uroceeus to a finish. It is fifteen minutes of subdued quivering anguish.and when it is all over and you descend from the rack, it is with a budding determination to let your beaid grow. I would here, however, give notice that there aie a good many excellent exceptions to the foregoing. One is located in the place 1 came from in Missouri, and he is quite wealthy, his patronage being a Continuous and contented con-tented throng. In early youth he had the misfortune to have a cancer on his tongue, and before the work of the loath some destroyer could be checked, so much of the member w.is eaten away that the boy was entirely deprived of the power ol speech; this made it necessary neces-sary for him to lollow a calling in which talking could be dispensed with, and. as previously suggested, he became pop.1l.1r and wealthy. Another exception is Ihe barber I patronize in Salt l,ake, a "rattling "rat-tling good lellow." who either does not say much or coiks up when I am arouud And I wish it distinctly understood thai nothing herein contained has the remotest remot-est reference to James ti Watts, their agents, heirs, executors or assigns Those who are best acquainted wilh j me, will say, on reading these lines, something about glass houses.stones.eic , and I plead guilty lo the habit of talking ! a great deal and saytug tolerably little 1 on occasion; bu' in a go-as-you please I verbal contest, with some knight jot the blade, I would not be in il from start to finish. |