Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1867-05-29
The Last Man im Tie Barber
Shop.


| Shop.
We have seen many illustrations of mis-.
cry, many that move the hardest heart To
pity; but nothing can be more touching to
an observer, nothing better defines misery,
than man in barber shop, with dozen
or so ahead of him, waiting to DO shaved.
1t is impossible for any one who never has
experienced it to know how much terve Is
required to pass successfully through this Or
deal. Different natures, Of course, exper
icpce different degrees Of misery u they
wait. ''The poor but virtuo,w youpg man,
struggling with moustache" (the fading
hue Of which has brought him again to the
tansoiial artist, having an engagement with
Susan-who has told him, anything but q
icllcr as isn't ON timc"-can probably be
put down as the subject Of most abjecl
wretchedncss and despair, as he enters and
looks around upon 'lcss miserables'' who
are ahead of him, the last Of whom
mingles with his misery grim satisfaction
that some one comes after him. 70.
The young man would rather "dye" at
once than be subjected to the suspense Ls
must endure. Talk Of ambition; Of fame,
as she becons from afar to the midnight
porcr over volumes filed with learning aud
wisdom, or to the warrior US he cuts his way
with his sword and wades through seas Of
blood to her shining goal The scholars
ambition fades to illsigIiGcance, and the
soldiers dream Of glory vanislles before the
mighty yeanings of the last man III the
barber shop, waiting for his turn. No goal
but the cushioned chair docs he see, 80
near, and yet so far"
+ There is music to him in tho barber's
next, as it lessons the distance between
him and his ambitious goal and when it
finally appeals to him, he experiences as joy
that the honicd wogdsof hattery fail to bring
to him who has found fame. Enforce the
Maine law prohibiting ,itiug hoops, make
good street crossings, &C., and We will sub
nit, but deliver us good Lord, from being
the last man in the BARRIERS shop.
---s>eee
afy" During the war the Richmond pa
pcrs were full Of the grosscst abuse Of A6ia.
ham Lincolli, ''thc Yankees" and SO forth
When We got Il batch Of them we always
published the most violent Of their articles
and had a good laugh at them for the next
two days. We never got angry. We took
their attacks in the best Of hum6r.-N y.
HcruM
Singular! bvs We did precisely the same
thing. Whenever tile Herald came to hand
with articles abusive of Abraham Lincoln
we copied them a nd never thought of get
ting angry The Heral,fs famous "snutty
joker article had an unprecedented run in
the southern press, ard they all took it lin
the best of huEur. '-Richaa2na Wig.
tn. SANE EyEEYwHERk radical
psptr says that 'unisr the garb Of excessive
loyalty, tie Treasury Of New York has
been plunlcrcl and the State disgraccd.
This is true Of every Northern State, and Of
every town and city where loyal adicalism
has held sway. One hal of the debts and
taxes under which the States, towns and
people or tie North arc now weighed down,
arc the result of this swindling under the
garb Of excessive loyalty And this plum
lcring is still going on. How much longer
is it to bc tolerated?
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