Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-10-05

far srirpassing the other in elegance Of
appointments, and in which, with new
mugs, soaps, trazors, perfumes, stood a
barber and assistants ready to do duty
on, the heads Of the people. Over the
door was inscribed, "William Harring-
ton, Shaving and Hair Dressing Sa-
loon. ."'"yr sIj ~ ,gf- lrs a-.p1Y 9ft
The people We're not long in ascer+
tanning or slow in, availing themselves
Of the privileges of this establishment,
and it is not to be wondered that it was
crowded and the other deserted. The
other held out some weeks, siispecting
this free shaving--fori Bill J, kept his
secret yel7rwas buts dodge to ,entice
customers away, who would soon be
charged ns usual; but When at the end
Of six weeks he found Billy working
awny al nsual, charging not q cent for
his labor, and having money to spend,
he came to the conclusion that he must
have drawn a prize in the lottery, or
stumbled upon gold mine, and was
keeping barber shop for fun, 80 he
closed the shop in despair and left the
place. Ene,.t7 =; .f,,'r ... ,.,.- al. 2
Meanwhile, Bill Harrington kept on
busy as a bee, and one fine morning his
employer stepped in, and, without a
word, sat down and was shaved; on
rising from his seat he asked to see the
score for the six months past. The
barber exhibited it, and after careful
calculation, the old man said: AS W.
- Plenty of customers, ELI p VI .-'t
Lots of 'em, !" sdid the barber;
"neyer did such business in my lifey
"Well," replied Money Bags, "you
have kept the account well. Isee I've
paid you one hundred and twenty dol
lars for your, services-all right-and
there are three hundred and thirty
charged for shaving all that applied;
now, this furniture cost one hundred
and eight. dollars; balance due you one
hundred and two dollars. Here it is.
Now you own this furniture, and are to
have this shop rent free six months
longer, and after to-day you are to
charge the regular price for work, for
Your pay from ME stops to-day."ati- g,
This Of course, the barber gladly as
sented to. r
"But," said the old man, on leaving,
"takc care YOU never cheat d man by
charging ten times the usual price for
shave, for it maybe another fold
Billy Gibbons, 80 an "a, o. ..,.,r
EE- The Ku-Klux business, bis an
clectioneerihg dodge, has been worked
over until becoming SO stale that even
Radical papers cast the refuse into the
gutter The Philadelphia Inquirer (Rad-
ical) says: H''7 7' Use > ''~ 't f'a. ~
Twelve volumes OF Ku-Klux testi-
mony have already been printed and
delivered at the printing room at the
Capitol at Washington; three more are
to be added, making fifteen volumes
in all, with an addition of eight thous.
and volumes octava, making full edi-
ton of five hundred and thirty-three
SETS. The cost of printing this dreary
mass of stuff will be very great, and af-
ter the press is stopped the whole is
likely, by degrees, to find itself at the
paper mill, sold at the price of old pd-
per, doomed to be ground over and
made into fresh pulp for, it is to be
hoped, some better purpose than that
to which the paper was last devoted. ~
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. AZ, One of the ablest and best of
the Confederate chieftains was Gen. D.
H. Hill, of North Carolina, In the last
number OF the Charlotte North Carroll
nay Southern Home, of which he is the
editor, he says: =" 50
.s"We give to-day the acceptance of
Hon. Horace Greeley, There are some
expressions which we would like to see
struck out But, on, the whole, it is
liberal, catholic, frank, generous and
manly. think that the Baltimore
Convention can safely accept him with
this letter and the platform upon which
he stands. He has come, more than
half way with extended hand to, meet
the 'estranged and oppressed South,
and we can consistently, with our ideas
of honor and chivalry, step forward to
welcome him." Gs5d oYah isdl splsnaoa
So Sir Walter Scott Wrote: The
race of mankind would perish did we
cease to help each other. From the
time that the mother binds the child's
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