Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-03-30

Of the humber trades, the BARRIERS have
contributed their share to the ranks Of fame.
Sir Richard Arkwright, as is well known,
passed the earlier part of his life in barber's
shop. His invention of the spinning jenny
and other machinery connected with cotton
weaving founded new and important indus
| try. Born at Preston, in 1892, the youngest
Of thirteen children of poor parents, he was
apMenticed to barber, and until he was near.
ly thirty years of age he went through The dai-
ly routine of the barber's shop. In the year
dealer in human hair, which he sold to the
wig makers and the success of a dye that he
had invented, by which he raised the value of
the hair that he sold, is supposed to have Civ.
en- him the idea Of the worth of those patented
inventions to which he shortly began to devote
his whole powers, and which eventually led
him to wealth, distinction and honor. Thus
the cotton trade owes it's present position to
the talents and perseyering industry Of poor
barber.
Out of barber's shop, at Canterbury, came
Lord Charles Abbott Tenderten, Chief Justice
Of the Queens Bench as boy he assisted his
father in the business, and went with him to
the houses of those upon whom he profession
ally waited. The boy is remembered to have
been las decent, grave and primitive looking"
as his father. Lord st. Leonards, Lord Chan
cellor Of England, was also the son of a hair
dresser So was Bishop Jeremy Taylor, whose
father was barber at Cambridge. Another
Taylor-Dr. John Taylor, Arch Deacon of
Buckingham and Canon of st. Paul's-was
also barber's son at Shrewsbury, and his fa-
ther wished to bring him up to his own trade,
but in Difference to the advice of gentleman
of fortune, he allowed his son to attend the
grammar school, where his literary abilities
were soon discerned. The father of the cele-
brated Belzoni, athlete and traveller, was a
barber at Padua. John Folez, an old German
poet, was himself barber. John Kershaw,
the founder Of the celebrated printing firm at
Leeds, began life as barber. He had always
in his shop plentiful supply of newspapers
and periodicals, and could be read by his Gus
toners while they were waiting to be shaved.
He received orders to supply these regularly to
certain customers, which circumstance proved
to be the foundation of his future business
AS he devoted himself on Sundays to teaching
Sunday school, his barber shop bore the
unusual notice, '"This shop is closed OIL Sun
days." When John kershaw put up that no
tice his friends prophesied bis failure. At one
time, and I fancy even down to the present
day, there were many who never troubled a
barber but one day in week, and preferred to
60 to him then on Sunday morning to have
"a shave and a clean up.'' Hood refers to
this hebdomadal shave in his poem, "Our Viii
lage.'
There's barbers once a week we'll filled with
rough, black bearded, shock-headed curls,
And window with two feminine mems heads,
and masculine ladies In false curls
These customers of the barber's shop must
have resembled the country pumpkin,
Poor Hodge, who suffered from big black
beard,
That seemed shoe. brush stuck beneath his
nose;
whom Peter Pinder made to be the victim
of that rascally razor-vender, who sold razors
that were "made to sell'' and not to cut.
They would not however be such formidable
customers as was the long bearded foreigner
in George Cruikshank's etching, who jaunti-
ly enters the barber's shop, and addressing its
owner, says. "You shave-a for penny then
shave me!'' One of the pieces in which
Master Betty, s'the Infant Rosicus," appear
ed, represented the outside of q barber's shop,
on which was printed this couplet
What do you think
III shave you for nothing and give you some
drink
The customer accordingly claimed a gratui-
tous shave, and glass of something to drink,
when the barber explained. that the eouplet
was to be read thus:
What! do you think
I'll shave you for nothing and give you some
drinkf
s'Of course won't do anything Of the kind ;
80 pay up for your shavew The couplet has
since obtained almost proverbial fame
Home Journal.
THE SHOWMAN's TRADE.-A Snowman af-
ter assuring a reporter that nothing pleases
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