Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-05-27
a1beelin9 Register
NYE AT THE CAPITAL.
WILLIAM ENJOYS A FRIENDLY CHAT
WITH GROVER
Remarks About BlrSarS and Pa.snt RazJr-An
Ar Of Craftsmanship That Hangs About the
ColOrVd Population.

WASHINGTON, D. O., May 19.-When
got of the Pennsylvania train yesterday
went to barber shop before did any
thing else. have thick, Venetian red,
chinchilla beard, which grows very rapidly,
and which gives me a fuzzy appearance
every "a hours, unless place myself fire.
queutly in ths hands OF q harder. At first
/ used to shave myself, but / cut myself Il
pieces in such sicksnipg manner, with,
out seeming to impede the grwth of the
rich aud foxy beard, that until last sum-
mer gave mp being my own barber. AT
that time / was presented with q safety
razor which the manufacturer said would
not cut my face, because il was impossible
for 1t to cut anything except the beard.
The safety razor resembles in appearance
several other toilet articles, such as the
spoke shave, the road scraper, the can
opener, the lawn mower and the turpine
water wheel, but il does not look like a
razor. 1t also looks like a carpet sweeper
some, and reminds me ola monkey wrench
IL ~ said that you can shave yourself on q
train If you Will use this instrument l
tried it once last winter while going West.
In fact took the trip largely 10 see If one
COuld shave on board the train safely with
this razor. had no special trouble Al
least / did not cut off any features that 1
cared anything about, but was disap-
pointed IN the results, and also In the
length Of time consumed in cleaning the
razor after got through was shaving
myself only from FOr;y-second street to
Albany, but it took from Albany TO Omaha
TO pull the razor apart, aud to dig out the
coagulated lather and the dear, dead
whiskers. now employ valet, whose
name il P&tris McGloria. He irons my
trousers, shsves and dresses me and mows
the lawn. When | come 10 Washington
am too democratic TO travel with valet,
fearing that il might cost me several thou
sand votes some day, and so / leave my
valet ut home To wash and dress the salad.
In that way he does not miss rue, and ]
get the credit at Washington OF being a
man who spends so much time thinking OF
his country's welfare that he doesn't have
chance to look pretty.
HE MEETS THE PRESIDENT.
did not fall into a very gaudy barber
shop. >The appointments were like some
OF the President appointments, Thought,
viz in poor taste, bu. this is not political
letter. | do not wish to antagonizs any
body, especially tho President of the
United States. lie haS always treated ME
well. When l met him to-day I said;
"Mr. President" said /, looking down
calmly into his eyes % though l would
read HIS very soul, and while held his
haud and prevented hS going
away, "Mr. President, you m eet
a great many people, am told. MOIST
mOutbed babies from great distance are
brOaght 20 you, many of them suffering
with disOTdered and aciduiated stomachs.
You kiss these children and TINS please
their parents. Besides, you meet thous-
anJs of people who are not parents. Hou
are constantly meetiUg officials and the
yeoinaury of every State. Thousands OF
people every year come many hundreds of
miles To shake hands with you, visit
Mount Vernon, borrow few dollars and
90 home. am told that in year, es'
pecially il You visit the bounding West,
Won shake hands with nearly &C, 5000 pea
pie " lie laughed heartily and shook
hands with another man.
/ will now return 10 the barber shop
1t was a plain structure, with beautiful
sarsaparilla pictures here and there on the
walls snd faint Odor OF rancid pOmatum
ami oyerworked hair restOrStiyes.
Tuere we're three chairs richly uphOls-
tered in tuo-rly carpeting of some inhAm-
matnry hue, with large vines and the kind
of flowers which grow on carpets and no
where else. | have seen blossoms woven
into ingram carpets, varying in color from
a dead black 10 the color Of hepatized
lung, hut have never seen one that re-
minded ms OF anything | ever saw IN
nature. The chair l sat IN also had springs
in it. They were made OF selections from
the Washington Monument.
4 GARBNEOUs HAETT.
The barber VINO waited on me asked me
if wanted shave. a great many BARRIERS
ask me this during the year. Sometimes
they do il for habit and sometimes they 90
il TO brighten mp my life and bring smile
To nv wan cheek. A l have no hair the
thinking mind naturally and by direct
course of reasoning arrives ut the eonclu-
sion that when 90 into barber shop and
climb into chair, do so for the purpose
of getting shaved and not with the ldea oil
having ny fortune told or my deposition
take. Still BARRIERS continue TO ask mt
this question and look at each other VIII
iu-concealed mirth.
1 said yes / would like shave unless hi
preferred tO take my temperature, OF
amuse Tue by making q death mask OF him
self He then began to strap large razor
with a dOnble-shUille movement anu u
size me no at the same time. He was 8
aeolored man, but he had lived in Wash
ingtOn q long time and knew great dea
more than ne would if his lot had taller
elsewhere. He spoke with some feeling
and fed me with about the most uupala
table lather / think ever participated IN
He also did an odd thing when he wen
for the second time over my face. l never
have noticed the custom outside OF tna
shop. Most BARRIERS, in making the seeont
trim over q customers face, mOiStens on'
side at a time with a sponge or the dsmI
hand as they 20 along, but 10 tins case
large quantity Of lather was put in my ca
and. as he needed il, he took out what d
required from time TO time, using his hinge
like a paint brush and spreading on TN
Iather as he went along. SOaceurately ha
he learned TO measure the quantity o
Iather which an ear will hold thst whel
he got through with rue and | went ava,
there WAS not tablespoonful in either ca
and possibly not that much.
HE MEETS A PATRIOT.
While sat in the chair heard man
who seemed to be in about the third chat
from me, saying that certain bill mum
bered 40 and 50 had been referred to cer
tain committee snd would undoubtedly D
reported layorably. Ifso, it would IN II
regular order come up for discussion an
reach o vote 80 and so. l was eharme
with the mans knowledge Of the condition
of affairs in both Houses and the exac
status of all threatened legislation, becaus
I ALWAYS have to stop and think goo
while before can tell whether bill orig
nates On the floor of the House or IN tn
could not sea this man, but 1 judge
that he was Senator or Sergesnt-at-Arm'
Ha talked for some time about the col
dition of national affairs, and hnallY som
ona said something about evolution