Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-02-22

HE WIPED LARGE HOT TEAR FROM MY
HEAD.
Some was flowing and. some had fed.
thought of this sentiment whilst he was
shaving me, and when he had finished 1
wrote 1t in his album for him.
At times he spoke almost sadly of the
past and of those he had shaved, who we're
now In land where full boards are worn
almost exclusively. Once, as he spoke of
statesman who had passed on and left us,
he asked me to excuse him as he wiped a
large hot tear from the top of my head.
said, Never mind weep on, thou sad
hearted man. Relieve thine oercharged
orbs; II will do. thee good. l have wept
does me good to see thee do so now"
When he had recovered himself a little,
he wiped his eyes somewhat on q towel,
and, going into the clothes press for a few
moments, where l heard him measuring
out some congh medicine: he soon returned,
frightened up great deal, he and his
breath both having gained great deal of
strength, it seemed to me.
He said that he used to shave Commo-
dore Vanderbilt. 1 asked him how the
commodore was to shave. He said that
he always got shaved at home g" used
to go up every morning and shave him al
his home. He left orders that I was to
come to his room, and there would always
find him in his shirt sleeves. He rarely
swOre at me, fearing that might acciden-
tally cut his cheek. He frequently had
soft boiled egg on the end OF his nose, but
l never laid up anything agn him for
that You never can'tell where soft boiled
egg Will light l even found soft boiled
egg on Mr.. Beecher's chin once and he
said that 1t must have been there all through
never know when yOu eat a soft boiled egg
whether the most Off went inside on the
lining of the coats of the stomach or outside
on the lining of your overcoat, or in your
ear or down the back of your neck.
"One time, however, the commodore
Der. l had shaved him little too close,
and so his face bled little. OF course I
had to rub alum on it to stop the bleeding,
and it made the old man quite smart for
one of his time of life He got kind of
hot and told me could go away and never
wife and family and l would like very
much to stay.
"'No, said he, you cannot shave "for
billed owl, "or' for sour apples, or "the
ace of spades, or some such thing he
said, know. But, said he. Il do not
want to see your family suffer. You have
cut my face so often now, you-mullet
head, and then puckered it up with alum.
that my mouth stays open all the time and
pretty soon 1 will have to put gore into
the back of my neck. Go away from my
house and never. never return il you
please. As I said, do not want your
family TO suffer, and so l will give you a
letter to business man l know down
town, who will see that you get job at
his place. Now go away.
He gave me the letter, and / opened it
careful so as not to cut the check, If there
was any into it. But there wasn't any.
1t was just short letter. II said:
DEAR JouN-This will introduce barber
S who has been prastcing on me for quite awhile
where now feel like giving h i'm this he lrty and
earnest letter to you. He has family dependent
do around your Justly celebrated slaughter
house will be duly appreciated by.
hGH!S try i, frs, on thseaas he eatts iha,
are already dead. CIV"
"Did you ever shave any other cele-
brated people besides Vanderbilt and me?"
Yes. l used to shave Mr.. Barrett
Lawrence Barrett, the great actor, when
he was in hurry. He entered the shop
rather soft and glidy like, as if he was
looking for julius Caesar, with a view OF
stabbing him at an early date.
~ would say, Good morning, Mr..
Barrett.
He would say, 'Sirrah, ] know thee
notP He would then fold his arms, and,
with growing wonder and delight, look in
the mirror at the only man for whom he
ever showed a genuine respt ct and esteem
would take of his coat and fold his arms
again and throw back his head and try to
look like the man who acts as chief train
dispatcher for the solar system.
=" Larry l would say, come off the
perch now. 1t is our turn, Mr.. Branni-
gan.
"But he would rock back on his heels
and throw out his chest and kind of skuh
his shoes Oh the floor like a tumbler that
is chalking his feet in the circus, habit
he got when he was bareback rider, and
then he would inhale and exhale his
breath quickly like a gentleman who has
blown out the gas and Is partially asphyx-
lated, but which really meant passion, sc
l understand, and then he would say:
go Hah Swagger not, thou topless var
lot, thou unwhelked hy-up the-creek
Salute me not thou pam American slough
ton bottle and tallow spatter on the brow
of nature. Avaunt! Shet up!
"Wilt thou forsooth pour the ribald
"Next!" into the ear of Laur-r-renc'
Barr-r-r-r-rette?
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