Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-07-30
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The Barber plsooursss.

He had spread on the lather and
was strapping the razor.
Some folks say BARRIERS talk too
much" said he, "but I have been in
the business these twenty years and I
never noticed it.
A gentleman rode by in his carriage.
There goes old Biggins," said the
barber. He shayes himself. There
Is one thing I never could understand
about rich men. Why is it that as
soon as a man gets lot of money his
opinion at once becomes valuable?
Why is it that when a man has in
vented potatO-peeler on an idea which
his wife gave him and has made a
fortune out of it, he at once becomes
an oracle and can answer knotty ques-
tiOns IN ethics or metaphysics or
political economy to everybody's salts
faction? L can't seem to reason it out
why man who ran a milk route for
thirty-seven years and hidden the pro-
ceeds of 1t under the corner of the car
pet until he becomes rich enough to
retire, should know more about thera-
peutics than a whole convention of
doctors and a revised edition of
nlateriG nledicG, but the world takes
his diagnosis of every disease, physi-
cal, mental or moral, political or
ecclesiastical. I knew a man once
who went West because he couldn't
make a living at anything at home.
Going over a mountain one day he
stubbed his toe on a nugget of gold
and shoYeled up enough to make him
rich. When he came back home the
people thought they had all been mis-
taken when they judged him to be q
fool he had money, you see, and
that made him wise. There was
another man in our town who lent his
brother some money and when the
time came to pay it, the brother had
nothing but some land in Chicago
bog land at that. The man didn't
want to take it-said it wasn't worth
paying taxes on. His brother said it
would make him rich some time; that
the city would grow up to it. The
man called him fool, but he took the
land because it was all his brother had.
The brother is still poor and his opinion
isn't worth the wind it takes to express
it, but the man sat still, and that land
made him rich, and an oracle. People
point to him as a great financier, and
seek his advice in the matter of getting
rich, or getting religion or anything
else. Maybe you remember when
4huAuS ldlCA WIS ElC4, now people
elamored for his opinions; how they
would travel half way across the con-
tinent to get him to give them ten
minutes of advice. Don't you know
how the newspapers used to be full of
his wise sayings-philosop things
about the best way to cook shad or
to buy horse, or to hold your cue at
billiards? Why, any editor in New
Yord would have given Rufus Hatch
a dollar a minute TO talk for publication
on any subject under the sun, or above
it. Rufus Hatch is poor now. He was
sued for a few dollars a little while
ago and couldn't satisfy the Judgment.
You never heard of anybody wanting
his opinion these days, though he pro-
badly knows heap more than he did
when he was rich. I tell you, sir,
money makes the mare go, and the
opinion too. A poor man must keep
his mouth shut in this world. Nobody
wants to hear what he has to say.
Powder, sir? Thank you, sir. Come
again.
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