The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1895-08-08
soNIjETnING WONDERFUL
Naw Experience OF an Amer
nv loan Traveller Abroad
...,.,iy Rune ACROSS Msn IN q
be ..nsr shop who :williuGS Yleian
u,s .Next'' Privilege 30 &..
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" loved one experience "hile "oi "fe
be enIo ~; "a which he never before heard
the nAe M sun of that city. During
Of s ny Il New York, for forty years."
my ny ~ ttsI have met plenty of nice
nc nd seen more acts Of courtesy
eopsaods az kindness than would I'LL n
ana - have known OF u skintlint Civ
BOOK ,,ev TO the needy, and OF pas
ing - 4, nm elevated car resigning his
Sens y 4 woman, and OF a Wall street
seas with Christian symptoms ana OF
mnn l,er handing his lighted cigar |
e.o,a foremost to stranger who
fisns 4 light, and of human being |
ASK. a,,,.,vs had match when anybody |
WY "a n,,e and of q woman who would
ne.us ~, the beauty of another without
eVsI and of an entertainer who
leSa .,5 at for his guest better piece OF
wou .osboise steak than he kept for him
p 'M and even Of curmudgeon VINO
a,,jd upon occasion, give proof that
100 was streak Of virtue in him. All
non things one can safely expect at
simes in the world
nut. though have been n customer
barbers' shops in New York for
',.onfv wears, / never saw and never
wi. ~ n case in which IL man who,
S'nn a came his turn to get in the
MA. lar n shave, and when the barber
or;ed Next would resign his place 10
any otber man in waiting lie Will
a AZ I'm for his rights there against the
- have seen many quarrel
"oi Zoo or three fights, between mon
'.a;,;nC 70 get shaved, when there was
.o,e5 as TO which one came III iirSt.
raS angry myself one day when
Z t,nov who had been getting his boots
t,aorad in the rear Of the barber shop,
rayybon I had not seen, stepped up
toachair which l was about to take
ona said he had come in before me NO
4 natter If another man is in hurry or
q ,gho must cnt2h n train, or II his wife
b s1an,.in,,s about linn because lie IL too
nor dinner. you wont give up your
trrn in the BARRIERS chair on HI" &C
Il oonnt. There is one OF his rights a
& man win stand up for, and you can see
4 1t at the BARRIERS.
a sWben I went abroad found the
n same thing in England and France. In
"a London once | asked a barber II he
could not put me ahead, and he
answered sharply that he would not
81 Al Il for the bank of England. The
q parisians are polite everywhere eN'
n cent in the BARRIERS shop when their
n turn comes and you would have to
aghta duul if you asked one of them
II 10 let YOU get shaved before him be-
HI cause your soup was growing cola
e 1T was in ray programme, after see
& inc the French and English, to take a
q trip through the highlands Of Scotland
= saw plenty of historic spots as l made
nv way far up on the Grampian hills
where the frugal SWANS feed tA%u
docks, and further yet, where the fish
81 crmen breast the waves; but | would
"a give them all away for an experience
4 had when I reached an ancient towl
e beyond the Grampians one Saturday
81 afternoon. At the inn ! asked for
III barber, as l wanted TO go to church the
81 next day, and must be shaved. Wh2I
B got to the BARRIERS place his only
s chair was filed, and four or five Gus
b toners were waiting their turn. In
M few moments the chair was cmptied
e and expected that one of the mel
3 would spring into it. Not a MAJ
& moved The barber looked at me
DE- smiled, and told me he was ready TO
me, Isaid to him in a low voice tina
sM several others had been there befor
me, / dinna mind that he replied
n You're q stranger up here, maybe al
III American, and the stranger Away
n comes first wi us / glanced at tn
other men as If to apologize or to sc
cure their assent. Aye said one o
them, the stranger must always b
sf% ilrst here;awe can wait ! took tn
chair with thanks, and the price of
shave was two-pence.
s# The seven wonders of the world, al
put together, and with the addition q
Veopatra's Needle in the Central park
g would not have impressed me as dcepl
ss was impressed by this romantic in
claent, neyor before paralleled in IN
"A experence. have travelled from Bo'
,en to Chicago, from Cripple Creek {
VIII sew Orleans, without ever hearing G
,ss.# thing of the kind.
LIZ 90 not suppose that many Amel
N eans possess sufficient brain power I
VA Seileye in the literal truth of this inc
iN aenti yet, for OH that. IL is true as tn
y'ampian hillsof the highlands of SEQ
rIN saa' where Il. occurred. / have toll
M VIC story to'two or three Scotchmc
ME aulse ! came back to New York, br
wy uid not think there was anythin
t4''ous or sensational about it.ns