The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1895-07-19
THE MOST WONDERFUL THING
A Man Who Had a Kew Experience In
Faroff Country.

FarOT Country.
A New Yorker who recently return.
to the city after foreign tour says tt.
he enjoyed che experience while abro,'
the like Of which he DuvSr before Ec';1.
of Daring E3y life III Kew 40r4. tu,
40 years. > lie said, Il have met plenty
of nice people and seen more acts 81
courtesy and deeds Of kindness th&i.
would fill Il book [ have known of !;
skinh!nt giving money to the needy, aD'
of passenger III an elevated car re-, ..
ing his seat TO a woman, and Of q W.:
street man, with Christian symptm,
and Cf Il smoker handing his lighted ClI-
right end foremost to a stranger ~
asked a light, and of a human !'''
who always had IL match when any. e.
needed one, and Cf woman who WO',
dOte on the beauty Of another with.
jealousy, and of an entertainer ~.
would cut for his guest better pee"
the porterhOuse steak than he kept
himself, and even Of curmudgeOn w;
would upon occasion give proof Tia
there was a streak of virtue IN him a.
such things one can safely expect at
times in the world.
''But, though have been customr,
years, never saw and never heard of IA
case in which man, VINO, when it came
his turn to get the chair for shave, and
when the barber cried Next I would re
sign his place to any other man i'll wait
ing. He will stick up for his rights there
against the world | have seen many IA
quarrel, and two or three fights, between
men waiting to get shaved. when there
was a crowd, as to which one came IL
first. | was angry myself one day when
a fellow who had been getting his boots
blacked in the rear of the barber shop
and whom | had not seen, stepped up to
a chair which | was about to take and
said he had come III before me. No mat
ter if another man is in hurry, or +
he must catch train, or if his wife Is
anxious about him because he is too late
for dinner, you went give up your turn
in the BARRIERS chair Oh his account
There is one Of hrs rights q man will
stand up for. and you can see it at the
barber'S.
when l went abroad, | found the
same thing i'll Engl1nd and France. LII
London once | asked a barber if he con id
not put me ahead. and he answered.
sharply that he would not do it for tho
Ba,lIz of England The Parisians are
po!.te everywhere except i'll the barber
shop when Their turn comes, and ynu
would have to fight a duel If you asked
one Of them to let you get shaved before
hi1I because your soup was growing
cold
1t was III my programme, after S"e
ing the French and English, to take I,
trip through the highlands of Scotland
l saw plenty of historic spots as | made
my way far up on the Grampian hills
where the frugal swalnS feed their f1Ock:,.
and farther yet, where the tiSheTEIrn
breast the waves but would give them
all away for an experience had when
reached All ancient town beyond the
Grampians one Saturday afternoon AT
the inn asked for a barber, as | wanted
to go to church the next day and must
be shaved. When | got to the barber
place, his only chair was filled, and
four or five customers were waiting their
turn. In a few moments the chair was
emptied, and expected that one of the
nlel would spring into it. Not a mall
moved. The barber looked at me, smiled
and told me he was ready for me. l SAID
to him in low voice that several others
ndu Do0u UNeF0 DGIOT0 me. 1 O1nnd nllnn
that, he replied. Your a stranger Cp
here, maybe an American, and the
stranger always comes first wi us.
glanced at the other men as if to apollo
giZe Or to secure their assent. Aye, SAID
one Of them, the stranger must always
be first here. We can wait. l took the
chair with thanks, and the price of Il
shave was twOpence
1.-The seven wonders of the world, all
put together, and with the addition
of Cleopatra s needle in Central park,
would not have impressed me as deeply
as was impressed by this romantic IL
cident, never before paralleled in my
I have travelled from Boston
to Chicago, from Cripple Creek to New
Orleans, without ever hearing of a thing
of the kind.
Il do not suppose that many Ameri
cans possess sufficient brain power to be
lieve in the literal truth Of this incident
yet, for all that, it is true as the Gram
plan hills of the highlands of Scotland
where it occurred l have told the story
to two or three Scotchmen since | carle
back to New York, but they did not
think there was anything curious or sen
Sationo1 q a1O7t If ''-Naxu VorIz Gu1