Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-05-16
TRULY WONDERFUL.
y Man Who Had Il New Experience
in Far-Off Country.

New York Sun: y New Yorker who
recently returned to the city after
foreign tour says that he enjoyed one
experience while abroad the like of
which he never before heard Of
During my life in New York, for
| forty years" he said, Il have met
! plenty of nice people and seen more
acts of courtesy and deeds of kind
ness than would ill book. | have
known of Il Skintlint giving money to
| the needy, ana OF Il passenger in an
| elevated car rcSgning his seat to a
woman. and of Il Wall street man with
Christian symptoms. aud Of smoker
handing his lighted cigar right end
foremost to a stranger who asked a
light, and of 4 human being who al
ways had Il match when anybody
needed one and of a woman who
would dote on the beauty of another
without jealousy, and of an enter
taincr who would cut for his guest a
better piece Of the porterhouse steak
| than he kept for himself, and even
of curmuGgeon who would, upon
occasion, give proof that there was a
streak OF virtue in him. All such
| things one can safely expect mt times
in the world.
But, though have been customer
at BARRIERS shops i'm New York for
twenty years, l never saw and never
heard of Il case in which man who
when it came to his turn to get the
chair for Il shave, and when the bar
Der cried Next" would resign his
place to any other man in waiting.
He will stick up for his rights there
against the world. l have seen many
a quarrel, and two or three fights. be-
tween men waiting to get shaved.
when there was Il crowd, as to which
one came in first was angry my
self one day when Il fellow who had
| been getting his boots BACKED in the
rear of the barber shop, and whom
| had not seen, stepped up to Il
chair which | was about to take, and
said he had come in before me- No
matter if another man is in Il hurry.
or il he must catch Il train, or If
his wife is anxious about him because
he is too late for dinner YOU won't
give up your turn in the harberS
chair on his account. There is Olie
of his rights a man will stand, up for,
and YOU can see it at the BARRIERS.
when | went abroad | found the
same ching i'll England and France.
In London once | asked barber if
he could not put me ahead. and he
answered sharply that he would not
DO it Tor the Bank Of England The
ParlsianS are polite everywhere eX-
crpt i'll the barbCr'S shop whom their
Turn comes, and YOU would have to
fight Il duel if you asked one of them
to let You get shaved before him be-
cause Your soup was growing cold.
1T was in my programme, after
seeing the French and English. to
take II trip through the highlands of
Scotland. | saw plenty of historic
spots as | made my way far up on
the Grampian hills, where the frugal
SWANS feed their tlocks, and further
yet, where the fishermen breast the
waves; but ] would give them all
away for an experiences | had when
| reached an ancient town beyond the
GrampiaIs one Saturday afternoon.
At the inn | asked for Il barber as
| wanted to 20 TO church the next
day and must be shaved. When |
got to the BARRIERS place his only
chair was filled. and four or five
customers We're waiting their turn.
In few moments the chair was
cmptied, and | expected that one of
the men would spring into it, Not Il
man moved. The barber looked at me,
smiled and told me he was ready for
me. | said To him in Il low voice
that several others had 1een there
before me. i dinna mind that he
replied. You're Il stranger up here,
maybe an American, and the stranger
always comes first wi us | glanced
at the other men as if to apologize or
ia secure their assent. Aye said one
of them, the stranger must always
be first here; we can wait took
the chair with thanks. and the price
of a shave was twopence
The seven wonders of the world,
all put together and with the addi-
tion of Cleopatra'S Needle in the Cen
trail park. would not have impressed
me as deeply as !. was impressed by
this romantic incident. never before
paralleled in my experience. have
travelled from Boston to Chicago, from
Cripple Creek to New Orleans, without
ever hearing of thing of the kind.
Il do not suppose that many Amer
leans possess sufficient brain power to
believe in the little truth of this in
cident: yet. for all that, it is true as
the Grampian hills of the Highlands
of Scotland, where it occurred. | have
told the story to two or three Scotch
men since l came back to New York.
but they did not think there was any
thing curious or sensational about
It,"
EX-SENATOR POND DEAD.