The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-26

like the wary farmer in the northwest,
Harry began holding the crop back-to
win the price. The whisksrs grew and
hourished. Alice cultivated than with
her soft dainty hands, and the supply in
creased. Soon Harry had a wife. The
whisbers were laid away in a safe place.
Tn future years the family of toddlers will
look at the whhskers with which their
father secured their mother. A portrait
of Mr. Peff.r win always occupy a con-
spicuous place in the household"
Advertisements in newspapers are
great things" remarked Neeley Pride,
one of the regular callers on the retail
trade IF you don't believe they attract
attention, just put some little odd thing
in the papers and kesp an account of
the number of inquiries you will get in
regard to it. 1 remember the case of a
merchant who inserted an advertise
m MT, say ng rather unostentat' ously that
he had some furniture, beds, chairs, Ia
bles, ETC., out of the White House for sale
at his store on such and such a street.
You know there is certain class of peo-
pie always after such things ard the next
day the merchant had calls from dozens
of curio hunters. One of the first Gus
toners was a fashionable lady who did
not often frequent the out of the way
street on which his store was located.
;t-+o cto vii O in ct IN,
air and called for the proprietor.
"' am the proprietor, said the mer
chant rather indifferently.
r. 81 would like to see some of the fur
niture out of the White House. she said
Just look around and see if anything
strikes your fancy
" The lady glanced around her at the
rather commonplace looking stuff, and
said:
"'I desire to see the furniture out of the
White House advertised by you yester-
day.
"'And madam, that is what Fam trying
to show you. Just look about you and
l will price it to you
"'But surely all of this stuff is not out
of the White House?'
1T is not in it at any rate, and conse-
quently must be out of it,, was the quiet
rejoinder.
IA look of disgust swept over the lady's
face, and with a naughty air she swept
out of the place. And there were Others"
The barber is a very talkati individ-
ual, and most of them are considered
rather tiresome, but I have one who
breaks the record. He always has some
thing funny and tells it in an original
way.
1.-THE other morning he began enter
tanning me with poker story. He told
with much self-laudation of how he had
opened a jack pot, stood raise on two
pairs and filled his hand.
"I looks at my hand and sees 1 have
three fives and pair of aces, an didn't
do a thing to the niger that raised me
but bet him twenty fish cold from the
shoulder. He was afraid to call and I
rakes in de pot
'Bet him twenty fish did you? Explain
what you mean by fish. That's a new
one in poker lore.
my Senegambian artist laughed i'm
moderately at my ignorance of the tech
nical terms of the game as played by
colored devotees. He explained that fish
was SYNONYM for checks among sports
of his color, and that to bet twenty 'ffsh'
was equivalent to setting in a stack of
reds or whites as the case might be.
Then, warming with his theme, he went
on to say that, taking the financial abili-
ties of his race in consideration, negroes
addicted to poker played a much SITTER
game than white men. According to his
statements, if darkies only had the coin
they would lead the whole world as
plungers. Any game colored sport who
didn't have but s. in the world would
risk it to draw to a bob-tail flush or
straight open at both ends.''
MRS. WiNsLOWS SOOTHING SYRUP