Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-05-05
Ayers
Cherry Pee1oral
put up in half-size bottles, so cents.
Full-size bottle, $l.OO.

connected with one OF the big up
town establishments has :ately Iuit
the place where he worked so long
at the first chair and has gone
into little business venture of his
own that is paying him better than
his trade ever did. The scheme he
is now operating is an original one,
and if business continues to increase
doubtless others will follow his eX
ample. The ex-barber not only car
ries on his trade in this city, but on
certain days in the week invades
Brooklyn and Jersey City. He car
rjes his stock, which consists of
dozen OF so razors and several homes
Some of the razors are new, but
many of them are old ones which he
has touched up and these are al
ways preferred by a knowing bar
Der. He enters shop and starts a
conversation on razors. This results
in each barber producing his pet
as well as those that he is getting
tired of and which he is always
willing to sell or trade. This is the
-barber's opportunity, and he pro-
duces his stock. Then he makes a
dicker, and generally before he
leaves he trades one of his raZors
for the one the barber is dissatisfied
with, but the barber always has to
pay something. The usual price in
the transaction is from Is to SO
cents. 1t often happens, too, that
the barber will take fancy to one
of the new razors, and in such cases
he exchanges, but of course pays
more than if it were just swap.
Thus this man travels from place to
place, and sometimes razor given
in exchange down town and pro-
nounced by its former owner as no
good will be exchanged for another
up town, some barber becoming i'm
pressed while handling it with its
ring and good looks.
All BARRIERS have an idea that
razor when used too often becomes
what they call tired and they be-
lieve that homes, straps or anything
else cannot bring it around all right.
These tired" 1azors are the ones on
which the ex-barber clears his big
gest profits, and he gets them for al
most a song He fixes them up at
home nights, and these form the
bulk of his stock the next day.
'Tired" razors are peculiar things,
he says, but if you know how to
handle them they only need nights
rest.
This man does not confine himself
alone to razors, but carries other
barber's tools about with him. He
will sell or swap anything, but there
must always be small money con-
sideration. Frequently razor swap
ped by him finds its way into his
hands again, and in many cases he
has snapped it back to its original
owner Of course the old owner rec
ognies it and hesitates to make an
exchange, but he is sure of his own
skill in fixing the razor up and
leaves it on trial. He says they sell
dom fail to prove all right, and on
his next trip to that shop the barber
gives another razor and pays the
difference.-New York Sun.
Many old soldiers now feel the effects
of the hard service they endured dur
ing the war. Mr. Geo. S. Anderson, of
Rossville, New York county, Penn,
who saw the hardest kind of service at
the front, is now frequently troubled
with rheumatism, 81 had severe at
tack lately" he says, and procured a
bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm. 1t
did SO much good that I would like to
know what you would charge me for a
dozen bottles" Mr.. Anderson wanted
n it both for his own use and to supply
it to his friends and neighbors, as every
family should have bottle of it in
their homes, not only for rheumatism
but lame back, sprains, swellings, cuts,
bruiser and burns, for which It is un-
equalled. For sale by c. w. Houston,
Extra; A. H. Roberts, Audubon.