Evening journal., 1898-06-14
HAD NIcKELs FOR ALL.
This Jolly individual I'm the Barber
shop Paid His Way Like
Lord.

1t happened in a North Twelfth street
barber shop the other afternoon. The
principal actor was a good-natured in
dividual with a jag. 1t wasn't an or
dinary Jag. On the contrary, its pro-
portions were monumental, and its
owner knew it.
The shop was a long line of chairs,
in. six of which recained the forms of
customers undergoing various proc
esses of tonsorial renovation. The
form containing the jag was in the chair
furthest back. The barber working on
the inebriated individual happened 10
finish before the others, and the man
with, the Jag climbed laboriously down.
Them he started uns;eadily for the
cashiers desk up in the front of the
shop.
The FIRST step was aIlurch. So were
all the other steps. And each lurch
sent the, man againststhe occupant of
some one of the other chairs. BY the
time heshadueached the cashier he had
bumped into all of tine five customers
with a grea4er or less degree of force.
Apparently he didn't notice the fact,
however. Hauling up in front Of the
money-tal1er. .,he Laid dollar bill on the
desk.
"shay, oIdifep, ,"he exclaimed, take
hic-what I owe tn sh-bang out o
that-sh'."
The cashier .handed back three sill
yer quarters inAchange. The man with
the jag looked Tat them aimoment re-
Effectively.
"Goa ny nickelsh p .he queried.
The.cashier adnnttedhthat,there were
a few in the drawer.
"Giss five" the man with the jagfde-
Inanded. "Here,Nsh y'r qunrter."
The cashier oe'ligingiy put the FIVE
nickels ON the counter. Slowly pick
ing them up, the,man turned and laid
lhis course towaiid the chair nearest
him. One long and one short lurch
drought him ito It.
"Shorry 1 bunqpsh-hic--into you,
n'shter. Here'sh nickel" he said,
laying one Of hissfve cents in the lap
OF the occupant. linen helurched over
to the next chair.
"'N hcT'shsone f,r you, "he continued.
the custofnei'.
BY this time the,ocoupants ofitbe. re-
manning ohslrs had their heads up,
trying TO see whatit was all about The
nnn notaceAit.
Don't gcts-he-worried H,nlm'ni"
he calculated, "nickels'h beScomin' y'r
way prctty-hic-soon.@
Half dozen more lurches took him
down the line of chairs, each one OF
the three other customers getting a
nickel on the way. When the man with
the jag had completed, his distribution
he steadiedshimselfindhe center Of the
room.
"Wher'shl ldoor2" he demanded Of the
brush boy. "Gotter-hic-- now" i.
The boy PORTED to theiplace of exit.
and by. y.carcfulttaclSing the man reached
81.
"Good day, gInlmen, 'fhe said, bow.
ing until he came near losing his bal
nnce. -Iiope eWerythingsh all-hic-
right now. # I ainr shay so, n
only be too-hic-happy 4 do any oil
thing youSshay."
Then hetpaused exyectantly, but nc
one made. response. THE man opened
| the door.
"Musht be all right" he was heard tc
mutter TO himself asihe went out. 'No
body kiclsh n, everybody seemsh I
know gnrman when they--hic- meet
cne, even Z Ike ish drunker,n q lord"
Two seconds after the door closed
five harbers were richer by a nicke
each than they were before. And tn,
faces of fye.customersw were sowrinlSlet
that it was with the greatest difficulty
the razor wielders managed 10 finish
shaving them-Phfladelphia inquiries.