The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-11

Now. there's plenty Of my customers
dent want fsncy pictures or anything OF
that sort, but just pictures Of themselves
/ or their families. one fellow had the
nerve to come in here the other day WIN
/ a Couey Island tintype of himself and
his lady friend and asked me now much
! l wanted TO put that on cup l told him
/ I didn't reproduce untypes-not for any
body. But l get plenty Of photographs
| to reproduce and very nice cups they
make That makes me think Of man
! that was here last week with picture
/ of his wife. He wanted 1t put on with
| a heavy border of black around it. 1
asked him how long his wife had been
! dead. aud he said she wasn't dead at all
What do you want a mourning band
/ put around her for?" ] asked.
| 90 Because l wish she was dead he
| says, and every time 1 look al that it'll
make me feel good
First off l thought it was joke, but il
| wasn't If that cup ever gets 10 his home
| l bet there'll be trouble. Hen wish il
was him that was dead. Another custom
er l had wanted a cup fixed with a picture
and the inscription, For Governor, p. A.
| Schmidt and he came around TO see if
could do it, but didn't bring the picture.
l told him did iots of political work ike
that. and I'd fix it up for him as soon as
he brought the photograph, but I said:
1 never heard of any p. A. Schmidt
| for Governor. Who is he?'
g Oh, that's me, ne said I amt run
ming yet, but maybe l VIII some day I'd
like to- first rate
You see, he'll get a lot of harmless
/ satisfaction out of looking at that cup
with the inscription on t. even If he never
runs, and haven't heard of anybody else
nominating him yet. Some queer ones
comes here, tell you. Just last week l
fH1i her E.ff r1auas .
! its kind | ever had. II was for a sour old
| party thar didn't like to be bothered with
| his barber asking him questions, but he
| couldn't get 'em TO remember that in the
| shop he went to, so he wrote out a LIST
of answers and put em all down in a
row with a question mark above each
one. My own notion that question mark.
Ills cup read like this when l got it done:
Yes; it's fine day. Don't talk about it.
What if I am getting bald? Don't talk
about that.
Never use any kind Of hair tonic.
| Water; not very much of it.
Ii parts on the left side. Look for the
| place.
N. B. When I want a shampoo IN ask
! for it.
'"The old man said he thought that
| would settle his barber, but a little while
| after he dropped in and said his barber
| had got 50 sore over the Inscriptions that
| he had 10 change and 80 20 another shop.
! That isn't the only BARRIERS reminder I've
| had to fix up. one Of my oldest custom
| ers had me put on. right under mis- ini-
! tials, this line: Please remember my face
is tender
| Most of my custom is from the Ger
| mans. They're great supporters of the
| barber shops That's the reason have
my sign in German, and you'll see that
most of the Initials are in German letters.
! though that proves nothing, for nearly all
! shaving cups are lettered in that way II
seems to be the custom; why, l couldn't
! tell 1 must tell you about the old fell
low that came in here last winter 10 get
a cup fixed up. He was typical Old
| Deutscher, and 1 wasn't at all surprised
when he asked me if l could affix Emperor
| Williams picture to his shaving cup.
That was just after we heard of the Ger
mans making themselves so numerous
with Dewey out at Manila, and the Fm-
peror wasn't exactly popular with me, so
l said:
Yes, I can put old Bills picture on
for you. but l rather do Admiral Dewey's'
LAS l said it 1 thought very likely it
| would lose me a customer, but / didn't
much care. for 1 didn't want the job, real
iy. But my old Deutscher looked al me
| and grinned, and he said: Dots all
| rigid, mein freund You make der En-
peror on der ground lying und Dewey
across his back uff-der-neck gestraddlet
und Offer it all an INSCRIPTION put
IN do it, 1 said, at half price, too.
What kind of an inscription will you
have?
Dis Won, says he Der Emperor him
self der Overload calls. We put on dis
picture, Der Under-Lord'
Well l made him up beauty and 1
| suppose he must have taken il TO his bar
Der shop, which was probably largely
German, and thing must have happened,
for couple of days after it was finished
he sent me the pieces of it and wanted 10
know If they couldn't be glued together.
As soon as he was able TO come out he'd
come around and see me- he wrote. l
made inquiries ana found out that he'd
got into a row with three men in the bar
| Der shop where he was shaved and laid
out two of them with the cup before the
third one got him. When he next came
around ne was pretty badly bunged up.
but still game, and he said as soon as
ne got his cup back he'd take il around
TO the shop and spoil some more German
un-Americans,' as he called them, if they
didn't like the design OF. 1t. His cup was
beyond mendng, so 1 decorated another
one for him and charged it up to patriot
ism, for L didn't want to take money from
such good fighting American. I saw
him the other day, and he was in good
condition, and said the cup was
still unbroken and he'd had three fights
since and come out all right in all of
them. That's what 1 call case of the
| civiizing influence of real art"
The Grandest stable in the World.
From the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.
Berlin, May 19.-The imperial stables
will cost between 100000 ana 100000
| marks. The plans of the imperial archi-
tect, lime, show that the frontage on the
programme evolved by the Emperor calls
| for two riding courses, storage room for
800 vehicles and stalls OF go horses, a num-
Der of court yards, dwelling rooms for fifty
| families of married employees and lodg. ngs