Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-09-01
SOMETHING WONDERFUL.
The New Experience Of an ANA.
loan Traveller Abroad.
He Actually Rams Across n M, a..
Barber Shop Who SWilliugly Yield.
His '.Nsxt" Privilege to
Another.

TO the city after foreign tour saws that
he enjoyed one experience while abroad
the like OF which he never before heard
OF, says the Sun Of that city. "Durino
my life in New York, for forty wears
he said, II have met plenty Of n;cs
people and seen more acts OF courtasr
and deeds OF kindness than would fill =
book. l have known of skinflint civ.
ing money to the needy, and of a mas,
senger in an elevated car resigninp his
seat to woman, and of a Wall street
man with Christian symptoms. and 81
q smoker handing his lighted cigar
right end foremost to a stranger who
| asked light, and of human being
who always had u match when anybodv
needed one, and of woman who would
dote on the beauty of another without
jealousy, and OF an entertainer who
would cut for his ruest better piece Of
porterhouse steak than he kept for him.
self, and even OF curmudgeon who
would, upon occasion, give proof that
there was streak of virtue in him. All
such things one can safely expect at
times in the world.
but, though have been a customer
at BARRIERS shops in New York for
twenty years, l never saw and never
heard of a case in which a man who.
when it came his turn to get in the
chair for shave, and when the barber
cried 'Nextv 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 quarrel,
and two or three fights, between men
waiting to get shaved when there was
crowd, as to which one came in first.
was angry myself one day when
fellow who had been getting his boots
BACKED in the rear of the barber shop,
and whom had not seen. stepped up
to chair which | was about to take,
and said he had come in before me. No
matter If another man is in n hurry, or
If he must catel a train, or if his wife
is anxious about MIN because he is too
late for dinner. You won't give up your
turn in the BARRIERS chair on his &C.
count. There l. one of his rights
man will stand up for, and you can see
it at the BARRIERS.
"When / went abroad l found the
same thing in England and France. In
London once l asked a barber If he
could not put me ahead, and he
answered sharply that he would not
do it for the bank of England The
Parisians arc polite everywhere ex.
cept in the haroar's shop when their
turn comes, AMI you would have to
fight dncl il yoi asked one of them
to let you get s.i.ved be'ore him be-
cause your soup ---7i growing cold
at was IL =, prorrl unc, after see
ing the Frenc', nnl Errlish, to take q
trip through t..o ! r.liald, of Scotland
saw plenty OF h,j.e.'., spots as made
my way fur rlp Oh the tirampian hills,
where the f-.ugal SWANS feed their
focks, and further yet, where the fish
ermen breass tho waves; but | would
give them oil away for an experience
had when l rea he'd an ancient town
beyond the Grampians one Saturday
afternoon. AT til, inn ! asked for
barber, as l wanted to go to church the
next day, anl mus be shaved. When
got to the BARRIERS place his only
chair was filed, AID four or five Gus
toners were waitin.5. their tnrn. In
Few moments the c.nair was emptied'
and l expected that one of the men
would spring into it. Not man
moved. The barber looked at me-
smiled, and told me he was ready Tor
me. / said to him in low voice thai
several others had been there before
me. 4 dinna mind that he replied
You're stranger up here, maybe On