The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-08
MEN WHO WERE BARRIERS
And Became Statesmen, Writers and
Men of Affairs.
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/ poor farm lad the street wait ana tn
mechanic lad have struggled onward
and upward 10 distinction
Apparently they have ignored the bar
Der bOL achievements. saws the Mem
phls Commercial Appeal
NeNeTtheicSs there are numerous in
stances oi BARRIERS. who have become
celebrities IN various fields OF human
In former times the BARRIERS craft was
HlShiiled with the title of profession b.
u known Il was COMBINED with the. art
OF surgery In the time of Henry VIII
on england 1t was enacted that the bar
Z Defs should confIne themselves to the
minor operations of DlOOd-lettinC and
drawing teeth. while the surgeons were
prohibited from barbery or shaving La
Ter on-a5out the middle OF the eighteenth
Z century-the two CalIings were entirely
separate.
The striped pole in front OF shops to-
day IS symbolic of former times SUE
StStlhS the period when the barber was
also a surgeon and Indicating Che ribbon
/ ioT bdndagins the arm in bleeding.
II was long after the VOcdtions became
distinct that Edward BuTtcuShaN- S1rr-
den rose to eminence- Sugden was an.
son of . hairdrcsseT in Duke street
" gSlill rS, CT. and was assistant i'm the
Shpp when he was Il years of age he
was made kings counsel and chosen 4
Denchcr Of LincOln's Inn. Under the
tITSt administration Of Lord Derby he was
ards.
II goes without saying that there we're
( hCt lacking envious persons to twit him
Win MS former occupation. and this
( story Is told: once when addressing a
crowd IN the interest of his own caUdf-
dacy TO parliament a man called out TO
huoN what soap was worth and how Iath-
or was made
-. am particularly obliged to that gen
LlGIIlstn ior reminding me of my origin.
SAID Sir Edward 1t is true that I am
q barber : son and was once myself y
barber. II the gentleman who SO politely
reminded me of these facts had been \
EIgffv 1rf.r- f1r4ss
remained one TO the end Of his life
men there was Charles Abbott a bar
per $ son, a scrUbby little lad who used
10 wait on his father with razOrS and a
pewter howl Abbott was also made n
peer Of England.
An English writer has said of q Ger
tain Inventive Englishman: While his
inventions have conferred infinitely more
real benefit on his own country than
Sne COiud nave derived from the absolute
dominion of Mexico and Peru. thev have
been universally productive of wealth
and enjoyment
This genius was Sir Richard Arkwright.
and his inventions were i'm the cotton
spinning industry. He was born in 1132
turned from wig making when the trade
Tell Off, became enormously wealthy
was made peer, and died in the 18th
English literature has been made rich
er by at least three BARRIERS.
Jeremy Taylor was brought uu i'm his
IathcT shop at Cambridge. England. He
- perhaps the most famous of all the
barriers. his books remaining popular az
ter 80 years. critic saws trUtbfUIIy
that his work is especially literarZ-
Nelghty with argument. his sermons and
books of devotion are still read among
us Tor their sweet and deep devotion and
their rapidly flowing and poetic eIo-
quence- His most important work is
The Liberty of PrOphesying.-'
The greatest English naval poet-
Charles Dibdin taking rank as second
was William FalConeT. He was a barber
IN Edinburgh until his poem. The Ship
wreck not only made him famous but
Won MIN career in the royal navy. This
poem by the way. was based on his own
experience. When Vet Young he had a
chance 10 take a voyage on an English
vessel bound for Venice. The ship was
overtaken by a dreadful storm off Cape
toiOuua and was wrecked only three Of
the crew being saved One of these was
FalCOner. and the incidents Of the vow
age and its disastrous termination formed
the subject of his poem Strangely
enough, the terrOrs of the sea which he
so eloquently describes did not deter him
from following II, and he was lost in the
wreck of another ship a few years later
Allan Ramsay. the Scottish poet who
died the year before the birth of Burns
IS justly celebrated in the literature of
England. The Gentle Shepherd" is espe-
clally worthy of remembrance, being
pure tender and genuine picture of Scot
fish life and love among the poor in the
country He carried On the Song Of rural
life and love and hmOr which Burns per
feCted- Allan Ramsey was at one time
prosperous W1E0dheT.
Benjamin Franklin made more than
national reputation with his Poor Rich
ards Almanac" No doubt Franklin cot
the name for mis- almanac from William
Winstanley. the barber. who issued the
Poor ROM alnlanlCs from 1862 onward
1t was the same barber who set the ex
ample of publishing the almanac Joke 3"
Charles Day. who made a fortune I'm
backing was q barber before he invented
his famous shoe polish Crages. who was
secretary Of the South Sea bubble. was a
barrier turned promoter. At one time he
was enormously wealthy. Being 2 fearless
plungeT. he went as, far as the most dar-
ing in his speculatiOns, and when the
crash came his fortune went with it. AMI
he committed suicide
Giovanni BelzOni, who learned the bar
beT's trade in Padua. had a varied career.
ending in his enrichment. He removed to
Rome when a young man. but went t.,
England in 1893. Nine years later he be
gan travelling. in time becoming one of the
most gifted Egyptian explorers. He re-
moved young Memnon' from ThebeS to
England, was the first to penetrate into
the second great pyramid of Ghizeh and
opened up several splendid tOmbs
Few BARRIERS. however. have beer as
successful es the penUriOus and misery
SpeculatOT of London. JOHN COurtOiS He
cid not hesitate to pocket a stray penny
when in his best circumstances. 1t is re-
lated that Lord Gage. at a meeting of
the East Indian company. once found
Courtois present
"Ah. Courtois. what arc YOU doing
here?'' he asked.
Il am here to vote, my lord, =" was the
answer.
what, You proprietor? And with
how many VOteS2
II am proprietor and have four votes"
said tie eX-b8rber
'Ah. indeed Well. before We go to
vote suppose you fix my curls bit. Cour-
tots
And the wealthy proprietor arranged the
curls deity, pOcketing the fee gladly. al
though at his death shortly after he left
a fortune Of 100000