The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-18
Fairbroth Fanciies.
Being Some Comment On One Thing and Another.


dence causes her to be rather. slow ah0ut
allowing aiiadm!rcr to court her--loIr SLY
remembers that business Is always before
audiences when the typewriter ls clic 9, IN.
or tho cash boysis yciiing along inc 1907 's'
You know they tnlk about celebrated
men skilled In dIplomacy--men OF title
and men or learnlng--but tile keenest
diplomat in all the world Is your barber.
i know they say a barber talks too
much; ho always wants to put on oil
the condiments--the pepper suuce and
rum, a shampoo and the tubasco sauce
but for nll OF that lle Is on to his game.
dead on to II. IL you havo lived io,s
CROUCH to commence to lose your lilir.
your dome of thought in IL mirMr and
SEQ for yourself that your hair is falling
out at saa, alarming ratio and that the
top of your. skull Is protruding- on
your barber II your hair not falli ,ls
out and lie will place his cold, moist
hand on. the bald spot and rub 1t nnd
say. kindly, 1T may be getting little
20 last you a hundred years" the same
time running his fingers among tue
heavy growth down the back OF your
head. You know he is a wilful and ma
licious prcvaricator; you know that you
at a county fair; but tho lies he gives
make yourself beiieye thlt tho '1ttlo
thin SPOT amounts to nothing. The,
next year you ask him tho same ques-
ton and again Ills cold hand goes to
the smooth place and again he tells you
that 1t may be getting a little thin up
there but you have plenty of hair yet
JIG wishes lie had as good head ct
as n buffalo robe. Long live the barber
wso tells the white lieBto encourage you
and give you shope!
And then he goes still further. After
there is no use longer to disguise the
ffact-after you have accepted the in
cvitable and know you are bald-head.
you will get shaved and havo the few
remaining locks trimmed neatly and sit
finished 0A the ,ob Oh. and lle viii take Ills
brush-the comb Is not In evidence and
make Il few motions, and again kindly
ask you, which side do you part 1t on!
when he knows. the rascal. that there is
no parting there aud no side to it Long
live this genial knight Of the brush and
soap, say I; long may he live to give
his pale-biuc prnnes to others not SO
bald. He is q 8diplomate-pure and sim
ple-and may his tribe Increase 47
I may have said so before in these
columns. but I'm going to say so again.
and whenever I get chance. What I
say is that somehow or other want to
not that I know anything about the
merits or denlerits Of his case. He may
have killed old man Rice, and the story
may be Just like 1t has long been as
serted; but the light the nran has put
ability and the desperation Of his hope
arc things that appeal to me so strong
ly that would let him go II had the
say. note that he has again been
q least. /.
until May 18th to live.
Els fight for life has been something
unique in the historyfof crminallty, hnd
lawyers he himself Is most resourceful;
The world has no use for q gutter, and
somehow 1t admires IL man who won't get
that If he be guilty he should be punished
as the law prescribes-..but q man who
can sit in the death cell in Sing Sing for
years at a stretch and play the game y with
those outside and win-..why. art Is some
thing that we mist take Off our hats to,
and Patrick Is certainly an artist.
own code of ethics. It has dccread that
a man can do certain things within Y, I, the he
Of tbe ed eth aw fsra Cannot 5 do
men accused Of crime II found guilty ,i s,
t hnd i exhibted
from the death cell. Some the eminent
srafters Of to-day are artists of the
Els d Spe in s Topeety " hs Wor
IS coming around and recognizing their ler
ability and giving them q place. !, Pa trick
mystery surrounding the case, and so long
pris som laH the benefit Of the doubt am
he's Contrary, that somehow i hope that
Albert Patrick will find evidence enough
Q clear him It's up to o., MIN \, 70 MAKE Wana
at it--and they say that
hat Will bring success;
The funniest thing to me, seriously con-
'urny Things, Is tho talk coming from [
to tho effect that the Pres-
lent wants arm IN tf User
should be rclnembered that there are two
tons in the Repub mG hap a5tX BiarR
,urn is supposed to be the. head man n
he Outs party, and tho s 'orpanizatlon,
,o-called leads the Inns ana i GrySd WI WI
all, about the Inns you Will hear as mucil
,nreigated profanity as a. sallorSeyer used,
md it. Is al directed toward me otier
1t would be as imposslble..to secure
harmony as twould to prevent q iisnt
f you would throw two bel llgerent bull |
Miracles described in the New Testa-
ncnt were easy compared to tho feat
II securing harmony among the con-
ending factions, and there Is no use to
ny.
rho breach grows wider every day
md tho Republican party, While 1t has
many good people in It's ranks. is allow
ng itself to BIO chcwed up by personal
strife and jcalousics, and al the coaxing
ana 1.-the threats OF tho allied powers
If .thesworld would never. bring harmony
out of.st tho mess thatis stirred up at
this writing. 4 the opposition party
had devoted a lifetime to- domoralize aud
tho ItepulJrcan party ! t would
not have succeeded in getting the fac
tons further apart than they are this
spring-and as they Will remain SO long
as tho so-cnllcd leaders sit tho saddle.
And they will continue to fight rs long
as there is q political bone in sight.
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