Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1884 — VERY LONG TIME BETWEEN SHAVES. [ARTICLE]

VERY LONG TIME BETWEEN SHAVES.

A Pennsylvania Man Whose Beard has R-mnlned Uncut Since 1860, lie Having Vnvred Not to be Shaved Until the Election oi a Democratic President. (Special DWputch to the Detroit Free Proa*.] Philadelphia, Nov 10.—A tall, broad-shouldered man apparently 55 years of age walk ed into a Seventh street barber shop this afternoQn-'tand seated himself in a chair. A" heavy black beard covered his face and his shirt front, and was finally lost to sight within the capacious recesses of his waist-cuat.

‘Hair cut sir?’ said the barber, as he began to tuck a towel around the collar of his custo raer. The old man, who had been busy with his beard during this interval, now exposed it to the astonished gaze of the shop, t reached fully three inches below the knees when it was uncoiled. He xeplied. ‘No, but I want this beard taken off clean. For twenty-four years no razor lias touched my face. This beard is the result. It was in 1860. I was as spruce a young chap as could be seen at Lancaster, and everybody knew young Joe Barstoe in thos parts. hey called me 'young Joe,’to make a difference between the old man and me. The old man was a Democrat to the back-bone, and I was with him till the split in the 1860 convention, when the Southerners put up John t*. Breckenridge and we—the North—nominated Stephen A. Douglas, i felt strong on the subject and worked for Douglas day and night. I used to be very smart in appearance in those days, but I worked so hard t had no time for prinking up. ‘One night I made a speech at a meeting in the old turnpike tavern. 1 had a week’s growth of stubble on my face, and before i had spoken a dozen words some lout sang out, ‘Go get a shave.’ Everbody laughed as they lookad at me. ‘Get a shave? says I. No razor touches m) face till 1 see a Democratic President elected.’ 1 have kept my word. Take it off and roll it carfully up in a piece of paper, barber, for I ;am going to send President ! Cleveland a chain made out of it’