Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 189, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1910 — TAILOR WAS NOT SIGNALING [ARTICLE]

TAILOR WAS NOT SIGNALING

Tries on New Shoes and Brings Volley from the Bar Room. The tailor's shop Is above a saloon. The tailor likes bis German joy, and is such a steady customer that the saloonkeeper decided to put in a dumb waiter for the purpose of shooting the lager up to the tailor without having to carry it up to him or wait for the tailor to run down. “Ve shall have signals,' no?” suggested the tailor. “Ven I stamp my foot on der floor vonce, dot iss von bqer. Ven I stamp two times, dot iss two beers, und so on." “Dot Iss it,” responded the saloon keeper, with a smile that Indicated his approval. "Von stamp iss von beer und two stamps iss two beers, und yet on so long as you stamp." The saloon keeper had not been back in his bar room more than five minutes until he heard noise from above. He tried to count the stamps, but lost the count He Just loaded a dozen glasses of -beer on the dumb waiter and sent them up. Then he went upstairs with four glases more. As he entered the tailor’s door he was surprised to find no one in the shop but the tailor. “Vot’s der matter, Herman?" he said. “Vot are you doing? Are you glfing a barty?” “Vot you mean? For vy iss all die beer?” queried the tailor. “For vy iss all dose stamps if not for beer?” And Herman, to his financial terror, suddenly realized that he had been stamping on the floor. He was trying on a new pair of shoes. They didn’t try to put the beer back into the keg.