Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1911 — Strain Too Great. [ARTICLE]

Strain Too Great.

John Hays Hammond; mining engineer and president of the Republican League of Clubs, once paid five dollars for a shave, and he did it at a time when he was not worth much money. He was married In a small town in Maryland, and arrived there the morning before the ceremony after a dash across the continent. One of the things he carried with him into the town was a thick but unornamental growth of whiskers, and one thing he did not have was a razor. His search for a barber resulted in the discovery of the only one in town, an old negro who had been imbibing too freely for several days. As a result of Intemperance, the tonsorlal artist was shaking like an aspen leaf to a gale. "Look here!" said Hammond. “You are going to shave me. If you so much as make a nick in my face, I’ll cut you? throat! If you don’t cut me. I’ll give you five dollars.” The barber, after much effort, agony and tremor, finished the Bhave successfully. But the strain was too great for him. Just as h|s hand closed on the flve-dollar note, he fainted away.—The Sunday Magazine. >