Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 230, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1913 — Bread and Ham on Waters Bring Back a Shave [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Bread and Ham on Waters Bring Back a Shave

PITTSBURGH, PA.—The truth of the Biblical injunction about casting bread upon the waters and the bountiful returns that will accrue was quite satisfactorily proven to City Detective William O’Bryan the other day, and this sleuth now thinks, the proverb should be amended so as to include ham in addition to the bread. O’Bryan is a follower of Dr. Wiley’s teachings and refuses to touch the “contaminated” food. Therefore he carries a -modest little lunch. The .other evening O'Bryan was not feeling very well. However, he made away •with all his lunch with the exception oi two little ham sandwiches. Some time later, while walking through the cell room at Central station, he passed a cell tn which were two young prisoners who appeared, to O’Bryan’s eagle eye, to be hungry. He inquired whether the young fellows were suffering fronx pangs around the belt. Receiving a decidedly affirmative answer, the detective handed In the two .sandwiches, which were soon devoured. . , A few days later O’Bryan was re-

posing in a barber's chair, giving the tonsorial artist some straight tips on the complex political situation and incidentally getting a shave. When the performance was completed and the detective approached the cashier’s desk to pay up, he was informed that his shave was paid for. “Why,” gasped the astonished thlefWailer as visions of grafters flew before his eyes, “who suffered from softheartedness?” *‘Oh," replied the cashier, nonchalantly, “a young feller, what said yer pgl'ed ’lm a sand witch when he was locked in de cooler t’oder nigbt, said he wanted to pay yer back for de grubstake.”