Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1914 — Page 2

QUITE PROBABLY IT WOULD

; Little Accident to Haadgear Liksiy to ,*. r Spoil Expression of Almost ;Any Man. “Look pleasant,” said the photographer. The sitter raised his eyes and gave a sickening smirk. “Your head Just a little More to the left, please,” suggested the- voice from the black shroud. "No, don't move the eyes." Like a man suffering from a stiff neck or an Eiffel tower collar, the sitter tilted his head gingerly till it reached the desired angle, and he resembled a dying fish trying not to mind. “That’s very nice, very nice Indeed,” said the photographer. “Stay just there while I make the exposure.” He removed the cap as he spoke and counted opt a minute and three-quarters. “Thank* you,” he observed. “You can get up. I'm afraid'you have been sitting on your hat” “My hat!" roared the sitter, ahgrtly, regarding the flattened felt “Why the dickens didn't you tell me I was sitting on my hat?” “My dear sir,” protested the photographer, blandly, “that would have spoiled your - expression.” -

A GRATEFUL OLD MAN.

Mr. W. D. Smith, Ethel, Ky., writes: *1 have been using Dodd’s Kidney Pills for tea or twelve years and they have done me a great deal of good. I do

W. D. Smith.

Pills cured me of that and the Kidney Trouble. I take Dodd’s Kidney Pills now to keep from having Backache. I am 77 years old and a farmer. You are at liberty to publish this testimonial, and you may use my picture in connection with it” Correspond with Mr. Smith about this wonderful remedy. Dodd’s Kidney Pills, 50c. per box at your dealer or Dodd’s Medicine Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Write for Household Hints, also music of National Anthem <English and German words) and recipes for dainty dishes. All 3 sent free. Adv. ■

The Miller’s Turkeys.

Condemning political grafters, John A. Hennesy said in New York: “When I look at these sleek millionaires who never did a day’s work in their lives, I think of the miller. “The miller, on the way home from church one Christmas morning, met the village idiot and said, thinking to have a little sporty, __ “’Sam, I’m glad to see you. Now,, Sam, look here; some folks say you know a lot, and some say you know nothing. Tell me, Sammy, my lad, what do you know?’ “‘I know,’ Bald the idiot, with a crafty smile, ’that the miller’s turkeys are fat’ “ ‘Ha, ha, good,’ said the miller, for the compliment pleased him. ‘And now, Sam, my lad, tell me what you don’t know.’ “Sam smiled more craftily still. “‘I don’t know whose meal fattens ’em,’ he said.”

Evolution of Billiards.

The development of the billiard ta ble has been interesting. In those far back days when billiards seem first to have become an indoor game, a billiard table was about the size of a big room. The average table was 30 feet long and 18 feet wide. The size was gradually and irregularly decreased, until the present standard caronr table was introduced at a bil Hard tournament held in Samson hall, Philadelphia, in 1864.

SELF DELUSION. Many People Deceived by Coffee.

We like to defend our indulgences and habits even though we may be convinced of their actual harmfulness. A man can convince himself that whiskey is good for him on a cold morning, or beer on a hot summer day —when he wants the whiskey, or beer. It’s the same with coffee. Thousands of .people suffer headache and nervousness year after year but try to persuade themselves the cause is not coffee —because they like coffee. “While yet a child I commenced using coffee and continued it,” writes a Wls. man, “until I was a regular coffee fiend. I drank it every morning and in consequence had a blinding headache nearly every afternoon. “My folks thought it was coffee that ailed me, but I liked it and would not admit it was the cause of my trouble, so I stuck to coffee and the headaches stuck to me. “Finally, the folks stopped buying coffee and brought home some Postum. They made it right (directions on pkg.) and told me to see what differ, ence it would make with my head, and during that first week on Postum my old affliction did not bother me once. From that day to this we have used nothing but Postum in place of coffee —headaches are a thing of the past and the whole family is in fine health.” “Postum looks good, smells good, tastes good, Is good, and does good to 'the whole body." .Name given by Postun) Co., Battle Creek, Miph. Read “The Road to WellTille,” in pkgs. Postum now corijes In two forms: Regular Postum—must be well boiled. Instant Postum— is a soluble powder. A teaspoonful dissolves quickly In a cup of hot water and. with cream and sugar, makeß a delicious beverage Instantly. Grocers sell both kinds. “There’s a Reason” for Postum. / A, -

not think I would be alive today if it were not for Dodd’s Kidney Pills. I strained my back about forty years -agOr—which left it very weak. I was | troubled with inflam> mation of the bladder. Dodd’s Kidney

PHILDELPHIA MAN WHO HAS SPENT 50 TEARS WITH RAZOR AND SHEARS

Charley Gramlich, a Veteran Barber, Who Has Performed Tonsorial Work for Some of the Noted Men of His Time, Still Remains at His Post of Duty Doing Good Work —Has No Boast to Make of Old Days.

Philadelphia.— You take a barber of today. Well, never mind; no use picking needless quarrels. But they bred giants In the old First ward when Charley Gramlich learned his trade. A barber barbs these days, and lets it go at that. But Gramlich, with his record of fifty-six years behind him, might be called the Admirable Crichton among barbers. tsMornings you can find him In his shop at 1505 Mifflin street,' wafting the early thistledown off some young shaver who has come to consecrate" his chin to manhood under the razor of venerable experience, or .paring the stubble of some patron who has depended on him since the Centennial. Afternoons, if he Isn’t busy, he may be up in his studio, painting pictures that frequently sell for real money. Evenings, unless some special crop of whiskers glows in to claim his veteran skill instead of his assistant’s, he is arguing penuchle with the other experts, for he is acknowledged to be the champion penuchle player of the First ward and novices come to sit at his feet and learn wisdom.

Last Ma? brought around the anniversary of the day when Charley, the Bavarian boy of fourteen, was given his first job in Hertzog’s shop, on Wharton street above Fifth. His wages as apprentice was 75 cents a week and board with his boss’ family. Charley imagined he was fixed for life. But only eight months passed before Hertzog Bhut up his shop and the boy apprentice had to find another job. H|p new boss took him on as a half-baked journeymjn at the trade, and paid him one dollar a week, plus board. By industry, patience, frugality, diligence and the rest of the virtues which were urged on the toiling masses in that generation," Charley rose in his calling, until, in 1859, he was receiving the imposing wage of three dollars a week, board thrown in.

With the outbreak of the war in ’6l, Charley claimed the dignity and wages of manhood, and Gus Goebel —that very same Goebel by whose official license so many of us have been permitted to marry nnd pay the happy gas bills —took him on at sls a week and

Charles Gramlich, Veteran of Razor and Shears.

feed himself, in the old Goebel barber shop on Moyamensing avenue, below Washington avenue. Charley worked for Goebel until 1864, and then negotiations opened for his admission to that distinguished station in barbering, a job at the Continental hotel. He went there in the spring of 1865. After that no higher glory was attainable. The job paid only sls a week; but a man in that shop was liable to have the president of the United States more at his mercy than had been possible for the Confederate armies, and what the Continental barbers valued more, he got a commission of 15 per cent, on the cups, brushes, French oil and lavender vinegar that went to complete a real gentleman’s shave. That amounted to four or five dollars a week extra. Gramlich, at the height of his profession, never shaved Lincoln. But he did shave Governor Curtin, and Billy McGrath, and Tom Archqr, and John Edgar Thomson, who was president of the Pennsylvania railroad, and most of the ether local notables In finance and politics. A couple of years of such prosperity and Gramlich, the Continental expert, reached the conclusion that one height remained for him to climb. He must be his own boss. He forsook the grandeurs of Chestnut street, and for two and a half y?ars he had his shop opposite the old navy yard, at Front and Federal streets. For 37 years he was located at 143.? South Fifth street, and it was only seven years ago that he moved to Fifteenth Add Wharton. In that time he has shaved every one of prominenco in the ward, and has played penuchle with most of them. He has old-time patrons, who make pilgrimages to him from far homes for old-time’s sake and the luxury of his familiar touch, thsm Thomas Taylor of Seventeenth and Diamond

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streets, who, after 50 years, comes to him once a month for a hair cut and a shave. When the late Thomas G. Talker, one of the founders of the firm of Morris, Tasker & Co., whose home was on Fifth street below Tasker, got to be elghtv-three years old, aid doubted the sureness of his own hand on his firm old chin, he arranged with Gramlich to come to his house and shave him regularly at 50 cents a trip, and the service continued until Mr. Tasker died, at the age of ninety-three. TO Gramlich’s shop now come such faithful patrons as Dr. Charles Gessler

He Is at Work Still.

of the Art club, whom Gramlich has shaved for 44 years; Samuel Campbell, the cashier of the Tradesmens and Manufacturers’ bank, whom he shaved for 40 years, and Dan Cobb, of Broad and Mifflin streets, who appears three or iour-times a week after a loyalty that has lasted as long as Doctor Gessler’s.

The veteran has no boasts to make of the old days. “When l learned the business, barbers did cupping and leeching; but they were out for the cash ahead of an easy shave. It was a lick and promise for the customer then, and .many a face was sore after the barber got through with it. ■ •

"The regular price then was a flp—five or six cents —for a Bhave, and a levy—ten or twelve cents —for a hair cut. When you .got into a good, highclass shop, tips were the rule, just as they are now. The tip at the Continental was from 10 to 25 cents, and that money counted by the time your week was up. Billy McGrath, who was the president of the Union Street Car line, gave me a tip of five dollars every six-weeks. The prices then in the shop were 20 cents for a shave and 40 cents for a haircut. But we aimed to give shaves and haircuts that were the finest in the city, and a man had to be one of the best in the business to hold up his end in handling the people wtio came to us. It was a fine shop, but I wanted to be in business, so I started for myself as soon as I thought I could make good in the old First ward. "When will I quit? Oh, I don’t know. I’m feeling as well as ever, and I like to have something to do. People keep right on coming to me, and I may as well go on shaving them. Some time, maybe, I’ll take a little place out in the country. Say do you know any suburb where there are some right good penuchle players?”

Some Big Fish in Florida.

Chicago.—A fish captured at Miami, Fla., by Charles H. Thompson was so large that when the tail was In the doorway of Thompson's store the head extended over the street car tracks. The routing of a street car line was changed until the fish could be taken indoors.

DESIGNED TO FOIL THE APACHES

Blank messengers and custodians of bank funds have been held «P «0 frequently in the streets of Paris by highwaymen and Apaches that banking firms have Adopted this veritable safe on wheels to prevent any further losses. With the exception of the- driver’s seat, the entire cy is in<96sed

WOMAN LASSOED THE HORSE

Baltimore Housewife Will Hold Him Till Bhe la Paid for Butter . . He Ate.

Baltimore, Md. —The cowpunchers of the wild woolly west “have nothing on” Mrs. Majy Boyle of Patterson avenue when it comeß to .the nimble art of throwing a lariat. Mrs. Boyle had spent a busy morning in her kitchen. Finding that she had over four pounds of fresh dairy butter left over she placed it on a platter In the yard to solidify, the heat of the kitchen having reduced its consistency. Half an hour later Mrs. Boyle went into the yard to get the butter, but, like Old Mother Hubbard in the nursery legend, “when she got there the platter was bare.” In place of the butter, however, was a large dapple gray horse, whoeg color scheme and design suggested the now almost extinct rocking equine without which no children’s nursery was at one time complete. The noble steed was engaged in polishing the platter. But when he chanced to look up and saw Mrs. Boyle the equine hobo gave a succession of loud and penetrating neighs and turned tail. “Not so fast!” quoth Mrs. Boyle. A moment later a Jhsso improvised from the domestic clothesline encircled the neck of the dappled steed, causing him to rear on his haunches. The unwilling captive is being held as hostage by Mrs. Boyle, who declares that she will not turn the animal over to its owner until she receives remuneration for her stolen butter.

SAW 4 GREAT-GRANDFATHERS

The Long Lived Forbears of an Oregon Boy ; Only One Has Succumbed to Death.

Albany, Ore. —When Luther White, a Linn county pioneer, died at hlB home at Brownsville he was the first of the four great-grandfathers of five-year-old Luther Burnelle White of Harrisburg to die. The boy has the distinction of having seen each of his great sires. The boy is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Connie F. White of Harrisburg. His father is the son of ex-Sheriff and Mrs. • Robert L. White of this city. White’s father, Luther White, died at Brownsville only a few days ago at the age of ninety-nine years. ThefatherbfMrs.Whlte,Sr.,isJerry Hay of Harrisburg, seventy-three years old.

Mrs. Connie White is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. Bussard of this city. Mr. Bussard’s father is W. H. Bussard, eighty-three years old, of Benton county., Mrs. Bussard’s father is L. T. Mackey, seventy-nine years of age, of Akron, O.

HUNGRY RACCOON FIGHTS MAN

Half-Starved Animal Caught in Cabin, It Claws Jersey Hunter Who Trapped IL

Meyersville, N. J!—Timothy Carter, who lives in a small cabin in the woods near this place, had a fierce fight with a half-starved raccoon which got trapped in the cabin. No sooner had Carter opened the door than the animal jumped at him, clawing and snarling. Carter fought the raccoon for ten minutes and finally killed it. He went to the borne of a nearby farmer, where a physician took four stitches in a wound in his arm and cauterized other cuts and bruises.

How Some Gamblers Are Made.

Chicago.—The influence of mothers who play bridge and fathers who indulge in poker promotes the interest of children in games of chance and makes gamblers of them, Mrs. Aria R. Black told the Chicago Women’s Association of Commerce.

Woman Sues Saloonkeeper.

Chicago.—Emma Lord is suing Peter Hell, a saloonkeeper, on a promissory note because Hell refused to advertise over the door of hip place a whisky In which Mrs. Lord was interested.

Milkman Pays the Penalty.

Chicago.—Judge Newcomb refused to believe the plea that damp weather make? milk watery, and fined Homan Michalßki, a milkman, $lO on a charge of putting water In milk.

DIDN'T KNOW GREAT PLAYER

Boy Would Have Fallen Down and Worshiped If He Had Realized of Whom He Wa* Speaking.

Joe Tinker brought this story from the east with him. He declares Willie Keeler, now; a scout for the Giants, told it on himself. Keeler likes nothing better than to watch a bunch of boys playing a “sand lot game.” While scouting In a western leagne town late in the season he chanced upon such a game, arriving just ’ln time to a lanky, scrubbyhaired lad, who was umpire, give a decision. The little captain of the team fighting the decision rushed up to Keeler. “Wasn’t that a strike, mister?” he demanded. “Sure it was,” replied one of the greatest batters in baseball history. “Aw,” said the other kid captain, fiercely, "what does that old boob know about baseball, anyway?”

ECZEMA BURNED AND ITCHED 203 Walnut St., Hillsboro, Ill.—“My child had a breaking out on the lower limbs which developed into eczema. The eczema began with pimples which contained yellow corruption and from the child’s clothing they were greatly irritated. They seemed to burn, which made the child scratch them, resulting in a mass of open places. They made her so cross and fretful that it was Impossible to keep her quiet. They caused her to lose much sleep and she was. Cbnstantty-tpripented by severe itching and burning. “I tried several well-known remedies, but got no relief until I got a sample of Cuticura Soap and Ointment, which did so much good that I got a large quantity that cured her in ‘ten days after she had been affected for two months.” (Signed) Mrs. Edith Schwartz, Feb. 28, 1913. Cuticura Soap and Ointment Bold throughout the world. Sample of each free,with 32-p. Skin Book. Address postcard “Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston.”—Adv.

She Would Get Even.

Tired out with an afternoon’s shopping, the mother sat back in her easy chair to recite in detail the afternoon’s experiences to a sympathetic home circle. , “And to cap it all I met that horrid Annie Green, and she was very impudent to me as usual,” she wailed. “The mean thing,” sympathetically snapped out six-year-old Ella. “Why didn’t you impudent her right back?"

IS EPILEPSY CONQUERED?

New Jersey Physician Said to Have Many Cures to His Credit. Red Bank, N, J. (Special).—Advices from every direction fully confirm previous reports that the remarkable treatment for epilepsy being administered by Dr. Perkins of this city, is achieving wonderful results. Old and stubborn cases have been greatly benefltted and many patients claim to have been entirely cured. Persons suffering from epilepsy should write at once to Dr. H. W. Perkins, Branch 49, Red Bank, N. J„ for a supply of the remedy which Is being distributed gratuitously.—Adv.

Aboard Ship.

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You might as well give the devil his due. He -gets up pretty early in the morning, anyhow.

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Political ambition that will not loosen the purse strings is not skin deep.

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Pollte Bertha.

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