Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1892 — It Mean’s Trouble for One. [ARTICLE]

It Mean’s Trouble for One.

Chloago Mall. , Did you ever hear a barber call out “Snakes!” instead of the old-fashiea-ed “Next?” If so, you probably imagined that it was an exhibition of good-natured hilarity on the ptivt of the barber, and nothing more. Well, you were mistaken then. “Snakes!” means something to every barber jwho hears it. Jtis a signal by which the barber who uses it lets his fellow workmen know that the man who is about to take the chair dees not bestow “tips” er gratuities. j