Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1875 — How a Pennsylvania Man Taught the West Financiering. [ARTICLE]

How a Pennsylvania Man Taught the West Financiering.

Not long since two York men visited Kansas. They stopped at a hotel one forenoon, and after dinner one of them walked down to the barber’s shop to get shaved. The shop was shut, the barber having gone off to take his after-dinner nap. Then the York man walked back to his landlord and said: “With your magnificent country, which is the garden of the world, you ought to be the most prosperous people on earth. That you are not is due to the fact that you don’t attend to business. You don’t look out for cop■pers. Here’s your barber now shut up 'and gone when he might have earned ten cents by shaving me. Now he don’t get it, for I’m going to shave myself, and save my ten cents. I have a razor in my valise, and if you will show me a mirror I will shave myself.” The landlord said the barber was a, shiftless cuss, who, like most Western men,, couldn’t compare with PennsylVanians for attention to business, and patience in scooping in the dimes; but he hoped they would all improve in time, and then he showed our friend into a room where he found a goodsized mirror, and shaved himself. Soon after he joined his companion and congratulated himself on the success he had had in saving ten cents and teaching Western men financiering. After tea the pair paid their bills and went to the depot to take the train. On their way the man who hadn’t shaved said: “Pretty reasonable house that; only one dollar for dinner and supper.” “ Only a dollar!” said the other; “ why, I paid a dollar and a half!” and a little further explanation showed that he had been charged 50 per cent, more than his companion. So back he went, and demanded of the landlord an explanation, and got it in these words : “ The fifty cents extra is for the use ot a room. You don’t suppose we can have our room's turned into barber-shops for nothing, do you?” And the man who shaved himself went to the depot a wiser if not a better man. He don’t brag much of his adventure since his return to York, and it will be some time before he attempts to give another Western man a lesson in financiering.— York (Pa.) Democrat.