Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1899 — Scorched Ike’s Whiskers. [ARTICLE]

Scorched Ike’s Whiskers.

The incipient fire in Isaac Glazebrook’s place on Front street yesterday, while it did not destroy nor even injure any of the numerous buildings, parts of buildings, additions, extensions, alterations and incorporations of which his place of several businesses as well as his several places of business, is composed, it did have one lamentable result, not heretofore noted. It burned ont the entire north-north-east seotion of his luxuriant and wind-defying whiskers. And on much of the adjoining hirsute ornamentation it also gave a decidely dark seal brown color to what before was a rich auburn. There was no ibsurance on any of the burned or damaged whiskers, that brand being classed as extra hazardous. The wind still whistles cheerfully through what is left of Isaac’s beard, and Isaac whistles back again, still more cheerfully.