Striping A Barber Pole

I had sometimes wondered, and, as a matter of fact, I don't know now," said a man, "how they manag-ed to g-et the spiral stripes on a barber pole so uniform and true; but I saw one way of it illustrated one morning-, and perhaps it is the way. A painter who was transforming the lower part of a telegraph pole in front of a barber shop into the customary sig-n had run two wires around the pole fröm the point at which he wished to beg-In down to the ground, and he was in the color in the spiral stripes thus i linea."