The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-09-02

by punctual payments and carelessness
concerning the domestic accounts had
won the heart of their susceptible land.
lord. He saw that she had an inward
grief = passing that of the ordinary
widow-and he ventured to inquire what
1t was.
" Alas !" she said, ''I have dear and
only nephew whose condition gives me
the greatest uneaslness. He has over
worked himself, that is threatened
with brain fever, the doctor says that If
we could only get him to have his head
shaved, all might be well, but he has
splendid head of hair-indeed great
deal too much of 1t. No argument of
mine will induce him to part with
it.n
This touched Mr.. De la Bois' profes.
sional feelings.
Dear me, Madame, how l pity the
young gentleman. 1t is terrible thing
to part with ones hair, but still = we
could shave him better than at any 9TH
er establishment in the Kingdom, and
quicker"
"Oh, don't care about the quick
ness" answered Mrs. Montfort hastily,
the thing is to get it done thoroughly.
would give fifty pounds if Alfonso
would only submit to it. Don't you
think, if he came with me one morning,
you could get it done whether he would
or not ?''
Well, really, Madame, that would
sbe a strong measure; still, if it's for the
young mans good"
They tell me, Mr. De la Bois, moth
ing else will save his wits, he is half
mad already; entertains the strangest
'delusions-that everything L have-my
jewels, for example-belongs to him.
They will belong to him some day,
poor fellow-that is, she added with
sigh, b." if he lives to enjoy them.''
Poor dear young gentleman and
you said fifty pounds, think. Well 1
think it can be managed for you. If
you will name a morning, will have
four of my strongest young men in
readiness, and if you will bring him
here, l will promise you he shall have
his head shaved"
"Very good, I will take him out
shopping with me; he is fond of shop
ping thinks he is shopkeeper some
times when his head is bad. He shall
come here in my brougham. You will
know him in moment by his mag
niicent head of hair"
+'Just so; and in five minutes no.
body shall know him, Madame"
6 Don't be in hurry about it. Let it
be done thoroughly" she answered =
And so it was arranged.
Accordingly, when Mr.. John Riddel
arrived in the widows carriage at Mr..
De la Bois', and had just placed the
parcel of diamond lockets upon her
sitting-room table, there was an intru-
sion of four strong young men, with
combs in their heads and aprons around
their waists. Since those
Four-and-twenty brisks young fellows,
All of them with umbrellas,
Fell upon poor Billy Taylor,
And persuaded him to be sailor"
there has been no such outrage. They
carried him into back room, fastened
him into chair, and in spite of his bab-
bling about how he was a jewelers.
foreman, and was being robbed land
with violence,) they shaved his head.
They not only effected this with great
completeness, but took their time about
1t as his aunt had requested them to do,
so that in the meantime she had got
clear out of the house, and nothing
was ever heard of her afterward, nor of
her niece, nor of the diamond lockets. 1t
was supposed to be the completest
shave" in the slang sense, that had
ever been effected, Never since Sam
sons had any one suffered so severely
from being cropped for Mr.. John Rid
del not only lost his hair, but his stu
alton. The Messrs. Moonstone declined
any longer to entrust their business to
foreman who had fallen into such a
shallow trap, and lost them thereby a
thousands pounds worth of jewelry.
They declared that it was all through
his insufferable conceit, and that if he
had not taken such pains with his hair
or worn so much of it, such a plan
would never have entered the head of
that modern Delilah, Mrs. Montfort
Sensible Advice.