Sharp County record., 1880-10-28
Blood Curdling Adventure in a Barber
ShNn.

To-day I cot shaved at barber-shop,
where | begged the operator to kill me
and put me out of misery.
I have been accustomed to gentle
care and thoughtfulness at home, and
nv barber at Laramie handles me with
the utmost tenderness. | was, there
fore, poorly prepared to meet the man
who this morning filed my soul with
woe. | know that have not deserved
this, for while others have beraJed the
poor barber and swOre about his bad
breath and never-ending clatter and his
general heartlessness, | have never said
anything that was not filled with child
like trust and hearty good will toward
him. I have called the attention Of the
public to the fact that customers some
times had bad breath and were restless
and mean while being operated upon,
and then when they are all fixed up
nicely they put their hats on and light
cigar and hold up their finger to the
weary barber and tell him that they
will see him more subsequently.
Now, however, | feel differently.
This barber no doubt had never heard
of me- He no doubt thought was an
ordinary plug who didn't know any
thing about luxury. | shall mark copy
of this paper and send it to him. Then
while he is reading it | will steal up be-
hind him with a pick-handle and kill
him. l want him to be reading this
when | kill him, because it will assist
the Coroner in arriving at the imme-
diate cause of his death.
The first Whit | took of this mans
breath, [ knew that he was rum s mani
&C. He had the Jim James in an adj
Vanced stage. Now, | don't object to
being shaved by man who is socially
drank, but when the mad glitter Of the
maniac is in his eye and can see that he
is debating the question OF whether ne
will cut my head off and letit drop over
the back of the chair or choke me to
death with lather brush, it makes me
nervous and idgety.
This man made up his mind three
times that he would kill me, and so ne
one came in just in time to save Inc.
His chair was near the window, rnd
there was a hole in the blind, so tuat
when he was shaving the off side Of my
face he would turn my head over in
such a position that | could look up IN
to the middle of the sun. Ny attention
had never before been called to the ap-
pearance OF the sun as it looks to the .
naked eye, and I was a good deal sur
prised. The more | looked into The
verv center of the great orb of the day /.
the more | was filled with wonder at /.
the might and power that could ere tie /.
it. began to pine for death imle /.
diately, 50 that | could be far away
among the heavenly bodies and in a /.
land where no barber with the deIir.dm /.
triangles can ever enter. The barber
held nv head down 50 that the san
could shine into my darkened under
until / felt that my brain Aad .
melted and was floating around and f.
3washing about in my skull like meI.ed /.
butter His hand was very unsteady too. .
lost faith in him on the start when he
,ut off the mole under my chin and .
threw it into the spittoon. | did not .
,are particularly, but at the same time
had not decided to take it OF at that
ime. In fact I had worn it 50 long
hat had become attached to it. 1t
lad also become attached to me. That
5 why | could not restrain my tears
when the barber cut it off and then
stepped back to the other end Of the
'oom to see how | looked without it
Blu Me-, IN the DenCer Tribune.