£HIAS. OKION STROH, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW and NOTARY PUBLIC. Office: Rooms 1 and 2, Birkbeck Brick, Freeland J OHN M. CARR, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. All legal business promptly attended. Postoffice Building, - Freeland MCLAUGHLIN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Ltg'< 4 HOW A MAN'S HAIR STOOD ON O I END AND THEN DROPPED OFF. , , John Rhett, the handsomest young man in the county, he of the raven locks and with the beautiful black mustache that the women adored—John Rhett walked into the barber shop in Yorkville for a shave. It was a cold day, and there were three or four of his friends, besides several tonsorial artists, standing around the stove at the time, but the man who always did his work being idle, he walked directly over and threw himself into the com fortable chair. The barber was a tall, well built young fellow by the name of Ilenry Casey, whom Rhett had known for a long time. The usual preparatory process was gone through with, and then he sharpened his razor find went to work, but he started off in a manner that made Rhett uncom fortable from the first. This was due to the unusual and seemingly reckless way in which he handled the razor. There was entirely too much flourish about it to make one feel easy. He would whirl it round in one or two circles before it touch ed the face and then take it olf again in the same artistic style. This may have looked very pretty to a spectator, but to the person who formed the center of these concen tric circles Rhett thought it was anything but pleasant. At first he was inclined to think the fellow was drunk, but he soon dismissed this idea, for the work was being done well and skillfully and as no drunk en man could do it. Finally he told Casey that he didn't like any such nourishes around his head and to stop it. But the.only reply he received was the press of the barber's finger against his throat and a short, hiss ing "keep still." This made Rhett mad, and he started to express himself very for cibly, but when he looked up at the man who stood drawing the razor over his face his anger gave way to a far more fearful feeling. The words died on his lips, and a sudden chill crept over his body. He had looked into the wild, ex cited eyes of a maniac. "Don't you move or say a word. If you do, I'll cut your throat," came again in a suppressed whisper as that sharp, cunning face bent near to his. "Do you know," said the barber as he kept on with the work —"do you know that this will be your last shave; that I intend to kill you with this same razor the moment I have finished ? "I have long wanted to make the experiment," he continued as he went rapidly on, "just to see how quickly it could be done. Perhaps you think 1 am crazy, but you are wrong. I only want to do this work in the interest of science. I believe it will prove to be the most painless and quickest of all deaths. If I succeed today, as 1 expect to do, my method may become the public mode of execution in this country, sup planting the gallows. You see what an honor it will be to have started such a reform in capital punish ment. My name will become im mortal. There will be none of the suspense attending executions now, none of the terrible scenes at the gallows. You simply take the con demned man in for a shave, and be fore he knows it he is in eternity." Then commenced a fierce and hidden game between those two —a game in which one knew the prize for him was life and, if he lost, the profit death. "Henry," said the young man, and he smiled, though his heart was beating fast, "you shouldn't try to frighten a good customer in that way. You know you wouldn't kill cn old friend like me." "I'll show you, Mr. Rhett," half shrieked the barber, and the gleam ing eye grew fiercer and the voice trembled with passion. Rhett saw that this had only add ed fuel to the (lame, and he began to despair of conciliating the mad man. "Yes," said Casey, apd his wild hand grew wilder and the razor pressed harder upon his victim's face; "yes, you must die this very hour for the sake of science. Why, it will be a noble death. You ought to feel honored to perish in such a cause." The young man was now thor oughly frightened, and he watched for an opportunity to spring from the chair and escape. But he look ed in vain. Though the barber oc casionally relaxed the stern grip upon Ujs throat, yet he still held him with his glittering eye. "You see, the criminal will not know that his hour is at hand. The barber will be taken into the jail to give him a shave, and without a fear or tremor, without a single thought of death, he will bo hurled into another world. Talk about ex ecuting by electricity! My method will not only be quicker, but more painless. "Just a stroke like this, and it's ail over," and Rhett's heart gave a wild leap, for he thought his end had come. Casey, however, had only drawn the back of the razor across his throat, but with such force and ra pidity that it burned like fire. The situation was growing des perate. In a minute the barber would he through with his work. With one hand he had Rhett by the hair and with the other was finish ing up the job, while his lips kept muttering and his body swayed with excitement. Rhett knew with the next sweep of that infuriated arm he would meet his doom. Whatever lie did must he done instantly. "Well, Henry," he said as lightly as he could, "sharpen up your razor well before you start, for I don't want any bungling job." For he thought when the barber turned to do this ho could leap from the chair and get away. "It's sharp enough for you, Mr. Rhett," and the madman grew mad der as lie spoke; "it's sharp enough for you, sir." He had already finished shaving. Rhett's heart almost stood still. "Now we'll see if it needs to be sharpened," said Casey, with a de moniac laugh, and Rhett felt a sharp sting as the keen blade cut the skin on liis throat. "But, Henry," he rapidly ejacu lated, "1 want you to make a success of this, for it will he a blessing to the world—hut if you go on now I tell you it will he a failure." The razor stopped. "Why ?" asked Casey. The maniac was interested. Rhett saw that lie had gained a point, and he knew his life depended upon how he used it. He had touched upon the man's pet mania. It seemed strange to him now that he had not thought of it before. "You will make a failure," he continued, "because you have told ine all about it, and I have already suffered as much suspense as the Criminal on the gallows. Besides, when I feel the razor giving me the fatal wound I will shriek out in ag ony, and the people will say that I suffered n terrible death. They will not believe you then that it would he the most painless mode of execu tion. So, you see, Ilenry, you would defeat the verv object you are try ing to accomplish." The barber withdrew the razor and held it motionless in his hand. Rhett breathed easier and became ■ eloquent on the subject of the ex periment. "Now, the next man you shave, Ilenry, don't say a word to him on the subject, hut all at once, in the twinkling of an eye, put him out. And 1 believe you will become a greater man than the inventor of the guillotine." "Well, Mr. Rhett, I believe you are right about it," and he began to close the razor. The mania was wearing off, and in its stead there caine a playful and mischievous humor. Patting his customer under the chin, "All, Mr. Rhett," lie said, "you would look so much better without your mustache. Now, don't you want me to take it off for you?" Afraid to cross him in his humor, Rhett replied, though it almost broke his heart to say it: "Why, certainly, Ilenry, if you think it will look better." On went the lather, and in an other minute the beautiful silken strands were no more than the with ered leaves of the forest. "Now, Mr. Rhett, if you had .your hair clipped you would look splen did. Don't you want me to take it off?" "Of Course, Ilenry, clip it," came from those anguished lips. He was willing to say or do anything to get that razor back into its case. So the clippers were brought out, and in less than two minutes he was slicker than a newborn rat. But if his head was light his heart was, too, when lie arose from the chair, and never in all his life did he feel so willing and happy to pay for a shave and hair cut. Of course everybody laughed at him when he went out on the street, and the wind blew cold about his head. To his friends when they gathered around liini he told his harrowing experience, and he was still as pale as a ghost. A committee forthwith waited on the barber, but it did not find any thing in his words or actions to de note insanity. So some believed the storv and some didn't, and the bar ber kept on shaving. But never again did he put his razor upon the face of John Rhett. Lively Times In Georgia Now. Here is a unique invitation from a Billville district: "You are invite<>to a candy pull in', two weddin's and a dance on Thursday evenin' next. Come early and select your partners!"— Atla nta Constitution. FOR THE LITTLE ONES. A Kitten That Had a Jolly Good Time In the Snow. Perhaps it will be interesting to our little folks to hear the story of Ivatura, a seven-month-old kitten that during the first snowfall of the winter was found collecting snow into heaps and then rolling it into balls. We supposed this to be a freak simply, and, though we watch ed her scuttling and scrambling in the soft drift, we supposed that the next snowfall would find her forget ful or indifferent. Hut, to our sur prise, at the next storm of the kind we found her at a still more animat ed game. Standing near a fence* with gleaming eves and waving tail, she watched the flakes fall. Finding that they fell from a height, she stood upon her toes and, holding up her paws eagerly, looked into them, tossing up the supposed contents, ller excitement increased each mo ment, and, hoping to bring herself nearer to the sourse of the fairy, feathery things, she mounted a flow er box, and, rearing her little lithe body, she continued to catch and toss, catch and toss, until she grew wild with excitement. Then, leap ing down to the walk, she once more gathered and rolled the woolly stuff into balls, scattering them hither and thither, every line of her body expressing the most perfect,gracious action. This is surely an exception al case, knowing, as we do, that the feline race has a decided antipathy to getting its feet and paws wet. —Philadelphia Ledger. It Fools the Eye. You cannot always be sure a thing is so because it looks as if it were. First 'impressions are not always correct. You would think that tlie IFfl I ' I THE CIUSSCIIOBH LlNliS DO IT. long lines in this picture were not exactly parallel, and yet they are. The deception is brought about by the short crisscross lines.—Ameri can Boy. Gypsies In Hungary. Gypsies being wanderers on the face of the earth, they have no fa therland, but if there is one country more than another where they feel at home and in which they have been fairly treated on the whole that country is Hungary. Two things have brought the two folk together. The gypsies are born mu sicians, and the Magyars are born dancers. For some reason or other (he Magyar thinks fiddling is be neath him. The gypsy is quite eon tent that it should be so, for no in strument save the bagpipes can sup ply the wild dance music which the Hungarian loves so well as the vio lin can. Gypsy bands are thus in great demand in Hungarian towns, and many of the players make a lot of money. Let a gypsy band but strike up a gay tune, and in a few minutes men and women will be seen dancing like mud, some of them during the fury of the mo ment lavishing money upon the mu sicians. It is "the thing" even for peasants to hire a gypsy band for their private junketings, and it is said that Hungarian nobles have ruined themselves largely because of the sums of money they have spent upon orchestras of gypsies. Our Circus. There's going to fie a circus In our town today. You'd better \A a\\ Aru^vs\s. 258^50 z\%A HEADACHE At all drug storev 25 Doses 25c. —-——— HEADACHE AfJlßhlJlJSgartifl ZPZRIUST TXISTGr Promptly Done nl I lie Tribune Olllee RAILROAD TIMETABLES LEHIGII VALLEY RAILROAD. June 1901. ARRANGEMENT or PASSENGER TRAINS. LEAVE FHE ELAND, i 0 12 a ra lor Weatlierly, Mauch Chunk, Alleutown, Bcthleliera, Last on, J'hila delphiaand New York. 7 34 a in for Sandy Itim, White Haven, Wilkes-ltarre, Pittston and Serunton. 8 15 a m lor lla/leton, Weatlierly, Mauch ('hunk. Alleutown, Delhleheiu, Easton, Philadelphia, New York, Delano and Pottsville. 9 30 a in for Hazleton, Delano, Muhunoy City, Shcnundouh and Mt. ('arrael. 11 42 a m for Weatlierly, Munch Chunk, Al lentowu, Velblohem. Easton, Phila delphia, New York, lla/leton, Delano, Mahanoy City, Shcuuudouli and Mt. Carmel. I 1 5 1 a in for White Haven, Wilkes-Barre, Serunton and the West. 4 44 pin for Weatlierly, Mauch Chunk, Al leutown, Itethlehem, Easton, Philadel phia, New York, Hazleton. Delano. Mahanoy City, Slictuiudoah, Mt. Carmel and Pottsville. 0 35 i) in for Sandy Run, White Haven, Wilkes-llarre, Scrautou and all points West. 7 29 pm for Hazleton. ARRIVE AT FREELAND. 7 34 am from Pottsville, Delano and Haz -9 12 a in from New York, Philadelphia, Eas ton, Itethlehem, Alleutown, Mauch Chunk. Weutherly, Hazleton. Mahanoy City, Shenandoah and Mr. Carmel 9 30 a in from Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and White Haven. II 51 am from Pottsville, Mt. Carmel, Shen andoah, Mahanoy City, Delano and Hazleton. 12 48 P m from New York, Philadelphia, Easton, Itethlehem, Alleutown, Mauch Chunk and Weutherly. 4 44 ]> m from Scranton, Wilkes-Iturre and White Haven. 0 35 P m from New York, Philadelphia, Easton, Itethlehem Alleutown, Maucli Chunk, Weatlierly, Mt. Carmel, Shenan doah, Mahanoy City, Delano and iluzle ton. 7 29 P m from Scranton, Wilkes-llurre and White Haven. For further information inquire of Ticket A Rents. j KOLLIN n.WILBUR, GeneraI Superintendent, Cortlundt street. New York City. CHAS. S. LEE, General Passenger Agent, 20 Cortlundt Street. New York City. G.J.GILDItOY, Division Superintendent, lla/leton, Pa. THE DELAWARE, SUSQUEHANNA AND SCHUYLKILL RAILROAD. I Time table in effect March 10, 1001. Trains leave Drifton for Jeddo, Eokley, Hazlo Brook, Stockton, Reaver Meadow Road, Roan I and Hazleton Junction at 000 a in, dally I except Sunday; and 7 07 a m, 2 38 p in, Sunday. Trains leave Drifton for Harwood,Cranberry, rorahicken and Deringer ut 600 a m, daily except Sunday; aud 7 07 a m, 238 p m, Sun day. Trains leave Drifton for Oneida Junction, Harwood Road, Humboldt Road, Oneida and sheppton at 600 a m, daily except Sun day; and 7 07 a m, 2 38 p m, Sunday. Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Harwood, Cranberry, Tomhicken and Deringer at 635 a ra, dully except Sunday; and 8 60 a m, 4 22 p m, Sunday. Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Oneida i Junction, Harwood Road, Humboldt Road, Oneida and Sheppton at 0 32. U 10 a m, 4 41 p m, j daily except Sunday; and 737 a m, 3 11 pm, Sunday. Trains leave Deringer for Tomhicken, Cran borry, Hai wood, Hazleton Junction ami Roan at SI !P.P except Sunday; ana 337 a m, 5 Oil p m, Sunday. ! ~T ra "B leave Sheppton for Oneida, Humboldt Road, Harwood Road, Oneida Junction, Hazie , ton Junction and Roan at 7 11 am, 12 40, 520 I p m, daily except Sunday; und b 11 a m, 3 44 p m,Sunday. Trains leave Sheppton for Beaver Meadow j Road, Stockton, Ilazle Brook, Eckley, Jeddo and Drifton at 5 26 p in, daily, except Sunday; and 8 11 u ra, 3 44 p m, Sunday. Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Beftver i Meadow Road, Stockton. Ilazle Brook, Eckley, i Jeddo and Drifton at 540 p m, daily, j except Sunday; and 10 10 a m, 5 40 p m, Suuday. j All trains connect at lla/leton Junction with electric curs for Hazleton, Jeanesvillc, Audcn -1 rled aud other points on the Traction Com j pany's line. 1 Train leaving Drifton at 600 a m makes connection at Deringer with P. R. R. trains for Wilkesbarre, Sunbury, Uarrisburg and points IT Sit. LUTHER 0. SMITH. 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