Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1895 — How He Woke the Barber. [ARTICLE]

How He Woke the Barber.

“Watch me wake up that barber.” It was a barber talking, and he pointed to a sleeping comrade, says the Atlanta Constitution. Tired with a heavy Saturday's shaving and cutting, the white barber had slipped outside and dropped into a chair, where he could get a breath of cooling air. It was nearly midnight and the rush was over. He had dropped to sleep. ' - \ The eight or ten barbers laughed. “Give him a startler,” they said. “The way I do It,” said the first bar-_ ber, “is to pour this alcohol over his shoe and stick a match to it. It don’t, burn the shoe, but it makes his foot, oh, how hot! Watch him jump In about a minute. Reckon he vyon’t leap through that show window?” lOpe barbers said no. One barber said he’d stand the damage. The barber went out and poured a generous quantity of alcohol over hia fellow barber’s shoe. Then he stuck a lighted match to it. It blazed up for a minute, while -the hayher laughed, and the unconscious victim slumbered on. Suddenly he danced to his feet and laa-ped hack agaift ß * Jhe window, screaming with pain. There was a smash nnd a howl, and the infuriated barber made a dash for his laughing brethren. There was a wild scattering of barbers, and the three men who were getting shaved were suddenly deserted. It was nearly midnight when quiet was restored, and the big barber who had offered to stand all damage was reminded of his promise.