A Citizen's Adventure After A Shave

From thd Evitnsville, Intl., Journal, April 9. A worthy citizon undertook to trim his beard a short time since, and by a slip of the scisaor spoilod the cut. Hu trimmed a littlo more, and still more, but it would look lop-sided ; so ho went to the biti bcr's and got shavod for tho first time in twelve years. Ho was vcry busy, and business detained him at liis office until a late hour of tho night, and when hn went home ho found that nis family had retired. This was uot an unusnal occurrence, so he silently entered by means of a jjasskey, sought his own room, and undressed ■without lighting the gas. He got pirtly into bod when his wife astonished him by uttcring a loud and prolonged scream. He was very much alarmed lor her and feared sho had lost her reason. He implored hor to teil him what was tho matter. At tho sound of his voice she screamed, " Oh ! Edward, como quick ' and save me !" " I am hero, dcar," said he, but sho only screamed the loudor at the words. He sprang out of bed, and had just struek a light, when his brothor-in-law, a muscular six-footer, rushed into the room and fired a revolver at his head. Luckily it. missed, but his fist did not, for in a minuto a palé faced man, with a long, white robo, staggefed under a blow that doubled tho sizo of his organ of comparison. " My God I" exclaimed tho husband, " are you all crazy r" " Bless my heart '" oxclaimod tlio muscular brother-in-law, " if it ain't Nod himself ! Why, what on earth tempted j'ou to get yourself up in that stylo 't" " Wlmt Rtylo ?" usked the much-abusod husband, as he rubbedthe growing lumps on his forehead. " Why, vfhen did you shave?" It was all cluar to him then. His wife had put up her hand in tha dark, and meeting the shaved face of a ïnan, took her husband for M intruder. She recognized his voioe first, the second time he spoke her terror was too great, and sho i'alnted. When the brotber-in-law rtnh ed in ho saw a thin-fuced "iiüiti with a slightly bald head, in a long white nightrobe, and in his rage at tho supposed outrage, fired it him, missod, and then knocked him down with his Hst. Fortuna1 ]y, his voice saved the husband l'roni a ond shot. His wifo recovcred from her faint only tofaint again at the reeognition of her husband's shaven face, and the pistol bhot. He finally got to bed and slcpt very well until morning, when "the baby," a child of about two years of age, approached the bed, as he had been usod to do, and, frightcned at the sight of a steniger, ran screaming from the room. Tripping on tin; oarpet, tho poor child receivod a severe bump on its littlo hcad. Matters were finally straightened up at home, but on the street his friends passed without spenking, and at the bank ho was not only refused payment of a dralt, but threatoned with arrest for signing his own name in indorsing it. Of course a little explanatiorl brought the varioua afl'airs all right, but it took so much timo to explain and for the contusión on his forehi'ad to get well, that tho aforesaid citizen vows he will never shave again, as he considera it a habit dangerous to peace, and even lifo.