Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

THE LADY AND THE BURGLAR. How ■ Woman Kept Her Nerve and Helped to Capture a Burglar. It was just after the war. and things ■were in a very chaotic state We—my husband, my little one and I—were living in Richmond then On the night of which 1 write 1 could see that John was worried about something. He seemed preoccupied all during supper, and after the things were cleared away he took his seat at tie table, with a pile of medical books reaching above his head on the right, and an immense volume spread open before him. He evidently had a puzzling case on hand, and was not in a humor to be talked to I took out my crocheting and worked for a short time on little Anna's sacque. Then 1 yawned, cro cheted a round or two. yawned again, and finally, in despair, folded up my work and went up stairs to my room. Little Anna had preceded me there, and lay tucked away in a comer of my bed in the rttfriest slumber imaginable. ”1 won't put her in the crib just vet," 1 thought, "she is sleeping so sweetly" I had got in the process of disrobing, to the point of dressing wrapper and slippers, and was shaking out uiy hair preparatory to its arrange ment for the night when the brush slipped from jmy hand and fell wtth a sliarp ring upon the floor As I stooped to pick it tip a sight met my eyes the very recollection of which make* uie grow hot ami cold by turns A negro was under my btsi He was drawn up tut close as possible to the wall and lay there watching :ue. I ant only an av ■wage woman, not particularly eour agcoiis or particularly anything that I know of* How 1 ever kept from shriek iug or fainting will ever remain a lays terv to me. Supernatural strength must have etNue to my aid. I felt in a moment the importance of concealing from this man the fact that I was aware of in* presence I arose from my stooping posture, and began brushing my hair with the utmost coolness and delibera tiou, but a very white face looked back at me from the mirror before which 1 stood. I believe, if anything, I brushed my hair longer than usual that night; theu, dividing it in two parts with great exactness, began plaiting it, turning over in my mind all the while what course of action I should adopt. Sud daniy I remembered that I had forgot ten to Erring up the basket of silver which we always kept in our room at night. , ‘‘Them.’' I exclaimed aloud. “I left the silver down stairs. I must ask John to bring it up with him.” ‘‘John! Oh. John!” I said, going out in the passage and calling down the steps, “bring the spoons and forks up with you when you come.” There was no answer. The dining room door wsis shut and John was deep in his book. “How provoking!” I exclaimed. “I will have to go down for them myself.” Every detail of that night’s advent ure seems graven, as with an Iron pen, upon my mind. The very sound of my slippers —loose at the heel —as I went down the bare steps is distinct in my memory. “John,” I said, as closing the dining 4*oom door behind me I crossed the room and placed my hand upon my husband’s shoulder, “don’t exclaim at what I’m going to tell you. Tirere is a man urv der the bed in our room. He doesn’t know that l have seen him. Slip quiet ly out at the back door and call for help before he makes his escape." I don’t think ten minutes could have elapsed before my husband returned, accompa nied by two policemen armed to the very teeth, but it seemed like hours to me as 1 stood there thinking of our little one sleeping so unconsciously on our bed. and of the villain lying be neath it He was a big, burly fellow, it was discovered, when at last he had been dragged from his hiding place and in duced to assume the perpendicular. On his person, in addition to my dia mond ring, gold watch and set of pearls, was found a bottle of chloroform.,a big knife and a loaded revolver The next day a very tremulous heroine was read ing in the morning paper an account of a brave woman's adventure with a bur glar. The brave woman—the account said she was myself, too. —Philadelphia Times. KlndneN Always Pays. I say kindness comes home to roost jnst as certainly as curses. Most men pay when they can, and If you help a man in trouble yon may be sure you mn call cm him for a hundred cents on the dollar when the time comes for you to be In trouble. C believe I’d giT® more for au account against a man who could not pay. but who wishes to. than for one against a perfectly solvent man who does not like to pay.—lnter view in Chicago Herald. If you liave a great deal of writing to do it is recommended that you should liave a number of pencils or penholders of elide runt sizes handy. fWjncnt change rests the hand and prevents cramps. , Sh+ 1% a* I’rrpttred nn<f lie Moved On- A woman opened a front door, and addiessing a soiled man who. down on all fours, was seemingly looking for something, said: "What are you doing them" "Madam" he said, straightening up, “please be so generous as to pardon this apparent intrusion. My little girl and I were coming along here just now. and the child, in her gay frolicsomeness, ran aco your greensward, bnt in her glad forgetfulness dropped a silver dollar that had been given her by the hand somest and noblest of women. We were on our way to get a doll for my other little girl, that is sick in lied, and it would have done your heart good to have seen the happiness of the little would-be purchaser —but she lost the wouey, and now. almost heartbroken, she has gone home to tell her mother of the great calamity ” “That was indeed too bad.” said the woman. “Yes. madam; and if 1 could only hope—have you any little children, madam f* “Yes." “Then you know what disappoint ment means to a child. If 1 only knew where 1 could borrow a dollar lum in expressibly happy 1 should be. Madam, could you let me have a dollar?” “No, not this morning.” “Well, could you let me have 50 cents now and give me the other hall this aftem>on f” “No. 1 can’t do that either.” “Well, madam, may I ask what you are prepared to do ?” “1 am prepared to tell you to move on away or I’ll send fora policeman.” “Y'ou are thoroughly prepared for this, are you ?” “1 aiu.” “All right; I shall bid you good morning. It is one c/f my business rule* never to tamper with any one that is thoroughly prepared.”—Chicago Her aid. Marnmiiinil)'. The magnanimous man will bo n great man intrinsically—that is, he will have something within him that will raise him above wliat is petty and trifling. In everything lie will prefer the greater to the less, the higher to the lower, the better to the worse. And this he will do not so much from a sense of duty and by a self-denying ef fort as from a simple love and prefer ence for the good. If, for instance, he is called to choose between a successful stroke of business uid a truthful state ment be cannot hesitate; all his im pulses tend to the latter as the greater of the two satisfaction*. If must decide between personal comfort or ease and the helping of a neighbor in distress his warm sympathies forbid a moment’s doubt. If ha- is offered some much prized luxury irv exchange for a little meanness of conduct be refuses it with scorn. Such things are no temp tation to him, because his mindat once gauges their comparative unworthiness and ius heart recoils from them.—Now York Ledger. SpMd of , Locomotive. In regard to the much discussed question-as to the rapidity with wliich a locomotive can run, some interesting official figures have been given by Mr Stretton, an eminent English engineer, showing briefly that the highest speed ever accurately taken was with u Bris tol and Exeter broad gauge engine, having nine foot wheels, and which was, as long ago as 1853, officially timed at a speed of Just over eighty miles an hour for a short distance, this occurring in the ease of a falling grad ient and with a light load. He also distinctly asserts that this speed is the maximum tliat can possi biybe obtained with locomotives of the present type, the cause of this being, he declares, that at such a speed as that the resistance of the air, the back pressure in the cylinders and the frie tion altogether have become so great that they absorb the whole power of the engine, while the pressure on the wrong side of the piston i*eoomes great ly increased by the fact that the ex baust steam cannot be got out of the cylinders fast enough. F-lectrical Re view. Dr.th by Klectrlclty. The experiments of Dr. Tatum have done not a little toward clearing up the mystery that has surrounded the physical mechanism of death by eleo tricity. He has made it more than probable that there is a real difference between the effects of continuous and alternating currents, in tliat tne former seems to kill only through a direct action on the substance of the heart, while the latter owe whatever added danger they may possess to a distinct action on certain portions of the nerr ous system. Dr. Tatum has also shown that the difference in tlie effects of the two classes of current is far less than some foreign investigators would have os believe. —New Orleans Picayune. Letter Heads. Note Heads, Biii Heads Statements. Envelopes. Dodgers. Circu lar*. Pamphlet*, in fact, all kin' 1 * of job work done in The Lzvozk Job Office A. 31. COX, WM 111 PRICES. Having had a liberal pa tronage the past season, I am determined to show my appre ciation by offering all goods handled by me at * BOTTOM ’TRICES. IN MY Dry Goods Departmnt I carry a large assortment of calicoes, Fine Diess Goode Etc. I HAVE A COMPLETE STOCK OF PURE & FRESH Family Groceries. | T also handle Hardware and TINWARE In fact everything that peo pie are obliged to have. A. M. COX, WE LEAD! LET THOSE FOLLOW WHO l'. o CHEAPEST - CASH - STORE - IN GEORGIA. Goods of every description to everybody at and below Alliance Prices. Dry goods, shoes, hats, hardware, drugs, Queensware, fancy goods and family groceries. We buy and sell'for cash or ex change for COUNTRY PRODUCE. LADIES - DRESS - AND - : GOODS A SPECIALTY. Our motto: Good quality, honest quantity, sell cheap, sell a heap, and keep eternally at it. J. M. GRAY. Adairsville MEAT MARKET. All parties desiring good aid fresh Meats of all kinds con-, sisting of Beef, Pork, Mutton* and Sausage, and during wmtei months Fish and Oysters will find it at this- market.’ Highest Cash Price : paid lo* Be tea and Muttons. Give me* a call and he convinced. J. A. BAILEY. DR. R. E. CASON., Resident Dentist, CaRTEBSVII.I.E, -- GEOROIAf Bn* had ju*t twenty year* exper | nee . Beautiful set-of teeth onh AtO.i Gold tillings SI.OO. i renting find ftll-i ing aeheing teeth A gper-mlty. All work warranted * five years. Office over iEir-iNaU -i aakv CarteravUle, Ga. . JJLJmchiCo ,, MERCHANT MILLERS, ADAIRSYILLE, BA. PRINTING PRESSES, mi, OUR, STM, 11, ITU* PERFECT GOODS, BOTTOM'PRICES, LIBERAL TEBJkS! Southern - Printers’ - Supply - Cos.. 34 W Alabama St.. ATL ANTA, GA. sell the Constitution, and refer to them. READ THIS! FOR SALE BY THOS. LUMPKIN,. Gafteysville, Sa< Engines,, Gins \ Cbtton Presses;. WHUT DBMSI iEDIIKSE: mm a plm drills,, MOWERS AND RAKES.. Saw Mills,, Shingle Mills;. Full Line of Evans’ Outtawar, Triple • andl Steel Harrows. All For Sale by Thomas Lfmpkijs; Cartersville, Gaw- '