Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-11-18

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the door. r AS she assembled to heirloom,
4 the Chief of staff, in a decisive way
Bridget"
! Ma'am " as innocent as dove.
!" Bridget, / thought you were abed :.
What was the door open fory"
Indeed, ma'am, it took me longer to
take care of the fire than usual, and list as
II was coming up thought l smelled
something. Mebbe, says |, there's fire in
! the ashes in the arear Sure enough,
ma'am, when / opened the door there was
sparks enough"
r "Oh, says the appeased Chief, "did
| you put them out and make all safe 2"
Yes, mdam, you may be sure / did,"
adding in an under tone as she went up
stairs, 'and shut the door after him"
Bridget is treasure" said the Chief;
81 always feel safe when she's about. I'm
always bound to say good word for Bird
get, if she is Irish"
cat any rate, said I, zone is glad to
see that door can't be opened without
his knowing it.
4 Now we are early risers at our house.
We seldom lie abed after six, even in win
ter, and of course the girls must be up,
for early breakfast, betimes. And yet,
| while we are abed, how grateful are the
morning slumbers 1t is in the later hours
of the night, if at all, that healthy man
/ dreams; and if he is member of the tenn
I perance society, and, like Mr.. Parton,
never smokes nor takes late suppers, his
/ dreams viii be like the visit Of FAIRIES We
are not enough grateful for dreams.
Z a Ii ind pf 90, 90 81, i.
/ embodied state. There is the most charm
/ ing freedom. We move without walking.
We see impossible things without wonder.
We fly in the air, and walk upon the
water, and creep like flies along the cell
ing and talk with birds and beasts. We
| find hats full of gold in the road and gar
dens full of peaches, and nghtngales sing
to US, as we sit under the dropping petals
/ Of the rose of iesamine, and whisper, lust
as the silver edge of moonlight tips etc,
etc. Dreams therefore are the relief of
prosaic life. They are soft and gentle
mockery of the cares and perplexities of
our daytime life. Who would not 90 far
! to see such things, awake, as every morn
1 ing he may lie still and see in his dreams?
| Dreams are proof that things which are
not are mightier than things which are
! Down come girls in the morning at five
o'clock, filled, perhaps, with the romance
of early rising With nimble feet they
throw open the shutters, unbolt the doors,
and at the milkman's hideous veil, they
open the door-in PUSHES the clear, sweet,
fresh air Of morning, down there, and up
in my room the burglars alarm is going
off with a fury that shows how much re-
freshed it too was with nights sleep.
| Whew! what time is it? is it midnight?
| test the dial plate, and find that the en-
trance is being effected at the basement
door Shutting on my pantaloons, and
suspenders buttoned, with arms and mu-
nitions of war, | rush to the entry to
| ee.Bridget sweeping out the hall and to
learn that | had forgot to wind up the
clock attachment to the alarm by which
ingenious continuance the servants can
open any door after five in the morning
without starting the alarm,
was always forgetting to turn off the
alarm. Some one rings at midnight. |
put my head out the front chamber win
dow TO say who's there; but the first inch
that the sash goes up, off goes the alarm.
Hang that bell; mother, do stop it."
But all these are mere tri1es to the way
| was served on two occasions In dead
of night, without just reason in magne-
tsm or electricity, the alarm started off,
and started, too. Testing it, | sound the
open place, and repaired to it prepared for
conflict But all was still. The windows
fast, the doors fast--mice scampered away
as came, showing that nothing had hap
pened there to alarm them. Nothing had
been opened. That alarm had got asleep,
and dreamed that burglars were about,
and went off at them! Dogs often hunt
in dreams, and wake up barking Burglar
alarms do the same thing. The fact is,
never had a quiet night after | got the
alarm in my chamber. For soon found
that, while it had trick Of going off in a
kind of soliloquy, when every thing was
tight shut, so it was dumb as a turtle,
when certain Of the doors were wide
open, keeping up a sort of average of
fidelity without being particular as to cir
cumstances. The way | have bounced
out of bed, the terocious state of mind
into which | have been thrown, prepared
to dispute possession with numbering rob-
bers, the fools errands | have been sent
upon have satisfied me that my instru-
ment should be called an "Owner's
Alarm"
Burglars are the only parties that have
a happy time. The householder it is that
is driven crazy with midnight alarms. |
have let my battery dry up, for the more
had the concern put to rights the worse
it got Either it or had to leave the
house. Ny health was good, but wouldn't
stand so much broken rest, as the nursery
hath it. For two years | have had peace.
No burglars have come near me, c" else
they have heard what luck that fellow
had who once broke into my house, and
found all my sermons exposed to his hand,
and pass on with haste.
But if ever one has disease of leth-
argy, or is losing health by over sleep, or
Is quite too much at ease in bed, or has an
enemy whose life he would insiduously
wear out without breaking the law, let
him procure Burglars Alarm to be put