Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-11-06

tiles Of our daytime life. Who wouli
not go far 10 see such things, awake, as
every morning be may lie still and see in
bis dreamsf Dreams are proof that
things which are not are mighticr than
things WHICH are. al. a. t-.-.. IA.
Down come the girls in the morning
at FIVE o'clock, filled, perhaps, with the
romance Of early rising. With Diinble
feet they throw open the shutters, unbolt
the doors, and at the milkman's hideous
yell, they open the door, in rushes the
clear, sweet, fresh air Of morning down
there, and up in my room the burglars
alarm is going OF witlia fury that shows
how much refreshed it too was with a
nights sleep.
Whcw! what time is il il il midnight?
test the dial plate. and find that the
entrance is being effected at the base
ment door. Shutting on MY pan.alooms,
and suspcnders buttoned, with arms and
munitions of war, | rush to the entry to
see Bridget sweeping out the hall and
to learn that had forgot to wind up
the clock attachment to the alarm, 10y
which ingenious conlriyance the servants
can open any door after five III the morn
ing without starting the alarm.
i was always forgetting TO turn oil
the alarm. Some one rings at midnight.
put my head out the front chamber
window to say who's there, but the first
inch that the sash goes up, off goes
the Alarm. "IIang that bell mother,
Go stop IT," F
But all these are mere trifes 10 the
way was served on two occasions. In
dead of night, without inst reason in
magnetism or electricity, the alarm start
ed oft, and | started too. Testing it, I
found the open place, and repaired to it
prepared for conflict. But all was still.
The window fast, the doors fast, mice
scampered away as / came, showing that
nothing had happened there to alarm
them. Nothing had been opened That
alarm he'd got asleep, and dreamed that
burglars werO 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 quiet night after got the alarm
IN my chamber. For ! soon found that,
while It had trick of going off 10 a
KIND Of soliloquy, when every thing was
hghi shut, SO it was dumb as n turtle,
when certain Of the doors were wide
open, keeping up a sort of average of
fidelity without being particular as to
circumstances The way have bounced
out of bed, the ferocious states of mind
into which have beel thrown, prepared
to dispute possession with numbering
robbers, the FOOLS errands have been
sent upon, have satisfied me that my
lnstrumen. 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 tie more had the concern put to
rights, the worse it got. Either it or I
had to leave the house. My health was
good, but wouldn't stand so much broken
rest, as the nursery hath it. For two
years l have had peace No burglars
have come near me, or else they have
heard what luck that fellow had who
once broke into my house, and found all
my sermous exposed to his hand, and
passed on with haste.
But if ever one has a disease of leth-
argy, or is losing health by over-slccp,
or is quite too mach at ease in bed, or
has an enemy whose life ne would insirli-
cusly wear out without breaking the
law, let him procure Burglars Alarm
to be put up in their respective houses
1t will cure the one and kill the other
My word for it.