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A gentleman whose home is in the
Seventh Ward is agent for an agricul-
tural establishment, and is absent from
home certain seasons of the year, solicit
ing orders for machines. His wife has
not felt safe to stay at night with her
little family, without the protection of a
big club, which she placed between the
pillow and the headboard of the bed.
Although her husband had been absent a
great many times, she had no occasion to
use the club on any burglar or prowler |;
and she had at leagth grown careless
and neglected to put the club 10 it's accus-
toned place. Her husband was absent
last week, and one night she dreamed
that man approached her bed with q
drawn butcher knife She reached for
her club, and.it was not there. The vii
lain made a thrust at her throat, but
before she felt the cold blade, she awoke
in terror from her dream. She got up
instantly and secured the club, and the
balance of the night she slept securely.
The story she related to her neighbors,
who laughed at her for depending on a
"lworthlsss stick" etc. The next night
Mrs. x. was awakened by slight noise
at her bedroom door. She instlnctively
grasped the club. The next moment she
saw q man making his way steslthily
into her room. She made up her mind
in an instant that she would remain 81
lent and passive until he came in fair
reach of her club, when she would VI hit
him bat over the head" While she
was calculating how she could best in-
flict q blow on the scoundrel, he passed
within couple Of feet of her bed, on his
way to inspect bureau at the foot OF the
bed and the moment his back was on q
line with the center of the bed, she sud-
denly sprang up and struck him blow
on the head with all the power she was
capable.
The man fell as though be had been
shot, and he lay on the floor an instant,
groaning as though iD the sgonies OF dis
solution. The moment after Mrs. x had
struck the blow, her womsn's nature re-
turned, and che dropped the club and
covered down under the bed-clothes,
almost unconscious of the situation.
When she ventured to look out over the
room some time sfterward, the man had
disappeared. 1t was getting daylight,
and Mrs. X determined to make q recon
noisssnce Of the premises. First and
foremost she found blood on the floor
enough to satisfy her that she had made
Il serious for somebody with her club.
The window in the kitcheA down stairs
was raised, and there was blood on the
window frame. Nothing had been inter
fered with anywhere about the house.
II appears that she had put atop TO
the fellows operations ct the very out
start. Now, Mrs. x. had some very pn-
pleasant suspicious as to who her visitor
of the early morning was. BE bore 20
close q resemblance to q neighbor that
she thought il must be be. She visited
her neighbors house and learned that the
husband was in bed sick. That gave
more color than ever to her suspicion,
and when Mr.. X arrived home the next
day, and really had some business With
the sick man, and insisted on seeing him
and having few words with him, be
found him with head bsndaged and signs
Of blood on the clothes and on the pillow
A few words satisfied him that his neigh
Dor was the party whom his wife had
"batted over the head the previeus
morning. Mrs. Y. believes that elub
is . good thing 70 have about the house.