The Lincoln County herald., 1872-08-07

Look here III put Eve hundred
dollars in good sound gold under the
door, and you can count it as | push il
through piece BY piece, if you'll only let
me out Of this cursed hole. I'm smother.
1ng"
TRY somo chloroform," l Whispered
through the keyhols.
"Curso the chloroform viii you lot
me out2"
l had light by this time, and slipped
into calico wrapper and my slippers.
IF got the money, how could let
him out Of the closet ?" | wondered.
IL shouldn't dare to meet him he'd rob
me again, and perhaps murder me-" But
| said, "I'll tako the gold, resolving that
| would try to get out Of it somehow,
just for the sake of poor Rebecca, who SO
much wanted to 60 to school.
"Your heart is in the right place." he
said, aud next moments big round gold
piece came through the wide crack under
the door.
couldn't withhold I'M exclamation Of
delight.
"lt's right enough now, isn't it?" he
sneere1 There's nothing like gliding
over our sins little. Bah! all the
worlds alike Here gees another, ind
another, and another. Coun, fast, my
pous damseI. l dare say there's uo con.
fessional in your church :"
"ls there in yours
well, If there was, gold gets into that
sometimes, they say. Hold fast there {;
you've got the last clinker, now set me
FREQ"
"Wait minute"
But won't wait. swoar | won't"
Cant yoa help yoursslfY'
"Wcl, no, not much but 1 IN smother.
ing in here Can't you take pity on u
poor fellow p
, sit down fat on the door," | SAID.
heard him plump down as o school
boy.
What next?"
l turned to the kitchen door TO see if
the lock was sll right. Then | turned
the key with o sharp click, which sounded
to me like the report Of pistol.
"1here!" l cried, and sprang into
the kitchen, locking the door behind me.
He camo out OF his prison, swearing
like trooper.
SHARP old Satan, she's locked herself
up somewhere, trying the kitchen door
as he spoke. "Good night, Madame
Doil-good niQhtl You've got the bes,
Of this. You have robbed me. Good
uight-get down and say your prayers.
And l did. What is more, cried like
, baby over my money, thinking what il
would bring to US.
l never saw the strange burglar again,
and in few weeks Rebecca was com
fortabIy established at school. No one
ever knew where the money came from
) An uncle died about that time, and some
, Of my neiehbors shrewdly suspected that
, he had left us something; but | had
! nothing to say uIon the subject.
About six months after my adventure
< brother Joe came to me one day, anG
e said that he mad been STOPPED in IT,,
0 staeet by q strange man and that he had
y begged him to say to Madame Quimby
/ that the JriU Of her niyhtcap ,oas just q
. Lttle too pide So saying, he passed on
"M hat did it msan?" Joe asked.
Nothing, only that he was crazy"
answered quickly but ny iucs was rec
as blaze.
BoLrs Tho chapter Of bolts ant
Dol ers, sincs 1910, from tho regular
. party nominations and DEGREES, may herr
serve US to some purpose. The bolt o
{, Tyler in 1871, aided by little Whig Dol
in New York in 1874, defeated Henry
Il Clay; tho bolt Of Van Buren, in 1S4s
defeated Bass aud dislodged the Demo
cratic part from the government, aud tn
Q general bolt Of the Democrats from tn
9 Charleston convention Of 1860 brough
this Republican party into power. Th'
} Andy johnson bolt was badly managed
u and served to strengthen rather thai
: weaken the Republicans adhsring to Con
Q gress. But if Tyler aud Van Buren,, q
J. boilers, each did so much, may no
s much b, done by Sumner, Trumbull
: Schurz Greeley, Brown aud host o
|, other Republicans combined as bol,sr.
u |. is said that Mr.. Greeley, as the DE
mocratio candidate, will bs an astoni.h
J, ing nomination. So was Polk. so wa
Tyler, so was Pierce, and so was Lincoln
but each Of those men was elected. Their
is. evi ilently, strength 10 an astonishing
- nomination.
n The Democrats, with Pierce, in 1852
went over and took up tho Wing platform
} Of Henry Clay, and they swept tb
= country. The moral 10 obvious.
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!. Commenting on the death Of the Ne,
Q York Standard the Journal of Commere
. says: mot less than o thousand dol
lars day sufices to conduct frstclas
!. daily, fully stated with editors and re
porters; its tsntaclss of commercial an
news correspondsnce stretching ou
4 everywhere, its sweep of domestic tsle
Il grams from every corner Of the land, an
). ito latest costly bvI den Of cable dis
patches 70 carry. The versatility Of q
!. Admirable Cbrichton, the inssnsitivenes
Of an alligator's hide, aud the workin
= power OF . pacthsrse may be msn,ione
A soma az Aha qualifications Cor man. q