The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-04-16
He Believes The Papers Now.

"Ginme your hand +" exclaimed a soine-
what excited individual as he bounded INTO
the Chronicle Office last evening. you're
right. you are and | came down to tell you
sol It's true, evory word Of it.
EYES," murmured the local, with a graft
fed air; SO he motioned the old gentleman
toa sc 1t, thinking, no doubt. it was his last
article on the evils of intempeance that had
fetche ! him.
"Yf s, sir; it's Just as you say. l didn't
use to blieve in the newspapers, but l do
now, an l come in to tell you about it.
Twasn't a burned thing but a broken lock,
dye sec, an we sent out for the nearest
carpenter to come and fix it all right.
We'll, that fellow come he looked at the
door, turned thu useless knoll a couple of
times, said something about them mortice
locks and then went away. In bou an
hour he caine back with a little arrange.
ment he called a { pick and which he kind
ly informed us was genuine one of the
regular kind usel by burglars. He put
that arrangement in the key-ho,e. turned
and twisted it for half an hour. then gave
us the valuable information that that lock
had been broken ever since it was put on
in fact, they often done them that way.
these second-class mechanics. He guessed
the only thing for him to do was to take of
the facing. so he would go and get the tools.
About this time the old woman came down
stairs and wanted to know if she was ever
going to be let get through hat door ?
Now if there's anything I do hate, it is to
get the old lady to growing. She don't
growl easy, but when she does commence,
oh, Lord! Well, in about half an hour the
fellow appeared again. He had about forty
tools Of different kinds, now scattered
around. He jammed a mammoth screw
driver in between the door and facing, and
pried on it until the facing gave way in
half a dozen places; then he took another
instrument, ana with a hammer, succeeded
in smashing the catch of the lock. render
ing it perfectly unfit for further usej then
he gathered up his tools and remarked that
It was two late to do anything further that
night.
HE forgot to return next morning, and
had to be sent for. The messenger was in.
formed, at his shop, that he was not in. but
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about two hours he again appeared upon
the scene, took the measure of the lock, and
disappeared.
after another half hour Of suspense he
brought the new lock then worked around
ut tie door. blessed all other carpenters in
general, cut the mortice to fit the lock, and
then found out that he had n left-hand
lock when he wanted a right-hand one.
The old lady came down again about this
time, and said that the next time 1 wanted
a lock fixed she'd move out for a couple Of
weeks.
FINALLY, after dcfacing the moulding all
round, getting the knob a little higher and
the keyhole a little lower than originally,
or SO as to leave Imprinted spots showing.
he gave us the cheering information that
his work was finished. and he would send
up the bill.
Now. I hadn't believed what you had
been saying about plumbers and their bills /;
but when l saw that bill It convinced mo.
To one mortice lock. 81 so; removing old
one, 81; half dozen sorrows, 25 cents time
Of carpenter and assistant, 81 rs total.
$40 SO, to which l might add, spelling two
yards of Brussels carpet, IS; defacing
moulding. ETC.. Sand irritating my wife
past all redemption.
Its fact. truth, every word of it. and
you can count of my believing all you say
hereafter" Washington Chronicle.