The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1883-01-12

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next day. and he fixed those par
ticnlar windows % they would keep
quiet u week or 80. and always re-
membered 20 send rs q bill about like
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AT length a perfectly natural thing
came ab0ut--after we had answered
three or four hundred false alarms-to
wit, we stopped answering them Yes.
! simply rose up calmly. when slammed
across the house BY the alarm. calm
~ inspected the annunciator. took note
Of the room indicated. and then calmly
disconnected that room from the alarm
and went back to bed as IL nothing had
happened. Moreover. 1 left that room
oil permanently. and did not send for the
expert. Well. il goes without saying
that in the course OF time all the rooms
where taken OF and the entire ma
chinery was out Of service.
1T was nj this unprotected time
that the heaviest calamity Of all hap
pened. The burglars walked in one
night and carried on the burglar alarm!
yes, sir; every hide and hair o. il;
ripped it out, tooth and toe-nail;
springs. bells. gongs. battery and all;
they took one hundred and fifty miles
Of copper wire; they just cleaned her
out. bag and baggage. and never left us
q vestige Of her 70 swear at-swear BY,
mean.
We had a time Of II to get her back.
but we accomplished il finally. foI
money. Then the alarm firm said that
what We needed now was Il have her
put in right-with their new patent
springs in the windows 70 make false
alarms impossible. and their new patent
clock attachment "a take OF and put on
the alarm morning and night without
human assistance. That seemed . good
scheme. They promised to have the
whole thing finished in ten DAYS. They
legan work. and we left for the sum
mer. They worked a couple Of days;
then they left for the summer. After
which the burglars moved IN and began
their summer vacation. When we re-
turned in the fan the house was as
empty as a beer closet in premises
where painters have been at work.
We r~efurnished and then sent down 70
hurry up the expert. He came up and
finished the Job. and sad: Now this
clock i set 70 put on the alarm every
night at ten, and take II OF every morn
ing a $40. All you've got to do i 10
wind her mp every week. and then
leave her alone-she will take care Of
the alarm herself
:" After that we had . most TRANQUIL
season during three months. The bill
was proligious. Of course. and ! had
said l would not pay until the new ma
chinery had proved itself 20 be f1awless.
The time stipulated was three months.
50 4 paid the bill. and the very next
day the alarm went 70 bnzzing like
10000 bee swarms at ten o'clock in the
morning. turned the hands around
twelve hours, according 70 instructions.
and this too< OF the alarm; but there
was another hitch at night. and l had
10 set her ahead twelve hours once more
TO get her 70 put the alarm on again
That sort Of nonsense went on 4 week
or two; then the expert came up and
put in a new clock. He came up every
three months during the next three
years and put IN q new clock. But it
was always . failure. His clocks all
had the same perverse defect. They
would put the alarm on in the day time.
and they would not put il on a. night;
md Il You forced Il on yourself. they
would take Il oil again the minute your
back was TUNED.
NOW mere IS the history OF That
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