The Delaware farmer., 1883-10-05
A Y1sIT FRoM souNps.

elbow and a whispered voice said: "Wl
liam, William, don't you hear that?
"What is that ?" said I. Somebody i
in the front piazza, said she. ''Don'
you hear him rocking in the rocking
chair?" And sure enough 1 did. The
chair would rock awhile and then stoI
and then rock again. els the gur
loaded ?" said she. "They are robbers,
but don't shoot, don't make a noise;
can't you peep out of the window.
Mercy on us, what do they want to rob
us for? Maybe they come to steal one
of the children? Slip in the little room
and see if Carl is in his bed. Don't
stumble over a chair, maybe somebody
is under the bed" The rocker took
start again and I had another dig in my
side. 'It is the wind, said /. ''No, it
is not, said she. "There is no wind;
the window is up and the curtain don't
move. They are robbers, I tell you.
Hadn't you better give them some
moneyand tell them to go?" 81 haven't
got any money" said I. ''It's all gone.
"Lord have mercy upon us, " said she.
William, get your gun and be ready"
gently slipped out of bed and tip
tOed to the window and cautiously |
peeped out and there was the pointer
puppy sitting straight up in my wife's
rocking chair and ever and anon he
would lean forward and backward and
put it in motion. I whispered to Mrs.
Arp to come and see the four-legged
robber, which she did, and in due time
all was calm and serene.
Last night there was another sensa-
ton in the back piazza, and it was sure
enough feet this time, for they made a
racket on the floor and moved around
lively, and the elbow digs in my side
came thick and fast. It took me a
minute to get fairly awake, and after
anguage, "Goats, Carl's goats" and
gathered a broom and mauled 'em
down the back steps. "I told you, my
lear, said I, ''that those goats would
i've us trouble; but 1 can stand it if
on can. Blu Arp. S
LIFELONG DEBAUCH, @
"NO, I'm obliged to you, 1 don't
rink, " replied Judge Gibbons, of Ian
lster, Pa, in the barron of the Girard
louise. &C. am sixty-three years old and
ave never used tobacco in any form,
ever have tasted malt or spirituous
quOrs, never have been at a horse race
: attended circus or a theatre"
Z" Yours has been an exemplary life, to
dge."
''Well, I don't know that it has, con- m
nued the Judge, sadly. 81 am, after &C
j, no better than other men; for the 81
ast forty-eight years have been the
'iect slave to one ungovernable appe- il
-e. This indulgence has gained such m
'solute control of me that I cannot
list four or five hours without gratify-
6 it. In the streets, at church. during yo
mily prayers, it torments me. strug-
e against it. I resolve and re-resolve de
break it off, but I am weak-very cr1
finally yield. I cannot go VII
If day without it. No, 1 daren't
lvel where I can't obtain it. 1t is
ling me. Twenty years ago I weighed
0 pounds. Now Iweigh 100 It is
stroying my life, slowly butsurely.
all die of it." qu
i'What form does this deadly dissipa- r.;
n take o. asked the reporter, in amaze
mt, prepared for an appalling confess
II. -
'Mush and milk, was the solemn and ~Ia -tIa
rejoinder.
SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION. ob1
\ blaze in the cabin of resident of eve
.aintuck" called out the engines the
er day and after them came the fire bef
rshal to investigate and report. can
DO you know how it caught ?" he -
ed of the householder.
Well, sab, L reckon it was what T
a big folkses calls sponfus combus- era
Is" An,
You mean spontaneous combustion. red
OATS 'zactly what means, sab. Yes, foil
, 1 reckon it was dat and
What makes you think soP" of
Well, in de fust place 1 sent de gal par
in de garnet to fin my ole butes. pat
le mex place she took candle. In ing
as place she upsot de candle 'mong &C
ot O newspapers an cum skinnin' any
n de ladder wild her eyes as big as dier
lips an tole me dat de cabin was all F."
;. Yes, sab, Ireckon it was spon- tura
'ous combustion, an soon's we git de it.
icher back in, Ise gwine to lick dat F
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