Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-05-02
PERILS OF THE NIGHT.
Not n Tale of the Knights OF Labor bat
of the Painful Experiences OF Very
Patient Man.

Patient Man.
do not ike to get up in the middle o.
the night. / find that my aversion TO do
ing 80 is becoming greater every year
There is something oppressive IN the dark
ness that prevsdes in the middle OF the
night, and something appalling in the still
ness. You DO not know precisely how to
encounter them. The longest nightdress
is no protection, and one feels ss helpless
against attack as il he had nothing On bat
q plain gold ring. The slight noises that
prevail on these occasions are not relief
On the contrary, theT are 30 loud IN the
stiffness Ss to be startling, and their uuex
pecteduess disarrsDges the stoutest nerves.
do not know what others may think about
It, but do lot like to get up IN the middle
of the night.
We had been married-the other party
to this disclosure is my w.te-We had been
married about two weeks and had settled
apparently for life in the building We al
present occupy. There was hing ghostly
about the building and it never had bur
glar, but the tronOle began the FIRST night
we slept in it. ! had turned of when my
wife. who had seemed to be asleep. sudden.
ly became wild awake and asked, Charles,
aid you lock the side door,?
Now | cannot always tell about these
things 1t l lock door forget all about
IL 81 once. 1t is a matter OF slight conse.
quenee, and l am generally thinking Of i'm
oortant things. But | said to my wife,
"Why-yes. Certainly. lat leaSt think
did. Yes, l am-ho-huml good night,
my dear. .,
Charles" returned my wife, II shall
not get a wink of sleep this night unless |
know positively that that door is locked.
Please, my dear"
So got up. There were no matches.
felt my way down the stair to the side
door and oddly enough, the moment my
hand touch the lock remembered distinct
" that had turned the key previous to re
tirirg.
IL ~ss probably about l o'clock in the
morning when | was again awakened. MY
dear" said my wife, II do hate to disturb
you, but have been lying awake nearly
an hour 1t seems that the door to the bath
room is open. am so nerVousl / sup
pose, OF course, it was left open BY some Of
as, and By no intruder; but it goes cresk-
creak. and mieaws like cat. Charles, the
wind has risen and it blows the door to and
foo, and | find myself watching for the
noise with the greatest intensity. Won't
you"
l said | didn't blame her, | then re-
marked 70 myself that il there was any
thing in this world cs!cul sted to dIssrrsuge
ones nerves it was an open door that was
continually swinging on its hinges and
showing "a an exasperatlng panutr that
the hinges ought TO be CREASED. | inuedi.
stely went 10 the bath room door and found
i. closed; after which | said TO myself in
al agilated voice, well, I-by JoVeE if |
ever in my GfeV
When said to my wife somewhat hastily.
1t WAS closed she apparently thought
the situation over vi much interest a
moment, and then remarked, well, OF all
ths strange poises | ever heard they we're
the singularest," and ceeped to settle down
20 sleep, | shuddered. / was afraid it
might De necessary to find out.
1t might have been 8 O. clock in the morn
ing. There was q pinch in my ribs, and
immediately thereafter o cold hand was
laid oyer my mouth At the same instant
there was the whisper. "SchI Lie sull
and listen
do not ike to lie still and listen in the
still hours of the night. One hears too
much if be hears nothing at all. Every
tnipg is alarming and nothing can be salts
fac:orisly explained Tie thousand noises
thst prevail duIing the day shut out the
slight rps,ling Of the tree branches against
the window, Sut il IS 80 painfully distinct at
night and at night . Fogss can make
re noise than an elephant suRSt TO.
H. or woman who listens at night is
lhs M listened, and then my wife
lost. But .hisper:
said in an awful w. That accoppts for
Charles, burgulatsr i"N' a. EOoVu Id - !,
the bath room door! That's :, "N' H. ~. =,
creak, knew l didn't imagine - '''
dreadful noises. | haven't been able to
sleeu since I heard them. Charles. go down
stsirs very softly end see about it,
To "see about it" II there is anything
hate to see sboutit is burguIsrs. thihk
q BURGLAR is the meanest thing tbiS side
of Washington. My philosophy with re-
specs TO BURGLARS is that it is better to 20
70 sleep and let them take what they want,
and in the morning when you 60: down
street inform the police. | have known
many persons to be shot by bugulars, aud
what is property in comparison with iteS
But knew had to find out about those
burgulars. was perfectly certain more
over, that there no BURGLARS, 1t | had had
the remotest suspicion that there were bur.
pulsrs in the house would have remained
10 bed with the almost perSistency until
daylight The only proper time 70 look
for burgulsrs is when the BURGLARS are 10
some other house, or at least after
they have left your own. do not propose
10 be very wise, but know that much.
There being no burgulsrs in the house
I searched for them with the greatest min
uteness. l went through every room, and
looked under every tsole, lousgs and sofa,
| became sgitated the more the great still
meas OF the house struck me, and, stalking
through the nov familiar darkness, sang II
a loud voice, my night dress meanwhile
foWiug.Oehiud me;
when l eau read nay title clear
10 mansions in The skies
Did YOU look in the CELLAR interrupted
my wife. -.
Mo- said shortly, getting hastily int
bed. II didn't look in the cellar! There i
not q BURGLAR within FIVE miles
"Well." ~hinpsrsi my wife, it isn't N,
esult, is itH' aud she Immediately went 4
sleep
Thst was twenty years ago. The I'D
ventures Of that night are the adventure
of every night since. Ny hair is groWinj
Grew aud my limbs are growing more sn'
more uncertain. Is the house haunted
Am impatient because of the sccumula
lion of years2 l do not know. | onl
know that do not like to get up in tn
middle Of the night.
MODERN WEDDING RITES.
EreAGHgs.
| wilt thou take this brown stone froat,
| These carriages, this diamOci,
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