Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-01-26

detenseless lecture committees. Per.
haps thai Il one reason why / feel 50
kindly disposed toward my colleague,
the burglar. But at all events am
never afraid Of meeting robbers, al
though | have to pass by dark and
lonely churchyard, which, however, Is
not in the least dismal. not even by
night It is too beautiful to have the
lightest shadow Of anything fearful or
dismal about it But it is dark and
quiet at midnight Do ever think Of
meeting robbers there? Never.
wouldn't care If did. Footpads have
no terrors for me. ] do not dread meet
ing highwaymen. They wouldn't be apt
to hurt me. But do fear to meet an
honest man. walk with my heart In
my mouth every step of the dark way,
fearing lest should meet an eminently
respectable citizen, coming along with
terror in his heart and pistol In his
hand He'll shoot me- If say moth
ing and try to sneak by quietly and
stealthily, he will just know that | am
robber, and will shoot me. And If /
try to reassure him, and say Good
evening, never so gently and pleasant
ly, he will give one convulsive start at
the sound of my voice and pull her of
by accident Then l am dead man.
That's sure as fate. No citizen ever
hits a burglar, never But when he
mistakes his neighbor, or some member
of his own family, for q robber, and
lets the pistol go off without holding it
up, he kills his victim every time. In
the daylight he couldn't hit a flock Of
barns with duck gun. In the dark, fifty
feet away, he can riddle his best friend
with an old Allen pepper-box. So when
start home in the dark, pray the
good Lord to protect me from all honest
men, and I'll take the chances with the
robbers myself
owe the public an apology for in.
truding so much of our local affairs
upon them this morning. But reign
OF terror is like the toothache; it isn't
particularly interesting, but the fellow
who has it can't think of any thing else.
So far, only one man has been shot,
and just as / said, he was an honest
mana detective. The burglars shot
him. But we live in fear OF each other.
The people who have been robbed look
with dark suspicion upon those who
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and say, ats very strange" People
who are dogless are buying dogs, and
the passing tramps are bringing to our
doors well-bred, farmer-looking dogs
from West Chester and far away Lam
caster County, bright, Intelligent dogs,
that, which, or whom, as their temper
airy owners prefer, make lightning
tracks for their old homes the day after
they have been sold into bondage, only
to be brought back and resold, few
days later, by another tramp. These
are indeed terrible times; perilous
times. II the Governor doesn't order
out the troops very soon no man can
tell what will happen next. And If he
does order them out l would rather
find fifty dollars than be in the way OF
the drum corps when the burglars como
in sight
I-snoke few lines back, OF Sing
Jaw ptas. in America
where thero are more burgiarsSaaau
dogs. | wish, in this connection, to
call attention to this point There are
fewer burglarfes committed in Sing
Sing than in most towns of its size.
Given, then, many burglars and few
dogs, you have few burglaries, as in
Sing Sing. But, given few burglars
and many dogs, as in Bryn Mawr, you
have many burglaries This has q
dark look for the dogs. Robert j Bur.
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