Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-19

ANYBODY wanted him to. If he had gone
steadily on all night could have slept, but
he did not. He had an impediment in his
remarks, and sometimes he would quit
right in the middle of the word and could
almost grow mad waiting for him to finish
it.
Then the clock in the library struck. It
does not strike right, and I wondered how
far off 1t was, so I got up like tall, white,
rectifed spirit and began to reach for
match have two match holders in my
room, so that when one is empty can A.
wavs fall back on the other. I fell back on
the other almost the first thing did. I
stepped in a faxseed poultice and tracked
it around over the room while feeling for
the match safe with outstretched hands,
between which I generally had the edge of
door. The first safe found after good
deal of delay and annoyance, but it only
had the other end of two matches-not the
bad end. After had tried both of them in
the usual manner, forgetting that the
trousers on which had generally ignited
my matches were on a chair in another part
Of the room, I began once more to feel
around the room for the other safe, ever
and anon crossing my old faxseed poultice
trail.
Tho Nice Soft Feeling OF SCOT.
By and by judged that I struck the To-
cality, for I was in the neighborhood of the
fireplace. could smell the old embers. I
began to grope, and succeeded in getting
both arms up the fue quite long. distance
before knew by the soft, nice feeling of
the SCOT where was. Then I went back
and tried it over again, falling over chair
that had pillow shams on it. In the morn
ing I could see where fell over the pillow
shams and saved myself with my grimy
hands. s.:
1 now tried the wall, cropping along with
some care and an occasional dab of SCOT till
I knocked down q picture on a rich and
costly Sevres vase which kept calamus
root in. will have to keep my calamus
root in something else hereafter By and
by found some more things, but not the
match safe. I got sort of wild, and every
thing about the house seemed so still.
Isn't it terrible when man has that horri-
BILE feeling in his own house, as th ough he
might be robbing it? How glad am that
never perfected myself as burglar, as 1
had intended to do at one time Just after
gave up my little paper in the West. For
what life it is; all night work, all among
strangers who have no sympathy for one,
often coarse people, too, who sleep with
their mouths open and their rooms shut.
A Stranger Called Out the Hour.
The other matchbox is over the wash
stand, and when found it did so too earn
estly. When you discover anything you
should not do it too hard. I knocked down
the match safe as I discovered it, and all
the matches fell in the water pitcher. I
wet, and so pulled the pitcher over on the
floor As the water ran down through the
floor upon frierd who is visiting us and
paying his board, he rose and followed up
the stream. When he got to where I was
he told me what o'clock it was and then
went to bed again. So did I.
The whippoorwill once more opened up
and played his tune over and over again
till put on an old pair of ear muffs and
stuck my head into the bedding as far. as I
could, but could not get the noise ont.
Then, at o'clock, an old rooster at the
barn seemed to have something on his mind
and began to crow till he was black in the
face. was not very hungry for breakfast,
but managed to eat the second joint of the
rooster. I wanted it raw, with the feathers
on, but the family thought 1t would be bet
ter fried a little on the outside.
The adventure Of Two Cats
After the rooster an early bird began q |
roundelay, and pack OF hounds near us /
made few statements, lasting till 4 o'clock;
then was just getting sleepy from actual
exhaustion when two cats fell on the roof |
from great height, possibly out of some |
other planet, Judged, and began to bite off |
and spit out fragments of each other They
did that till the whippoorwill got good and
rested. Then he took up the exercises and |
attended to business until the servants be- |
gan to get up and open the house prepara-
tory to ushering in gladstone new day.
The country is full OF rest and repose and |
lonsev ity,, they tell me, but they are CON-
fined largely to deaf people and cows Dur
ing the past week 1 have been resting
quietly and noselessly trying to grow to-
gether again. Two weeks ago I began
horseback riding at the suggestion Of my |
physician, who is thoroughly good man
and senior warden and tylerin our church
here To-day my pulse is normal; respira-
tion noticeable; temperature 73N. My
physician reports some abrasions and one
severe concussion ef the eornica He says |
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