Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1896-12-17
AN EDITORS ERROR.

Sy tctcfttt 10, va
situated at the head Of the long AN
Struggling street cslied Main street
IN the village of Dsvisburg. IL va
built for AID occupied by the edi
t-'r IT the Clarion. To be NOR
explicit. Mr. B,neset. as 1 will cal
him. was editor, publisher, ant
proprietor. of the Clarion. Mr.
Boneset wasn't much of an edit.s
aud The Clarion wasn't much NJ .
news paper, bot both mansged 3,
exist. z-..ss = A.-...---,s
The editor ssr assss year
uunding the house wi.h the cupola.
All the lam Der. hard ware, plaster.
ing. and painting was secured BY
advertising and subscriptions.
One day, . week or so after the
Clarion's announcement that swe
have 6uallv moved into our new
house on the hill, and our wife ia
we'll pleesrd with the location the
wife was called away bv the illness
Of q relative. and that night the
editor had the house oil to himself
Il was midnight when he was
aroused from his dreams. A man
with a pistol sat on the bed beside
him. A lamp had been lighted by
the intruder, and the editor had
only to open his eyes to realize that
something had happened to knock
his usual routine into 'pi.'
Il want money! growled the in
trudrr. as he saw that the editor
was awake.
'How did you get imp queried
the latter.
'BJ the way Of ladder. the roof
and the cnp"la. If yop want t"
know Come. shell out =
NJ, friend. We have nothing I"
shell. was tks honest reply. We
d d have % in cash. but we gave il
tn our wife when she went away to-
dav Y"u NAV p"ssibl, I'D 80 "r
40 cen 8 ia our trous. RS. but the
sum total will not roach So
'I"u are swindle IF man. vou
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out of bed and look around. I've
got to have money. and you must
she'll out "r take the consequences ,
M, friend. we'll get out of bed
aud we'll search around. but the
result will be fruitless The fact
is. we've got to borrow money from
t" get our next bundle of
paper. Couldn't you"
Nov overhaul that bureau COM
mand.d the burglar. as MIR. Bone
SIT got into his trousers.
The sum total OF wealth would
not have figured up dollar
There was an old locket. q washed
finger-ring, and q plated watch
chain, many years old. The burg
lar was indignant and made threats.
lie ordered Mr. Boneset to accom-.
pany HIM about the house and over
haul closets and trunks and boxes.
He even insisted on q search of the
pantry, a,ing that he had heard "f
people hiding their money IN old
teaspots on the top shelf. As the
editor sppeared t.. be mild manner
ed and harm less. the burglar grad
ually relaxed his precautionns
They had finished with the pantry
wien Mr.. Boueset saw his opportu
nifty.
Uuged by force he could not
resist, although he had never even
knocked u chip off mans should
er in his life. be struck out with
bis right and bit the stranger or
the p"int of the jaw. 1t was n
prizr fighters blow and the stra"g'
er vas put to sleep. Mr.. B"nrse'
lost 80 s.cnnds of valuable time in
recovering from his smaz-m-ni.
aud then he reached for one Of tht
half dnzen cl"thes lines. and in n
c .upl. of mimi "a had his man s-
currly bonrd. Hr WAS in tim.
| deed. h. had started n bit "f tir,
in ih. krch,n g ave. and dra xu M
tn. family rocking chair before Ib'
burglar gaines his senses.
VIII. as ynu SEE. the tables "a
turned. Tbs. ~. d the ,dii"r. as ! 4
SET his chair ia motion.
Thc burglar s,ruggl, 4 AID eur set
o d threatened. but he was help
less.
As an editor continued Mr.
B"nes-t, -, have continaously ans
persistsntly advocated that We hat
TOO much Law in this country. an,
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