The Detroit times., 1914-12-18


comment upon the Smelling OF To
,oast towns, are impressed by the lac
Of terror on the part ot'the people
However. we prefer 10 wait and rea
what the Scarborough Gazette has I
say about IL.
st. Paul exjects to lay Il miles
pavement next year This automat
cally compels Minneapolis TO lay ~
Add marine news There are n
saloons in Waterfowl, Wis.
THE MAN ON THE LADDER.
Il may be that your home has
never been visited by burglars.
Then you cannot have an idea
OF the mental torture that is suf-
fered upon occasions by those
who have been through the ex-
perience, especially women
on a windy, winter night, when
the shutters rattle, when fence
gates are slammine and mop
handles on back porches are fall
inc or door up stairs bangs shut,
a woman at home alone Is in a
state Of terror, and as she waits
for the husband who may be
down town, the minutes seem like
hours.
What would you have done, may
we ask, had you been In the place
Of Mrs. Henry Brown?
The Brown home upon one occa-
sion had been visited by burglars
They were In Mrs. Browns
room, ransacking her bureau
drawers, when she awakened.
Her husband, travelling man,
was away on his trip and Mrs.
Brown was alone.
Under her pillow she kept
revolver always
Quietly slipping her hand under
the pillow, Mrs. Brown gripped
the revolver and fired a shot into
the ceiling.
The burglar fled forthwith,
skipping down the stairs and out
the front way.
Mrs. Brown pursued as far as
the open door, where she scream
ed and swooned.
Neiehbors attracted by her
screams we're soon on the scene
and when Mrs. Brown had peen
revived, two women spent the
rest Of the night with her, COM
forting her.
II was a year later as Mrs.
Brown, again alone and going to
two men standing in front OF the
Jones residence across the street.
They carried ladder which to-
gether they placed at the side of
the house, near a window.
Mrs. Brown saw one Of the men
start carefully up the ladder.
Now, right there. may we ask
you. what would you have done,
or what do you think you would
have done. IL upon one occasion,
like Mrs. Brown, you had aWak-
ened and found burglars In your
room7
Let US state here that Mrs.
Brown was perfectly calm, cool
and collected.
Would you have shouted, 10
arouse the reighborhood?
Would you have hurried TO the
phone and notified the police2
Or would you, II under the Gil
low Of your bed you had re-
voIver, slipped over TO the bed,
gripped the revolver, raised the
window nolseIessly, taken deIib-
crate aim and fired at the man,
now we'll up the ladder. and near
the window Of the Jones home, to
kill?
Would you have done this had
you been in Mrs. Browns place?
" you had, and your shot went
straight, you would have killed
one Of the two men who had come
to paint the Jones home.
Unemployed persons are warned
Keep away from Chicago. Pretty nes
everybody now has been warned.
;. L. g., "May | suggest the young az
Who monopolizes the public teIephor
lot Of drivel to a girl on III
,ther end Of the line who hasn't sens
enough to hang up the phone on hin
walted 10 minutes in Woodwar,
I'VE. drug store for one Of his kin
Wednesday"
Describing the escape OF six pc
lions in a New York theate
he report says:
Suddenly one 81 the lions wake
let
Then the report goes on from her
10 say that "the singing ceased"
England advertised the fact
She had the North sea mined;
Now Germany has proved to US
She did IL for blind.
And by the fact tits plainly shown
And, too, are we advised,
That mines are always hard to fin,
When they are advertised.
Texas man won a bride in Can
on, o., by mail. TO be secure,
would seem, 1t isn't safe for a ma
% have even postage stamp.
Gray horses are the longest live
and cream colored ones the most a
'ected by temperature changes.