Year: 1870

She Keeps tt Between the Pillow ~ anu


the dboard-DreRms of BuE Sla- Ia


Goes to Sleep and Don't DREAMY e


Club in Operation-N onCer1uA ~ s.


covery of n Thief


From the Dayton Journal.


A gentleman whose home is in the Sew
enth ward. is agent for an agricultural es-
tablish1nent, and is absent from home ceT-
tain seasons of the year, soliciting orders
for machines. His wife has not felt Safe 10
stav at night with her little family, with
out the protection of big club which she
placed between the pillow and the head
board of the bed Although her husband
had been absent great many times, she
had no occasion to use the club on any
burglar or prowler; and she had at length
grown careless and neglected to put the
club in its accustomed place. Her husband
was absent last week. and one night she
dreamed that man approached her bed
with q drawn butcher knife! She reached
for her club, and it was not there! The
villain made thrust at her throat, but
before she felt the cold blade she awoke in
terror from her dream! She got up in
stantly and secured the club, and the bal
ance of the night she slept securely.


This story she related to bar nelghbors,
who laughed at her for depending on
worthless stick" &c. The next night
Mrs X. was awakened by slight noise at
her bedroom door. She instinctively grasp
ed the club. The next moment she saw
man making his way stealthily Into her
room. She made up her mind in an in
slant that she would remain silent and
passive until he came in fair reach of her
club. when she would shit him a bat over
the head" While she was calculating how
- l. ia
drel, he passed within couple of feet of
her bed, on his way to inspect bureau at
the foot of the bed; and the moment his
back was on line with the centre of the
bed, she suddenly sprang up and struck
him blow on the head with all the power
she was capable.


The man fell as though he had been shot
and he lay on the floor a moment groaning
as though in the agonies of dissolution.
The moment after Mrs. X had struck the
blow, her woman's nature returned, and
she dropped the club and covered down
under the bed-clothes, almost unconscious
of the situation. When she ventured to
look out over the room some time after
ward, the man had disappeared. 1t was
getting daylight, and Mrs x. determined
to arise and make reconnaissance of the
premises. First and foremost she found
blood on the foor-enough to satisfy her
that she had made it serious for somebody
with her club The window in the kitchen
down stairs was raised, and there was blood
on the window : me. Nothing had been
interfered with anywhere about the house


It appeared that she had put q stop to
the fellows operations at the very oHtstart
Now, Mrs. X. had some very unpleasant
suspicious as to who her visitor of the early
morning was. He bore SO close a resem-
blance to neie ehbor that she thought it
must be he. She visited her neighbours
house, and learned that her husband was
in bed sick. That gave more color than
ever to her suspicion; and when Mr.. X.
arrived home the next day. and really had
some business with the sick man and in
sisted on seeing him, and having few
words with him, he found him with his
head bandaged, and signs of blood on the
clothes and on the pillow And few words
satisfied him that his neighbor was the
party whom his wife had s'batted over the
head" the previous morning. Mrs X. be-
Iieves that club is q good thing to have
about the house.