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T1TK BANNER TIMES. GREENCASTLE. INDIANA. TUESDAY, APRIL. IT, 1894.
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By CHARLES B. LEWIS M. QUAD'.'
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1st Ward... Thomas Ahratns, J I. Handel ?nd ” Geo. E. Hlake. James Hrldires :tnl ” John Riley. John K. Miller Str«a»t OommlSsionor J. D.Cutler Fire Chief Geo. H Cooper
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K. A. Okk. Superintendent of city seltools.
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[Copyright, 1894. by Charles B. Lewis.] In building my house in the suburbs of the city 1 had an eye to comfort, convenience, economy of space and—burglars. I built my burglar trap at the Baltic time that 1 built the structure. A 'covered veranda ran along the west side of the house, the roof ottly 20 inches l>elow the second story windows. There were two bedrooms on that side, but a burglar would have figured on three. The third window did not light a bedroom, however, but was the entrance to my trap. 1 could not reasonably expect a burglar to climb up the column at the north end of the veranda and creep past the first window to the second. The convenience of a burglar must be consulted in planning and building. I had a stout flower rack made and fastened to the I center column right under the middle window. I told my wife that it was a rack for a climbing rose, but 1 deceived her. It was placed there for the sole and single purpose of assisting a burglar to get into the house. A burglar had but to cross a vacant lot where trees and hushes gave him shelter, drop over a fence and creep a distance of 10 feet, and there he was. He must be a crank and a kicker to find fault with my arrangements. In planning the house I said to the archi-
tect:
“I have seen a dozen burglars in court or prison, hut I had no hand in their capture. My strong desire is to capture one myself. I want to take him in the very act. My house must therefore contain a burglar trap as well as n parlor. ”
SECRET SOCIETIES.
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GREENCASTLE LODGE X0 34S. Bruce Frazier
L. M Hanna.
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Mc*«*tlnK nijrlitfi. every W«*<liie8day. Jerome Allen’s Block, aril floor.
PUTNAM LODGE NO. 45.
John A. Michael
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J. A.Michael Cap! • has Meikel BM First and third Monday nights of eaeh
month.
GREENCASTLE ENCAMPMENT NO. 59. John < <K»k (
Chat*. H. Meikel. vrtbe
Ftrot ami thifd Thursday*.
D. OF R. NO. 10U.
Mrs. K. 11. Morrison . N. G
HE RAISED HIS PISTOL AND FIRED THREE
SHOTS.
| The middle window lighted a room 12 feet long by 8 feet wide and was provided with chests and drawers as a linen
building, 3rd floor. j hall The burglar alarm connected with oT..? H i5®!f. < ..A^5 jE 1 ' ODO,iS123 U ' 0 ‘° F °'n n all other windows bnt this. All other
. .1*. S sashes had a patent burglar proof catch, but these had one which a child might
MASONIC.
H. L. Bryan Meets flrst and third Mondays.
EASTERN ST-AH. Mrs. Hickson " " Mrs. Hr. Hawkins 8ec First Wednesday night of each month. GREENCASTLE CHAPTER It. A. M. NO 21. H. 8. Rcnlck n.V H.s. Heals Sec Second Wednesday night of each mouth. BLUE LODGE K. AND A. M. Jesse Richardson W- M H.S. Heals ...hoc Third Wednesday night of each month. COMMANDEHV. W. II. II. Cullen E.C J. McD. Hays See Fourth Wednesday night of each month. ROGAN LODGE, NO. 19. K. A A. M. j H.L. Bryan W M .1 W. ( aln , bee Meets second and fourth Tuesdays. white LILY CHAPTER, NO. 3.0.E.S. Mrs. M. Florence Miles M V ■ M. A. Teister Bee Meets second and fourth Mondays.
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open from the outside. Inside the window and sliding up and down the casings as a drawer pulls out of a bureau was an iron shutter which worked by means of a spring. By pressing a knob in my bedroom at the front of the house I could drop this shutter. The walls on either side were of brick, and the inside of the door was covered with heavy sheet iron. It was a hard wood floor, and right under the window just n here a burglar must put his foot, was a square of flooring so arranged that a pressure of five pounds on it rang a still alarm at the head of my bed. From one of the adjoining rooms was a peephole, and the burglar trap was lighted by electricity, which was turned on and off from the hall. There was one thing more, A gas pipe was run into the room from the hall and the end left open. The flow of gas could la* regulated by a stopcock outside the room. As I had been to considerable pains and expense to fix up for a burglar, I hoped for an early visit, hut for some reason or other the profession seemed to have lost its push and ambition. Weeks and months went by, hut no burglar came. Other houses were visited and ransacked, and my nearest neighbor was even shot at by a midnight visitor: but, alas, I was entirely ignored. In this emergency I resorted to strategem. No, it was not strategem, hnt base deception. A reporter called -on me to get the particulars of an accident in my neighborhood, and I told him a falsehood about a burglar effecting entrance to my house. 1 spoke about my silver plate and jewelry and of the large sum of money I usually kept in the house and gave him to understand that I was a nervous, timid man and had no weapons to defend my treasures. The reporter dished up a very readable and seductive article, and to ease my conscience I sent him a $20 bill in snob a manner that he could make no cw meet ion. Yes, I must say that if I had been in the burglar profession that article would have filled me with enthusiasm. I hadn’t read it half through when 1 felt convinced that I should receive an early visit. No burglar worthy of the name would go off fishing and leave such an opening as that to go to seed. Two days later, as I took the street ear for my three mile ride home, it so happened that there were bnt four other passengers. Three of them I knew. The fourth was a stranger, and being a strangitr I was bound to give him more than a passing glance. To he frank, he annoyed me on sight. He not only had small feet, but the heel of his right Ik sit was badly run
over.
You may think it queer that I was vexed alamt that young man’s boot heel, bnt such was the case. Nothing makes a man look so slouchy as run over heels. They spoil his gait, prodace blisters and corns and keep his temper on edge. And there’s no excuse to lx-urged. The shoemaker never charges over a quarter to put a “lift” on a heel, and he will often trust at that. I thought of the young man several times during the evening, and he was in my mind when I went outdoors after breakfast to stroll about and smoke my citrar. I didn’t have to look lone- to dis-
flower la-d were the prints of his heels. I could have identified that run over heel in China. During the evening he had looked ihe ground over, passing twice around the house. If not a burglar, then he was a burglar’s scout. I couldn't say how he had sized things up, but rather expected he would wish to make them more certain. Therefore, la-fore leaving for town, 1 said to the cook: “Some time today a young man will he here to ask about the burglar alarm. Tell him it is all right except on the linen room window, and that we don't
care for. ”
When I came home at night, I asked if he had been there. He hail. He came with some tools tied up in a piece of carpet, and tin* cook even went ont and pointed to the unguarded window. Then 1 knew that he would visit us that night. As near as I could figure, he would come out on the 11 o’clock car, and it would be half an hour later before he made his debut. I may tell you without conceit that exactly 81 minntes after 11 o’clock my burglar trap alarm sounded. Five seconds later 1 had pressed the knob which let the shutter fall. I hail timed my caller to within a minute. My wife was aroused and demanded to know what was going on. While dressing myself I explained matters, but not to her satisfaction. When 1 left the room, she was enveloped in the bedclothes and on the verge of hysterics. I turned the electric light on in the trap and carefully opened the wicket. There stood my young man in the middle of the room, and he was winking and blinking with surprise. In his hand he held a pistol, but it was of no more use than a stick. While I gazed at him he went to the window and examined the shutter and then stepped over and inspected the door. He was as secure as if in a prison cell. “Well, ” said I at length, “you did not disappoint me. ” “You expected me then?” he queried its he sat down on the only chair in the
room. “I did. What do you think of the arrangement of things?” “Seems to be a regular trap.” “Just so. Had it fixed up on purpose to catch a burglar. Let me ask you if you read that newspaper article the other day?” “That's just what brought me hem I thought this was a soft snap. It was all a put up job, eh?” “Advertising always pays, ” I answered evasively. “I presume you have a pal outside? I am not thoroughly up on the burglar business, but as I understand it they generally go in pairs, and one is left on the watch outside.” ‘‘You needn't worry yourself about the man outside!” growled the captive. “Come, now, let me out of this!” “Why, my dear sir, the man who would capture a burglar and turn him loose inside of 10 minutes would be a dolt. Put down your gun, and I’ll come in and clap the darbies on you. ” “Not much you won’t! Yon show your head in this room, and I’ll fill you with lead! Open that door, or we’ll wipe out the whole family!” “Will you quietly submit?” “Never! If you've gut me, I've also got you I If I can’t get out, you can't get in!” “Bnt yon forget about the gas. I can fill the room and asphyxiate you in 10 minutes. That’s part of the trap, you know. ’' For answer he raised his pistol and fired three shots at the wicket, but as it was a wrought iron plate pierced with small holes his bullets were wasted. I turned on the gas full head, and within a minute he began to cough and move about. As the flow continued, he went over to the window to find a breathing hole, hut there was none. ‘‘Will you knock under?” I asked at the wicket. “No!” he shouted as he lay down on the fliHir with his mouth to the crevice ander the door. I descended to the pantry for the bottle of cayenne pepper in the caster, and when I had sprinkled r lot of the stuff just outside the door the burglar had to retire. He was a plucky fellow, and it took 12 minutes to bowl him over. I heard him strangling and gasping and moaning, and after opening the hall window I threw open the door to the trap. The increase in my hill that month proved that I gave him 850 feet of gas. Ho was lying like one dead when 1 pulled him out in the hall, clapped the handcuffs on and called to my wife and the cook to help resuscitate him. We
‘YOU OUGHT TO HAVE A MEDAL FOR YOUR SMARTNESS!”
got water and camphor and brandy, and wo bathed his head and chafed his hands and poured stuff down his throat, but it was 40 minutes before he came to. While the cook tartly informed me that she didn’t hire out to assist in reviving asphyxiated burglars, my wife was still more ungracious. She said the idea of trying to restnrO R dead burglar to life, and thereby give him opportunities to burglar again, just showed what a crank I was, and she kicked around for 10 minutes before she would even hold the camphor to the fellow’s nose. I had been down stairs after more brandy, and the burglar’s eyelids were fluttering, when my wile, who had been bathing his chest, looked up and said: “Well, you ought to have a medal for your smartness!” “Found a. strawlierrv ntnrlt’” I si«L-cd
“i nave lonuu mat your uurgiar is a woman!” Stupid that I was not to connect the small htutiLs and feet and other points with a woman, but 1 hadn’t done it. She came to and sat up and stared and blinked at us, and it was a long 10 minutes lx-fore she realized the situation. “Isn't this rather out of the line of your sex?” I finally queried. In reply she blasted my eyes—my nose—my laxly—my house—my relatives for a thousand years back ami a thousand years to come. My wife tried to soothe her, and her reward was a torrent of abuse and vituperation. Some of the boys in the army, especially when slightly wounded, used to go it pretty strong, but 1 never heard one who could hold a candle to my burglaress. My wife skipix-d out, and I sat down on a chair to wait for the “swearess” to tin' herself out. In about half an hour she broke down and began to weep, iuitl after a time she told me her story. She was tinwife of a bad man, who was a gambler, a thief and a burglar by turns. She had run away from a respectable home to marry him and follow his fortunes, and from her own statements she was no better than he. He had come out with her, but had doubtless skipped out when he realized that she had been trapped. She refused to give me any information by which he might be arrested and wasn’t at all put out over the idea of going to prison herself. Well, a woman is a woman, no matter what her offense, and when daylight came I turned the “burglaress” loose. More than that, we gave her breakfast and street ear money. I even followed her ont to the gate and returned her pistol. Pretty soft in me, I guess, but you see I had a burglar trap all baited and ready and could probably catch another without cost or trouble. Most everylxxiy lets the first rat go iu honor of the new trap, you know.
jENSATIONAL CHURCH SCENE.
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rant or Kefu«-s Sacrainrnt to Five MemImtk and I* Called a Liar. Rtx-KFoRn, Ills.. April 17.-There was a lively church fight at Hampshire Sunday which came near resulting in blows. The German Lutherans held quarterly services. Rev. Otto Gruuer, who resides at North Plato, officiating. All ran smoothly until the time came to partake of the sacrament, when the pastor flatly refused to administer to five members of of the church. Fred Wettering, William Nursewick, William Tollman. Fred Kassow and Fred Gentschow. because they are meiiilx-rs of the Mixlern \S otxl men of America, Rev. Mr. Gruuer insisting that it was a decree from their conference which must be strictly obeyed. Mr Wattering acted as sixikoman for the members and told Rev. Mr. Gruuer he was a willful prevaricator. The five gentlemen joined the church two years ago and will stand by the secret society.
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Tlie Moon.
The Gilbert theory propounded by the well known scientist of that name concerning the moon’s face assumes that material constituting the moon once surrounded the earth iu the form of a Saturnian ring; that the small bodies of this ring coalesced, first gathering around a large number of nuclei, finally all uniting in a single sphere—the moon —the lunar craters being the sears resulting from the collision of the moonlets. It is argued that this hypothesis reconciles the impact theory with the circular outline of the lunar craters and explains the abundance of colliding bodies of large magnitude, such a system also accounting for the formation of lunar wreaths, central hills, arched inner plains, level inner plains and the association of inner plains with central hills, explaining, too, the peculiarities known as furrows, sculpture, rills and rill pits. Further, during the growth of the moon it is assumed that many of the moonlets must have collided with the earth and formed impact craters, which have been obliterated by erosion and sedimentation, and it is suggested as jKtssible that these collisions imitated not only the differentiation of continental and oceanic plateaus, hut the series of geographic transformations of which geologic structure is the record.—New York Sun.
Tli«» Florentine I>ininon<l. The imperial treasury of Austria contains the Florentine diamond, one of the finest of the world, noted for its Ins ter and brilliancy. It is said to be worth $460,000 and has a romantic history. It once belonged to Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, who was rather careless in guarding his treasures. He went to battle one day with this diamond in his pocket, and the result was that he lost it The diamond lay on the road, and a Swiss soldier picked it up, and looking upon it as a piece of glass threw it down again, but as it fell the sun's rays caught it, and the soldier, thinking it a pretty trinket, concluded to carry it along. Shortly after this he showed it to a priest. The priest admired it and gave him 2 shillings for it. The priest sold it tea jeweler for two and sixpence, and a rich merchant paid the jeweler $2,500 for it. The merchant sold it to an Italian duke for$l,000 advance on his price, and the duke sold it to one of the popes, who paid $80,000. After a number of other adventures it came into the possession of a grand duke, who married the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, and through her it came to the imperial treasury.—Chicago Tribuue.
01(1 Lady Killed oil » Hridife. Morristown. Ind., April 17.—Mrs. Frank Archer, an old lady of Fountaintown. was struck by a passing engine and thrown off the bridge over Brandywine and killed. She and her husband had started down the railroad to their garden. When Mr. Archer saw the train coming and realized it was going to overtake them before they got across the bridge. He jumped and called to his wife to do the same. She failed to do so. Mr. Archer sustained slight injuries from his fall.
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Dcatli nl a llctlrcil Army Officer. New York, April 17.—Brigadier General Oliver Lathrop Shepherd, a retired officer of the army with a brilliant record, died yesterday afternoon at his residence on Lexington avenue. He had been ill a week, having caught cold which resulted in pneumonia.
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Kiiitf.in Consolidation. Kansas City. April 17.—Kingan Packing association of Kansas City, Kan., [ and Cedar Rapids. la.. Reid Bros, of I Indianapolis, and Robert Sinclair & Co.. | New York, have consolidated and will hereaftea do business under the name of the Kingan Packing association.
nt the Supper Table.
Cincinnati, April 17.—Henry S. Carter, New York traveling salesman, dropped a letter to his wife in the office box at the Burnet House last night, then went to supper with a friend, and
Goliah was very much surprised when David hit him with a rock. He said such a thing had never entered his head before.
ii per
dropped dead while sitting at the table
eating and conversing.
ANOTHER SURPRISE.
I>«‘P«mh1n on Transportation. Denver. April 17.—About 250 men I have enrolled in the Denver industrial army, under Captain Grayson, and will I start for Washington today if transportation can to secured.
He ware of St. Louis Money. St. Louis, April 17.—An exceptionally large number of counterfeit $2 bills are iu circulation in this city.
Some of our people may be surprised when we tell them that the best Daily paper for their needs is the Daily Banner Times, of Greencastle, Ind.
The Hlrth ot a Dreamer. A mother on midsummer morn Slept ’mid the humming of the bee*. When for her son, as yet unborn, A geni olFt*red gifts like these:
“Wealth shall I bring him, power, n nauMf** The geni asked of her, but owned All were but dross, that even fame Was but oblivion postponed.
HERE’S THE idea:
MisHing Uiikn. Japan plants are often identical with the plants of the eastern portion of the United States and occasionally furnish “missing links.” The white flowered dogwood of our woods by the second, or spring, growth of the hud scale develops so as to simulate a large white involucre. In Japan there is a wood loving plant, with leaves like our dogwood and with similar white psendo bracts, or involucres, but the berries, instead of being separate, as in the American plant, form a synearp for all the world like a huge strawberry. It is not regard ed its A true cornus, but as a superior developulent. — Meehaii’s Monthly.
A Nation of Smokor*. Every one in Mexico smokes, the women as well as men. They smoke in the street ears, in the shops, at the opera, and, in faet, everywhere. I actually saw one man kneeling in chapel, muttering his prayers, with a lighted cigarette in his hand.—Mexican Correspondent.
Extinct. It is getting to be so fashionable now not to have any fence in front of yonr house that the old joke about lovers leaning on the front gate will need an explanatory footnote by the time the next generation of newspaper readers comes along.—Somerville Journal.
“And happiness’/’’ the mother cried, “Ah, happiness! I have it not. For joy and sorrow still allied Are poi lions of each human lot.
“One other gift I have to give. Blest or unblest, Which I have brought* And choose you, mother, ’ere he live. Whether he have this gift or not.
“Not his to tread the path of gain. Each worshiper of Mammon runs. For deep within him shall remain fctar drill* of fairer worlds and suns.
Perhaps you are not taking it. If not, why not. It’s cheap enough, prompGas is the coming of the day, and has all the local news at
the right time.
“And should he stoop with eyesight dim To pick the shining dross of earth He shall hear voices calling him Like voices of celestial birth.
IT’S ADVERTISING.
“Notearthly gifts which men most prize Shall ever by his toil be gained, For he shall follow with strange eye* A phantom always unattained.
“No pleasure shall he have in these. Nor human love that lives and dies. For still beyond each face he sees 8till fairer laces shall arise.
“And while the busy, madding crowd But view errth’s present passing show He shall see tar beyond eac h cloud The blooming flowers of Eden blow.
“And he shall hear, as from strange spheres, Hongs sweeter than are ever known—
Merchants who have tried it say it’s the best advertising medium in the city. That’s another surprise, but the advertisers will testify to the fact.
Grander than heard by human ears, 8ave in the dreamer’s soul alone.’’
DON’T DELAY.
For this the gift that at his birth The geni gave for woe or weal. That ever while he lived on earth To him the ideal should be real. - Bennett Bellman.
Don't wait for some philanthropist to come along and give you warning that yoj are missing the best thing of your life. We will
tell it to you.
CiOHslp.
If from some source I could draw inspiration To quicken thought and guide this pen of
mine;
If barren soil would yield to cultivation And for a moment give me power divine, I would not sing of love, romance or war. But seek renown in higher realms than those. I’d soar among the gos.-ips far above And laud them in both poetry and prose.
I'd give h eeiious thought to thuee dear crea- A D V I G E FREE.
Who, leaving home »ml duties for awhile. Go fortli with pious, holy ('d features— God save the innikI an hour to beguile.
In bomt- back room or »hop I hry come togi-lher.
Like Danie'g friends internal, there they hit And for a lime speak h\\ eetly of the weather 1 would to tiod that tliey could stick toil.
But, no: that's but a little starter. Like consomme before a dinner rare. They've other, belter tilings brought here to barter— A man's or woman's reputation fair. With bated breath they listen to each other - These are all loving, Christian 0) women, tooAnd eager, hungry e>eh plead lor another To strip of honor, and of virtue too.
\\ list odds is it, though some poor soul de- '
spairing.
Finds Gossip's tongue too mighty to withstand'/ * Still they must talk and wag their heads thus airing ' Some bit of scandal always kept on hand. And when at last tliey see their victim slowly I Crushed down into a life of sin and shame Draw back their skirts, for they are far too holy 1 To come iu contact with a tarnished name. I
(ireencastle, Ind.
Had I the power to paint a picture | _ To personal, the meanest vice today
Controversies. Most controversies would to ended if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms and then ad here to their definitions.—Tryou Edwards.
I'd call up Gossip, watching for her prey; I’d paint a man or woman, crushed and dying And in the darkest background 1 would place A human vulture, greedily still eying The misery it wrought upon that face.
—G. G. Hollister.
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20th, 1884.
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