Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1902 — Wouldn't Stand for It. [ARTICLE]

Wouldn't Stand for It.

"T hardly think my wife sees the joke yet,” said' Brown with a smile, “and I am also inclined to think that she has an idea that T was deliberately trying to create a false impression, to which I-plead guilty. One night last wefek T thought I heard some one prowling about the house, and as there have been a number of houses broken into lately I concluded that the noise was made by burglars. As T sat up in bed listening I chanced to glance into the next room; the door of our bedroom being open, and there stood a sure-enough burglar coolly examining our silverware. With this startling discovery came the chilling though that I hadn’t such a thing as a firearm in the house. But I determined to run a bluff, so turning to my wife I said in a loud-voice: ‘Where’s my revolver?’ ‘John,’ she answered in a voice equally as loud, ‘there isn’t such a thing in this house and you know it!’ ’—Detroit Free Press. Hope may be the lodestones of life, but those who cling to its anchor must expect to sometimes trail through the mire.