MR POTTS LOOKING FOR A LIGHT.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 754, 17 April 1877, Page 3

MR POTTS LOOKING FOR A LIGHT.

One night during the recent troubles? m the Pennsylvania coal regions, Judge Potts* brother, Thomas Potts, wa.B, round at a meeting of mine owners, and after the adjournment be stepped into $ tavern. While there, he met some friends, and m the course of an hoar or two he got very intoxicated. On his way home be lost hfa hat, an 4 a. miner, who knew him, felt qompassion for him, clapped on hit head a miner's hail ,[ and m order to make the dark street' look brighter, he lighted the lamp m front o? the tjat, When Potts yeaphe4 the house his wife had gone to bed and the lights were out ; but Potts felt certain the lamp was burning m the. hall, lmt hfi qqujcln'Jt. for th.c Ufa of; him telj where jt

was, .:•=■;. ■'•■•j i r i He looked st tlie regular lamp and it leemed to be out ; then hunted* m evevy. direfitjqn for $& \\glfc t but wuable to find ait,: although it seemed to shine brightly whererec he vrent. Presently, Ke happened to stop m front "jfcfee. mirirqr m front of the &M he say prepwely where \ the light was. After a brief objtirgatioii on Mrg Potts for leaving, ilig)^ burning ittsach a.pl^<jq, he iJW' the mi^rop a^4 tried to Wow it out>> He blesi an<^jjlew,'but the flatoei Burned as ite^ly as before. « That>^B»K(,!)?oits, « i« She most e^forinaryl, Ipi^eve? hor n; w$ d[iß%tune t'e^jc^^:," . ; : <'T§Sm he todfc %^S.hiß co»jb,^nd holding, it froif^ him, Qr,ept oawtibiiglr J?p and^ liri^td^^fli^is the lan*a/ which itiUL' bwnod f^Hbtlj. Irj said \ ■ w Tbafc^p cer'auily verj^M^ftor/ ! Moz* Btohiihg^ircam^tq^Sgff came tin're my;>^wf^tiQn. to

irdocurred to him that perhaps he might sfrtAflh - the laoip" with an umbrella. Seizing 1 the weapon, he Went up tolthe'hat, and,' diu\itig^ a^ terrible blow'wt the light, he brought tbe nmbrella down. He missed, and smnshed/ his Sunday hart into chaosi' He took aim again, and caught the umbrella; jn: too lamp overhead, bringing it down with a crash. ihei tried it a third time, and/ brought the ferrule of the umbrella through tHe mirror, smashing it to atoms. He felt exultant for a moment! as "the light disappeared ifronj hisyision, but he was perplexed to find that there was another light, komewhere, he did not i know exactly where. So he sat down on the stairs and remarked— '• ! : :h j " MoK.'stonishin' circumstanz ever come un'er my observation. Whaten thunder doz it^mean^* anyhow 1 Light's gone, . and yet's shinin' ! Perfectly incVmprensible ! , ,"Wifh,. to grbclous^rs totfcs *d rise up and;; 'splaiii it. Dura if I know what I had'ibelterldol I '!^ TLiiM^ >..:.■>: i.v, ' Then Potts took off his hat to scratch his head, m the hope that he might scare up an 'idea, and the truth flashed mpon him. Gazing at : the 'lamp ' for ; a inomeht, until he ! drank' m a^.full 1 conception Of .thetl trouble it " had . caused; V him, he suddenly, .smashed it down on - the ; .floor m a rage, arid extinguished it a(ferc^tcfrin^ n |#o carpet with^re^se,.Y/ TheH ne'wenti:; to bed|, and m, tjie morning Mrs Pofcts m. ! formed /him; i; that some of those horrible miners had. broken into the house 'the 1 night before, ' and left one of 'thei^n^|j (^witli a lamp. <•, totte- turned over in' bed so that she could "nOtisee his face, and said 1 if the stern hand of the law was not laid upon .ruffians soon, no.bodys life would be safe.