The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1874-03-26
Puttinx out Cat.

Mr. Joseph Springer isa peaceablo
married man who lives on Detroit
Street near the Western city limits.
He has in his employ maid servant
who has young man that not only
calls regularly but often irregularly.
The maid servants bean ispossessed
OF an appetite that requires frequent
satisfying and during his visit to tho
Springer mansion, pics, doughnuts,
cheese, cookies, cold meat. preserves
and other nutritious and palatable
articles, disappeared like dew before
tho morning sun, or hot gridle cakes
before hired man.
Since tho panic has demonlized
men and things Springer has been
trying to economize in various di-
rections, and among other leaks that
he sought to stop was that Of feeding
the hired girls beau. Springer oven
went so far as to tell his handmaid
that she could only receive visits
from her lover on Wednesday and
Saturday nights, az the expense Of
fire, lights and provisions FIVE nights
out OF scven was too much. Tho
maiden OF all work pouted, burned
tho toast and served dish water coffee
for several morning, brit finally seem
cd to accept the situation and resum.
cd her wonted cheerfulness.
Such was the state Of affairs up TO
last Friday night, when it appears
"Sarah's young man." unable 10
stand the raugs Of hunger or love
until Saturday night, raped at tho
kitchen door OF Springer's house,
and was admitted. About eleven
o'clock p. IN. the handmaid in obedi-
cnco TO hint from her admirer,
took tho lamp in hand and proceeded
down cellar in search Of something
for him to eat. Though she used
every precaution not to awaken tho
the Springer family, asleep up stairs,
yet, as she opened the cellar door,
strange cat bounded out into tho
room unbeknown to her, and mo-
ment later emitted one OF those sad
and melancholy howls that cats aro
wont to give when concealed in
strange room.
Mrs Springer heard the cat yell,
and after digging at Springer's shins
with her toe nails until no was
awake, she said, go down stairs,
Mr. Springer, and let that cat out of
the house" Springer, hated tho
Job, but was forced TO comply, and
descending the stairs in his night
shirt and baro feet, found himself in
the dining room where all about him
was dark as pitch. The maid ser.
wants beau had heard Springer de.
scending the stairs and fearing that
il he were found there it might make
trouble in tho family, began to feel
his way toward the back door. In
doing so however, he tripped over
the chair his sweetheart had been oc-
cupving, and fell headlong into
clothes horse full Of garments that
were being dried by tho kitchen
stove. Tho clothes horse struck tho
cat in its fall, and with another howl
Of misery, that animal began TO ca.
wort around the room, scale the wa /,
and climb the tables seeking for an
exit. "Great Moses what ails that
cat" said Springer. as he entered
the kitchen, only 10 fall over the un.
fortunate lover, who wGs trying to
get untangled from the clothes horse
and clothing.
Burglars! murder !" yelled
Springer, as he clutched the suppos
oI thief beneath him, who, in his
struggles to get away, upset the ta.
BILE full OF breakfast dishes.
The handmaid hearing the muss,
came rushing up stairs SO fast that
the lamp was extinguished, and ar
rived inthe kithen just in time to get
kicked in the pit OF the stomach by
one Of the struggling men on the
ioor, and dropped the lamp and
plate Of doughnuts she had in her
lands, she, too, doubled up with q
'hriek of pain and fell to the floor in
, historical fit.
Mrs. Springer, who was only half.
wake, heard her husband yell mur-
ler, and bounding out Of bed came
'liding down stairs in q sitting pos.
ure, and as she entered the kitchen,
rom whence came sounds Of deadly
itrife, curses and shrieks, the cat,
yho, had partially caused the trouble
,olted through window, and before
Hrs. S could collect her senses. the
lired girls besu had succeeded in
Getting out OF Springers grasp and
ollowed the cat through the same
.perture. The hanimaid hearing
Ter lover escape arose, procured a
ight when Springer ceased pound,
ns the armful Of clothing he thought
vas tho burglar, and general coun.
Il was held to discuss war matters.
Result; Springer is called fool and
dot by Mrs. S. and tho girl, for
linking there was q burglar in the
louse; the broken lamp, spilled
and fractured window sash
.re charged up to the cat, whilst
'Irs S. who had not fully recovered
rom her trip down stairs, says the
next time she wants cat put out
4 the house she win DO it herself.
\ man don't know how to do any
hing anyhow, nor never did,
2har!ss leonard FOR he Ucveland
Voice.