Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-10-09

! BlJah, the Janitor of the Central 70
| lice Station, Detroit, has made his re-
ception-room even more attractive than
any one had hoped for. An india-rub.
ber cat three feet high, presented tC
him by the Mayor of Boston, is placed
| in a corner so as to face the audience
On one of the walls hangs the photo
graph OF Texas murderer. and on an
other the autograph of the Car of Rus
sIa, kindly written for the old janitor
by one of the city officials A rug. made
from an army blanket and four old hats,
softly rests in front of the centre table.
giving the whole room warm and gen.
erous appearance. Every one entering
the room is at once struck with the ar
tistic taste exhibited in the arrangement
of every article, and many words of
praise have been showered upon the
old man for his thoughtfulness in pro-
viding bottle ofeamphor witha mouth
large enough to admit the bigsest nose
likely to be walked into the room.
The first conner was a young woman
of twenty, having a wealth of pine-col-
ored hair, plenty of freckles and a gem
eral air of sorrow. Taking seat in the
red splint-bottomed chair, and wiping
a tear from her eye, she began: IL was
working for lady down on Howard
street, and she discharged Inc this
morning and wouldn't pay me for the
last week. I've good mind to jump
into the river or take poison ~
''Please DON'T" demonstrated Bijah,
"people never amount to much after
committing suicide. You were a SER
vant-girl in the house, were you?"
"Yes."
"Did you ever have the handling OF
the dishes?''
Il did,"
$50 far, so good. Did you go out
evenings ?''
"Once in while"
"Ges-ahem-oncei in a while, Now.
then, answer this court if you did not
go out every single evening in the week
and if new beau did not come home
with you each time" Sarah looked
very much embarrassed, and had no
word in reply. "And you broke dishes,
ate up the cut-lOaf sugar, Jumped off
the cooking by the job, and probably
wasted more provisions than the family
ate!" She did not deny 1t, and he con-
tinued, 1.-The lady served You right, and
you have no case against her. Sarah,
it's awful the way some of you hired
girls are going on!"
"What are we doing, sir ," she softly
asked.
"Oh. L wish l was hired girl" he
fervently exclaimed as he drew his feet
under his chair, or tried to- "AhI how
I'd make the cook stove shine. How I'd
lengthen out the butter and lard and
sugar and flour! How I'd go to bed at
dark and be up at dawn! What clean
white aprons I'd wear and how i'd
make the dishes glisten. I'd give
million dollars this minute if | was a
hired girl!' "Yes, sir; see, sir,' she
humbly replied.
1.-The court will suspend sentence on
you, Sarah," he sorrowfully remarked,
''and the Chair advises you to resolve
from this hour to make a new departure
in life. You may never make hand
some girl, Sarah, but you can do house
work in such manner as to bring you
dozen offers of marriage"
"Just so-just so," she sighed; and
giving the india-rubber cat one last,
long, lingering look of affection, she
went out.
81 hope she may reform her ways"
sighed the old man, as the door shut,
"but 1 don't expect she will. After
gal begins to have five beaux a week
she'll smash more plates and burn more
bread than her wages come to, and don't
you forget it. We will now dissolve.