Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-07-10
GRATITUDE.

Locks and Bars may Restrain the Physical
 Man but the Mind is Forever Un- shAckIed.
 William eXhuberance of that quality of the milk of human kindness whIcb creates un-knighted heroes in the hum ble walks of life almost everywhere around this tossing and restless football, the venerable janitor of the Pima county court house never misses an opportunity of Rlleviating the sufferings of his fel- low men whose lives have been cast iu less pleasant places than those of his own, and so often have these widely dis tributed little attentions been unselfish- ly bestowed that the wonder now Is hoW his medium sized body can contain such 8 massive heart.
 Attentive n his daily routine of duty, and ever ready to oblige friend at h sacrifice of his personal comfort and ease, he finds occasional time to cheer uD the human misfits behind the bars of the county jail, and adds to their slight comforts many things calculated to lessen the monoto- ny of incarceration and the laDguOr of enforced inactivity.
 He recently responded to the appeals of some of the prisoners for sn sntidote against the nightly predatory bugs which infest the meager sleeping ac- commOdBtious of that department of re straint, and he improvIsed a most pow ertul exterminator, which has called forth the folloving acknowledgement of deep gratitude:
 COURT HoUsE, LOWER FLOOR.
 Tank No. 2, Ther. llS@.
 FRIEND GRo. HAND:-It IS with varied and intense feelings of grateful emo tions. thicker than the brlstles on blackiug brush, and with tears of thank fulness flowing down my back, causing me to feel like the mouth of the noble Hudson river on 6 small scale as It were, that I return to you your auto matic, double-action, Nebraska blizzard, bed bug extermInBtor. Sampson slByed his thousands with the jsw-bone of an ass, but had he possessed your little manipulRtor the ass could have lad ID the shade and used his Jaw-bone as many asses now do Iu praying from sfsr off I can now, with something like se- curity, lay me m my little bed, and al- low morpheus to look me n his som- nsmbulistic embrace. No longer do lay awake and cuss and crush the nIau- rsuding and sntsgonistic bug; sleep the sleep of the just, and no more am dream haunted by elephantine bed beds who, in droves, were ever attempt ing to annihilate me. In fact, George, I am as happy as an old stage horse turned out in a green pasture; and when the chanticleer's shrlll clarion shall herald the coming morn, and when Aurora, blushing like a bride, shall arise from her saffron couch and Il. illuminate the eastern horizon; and when the jay bird shall pipe his tunetul lay m the fig tree by the irrigstIng stream, and when the awakening pig shall gruDt and go forth for his morning refreshments, and when the drowsy bee tie shall droon in his drowsy flight homewArd st eventids, and the lowing COWS come home at milking time-then I'll think of thee, and, like 0 piece of pum-elastic, my heart will stretch clear across my manly bosom. If these lew feeling remarks shsll enable you to see the length and depth of my gratitude, I shall feel ss indifferent as n govern ment fed Apache on the San Oar los reservation. If not, I shsll pine away and die and like unto these poisoned bedbugs which drop from the fiourishing vine of life and come to en untimely end. And when the shadows shall have grown deeper at LevIn's park and you are overpowered with fatigue and heat, feel that you will then come and drop a tear and catch cold over the last resting place of your affection ate friend SWAd'
 Tucson, July 8, 1886.