Year: 1879

ing so. He was terribly frightened, and
begged for help. 1t is said he has been i'll
for some time, and is now under the physi-
clans care. This circumstance is cited in
explanation of his conduct, as he has long
been known as man of upright ard cor
rect life.


THE NEW HIRED GIRL.


HoU Things Run When the Old Hired Girl


Goes Aacay and the Neav One Comes.


Philadelphia Tines


There is trouble enough, more than
enough, in the house for weeks because of the
old hired girls sins of omission and of COM
mission; things are at skies and sevens
from morning till night, and there is the
mischief to pay generally; that is the
reason why the old hired girl
goes away-goes away definitely; with
her skirts drawn closely about her SO as to
avoid contamination: goes away like rag
ing meteor hurting through space in search
of another and more satisfactory universe.


When the old hired girl has gone and the
new hired girl has come, there seems to be a
reasonable prospect Of peace in the house.
hold. The new hired girl, who is to be
chambermaid and waiter, is indorsed as will
ing, cheerful and good tempered which is
great deal more than can be said of her pre-
decessor. She comes described as docilitv
itself-the old hired girl was just as docile as
a screeching northeaster or full blown vol
cano. So the situation seems promising.
Confidence in her is shaken little, however,
on tho evening of her arrival. In Or
der to attract the master of the house to a
tender of bread she jabs him in the shoulder
with the bread tray, but it is observed with
satisfaction that she gives evidence of her
docility by accepting with the utmost meek
ness, the reproof called forth by this erratic
conduct. Her cheerful disposition is mani
Tested by her habit of singing at her work


During the morning her whereabouts in
the upper rooms of the house may be To-
Gated with precision by the bursts of song
which swell up from her happy soul and
t1oat lightly upon passages and stairway. It
IS a thing to be regretted that she
does not sing we'll: in point of fact, she
sings dismally. Inasuuch as these woesome
sounds really indicate light-heartedness,
are evidences of content, they are tolerated.
At an early stage of her term of servitude she
gives evidence of the possession of what
may be delicately descibed as intelligence of
a peculiar order. Encountered upon the
back stairs bearing buckets of water, she ex-
plains that she was ordered to
turn the water off from the
bathroom the night before: that
she has received no order to turn it on in the
morning, and that, therefore, in order to fill
the sewers she must depend upon the fau-
Gets in the kitchen. Her explanation is re-
ceived approvingly, mental reference being
had to the heroic act of the well-known Cas-
blanca, and the less well-kaown vigil of
Gen. Havelock's 8 son upon London bridge.
Not so much satisfaction is mani
tested when casual request to
light the gas in the drawing-room when she
closes the shutters is interpreted as an order
to start every burner in that apartment at
its full capacity, especially as the careful
closing Of the drawing-room doors,
joined to the absence of the fam
lily from home during the evening, re-
suits in the brilliant illumination remaining
in full blast until the next morning.
to the material advantage of the gas COM
pany. Several amiable indiscretions of
somewhat similar character lead easily and
naturally to the development of profound
conviction on the part of the administrative
head of the house that the new hired girl is
little better than, as he himself expresses
it, "a natural-born fool.'' The executive
head of the house, whose
gentle ma ture resents such harsh phraseol-
ogy, and who still bears in mind lively re-
membrance of the old hired girls cyclonic
and volcanic ways, puts in the extenuating
plea that even if she is little stupid some
times she is so good-natured, cheerful and
willing that her errors of judg-
ment should be forgiven her. Things
go along upon this basis of equitable
compensations for some time. The new
hired girls good nature, cheerfulness and
willingness bring her forgiveness for telling
a formal caller: "She's not at home, ma'am;
she's making jelly in the kitchen for the
party tomorrow, ma'am;" for putting the
claret in ice, on the occasion of the party
thus referred to, because that was what she
had been ordered to do with
the champagne; for assaulting
with Bath brick and rag, the silver that
she had been told to clean, and for whole
string of like performances, calculated to
work confusion and breed trouble. Finally,
when she leaves the bedroom windows open
during a driving rain storm, because
she had been told that the bed
rooms are to be aired every day,
it becomes evident that she must
go. She lakes her dismissal, as she has
taken the various ratings bestowed upon
her for her misdeeds, with placid good ma
ture. She is docile, willing, cheerful to the
very last Calmly, amiabiy, the new hired
girl, with the dewy freshness of her newness
still upon her, packs up her bag like the
Arab, and as silently steals away.


Death of Mrs. Z. ". Sherman.


Newport Correspondence (March 12) of New


York Herald.


AS was predicted in these dispatches yes
terday, Mrs. Gen. Thomas w. Sherman did
not rally, and she breathed her last at an
early hour this morning. She was the
daughter of ex-Gov. Shannon, of Ohio,
who, it will be remembered, was appointed
Governor of Kansas by the President pend
ing the LIE Compton troubles in that State.