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Show This Kind of Servant at a Premium I WASHINGTON housekeepers are inclined in-clined to think thatT. B. Wither-spoon Wither-spoon of St, Louis was romancing recently re-cently whon ho told of a negro servant serv-ant who has been in his employ for 15 yenrs. It appears that tho negro was given ten days' leave and money to spend for a trip down to Now Or-loans, Or-loans, but In threo days turned up ugaln, and hero Is tho way Mr. Wither-spoon Wither-spoon explains tho uogro's return, quoting tho servant: " 'You seo, sub, It done get mighty mlsorably cold night after I lef' ( I you, and I knows dat Miss Kate i (my wlfo) nlu't got no business tryln' O to work dat furnaco. and I know you I ain't gwlno to bother with it Nary ono S of you got onny business with a dirty gf old furnace, least of all Miss Kate, who ain't got no right to soil her little ban's. 1 couldn't sleep good thlnkln' about It, an' dat's why I gits bade qulckor'n I 'spected.' "Thero is a specimen act of an old-tlmo, old-tlmo, true-hearted darky, whoso first thought is of tho comfort of his employer." em-ployer." If WItherspoou could find about a thousand llko that servant, tho St. Louis man could make a good commission by shipping thorn to Washington. |