Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1887 — Not Appreciated. [ARTICLE]

Not Appreciated.

One night a policeman who Was patrolling Grand River avenue and trying the doors of business houses came to a grocery and found the door unlocked and the key in the lock- He sprung the bolt, put the key in his pocket and sauntered on, and in the course of an hour he found opportunity to send word and the key to the proprietor He didn’t expect any particular praise for his action, but he was hardly prepared for the storm which soon swooped upon him. The grocer himself, with battered hat, torn coat and two lingers bleeding, suddenly appeared before him and said: “If I’ve any influence in this town I’ll have you off the force inside of two days!” “Why, what’s the matter!” “ Matter ? Ask me what’s the matter ? Oh! I’ll fix you!” “For v.hat? For finding your store unlocked and sending the key to your house ?” “Yes. sir! I was down there hunting up mustard for a sick child at home, and what do you do but lock me in and promenade off?” "Is it possible?” “And there I*ve been for an hour or more, and would be yet if I hadn’t crawled through a cellar window ! Ohl I*ll lay for you, old guardian of the peace!”— Detroit .Free Preen. A Home Thrust. A humorous editor, living in Austin, Tex., received a cruel rebuke from his wife not long since. She had been to the theater, and on her return home gave such a very amusing account of the performance that her literary husband exclaimed: “Why don’t you write that out just as you have told it to me? It would make first-class copy. You ought to write for the paper.” “No, 1 thank yon. One crank m the family is enough,” was the cuuiivg re-| ply.— TexasSfflinas.