The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-06-13
CHAT.

Under certain conditions / imagine
Office holding can be made very pleas
ant thing and a JOY, we'll, not forever,
exactly, put as long as no other fellow
wants 10 wear your shoes.
To make 1t so 1t is necessary, however,
to use good deal OF circumspection in
the selection OF the town you propose TO
honor.by becoming an Office holder at SO
much per year.
The first consideration OF course,
should be that OF compensation. No
public place, however desirable other
wise, can be entirely satisfactory and
conducive TO complacence unless the
quid pro quo is OF ample proportions.
That matter settled, it is necessary TO see
that there are no Henry e. Clarks in the
community.
One Clark OF the Henry {. brand in
any town Is sufficient TO take all the Joy
out OF public office holding, for no one
can contemplate with composure the
spec tacle OF a fellow man asking place on
the plea that his services will be rendered
without money and without price. The
conviction that even at this reduced rate
the employing community will have the
small end of the bargain may be solsce
to irritated official pride, but it doesn t
compensate for the presence of Clark in
tho role OF the bull in the official China
shop.
But there are towns where there are no
Clarks of the Interchangeable
out price sort. At least / judge SO from
the length of service OF some officials.
Salisbury, VT, is one OF them. 1t was
incorporated away back in 1861 and in
the 1876 years that have elapsed it has
had but four town clerks. Thomas Mstti-
son was the first to fill the office and he
held 1t until 1854. Then came Jacob
Galusha with AZ years continuous service
to his credit. He retired in 1926, and
was followed by Myron Barton, who
served until October 6, 1850, or for five
years more than a half century. The lat
ter's son Hiram succeeded to the office
which he now holds.
OF a verify there are no Clarks at Sails
bury.
Apropros OF the subject OF long service
I'm office think that bog trotting must be
c conducive to long life.
OF course you know what bog trotter
Is. II you don't, just ask one of your
Celtic acquaintances about it. BE careful,
however, not to insinuste that he has ever
done any trotting himself, for that might
lead to an unpleasant denouement.
But to get back to the longevity part
OF the story. There is town called Col
ony in West Clare, Ireland, where man
named Conway has just died at the age OF
Ill. Mr.. Conway was a bog ranger on a
big estate and up to the hour of his deaf b
he retained all of his faculties and was
able TO walk two miles to church on Sun
day. His recollection of the Irish rebel
lion of I79s, in which he took part as a
boy, was very distinct.
/ am watching with some interest for
the result of a case in Massachusetts
which involves the question of the sa-
credness of the Sunday concert.
All Sunday concerts, you know, are
supposed to be sacred, but hey're not.
The Germania Band gave Sunday con-
certs down at the Point of Pines and af-
ter the season was over the band didn' I
get It's money. Now the band has sued
and the defence set up is that as the
music was rendered on Sunday and was
not OF an appropriately sacred character
the bill is not collectable.
don't know what their notions about
sacred music are down at the Point of
Pines. but II they are on par with their
notions OF business honesty they must be
very hazy indeed,
What do you think about 1t?
THE CUATTERFR