The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02
TOWN TALES.

A number of reporters were relating
odd experiences in their careers yester-
day One Of the best of the stories told
was by The Spy man, and had to do
with a rather peculiar adventure in
Quinsigamond village some years ago.
There is a little colony down there
whose members to a man come from a
benighted part of Russia, where news
papers are as scarce as rolling wood
lands and fine, grassy prairies in a
desert The reporter was assigned to
write up a wedding at one of their
houses. When he called he wished he
hadn't.
Not a person in the house could utter
word Of English. The reporter tried
to explain by signs that he intended to
put an account of the wedding in Wor-
cester's real newspaper, but he might
as well have tried to explain the in
tricacies of algebra to the heathens of
Ujiji
Then he took his book and pen
Gil, and thinking that while no one ap-
peared capable Of speaking the Eng
fish language, there might possibly be
some one in the party that could read
1t slightly, he wrote; "The Spy wishes
to get an account of this ceremony"
Just then in came little girl who
was attending the Quinsigamond school.
She translated the sentence into gut
tuFal Russian. OF course she gave the
literal translation of Spy and instantly
all was excitement, for every one but
the child believed that a Russian spy
had come to get an account Of the we'd
ding and its possible political signifi-
canoe, for filing in the archives of the
czar.
Everybody began to talk at once, and
half dozen made leap for the re-
porter, who vaulted through an open
window. The next electric boat uptown
had the reporter aboard.
The following evening the little girl
came to the office with an apology and
explanation, together with the facts of
the wedding. Where her people came
from, she said, there We're no news
papers save the town gossip who cir
culated facts and rumors in primitive
style, by word of tongue.
There is club in this city that is
a sort of DIR. Jeckyl and Mr.. HYDE
affair. 1t has q dual being When the
session is called to order in a certain
corner drug store, it Is known as the
Square Mems club--that is to say,
every man present says fine things
IIldl
individually and collectively, thew are
the salt that gives humanity it's sea-
soning.
This is when it is in the Jeclkyl state
AS soon as one man leaves, however.
the club assumes the Hyde state and
becomes known as the Knockers club
Every man that leaves the party has
his character and reputation torn to
pieces with the grace and ease that n
Tartar headsman Yields the sword
neckward on captive.
The greatest Knockers in the apgre-
cation are men whose stipends have
not yet assumed the dignified propor-
tons that permits Of their being termed
salaries.
Some of them, too, are young gen
tlemen Of leisure that never worked
and never will. They look as spick
and span however, as a bartender who
Is on friendly terms with his employ
ers cash register. The folks take in
washing, and while father is turning
the wrlnger and mother is giving the
dashboard muscular attention the
promising son is busy with the fiatiron
putting a razor-like crease in his trous-
ers. He saves q dime by shaving with
fathers razor. and has become such