The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-04

late?" one city hall lounger asked az
other as they sat on bench on the
Park street side of the common yes
terday afternoon.
Il think" replied the fellow with the
sad face, that women are doing their
own washing these days. My wife
hasn't earned a red Indian with her
dashboard this week and you know
what that means to me-" AS he spoke
he heaved a sigh that would make a
stone statue weep.
A little thing sometimes causes a
good deal of trouble and the other night
I was impressed very much by little
thing and the cause was probably more
impressed than I. 1 was walking home
with a policeman and after trying sew
eral doors, we arrived at an open lot.
Suddenly a big black cat appeared on
the sidewalk He seemed to spring up
out of nowhere. He came from no
where in particular. The officer no
ticed him about the same time l did
The cat kept in the officers lead for
block. Finally the bluecoat became an
noyed and he made a kick at the cat.
The quadruped started on an aerial
tour with the officers toe for start
ing point, and we watching him ny
through space and land finally on his
feet in a doorway.
The officer then got sorry for his &C
ton, and started out to make friends
with the cat We hunted around but
couldn't find the animal. A little tur-
Their on the cat again appeared in the
middle of the sidewalk. The officer
made another kick at the cat, but didn'
reach him that time. l left him then,
and the following afternoon l saw the
officer and he told me that the cat had
Mounted his beat for an hour. He al
ways appeared in the middle of the
sidewalk and the officer swears that
Satan must surely have had a repre-
sentative in that cat
was present at little gathering
the other evening, at which well ed
ucated young fellow with nothing but
his prospects in the way of available
assets. was pitted against a man who
owns considerable property In, this
city. They were having a hot argu-
ment on various phases of civil govern
ment Anybody with half an eye ana
the most superficial Information, could
see that the young fellow knew WhaI
he was talking about. The rich old
fellow. to use a colloquial term, was
simply talking through his hat Yet
for all that, the rich man was lis~-aed
to with marked attention while the
poor young man received but scant
courtesy for all the fact that he was
right, and they knew he was right:
"How do you account for it?' ne
asked me the following evening.
I reminded him of the lines of Khem-
nitzer. the famous Russian fabulist VINO
relates e. somewhat similar case.
"Pray tell me why is wealth preferred
To wisdom?" That's a silly question,
Replied the other. Have you never
heard;
A man may lend his store
Of gold and silver ore
But wisdom none can borrow, none
can lend"
The Turks that are employed at the
Grove street wire mill have peculiar
game that they play with the same
zest that small America does leap frog.
It's something like leap frog too, only
different. Their favorite place Of play
ing it is in field near Bell pond where
they are generally safe from lntrus-
ion.
A dozen of them get together and
they draw lots to determine who is
going to be at" Nine white and three
black beans are thrown into fez and |
each man makes a blipd, haphazard
selection. He Keeps the bean In MS |
closed fist until all have made choice. |
Then. at a signal from the man with
the fez, who also draws, all open their |
hands and disclose the beans. The |
three men with the black beans are
then declared to be 1T" "Kismet,"
they say as they submit to their fate. |
The three cts" are ordered to get |
down on their hands and knees with |
head we'll bent after the manner of |
the salaam. Each man is set a certain, |
carefully placed distance from the |
other, much further apart comparative |
ly than in leap frog.
One by one the nine white beaners
stand on the back of the first man and |
jump to the back of the second and |
thence to the third. In the event of |
his not making the distance by inabil- !
ty to jump, or a miscalculation of the |
space, and falls between, he !
is declared ''it' and the man whose |
back he misses takes his place with the |
white beaners.f And so it goes on un- |
til they are tired. When man makes |
a misjump. he takes the place of the !
first 1T" who is thereupon moved up |
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